Even more La Blanche colouring ideas.

 I think I'm all coloured out now so here are the last La Blanche cards I'll be posting.

 I need to start my mock up cards for my next class which will be a hidden greeting card plus one other (which I haven't decided on yet) but will post them as soon as they are done.

 

 

Yve

More lovely La Blanche stamps

Here we have a few more of the images I have been chillaxing with this afternoon.
What is it about colouring in? many people never grow out of it!


I apologise to any gardeners out there if I've got the flower names wrong....I tried searching Google but either the flower looked wrong with the leaves or via versa.

Here in Yorkshire it's been a beautiful day! T-shirt weather....no kidding!
Took my poochie for a walk and it was glorious!
Another "what is it....." ... about dogs? do they have telepathy?
before I went on the walk I went into my bedroom and put on my trainers. My dog couldn't see what I was doing as I'd shut the door and I didn't want my dog, to get my daughter's dog, wound up since I wasn't taking her. As soon as I walked out of the bedroom there they were! both of them, like jack-in-a-boxes, all exited and thinking they were both going out for a walk.

Yve
:)

Happy Crafting whatever style you choose.

Finding space!

 No.....I don't mean the stars at night, but space in all those cupboards and drawers that us crafters seem to fill with endless crafting goodies.

Well, a week ago I was having a rearrange and came upon some La Blanche foam stamps that I had almost forgotten about. What I mean is, I knew they were there, I'd just forgotten how gorgeous they are. After stamping out many copies I was going to put them all back in the cupboard,but decided that I needed the space for new goodies. So I put them up for auction and have been having fun colouring some in, ready to use as card toppers in future. Here are some of the ones I've done so far.

I hope you like them as much as I do.

Once again I have been having trouble formatting the pictures! they just don't seem to want to move where I want to place them. So, I apologise that they are all over the place.  SOOOOO frustrating!!!!




Yve


 

Thank you cards

 


Just a selection of some Thank You cards I am working on at the moment.


This one (and the birdie one below) are done with Kanban stamps. I think it's the Cheery Lyn lattice die in the background and an Anna Griffin sentiment. I've added liquid pearls at the cross points of the die for added dimension which gives the card a finishing touch.

 Here I have used a Rubber Stampede stamp, a Die'sire butterfly embossing folder and another Anna Griffin sentiment.

The main image is an Anna Griffin stamp (from a binder set), the Martha Stewart beaded ruffle edge punch and blue Kanban paper.

Finally, I have chalked through a lattice stencil for this background and used the Kanban bird stamps.




I hope this give you inspiration for your cards and keep watching this space for more great ideas.



Yve

Class for 1/3/14

Back by popular demand we are doing the resist technique. I have made it simpler this time by only using one layer of resist. I have included a small amount of decoupage in the leaves as well, which can be seen in another example in store.
Hope to see you there.

Yve

Upcycling

Hello again. It's been a while but I've been a little busy what with one thing or another.

At work this Christmas we had a themed dress code on the last week of term.  Each day we had to dress in specified colour, but I struggled with the last day when we had to wear a Christmas jumper. I couldn't find one I liked in the shops and because I left it very late I just thought they were all really horrible colours or very tacky. It was too late to get one mail order....so what to do?
I have 4 Beth Terrell chenille jumpers (that I absolutely love), three of which had gone bald on the front left side. Two of those I had patched making them look reasonably designer ish, but the black one was worse than the others.
Eventually an idea formed. I went to a large craft chain and bought 2 squares of white glitter felt. I got out my Anna Griffin snowflake dies and cut the shapes out. Having done that I sprayed the back of them with adhesive and stuck them over the bald area. It does not totally cover the patches but it does divert the attention. I'm quite pleased with the result and I don't have to throw my beloved snuggly jumpers away. What do you think?

 

 

Yve

Live Life

What you need

Stacy Stamps – Baby Bear 2106JJ

Stacy Stamps – Moon/Sun 1073CC

Kaisercraft – Live life CS930 sentiment Stamp

Die'sire Embossalicious A4 Embossing Folder - Tumbling Leaves : EF4-TMBL

Martha Stewart deep edge border punch (Floral Vine Eyelet)

OR Spellbinders  Scalloped Borders two –S5-202

1 x A5 sheet white Vellum

1 xA5 sheet bright green card

2 x A4 sheets white card

Black die based ink pad (Memento or Versafine recommended)

White Distress marker OR White Sakura Souffle Pen

Stencil brush

Twine

Post-it-notes

 

Distress Inks used                              Promarkers               

Squeezed lemon                                  Warm Grey 2       Pastel Pink                                                   

Peeled Paint                                        Umber                  Sandstone

Tumbled Glass                                    Pine                      Caramel

Adirondak – Bottle                             Carmine                Cocoa              Walnut

                                                            

HOW TO:

1. Take the A5 sheet of green card and cut down slightly to approx. 14cm x 20cm.

2. Emboss using Die'sire Tumbling leaves embossing folder then distress the edges using the   Adirondack Bottle ink.

3. Take the sheet of A5 vellum and cut down to approx. 12.5cm x 18.5cm.

4. In portrait aspect punch or die cut the left hand edge.

5. Stamp the bear using a black dye based ink in one bottom corner of an A4 sheet white card. Trim the sides to match the edges of the stamp.

6. Stamp onto a post-it-note with the bear, stones and the butterfly and cut out to create a mask and place it over the main images.

7. Using a piece of copy paper randomly tear in a wave across the paper. Place horizontally across the image you are working on around the bears neck area. This is where your first hill is going to be.

8. Using the peeled Paint distress ink and the stencil brush, stipple to create the grass. If you want to add some definition to the hill at this stage use a very light stippling of Adirondack Bottle across the edge of the paper mask line.

9. Move your hill mask up to just above the bears ears and repeat the last step. do not add as much ink, you want to create the idea of distance.

10. Move the mask up slightly again and repeat this last time.

11. Trim the image to about 15cm in height and then stamp the sun in the top right hand corner.

12. Using the tumbled glass and the squeezed lemon distress the sky and the sun.

13. Colour the bears snout in Sandstone and around the eyes in Caramel Promarkers. The main body of the bear is coloured using Cocoa and lowlighted (shadowed areas) with the Walnut.

14. The stones are coloured with Warm grey 2 and Umber. The grass fronds with Pine.

15. The butterfly uses Pastel pink and Carmine.

16. Finish the image by using the white distress marker on the cotton tips of the grass which may have been stained green by the stippling.

17. cut two matts one 2mm bigger all round than the coloured bear image and one 4mm bigger.

18. With the chisel end of the cocoa Promarker edge around the smaller matt.

19. Stick the bear image centrally to the brown edged card and then stick that centrally to the remaining white matt.

20. Stick the bear matts to the upper right hand side of the vellum leaving a border.

21. turn to the reverse of the vellum and where the bear matts have been glued, apply another layer of glue and stick to the embossed green card. Be careful not to extend the glue beyond the edge of the main image otherwise it will show through the vellum and give an untidy appearance.

22. Tie the twine around the green embossed card and main image before securing to the white base card. 

                                                           

                                        

 

This card is a little simpler. The colouring is mainly done using blending chalks however if you don't have these use Pan Pastels. Only the grass and stones have been coloured using Promarkers. I have embossed a piece of white vellum for the background and used floral Spellbinders D-lites dies to embellish.

 

Sorry ladies I forgot to photograph the 'Duck Dreams' samples before leaving the shop yesterday so please bear (excuse the pun) with me for those and I will try to get round to putting them on in the future.

 

Once again I would appreciate your support by purchasing your supplies from Samuel Taylor Crafts, Brighouse. If you mention that you are purchasing as a result of my online tutorial or the in store class/demonstration I can't promise discounts but it may ensure the continuance of these projects/classes.

 

Happy crafting.

 

Yve