Gilded Poppy

 

Hi there crafters, hope you are all well and had a lovely Easter.

 

 

Today's card is using Lisa's lovely Poppy Stencil and one of the Alchemy Wax's from Imagination Crafts. 

 



 

I used a 7" x 7" white card and cut three white pieces of card for matting.

 

 I painted the border of the largest piece of the three using the Black Starlights Metallic Paint and a piece of Cut n Dry foam.

 

 

Left that to one side, I kept the middle piece of white card plain and covered the whole of the third white card completely with the Starlights using a Mini Brayer, quick tip, I made sure to wash the brayer straight away in warm soapy water so it didn't stain.

 

 

Once all the paint was dry, I placed the Poppy stencil over the smaller matt, and using the Imagination Crafts Rubber Embossing Mat I run this through the Grand Calibur ensuring I followed the suggested sandwich on the back of the packaging to create the image below.

 

 

So to make it stand out, I covered the image with the stencil again and using the Bronze Alchemy Wax and my finger, I placed some wax on a blending mat and slowly rubbed the wax through the stencil until I was sure it covered the image.

 

 

 

I removed the stencil and left to dry before buffing to a shine, then matted all the layers up and popped on matching gem into each corner of the card.

 

 

Another quick and easy card for you.  Hope to see you at the April class.

 

Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagination Fairy

Hello again all, hope everyone is doing ok.  Today's blog is a dreamy image using the Imagination Crafts Bluebell Fairy.

Sorry but I've been quite busy this week so it's a very quick and easy card today.

I started with a 7" x 7" white card and cut three smaller pieces of white card as follows:

The first was 6.75" x 6.75"
The second was 6.5" x 6.5" which I cut down using one of my square pierced dies
The third was 6" x 6"

The first and third sizes I wanted to  make them look like background cards, so used the Black Starlights Paint with a piece of cut 'n' dry and dabbed it around all four edges of each card.

I think this is a nice easy way to create your own backgrounds.

The next step was to have a another pieces of white super smooth card cut slightly smaller than the 6 x 6 and I taped it to a blending mat placing the Imagination Crafts Bluebell fairy stencil over the top and using repositionable tape on all four sides of the card.  Using the Black Stars Sparkle Medium I spread the paste across the top of the stencil and drew it down using a spreader.  Sorry I forgot to take a photo at this point but I think we've all had a go at this before.

I left it to dry for a while, in the mean time I matted all the layers together before placing the fairy image on top and finishing with a little bit of bling.

A very basic, easy card but using some wonderful materials from Imaginations Crafts.

Thank you for dropping by the blog again today.  See you next week.
Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

 



Hobby Art By The Sea Pop Up

 

Hello all, how cold has it been this week!!  So I thought a bit of seaside fun was in order.

 

 

First I used my template to make a pop up box card and cut out some black card then white card for the matting and layering for each panel.

 

 

 I then stamped the white panels using Antique Linen Distress Ink and the Hobby Art Shells Stamp Set Sea Anenomie and the Textures Stamp Set image that looks like mesh.

I then stamped two of each of the Hobby Art Shells Stamp images, I stamped the beach huts from the Summer Holiday Stamp Set three times.  I coloured them all in using watercolour pencils and then cut them all out. 

Once they were all cut out I decided they needed lifting, so I got some Diamond Sparkle Medium and some Cut and Dry Foam and foiled all of the images, as follows: 

On a crafting mat I placed about half a teaspoon of the Sparkle Medium and dabbed it with the Cut and Dry until it was absorbed, then transferred that to the cut out image by dabbing once again.

 

 

I then stuck the above images onto the three top smaller panels using either Cosmic Shimmer or mounting foam.

 

 

 

 It was then time to assemble the box, so the back and front large panels went on first, followed by the bottom three............which I then foam mounted the beach huts on to.  Then added the top three panels.

 I then cut two strips of card 2.5cm x 10cm and creased each end at 1.5mm and glued inside the box to create the struts to hold the embellishments.  I cut some acetate 2 cm x 10 cm and stuck one of the larger imaged onto one end before placing on the struts.  I created a little birthday sentiment using peels offs and to put a little bit of humour into it I crossed out the W from the Wishes and replaced it with an F, oh dear, did I really do that :o)    I thought for a little added texture and if it wasn't going through the post some fine netting could be threaded through the struts to look like fishing net.

Here's a coupe of close ups and the card again from two angles.

 

 

Just a little bit of fun, hope you enjoyed it and thanks as always for looking at the blog.  See you again next week, Love Jan -x-