Wow Spring Is Here!

Spring means to me flowers budding and bright colours popping out from dull places making me think summer is not too far round the corner. 

·          I cut the tag with my silhouette using pre-embossed card. 

·          Applied Versamark all over the tag and heat embossed with Easter sparkle. 

·          The flowers window box is made with the drawer die, embossed green and a piece of card cut to the size of the die and sprinkled with gold glitter. I stuck to the tag with 3D gel so that it grips to the glitter. 

·          I then cut flowers with various dies and papers.  

·          Heat embossed with the wow embossing powders. The pink and red flowers I applied glue to the tips of the petals and then sprinkled on glitter, because I had already assembled the flowers it was really hard to heat emboss. I found this out when I tried to do it on another flower, it was totally ruined, lol. 

·          Applied crystal drops to the centres. 

·          I die cut the dragonfly and applied silver to the wings. 

·          Faux stitching applied with a fine marker pen

·          Ribbon to finish the tag. 

Materials used –  

Wow embossing powders – easter sparkle, sensational sage, persian indigo, totally teal, silver bells. 

Silhouette cameo 

Card and glitter from stash. 

Tonic studio dies – dragonfly, trellis flowers, avante drawer die. 

Tonic Nuvo crystal drops.  

WOW blog

Steampunk flowers colour palette

I did the Gelli plate print a bit back. It's one of them crafty techniques where you have to do a batch at once cos you can't just do one you are compelled to do loads and loads!

·         I cut down the Gelli print to fit the card then,

·         Stamped flowers with Versamark and then embossed them.

·         I used a Versamark pen to fill the flowers.

·         Applied PanPastels with the plastic knife tool from PanPastels.

·         Used a die cut cog as the sun with PanPastels applied to it.

·         The petals on the 3d flower are made from brown paper packaging. I stuck them to a small round cardboard base, glued the petals to it then added a cog as the centre.

·         Sprayed with cheap hairspray to fix the PanPastels.

Materials used

PanPastels - turquoise, copper.

Embossing powder - Stampendous - aged copper.

Gelli plate.

Crafters companion - Kraft card, Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Make a Wish.

From my stash

Silhouette cameo cogs and petals.

Acrylic paint.

Versamark.

Printer paper for Gelli plate printing.

Challenge entered;

Chocolate Baroque

Proud

I love this quote. 

I've just got a 6x6 Gelli Plate and I'm proud with my first attempts.

When I got my Gelli I couldn’t wait to use it. I got out all my stencils, embossing folders, magic stamps (I them made a few weeks ago. Mainly using embossing folders and silicone moulds), most of my acrylic paint, brayer, paper and card.

Once I started I couldn’t stop. I will write a separate post about my Gelli experience.

This is going to be a short post cos my mind is on other things because I'm having a knee operation tomorrow (27/06/14).

·         Firstly I chose which print I liked best.

·         Cut and glued them to card and then on a page in my journal.

·         The ticket ribbon I cut ages ago and thought it would look ok.

·         Printed quote edged with ink.

·         Glued to the page.

Materials used

Gelli plate

Acrylic paint - deco-art, jo-sonja and numerous other brands. Anything I could get my hands on!!! Lol

Silhouette cameo

Distress ink

Card

PVA glue

Challenge entered

thecraftbarn.co.uk

Texture but no mistakes!

I really like PanPastels mixed in a texture paste because it's so easy to blend them together.

So when I saw That's Crafty blog wanted texture in there challenge and PanPastels wanted 'man' as the theme I thought the 2 go together and the quote 'mistake' used for the Craft Barn challenge seemed so fitting because we learn from our mistakes.

Sometimes the mistakes we make in crafting can work out ok.

But also I'm sure we have all made mistakes with the male species!!! Lol.

• Firstly I used distress inks with a stencil to begin the 1st layer of the background.
• I then mixed the PanPastels with the gel and used with various stencils.
• To add a little interest I used some acetate packaging and applied PanPastels mixed into the paste using stencils. Cut with decorative scissors. Edged with paint.
• I got a quote off the internet. Copied it into my CraftArtist and used a font I really like.
• Printed it. Cut with decorative scissors. Edged with paint.
• Stuck the acetate to the page, then the quote.

Voila a 'man' textured quote!

Materials used

Smash book

Stencils - crafters workshop, Debbi Moore, Stamps Away, my own made with the Silhouette Cameo.

PanPastels - permanent green shade, bright yellow green, turquoise shade, turquoise.

Texture paste - Maimeri matt gel.

Distress Inks - black soot, faded jeans, rusty hinge.

Acrylic paint.

Fiskars - decorative scissors.

Challengers entered;

www.thecraftbarn.co.uk

panpasteluk

thatscrafty

Glitter Fest

I wanted to decorate a plastic tin I'd had in my stash for a few years!! Yes it's took me this long to decorate it. I found it when I moved house last year. It's surprising what lurks at the back of cupboards!

I couldn’t decide how to decorate it so I looked at different blog challengers to get my brain into gear.

So I'm entering it into Imagination crafts - all that glitters, Cuddly Buddly - daisy, WOW - garden.

• Right down to business.
• I dusted off the tin and measured the size of card that I need to cover the majority of it.
• Cut a stencil out of thick card on my silhouette. The idea behind using the card instead of stencil material is that I want the stencil to fill in where the card shows through the design so that I can add colour and sparkle.
• Cut the stencil in half so that all of the Kraft was covered.
• Applied purple and green sparkle medium.
• Whilst the stencil was still wet from the sparkle medium i applied the embossing powders but when done I realised I had put the wrong colours on each section!!
• So take 2! Applied Versamark to stencils and made sure I put the correct embossing powder on each one. Once heat set the pink was ok but the green didn’t show up very much and looked too pink!
• So take 3! Applied Versamark again then powder but still too much pink showing through
• So take 4! I used regular green which gave a more pearlescent effect but I went with that.
• I stuck the stencils down with pva glue. Should have waited longer to do it cos some of the sparkle medium was still wet!! I don’t have the patience to wait which causes me more problems but I never learn! I'm sure there are many of you out there agreeing with me lol.
• I stippled sparkle medium to the parts of the tin which wouldn’t be covered and also the lid.
• I made a daisy flower out of wire for the lid and applied viva decor silver paint in the middle, when dry a blob of liner.
• I then applied glamour liner as faux glittery pearls to the lid. I must confess I bought the liners in the sales for my great nephews to paint their own t-shirts but when they arrived I thought they were far too good for kids!! lol so in my crafting cupboard they went.
• I left the project over night before I stuck the sparkle fest to the tin.
• So as not to take away from the glittery fest I found in my stash some acetate butterflies so applied them randomly around the tin.
•  I would have liked a butterfly on the lid but I thought it might get in the way of getting the lid off. So added a wire daisy, i made myself, instead. Adding 3D glitter paint and liner to the centre.

Voila an over the top decorated tin. Not really my style so felt totally out of my comfort zone but must say I really like it.

Materials used

Silhouette cameo.

Cutting file - flower background lace.

Versamark ink pad.

Sparkle medium - silver, chartreuse, old rose.

WOW embossing powders - lime light, green regular, magenta twinkle.

Waco glamour liner - black, purple.

Viva decor - 3D glitter paint silver.

From my stash -

Plastic bucket/tin.

Kraft card.

PVA glue.

Green wire.

Challengers entered;

cuddlybuddly.com

imagination-crafts

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