Boxing Clever

Boxing Clever

Hi There!

Are you beginning to think of

getting away for a long weekend

or maybe even holidaying in the

UK this year?  

Louise Thomson has been

thinking the same and has sent

us a project reminiscent of 

summer holidays .............

"I painted a wooden box, first with 

a couple of coats of gesso, then with

 some fresco finish paints. 

The edges are stamped with a

 Carabelle stamp. 

I painted in all the details, rather

 liking the idea that it could be 

a little Cornish fishing village with

 multi coloured cottages. 

Some subtle detail was added to

 the top by sponging paint on to an 

Impression Obsession cover a card stamp

 and printing it over the lid (I'm afraid it 

doesn't show well in the photo).

 A little distress oxide ink was blended 

around the edges and I finished of

 with a couple of io die cut gulls."

Thank you Louise, a timely 

reminder of summer holidays

and trips to Cornwall.

Impression Stamps Cover-a-Card stamps

can be found here

and IO dies here

Carabelle Expressions stamps are here 

I can almost taste that Cornish clotted

cream .......... dreaming on.....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Better & Better

Better & Better

Hallo Everyone!

Welcome to our new topic, the title

of which is a narrowly disguised

Get Well!  So many of us have 

folk who are ailing in some way

we thought we would devote this

week to offering cheery Get Well

wishes in a range of different styles

Today we have Hazel Harler with

us and her style is Vintage:

"Hi everybody.  Good to be with you today!

I used these lovely Imagination Crafts rice papers

 I glued the striped paper to the front 

of the card blank then I tuned the card over 

and used a waterbrush to wet the edges,

 this enabled me to tare the excess paper 

away from the card.

Using the water gave the rice paper 

a nice frayed edge.

I cut the lace butterfly out of the 

patterned rice paper.

 I used a Carabelle Studio stamp and

 leaf green archival ink to stamp 

on the background.

The stamped background.

 I coloured a white piece of card by swiping

 the distress inkpads directly over the card

 I stamped the Carabelle Studio tag and 

butterflies onto the coloured card and 

cut them out. 

The sentiment is a Woodware stamp.

I glued the lace butterfly and some lacy fabric

 to the card, then I added some lace,

 tissue tape and stamped some script.

Before I glued the butterflies to the card 

I covered them with stickles, 

I also added some gems for the bodies."

Supplies:

Card blank.

Imagination Crafts rice paper..

Carabelle Studio stamps.

Woodware sentiment stamp.

Archival ink - black and leaf green.

Distress ink - victorian velvet and old paper.

Stickles.

Lace, tissue tape 

A great start to the week

Hazel.  Thank you.

There's no end to what you can

stick on a card is there?  Get 

out your bit boxes and see what

inspiration lies within.  

'Till tomorrow, 

Mickie xx

Apple for the Teacher

Apple for the Teacher

Hi there!

It is coming up for the end of

term but not only that, it is the

end of the school year.  

I thought it might be nice to

focus on the hardworking teachers

and tutors and there's nothing like

a handmade thank you

To start us off Angela Radford is

here with us:

"Hi all, Angela here with a new card project. 

I have done my best here to make this as 

Clean and Simple as I can but 

keeping things clean is not something 

I usually do but here goes!

 I started by making Masterboards using Oxide inks.

Then cut a piece of this ready to decorate

 I used a Tim Holtz stencil Wood Grain 

to make the pattern over the inked background.

And the Splatter stencil to create a design 

on the card blank.

No need to cover all the card as most of 

the card will be covered later.

 I used some pages from old exercise books 

to build up the layers but I would not 

advise taking this out of your school books!

Next I stamped the Cat's Whiskers stamp 

on the chosen card.

Cut these out ready to layer them together.

I finished the card blank by adding more images 

from the stencils and stamping the 

Carabelle text stamp.

 A little more colour through the stencil

and we're ready to attach the focal images.

The sentiment is also part of the Cat's Whiskers 

and the die and frame stamp by Tim Holtz

 I stamped the cat images onto the card 

before mounting the main piece so that the 

whiskers will show when everythings layered on

So here we are all finished. 

Curled the corners back a little which kind 

of reminds me of school books Lol! 

Hope all the teachers out there have a great summer, 

they really are The Cat's Whiskers!"

Products used:

Carabelle Studios Rubber Stamps

Woodware Clear stamps

Tim Holtz Stencils

Distress Oxide Inks

We're off to a splendid start
thank you Angela


Well that's me making masterboards
this evening if it cools down enough
for me to move ..........!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Punchboard

Punchboard

Hallo Again!

Are you feeling energetic? 

Hope so because today

Helen Chilton is giving us

a workout with the versatile

Tab Punchboard

"This punchboard is designed to punch 

3 sizes of tabs as shown here.

However you can do more with it than just that. 

Punch on one side to get tab shape.

Punch both sides to create a different top to a tag

 Create interesting card corners and layer up.

You can also easily cut any size tab by removing 

the peg (try not to lose it like I did!) and 

punching freehand.

Here's a much smaller tab.

Different pattern again - don't know 

what you'd do with this one!

This sort of 'houses and chimneys' effect 

emerged as I was having a go in a workshop.

Punch on the fold and get interesting patterns.

Punch on the fold to make different shaped tab cards.

Here's a card idea using the chimney effect:

Stamp the Carabelle Studios windows

 with Distress Oxide inkpads.

Spritz with water and....

blot!

Stamp round the edges in black 

(a stamp positioner is great for this) 

and then paint over some areas with more water.

Sponge ink round the edges and then stamp 

 the Kaisercraft Moroccan stamp along the roof line

and emboss in Frantage Aged Enamel Copper.

To finish stamp the Kaisercraft bricks round

 the edges and emboss in a mixture of 

Stampendous enamels: Frantage aged Aqua 

and Ice Blue.

To finish: layer onto black card and add 

an embossed Tando label."

Materials used:

WRMK Punchboard Tabs
Carabelle Studios: At The Window
Kaisercraft texture stamps: Moroccan, Brick Wall
Distress Oxides: Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber, Broken China
Tando Small Bookplate
Stampendous embossing enamel: Ice Blue, Frantage Aged Aqua

Thank you Helen

for such an in depth 

look at the Tab Punchboard

and what a lovely card at

the end too

I do like craft tools that

have more than one application

don't you?  

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx