Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you how the new Masterboard has progressed:

You may remember this from last week......

While sorting out the cabin I found these old playing cards and when I took them out of their packets they looked like this on the back.

I must say I preferred the back to the front.

The fronts of these cards might be useful to cut up but right now I've no ideas for them or maybe I was just distracted by the backs.

And this is what I did with them on an A3 sheet of card, but that's not all.....

Ink and stencils were used to start the design and yes these are snowflakes.

Once they were dry I added some white dimensional paste though stencil to complete the design.

It's a little more clearer to see here.

I've had a little extra play here using Picasa. 

If you've not seen me use this before it is a photo editing program, quite old now but it's easy to use and allows you to recolour your scanned art work.

I like to scan my designs so that I have a copy for future use.

You'll have to wait until next week to see how I use these but I will be back.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

If you were around last week you may have seen this before.

If you didn't the information for making it can be found here:

The next part was to make the balloon dogs that I planned to use for the decoration of the card.

This is a stamp by Kate Crane which I then heat embossed which gives a good black line when the colour is added.

Used Tim Holtz watercolour pencils to colour and finished with Stickles Glitter glue on the eyes.

And so to putting it all together. 

I've cut out a piece of the cloud card and edged it with blue ink but you could layer it onto blue card too.

Not sure how clear this is but I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of clear Vellum and folded it round the design. 

Next I added the gold cord to the balloon dogs before attaching them to the cloud design and then to the card blank.

I couldn't resist adding another dog to the inside and a nice sentiment.

I had splattered the clouds with white paint but just felt it needed something else so added a few sequins too.

And that's all for now.

Hope you like it, I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

Yes more clouds!

It does have some Stickles Glitter glue on parts though I'm not sure it's clear here.

I make no apologies, I'm still loving the clouds.

I embossed the clouds with a Spellbinders embossing folder. 

(Sorry the colour is a bit brighter here, I think the light was different when I took the photo).

Instead of filing over the embossing, this time I rubbed over it gently using a blending brush with a very light amount of ink added.

The card below was made at the Craft and Chat club on Saturday.

I've die cut some balloons (Clarity Papers) to layer on the top.

Finished with a sentiment stamp.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday Collage Grids.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with one opf these Masterboard grids:

You may remember seeing this last week.

Well I decided to cut a couple of the grids out and make them into cards.

I've used some Tim Holtz dies for this by Sizzix.

The sentiment was from one of his rub-ons which seemed to fit just right here.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday. Review of 2024.

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

I am here today to show you some projects from last year.

I like to review my projects before getting started with the New Year. 

Oh! and a little rest after Christmas. I think it's good to relax and put the Crafting on hold for a while and come back to it refreshed.

So today are some Masterboards.

Love using this technique for Masterboards they are so useful.

A tablespoon of water and washing up liquid. Stir and use a straw to create the bubbles then transfer them to a good quality watercolour paper.

Stencils next, always useful.

I love this water effect.

Hope you like it too.

This was one of my pop-up cards.

All the fish stamps above are by Kate Crane.

It's not obvious here but the star fish (not Kate crane) was stamped a second time and cut out and atached with sticky dots to give depth to the design.

Here it is again with more Kate Crane stamps.

And if you change your colours which can be easily done with a photo editing program you have a completely different design.

Added some die cut plants to this one.

The fish are stamped and the seahorse (by Lavinia stamps) too which I coloured with Tim Holtz pencils.

The die cut layered openings are by Memory Box and the jelly fish from Temu.

The background was a sheet of brown mottled card and I added a little more detail to it.

The jellifish were cut twise and the layered together.

I think that's enough for today.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela xXx

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

I couldn't resist getting the clouds out again.

Very similar to the one I showed you last week but I wanted to see how it would look with a different coloured background layer.

If you didn't see the one last week you can find it here: then you can decide which one you prefer.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

Just A4 but I made two and there's plenty there for a few cards.

I had a stencil for this but you could easily cut the cloud design from a piece of plastic or card and use that.

I used a blending tool to apply some pale colours on the card and then used the stencil to apply more colour.

When that was dry I splattered white dots using a Posca pen.

The stamp is Kate Crane's Ballooon dog which I coloured and then added Stickles glitter glue to the eyes and the hearts.

I've added one of the dogs on the inside of the card too, always a nice surprise when you open the card.

Hope you like it and would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you some new Masterboards:

It's ages since I did this but I've been in the cabin playing with acrylic paints and a Gel plate.

The only problem with this technique is that once you get started it's difficult to know when to stop!

A4 card and lots of colour, love it.

These designs are made by adding colour with your fingers just smoothing the colours loosely around without mixing them too much (we don't want brown mush). Leave these to dry before brayering on the white paint thinly. 

While this is wet apply the card and smooth well into place (or use a clean brayer) so that it picks up the colour and then pull the card away. 

I like to turn a corner first to make sure it is picking up the paint.

The piece above and below were second pulls. I love these as they have less detail but still match well with the first pulls. 

There is nearly always some paint left on the plate after the first pull and often you can get another one too.

Third pulls below.

And of course you will want to see what I did with these next.......

I love Kate's little balloon dog so coloured a few more of these as I'm sure we can find a place for one of them.

Beautiful little houses.

I took one of the Gel prints and added a few stenciled and drawn images.

Now it's time to prep the pieces for layering up the design. Having cut the first square to size I have drawn the second size square on the wrong side of the card ready to cut it out.

If you have a rotery cutter like this, cutting the square out is easy.

Place the cutting blade level with the pencil line and cut along until you reach the next corner. 

Do this on all sides and then you can remove the centre piece.

Grunge the edge with scissors and then turn the card over and you can attach it to the black card.

The smaller piece is then layered with a piece of kraft and black card and attached to the base which I did with some 3D dots to give depth.

I stamped my favourite stitch stamp around the edge and then grunged it with scissors.

From there I attached the other images and created the sentiment using my Dymo.

It's not easy to see from here but I have added Stickles Glitter Glue to the windows of the buildings and the dog's eye. 

I've also used clear Glossy Accents over the whole of the dog which I think gives it even more of a balloon look though it's not easy to see that here.

So that's your lot for today and hope you like it.

Watch out there's lots more card left over.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x