Create Magic Step by Step

Morning, Today I'm sharing the Magic Hat card that I made for the Launch of the wonderful Typography Collection by Leonie. It has been such a versatile range to work with, the number of projects it can be used on is simply limitless. Hopefully you managed to watch some of the shows yesterday, if not they will be available on Rewind via Hochanda's website.

To start this project, I drew and coloured a top hat with my alcohol markers in 4 shades of grey, only using black for the darkest areas. At the same time I traced around the hat to make a mask from copier paper, which I would need later.

Next, I created the playing cards by drawing around the embossing folders, this gave a perfect size and rounded corners. This was repeated 5 times before cutting them out.

Using Leonie's Typography dies, I cut out the letters and ordinals that I needed to create the Ace, King, Queen cards.

The last 2 cards were embossed with Create and Magic from the embossing folders that make up the collection.

The next step was to create the background for the hat, this is when the mask was needed to cover the hat. Taking the star stamp from the 'Rag Doll' set I stamped around the card with black Archival ink. The stars were then coloured with Spectrum Aqua Markers in Sunset, Wildflower and Peacock Blue. Lastly using  craft knife I cut a slit in the top hat where I could insert the playing cards later.

The wand was made using a plant stake, cut to 6'', then coloured with a black alcohol marker. The whit tip were added using my white Sharpie Marker.

To create the main background, I randomly stamped half of the hair from the rag doll, as I used the Spectrum Aqua makers it was easy to only colour the area I needed to stamp. Then I added the other half of the hair to create the shape. The colours I used were the same as for the stars.

Having cut mats for the layers from Black card, I edged all of the pieces with a gold 4Artist Marker from Pebeo. I added the gold edging to the playing cards and the embossed cards before assembling my card using Collall Tacky Glue and 3D glue gel.

I really hope you have enjoyed my step by step today along with the finished card. Thank you so much for visiting my blog today, I really hope you will stop by again to see what I am sharing. Take care and Happy Crafting.xxx

Friendship Flowers

Morning, I have had these beautiful stamps from Imagination Crafts for such a while but just haven't had the time to use them. Sue brought them to Hochanda a while ago, so I thought I would make a card with them and share with you today.

I wanted the card to be really colourful, so went about making so vibrant backgrounds to show of the silhouette style stamps. Ii decided to use the Spectrum Aqua Markers from Crafters Companion, I started with the yellows/Oranges and swiped colours across my card diagonally using a sponge direct from my glass mat.

I then repeated this with the Blues/Mauves and then the Reds/Pinks.

Using black Versafine Ink, I stamped the images onto each of the backgrounds.

I then made the background card by using all of the colours graduating across, again diagonally.

Once I had cut out each of the flowers I was left with some coloured card, so I took a small strip of each of them and joined them together, then stamped my chosen sentiment. This one is lovely from Bee Crafty.

I backed each of the images onto black card and the same for the sentiment.

Then I backed my main background piece onto the same black card.

To finish the card, I positioned the flower toppers onto my card and added the sentiment. I secured all of the elements with Cosmic Shimmer Glue.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you have enjoyed the step by step I have shared and the finished card. I hope to see you all very soon. Take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Flowery Gown

Hello and welcome back. Here is a fabric project I have done using the stamps from Leonie Pujol and the new collection that was launched on Hochanda on Wednesday 18th May. I hope you like it and enjoy my step by step today.

I started of by cutting a square of cream Calico approximately A4 in size, pressed it and stamped the head and shoulders stamp.

Very lightly in pencil, I sketched a rough outline of a gown, I filled this with the group of flowers stamp from the same set. This is a wonderful stamp and has a light feathery effect within the flowers, I deal for pattern building. I thought it would be great for the dress as it gives a floaty effect.

I was a bit adventurous with the hair and wanted her to look different so I decided to cover the hair with French knots. Taking 2 strands of black and one strand of burgundy embroidery thread I randomly added them all over. Then in between I used just 2 strands of black thread until it was completely covered. 

For the flowers on the dress I used Spectrum Aqua Markers from Crafters Companion, the colours I used were Teal,Wildflower and Red Violet. I used flicking strokes using the small nib end, from the centre outwards, but didn't colour right up to the tips as I wanted these to remain cream.

I used the same flicking motion and small nib to colour the wings with Teal and I concentrated the colour nearest the body. When this was dry, I stretched the calico over a piece of 8 x 8 board.

On a separate piece of calico I stamped my sentiment and stretched this over a piece of greyboard.

Taking the misty flower stamp that I used for the dress along with the single flower, I created a frame/border around the card. I positioned the sentiment where i wanted it to sit so I could stamp the edge to match the Background.

I then randomly coloured some of the blooms in the border, Using just a couple of the Spectrum Aqua Markers. Finally I stuck down the sentiment, raising it with 3D glue gel.

It was fun creating this project and I hope you have enjoyed seeing and reading about it today. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and I hope that you will continue to follow my blog. Take care xx