Masterboard Monday and more Stencils.

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

After my earlier play with the Picasa, I decided to give it another go.
This is the same stencil that I used before but covered it completely with a big and juicy ink pad.

This is the Original.

 

 

And the altered stuff using the Picasa3 program.

 

So here we go!

Did I have fun or what!!! and so quick too.

 

The next thing will be to try printing them on different types of card and also using them in a project.

The changes to the colours are just amazing, well I think so but what do you think?

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

Playtime with Fabrics.

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

Hi friends, hope then new year is good for you so far.

Those who know me will be aware that my background is in Textiles and although I love working with other materials I cannot help going back to the fabrics, however this does not necessarily mean just sewing as there are many things that you can do with them and I hope to show you a few of the techniques I like to do.
To start this, I have been using my heat gun.

I've been having fun playing with a variety of Synthetic materials and thought you might like to see what I've done so far.
Synthetic fabrics are amazing stuff to play with and you never know exactly how they will behave but you must be careful not to heat them too much or you can end up with nothing left Lol!
These materials shrivel lovely (Shrivel is a technical term obviously Lol!).

So here is a sample I've made and the materials I've used.
I like to use a cotton backing as this stabilises the fabric and then layer up other fabrics to add different texture and colours.
These fabrics are machined together in any stitch but I used straight stitch for this piece and I layered together Nylon net and Polyester Organza.

 

This is what the fabrics looked like when complete and ready for heating.

 And here is what happens when you heat it with the Heat Gun.

 

 

 

 

If you were here on Wednesday you will remember the small sample on the right and the large one on the left, I have been playing with here.

 

 

The tub at the back contains some pieces of Tyvek but that's for another day.

 

I hope you enjoyed that and I look forward to showing you what else I have been doing, who knows, I might even make something with the samples.

 

If you have the time, please let me know what you think about the techniques, I would love to hear from you.

 

That's it for now.

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

The Adventures of BP Mini Me.

Hi to you all, BP here, welcome to all my followers.
She thinks you follow her but now I know it's me Lol!

I am back today to wish you all A Happy New Year as I forgot the other day and everyone on the shelf reminded me so here I am.

 We all hope you have a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Much love from,

 

BP and friends.

WOYWW 292# What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends.
Back again for another Wednesday.

Angela here to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the
Stamping Ground and our dear host Julia will explain and all will be revealed.

So here is my desk this week.
Only first!!!!

Couldn't resist this, just for Julia, hope she likes it.
Those of you who know Julia's blog will understand the significance of this photo.
The shadows are myself and 'Him Indoors'.
The two shadows at the bottom are Maisie and Stanley.

 

It occurred to me what fun it would be if some of you joined in and posted some similar photos.

 

And now for my desk.

 

Anyone who has been round recently will know that I have been playing and the piece of fabric on the right is one of the results. The larger piece on the left is the start of my next playtime and is a layer of various synthetic fabrics with a cotton base, ready to be heated up.

 

 

 

 

This is a close-up of what you can expect to happen after the heating.

 

I will be back soon to post you the results.

 

 

Right! now hope you will go and see what everyone else has been up to, I certainly intend to.

Thanks for popping round and have a great week.

Angela x

 

Stencil Power!

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

When in doubt practise the techniques in your journal Lol!
And that's what I have been doing.

I have been creating a couple of pages in my journal using stencils and gesso and here are the finished pages.

I'm not always sure when I start a page how exactly it will develop.
With this project I had a diamond stencil I wanted to try and applied this using gesso and then covered the page with Cosmic Shimmer sprays.

 

 

I have a diamond shaped stamp which I thought would work well as a border so that was the next thing I added.

Still not sure where this was going, I looked for other things which related to the shaped already used and realised that the pen nibs are a diamond shape, I'm sorry I know there is no logic here Lol!

 

 

I managed to find other pens including the hand holding the pen and this is how the page started to develop.

 

I now found myself with quite a nice background but no focal image, so what to do?

 

The pages had taken on the theme of writing so thought I would stick with this.

The hand gave me the feeling of letter writing so I decided to use some small envelopes as the focal point.

 

 I started by colouring some white envelopes and cards with the colours used to spray the background and then decorated these using more stencils.

 

 

 

 

And this is where I finished this project.

If you are wondering where the hand is, it's hidden behind one of the envelopes.

 

 

 

 

 Hope you enjoyed looking and thanks for visiting me.

 

If you like the idea of using stencils then visit The Mirror Crack'd as this month's challenge is based on stencils and I am sure there will be lots of great ideas.

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

The Adventures of BP Mini Me.

Hi to you all, BP here, welcome to all my followers.
She thinks you follow her but I know better Lol!

I am doing well, so much to see, what fun. Look at what I have found.

Now what is this?
It looks like a hand.
Surely someone must be missing it.

 

Hi BP, this is not a real hand, it's just a perch for us.
It's rather nice here as we have an excellent view of what everyone is up to.

It's very good of you to visit us BP, hope you may be able to call again.

Well I certainly intend to try and get about a bit while I have the chance so you never know!

Bye for now,

 

BP Mini Me x