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:

You might have seen this before as I started it some time ago and then it got forgotten and I'm up to the stage of trying to get the C. cards finished so it seemed like a good time to get it out and use it.

A3 as usual and I started it with some heat embossed snowflakes and then added some Distress Oxide, more heat embossing and stencilling with glazes and inks, gradually building up the design.

Rub over the embossed areas when everything is done and the white on the snowflakes pops out as the colour is removed, love it.

It always seems a shame to cut into it these which is why I often scan and copy them but not this time as I wanted to retain the texture too.

So here's the first card I've made.

I love this stamp and die set by the Colarado Craft Company.

Stamped this on silver metalic card with black Distress Oxide and then heat embossed it.

Completed it with a sentiment from the set and Stickles Glitter glue but not sure it shows very well here.

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.

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

Unlike most of my Masterboards this is only A4 in size.

You may remember this from last week.

To make this Masterboard I started by stamping the card with Versa Mark Ink and embossed it with clear powder.

You can see the effect here.

This technique is often known as Ghosting because of the pale backgrounds it produces.

And now it's time to start adding the colour using a blending tool and more Oxide ink.

When you've done that, stamp again and heat emboss as before.

I did this three times, embossing and colouring.

Then it's time to remove the embossing powder. 

Cover with kitchen towel and iron over the design slowly, removing the kitchen towel as it fills up with the embossing powder. 

You will be able to see this on the towel.

I have also splattered water onto the surface and pulled off  some ink to create a splatter effect.

Cut the pieces and mount one of these onto white card.

Mount this onto a piece of the black card and then attach to the card blank.

The stamps I used here are 'butterfly INKognito' and the sentiment is from the set 'flower inkognito'.

If you like this I have made another example which you can find here.

I would love to hear your comments.

If you would like to see other cards made with these Masterboards you can find them here and here.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge -251 Embossing

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.

Josephine is hosting today and our challenge is Embossing.

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:

I have to say I had real fun making this though it did take a while to put together.
See what you think.
Was it worth it?

I started by embossing the mirri card with a spotty embossing folder and a piece of white card and a Tim Holtz die on two corners.

Using an Altenew Stamp set (Wallpaper Art) I stamped the flowers onto watercolour card and coloured them with watercolour pens.

The leaves were stamped on some of my left-over Brusho card, heat embossed then die cut. 

This was actually a piece I almost binned but kept it anyway so pleased I did.

Stamped and embossed three of these.

I make no apologies for the cutting plate, they get lots of use Lol!

Then it was time to start placing everything. 
What I often do if I find a placement I like is to photograph it before starting to stick everything down. There is nothing more frustrating than finding you can't remember exactly how you placed them. 

Finally I coloured another piece of white card with the same colours used on the flowers so that I could use that to layer up the sentiment with a piece of the mirri card. 

The sentiment stamp is by Creative Wiry Words.

I realise it's not Mothers Day yet but it seemed like a good chance to make a card. 
Here in the UK Mothers Day is March 22nd.

 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:

Diecut Divas Challenge Blog: Hearts and Flowers.
Lets Craft and Create Challenge Blog: 156 Option Mother's Day.
Sweet Stampers Challenge: 41 Hearts and/or Flowers.
Craft Stamper Challenge Take it Make it - February. Anything goes.

Masterboard Monday.

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

 

I am here today to show you a card made with these background papers which I made by pulling the card through Distress Oxide inks, applied to my craft mat and sprayed with water:

 

I embellished the butterfly with matching gems.

 

I haven't used many spray inks recently so decided to colour some additional card with Prima Color Bloom sprays and then die cut it using a Tim Holtz Thinlits die.

 

I cut this so that it would be slightly smaller than the background and stamped the sentiment.

 

I really like this as you can see the colours below and the sprayed section works really well with it.

 

I am not normally a big lover of yellow but I had this butterfly from an earlier project which I had made using one of Tim Holtz stamps and dies. The top section is vellum which has been heat embossed with yellow embossing powder.

 

I have started some more similar cards but they will follow another time.

I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

 

Angela x

Back to the Craft Barn with 'One For The Boys' and Seth Apter Stamps.

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 now live.

I've been working with Seth Apter Paints and 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.

It started like:

This.....

 

This.....

 

And this......

 

Then ended like this!

 

 

Tutorial for making this is over at The Craft Barn Challenge Blog.

 

 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 card in the following challenges:

 

Crafty Calendar Challenge: June challenge: "Boys will be Boys"
Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: Challenge #17 Masculine
Scrapbook and Card Making:Tinker Dream: 53 Cards for Men and Boys

Crafty Carmakers 186 # Things with Wings

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.
Mary is hosting today and our challenge is 'Things with Wings'.

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to just be cards, as long as it meets the challenge, and doesn't exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule! 

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

I couldn't resist playing with the Tim Holtz Oxide Inks again and I've made today's Masterboard using them.

 

I started here by applying the ink to my craft mat, spritzing it with water and pulling the card through it. Dry with your heat gun and repeat until happy with the coverage.

I then used Prima Finnabair stamp sets and added detail to the Masterboard.

 

 

Next I stamped the main image onto a section cut from the Masterboard and heat embossed it.

 

Then stamped and heat embossed the images on an old book page. Coloured these by using the inks with some water and a paint brush

 

and cut these out ready to apply later.

 

Depending on how I intend constructing a card one of the ways I like to embellish is by using the stamps on the card blank itself.

This has the effect of giving continuity to the design and added interest to the finished card.

Oxides stamp so well on black card so they show up really nicely.

 

I decided to add the same butterflies to the inside of the card too.

 

 

At this stage it's time to complete the main section by attaching all the features and adding suitable embellishments.

I did this by attaching some Dew Drop gems (nice bit of bling!), Tim Holtz tapes and die, stitched stamps to border the design and completed it with Pebeo Artist marker, splattering it over the design.

 

I try whenever possible to use odd numbers when arranging the detail as it makes the design more interesting and helps to move the eye around the composition.

This theory is known as the 'Rule of Odds' which produces dynamics in a design.

You can see this in my use of the three butterflies and the three circles popping out from under the main section though of course odds aren't the only part of a design that makes it interesting. 'The Rule of thirds' which effects the layout, the colours and of course the focal image used all adds to making the design more pleasing to the eye.

Sorry there I go again boring you with teacher speak!

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:
Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge: April - Anything Goes.
A Vintage Journey: The Magic of Three.
Stamping Sensations: April - Anything Goes.
Love to Create Challenge-7 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes.
Allsorts Challenge blog: Week410 - Bring on the Bling.
 

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 used a brayer and Paper Artsy Fresco paints to cover the card quickly.

Just keep going until you achieve the effect you want.

You can brayer white onto the paint if it looks too bright it's up to you.

 

I use one colour at a time, rotating the card to apply it evenly around the surface and then move to the next colour and do the same again.

I like fresco paints as some of them are transparent so work well over the top of other colours without blanking them out.

Despite still feeling under the weather I did feel a bit more like having a play but as you will see it took me a while to get my head round it this week.

The first stage was easy as I decided to stamp my new Tracy Scott stamp onto the background papers.

 

Then cut them out......

 

and layered the different colours together.

 

 

And added yellow and purple Stickles Glitter Glue.

 

 

Put these on one side while I thought about the background and this is where it got interesting.

 

I had thought about having a black background and embossing the flowers onto it. I have loads of Cosmic Shimmer embossing powders that have been in the drawer for ages and thought they might do the trick so got them out and had a play.

 

 

Now the only problem with embossing powders is that they behave differently on black card so after an interesting hour I realised the colours were not what I wanted though I do think that this card is going to see some use some time in the future as I love the colours.

 

So I mixed together some of the colours that did match with the Masterboards and this is what I ended up with.

 

I felt it needed a border which I created with an embossing pen and the same powder.

 

 

Perfect but what do you think.

 

At this stage I started positioning the masterboard flowers.

The card was completed with a Mother's Day sentiment, ribbon and a collection of sequins.

Plenty of Masterboard left to play with so you will see it again soon I'm sure.

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

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x