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 some new Collage Masterboard Grids:

I have had this book for far too long and it needs to be used so today I'm creating collage grids by adding pages from the book. Some are complete pages and some are torn pieces.

Although these are not like my usual Masterboards which are normally A3 they serve the same purpose as being backgrounds for various images and sentiments. Instead of one large sheet they are divided into grids suitable sizes for the cards and journal pages.

These were Layered up with sheets from the mats and stamping, splashes of paint and stencilling.

Next I looked for something to use as the focal image. These are some old die cut frames by Seth Apter and the birds are by Tim Holtz.

To finish this I highlighted the edges of the birds a little with a Uni Ball white pen.

I love these die cut birds they just fit in so well with the style I like.

I can just imagine the birds sat there looking into the distance.

There is a likelihood that some of these will be used on cards at some time but for now they are staying in the journal.

Hope you like those as much as I do, they were fun to make and I'm sure to be back here again soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Crafty Cardmakers 246 'No Patterned Paper'

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.

  Monika is hosting today and our challenge is 'No Patterned Paper'.

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:

This Masterboard was made on an A3 sheet of Kraft card. I added screwed up tissue paper, texture with a stencil and layers of paint which I knocked back with some Gesso added with a dry brush.

To construct the card I ripped away a small section of the Masterboard which reveals the Kraft card along the edge leaving about a third of the white card blank showing. Now that's a real popper!

I had a little play around with some Seth Apter die cut pieces, a large gold jigsaw piece and more of the Masterboard.

Once again I've brought in the 'Press and Seal'. I'm beginning to wonder how I managed without it, it certainly makes jobs like this easier.

Once the pieces are well attached to the 'Press and Seal' you can turn it over and add the glue, sticky dots or whatever you wish to use.

Turn everything over and place in position, attach and then carefully ease away the 'Press and Seal'.

Everything looks exactly the same as the original idea, no movement and no problem in trying to remember the plan or photographing it before hand which is what I used to do to ensure the design was in position which never quite ended up as planned.

A few additional gems, Tim Holtz die sentiment and some clear glaze and the card's complete.

 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 

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you some cards made with these Masterboards:

I decided it would be a good time to review last year's Masterboards before starting some new ones so here goes.
Staring with some Seth Apter stamps and dies.

 

Tracy Scott stamps and Paper Artsy Fresco paints.

 

More Seth stamps.

 

And Tracy back again.

 

 

The next one has to be one of my favourites but what do you think?

 

Finnabair for Prima. Love these stamps.

 

 

Interestingly as I went through these I have found some Masterboards that were never used so they will probably appear soon.

 

More to follow next Monday.

 

  I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

Back to the Craft Barn - .Gift for the Boys featuring Seth Apter products.

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 live now.

I've been working with several Seth Apter stamps and here is a peek of how I used them. If you would like to see how I made this then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details.

I started with this old cigar box which had been hanging around for ever but I'm pleased now that I didn't throw it away.

 

And finished here:

 

More details and the 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

 

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

SanDee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenges - October 2017 Anything Goes Steampunk/Industrial

Canvas art using Seth Apter dies and stencils.

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

When I saw this new challenge at A Vintage journey I just new I had to join in.

It's some time since I worked on a canvas so thought I'd give it a go and here are the results.

I started with a box canvas

using it as a shadow box.

 

 

I began by covering it with pages from an old book which is always a good way to cover the staples.

 

Then crumpled up some more for the back.

 

Added texture using a variety of Seth Apter's stencils by Stencil Girl.

 

For the inner section I used a piece of corrugated card which I grunged up by removing some of the paper covering and then scraping the surface with the side of my scissors.

 

Next I added some die cuts also by Seth Apter and

then painted this with Gesso. I generally start with white Gesso as I'm not always sure at the beginning what colours I will end up using.

Then decided to cover the whole thing with black Gesso and when that was dry I started some dry brushing using Seth Apter paint sets by Paper Artsy.

The die cuts below are also by Seth Apter and I used texture paste on some before then painted them all.

 

This piece was decorated using a Seth Apter stamp and heat embossing.

 

 

 

This close-up shows some of the gilding wax which was also added. It works particularly well on the screwed up paper only catching the textured areas.

 

I also added some Clear Prima pebbles which I rubbed over with silver gilding wax.

 

 Close-ups for a better view of the detail and the sentiment which was also from one of Seth's stencils and quite appropriate I felt for this canvas.

 The large metallic button was something I've had for a while and it just seemed like the right time to use it. Rubbed over it with gilding wax and added a smaller pebble.

Side view.

 

 Back View.
Really feels like that could be the start of another project!

 

The sentiment is also from one of the Seth Apter stencils by Stencil Girl.

It was about now that I decided it needed a little something extra!

A little rubbing of Gilding wax and it's ready to be attached.

 

And here is the finished canvas.

 

It may not make a lot of difference but it just felt finished with that extra embellishment on top but what do you think?

 

 Hope you enjoyed watching me make this.

 

 

I would like to enter this Canvas in the following Challenges:
A Vintage Journey: New Monthly Challenge- Canvas.
SanDee & amelie's SteampunkChallenges: June 2017 Challenge.

Now featured on Seth Apter's blog The Altered Page - here.