Good Morning all and a Very Happy Tuesday.
I thought I'd share a project for Christmas to decorate a door with. All of the products used are from Creative Expressions except for the chipboard hanger.
So let's get started.....
Cover a chipboard hanger with Couture Creations Vintage Christmas Paper.
Cut out the sentiment from a piece of the same paper.
Matt and layer the sentiment onto coordinating paper.
Apply Flake and Glitter Glue to the small Holly Spray Stamp from the A5 Christmas Post Stamp Set. Stamp randomly onto the door hanger then apply Cosmic Shimmer Mulled Wine Gilding Flakes.
Paint around the edges of the hanger with Black Soot Distress Paint.
Colour a piece of Coconut White Card with Evergreen Bough and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks. Stamp the Robin from the Christmas Post Set with Black Archival Ink onto the coloured card.
Heat emboss with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Powder.
Lift some of the colour from the image with a wet paintbrush to give highlights.
Cut out with Spellbinders Standard Circles Small Dies.
Draw around the outer edge of the die on black card and cut out.
Cut out the next largest die using Coconut White Card with Double Sided Adhesive on it.
Apply Mulled Wine Gilding Flakes. Matt and layer attaching the top layer with 3d foam pads.
Apply Evergreen Bough Distress Ink over the top of the sentiment. Cover with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder then heat emboss.
Cut a piece of Coconut White card and, using the double sided adhesive, apply Gilding Flakes as before.
Cut a piece of black card then matt and layer the sentiment adding the top layer with 3d foam pads.
Attach the Robin and the Sentiment to the hanger with 3d foam pads.
And there's the finished project!
I do wish I could pass the real thing around for you all to look at....the photo really doesn't do it justice! The colour of the background paper looks much lighter in the photo than it does on the actual project and the colours go together so well.
Anyway, hope you like it! Well, that's it for this week. Many thanks for stopping by and leaving comments. I'll be back next week with another project for Christmas so until then, have a happy, crafty week!
Good Morning All and a very Happy Tuesday. I'm back with another project for the Creative Expressions Design Team using the beautiful Tulip Spray stamps and the Earthenware Vase Stamp.
To start, paint the Pronty Heart with 2 coats of Cosmic Shimmer Warm White Matt Chalk Paint. Go over with 1 coat of the Cosmic Shimmer Pearl Shimmer Paint.
Place the Doodle Crosses Mask over and dab Barn Door Distress Ink through the mask. Remove mask and heat emboss with clear powder.
Stamp the Vase and the Tulips with Black Archival Ink onto Coconut White Card. Paint with Fired Brick, Barn Door and Mustard Seed Distress Inks.
Paint the leaves with Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint Distress Inks. Cut out and chop the stems down on the flowers.
Stamp the Tulips around the edge of the heart with Black Archival Ink and paint with the same inks. Blot to dry.
Shape the Vase and stick onto the heart with 3d pads in the centre and glue around the edges. Arrange the flowers and use glue and 3d pads to stick them in place.
Use a Crop-a-dile to make holes to attach a wire hanger.
Paint around the edge of the heart with Black Soot Distress Paint.
Make the hanger from 3 strands of gold jewellery wire.
Tie small strips of co-ordinating seam binding to the wire.
And there's the finished project. The white blob you can see where the ribbon is, is a map pin to hang it up to take a picture!
Everything I've used is from Creative Expressions except for the jewellery wire and Crop-a-dile.
I've loved using the Tulip Stamps, they are stunning and look gorgeous in different colours. They're also really easy to cut out which is always a blessing!
Well, that's it for today. Back tomorrow with a make for Creative Studios featuring the fab Nautical Stamps.
Many thanks for visiting and hope to see some of you at the workshops in June. Don't forget that if you haven't booked yet, the first date is sold out.
Good Morning and a very happy one to you all.
It's Wednesday so that can only mean one thing, my turn to showcase one of the gorgeous new Nautical Stamps from Sam Poole at Creative Studios.
I do hop you managed to catch Sam's shows on Create and Craft last Saturday. So much inspiration for using these stamps and lots of fab techniques.
My project this week is using a chipboard tag and the Lighthouse Stamp. I've used the sentiment from the Lantern set for this one.
You can also see the Background Netting Stamp has been put to good use. I think I'm going to be using that stamp quite a lot and not just with the Nautical Stamps.
The tag has been painted with Distress paints and there is a full "how to" complete with step by step pictures on the Creative Studios blog.
That's all for today, very short and sweet, but we're taking a friend to hospital and it's going to be pretty much an all day outing.
So, until next time, have a happy, crafty week and thanks for visiting.
Tuesday again and I'm back with a "wall art" project for my Creative Expressions Design Team Project.
Start by painting one of the Studio 490 Art Part Circles and frame with White Eco Green Acrylic Paint.
Cover the circular frame with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Texture Paste. Apply it unevenly leaving a very bumpy surface. Leave to dry.
When thoroughly dry, cover with Broken China Distress Paint.
Stamp 3 of the Antique Dress Forms onto the white circle with Perfect Medium and heat emboss with Cosmic Shimmer Bright Gold Metallic Powder.
Attach a piece of white Seam Binding to the circle with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue to use as a hanger.
Stamp the 6 petal flower from the Button Floral Stamp Set onto some patterned paper (mine was Tim Holtz) using Perfect Medium and heat emboss with the Gold powder as before. Stamp 15 of them to make up 5 of the 3d roses.
Stamp the leaves from the Studio 490 "Love to make Art" set onto Coconut White card using Perfect Medium Ink. Heat emboss with the same Gold Powder and cut out.
Apply Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Wax Metallic Enchanted Gold to the frame. Glue the frame into place with Dries Clear Glue.
Glue the leaves and flowers onto the frame.
And that's the wall hanging complete!
Well, that's it for today. I'll be back next Tuesday with another Creative Expressions project. Hope you like this one and many thanks for visiting. Have a great week!
Good Morning All and a very happy 1st June. Let's hope the weather realises that it's nearly summer and starts to warm up!
I've been playing with my Spellbinder Dies for the last couple of days. I seem to have "runs" on using things, one day it's the Melt Pot then another it's Acrylic Paint and so on. Are you the same?
Anyway, here's one of the cards that I came up with.
First of all, I made the coloured paper by smooshing around a couple of colours of Distress Paints which I spritzed with water then dried. I've overstamped it with Sam Poole's Honeycomb A6 background stamp using Black Archival Ink.
The flowers have been cut using the Carnation Spellbinder Dies and the other die used is the Lattice.
The white background has been embossed (can't remember which embossing folder...doh!). The message is a stamp from Creative Expressions which has been edged with a black Copic pen, then matted and layered onto a piece of the patterned paper.
It's such a pretty and easy card to make and I can still get messy and inky!
We're off to a family BBQ today so here's hoping that "The Sun has got his Hat On!"
I do hope you've been popping over to Sam's Creative Studio's blog. The DT members have been coming up with some gorgeous purple tree creations this week. Give a few people the same stamp and it's fascinating to see all the different ways it's used, that's the great thing about stamping!
Today's travel photo! I thought I'd take you back to Brazil!
One of the children in the village we visited thought we'd like to see her "pet". Yes, it's real!! No, I don't think I want one...I'll stick to cats and dogs if it's all the same!!
On that happy note, I'll say goodbye and thank you for visiting and leaving your wonderful comments. Until next time, have a happy and crafty day.
