Monday, 24 September 2012

Vellum week: day 1 with Neil and Karen

hi, 
Hope you had a lovely weekend. 
This week will be all about VELLUM.... the different ways to use it, colour it, how to attach it on your sample etc... You will see that the team has, once again, come up with wonderful ideas. 

We sell the Pure White Vellum, which is the most versatile as you can colour it any way you want, but also emboss it, stamp it, tear it, fold it (to make mini envelopes) etc. and of course use it for Pergamano work.








CHRISTMAS VELLUM CARD
(by Karen)

The vellum was coloured with Alcohol inks (Lemonade, Butterscotch & Meadow) the die cut with Sizzix Tim Holtz Pine Tree.
I went round the edges of the card with Wild Honey Distress ink, adding a bit of stamping.
The tree was sewn on with a machine.
The quote is computer generated.



Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Pine Tree

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VELLUM CARD
(by Neil)

I used a Crafty Individuals mask and laid a sheet of vellum over itt and embossed it with an embossing tool. I then turned it over and using distress markers in Dusty Concord and Crushed Olive I coloured it inside the white lines. Once that was dried I used Worn Lipstick distress ink and a blending tool to lightly colour over everything. When you flip it over you get a lovely soft colour through.



I Torn it down the sides and attached to a white card blank using tiny brads and trimmed the excess off the top and bottom. A simple sentiment to finish.



 Inside I used more Worn Lipstick distress inks with the same mask to co-ordinate.

Materials list
Crafty Individuals mask - magic roundabout
Distress markers - Dusty Concord and Crushed olive
Distress ink - Worn lipstick
White card and white paper for the insert.



CALENDAR CHALLENGE INSPIRATION
 (by Karen)


This week also marks the beginning of our Calendar Challenge: 12 weeks of inspiration and challenges (1st one next Sunday). We hope many of you will play with us this year. It was great fun last year. 


Here is my 1st calendar page. They are all going to be 9x14cm and, when all done, will be bound with a Bind it All. I chose DaVinci because he was an inventor who my husband is interested in.

I stamped the vellum with StazOn and attached it with staples. 
The background is Scattered Straw Distress inks.




Karen used:
Katzelkraft Vinci Vitruve


Our Special offer this week. 
You will see during this vellum week that Isa'sArt is using the metal tools on her vellum 
(Pergamano style), so we are offering 10% off a couple of tool kits so you can have a go at this technique.
Use the code VELLUM10 at checkout
 


See you tomorrow







Sunday, 23 September 2012

The Craft Barn 2012 Calendar challenge

Coming soon on your favourite blog.... 

Inspiration from the DT will start as early as tomorrow and the first challenge will be up next Sunday.
More details coming soon

Who's playing with us this year? 


See you soon


Saturday, 22 September 2012

Simply Saturday and Pebeo

Hi, 
Last day for our Pebeo paints week. I must admit that I find these paints fascinating. It's fun to watch them change through time and the final result is always stunning. 
Gay is with us today, and she recycled boxes and jars. I'm sure you won't look at your little mini jam pots the same way now. Those are so cute. 
Please, let us know what you thought of this week in a comment below. 




This is what I started with, it was fun emptying them   The small jars are individual marmalade or jam pots, I don't like leaving them behind in restaurants, I fear they get thrown away! Now I can re-use them.


After 2minutes

 After 15 minutes


After a few hours and still tacky I added some flat backed pearls and this is how it looked completely dry


I wanted to see what the paints looked like on a large area and was facinated watching the reaction on these large tins. I mixed the paint thoroughly and poured it carefully onto the tin lids, adding the other colour as I went. The papers were added around the base when everything was completely dry.






Gay used 


our special offer this week

10 % off Pebeo paints
Enter the code PEBEO10 at checkout



See you soon
Have a nice weekend