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:

It feels like some time since I did this as I've been otherwise occupied but I'm working my way back again.

This is one of the original masterboard backgrounds that I made using washing up liquid, a straw and inks to create bubbles.

If you like this technique and would like to see how I did it then the details are here:

Couldn't help but have a little play with the originals and this one was altered on PICASA, a photo editing program. I recommend it.

So what came next?

Some new and old stamps by Kate Crane. 

I used some of the new ones to stamp directly onto the card blank and a seperate piece of card which I attached later before adding the bubble card.

The focal image are some older stamps and much loved.

I think they all work well with the bubble paper and hope you like it too.

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.

As promised I'm back again with these two Masterboards.

Again if you want to see the original process in making these you can find it here:

And more samples of how you can alter the look of them by changing the colours.

Hope you like them.

But the rest are very different.

All the colours were changed using Picasa Photo editing.

This is so much fun but you have to stop sometime Lol! and get on with using them.

I cannot get the A3 in my scanner so I just do it in two parts.

A new card using a piece from of one of the masterboard copies.

And my first go at adding foil to my cards using my new Hot Foil Machine.

 

The fern plate was ideal for this Masterboard which was originally stamped with real ferns.

 

I had hoped to make more cards with these but been occupied trying to come up with a Valentine's card.

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.

Following on from my Masterboard last week you may remember I mentioned that I had been altering some of these using Picasa.
This is a program I really love and as a freebie it's brilliant.

So here are some of the alterations I have made to this Masterboard.

 The Original.

Hand painted and stamped using Aqua Tints and some clear embossing.

Altered using Picasa. 

 

Obviously I could go on but think this shows what can be produced using this program.

 

Hope you found this interesting.

More ideas will follow and examples of the ways I have used these Masterboards soon ( I hope!).

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

Masterboard Monday

Hi Bloggie  friends I have been amazed this week at the interest I have received with the Steampunk shadow box I made using matchboxes.
I love anything Steampunk and it would seem that I am not the only one, lol!
I have to thank Sandee and Amelie's choice of challenge.  

However, I have still found time to work on the family journal
using the Masterboard papers and cards posted last Monday.
I think I am nearly ready to start the construction.
I like to have all the bits and pieces ready and then start playing around with the page designs.
 

 

Been cutting up some of the Masterboards to make pockets, borders and frames.

I love the Vintage Cabinet dies by Tim Holtz and have used them a lot and also his border dies.

 

This is one of the pockets which will probably hold ATCs.

 

 

The photographs were printed onto brown craft paper. I wasn't sure that it would work but it is always worth a try and they printed really well.

 

 

I used a sepia setting on Picasa 3.

The paper is smooth on one side and slightly rough on the other and I printed it on the rough side.

Although it's not easy to see, the frame has been embossed with clear embossing powder.

 

 

Guess that's it for now and hope to start putting it together this week if other things don't get in the way of construction lol!

Hoping you like it so far, love to read your comments.

 

Big Hugs, Angela x