The cutest little boxes!

A while ago we had an assignment to make something French.

The boxes we received were the cutest little things with huge potential.

All the boxes and the whole step by step tutorial has been published in the

Bead Book. Issue 43.

The Bead book will become CREATIVE HOBBIES in the future.

 

 Butterfly

 

Fleurs

 

Book of Thoughts

 

 Button up my heart

 Bobbins and lace

Petit Perfumes

Butterfly

 

Lizette also made two boxes.

I will see is I can upload her photos. They are also super cute!

 

Cards for men

Here are six cards designed for men.

To create these cards I had to make a little bit of a mind change,

a colour, theme and embellishment change.

I hope you like them....

 

This card is 5" x 6".

Colour the Tim Holtz Tissue paper with the Distress stains of your choice.

Remember you can always add colour, but you can't take it away.

Die the twill tape with Adirondack Colour Wash.

Use the ink blending tool to colour the background of the stamped image

with Distress inks. The gear element is embossed with one layer of

pewter embossing powder.

 

Stamp the image with Archival black ink. Colour the scarf and the hat

with Distress markers and blend with a water pen.

Use a Spellbinders die to get the torn note book effect of the rust colour paper.

Emboss the sentiment with a double layer of charcoal embossing powder.

The gear embellishment only has one layer of pewter embossing powder.

This easel card is easy if you measure carefully.

Start with a 12"x 6" brown card stock.

Score and fold in half. Now your card is 6"x 6".

 Then score the front page at 3 inches and fold back.

The rust pattern paper with the stamps and the rust pattern paper with the

Eiffel towers need to be the same width.

The green card stock for matting and the rust card stock

for matting also needs to match as well.

Mount the piece of paper with the stamps on foam squares

so that when you open the card it will stand on its own.

 

I hope the instructions are clear. It is sometimes not that easy to explain

things in another language.

I also have a little trouble loading the photos of one of the cards,

but as always.... will try again and

hopefully will publish it soon.

 

This card is also 6" x 6".

Start by placing the four picture squares onto the brown pattern paper.

Measure and cut. Then mat the brown pattern paper onto the red pattern paper.

Get the measurements for the cream card stock.

Put the four pictures on foam squares to get dimension on the card.
Stick the two embellishments to the bottom left picture.

 

For the younger guys, something more funky.

Not as busy as the previous ones, but still interesting.

I used stamps from my 7Gypsies collections.

 

This was the photo that did not want to load onto the blog.

At last!!

The dies I used for the green and white card stock, are from Sizzex.

The stamp pad is from Ranger. Archival Coffee.

Today I am getting some Tim Holtz stamps that I ordered.

I am excited, it is stamps I can use to create more cards for the men.

Keep Well!

 

 

 

 

Cards with a vintage look

Today is actually a big day.

They started building my new studio.

For the next three months it will be dusty, noisy and busy.

 

Everything is charged, me and the battery of the camera!

 

I love this look for winter and on these cards I don't want more

embellishments or elements. Dry emboss the pink card stock

and then colour it with Distress inks.

 

I used Spellbinder dies and Sizzex dies with these cards.

Here is a list of things you might also need to complete the cards.

 

Chalk ink

Different dies

Stamps

Archival ink

Paper distresser

Glimmer mists

Distress Stain

Distress inks

Double sided tape

Foam tape

 

Mist the card stock (which is behind the picture)
with pink Glimmer mist before gluing the picture
to the card stock.

 

You can also colour the seam binding tape with your
Distress stains to give it a darker colour.

The lace tape is like a sticker, just peal off the backing and stick down.

Maybe... a small doily behind the brown piece of paper?

Enjoy making the cards.

x

 

Vintage look for winter cards..

Hi There everyone,

Sharing my cards with you is always a pleasure.

 

 

As I was editing the photos for this post, I saw that I need to

retake two of them. I set up everything and then the camera battery dies!! 

So here is what I have at the moment, the rest is coming later!

 

Thanks for being patient. x

Cards made with Love

Spray and Stamp and Cut and Sew. All in a day's work.

I love using doilies on my cards. From now on

I will be layering the doilies as well.

Big and small and in different colours.

 

This is my favourite card of this bunch.

 

When I look at these photographs, I can see what extra I should have put on.

The cards that I see on the Internet has lots of die cuts and

labels on them and they look gorgeous.

 

The green card stock was stamped with shadow ink

and the edges were then distressed.

 

The bobbin label was stamped separately, cut out and glued down.

 

Grandmas nails were done with some pink Stickles.

 

If you have Distress stains or Distress Inks, it is easy to colour in the stamped image.

Wet a small brush, wipe off the excess water and pick up some ink and colour away.

 

The wording was coloured with Silver Distress stain. Perfect for chipboard.

 

Dry emboss the pink paper and the sand it lightly.

 

Plain Bias binding are very versatile. Colour, cut, crinkle and stamp.

 

Here I used some green embossing powder around

the edges of the green card stock.I sprayed the paper with

Glimmer Mist and dry embossed the paper.

 

 

 

 

Bitrhday Cards

Everybody is having a birthday this month!

 A lot of special people.... all of them.

I hope I will be sharing more cards with you as the month goes by.

 

This one is for Benice, she a purple and blue person

 

and this one for Delene.

We have been friends since Grade 8.

 

 

FRIENDS.............!

I am wealthy.

 

xx

 

Card making.

Sorting out STUFF sometimes helps to clear the mind.

That is what I have been doing today. The studio was a mess this morning,

but now it looks better and I feel better!

 

Now I can start packing the kits for Saturday's class.

Six cards with a sewing theme.

We will dry emboss, heat emboss, distress, spray, punch,

stamp and sand. 

 

Class at: Sweetscrappins.

15 June 2013

09:00 - 12:00

Tel: 012 329 9175



 

 

Leisure Books Polymer Clay Class

As I said, I am glad to be working with polymer clay again.

Maybe playing with clay during my Gr 1 year has

left a lasting impression om me that I wasn't aware of.

 Maybe also the painting.......

 Ranger has a Distress ink called Stormy Sky. I used the

ink on the canvas and then sprayed it for a more distressed look.

It looks like Delft, I couldn't believe my eyes.

 To colour the clay, we used Perfect Pearls. (Also form Ranger)

The small silver element was covered in Silver Leaf.

Stamp the words Love and Memories with black Archival ink. 

The edges of the canvas are stained with the Distress Stains.

I used Black Soot and Stormy Sky.

Use a Crop-a-dile to punch holes in the Canvas panel

and thread a piece of gross grain ribbon through

the holes. Make a knot in front at both sides and you are

ready to hang your art work.