The Adventures of BP Mini Me.

Hi BP here, not quite sure how I got down here and I am getting a bit worried because that dog thing has seen me.
I think her indoors was having a tidy round and left me here.

 

Oh No! he's getting too close, now I am getting really worried lol!

He's very big and I am very small.

 

Errrr...... he is licking me!
I think he is going to Eat Me lol!!!!!

 

Now he's sent for reinforcements, his girlfriend's here!

I really need to get back on the shelf, they look much smaller from up there.

What's that you say, I'm too tough and taste of plastic, well really what an insult!!!

 

The quicker I am back on my shelf the better.

 

Back soon.

BP Mini Me.

Masterboard Product Ideas.

Hi Blogmates  here to show you how I completed the Masterboard products for my friend Gloria.

Just a reminder, this was how I started.
The wooden bird box front was from the Range.

Gesso first and then paint the roof section with lilac paint.

Allow this to dry and add crackle glaze.

 

When the glaze is dry paint over with the next colour, in this case green and watch the magic happen.

And that's were I got to on the Wednesday post.

 

The next stage was to cut out the shapes from the Masterboard, including the tags needed to produce a tag note book.

 

 

 

 

I stamped the sentiment and vine onto the roof section.

When this was dry I sealed it with glue.

 

Here are close-ups of where we are so far.

 

 

 

We are ready now to add the embellishments.

The rabbits at the bottom are from Paperchase.

 

I painted the small wooden bead in green which is used to hold the hanging cord.

Gems were used to edge the roof section.

The bird die is from Memory Box.

 

 

 

Could not resist adding the kitty which was stamped onto black card and heat embossed, cut out and attached to the back of the hanging.

I used stickles glue to enhance the features.

 

And here is the final piece, a tag note book.

The small stamped bird box stamps are by docrafts and are called 'Home to Nest'.

There are also small bird stamps which I used to stamp onto the white pages.

 

I glazed the little bird boxes to make them stand out more and used Stickles glue to highlight other sections of the design.

 

And this is the back using the other Masterboard.

 

Hope you have enjoyed watching me put these together.

I will be back soon with more Masterboard ideas.

 

Thanks for visiting and happy crafting.

Angela x

 

 

 

 

 

WOYWW # 253

Hi Bloggsters hope you are all well. Here we are again, yet another WOYWW organised by our host Julia and for more information about 'What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday' you need to go to
Stamping Ground where you will find information relating to this.

Now on with the show lol!
Here is my desk for this week, things are getting a bit too close to the only available work space and there is only so much pushing back that can be done lol!

I have been working on a Masterboard swap and have nearly completed the products.

These are the Masterboards I have been using that Gloria sent me last month.

 

I have already made a greeting card and some ATCs from the red and orange board and posted them on Monday.

 I am now about to start on a tag note book and a bird box panel.

First I started on the wooden frame.

I painted the front edges with Gesso and then the roof section with lilac acrylic paint to match the paper.

I covered this with crackle glaze and allowed it to dry.

 

 

When the crackle glaze was dry, I added the green paint and let the magic happen.

You can see the crackles below.

 

The next stage will be to add the Masterboard plus other items to decorate it.

Should have this completed tomorrow.

Hope you will be able to pop along to see how I get on though I realise it depends on how far you get with your visits.

 

Happy Crafting WOYWWers.

 

Thanks for dropping by.

 

Back soon,

Angela x

Masterboard Card Ideas.

Hi Blogbuddies  back with more ideas for using the Masterboards.
Remember this one?
It was made by my dear friend Gloria and was part of our swap project.
This is the first of the finished products I have made.

 

A Greetings Card and ATCs.

 

I used some striped paper for the inside of the card and on the folded front closure.

There was so much detail on the Masterboard that it required very little else adding to it.

First, I placed black gems in the corners of the card and stickles distress glue on the butterfly's wings.

Added paper lace and butterflies on the ATCs.

 

 

Next, I added a dragonfly embellishment and a Tim Holtz Epoxy sentiment sticker to the greeting card.

 

 

Close-up showing the finished card.

 

Back soon with more Masterboard goodies to show you.

 

Happy Crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Card Ideas

Hi all you Bloggsters here are the last of the Masterboard sample products for this week that my dear friend Gloria made for me using the Masterboard, I made for her.

Two gorgeous tags using the Masterboard as the background paper and then she has added the images to create two quite different tags.

 

And here are a couple of close-ups.

She has used a variety of stamps including one from Clarity.

 

Great tags with loads of detail.

 

Hope you have enjoyed these Masterboard product ideas and thanks for stopping by.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x

Prima Cartographer Papers

Hi Blogbuddies, as promised here are the instructions for the Scrapbook page. I am making this for Ali at  Ali-Craft.
The kit will be available in May as shown below.

 

I began by collecting together a few things that I thought might be good to use with the papers.

 

This pad has the map of France on it as well as various images of the country. We have just come back from Skiing in France so it seemed like the obvious theme to use.

I wanted to ensure that this page would stand up to being displayed so I started by cutting up a 12"x12" sheet of corrugated card for the back.

(Never let it be said that I don't do my bit for recycling lol!)

 

Then I glued on one of the pages showing the map of France.

There are two of these, one in white and one in black but I chose the lighter one for this project.

Any strong PVA glue will work for this.

I believe this one came from the Works.

 

Next I blended distress inks along the edges to give it a border and applied some Gesso slightly off centre in a cross shape to give the appearance of snow but also to make a focal point for the images.

This needs to be applied with the dry brush technique as this will also leave you with texture on the surface.

You could also do this with paint if you wish.

 

Now I can start to plan the position of the images.

It is a good idea to lay them down before attaching as this allows you to lift and replace items until you are happy with the layout.

It also allows you to see what needs to be attached first and to ensure that images below will still be seen when everything is attached.

I find that when I remove them and start to rebuild from the bottom I need to lay the pieces somewhere in order of which goes on at which stage as I sometimes forget when I take them off (hope that makes sense).

Maybe it's my age but if there are lots of images to layer up it's easy to make a mistake (though of course we all know there are no real mistakes in crafting just happy accidents lol!) but if you line them up in order it helps. 

Once you are sure about the positioning it's time to start attaching them.

 

I also decided to punch out some snowflakes and as I wanted some of these to be placed below the images and papers, I punched out lots of these at the beginning.

 

Although I have tried to use mostly the papers in the pad, I have included some ribbon, mirri card, gems, Dome Stickers, glazes, bits and pieces from the holiday and obviously a photograph.

I think that's what makes these papers so useful, they work well with other craft supplies you may already have.

 

And here is the completed page.

No!No!No! not quite there, needs more I think.

 

 

Back again lol!

Here.... is the finished page, I hope lol!.

Better?

 

 It just needed tweaking a bit.

The clock die is by Tim Holtz.

It's no good he just gets everywhere lol!

I also added some stickles glue, glazes and Dome Stickers to highlight areas and mounted the photograph onto cork sheet.

 

And here are a few close-ups for your delight (I hope!).

 

 

 

Well that's it really, hope you like it.

 I have three other projects to make using these papers and will post them here with instructions for making but you will also be able to see them on the Ali-Craft blog at the beginning of May.

 

 

 The kit will be available at the Ali-Craft on-line store at the start of the Month. 

 

Bye for now.

 Back soon,

Angela x

 

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