Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you some Masterboards which you've had a glimpse at before:

I had fun playing with some old acrylic paint and a brayer, what could be better than making use of some old stash.

Start with spots of paint spread evenly around the A3 card. This was 300gsm.

Take your brayer and roll backwards and forwards, pulling the colour but not mixing it together.

For this technique we want to see the shapes created by the blobs of colour and I rolled over the bare spots with what was left on the brayer.

This is so much fun and quick to complete.

I decided to knock the colour back a bit by adding some white paint mixed with water to thin it down and apply this as before with the brayer.

Now the fun begins.

Lots of ways to use this.

I'm still trying to use up some old stash and I found these the other day. 

I have no idea how long I've had them, just a long time.

They are so shiny that you can actually see me holding the camera above them.

The box is full of these die cut shapes.

A few more papers that I coloured sometime ago! who knows when! Some of them are mop ups, "waste not want not".

I've used one of the silver circles, roughed up the edge and went over them with black ink then attached it to a piece of coloured paper.

I had seen this die on one of the craft company websites and thought it looked useful.

I've cut out several layers from the Masterboard and plain white and black card.

Layered them together to give extra depth and then mounted everything onto red and black card and then the white card blank. 

I also found some old printed sentiments and attached one of those to the card.

I still have lots of old stash to use up but at least I've got started with it and I actually quite like the card too.

I've already got another idea for the rest of the Masterboard so you will get to see it again soon and some of the others too.

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 try and use up some leftover Masterboard and more of those pretty things that sit around just waiting and forgotten:

 And this week it's a journal page.

 

Oxide ink, brayer and some very old heart stamps which have been sitting around for years unused.

 

I started by applying the ink with the brayer horizontally and veryically on the page. Following that I sprayed the brayer with water and rolled it straight down the page which shows just how much ink is left on the brayer so waste not want not!

After that I used the old stamps to add some interest to the page still using the same colour of ink. 

And stamped and embossed them on white card too.

I don't know why I haven't used this stamp before as it's lovely.

Next I fussy cut these ready for use later. 

I had some pieces of embossed and diecut paper from an earlier project which I ripped into pieces and attached it to the page adding shadow to the hearts for depth with a soft pencil and some whiter splatters.

 

 

Next added some of the fussy cut hearts, more shadow and splatters.

 

I have hundreds of these sentiment labels so that's another left-over off the list.

The metal LOVE embellishment had also been sitting around for some time so added that too.

 

 

So that's it really for today, hope you like it. Just have to think what might be the next page!

Happy creative week to you all.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

 

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

 

Dragonfly Dreams February Challenge - Love.

Art Journal Journey 'Seeing Red'

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 have used lots of red Tim Holtz Oxides for this Masterboard. As it's February and nearly Valentine's Day these colours seemed like the right ones to choose right!

 

 

This masterboard couldn't be simpler. 

Just take your favourite inks and a brayer. Roll the brayer over the ink pad and then onto the card horizontally and vertically. I repeated this and then sprayed water onto the left over ink on the brayer which gives a more splattered effect and more interesting texture.

 

Next some stencilling for added detail.

 

Just keep applying the brayer and stencilling until you're happy with the finish.

I don't want too much detail on this piece as I may add more effects after cutting up sections for the next stage but went ahead and added one more stencil pattern.

 

I have kept the colours similar so as not to overdo the detail as I may add to it later.

 

 

And now it's time to play.

 

I've started by cutting up part of the Masterboard but don't worry I'm not going to finish all this today.

 

 

Just in case you're interested I have cut the tag book using this die set.

 

 

 

You may remember me using this set before if not you can see it here:
 

For this first card I have used the Tim Holtz Kraft-Core to layer the Masterboard.

 

I have had this for some time and no idea why it has taken me so long to use it!
 

As if that's not bad enough this is another Tim product which has been sitting waiting but it's out of the packet now.

 

And so to the first finished project, a card today.

I've used the Masterboard and the Kraft card to die cut and layer up the heart and the background. The arrow was brown kraft card and I rubbed gold gilding wax onto the feather and arrow. Finished it with the Valentine sentiment.

 

 

I completed the inside with a sentiment and some small hearts.

 

Hope you like it.

 

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy Valentine's Day,

Angela x

 

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

 

Allsorts challenge Week 715 - A/G with option All about Hearts  winners 24th Feb.

 

Dragonfly Dreams: February Challenge - Love finishes 3rd March

WOYWW 254: What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday.

Hi Blogbuddies another week on my desk and desks throughout the world, brought to you by our host Julia at the Stamping Ground.

And here is my desk this week:
I started this project earlier in the week but the weather turned nice and we decided to do the gardening while we had the chance.
But it's nearing completion now.

 

I started this on Monday (Monday is always Masterboard Day here),

where you will find full instructions for making this.

 

 

 

And this is how it looked finished.

 

Not very exciting at this stage until you turn it into something.

This might make a good fathers' day card perhaps.

 

I also started making some ATCs.

 

Which might also make good toppers?

 

I think this Masterboard could prove very useful, what do you think?

 

Thanks for stopping by and happy WOYWW.

 

Back soon,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

Hi Bloghoppers, here to show you a new Masterboard. I'm not sure this quite turned out how I expected lol! but it's okay, what do you think?
I had an idea in mind as I wanted to make this using a mask.
There are so many ways to use these but decided to apply the ink using a brayer as I wanted to get the ink on as quickly as possible and a brayer will do this.

I am using:
A3 cartridge paper.
The mask is by Crafters Workshop.
The Ink is Big and Juicy Hydrangea.

The first stage is to apply the ink through the mask using the brayer.
 

 

The next stage is to spray the mask which wets the ink left on the surface (waste not want not lol!).

 

 

 

Place the paper over the mask and smooth it to ensure the colour is transfered.

 
                

 

Allow this to dry as it is not a good idea to allow the paper to get too wet. 

                 

 

 

 Next add some stamping using Dylusion and Tim Holtz stamps.

 

 

 

And here is the finished Masterboard.

 

 

 

 

I plan to be back tomorrow with the finished samples.

 

Back soon,

Angela x 

 
 

 
 

I love Star Books!!!

Hi Bloggers steady does it! We will get there in the end.

This is the first Star Book I made and there have been others since which I will post at some time in the future.

The stamps used for this were Non Secuitur Alice there are two sets used got these from The Stamp Man (Ask Alice and Scrabble and other Whimseys are the names of the sets). 
 

There are a few other stamps used.
The background behind Alice was completed with a brayer and Lavinia stamps.

Once again I had to use one of my favourite stamps which is the crackle stamp from Crafty Individuals. It doesn't show up so well on here but the background is really nice and very delicate.

             I love tags, pockets and things that hide.

I could not resist adding some Utee effects, so stamped into melted Utee with the sun stamp.

Couldn't resist making the door open as it fits so well with the story and the tag moves to reveal a message.

I used my own ideas for the construction of the pages and I know that people have different ideas about how to make these. My pages use four sections to complete them but if you look closely you can see that I have stamped inside these pages and there is definitely room in there for more detail which I have utilised in later samples of these books. You will have to wait and see!

Wouldn't this look great using the Steampunk papers from Graphics 45?
Must go have to get started on that one!
I might need more stash ali!