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

WOYWW - 799 - 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 Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

I've started to tidy up the shelves as there are many of the large Tim Holtz dies that I don't use very often and I have continually put this job off so I've started to sort them but not finished yet and the exploding box looks a bit overly full!

I also had a bit of a shock when I tried to remove the Media Surface Mat from my Tim Holtz glass mat as the backing was stuck fast and will not come off. I have contacted Tonic as it's suposed to be non-stick.

Tonic have got back to me and I've sent them photos of this mess and they have said they will replace both but not sure yet why it did this so we'll see.

I've not had time to do anything with the diorama this week so afraid you will have to wait a bit longer to see it finished. 

I have been busy doing other things as you can see and still getting over the mess on the glass mat but I have made another card using the alcohol coloured acetate. I needed a distraction. 

There's information about these in the post below this one here: and more samples using these dies too. 

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

Masterboard Monday and another Use it or Lose it!

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

I am here today to show you how I used part of the mop up card from last week.

 

 

This was the journal page that I showed you here last week.

 

And this was the sheet of card that I used to mop away the extra ink.

 

 

After cutting this in half I have used an embossing folder to add detail.

 

 

I so love this embossing folder.

 

 

While the card was still in position on the folder I rubbed over it with a sander. By doing it while still on the embossing folder you do not flatten the embossing.

 

And then used oxide ink to add colour to the sanded areas.

 

And it looks like this.

Cut to size and layered over red card. Added the sentiment on vellum paper. Tim Holtz wings and Stickles Glitter glue completed the design.

 

 

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday Use it or Lose.

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

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

Well several actually as MaryAnne  reminded me last week that it's time to use up all those old scraps when I saw here making her lovely Tag Book so here goes.

These were the scraps I pulled out.

And these were the ones I decide to use for this project.

You can see that these are left over from other projects but I just find it really difficult to let anything go that might be useful.

I wasn't sure where I was going with this but those small pieces were perfect for this tiny tag die by Tim Holtz. I know that sometimes we need a plan but at other times it's just as good to play for a while and see where it takes you.

I've cut the tags in blue and pink and if you like the look of these you must call back next week to see how I used them but for now we're going with the pink.

All cut out and cord added ready for the next stage.

I've used some Tim Holtz 'Small Talk' sentiment stickers, Stickles Glue and Glitter glaze by Craft Box.

I used the Glaze through a star stencil to add a little shine to an otherwise plain card and outlined the sentiment stickers too.

As we already have stars a few more seemed like a good idea. These are enamel dots by Altenew.

And so to the finished card.

This is probably one of the simplest cards I have ever made but I'm quite pleased with it. 

In a funny sort of way the cords seem to give the each of the tags a personality.

The next card that I've made with the blue tags is very different but you will have to wait for that until next week.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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:

If you were here last week you will remember me playing with this.

And of course there's always more so today I have another card to show you.

I loved playing with these stamps, added some washi tape then the light bulb image. I had fun using some more wax and stamping into it with one of my brass stamps.

Not sure it's obvious but I added Stickles Glitter glue and then when that was dry I covered the bulb in clear Glaze.

I've also added some smaller light bulbs to the inside and a sentiment.

You may be able to see that there is a shadow on the light bulb here caused by the glaze.

I think this would make a great birthday card for a man but what do you think?

The stamps I used here were by AALL and Create and Bee Crafty. The Washi tape is by Tim holtz.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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:

This is an A3 sheet of card which I originally used to mop up some left over ink from my craft my mat which is always a good start for a Masterboard.

So I got out a few stencils by AALL and Create and some Oxide inks.

And a little bit of stamping too.

And of course I can't resist a mop up and as I had a piece of card left over from an earlier project it just had to be coloured.

I sprayed the stencil with water and then pressed it onto the card to apply the ink that was left on it.

Looks useful, never waste card or ink!

While I was playing with the left over card I did some stamping too with one of the AALL and Create Border stamps and a few little extras.

More stamping and stenciling onto the A3 sheet.

Including some texture paste.

Went a bit mad with one of the border stamps.

This piece was the paper I used to clean the stamp but who knows, "waste not want not" as they say.

And I finished with this:

Not quite my plan for today as I did this on the strip of left-over card but I'll be back next week to show you how I used the rest.

I rubbed over the edge with a Tim Holtz distressing tool and layered it onto a dark brown card, then a gold textured card. 

The washi tape is also by Tim Holtz and the stitched stamps are by Crescendoh.

There's lots of texture on here in the form of texture paste and this little blob of stamped wax over the top of some strips of card that I cut off when sizing the design.

And of course a little gold Stickles Glitter Glue completed the card.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments and many thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting,

Angela x

Monday with Seth Apter stamps and dies.

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

 

I'm here today to show you a card made with these samples:

 

I've been having fun with this stamp by Seth Apter which might be obvious from the samples above.

 

 

 It's called 'Universe' by Impression Obsession and is one of their 'cover.a.card' stamps.

 

I kind of got a bit carried away once I started and made far more samples than planned but how much did I enjoy doing them!

 

 

I used Tim Holtz distress inks for this and applied the pad direct to the stamp with various colours.

I would advise applying the lighter colours first or using something like the Misti which allows you to stamp one colour at a time or the colours could be applied with a brayer too.

 

With some of these prints I sprayed the stamp lightly with water which also gives another interesting effect.

 

 

 

The next two look quite faint but are gorgeous in real life and were the second push of the stamp.

And I know you will be asking "what did she do with them!"

So here is the first card I made.

 

 

I started by stamping on some spare pieces of card I had coloured earlier using more Seth Apter stamps.

 

 

 

Then cut these out using some of Seth's dies which are great as they fit well with many of the stamped images. I edged them with black distress ink ready to use.

 

 

Next I took one of the samples done earlier and used part of the stamp below to apply the word 'TIME' and heat embossed it.

The circles in the centre are one of Seth's stencils and a die called 'Broken Maze', the circle to the left is a die called 'Ring Around'.

 

Now it's time to start layering the die-cut pieces and I mounted the finished design onto coloured card and a black card blank. 

This is how it looked when complete.

 

However it's not quite what it looks here!

 

 Because when you stand it up this happens.....

 

Hope you can see that the layering in the centre has moved and yet again here.

Wonder if you've worked out yet how this works!

 

More repositioning again.

 

And a close-up.

 

Have you worked it out yet?

 

The diecut pieces are all attached to one another with brads which allows them to be moved in different positions.

I think this card fits really well with the industrial nature of the stamps and dies.

 

Don't ask me where the idea came from as it just arrived in my head when I was trying out the positioning of the pieces. I just could not decide where I wanted them to be placed so now they can be almost anywhere you like!

 

I finished the card by stamping on the inside too.

You can see the dimension here but it's not so much that it wouldn't fit in an envelope so that's good too.

 

I hope you found this interesting.

I would love to hear your comments and

more cards with this technique will follow later this week.

 

 Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

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

Allsorts: Week 413 Embossing.

A Vintage Journey Challenge: The Magic of three and in this case I've added three very similar circles attached to the centre image.

Frilly and Funkie challenge: 'Put On Your Inking Cap'

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes.