Masterboard Monday, Use It or Lose It.

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

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

 

Another leftover that I made last year and never used.

 

I started by using a snowflake stencil by Paper Artsy with Gell through the stencil and allowed it to dry before adding the inks with a blending tool. Also added more stencilled snowflakes using the blue Oxide inks.

And this is how I used the finished Masterboard.

I made several of these by first embossing the card blank and then layering up parts of the Masterboard.

The embellishments are freebies from magazines. I seem to collect lots of these and thought it was time I used them up.

 

There are always bits left over and I hate just throwing them away so I've had a bit of a play to see if I could use them.

 

Thought there was a possibility here.

 

 

A little snip here, a little snip there and a bit of layering, a diecut sentiment, finished with a Sizzix die cut snowflake and you have another card.

 

Hope you like these two.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW -653- What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"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 for today!

I'm hoping all the Christmas cards are finished and posted so decided to have a change and do some mixed media for a change. 

I'm working on this project from the Creative Craft Academy but it's only just started here and I'll let you see it when it's finished, lots to do yet though.

I've been having a play with an old technique called Retiform using some old Paper Artsy stamps. It might end up as a card.

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

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 228 - Flowers

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.

Kim is hosting today and our challenge is Flowers.

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be cards, as long as it meets the challenge. 

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

Some of you may remember me making this Masterboard using Bleeding Tissue. Details can be found here.

I've used Paper Artsy stamps for this card.

Started by stamping the vase.

And embossed the vase.

Then rubbed over the embossing with a thin layer of black ink to make the texture stand out.

Next, cutting out the Kraft card layer.

Which I attached to a section of the Masterboard.

And then stamped the chosen flowers, first onto the Kraft card layer and then onto a separate piece of the Masterboard.

Fussy cut the stamped flowers and attach them to the stamped stems and then the vase.

I have added a little shadow with a blending tool using black ink to ground the vase.

Finally added a sentiment, Stickles Glitter Glue and gems to complete the design.

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:
Allsorts challenge blog: week 508 Spring Flowers.
Addicted to Stamps Challenge - Anything but a Square. Challenge 171

Masterboard Monday and the C Word!

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

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

 

Which started like this.

 

 

 The textured effect was done using screwed up wax paper then ironed onto water colour paper and rub over with Distress Oxides. The waxed areas work as a resist but I do buff it with a soft cloth which removes any residue of ink on the wax.

 

I love the finish on this and you could use it as it is but I added some stamped images using Paper Artsy stamps by Tracy Scott.

 

I'm feeling lazy so going to stamp several images at the same time which works well if you're doing A3 which is my favourite size for Masterboards.

 

This piece of paper on the right was a mop up that I used which may well come in useful on another project. Never like to waste paper or ink.

 

So here we are.

I don't always do this but decided to mark off the back into sections.

This does help to prevent wastage if you are sure about how you intend using the Masterboard.

 

 

And here is the first card.

 

I wont tell you it's a quick card to make because it isn't as I fussy cut the stamped images and then attached them to the Masterboard. There are stamps for the Ho! Ho! Ho! but I actually wrote them on free hand for this card.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that this is another Paper Artsy stamp this time by elenazinski Art.

The sentiment was a freebie from a magazine.

 I finished the stars off with some gold stickles glue which you can probably see better here.

 

 

I've used a Woodware stamp for this called Everything Christmas.

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

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas-October challenge.

Sparkles Christmas Challenge: #93 - Christmas is for Kids.

The Merry Christmas Challenge: Sept 15-Oct 14 challenge.

Simon Wednesday challenge - Let's get ready for Christmas.

WOYWW # 486 - 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 for today!

 

Pebbles waiting to be painted, new stamps and shaped dies in the box on the left other than that not much happening as I'm between projects so not very exciting I'm afraid and those eye stamps are still sitting in their box.

 

Paper Artsy Christmas stamps (Jofy) and Tracy Scott background stamp.

 

Not on the desk at the moment but thought you'd like to see these new stamps (Zinski) too. How much fun are they!

So that's me done for today, nice and quick.

 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

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:

 

As Autumn is on it's way I thought something with colours to match might be nice.

 

I already had a collection of papers coloured with Distress Oxides. Whenever making Masterboards I usually colour a few extra sheets of card or paper ready for the next project or just in case I need extra but this seems like a rather large collection! So time to use some of it I think.

 

Added detail to the colour using Tim Holtz stencils and more Oxides.

Next to the stamping.

 

 

Using Paper Artsy stamps.

 And the final Masterboard ready for the next stage. This was an A4 sheet of water colour paper so plenty to go on.

 

Using Kraft Card blank and cut the Masterboard to make the background layers.

 

 

Stamping next on a sheet of this.

 

With these.

So love these stamps especially the moth.

 

And coloured with Oxides after heat embossing.

 

 

Next used another Paper Artsy stamp to decorate the front section.

I make no apologies for the mess on my Misti Lol!

 

Love these little dies which are really useful on cards.

I used some of the Kraft card to cut these and added a little Oxide ink to them using a blending tool.

 

And at last here is the finished card.

 

I glazed the shell on the snail added gems and sentiments to complete the card.

 

 I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations: August challenge - 'Current Favourite Stamp'

My Time to Craft Challenge#377 More than One Fold.

Alphabet Challenge blog: Challenge 'K is for Kraft Card'