Paper Pierced Mr Frosty

Hi there crafters, another little Christmassy card for you again today.

 



So as usual I started with the 7" x 7" white card blank.

Then cut several pieces of card in lilac and white for matting, layering and embellishing as follows:

 

6 ½ x 6 ½  Lilac Bazzil Basics Card

6 ¼ x 6 ¼ Plain White Card

6 ¼ x 2 Lilac Strip

6 ¼ x 1 ¾ White Strip

6 ¼ x 1 ½ Lilac Strip

 

Then cut a piece of lilac card 4 ½ x 4 ½ then a piece of white card 4 x 4 for the image.

 

 

I then stamped the Woodware Mr Frosty stamp onto the 4 x 4 white card with a little sentiment then again on to some scrap, this is going to be for colouring and cutting out.

 

 

I tipped out a tiny amount of the Starlights Lilac Mist onto a tile and added a very small amount of water and carefully painted in the scarf and hat on the second snowman and painted the stars and hat band with Silver Starlights.

 

On the main image I decided to paint the snowman's body with some Blanc Rusty Patina and before it dried I sprinkled some glitter on him to give more texture.  I also coloured in his carrot nose with water colour paints.  Then cut out the hat, scarf and stars from the second image.

 

 

Next was to put the card together, before that I wanted to add some texture to the background, so using the Hobby Art Winter Snowflakes stamps and the Press to Impress platform I randomly stamped some snowflakes using Versamark and Wow Bright White Embossing Powder.

 

 

 

Then I layered up the white onto the lilac, then place the largest strip down in the centre first before matting the white then the next piece of lilac.

 

 

 

I then 3D foamed the back of the main image and placed that in the centre of the card.

 

Just as an embellishment I used one of the larger snowflakes from the Tando Mini Snowflakes and painted it with Rusty Patina again then covered it glitter, keeping the little start in the centre of the snowflake so I could place a little gem there.

 

I then wanted a bit more interest and just added a few random lilac gems to finish.

 

Here's the completed card again

 

 

Thank you for dropping by the blog again today,  hopefully will see you soon.

 

Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Circle Easel Card

Hi there crafters, hope you're enjoying the warm weather, a bit too warm for me though.

Today's little card is using the Indigo Blu Ella Bella (Sale on the web site) stamp again, I think she's quite effective, again I also used the Imagination Crafts Clematis Elements as I love the fact you can use the flower heads for a background, as I did with this card, but also cut them out to be 3D.

First of all I folded a piece of A4 White card in half, then using my largest circle die, I placed it on the folded card so the die just slight hung over the edge so was able to open the card.

I then cut a single circle for the stamped image.

 

Next was to do some matting and layering with Bazzil Basic Black Card Stock.

Then assembled the plain circle card onto the easel

I then wanted to created my own background card by using the flower heads from the Imagination Craft Clematis Elements, I used one large and one small flower head.     I stamped the largest head using Versafine and stamped directly onto the card, the smaller flower head I decided to secondary stamping.

 

I then cut a smaller circle in the basic black then mounted the background card onto that.  I cut another smaller white circle of card for my main image.   I wanted to use the  Indigo Blu Ella Bella again, I think she's quite striking.  This time I stamped her with Versafine and embossed using the Wow clear embossing powder.  I gave it it's vintage look by distressing with Hickory Smoke Distress ink and just blended it slightly around the edge of the image, then matted all the elements together.

 

 

The next step was to embellish and place the easel stopper together.  So cut a small piece of black card then white to matt them together, I placed some 3D foam pads on the back for height and placed a little Happy Birthday sentiment in the centre.

 

 

 

I stamped the two flower heads three times each so I could cut them out and create 3D flowers.

 

 

 

So placing the small flower head inside the large one and put a gem in the centre of each.  I then cut out a couple of little butterflies, added a gem and placed them around the image.  Popping the flower heads on and, voila it was done.  Nice and easy, so hope you liked it.

 

Here's the card again.

 

 

 

Look forward to seeing some of you at the class today and thank you for dropping by the blog today.

Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craft Emotions Wooden Embellishments

Hello all, today's little card is made from the Craft Emotions Wooden Embellishments range.

 

 

 

It a very quick little card but quite sweet I think.

 

First of all I chose the little owls I wanted to use from the Craft Emotions Owls & Branches Set and painted them using Imagination Crafts Starlights, Topaz and Pearl.

 

I took a tiny amount of the Topaz and placed it on a tile and added double the amount of Pearl to really lighted it up.  Mixed it to the shade I wanted by adding tiny amount of Pearl until I was satisfied with the colour.

 

Using a fine detailed brush from the Artist Brushes set I painted around the owl including the wings with the Topaz & Pearl combination.  I then used Starlights Clotted Cream for the owls chest.  Next was the little feet which I used Starlights Black. 

 

The branch was painted using Topaz and leaves Menthol.  I then stuck on some wobbly eyes with Cosmic Shimmer to give them a character.

 

 

For the card I matted some Green Bazzil Basics card onto a 4" x 6" card.   I then took some craft card cut slightly smaller than the green and run that through an embossing folder that I thought looked a bit like a tree.  I then cut a circle out for one of the owls to sit in.  Next I took a piece of craft card enough to sit behind the circle cut out area.

 

 

 

I mounted the embossed card onto the main card and glued the owls in place with Cosmic Shimmer.

 

 

 

And that's it simple but with character, I hope you liked it and thank you for dropping by the blog again today.

 

Love Jan -x-

 



 

 

 

 

 

Sepia & Hobby Art

 

Hello all, well this is my last Hobby Art blog and thought I'd go a bit sepia.  I actually got the inspiration from Jenny Mayes and I liked the effect so much I thought I have a go.

 

 

So I prepared a 6" x 6" card and covered it in some Blue Bazzil Basics card.  Then cut a piece of dark cream Bazzil to 4" x 4" and matted it with the blue and some white Watercolour Card and set aside.

 

I then cut a piece of Watercolour Card 2.5" x 6" and stamped a shell from the Hobby Art Shells Stamp Set and the Starfish from the Hobby Art Summer Holiday Stamp Set several times on the card using an Adirondack Hazelnut Ink Pad. 

 

I stamped the little deck chair from the Summer Holiday stamp set and masked it before stamping the beach hut, then masked the beach hut to stamp in the shore line.

 

I continued to stamp some little birds and the tiny seagull from the Summer Holiday stamp set

 

I then took a brown water colour pencil and just lightly coloured each image before using a water brush to smooth it out.  Once dry I distressed the edges of both images with some Antique Linen. 

 

 

Sorry about the quality of the above photo I'm convinced I've got something wrong with my camera, or it could be the operator :o)

 

Then it was a case of assembling the card by matting and layering and finishing off with the words Sun Sea & Sand stamped onto white card and cut down to shapes and light distressing again, I also stamped the fish from the same set and 3D foamed him and the words into place.

 

Nice little card I thought, thank you Jenny :o)

 

Here's the card again for you.

 

 

Thanks for dropping by the blog today, hope to see some of you later today at the workshop.

Love Jan -x-