Up The Wall

Up The Wall

Hi there!

I'm so excited - just realised

that coming Sunday is not

only Mother's Day in the UK

but it is also the beginning of

British Summer Time!

Woohoo! 

Right.  Calming down......

......now...

Angela Radford is with us

today with a tag to make

you smile.......

"For this project I started with a white tag 

and using a Tim Holtz stencil, 

I applied the Grunge Paste

Once this was dry I replaced the brick stencil 

and secured it down with masking tape.

Over this stencil I placed the Cobweb.

 Next I used a variety of distress inks

 to build up the colour of the bricks

 

Once I had achieved the colouring I wanted

 I removed the stencils and allowed the ink to dry

 I replaced the stencil on the right side to complete the wall.

 Now it's time to add more colour to the textured section

 adding darker colours to make the bricks stand out.

 I completed this with some black which I think 

gives a more realistic effect to the bricks and also edged it too.

And here is the tag completed and ready for the detail to be added.

 I used the Tim Holtz Wild Flower die and some 

odd bits of sprayed paper from my stash 

and attached these to the tag

And here is the finished project. 

I completed the tag by adding the Tim Holtz Crazy Cat, 

a spider from one of Tim Holtz stamp sets, 

Stickles glitter Glue, and a ribbon.

Here is a close up:

 Hope you enjoyed watching. 

Happy crafting, Angela xXx"

Products used:

Grunge Paste.

Distress Inks.

Tag.

Tim Holtz Dies - Crazy Cat Dies.  Wild Flowers.

Tim Holtz Stamps.

Tim Holtz Stencils.

Stickles Glitter Glue.

Oh what fun!  Really made

me smile all over my face!

Thank you Angela for a super start to my day

 'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Bokeh

Bokeh

Hallo Everyone!

Hope you are all well and

seasonal bug free................

everywhere I go it seems

that everyone is coughing and

sneezing.................might have

to consider living in quarantine

for the time being ............

Today's Bokeh project is from

Craftyfield, who has a different

take on the technique:

" I started by applying Distress inks to my Kraft tag. 

Some of the lighter colours do not show much at this stage 

but will be revealed in the next stage...

To create the Bokeh effect I have designed my own stencil, 

of course you can use one of the many circles designs available 

but I'm a control freak... and wanted to create the circles one at a time. 

To cut your own, use either circle dies or a circle cutter as I did.

The traditional way to create the Bokeh effect 

is to use white pigment ink but I fancied trying it

 with a Distress Crayon first.

 I stencilled 2 circles with a white Distress crayon to see the results. 

I continued with the pigment ink as I found it easier to 

control the different levels of opacity of the circles.

For the stamping I used the Paper Artsy flowers with Versafine black 

and embossed them in clear powder. T

he sentiment by Kaisercraft is also stamped with Versafine but not embossed.

You can see my embossing powder container (ex take away dish) in which I decant my pot. 

Not much left at the moment!

I pulled out my Gelatos and coloured a circle around the flower heads 

using a stencil, to echo the Bokeh circles.

Quite simple to make, although it did take me a long time 

to stencil all those circles one by one! 

The most difficult part is to know when to stop 

and I hope I haven't gone overboard!"

Supplies:

Ranger Kraft Tag No10:

Distress Inks: 

Circle cutter:

Distress Crayons set 3:

Kaisercraft Love This 

E3 Kay Carley 02:

Versafine Black:

Clear Embossing powder:

Mix & Match Designing with Gelatos Set:

No, Craftyfield you haven't gone overboard - 

it is a super tag.  I love the technique you

used too, not to mention cutting your own

stencil!

I quite often cut my own stencil's too and I use  

a purpose made product called Punch it And Die

"Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Ho Ho Ho - Sylvie

Hello, 
Two biiiiigs cards and tags today. Those are over 20 cm / 8" tall.
Love the clean lines and brights colours one those. That reindeer is so cute. 
Sylvie used the following Woodware stamps

Cut white cardstock to desired sizes. 

Cut a circle in spare card and use it as stencil

Place it at the top of the card, and add colour with a brayer

Stamp "christmas swirl" with black Archival ink. 

Stamp the reindeer and the snowman on white cardstock using black Archival ink. 

Cut them out

Stamp each image again and cut out the heart. Colour them with Gelatos and add a touch of glitter.

Colour part of each image with Distress ink and a wet brush

Glue the snowman and reindeer on the tag, overlapping the coloured circle
Add a touch of Glitter glue on the cut out and coloured hearts and glue them on with 3D squares

Stamp a few snowflakes and text on the tag

For the purple card, add a border (TH die) at the top

For the blue card, cut the top in a tag shape, and add a red ribbon
Add a glittered doily to the tag.

On both cards, apply some Glossy Accents and add some Shaved Ice glitter as shown on the pictures.

Sylvie used

Stickles Glitter Glue : Christmas red , Glam Pink.

Tim Holtz Alterations - On the Edge Die- Iron Gate

Ranger Glossy Accents

Glass glitter and shaved ice

Dovecraft : white doilies

Stickles dry fine glitters : diamond

Tando creative Mini range : hearts

Faber Castell Gelatos : red

Woodware clear stamps : Christmas Swirl, Patch Reindeer, Patch Snowman

Distress ink pads : picked rapsberry, Spun Sugar, Shaded lilac  et Salty ocean, Tumbled Glass

Promarkers

Archival ink pads : jet black

Speedball Brayer

Kaisercraft self-adhesive pearls

See you soon, 

Izzy

Spring Bouquet - Neil

Hi, 

Neil is with us today with two gorgeous and colourful tags... Neil used the newly released Tim Holtz Distress paints and the JOFY stamps. A lot of cutting and 3D mounting for a couple of layered and dimensional tags.

I was playing around with some of the new Distress paints on a #8 tag. 

I know that they are water reactive but for the first layer I just used the paint and let it dry. 

Once dry, it is waterproof and I stamped the flowers in black Archival ink and dried it. 

I then added some further colour by adding colour direct to the tag, I like the circle effect it gives, and I softened it with a bit of water. 

I wrapped some twine around the tag and fastened a bow.

I then took a #10 tag, scrunched it up and dragged the Peacock Feathers Distress Pad over the raised areas. I scrunched it again and took the Picked Raspberry over the tag. 

I spritzed it with water to wick the colour and then ironed it dry and flat. I coloured the tag with Wild Honey Distress ink and added some detail with my winged mask and Picked Raspberry. 

Both tags were edged with Black Soot to add contrast, it really lets the colours pop.

 I used 3D foam to add the small tag to the other.

 I stamped the JOFY images onto white card and coloured with Distress Markers before adding them to the tag with foam pads..

I love the layering and dimension on the tag 

To finish I popped on a couple of flowers made previously using the Tim Holtz tattered flower garland die, stamped the Don't eat the Daisies and cut into a pennant.

Material used

Tags - #10 and #8

JOFY 12

Distress Paints - Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Seedless Preserves

Distress Inks - Black Soot, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Wild Honey

Distress Markers - Various

3D foam tape and pads

White card

Tattered Flower Garland die

Ribbon

See you tomorrow

Spring bouquet - JOFY and Lin Brown

Hi, 
Spring? did anyone say spring? 
As I write this, spring has been VERY shy so far this year, but I am hoping that, by the time you read this post, we would have finally had some warmer days. 
So this week we will celebrate Spring or to invite it to settle once and for all... either/or.... :D

PaperArtsy introduced some new stamps earlier in the year... some designed by the talented Jo Firth Young (aka JOFY)...

 others designed by the equally talented Lin Brown. 

We also have the matching dies for the Lin Brown's stamps. 

So who better than the two designers themselves to start the week? 

Lin and Jo were kind enough to send me some stunning samples to share with you. 

Let's start with Lin ....

Our second Designer Jo has made this beautiful canvas

Paint the canvas board with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints- shading blue to green.

Stencil on meadow flowers with Toad Hall Fresco Finish paint  .

Stamp flower along the bottom edge with black Archival ink 

A die cut clock face is added to the canvas 

(before gluing in place it was painted dark brown, and drawn lines added) 

Once all the stamped flower heads were in place the same flowers were stamped onto various decorative papers and added to the canvas. 

 Additional detail & shading was added to the flowers with paint and Distress Markers, buttons and layering of papers.

A word strip was added to the bottom edge of the canvas (Tim Holtz Tattered Banners Sizzlit die)

Jo used:

Canvas Board

Dies: Tim Holtz/Sizzix:  Tattered Banners & Weathered Clock

JOFY stamps

Fresco Finish paints

Distress Markers.

Distress Inks

See you tomorrow