Crafty Cardmakers #168 Bling it Up.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Another Monday and another Masterboard project!!!!

But I am also back to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

Mary is hosting our Bling It Up challenge, so let's see lots of gems, sparkle, glitter, anything that adds a bling quality to your creations.

As usual You can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to just be cards, as long as it meets the challenge, and doesn't exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule!

For my project I've been making a scrap book/journal for a friend, it's a gift for her daughter's birthday.
I  was told she liked greys but some colours too, possibly pink or green so there we go. It will have greeting cards mounted inside it so needed something with good pages weight so I used a Pink Pig watercolour sketch book.

I had thought about decorating the actual cover but wanted to keep the finish neat so I decided to make the design on card and attach it to the front cover on completion. So here goes.

Made the Masterboard first as you can see here.

 

I normally work with A3 paper and card as it gives you more to work with when complete but as this was A4 I made two similar Masterboards using Tim Holtz stencils, Distress Inks and Seth Apter stamps.

Finished, they looked like this.

 

 

The Process for completing the design:

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut away part of the Masterboard and some Seth Apter circle dies to add to the stamped images. This was mounted onto a sheet of black textured card.

 

More stamping:

Kaisercraft sentiment stamp and the butterfly is Tim Holtz.

 

 

The sentiment here was Paper Artsy.

 

And some gilding to make things pop a little.

Nothing like a bit of shiny stuff to add Bling!

I so love this Mixton Relief by Pebeo.

 

You can make tiny dots with it too.

 

Next attached the design to the cover layering it with more card. I still felt it was missing something.

 

A Bow!

Nothing like it to finish stuff off Lol!

 

 

So here is the finished journal cover.

 

Few close-ups of the butterfly mounted onto silver cord and net, finished with silver brads.

 

 

I have decorated the inner pages too very lightly so as not to detract from the cards that will be mounted inside. Just couldn't leave them blank.

 

Some of the stamps used on the pages:

 

Inkylicious Moments, Seth Apter circles and IndigoBlu swirl.

 

Visible Image sentiment.

 

 

Inkylicious sentiment stamp.

 



 

So that's your lot really and if there is anything you want to know just ask.

 

I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

 

 I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:
Country View Challenges: July: Have Fun with Circles.
Altered Eclectics: July Challenge Anything Goes.
City Crafters Challenge blog: week 319 - the Book of Love.
Stamping Sensations: July-Anything goes with a stamp and ribbons.
Love to Create challenge 14: Anything Creative / Mixed Media goes.