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:

This Masterboard is smaller than my usual ones at A4.

I used Distress oxide inks and a stencil by 

'My Favourite Things'. 

With just a small piece of this Masterboard I created this card.....

This is what it looks like closed.

The sentiment is stamped. I think this was free from a magazine at some time as were the hot air balloons and birds.

The diecut front sides are by XCut.

The card is 5" x 7" and I joined two together after die cutting the sides.

I also applied Stickles Glitter glue on the Balloons and birds.

Plenty of room inside for a message too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Back to the Craft Barn with Drunken Chalks.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone just here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working with Surgical Spirit and Hand Sanitizer which contain alcohol, to find out how the two might work with Distress Oxides and here is a peek of how I used them. If you would like to see more details then pop over to The Craft Barn.

 

On some of these I used a dropper and on others a spray to apply the Surgical Spirit.

 

And finished off by making these cards with the samples.

Tutorial for making these projects and the results with the Hand Sanitizer are available now at The Craft Barn.

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

 

Look forward to seeing you at The Craft Barn.

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

 

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenges:

Back with the Craft Barn - Holiday Album.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone just here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working with  an old book to make a Holiday Album and here is a peek of how I used it, if you would like to see how I made this then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details.

 

I had such fun making this.

Tutorial for making this project is available now at The Craft Barn.

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

 

Look forward to seeing you at The Craft Barn.

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

Masterboard Monday.

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

 

If you visited me last Wednesday you will remember that I had a parcel, new Oxides! Set 2. and I am here today to show you some samples made with these.

 

So I had a play with them.

And these are samples but I haven't used all the colours so more samples will follow soon..

 

This set seems brighter than the first set and I love them.

 

So far I have used about half of the new colours together. I hope to find time soon to complete the tests with the new set and also combine some of the colours from set 1.

 

 However this is Masterboard Monday so here is a card I've made with one of the new samples.

I cut the sample to the required size and then stamped on it with a text stamp and a Butterfly stencil by Memory Box (Flutter).

I've not used Tim's birds for a while but I think he works quite well on this card but what do you think?

 

 

I combined the finished Masterboard with stamps and dies by Tim Holtz and added some Craftwork Cards Candi embellishments.

Oh and I put a small blob of Glossy Accents on the eyes too.

 

 

The Masterboards may take a while to complete but once you have them you can make cards fairly quickly and that's what I am off to do right now!

 I would love to hear your comments.

 Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

WOYWW 412 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
Here we are for another Wednesday!!!! at the Workdesk. 
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk!

 

Never let it be said that my little box is not ready for explosion!

 

Because it is!

Well not quite but couldn't resist that.

Back to normality.

I seem to have a bit of spare crafting time so thought I would have a play with some new stuff.

 

The dies on the left are by Seth Apter, can't wait to play with those.

The pile of cards are Seth Apter stamps by Impression Obsession, their Cover-a-Card stamps.

Just got started on one of them using his stencils and another of his dies. You might have guessed Seth's stuff is one of my favourites at the moment.

 

Now these little beauties arrived this week though there are still a few to come yet.

 

 

They are re-inkers for the new Oxide inks pads but I have other ideas for these.

Sorry to tease again but you will just have to wait and see!

So that's me done for today.

 Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and join in the visits around the other desks.

 I'm off now to see what everyone else is up to.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Back to The Craft Barn with Tim Holtz Distress Oxides.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone just here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working with Distress Oxides again and here is a peek of how I used them.
If you would like to see how I made this card then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details and more close-ups.

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

Hope to see you over at The Craft Barn.

 

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 applied Prima 3D matte Gel through Tim Holtz stencils and allowed it to dry then added various colours of Oxide inks.
I only chose the lighter colours of ink as I wanted a nice bright spring like finish to the card.

Next I added text stamping, part of which can be seen here again using the Oxide Inks.

Once the ink was dry I rubbed over the stencilled areas to remove the ink giving the effect that the text was behind it.

 

 

Text stamp:

Dies by Memory Box next and then mounted the Masterboard onto matching layers of card which were placed onto a black card blank which I had prepared earlier by stamping using the same inks and text stamp.

I completed the design with matching ribbon, coloured split pin brads, stickles glitter glue on the butterfly's wings and a few extra small butterflies from my stash.

 

 

 Hope you like this as it's not my usual choice of colours but a nice simple card for a spring birthday and if you use some left-over Masterboard, it's fairly quick to make too.

 

I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

Crafty Carmakers 186 # Things with Wings

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.
Mary is hosting today and our challenge is 'Things with Wings'.

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! 

Hope you will join in.
And here is my project for the challenge:

I couldn't resist playing with the Tim Holtz Oxide Inks again and I've made today's Masterboard using them.

 

I started here by applying the ink to my craft mat, spritzing it with water and pulling the card through it. Dry with your heat gun and repeat until happy with the coverage.

I then used Prima Finnabair stamp sets and added detail to the Masterboard.

 

 

Next I stamped the main image onto a section cut from the Masterboard and heat embossed it.

 

Then stamped and heat embossed the images on an old book page. Coloured these by using the inks with some water and a paint brush

 

and cut these out ready to apply later.

 

Depending on how I intend constructing a card one of the ways I like to embellish is by using the stamps on the card blank itself.

This has the effect of giving continuity to the design and added interest to the finished card.

Oxides stamp so well on black card so they show up really nicely.

 

I decided to add the same butterflies to the inside of the card too.

 

 

At this stage it's time to complete the main section by attaching all the features and adding suitable embellishments.

I did this by attaching some Dew Drop gems (nice bit of bling!), Tim Holtz tapes and die, stitched stamps to border the design and completed it with Pebeo Artist marker, splattering it over the design.

 

I try whenever possible to use odd numbers when arranging the detail as it makes the design more interesting and helps to move the eye around the composition.

This theory is known as the 'Rule of Odds' which produces dynamics in a design.

You can see this in my use of the three butterflies and the three circles popping out from under the main section though of course odds aren't the only part of a design that makes it interesting. 'The Rule of thirds' which effects the layout, the colours and of course the focal image used all adds to making the design more pleasing to the eye.

Sorry there I go again boring you with teacher speak!

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 too.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge: April - Anything Goes.
A Vintage Journey: The Magic of Three.
Stamping Sensations: April - Anything Goes.
Love to Create Challenge-7 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes.
Allsorts Challenge blog: Week410 - Bring on the Bling.