Buildings

Buldings

Hi Everyone!

Pinch and a punch its the 

first of the month...........

Expect you all remember

that one from your schooldays!

We start the month with a new

theme and Claire Jackson has

a fabulous project for us:

Cut a piece of white card 4”x6”. 

Stamp and emboss the image with black detail embossing powder

Stamp the image on a sticky note or masking paper 

and cut out to make a mask.

Don’t forget to cut away under the bridge and inside the wheel. 

Cover the image with the mask.

Starting an inch from the bottom colour with Distress Ink in

 barn door, wild honey, scattered straw, peacock feathers and faded jeans.

Leave the paper mask in place. 

Tape in place the concentric circles stencil and 

gently dab white acrylic paint through the holes. 

Remove the stencil and paper mask gently and 

dry the paint with a heat tool. 

Wipe any excess paint from the paper mask and put back in place. 

Clean the stencil and put back. 

It doesn’t matter if the stencil is a millimetre out 

as some of the white will show through 

which helps to lift the background

With the stencil in place rub red cherry, mango, banana and margarita mix 

Gelatos over the holes and blend in with a baby wipe. 

Carefully lift off the stencil and the mask

Add shading with faded jeans ink to the edges. 

Stamp, cut out and mount the wording.

With a pale grey marker add a shadow along the base 

of the buildings and in some of the recesses between buildings. 

Highlight some of the windows with red, orange or yellow marker

I have a lot of family and friends living overseas 

and this would make a great greetings card; 

however in this case this card is destined to contain 

theatre tickets for an evening out in town.

Supplies:

White card

Carabelle Studio cling rubber stamp: London

Carabelle Studio template: concentric circles

Versafine ink: onyx black

Black embossing powder:

Distress Ink: wild honey, scattered straw, peacock feathers, faded jeans

PaperArtsy Fresco finish paint: snowflake

Faber-Castell Gelatos

Promarkers

What a fabulous card to present

as a Gift Card?!  Thank you Claire

for starting the month off with a bang....

or should I be saying punch? ........!!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Greetings to all!

Claire Jackson is with us again

today with a beautiful Christmas card

Here she is to talk us through it:

Stamp and emboss the reindeer in gold 

on 3 different patterned papers and a plain cream paper

Cut a piece of card 5” square and stamp the wreath 

in pine needles Distress Ink. 

Dust the card with an anti static bag / talc 

to make sure the ink is completely dry before stamping 

and embossing the reindeer in gold over the top

Squish the evergreen bough ink onto a craft mat 

and with a water brush use it to colour the leaves. 

Colour the berries with cardinal red ProMarker

Cut sections from each of the different papers 

and use them to piece together over the reindeer, 

sticking them down with gel medium or clear glue.

Add a shadow around the reindeer with grey ProMarker. 

Add glitter glue to the berries and small gems

 to the saddle and eye

 To mount the reindeer I found some green patterned paper 

and stamped over it with a Card-Io branch in pine needles ink 

to tie it in to the main image.

Materials used:

Lindsay Mason Zentangle Clear Stamp: zendoodle reindeer ready to go
Woodware clear stamp: sketchy wreath 
Card-io clear stamp: greenery 1
Versafine: onyx black
Distress Ink: pine needles, evergreen bough
Multi medium matte
ProMarkers: cardinal red, warm grey 2
Stickles glitter glue: cranberry, distress fired brick
Gems

 Merry Christmas everyone and I wish 2017 brings you good health and happiness

 and of course many hours of happy crafting.

Thank you Claire

We all wish you a Merry Christmas too

and look forward to more crafty goodness

in 2017

Mickie xx

Christmas Makes

Christmas Makes

Morning Everyone!!

Woohoo!  It's Saturday!

When you have done all the necessary chores 

here is a fabulous project from 

Claire Jackson 

for you to enjoy 

Stamp the image in Versafine ink on watercolour paper
 and emboss in white.

Overstamp the embossed image with bundled sage, slightly offsetting it.

Repeat with peeled paint...

and again with peacock feathers

Spritz liberally with water and tap ost. blue Brusho around the wreath. 

Try to keep the centre paler. 

Use a wet paintbrush to blend the colour around the wreath 

but take care not to over do it and lose the texture.

With a wet paintbrush dab the berries and blot with a cotton bud 

to lift some of the excess colour. 

Using Promarkers colour the berries with magenta 

and add shading in purple.

Using a fine tip add marine Promarker to the inside of the leaves 

and also in between the leaves. 

Stamp the sentiment in the centre in cobalt archival ink.

Trim the card. 

Add frozen Stickles to the bow. 

Using your finger dab wonderland Stickles across the leaves 

and on the edges of the card.

 Use glossy accents on the berries.

Materials used:

Woodware clear stamp – Sketchy Wreath

Watercolour Paper

Versafine Ink Pad

Detail White Embossing Powder

Distress Ink - Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint & Peacock Feathers

Brusho 

Promarkers

Archival Ink Pad

Frozen Stickles Pack

Glossy Accents

  Thank you Claire 

Truly a card for someone special.

Mickie xx

Birds Week - Dawn Heald

Morning all,

I have to keep reminding myself what

the day is, everything is so messed up,

next week we should get back to a bit of

normality.....actually, is that possible??

I'm back today with a project from Dawn, she has 

also being playing with some birds!

This is what Dawn says.....

Hello, Wishing you all a very Happy

 New Year and that 2016 brings you all you ask for. 

For this week I've made a card to send to family.

 From all of us to them. I'm still undecided on

 the sentiment but that will go in the bottom

 corner. I've gone for Lin Brown stamps to

 depict the six members of my little family household.

 I love these stamps and any reason to use

 them, I'm on it. The full on busy

 background fits with our family too.

A note - Don't think too hard about which paints

 to use. I didn't and it worked. It made

 the process more fun for me.

First make the background. Using watercolour

 card. Take three different colours of acrylic

 paints and with plenty of water, paint

 randomly and loosely  around the card.

 Don't worry about dirty water, it works. 

Then flick more water all over. Let settle

 for a minute then dab off excess with kitchen 

roll. Pattern embossed kitchen roll works

 really well here. Dry. Repeat the steps

 again to get more intense colour.

Then use stencil with white gesso and stipple

 through leaving some areas alone. Dry.

 Outline with grey marker pens. Then use

 a selection of the small stamps all over

 the painted card to create a busy pattern.

 Trim to size.

Distress edges then colour edges with black pen.

Stamp all your birds, colour with

 Inktense Pencils and cut out.

Attach coloured coffee stirrers, leftover

 pieces of card from trimming and gold 

ribbon across the bottom so birds

 have something to stand on. 

  

Attach this to a white A5 card blank.

 Then arrange birds onto background and

 stick in place with foam pads.

 I love this, so colourful, great for 

the start of the new year!

This is what Dawn used -

Paperartsy Lin Brown Stamps ELB17, ELB18

Imagination Crafts Stencil - Diamond

 Watercolour Cardstock 

PaperArtsy Paints - 

Fresco Finish Butternut and Caribbean Sea. 

White Gesso

Americana Paint - Primary Red

Stazon Inks -  Jet Black, Dove Grey, Teal,

  Midnight Blue

Inktense Pencils

Grey Promarkers

Cosmic Shimmer Clear Glue 

Stencil Brushes

I'll be seeing you soon,

enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Jane x

Anything Goes - Dawn Heald

Hellooooo,

Here we are again, this is the last week of

looking back at some older projects, the DT

will be back with us again next week

with some new ideas for you!

This was such an amazing project

by Dawn that I thought it should definitely

be aired again!  It would be a lovely gift 

too.

Dawn says -

"This week I've used an 8 x 8 canvas board to make an underwater scene. I knew the look I 

wanted to achieve and remembered my Brusho

 experiments. The Brusho Thickener along with

 Brusho colours and

 some cling film made this project as I envisioned it.

 The Fish Stamps are fabulous 

(my two are courting young love) and

 can be used in different ways other than

 doodling inside the shapes. I'll be using

 them again soon as I really like them. So onto how 

I made this project".

Apply Grunge Paste through the Bay Leaf stencil along the bottom and random circles above with Sequin

 Waste Stencil. Leave to dry as it's quick.

Position stencil back over same place as before and using

 Guacamole Fresco paint and paint brush, I painted over the

 Bay leaves Grunge Paste. Use a sponge and more

 green Fresco Finish paints to build up the layers. Then I 

painted on Decoart MixedMedia Satin finish

Next I coloured my background. First using blue

 and white Brusho

 and water, I painted all over and laid cling film

 or plastic wrap over

 the whole canvas, squished it around and left to dry.

 I chose four blue colours of Brusho and mixed

 each into a pool of Brusho Thickener. 

With a large flat brush I dabbed on the colours covering 

the entire canvas, laid over another piece of cling film,

 pressed it around to blend colours and move

 air pockets around. Then I left this to dry.

  As I'd used a thick layer of Brusho Thickener this took 24

 hours to dry.  I peeled off the cling film and it

 was still damp, so I

 used this to carefully wipe off the colours on parts of the 

stencilling then left it to completely air dry. I dotted on some 

Stickles Glitter Glue in Eucalyptus and Star Dust.

Whilst this was drying I stamped the two Fish and

 doodled some

 Zentangle patterns within the shapes. I coloured 

with Pro Markers

 and added some detail with white gel pen. I then 

cut them out. 

I drew some wavy sea plants, doodled and

 coloured with Faber Castell crafters crayons. Gently 

shape the 

pieces by curving them in your hand. I added

 some bling to the Fish

 by colouring clear gems with Pro Markers and 

gluing on the Fish.

I glued my pieces onto the canvas with glue gel. Add some

 coloured gems as treasure at the bottom of the sea.

Well, isn't that just lovely?

If you want to have a go, this is what Dawn used -

Canvas board 

Brusho Colour Crystals 24 set

Brusho Thickener

Lindsay Mason Zendoodles Fish Stamps

Imagination Crafts Bay Leaf Stencil

Tando Creative Sequin Waste Stencil

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints in greens

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

Decoart MixedMedia Satin Varnish

Pro Markers

Faber Castell Crafters Crayons

Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

Black Fine Liner Pen

White Gel Pen

From own stash

Gems, cling film/plastic wrap


See you tomorrow with another project,

Jane x