Hobby Art Floral Bird House - New Home

Hello all, today's little card is using the Hobby Art Floral Bird House Stamp set and the MDF Bird houses.

I started with a blank white 7" x 7" card and matted it with some pale blue decorated paper from my stash.  I then cut a white mat and embossed it with a favourite folder of mine also from my stash.

 

I then stamped the Hobby Art Floral Bird House Stamp set onto some white super smooth card a few times, so that I could use the spare to decoupage.

 

 

I then cut the left hand image down to 7cms x 12cms and matted that on to some more blue paper.  I coloured in all the images using Water Colour Pencils and cut around the images I wanted to decoupage or use as elements.

 

 

I added a little extra matt with some darker blue paper from my stash so it would help make the stamped image and MDF stand out a little more.

 

I then took one of the smaller MDF Birdhouses and distressed the edges using a craft knife to take off the really harsh dark brown marks.  I then cut a silver mirri mat 6.5cms x 6.5cms and matted that with a 6 x 6cms white card and stuck the MDF house in the centre and used two of the little birds I had cut out, the left hand bird was stuck flat and the right hand bird stuck on with a foam pad.

 

Both the Stamped birdhouse and the MDF birdhouse toppers where mounted using 3D foam.

 

I cut a couple of banners for my sentiment and also to add a few more elements, I bent them up for dimension.

 

I added a couple more little embellishments I'd coloured and cut out to finish off the card.

 

Very quick but sweet little New Home card that could also be used as birthday or get well too.

 

 

 

Thanks for dropping by the blog again today and hope we've inspired you.  

See you next time. Love Jan -x- 

 

 

 

 

Little Bauble Shaker Card

Hello crafters, well this is the final card in the Bauble series for me, looking forward to the MDF class today 😊

This little card used the Bough from the Hobby Art Nature Trail Stamp Set and the Little Bauble Dies.

 

I started with. 6" X 6" white card blank, some black card, gold mirri and white super smooth card.  I took a spare piece of super smooth and cut it down to about 5.5" X 5.5" and started to stamp across the top of the card with the bough stamp using Mowed Lawn Distress ink.

 

I wanted this 3D so carefully cut around the whole image, this would work ok if you just cut around the image rather than going into the detail like I did.  I left that to one side while I created the main card.

 

I cut the gold mirri slight smaller that the main card, then the black card slightly smaller than the gold, thus created my matt.  As I was going to create a shaker I decided to cut the centres out of the background card as you can see below.

The white super smooth card was going to have a circle to emulate a bauble.  So I lined up the white card onto my card blank, then placed the bough stamped imaged across the top so I could see where I was going to hang the little baubles.  

 

 

I placed a circle cutting die where I thought I would suit best and tapped it down with low tack tape.  I then threaded some fine gold organza ribbon through the top of the baubles then lined them up next to the circle then laid the ribbon up towards the bough before piercing a small hole for the ribbon to go through, I secured the ribbon on the back with some tape and left that to one side.  

 

 

Next was the apperture, I passed the die and card stock through the cutting machine, this took a couple of passes because of the thickness of both pieces of card.

Turned the front piece of white card over and stuck some acetate to the back then 3D foamed the sides and around the circle ensuring it was all encased so the glitter couldn't escape.

 

I then stuck this to the black matt frame then onto the gold frame.  I add a further layer of 3D foam around the circle.  I placed a large spoonful of crystal glamour dust (I actually wished I used the Gold Glamour Dust really because of the gold mirri) then missed in a little of the Imagination Craft Cracked Ice and covered the area with another piece of acetate before sticking the whole lot onto the card.

 

I 3D foamed the back of the bough stamped imaged and stuck it to the top of the card, making the sure the little baubles were in place I 3D those are well,  Where the ribbon was threaded through the bough image I covered that little hole with a red gem then added some more to embellish.  

For inside the card I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Hobby Art Rufus stamp set onto one of the cut out circles then matted that with some gold mirri, then placed that inside the card to it lined up with the aperture so the sentiment could be seen through it.

 

 There you go, quite simple and I think the shaker cards are a nice Christmassy effect.
Thank you for dropping by the blog and hope you enjoyed it.
Looking forward to seeing you all for the last time this year
Love Jan -x-
 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagination Crafts Santa Claus

Hi there crafters, today's blog features the Imagination Crafts Santa Claus Art Stamp.

A nice little simple card too, as you can see some old fashioned matting and layering to complement the stamp.

First of all I wanted a little bit of sparkle around the 7" x 7" card itself, so I dabbed some Imagination Crafts Diamond Sparkle Medium on to my craft mat before transferring onto the card border.

Santa was stamped using Versafine Black Onyx and WOW Clear Sparkle Embossing Powder onto Super Smooth card.
 

I wanted the image to pop so I used the Bright Red Sparkle Medium to create the border by dabbing onto a craft mat before transferring it around the border of the image.  I then tied some red and white bakers twine around the bottom card before matting it onto some white then red card.

 

I stamped the Imagination Craft Art Stamp Christmas Words onto a piece of white card I cut slightly larger than the Santa image but not as wide, again using Versafine but this time I used WOW clear Embossing powder.  I then created the border as before then matted it using the same method as the Santa.

 

The little sentiment got the same treatment then it was ready to assemble, making sure there was the same amount of distance around the edge of the background piece.  I used 3D foam on the Santa image and the sentiment.

Here's the card again with a close up.

 

The card done, hope you like the simplicity of the this card, thank you for dropping by, take care and see you again very soon.

**Remember the Lisa B Designs November class has been postponed to November 11. Lisa will be demoing on The Imagination Crafts stand at the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC this weekend, if you're visiting the show stop by and say hello.**

Love Jan -x-