Gifted

Gifted

Hallo There!

I have a great project for

you today that will take

you back to when the 

Milkman, or Insurance Man

or whoever, called to collect

his money at the end of the

week............. 

Helen Chilton has updated the

Magic Wallet and here she is

to reveal all ........

"For my magic wallet I've deliberately 

made one cover feminine and one cover masculine 

to show that they work for anybody. 

You can match your covers up to suit the occasion.

Cut two pieces of Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer 

text paper, 12cm x 9cm in size. 

Stamp the Woodware stamps over the top.

Colour them in with coloured pencils.

Add torn scraps of paper from the same 

collection top and bottom and put to one side.

For the inside covers cut two pieces of 

paper and stick to mount board.

Get out your ribbons, different colours for each side.

Fold and stick edges of green ribbon 

over left hand side, holding the cross 

together in the middle.

Lay right hand cover next to it on top 

of the green ribbon and stick the ends to

 the back of the right hand cover.

The back looks like this.

Fold over and stick ends of yellow ribbon

 to back of right hand side of right hand cover.

Tuck other ends under the left hand cover

 and stick to back of left hand cover..

The magic wallet mechanism is now complete.

 Note the ribbons do not touch each

 other's space - this is crucial for the 

mechanism to work.

Stick the main covers to the mount board

 and add embellishments.

Open wallet - the card is on the right.

Close back cover over the top.

Open wallet from right hand side again 

and the card will have switched sides,

 just like magic!"

Materials used:

Woodware
Bo Bunny
Derwent 

That's a great way to present a

gift card Helen, thank you.

Of course you could always

use the new Woodware Christmas

stamps and make some seasonal

gift cards ahead of time.........

Leave you with that thought...

Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Fond Farewell

Fond Farewell

Hi There!

It's the end of the week already!

For any of you as time

 challenged as me I would advise 

a more realistic expectation 

of what we can achieve in a

 week is called for........

Louise Thomson is with us

today to share a leaving card

"I started this project by applying strips

 of random Washi tape on to a piece of 

white card.

I gave it a coating in Nougat

 fresco paint, followed by 

some jade paint.

 I added water and wiped back some 

of the jade fresco paint to keep it

 light and textured.

Using more fresco paints as an ink, 

I stamped the IO clouds stamp.

 The archival ink used here is permanent

 and perfect for stamping over shinier

 surfaces like that of the Washi tape.

 I ended up using three of the four 

colours in the new archival mini set one.

 I wanted a bit more texture so I 

used a set of nesting circle dies 

to create rings

Then on a spare piece of paper I

 stamped the air balloon again,

 cut it out and mounted it using

 lots of 3d foam pads.

Next I used dies to cut out the 

lettering I wanted...

and spritzed with colour bloom

 for a shimmery, textured finish 

 I added the lettering and highlighted it 

using fineliner, then popped a border 

around the edge to finish."

Materials;

Washi tape

White card

Fresco paints (Nougat and jade)

Impression obsession cover a card, clouds

Bo bunny stamp set; Dreamer

Mini archival ink set one

Nesting circle dies

Sizzix alphabet dies

Colour bloom fir needles

Kaisercraft paper

Sakura pens

A lovely card Louise,

many thanks

Entirely appropriate for

us too as we go on to

a new week.....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Oxidised

Oxidised

Hi Everyone!

Good to see you

are you doing anything

exciting this weekend?

I'm off to Kit and Kaboodle

where we will be making a

Decorative Gardener's Seed Box

Hmmm.... can't help thinking there

should be some punctuation in

there somewhere..............!

Apropos Decorative - Louise Thomson

is here today with a cute piece of

home decor..........

"The basic plan:

A bit of good ol’ ink smooshing…

Followed by some yummy texture paste… (I know you’ve seen the stencil before but I do rather love it!)

Stamping some feathers in Distress Oxide ink on tissue paper while the texture paste dries…

It’s funny how techniques come and go. 

I was about to painstakingly cut around 

these and try to give them a soft feathery 

look at the same time when I remembered

something I used to do with mulberry paper a lot…

A quick wizz around the shapes with a wet paintbrush and 30 seconds later…

Presto! Muchos time saved 😃

Back to the canvas....

and it is time to really start having fun. 

Plenty more ink added (mostly vintage photo, walnut stain and peeled paint) I also used a wet baby wipe to take back some of the ink in places to create more variation.

Adding water is what really makes the 

oxides come alive… 

suddenly they spread revealing a whole host 

of the colours they are made up of.

Starting to get really involved now… 

I add some brushos. 

Initially on top of the wet canvas, 

then after it has dried I add more 

before splattering with more water.

Now completely carried away, 

out comes the white gelly roll pen

 (another staple favourite) 

for a bit of doodling.

No shortcuts this time 

I stamp and cut around two birds 

from the Bo Bunny set. 

Distress Oxides make a lovely paint too- 

I just smooshed a bit on my non-stick mat

and picked them up with a wet paintbrush.

Remember the feathers? –

 time to add them back in. 

I tried using pva but being a 

water based glue it made the

ink run. 

For take-two I used pritt stick

and it was fine. 

Also added in at this point are

branches adapted from the 

wildflowers die set and coated

in more Oxide ink.

‘Lifted’ with a handwritten sentiment on 

scraps of card with fossilized amber Oxide ink 

blended on and broken china 

splattered over the top.

And just when I thought I had finished 

I suddenly found myself with the 

white gelly roll pen in hand again 

and thus a border was added!"

Materials list:

Canvas board

Non-stick craft mat

Bo bunny stamps- birds of a feather

Acrylic block

Tim Holtz stencil- birch

Texture grunge paste

Heat gun

Blending tool

Distress oxides 

Brushos

Paint brush

Double sided tape

Staz on ink – Jet Black

White Tissue paper

Tim holtz die wildflowers

Sakura gelly roll pen – white

Thank you Louise

for a beautiful canvas

Love the depth you have

achieved in the woodland

Don't know about you

guys out there but I love

the way Louise lets us in

to her creative process

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx