Gift week: Notebook

hello, 
Now this what I call a very clever idea today (doubled up with a happy mistake twist). I would not have thought of using the die for this, and it is so effective: well done Isa'sArt. I would love to receive a book like this as a gift, wouldn't you? 

I wanted to try to use the Sizzix TH Movers and shapers dies on a book cover to see if it works. And it does... Well, nearly.. You can see there was a little problem with the H on the book. So I cut the same "wish" in cardboard (and then with the Spellbinder scalloped oval) and glued it on the book. I guess you can call this a happy mistake. 

I then stamped and cut a Crafty Individuals butterfly and added body and antennae  made with self adhesive beads and wires

Add some inked ribbons and frills and you have yourself a gorgeous mother's day gift :)

Notebook A7

Spellbinders dies: classic Scalloped Oval, Labels Ten 

Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers window die Wish

Stamps CI-235 , CI-231 , CI-256

Inks: Versafine and Distress

Blue wire, beads and pearls

See you tomorrow

Gift week: Perfume bottle

Hello, 
Back on day 2 of our "'gift week" with a lovely project from Gio, which would be a lovely present for a crafty friend, don't you think? 

This time I altered the "Woodware ATC in a tin": I used the box as a container for an altered real perfume bottle and I created a triptich of Gothic Arch with 3 of the 5 ATC contained in the tin.

I stamped the lady's silhouette (CI - 335) on a scrap paper, to mask the lid.

Using the Crafter's Workshop stencil HarlequinI I covered the lid with  Dreamweaver Transluscent paste, spreading it with a spatula ( since the stencil was dirty with old painting the gel had become coloured, I loved that effect). I set aside to dry and added some Crystal glitter glue. I stamped the body of the box using the same plate and blackJet StazOn. I stamped the silhouette on a piece of metal,

I cut it out and I glued to the lid.

For the triptich: I coloured the ATC with Dusty Concord Distress Ink and Tea Dye. I stamped the background using CI-306 - French corset and Distress Ink. I cut them in a gothic arch shape and I made some holes along the sides.

I stamped some perfume bottles using CI-335- Perfumery Paris plate and Jet black StazOn on a piece of metal. I cut them out and I glued to the arches. I linked the 3 gothic arches with a purple thread and a needle and added some lace.

For the perfume bottle: 
I painted it with Fresco paint Lilac and Snowflake using a sponge. I stamped it using the plate CI-335 - Perfumery Paris and Dusty Concord Distress Ink. I added the ribbon and some metal stamped details.

Materials:

CI-335- Perfumery Paris plate 

CI-306 - French corset

 Jet black StazOn

Dusty Concord and Tea Dye Distress Inks

 Woodware ATC in a tin

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Snowflake and Lilac

The Crafters Workshop template - Harlequin
Dreamweaver Transluscent paste

Glitter glue: Crystal

See you tomorrow

Gift week: frame

Hi, 

Welcome to a new week all about gifts. With mother's day just around the corner (in the UK), we thought we could give you a bit of inspiration. Having said that, it's not all about mother's day this week as there will be a couple of masculine projects too. 

We start off the week with Michelle and a beautiful little frame. 

I first stamped out the Impression Obsession images and coloured them with Promarkers

I then coated the frame with gesso and rubbed bundled sage Distress Stain along the edges of the frame. Give the stain a rub with your fingers to help smooth the stain into the gesso.

The ferns were stamped using a versafine spanish moss inkpad.

A few well placed knots of ribbon and the butterfly just completed the look!

I used

Trio hanging frame

Impression Obsession - Gary Robertson designs: Spring flowers 3

CI-231 - Butterflies background stamps

CI-207 - leaves and flowers background stamps

Promarkers

Claudine Hellmuth Studio - Gesso

Distress Stain: Bundle sage

Versafine small ink pad - Spanish Moss

Simply Saturdays goes vintage

Hi,
Now I love what Gay does, love her work.. always, but this has to be my favourite cards of hers ever, particularly the white one. Although the black one is very striking too. 
What do you think? 

When cut out and embossed from copy paper the flower is inked gently with Distress ink Spun Sugar, covered in Rock Candy, Clear crackle paint from Tim Holtz. The flower will curl alarmingly as it dries, let it :0) When it's nearly dry gentle ease it out with your fingers and add the stamen and/or more colour. Another coat of Rock Candy makes the crackle more sparkly and deeper. Die cut motifs, stamp text in white ink on the black card and assemble

Materials:

Spellbinders, Ironwork Motifs

Marianne Creatables Poinsettia

Crafty Individuals stamps, CI-214, CI-173

Text on second card is from 

Crafty Secrets Journaling

Distress inks, Spun Sugar, Pumice stone, Antique Linen.

Brilliance ink, Moonlight White.

Small/tiny gems

Have a great weekend

See you next week

Vintage week: Hanging hearts

hello, 
It's all about loving vintage.. or vintage love... with Linda this week who made those beautiful hearts for you.
Hope you like them

While spending a fabulous weekend teaching and demoing in the shop I found a bit of time to ooh and arrh at all the stash in the Craft Barn ... It is a fabulous shop with an amazing range of products ... well worth a visit in my opinion! Anyways ... while I was there I saw these fabulous Artemio Wooden Heart Blanks and decided they would be perfect for our Vintage Shabby week. I covered them with Tim Holtz's Shabby Vintage stash and then aged them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. A few book page embellishments made with Tim's dies ... some lovely Crafty Individuals images ... a bit of Rock Candy Stickles and some Viva Pearl pen to finish!

Ingredients :-)

Tim Holtz stamps: Shabby French 

Tim Holtz Dies: Tattered Florals; Butterfly Movers and Shapers

Ranger: Coffee Archival; Vintage Photo Distress Ink; Rock Candy Stickles

Crafty Individuals People and places pad

Artemio Heart Wooden Blanks

Pearl charms

Old Book

Viva Pearl Pen in Bronze

Vintage week: Scissors holders

Hi, 
How about a bit of sewing today, with addicted-to-sewing-Gio of course ;)
Aren't those just gorgeous??


Let us know what  you think...

I cut out  four trapezium shape from a piece of calico and batting, the same height as the scissor.

I coloured the fabric with Distress Stain, and I covered it with Distress stain Picket Fence to give a worn look. I then stamped the vintage CI-328 images using Archival Ink Coffee.

I added a piece of lace, a flower cut out from a doily and some buttons. I even stamped the little buttons.

If you don't have buttons of the right colours, you just need to colour them with alcohol inks.

I sewed the batting and the calico pieces together.

With the leftovers I covered the handle of the scissors.

Material

CI 328

Archival Ink Coffee

Distress Stain Spun Sugar

Distress Stains Dusty Concord, Wild Honey, Picket fence

Alcohol ink Purple Twilight

lace and buttons

Vintage week: cards

Hi, 
A few vintage cards for you today made by the talented Michelle. 
Hope you like them. Don't forget to let us know what you think... 

This is a really simple card. I just stamped the lase stamp in TH Victorian Velvet ink across the bottom of a piece of cream card.

The topper was made by inking up one of the ladies from the Crafty Individuals stamp with versafine and lowering the stampbord piece on to it to carefully stamp the image. The image was then painted with TH Distress Inks and when dry triple embossed with the UTEE. When this was cool I rubbed a little Rub and Buff around the edge of the tile.

This was mounted onto the card and the sentiment stamped et Voila!

Katzelkraft unmounted rubber stamps Lace

CI-322 - Three ladies (dressmaker)

Crafty Secrets: Card sentiments

Distress Ink pads: Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet, Weathered Wood

Stampbord domino size

Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (Ranger): clear

Rub 'n Buff: Autumn gold

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The Garden Girls stamp was stamped in the corner using the versafine ink pad and was coloured with TH Distress inks. The rest of the card was then inked using an applicator and the lace stamped on the top

The addition of the sentiment and the card was complete.

For this card I used

Crafty Secrets: Garden girls

Katzelkraft unmounted rubber stamps Lace

Versafine ink pad - vintage sepia

Distress Inks

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The card was first covered with some paper from stash, then I stamped the Crafty Individuals stamp with Versafine and coloured it with TH Distress Inks

After cutting out it was mounted on the card.

The Lace stamp was stamped and embossed on cream card using versamark and white embossing powder, then inked with antique paper and Tea Dye Distress inks.

A few flowers, bows and pearls finished this card of beautifully!

For this card I used:

Katzelkraft unmounted rubber stamps Lace

CI-303 - Dames de Paris

Versafine ink pad - black

Detail embossing powder: white

Versamark ink pad

Roses & Rosebuds

Vintage week: Art Journal

Hi, 
Day two with Neil and a fabulous vintage Art Journal page. So much to look at. 
Gorgeous, don't you think?

The inspiration for the page came from a sentiment on a greeting card that I saw ages ago and it stuck with me: "Grandmothers are just vintage little girls"

So as it's a vintage theme I went to town with lace and stuff! (unusual for me I know)
The page was painted with Americana acrylic in blues and whites to create a base to work on to which I glued some lace along the bottom and top
The doily is a lovely detailed one from Cheery Lynn designs which I cut out twice. I coloured the main one with Tea dye and Victorian velvet distress inks and stamped the script in the Victorian velvet. The images are from the Crafty Individuals booklet people and places 2.
The main flower is from some paper I made and cut out using the tattered florals die. Some swirls were die cut too and then I just kept adding trims and flowers and gems until I was happy! Lastly I used a label maker to do the sentiment as it's also kinda vintage now too!

Materials

Americana acrylic paints

Crafty Individuals People and Places 2 image book

Cheery Lynn French pastry doily die

Sizzix Flourishes and Tattered Florals dies

Distress inks - Victorian velvet and tea dye

Andy Skinner stamp set - Gothic

Self adhesive gems

See you tomorrow

Vintage week: tag

Hi, 
Hope you had a lovely weekend :)
This week is all about vintage with a variety of projects and step by steps.
Starting with Isa'sArt and her gorgeous tag. 
Thanks for popping by

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Tip of the day

When you trim lace and ribbons, keep the off-cuts. Here Isa used them on the lady's hat. Nothing's wasted.

Isa stamped the fan on fabric and then stitched on top. Isn't this a gorgeous little detail ?

Materials:

SPELLBINDERS : Classic Circle small, Fleur de lys accents, Fleur de lys doily motifs - 

TIM HOLTZ Tag die

Stamps CI-335, CI-285

Inks:VERSAFINE Sepia, DISTRESS Walnut

Paints: AMERICANA white

Pen: AQUAMARKERS Raspberry (red)

Glossy accents

Stickles: Star dust

Color me crazy trim

Gems and pearls

See you tomorrow