Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you how I make my cloud Masterboards:

Lots of people have been asking about them so I'll do my best to explain how I do this but it is easy.

So lets get started.

Choose your colours. 

I usually have two blues and some pale pink, yellow, lilac, maybe.

I also find it easier to blend the inks with these brushes rather than sponges but that's just my choice.

There are lots of companies that sell these masks, Lawn Fawn, Altenew, My Favourite Things and Waffle Flower are a few. 

You don't want a stencil that wont work for this.

I've used an A4 sheet of card but you might want to use a smaller piece until you get used to the technique. The weight of the card is up to you.

I work from the top down but I know some people start from the bottom and work upwards.

I like to use a plastic mat to smooth the ink onto before adding it to the card so it's applied lightly.

It's better not to have too much ink on the brush when you start.

Apply the brush lightly from the mask in an upward direction.

Some of the ink will stay on the mask and you can continue to push that upwards until you are satisfied with the depth of colour.

And then move to a different colour. 

I'm using yellow here and pushing the colour over the edge of the mask, blending it lightly with the blue.

Take a look at the real clouds and you will see that there can be a variety of colours mixed in, sometimes these can be very bright or just lightly visible.

When I move to the next cloud I try to match the shapes as near as possible where they join though it doesn't always work exactly.

Maybe it's just me being fussy! but it gives a cleaner finish to the design.

Continue to add your clouds, arranging them as you go making some clouds narrow, some long, some short and round and rotate the mask as the edges are different.

Keep adding your chosen colours and adding blue in between which reminds us that we are looking at the sky.

Keep going until you reach the bottom.

And you end with something like this.

All you need to do now is push the brush up from the bottom edge to colour the blank space.

And you have it.

The centre one here I have just completed and the other two I made earlier. 

I'm showing you these as they are slightly different but I've gone for quite bright colours.

This one had Glitter glue added to it.

And I sprayed it with drops of water, lifting some of the colour off.

It would look good with splashes of ink or stamped rain drops. 

You could even add the sun in there too.

This is one that I'm working on at the moment and it's noticeably lighter.

Because of how I wanted to use this I turned the A4 sheet so that I was working on the long side.

Hope you give it a go. 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

I would love to hear your comments about these instructions too.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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 

 
 

 
 

Masterboard Card Ideas, using the Gelli Plate.

Hi Bloggies, I have been using another of my Gelli plate efforts to make a greetings card using Memory Box dies, hope you like it.

The acrylic paint was Raspbery with a touch of Waterfall by ecogreen Crafts and they are gorgeous colours.
I printed this onto a kraft style card and you can still see some of the brown showing through.
The mask is the large Shattered by Dylusions.

 

To bring out the green in the print, I layered the design first onto a shiny satin pink and then onto green card.

The bird and the bubbles are both Memory Box dies.

I completed this by stamping the sentiments and tieiing a pink cord before layering the design and applying black brads to the corners.

 

The nice thing is that once you have these background papers it is not difficult to prepare a card when you need one.

 

Back soon,

Angela x

Prima Doll Stamps

Hi Blogbuddies, if you arrived from Ali-Craft you will have already seen this project which I completed as part of the Design Team.
If you have arrived by other means you may wish to go over there and see the full posting for this, including instruction for making.

I wasn't sure when I received this stamp that it was quite my thing but having used it I am really impressed.
These are real quality stamps and give a very clear impression but not only that, they are great fun to use.

Though great images in their own right, I just had to alter them a little.
So here goes!

I am an absolute sucker for anything Steampunk or Gothic so had to give it a go.

      This is the stamp I received

 

and this is the finished design

 

 

and a closeup of the pretty lady.

 

Hope you like her.
Angela x