Woodn't It Be Lovely?

Wooden't It Be Lovely?

Hi There!

Have you seen the little trays

of wooden embellishments

by Kaisercraft?  I'm rather

taken by the trays but keep

wondering whatever would I do

with the contents ...............

.............Enter The Craft Barn

Design Team ............... first off

here's Craftyfield with a tag:

"I hate thowing away any of my supplies 

and since I have full sheets of the 

wonderful Imagination Crafts Rice papers

 (have you seen the full range available

 at the Craft Barn?) I decided to use up

 the left overs from other projects 

in this one tag. 

They don't match but no worries, 

that's where sprays come in!

 I selected these pieces which I then 

glued on my gessoed tag with 

gel medium.

 I'm trying out my composition...

I added a bit of metallic shine with 

Imagination Crafts Starlight paint

 in Mint and a stencil.

Whilst I had the paint out I used it to 

colour match a piece of card. 

I also added the paint sparingly 

around the tag.

Now onto sprays to give the various papers 

a cohesive look. 

On the right these are 2 of the new colours 

and on the left one of the first released colour.

For those who are familiar with the 

older Prima Bloom sprays, the new ones 

present several differences:

 the bottle does not come ready mixed with water,

 the clear packaging has disappeared 

and finally

 the spray mechanism is different.

It's too early for me to give a definite

 review of the new spray bottles but at 

first sight they are as good as the previous ones, 

which, in my opinion, were fantastic.

 The spray is much finer and so doesn't 

make the paper so wet as to warp as much.

I used a brush to paint my embellishments, 

wooden flourishes from Kaisercrafts, Life's a beach 

also with the Color Bloom sprays

I kept two of the embellishments bare and 

matted on a roughly gessoed square of 

kraft cardstock. To knock back the white, 

I used Distress Oxide in Faded Jeans."

Supplies:

Rice papers:
Starlight paints: 
Pixelated stencil:
Kaisercraft Flourishes:
Distress Oxides: 

Thank you Craftyfield - that is a

gorgeous tag

Such a clever idea to use all

those bits we seem to

accumulate because they are

too nice to throw away......

.....actually, they are aren't they?!!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Fond Farewell

Fond Farewell

Hi There!

It's the end of the week already!

For any of you as time

 challenged as me I would advise 

a more realistic expectation 

of what we can achieve in a

 week is called for........

Louise Thomson is with us

today to share a leaving card

"I started this project by applying strips

 of random Washi tape on to a piece of 

white card.

I gave it a coating in Nougat

 fresco paint, followed by 

some jade paint.

 I added water and wiped back some 

of the jade fresco paint to keep it

 light and textured.

Using more fresco paints as an ink, 

I stamped the IO clouds stamp.

 The archival ink used here is permanent

 and perfect for stamping over shinier

 surfaces like that of the Washi tape.

 I ended up using three of the four 

colours in the new archival mini set one.

 I wanted a bit more texture so I 

used a set of nesting circle dies 

to create rings

Then on a spare piece of paper I

 stamped the air balloon again,

 cut it out and mounted it using

 lots of 3d foam pads.

Next I used dies to cut out the 

lettering I wanted...

and spritzed with colour bloom

 for a shimmery, textured finish 

 I added the lettering and highlighted it 

using fineliner, then popped a border 

around the edge to finish."

Materials;

Washi tape

White card

Fresco paints (Nougat and jade)

Impression obsession cover a card, clouds

Bo bunny stamp set; Dreamer

Mini archival ink set one

Nesting circle dies

Sizzix alphabet dies

Colour bloom fir needles

Kaisercraft paper

Sakura pens

A lovely card Louise,

many thanks

Entirely appropriate for

us too as we go on to

a new week.....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Fond Farewell

Fond Farewell

Hallo Everyone,

Our subject today is the

final farewell and probably

the hardest one to say

Craftyfield is here with

a beautifully simple card

"Bereavement is one of these difficult 

card occasions and it is best 

to be prepared with a ready made card. 

Failing that, this quick and easy CAS 

card should come in handy if you 

need a Sympathy card at short notice.

For subject matters, I err on the side 

of caution and only use flowers, 

these are not times to try out

 the weird, funny or grungy...

I selected this beautiful flower, using

 only the one stem because a single

bloom has a poignancy that a 

(cheerful) bouquet doesn't.

This design will work with pretty much

 any flowers, including all the lovely 

Honeydoo flower stamps.

For a quick card and a CAS design 

dot the cardstock with paints 

and run a palette knife or gift card 

(used up of course!) to spread the paint.

 No need to fuss but I tried to keep 

the surface smooth since I intended

 to stamp on top.

The Fresco paints I used dry quickly and

 do not buckle the card if applied

 sparingly as I did.

 I inked the flower in pink first and 

added some violet towards the 

bottom of the flower. 

With the smaller pads this mixing colours

 on the stamp is a lot easier than with the 

regular Archival pads!

Because the Fresco paints are matt 

there's no need to heat set the inks, 

but to make sure everything is dry 

before handling a quick blast with the 

heat gun is a good idea.

Before sticking to my base card I 

die-cut the cardstock with a simple

 rectangular shape.

As I finished the card, I got commissioned 

to make a tag to for a remembrance,

 which needed to be water resistant, 

since it would be outside (on a flower pot).

 I used the same Archival inks and against 

the white you get a better idea of how 

deep and vibrant the colours are. 

After stamping, I applied gel medium on 

both sides and now my tag will be waterproof.

Supplies:

Fresco paints
Honeydoo flower
Archival mini inkpads
Archival black inkpad

Sentiment from my own collection."

Thank you Craftyfield

for a beautiful project

and a very handy tip

for waterproofing a

tag

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx