Country View Crafts Guest Designer.

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

I am here today to show you a Concertina Book made with.....Yes it's a  Masterboard though I realise it's not Monday! 
This is a little extra this week as I have been asked by Susan at Country View Crafts to be one of their Guest Designers and of course I said yes.

The theme for this month is Texture and I'm sure you will want to pop over and see what the Design Team have come up with and maybe join in the Challenge but first of all I would like to show you what I've made and here it is.

A Concertina Book.

I started with this pretty awful looking mop up card. I can never resist taking a piece of spare card to any left over ink on my craft mat.

So believe me this is not just a piece of mucky paper Lol!

I added more layers of Distress Oxides Sprays to start building up the colours.

And using the same colours in the Distress Ink range I started stamping using text stamps and the base of my glue stick.

More stamping with the circle stamp but keeping the colours within the range because there will be more fun to add later!

This close-up gives you a better idea of the detail so far.

All that lovely Masterboard and what does she do but chops it all up Lol!

 Now the fun begins as I am about to add some Texture you can really feel and see.

I so love this and if you've used Vilene interfacing it's basically the same thing.

Paint it first and then apply heat with your heat gun and watch the magic. 

So much gorgeous bubbling but don't forget to stop before it disintegrates. 

The next type of texture is simple too, just apply crackle glaze through a stencil and leave to dry, love it.

Gorgeous texture!

A few die cut plants and spiders. Some of the ferns were decorated with Nail Art beads which are quite small and very useful.

And a cobweb, love this die. 

Add some embossing ink and powder to the die cut piece then heat it up. I love the finish which is much nicer than just having die cut card.

Now we're ready to start putting everything together.
You may have wondered what the puffy fabric was going to be used for well that's the stone around the edge of my pond and I've applied a gilding sheet to resemble the water fall.

With the inner pages I added some stamping before adding the die cuts. The stamps used here are by Lavinia Stamps.

Then it's just a matter of adding any little extras to complete the design. I included some Glitter glue in places.

At this stage I also added some sentiments which were stamped in black Archival ink and then heat embossed.

For the inner page sentiments I used several Paper Artsy stamp sets.

And the front page, this woodblock stamp by Dovecraft.

I also added some small copper brads along the top of the front page and a small butterfly which I made by stamping a Chocolate Baroque stamp onto shrink plastic, coloured it with felt tip pens and then heated to shrink it.

Just a quick look now at the inner pages where I added little extras to complete the design such as Glitter glue and some more shrink plastic charms. 

My dear friend Diana Taylor made some ATCs with a similar theme and it tempted me to make this concertina book.

If you've never seen her blog you are missing a treat and can find her here.

I hope you've enjoyed watching me make this and please do pop over to see what the DT have come up with for this challenge.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x