Masterboard Monday.

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

Hi, Angela here to show you this month's Masterboard swap.
First a quick peek....

 

You may remember this was the Masterboard I sent to my friend Gloria.

I also sent her a sheet of images that I had stamped.

 

I made this using stamps by Chocolate Baroque and this is what Gloria sent me back.

 

I just love the way she used the background and the images and those rusty nails are gorgeous, what a clever way to use them but what do you think?

Here are a few close-ups for you.

 



I am sure you will agree there is so much gorgeous detail and added embellishments.

Hope you like it too. If you can please leave a comment and I will pass it back to Gloria.

Thank you so much for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

Chocolate Baroque Punky Flowers.

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

I decided to join in the challenge at Chocolate Baroque this month.

I love the colour scheme they have chosen so decided to give it a go.

And here's what I made and some stages in making.

I started by adding some crackle medium through a stencil.

 

 

Next I added some flower and leaf detail again using a stencil but this time by Tim Holtz.

 

Gradually the canvas developed.

 

I added colours to match with the challenge and this included acrylic paints and various colours of Treasure Gold.

 

At this stage I have added some tissue paper to the background, the Chocolate Baroque Punky Flowers which I stamped earlier and coloured using my Chameleon pens, a die cut sentiment, some die cut lattice thinlets and buttons.

I glazed most of the flowers and you can probably see that most of it is quite wet at this stage.



 

And the finished piece as it is now.

 

And a close-up.

 

 

Hope you enjoy looking and happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

 

 

 

I am entering this in the Chocolate Baroque

Challenge for June challenge 11.

 

 

Masterboard Monday

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

Just wanted to show you the Masterboard I have sent to my friend Gloria this month.
I can't wait to see what she makes with it.

 

First covered the craft mat with distress ink and sprayed water onto it.
Swiped the card over it to pick up the ink.
You can repeat the process until you are satisfied with the coverage.

I used Chocolate Baroque stamps to add details to the Masterboard.

These stamps are called Abstract Fragments and are available from Chocolate Baroque.

I also used a template to create the effect of bubbles.

I used the flourishes from this collection, again available from Chocolate Baroque.

 

To help her complete this I also sent some of the stamped images from Steampunk Sea World.

At first I thought I would colour them but then decided to let her choose the colour scheme so left them as they are.

I will post the results when she sends them to me at the end of the month.

Bye for now and happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

Altered Letter Project

Hi Bloggettes  here are the final instructions for the finished letter I have been making, hope you like it.

I used a text stamp by Dimension Fourth and added this to some parts of the letter.

 

I continued to build up the design adding flowers and butterflies cut from the paper I had printed and stamped on.

 

Ribbon and gems were added to embellish the design.

And here is the finished letter.

 

 

Front.

 

Back.

 

These are the Punky stamps by Chocolate Baroque used to decorate the letter.

 

Hope you find the instructions useful.

 

Back soon.

Happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Card Ideas

Hi Bloggy  friends here is another idea of how I used the last masterboards below.
Just to remind you of what they were like.

Every bit of paper can be used, you just have to use your imagination.
These are some new stamps from Chocolate Baroque, Steampunk Birds and there are nice images and text included.

I decided to make a Pop-up box card, they just looked like the sort of images that would work well with this type of card.
As you can see the box will lay flat so it will fit into an envelope and is good if you need to post it.

             First the outside.

 

And next the inside.

 

I have included some inner views to show what happens inside.
I used Spellbinders cog dies, Sizzix heart dies, a Tim Holtz label stamp for the sentiment inside and Choc Baroque on the lid.
I finished it off with stickles glue and heart brads.

 

 

You may have guessed this is a Valentine card and I am entering it in the Simon Says Monday Challenge, 'Love Notes' and the Wednesday Challenge, 'Have a Heart'.

I would also like to enter it in The Cheerful Stamp Pad #79-"Love / Valentine" .

 

 Now that I have worked out the measurements needed I shall definitely be making more, I love them and they are so simple to make.

If anyone needs the measurements just leave me a comment and I will post a tutorial on these box cards.

 

Back soon,

Angela x

Mastrboard Monday

Hi  Blogsters  hope you are all good today.
I have been putting off doing this job as I just couldn't decide what to do, lol!

My friend and I had an envelope swap and we had got to the stage where we needed to produce a binder to put them in and could not decide what to do.
Well, I had a brain wave, strange I know, but there you are! and I have almost completed the binder so here is what I did.

Once I got the idea it was so simple and obvious that I couldn't understand why I hadn't thought of it before.
Because these are envelopes I wanted to be able to see the whole thing including the flap and sticking them down would have lost some of the detail, so here is what I came up with.

I started with this......

 

And I ended with this.

And this is what happened in between.

 

First I created the Masterboard using brown wrapping paper which I sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer Mists and then stamped with a crackle stamp.

 

Next I added the detail in the form of Tim Holtz splatter stamp and

Chocolate Baroque, Punky Romance using the clocks and gears stamps.

I heat embossed the clocks and gears with white WOW embossing powder and the splatter with cosmic shimmer, to add texture.

 

After checking that the envelopes would fit and that there was enough space for all of them, I scoured the folds.

 

I then cut a strip of card to fit the centre and wrapped enough strands of elastic round for the number of envelopes it would need to hold.

I glued this down and added masking tape to give a smooth finish.

 

I then took the masterboard and attached it to the back of the binder, turning it in to give a neat finish.

 

I used a plain piece of the sprayed paper to cover the inside.

The paper needs to be slipped carefully under the elastic before being stuck down.

 

And so we got to this though not quite complete as it needs a little extra to decorate the front which I hope to have completed before the end of the week so please call back if you can to see what happens to it.

 

 

Crafty Hugs,

Angela x

Steampunk Greeting card Ideas

Hi Bloggsters  I need some greetings cards this week and as the Steampunk stamps were still laying around , that seemed like a good place to start.

 

The stamps are by Chocolate Baroque and the embossing folder by Couture Creations, lovely lol!

 

I have made a set of the next card using slightly different colours.

The background paper was by K & Company.

You may well recognise the balloon stamp as I used it on the Steampunk Shadow Box.
These are fab stamps giving great impressions.

 

 The coloured paper I stamped onto was newsprint that I used to protect the table when spraying.
I stamped the design onto it and on card. The stamped card was die cut using a Spellbinders die. I cut out a section of the balloon from the sprayed paper and and attached it to the card.
Not sure you can tell but I mounted this with some 3D Sticky Dots to make the balloon stand out slightly and give it more shape.

 

I finished the cards with Stickles glues, ribbon and gems.

Interestingly you may notice some strips of gold card, these were waste pieces cut from the sheet when making the mats and it seemed a shame not to use them, I think they work well, what do you think?

 

Big Hugs Angela. x