Craftascope Another Birthday!!!

Morning Friends and Crafters, Well, I do hope you got to see my show yesterday. What did you think? I would love to know unless it was disastrous of course, then I would rather forget all about it. I am scheduling this post to make sure there is lots of inspiration for you, so for me the show hasn't taken place yet, (Thats funny I feel a bit like Dr Who). I am really looking forward to seeing what you create, so I do hope you will share, it's the most exciting part. This is ever such a simple and fast card to make, great for a blokes card and you can add any joke or sentiment you like in the speech bubble.

You will Need:

Craftascope 'Trent' Media Stencil

Clarity 'Firework' Stencil Club Issue No 42

Basic Tag or Speech Bubble Die

Basic Square Die

Stamping Card

Black Fine Liner 

Black Card

White Card Base 8 x 8''

Selection of Distress Inks

Black Versafine Ink

Copier Paper

Step 1: Cut an aperture in a scrap piece of copier paper, place over your stamping card and ink through. Remove the paper and cut out with a die, about 1/4'' larger to allow for a white border.

Step 2: Use your black fine liner to add a wobbly double line around the card. Use Tacky glue to mount it onto black card.

Step 3: Cut a sheet of stamping card to 7 1/2'' square, and get your stencil ready.

Step 4: Selectively ink through the stencil using a selection of bright distress inks, No need to do the centre as it will be covered. Mount this onto black card. Cut a speech bubble or similar and stamp your chosen sentiment or joke. back with black card and secure to the card with 3D glue gel.

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Until Tomorrow, Take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Moonlit Bird

Morning Friends and Crafters, I really enjoyed making this card. Blending with Distress inks is such a relaxing process and can give such a dramatic look. Here I have used the Clarity 'Little Bird' stencil that Barbara launched on the 7th October, the shows should still be available on "Rewind" via the Hochanda Website, for more inspiration. I've included a full tutorial on my blog for you, with additional photos.

You will need:

Clarity 'A Little Bird' Stencil

Clarity Garden Birds Stamp & Mask Set

Clarity Moon Mask

Scrap Paper

Washi or Masking Tape

Alcohol Markers

Black Card

White Stamping Card

Black Fine Liner (Copic and Waterproof)

Black Soot Distress Ink Pad

Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink Pad

Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink Pad

Versafine Black Ink

Step 1: Stamp the largest of the garden birds using the Versafine Ink Pad. Cover the bird with the mask which come included with that stamp set. If you don't have one, don't worry you can make one from copier paper.

Step 2: Position your stencil and secure in place with Washi or Masking tape. Also cover the rest of the card with scrap paper to protect it. Add the largest of the Clarity Moon Masks (See Photo).

Step 3: Using the Distress inks, blend your colours, keeping your project lightest around the moon. Use the Black Soot sparingly at the end just around the edges to add more depth to the colour. Remove the moon mask. With a pencil, lightly draw around the stencil, to add the detail that was behind the moon. You could go straight in with your marker if you are confident to do it that way.

Step 4: Remove the stencil and masks.

Step 5: Colour the bird with your alcohol markers, Fill in the moon silhouette with a black marker. Trim your topper to size. Take a ruler and fine liner and draw a frame around the topper.

Step 6: Layer onto black card before mounting onto a white card base.

Thank you for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed the Tutorial along with the finished card. I hope you will come back very soon to see what else I have to share with you. The next couple of months are going to be very exciting. For now take care and Happy Crafting.xxx 

Crackled Hearts

Morning, Well it's certainly going to be an exciting day today. It started off really well, when I discovered one of my hens had hatched out some chicks and apart from one they are doing well. Anyway back to crafting, I have made a card using stamps and dies from Leonie's last collection. After watching John Lockwood's show on Hochanda, I was reminded of making stamps using foam. When I first got Leonies Mixed Media Dies, I thought how nice it would be to have them as stamps as well. So here goes but before I start, I would like to remind you that it's the big launch tonight on Hochanda at 8 pm. I will be sharing some of my cards later this evening as always.

For my base card, I used an 8'' square piece of Super Smooth card (300gsm). Using Phat foam I painted it very roughly with Cream Glass paint from Pebeo.

While this was still wet, I sprinkled the surface with Brusho's in Cobalt Blue, Gamboge and Scarlet. I then spritzed with a little water to activate.

While my background was drying I cut out some hearts using Leonie's Mixed Media collection 'Lots of Love', I used foam to cut them out and stamped some on my project using Eco Green Acrylic paint in 'Raspberry' and 'Aged Bronze'.

I cut out a couple of the hearts from thick greyboard to form a stencil. I mixed some of the Raspberry paint with 'Kroma Crackle' from Indigoblu. I applied it through the stencil with a palette knife, as it was thick it took a few hours to crackle.

When it was dry, I took a black fine liner pen to add some extra shabby details and scribbles frame. Using the same acrylic paints I stamped a couple of sentiments from the coordinating stamps collection.

Again using the same acrylic paints, I added some splats using the tip of my paint brush. I stood it upright to allow the paint to run a little. Finally I backed my project onto some black card and dried flat.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you have enjoyed my step by step and the card I have shared. I hope you will come back later today to see some of the samples I have made for Leonie's launch show. My post will go live at 8 pm. I will also be sharing more tomorrow. Take care and Happy Crafting. xxx