Extra samples from class 26/10/13

 

 

This card uses the same technique that was used in the main resist class only using the trees instead of the leaves. Start with the bigger trees to the front and smaller trees towards the top to create the impression of distance. The distress ink layers are, antique linen, mustard seed, peeled paint and Adirondak bottle to finish but try your own colours. Again this is using the Southfield glossy card, so if you are using clarity card you can skip the antique linen. I don't know why there is a difference, but there is. The first layer of resist on Clarity card will be white however this doesn't happen on the Southfield card and the nearest result I could get was using the antique linen for the first application of ink.

 

 



 



 

 

This is the same card as the post in 'Resist Stamping' earlier in the blog except using the Creative Expression Stamps (instead of the Justrite stamps. 

 

 

 

If you are a Barbara Gray fan (Clarity Stamps) these cards won't need any explanation, however for others who don't follow her here is a simple guide.

 

1. Create a border around an A6 piece of glossy card using low tack masking tape and secure to a piece ordinary copy paper.

 

2. Using another sheet of copy paper carefully tear across the middle to create a hills and valleys effect.

 

3. Approximately one eighth up place the copy paper over the top part of the gloss paper. (where the sky will eventually be).

 

4. Ink up your brayer with any green distress ink (I used peeled paint). Now.....if you have a splodge mat or the cheaper version blending mat (recommended) roll the ink onto that in a long streak. If not roll your brayer onto some spare copy to take away some of the ink (the Barbara mantra "you can always add it, but you can't take it away!").

 

5, In long sweeps roll the brayer over the area left exposed until it's nearly as dark as you require. Optional step : - Before moving to step 6 using a finger dabber and a darker toning green just highlight the very edge of the hill.

 

6. Reposition the copy paper higher up moving to one side or another to give a different aspect. Then repeat step 5. Do this once more for the horizon. Each layer should be lighter to give the impression of distance.

 

7. Punch a circle for the sun from a post-it note (making sure you have some sticky edge to it) and place it where you want the sun to appear.

 

8. Ink the brayer as above and from the corner roll the brayer gradually down towards the hills going over your sun mask. You don't need to go all the way down.

 

9. Remove the sun mask then using the negative part of the punch cover the sky. Using a piece of cut and dry blend yellow ink into the sun till your happy with the colour.

 

10. Ink up the large silver birch stamp (or other) and stamp in the foreground.

 

11. Ink up the smaller bare tree in brown and masking off the second hill stamp where you want it to appear.

 

12. Using the side of the tree ink in green and use it for long grass/bushes masking where necessary. Optional.

 

13. Stamp a sentiment and using a fine liner add birds (optional) and after removing the low tack tape make a wiggly border around the edge.

 

In the green card I ended up with a white blob for some reason, so putting on my thinking hat I came up with the idea of disguising it as a bunny tail. This was freehand drawn so sadly I can't recommend a stamp.

 

Then all you have to do is mat it up, distress the edge of the base card and "jobs a good 'un" unless....as in the autumn coloured card you want to add corner detail. All you do here is stamp the central leaf, mask it off, stamp 2 more to either side and colour using promarkers or as I did with distress inks. "Simples!"

 

 

With the exception of the Clarity card all items used can be obtained from Samuel Taylors(http://www.samueltaylors.co.uk/) subject to them being in stock. If you would like to join any of my future classes please enquire for dates, cost and availability at the Brighouse branch. Tel : (01484) 401419.



Happy crafting. My next class is the end of November ish and I will give details about the project when I have them.



Autumn Leaves class 26/10/13

 

 



To make these cards you need

Creative Expressions -Fancy foliage Leaves, trees and flowers

                            Or Justrite CR-03870 shabby chic autumn leaves.

1 x A5 Southfield glossy white card /Clarity double sided gloss card (BEWARE not all gloss card is suitable especially photo card)

Versamark watermark stamp pad

Heat Gun

Brayer

 

Distress Inks used                             

Antique Linen (not if using Clarity card)

Mustard Seed/ Squeezed lemon

Spiced Marmalade

Fired Brick

Walnut or Adirondack Espresso 

 

NOTE When we did this in class I tried (as an experiment ) to do this whole section with Adirondack inks. The result wasn't very good so I recommend sticking to the Distress inks and they work better if they are juicy (new) or spritzed with water to revive them.. In a later experiment I used squeezed lemon and dried Marigold (Orange).  But then made it too bright by using barn door (red). So play around. If you are not happy with the results use them as the backing for the embossed leaves in card 2.

1. Using the A5 Southfield card, randomly stamp one of the leaves over the card with Versamark and heat set it with the heat gun.
2. If you are using Clarity card go straight to number 3.  Coat the brayer in Antique Linen distress ink and roll the ink all over the card. Clean your brayer using water and kitchen towel. DON’T PANIC AT THIS STAGE IF YOU DON’T SEE THE PATTERN EMERGE. IT DOESN’T REALLY SHOW TILL THE SPICED MARMALADE HAS BEEN APPLIED.
3. Repeat step 1 with a different leaf. Repeat step 2 using the mustard seed distress ink. Take a clean piece of kitchen towel, place over inking and roll off any excess.
4. Repeat step 1 with a different leaf. Repeat step 2 using the Spiced marmalade distress ink. Take a clean piece of kitchen towel, place over inking and roll off any excess.
5. Repeat step 1 with a different leaf. Repeat step 2 using the Fired Brick distress ink. Take a clean piece of kitchen towel, place over inking and roll off any excess.
6. At this stage it really depends on how dark, light or warm you want the final piece to look. If you want a dark brown use a dark blue ink. If you want it lighter use green or for a warmer tone go for a dark brown.  This technique depends on colour blending so you need to know which colours blend to make a different colour i.e. Red and green make brown or blue and red make purple. Half the fun in this technique is experimenting and even though you may do exactly the same as last time the results may vary considerably. It works well with snowflakes and butterflies in pastels.

Now you’ve done the background we need to make the cards.

CARD 1
What you need

Justrite CL 03810 Thank You labels twenty 

1 x A5 Gold mirri

2 x A4 sheets black card

Versamark watermark stamp pad

Gold embossing powder

1. First fold an A4 sheet of black card in half so that you have an A5 sized card. Then crop it to 14.5cm to make a square card.
2. Cut a gold mirri mat 14 x 14cm an affix centrally to the black base card.
3. Next cut a black mat 13.5 x 13.5cm and glue centrally to the gold mirri above.
4. Now cut a 12 x 12cm piece from your inked glossy card and then cut into halves so that you have 4 x 6cm squares and arrange them on the card as shown.
5. With Versamark, stamp three times with the large frame onto the remaining black card and emboss using gold detail embossing powder. It is advisable to use an antistatic bag to prevent speckling of the embossing powder.
6. Hand cut or use the spellbinders dies/machine to cut the bottom layer of decoupage. Use the outer edge of the inner parallel lines for the middle layer of decoupage and the inner label for the top layer.
7. Layer up using foam pads and glue to middle of card.

 

CARD 2 

What you need
 
Creative Expressions -Fancy foliage Leaves, trees and flowers
                                                Or Justrite CR-03870 shabby chic autumn leaves.
Justrite CL 03810 Thank You labels twenty 
1 xA5 Cream card
Versamark watermark stamp pad
Gold embossing powder
Copper embossing powder
 

CARD 2
1. Cut the A4 brown card in half lengthwise and fold one of the piece in half to make a landscape A6 card.
2. With the left over inked glossy card stamp 5 of the veined leaves with versamark and emboss with copper kettle embossing powder.
3. Cut them out but be careful not to cut too close to the copper embossing (sometimes it chips off). Optional – finish the cut edges using a toning promarker or similar pen.
4. Stamp the smaller frame onto cream card twice using Versamark and emboss with gold embossing powder. It is advisable to use an antistatic bag to prevent speckling of the embossing powder.
5. Hand cut or use the spellbinders dies/machine to cut the bottom layer of decoupage. Use the inner line of the circle for the decoupage.
6. Fix the leaves as shown first and then overlap the frame. Finish with some ribbon/twine bows and three blobs of glossy accents or pearl beads coloured with brown promarker.

 

OK ladies. I'm going to have a break now but I'll post the other card samples as soon as I get chance.

 

TTFN as my Grandma would have said.

 

Yve

 

 

Fancy Cupcakes

 

 

After being inspired by a very talented lady called Sarah that I work with (see Crave for Cakes on Facebook) I ventured into making some of the fancy cupcakes that are now in fashion. The pink ones are vanilla and the others are chocolate orange. When I was growing up I was fortunate enough to have Grandmas who were very skilled in Dressmaking, knitting, tatting, lace making, crocheting, and baking, so although the baking was not a particular challenge, the icing was a little daunting. However, Sarah lent me the large icing nozzle that I needed and it wasn't as difficult as I had imagined. I am quite pleased with the results and they taste as good as they look. OK....I'm biased but my children, best friend, her husband, daughter and grandson are not. I am now going to look at different recipes and try some more. Who knows one day I might even be selling them.

 

Yve

Resist stamping

These 3 cards were supposed to be samples for my upcoming craft class towards the end of October however I am told that these stamps won't arrive in time. Sooo....the class (if enough people book) will be the same technique (resist stamping) but with a different selection of stamps. If you have a brayer please bring this with you although I think some are being ordered in, so don't worry if you haven't got one.
I did want to do masking as well but I think that would probably be too much of a challenge for one morning combined with resist stamping so I'm going to leave that for another time.

Now it's time to go back to my craft desk and design a birthday cards for my beautiful daughter although as a parting shot.........SOOOO disappointed that Anna Griffin did not bring to QVC the holly die cutters I've seen going for an extortionate bid on a well known auction site and since she won't be back till after Christmas it's not looking likely that we will get them here in the UK.  :(  :(  :(

Happy crafting
Yve

Class of 14th September PART 2

Remember ladies - a die is not just for Christmas, it's for life  - oh....sorry that's dogs He He !!!!

 

What I meant to say was..... don't just think of your die as a cutter ! you can use it to make stunning backgrounds. This one was done on white card. I have just embossed the dies through my spellbinder machine (NOT cutting just embossing) moving the dies round in a random pattern. I put it through one final time without dies just to make sure it was all the same depth.

 

This picture is the underneath or the raised side, distressed with Adirondack (cranberry).

 

This is the top side or the debossed side, which has been stamped with the corresponding 'Justrite' stamps and again embossed with the cranberry Adirondack.

 

 

This one is the same principle using the Marianne snowflake stamps we used in class. This is the top side (debossed) using Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled glass and shaded lilac distress inks.......

 

 

and this is the reverse just distressed with the chipped sapphire. (oh ! and my handwritten notes but you get the idea...............don't you?????)

 

 

SO.... next time you get those dies out remember to think outside the box. Use them for creating fancy corners or edges. You don't have to use the whole die.

 

 

:)

 

Yve

Class of 14th September 2013

Sorry to those who are just browsing for inspiration. This post is quite long and is one specially for my Saturday morning ladies. So feel free to scroll down if you want to miss the how to and shopping list. All products are available from Samuel Taylor shops or to order from the online shop.

 

 As promised ladies, here are the cards we did in class and the other ideas that we just don't have time for in a single morning. For anyone who can't make it to class I have added a shopping list and a simple 'how to' so that you can join in via my blog.

 

REJOICE

 

What you need

Dreamweaver – Rejoice stencil

Marianne snowflakes die  LR0123

Marianne – Christmas tree die cutter –LR0176

Echo park paper co, winter wishes, Dazzling dots WW39005  (12 x 12” scrapbook card)

 1 x A6 white vellum,

1 x A6 white glitter card

1 x A4 smooth white card

White & blue 3D liquid Pearls

Chipped Sapphire distress ink

How to :- 

1)  Take the A4 white card and fold in half to make your base card.

2) Cut an A5 (210mm x 148mm) piece of the Echo Park paper, distress the edge using chipped sapphire distress ink and attach to the front of your base card using your preferred adhesive.

3) Take the dreamweaver stencil and stencil the word rejoice 7 times vertically down the page using the chipped sapphire distress ink. Remember each time you do this, you must align the stencil vertically with the lines on the paper and also with the base line of the 'R' or 'E'. I found it easier to work right to left because I am left handed but you might want to practice on a scrap piece of paper first.

4) Rip and tear the vellum lengthwise corner to corner and rip a strip of one of the pieces so it is smaller than the other. Then apply glue to the straight edges only and fix as shown on the above card.

5) Cut and emboss one Christmas tree and colour the embossed baubles in toning colours and stick over the vellum.

6) Using the white Liquid pearls squeeze a vertical and horizontal line of pearls/beads onto the corners/edges of the card and allow to dry.

7) Cut 3 silver mirri snowflakes and 3 white glitter card snowflakes. Glue the white glitter snowflake on top of the silver mirri snowflake. Glue them to the front of the card in a cluster and finally add a large blob of blue liquid pearls in the centre of the snowflakes for the finishing touch.

 

 

 



 

Simple snowflake

 

What you need

Dreamweaver – Rejoice stencil

Marianne snowflakes die  LR0123
Craft creations CP1645 (silver bordered blue texture with stars)  12 x 12” scrapbook paper
Heat gun.
1 x 6” x 6” white card (base)
1 x A6 white vellum  (matt)
1 x A6 smooth white card  (sentiment)
1 x A6 white glitter paper (snowflakes)
1 x A5 silver mirri  (snowflakes)
Distress ink – weathered wood
Versamark ink pad
Silver embossing powder

How to :-
1) Using the Marianne snowflake dies cut 3 each. Larger ones in silver the small one in white glitter card. Shape, layer and glue them together using 2 different silver ones and one small white snowflake. You should end up with three 3D snowflakes. (I hope that's clear. I've rewritten that sentence 3 times now)
 2) Cut the Craft creations scrapbook paper in half and then one piece in half again. Using the left over negative from either of the silver snowflakes, stencil through it with versamark onto any edges of the 6 x 6" scrapbook paper that doesn't have a silver edge. Apply the silver embossing powder and heat using a heat gun. Affix it to the front of a 6" x 6" base card.
3) Add the three  3D snowflakes to  one corner of the card.
4) Onto white card, stencil though the 'rejoice' stencil using versamark, apply silver embossing powder and heat using the heat gun. Cut to size, matt and layer onto Silver miri card and vellum before fixing to the card.



Snow Scene

 



 

What you need

Dreamweaver – Rejoice stencil

Marianne –      Christmas tree die cutter –LR0176

                        Christmas tree with village church – LR0172

1 x 6”x 6” white card

A4 sheet white card for die cutting

A4 sheet white paper

A6 cream card

Chipped Sapphire distress ink

Ultra fine white glitter

Quickie glue pen

Moon mask made from post-it-note or similar

 Promarkers                                       

Pastel yellow                                      

Holly                                                  

Bright green                                          

Cocoa

Ice grey

Caramel

 

How to :

1) cur and emboss two Christmas trees  and one Village church  from plain white card. Remember to keep the small cut outs from the trees.

Colour the small cut outs from the tree in the Holly promarker. OK....this could be hard to describe but here goes. Snow usually accumulates on the ends of branches SOOO.......starting from the bottom leave a line of white then colour a line of bright green. don't go above the line of the cut out. This is where you need to start white again. You don't need to be too precise just zig zag your way along.

2) Colour the church and houses using the embossing lines as a guide. I've used different shades of brown to define each house. Remember to leave the roofs white. Trace round the edge of the village church onto cream card, cut out and glue it behind to create the glow in the windows.

3) Take a piece of white copier paper and make a mask by ripping it across into a landscape style edge. Out of a post-it note make a moon mask.

4) Take the moon mask and position it on your base card. Place your landscape mask about half way up the card but covering the lower section. Distress the upper portion of the base card. Move the landscape mask down, shifting it's position so it's not a mirror image of the one above and continue to distress. Repeat this once more.

5) Remove all masks and stencil Rejoice down the side using chipped sapphire distress ink.

6) Stick your church/houses and Christmas trees to the card and for the finishing touches add shadows and a glittered road/path with the quickie glue pen and white glitter.

 

 



 

Snowflake Flower

This is one where you have to be creative and be able to freehand draw holly leaves.

 

What you need

Dreamweaver – Rejoice stencil

Woodware vase punch

Marianne snowflakes die  LR0123

1 x A6 white glitter paper

Echo park paper co, winter wishes, Dazzling dots WW39005  (12 x 12” double sided scrapbook card)

1 x A4 smooth white card

Mid blue blending chalk or pan pastel

3D glue

3D foam pads

Blue Glitter

Fineliner black/red

Adirondak  ink pad – bottle

Strong glue

 Promarkers

Holly

Pine

Pastel blue

Ice grey 1

Ice grey 5

Cool grey 3

 

How to:

1) Out of white card punch a vase and add shadow using the ice grey 1 promarker.

2) decide where you want to site the vase and make small pencil marks where the top of the vase will sit. Through the negative of one of the snowflake die chalk half a snowflake onto the side of the vase.

3) Draw 3 sprigs of holly/berries coming from where the pencil marks are using the fineliners.

4) Punch and layer the snowflakes (as above) this time using white glitter card for the larger snowflakes and the echo park paper for the small one. Add a blob of clear 3D glue and sprinkle the blue glitter on top.

5) Using the grey promarkers draw a table top for the vase to sit on. The top line should be Ice grey 5 blended down to Ice grey 1.

6) Stencil the rejoice stamp using the bottle Adirondack ink. Cut out and attach to the card using 3D foam pads.



Village scene

 

What you need

Marianne –      Christmas tree die cutter –LR0176

                         Christmas tree with village church – LR0172

Craft creations CP1645 (silver bordered blue texture with stars)  12 x 12” scrapbook paper

1 x 6”x 6” white card

6” x 6” sheet white glitter card  

Ultra fine white glitter

Quickie glue pen

 Promarkers                                     

Pastel yellow                                      

Holly                                                  

Bright green                                                   

Cocoa

Caramel

Sandstone

 

How to:

1) Cut one large tree and 3 village/church from white card. From 2 of the village/churches cut off the church steeple and the Christmas tree. Cut one small tree from the waste and throw the rest away. Colour and create the window glow as above (Snow scene).

2) Stick the other  6 x 6" piece of Craft creations paper to your base card.

3) Rip and tear the 6 x 6" glitter card three times, so that you have a matt white edge on the upper edge. Glue down the two side edges and along the bottom only and attach to card.

4) Place the church die cut with one of the houses on the top of the middle layer and tuck the remaining houses behind the middle layer. Remember to make sure any cut edges are hidden behind the landscape or other houses.

5) Glue your two other trees to the card.

 

 

WOW!!!!!! Marathon or what???!!!!!  So much for trying to keep it brief !!!!!

 

Hope this is helpful ladies. Hopefully see you back again on the 24th October when we will be doing stamping. Specifically - masking and resist techniques. Thinking of an autumnal theme using trees and leaves, with yellows, oranges, reds and browns. Ideal for difficult men. LOL



Inspired by Anna Griffin

I have long been a fan of Anna Griffin however like most paper crafters I tend to hoard the papers because they are just too gorgeous to use.  With the advent of her new range of embossing folders and die cutters it is possible to make an impact on cards using similar paper products, thereby leaving my stash of A.G. papers untouched.
The first card is a Birthday card for my boss at Samuel Taylor (Click on Crafts), Brighouse. I have used the signature embossing folder, distressed with antique linen distress ink and new flower die cutter, with images from Crafters Companion flower fairies CD rom (candy tuft fairy) and Joanna Sheen's Victorian Flowers CD rom. Both have been decoupaged.
 The sentiments for the first two cards are frames and fonts from the Anna Griffin Creative Journaling CD rom which I imported into Craft Artist 2 and used from there.
The angel is an Anna Griffin polymer stamp from 2012 (I think), coloured with promarkers, the holly and poinsettia from My Craft Studio and the little postcard images are from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Christmas CD.
Oh! nearly forgot, the letters for 'Vesna' were cut using an X cut die cutting plate.

Hope you like my new selection.