Make Time to Relax and Craft with Imagination...

Good morning all! Martina here, how are you? I was lucky enough to attend Lisa's Paperartsy workshop at the weekend and it was SO much fun! I did not finish all my projects, but that was fine, we covered lots of techniques, so I was able to carry on at home! I suppose the amount that I was chatting and biscuit-eating may have contributed to me running out of time, but we won't talk about that too much...

This week I am using Lisa's time theme stamps, the idea being a masculine card, with a hint of sparkle thrown in for good measure...

I began my card by cutting my base layer to size using Super Smooth Card. Using Vintage Photo Distress Ink I added some colour to the edges. I stamped the little 'hash' stamp from the Take Time Set in each corner in the same ink and heat embossed with Wow Clear Detail Powder. I also chose the words I wanted from the set and arranged them on a block before repeat stamping around my topper.

The next step was to make the topper panel to fit inside the backing piece above. Using the same ink and card, I used the Mosaic Sun Stencil to create my background.

I then began to play with my stamps from both of the sets. I knew I wanted the flying watch from the Time to Celebrate Set as the main image, so stamped this first in Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and embossed as before. I used a combination of the different brown tones to stamp various little accents and embellishments from the sets until I was happy. To make some of the details pop, I highlighted some areas with a Pen-Touch White Pen.

Now for my sparkly bit! I stamped the flying watch with some Staz-On Ink onto Acetate. Turning the acetate over I applied some Diamond Sparkle Medium thickly over the wings.

Once this was dry I cut around the wings, leaving part of the middle attached to make it easier for sticking later.

Wanting to add yet more dimension to the watch, I stamped it twice more and cut the faces out (leaving the rim around one and colouring as below).

Having another little play, I decided that I wanted to bring a little more detail and dimension to my card, so went back to my Acetate again. I stamped the tiny butterfly several times and then Brayered some Diamond Sparkle Medium across the back before setting aside to dry and cut out.

A bit of mattering and layering and there we have it...Oh, I nearly forgot - I added some Glossy Accents to make a dome on the watch face!

I hope you like it, I think it's still ok for a man's card even with the sparkle, don't you?

I look forward to seeing some of you at Lisa's class on Friday if you can make it (that is assuming I can survive half-term!)

Thank you for reading,

Martina

xxx

  

   

Time Flies......When you your having fun!.....

Good Morning all,

Well it is a scheduled post from me for today as I am at Hochanda TV Studios today for Imagination Crafts with 3 hr shows at 8am, 3pm and 6pm. I have planned the shows for you to be able to get to grips with all your core Imagination Crafts products with lots of tips and techniques. I have a canvas planned for the first show amongst other demos and some really lovely projects to create. So whether it is mixed media or just classic and simple cards, there is something for everyone.

Apologies for no post last Wednesday, I was rushed off my feet and was a day behind myself and totally forgot what day it was. Nothing new there then!...........

So today is a quick post as as I have so little time but I wanted to show you the card samples that the last card was based around using my new stamp sets which I designed for Imagination Crafts 'Take Time' and 'Time to Celebrate'. The ladies did their own take on the cards as they are always free to do so and created some wonderful projects. These can be found HERE in an album that Kirsten created on Facebook. 

The other items used were Imagination Crafts Starlights, Stencils, Texture Art Stamps and Distress Inks. 

The great thing with the stamps is that you can use them for both male and female cards and the second card was a man's card by just adding a few Craft Emotions Wooden Embellishments and coloring them.

I love using Distress Inks to get such vibrancy on the backgrounds......

By adding some Paper Artsy Infusions to a background and adding Antique Linen Distress Ink you can get a great Army looking background...... 

Well that is all from me for today, wish me luck as I will be busy in the TV studio all day.

Take care and hopefully you can tune in at some point......

Love and hugs 

Lisa B xxx

    

  

          

      

Time Has Wings

Good morning, Kirsten here. I hope you had a nice weekend. The card in today's blog post uses the gorgeous new stamp sets designed by Lisa for Imagination Crafts: Take Time & Time to Celebrate, as well the new Time stencil & Distress Oxide inks..............

The first step was to apply Imagination's Structure Paste through both the Time Stencil & Imagination's Wall stencil & set the pieces of card aside to dry - about 15/20 minutes, so I didn't have to get impatient............

Once the background card was dry I put some Iced Spruce & Walnut Stain Distress Oxide on my heatproof mat, spritzed them with water & dragged the card through the inks. I repeated this a couple of times, drying with my heat tool in between..................

I repeated the same step, this time with a little Fired Brick Distress Oxide & I also added splatters of Cracked Pistachio & Fired Brick Distress Oxide............

When the card was completely dry I stencilled some Fired Brick Distress Oxide through the script on the Time stencil & added some stamping with permanent green inks using the fob watch stamp from Time to Celebrate & the harlequin background stamp from Imagination's Distress Textures 1 stamp set...........

Now I turned back to the stencilled fob watch & wings. I replaced the stencil & applied 

Bronze Starlights to the watch & White Gold Starlights to the wings. I removed the stencil & painted both with a wash of Weathered Wood Distress ink & cut the pieces out. 

The wings needed a darker contrast to the Starlights, so I painted around them with a wash of 

Walnut Stain Distress Oxide. I also added lots of water to a tiny dot of White Gold Starlights & painted it over the watch face.

I added more stamping from the Take Time stamp set - the little stamps are perfect for adding details -  with a permanent brown ink. I painted some Craft Emotions wooden Gears and Cogs with 

Duck Egg Rusty Patina & when that was dry I covered them with Versamark ink & heat set with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder. I used a HB pencil & a paper stump to add some shading to the bricks.................

I finished the card by stamping the Stampendous Grunge Birthday onto a scrap of white card, tearing & distressing it & adding it to the card with a length of baker's twine..........

                             

That's it from me, if you'd like to see the cards that were created at last Friday's classes, see the May Classes album on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page.

There is now information on a second workshop on the Workshops 2017 page of the blog. The PaperArtsy one takes place on May 28 & the Imagination Crafts' Textile workshop will be happening on July 23.

Have a great week. If you're visiting the Hochanda Create It show at the Detling Showground this coming weekend Lisa & I will be on the Imagination Crafts' stand, we'd love to see you. 

Kirsten