Night and Day - Jane Collman

Morning all,

Welcome to the weekend!

Due to a technical hitch, I cannot bring you Pauline's

project today, so I had a look back quickly in 

the archives to find something I made for the blog a couple of

years ago.

Again, using light and dark colours to show how different a 

project can look and in fact how it would appeal to different 

age groups.

For this project I used a Lindsay Mason stamp, Memento ink 

and then coloured with Copics.

Love this sentiment....

Perfect for young teenagers

a very hard age group to make for!

                                             This is what I used -

                          Lindsay Mason Stamps - Moochin and I've Had Enough
                                                     Copics - 
                       E000, 00, 11, 31, 33, 35, Y21, B91, 93, 95, 97
                          W3, 5, 7, 8, C1, 2, 3, 5, C1, 2, 3, 5, R56, 59, 
                                     RV93, BG11, 13, 72, T0, 1, 2

                                         Coredinations Cardstock

                                              Bazzill Dotted Swiss
                                       Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black

                                                           Papers no longer available!

                       Well, that's it for this week on the blog, hope you've enjoyed the
                                 projects and don't forget to tell us what you think!
                                       Your comments are always important to us.

                                                             See you Sunday,

                                                                    Jane x

Saturday Savers - Around the world - Sylvie

Hi, 
You are in for a treat today with this beautiful project, or "the art of recycling  a box of chocolate" with  Sylvie (trust her to have a lot of chocolate boxes to alter :D) 
A lot going on here, a lot of texture, details... and an amazing result... 
Enjoy!!

Box closed

Box opened

Inside

I started by painting my chocolate box with Fresco Finish Paints (Irish Cream & Nougat)

I then aged the box using Distress inks

On the Kaisercraft paper (75 cents collection: Penny) I stencilled the Village using Grunge Paste and a palette knife. 

I let it dry and added some Distress ink (here Vintage Photo)

I cut more paper to fit inside the box and glues them in

I cut the rectangles and squares from the Kaisercraft "Sovereign" and added them to the box. 

I then added some Distress Stain Walnut Stain on the edge of the box.

I cut 4 strips in kraft paper (here the back of one of the Kaisercraft paper), cut the corners, inked the edges and glued them to the box to make a "window"

I started covering the Tando Creative hot air balloons with paper

 I crushed eggshells (always good to keep some in a little box to add texture to your samples) and inked them with Distress Stains (Salty Ocean, Spiced Marmalade)

I then applied some Glossy Accents on the hot air balloon and added the eggshell bits, alternating the colours

I added another layer of Glossy Accents once you have finished

I did the same for the second hot air balloon

For the 3rd one, I applied a layer of Grunge Paste and added a pattern with a knife before it dries

 Once dry, I added a coat of Fresco Finish Mermaid, a bit of Distress Tea Dye and Vintage Photo inks and some Treasure  Gold classic

I cut some brown cardstock border before aging them with Distress Stains

I stamped the clock from CI-353 on a Kaisercraft paper and cut it out to add it to the front of the box

I stamped CI-336 on a spare piece of paper, only kept "around the world" and added it to the box 

To finish, I added the embellishments: string, metal etc.

 Details

Sylvie used

Distress Inks (Vintage Photo, Tea Dye)

Distress Stains (Walnut Stain, Salty Ocean)

Crafty Individuals stamps : CI-353, CI-336 

Tando Creative grab bag

Imagination Craft Stencils "village"

Nestabilities: Marvelous squares 

Tim Holtz alterations: On the edge die

Marianne Design Creatables: Anja Lace

Marianne Design Craftables Dies flower border rectangle

Metal charms - Clock face Steampunk style: brass

Kaisercraft Paper - 75cents collection (Penny, Sovereign) : 

Ranger Glossy Accents

Grunge Paste

PaperArtsy Fresco finishacrilyc paints: Irish Cream, Nougat, Mermaid 

See you tomorrow

All about him - Sylvie

Hi, 
Masculine projects always seem to be a struggle for many of you. So we asked our talented DT to focus on samples for "him". The men in our lives, from children to adults, will get all the attention this week. And with Father's day coming up, it's perfect timing ;)

Let's start the week with Sylvie/Nefertiti and a beautiful gift idea: an altered notepad and a matching card using Crafty Individuals stamps and Kaisercraft papers and stamp.
Love the striking colour on there and can't wait to read what you think...

Tear some papers (Kaiserkraft) the same size as the notepad and glue them on.

Repeat at the back (MME papers)

This is the back of the note pad

Distress the edges with Distress inks

On a white piece of cardstock coloured with Distress inks (Squeezed Lemonade et Fired Brick) stamp and  clear emboss CI-336

Cut it out

Stamp the Kaisercraft background using Distress ink Aged Mahogagy on a tag coloured with Distress inks

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Adhere the hot air balloon to the tag using 3D foam

Add the tag at an angle on the note pad.

Tear more Kaiserkraft paper and glue it to the note pad so it partially hides the tag.

Draw some diamond shapes on the Kaiserkraft paper, cut them out and distress them with black ink and add silver eyelets in the centre.

Glue the eyelets on the note pad  and add some Tim Holtz's tape

For the card, I masked the top of the white card before adding Distress inks to the rest of the card.

I used a Versamark pen to ink up the Hot Air balloon only, stamped it and embossed with black embossing powder. 

I then added the paper and the diamonds with eyelets the same way I did for the note pad

Detail

Both samples together

Matériel utilisé

Kaisercraft Paper - 75 Cent collection: Tuppence & Sixpence 

My Mind's Eye paper: Remarkable 

Crafty Individual's stamp: CI-336 

Kaiserkraft Stamp: Arty CS879 

Distress inks: Squeezed lemonade, Fired brick, Aged mahogany 

Ranger tag: Manila N°8

Tim Holtz masking tape 

Black embossing powder

Archival ink

Versamark pen

Silver eyelets

Edge Distresser

See you tomorrow