Charity Cards

Been making some cards for a local  charity, decided to use up some very girlie stickers i’ve had for ages but using some lovely techniques to enhance them.

Used a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine; kept to black and white theme for this set.

Stopped when i’d made nine boxes of six notecards with decorated envelopes as needed to deliver them. 

Delivered the boxes last  Friday  and was asked to make some condolence cards.  Here are a few sample cards…

 

All are going to have blank inners and decorated envelopes.  Off to chose the final three designs and then make 10 of each; or i might design some more butterfly themed cards…

 

Got an email today telling me that there is a workshop tomorrow in Prestwich that i have been wanting to attend for quite a while; an Art Journaling Workshop with Sarah Anderson at Paddys Stamping Place in Prestwich Manchester. Been wanting to attend one of Sarah’s workshops for ages but not been well enough to do so. Going to be a long day but worth the effort…

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A While…

Not been too well so not posted for a while.  I have been playing lots more with Paper Artsy stamps and Tim Holtz Distress Inks.
Can you see faces in the above picture?  How many can you make out?

The one hundred A4 card  was to celebrate 100 journal entries on a photography social networking site.
The above cards are for birthdays coming up in June and July. Used Distress Inks for the backgrounds, my hand made papers for the centre decoration, ‘be’ adhesive rub-ons and Dufex sentiments.
Used Distress Inks for the backgrounds (tone on tone colours) and some girlie stickers i found. A fresh look, not as decorated as i usually make.
Wanted to try something again a little different so this time i used one of the Tim Holtz border dies to make a fancy edge; Cosmic Shimmer mica sprays to make the background paper behind the edge; Distress Inked the card in Faded Jeans and Broken China, took a Paper Artsy stamp from plate 1004, misted the stamp with water stamped the image and blotted the excess ink straight after to create the shadow effect.  Decided not to stamp over the shadow with the same stamp so used another image from one of the Paper Artsy Hot Pick plates; this time using an Adirondack Ink Pad called Rainbow.  Finally used some of the ‘be’ adhesive rub-ons to add foiling to the card.

Fathers Day card made using Tim Holtz Cogs Alterations Die, Tim Holtz Alterations Edge Die and Tim Holtz Mini Alphabet from Sizzix. Background made from paper i use to catch all the excess images and paints i use when creating masterboards.  I like to make these as they are a pleasant change; you never know how they are going to turn out.
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Changing Boxes

It is my friend’s birthday in a few days time, the cards have been completed & her present has been wrapped but i wanted to decorate a box to house her cards.

Aintree Craft Show were throwing these boxes away, asked could i have a couple to decorate and the lady said great better than throwing them away. Looks like they housed Martha Stewart punches.

Stripped the bar code and painted with different colours of acrylic paint, most of them pearlised or metallic .

Covered the whole box in white then applied wild berry, bronze, gold and sapphire blue paint randomly.  

I have been playing with the new Tim Holtz Alterations Bigz Dies earlier this week and made a loo roll card with an ornate top.

Above are the pages before binding them together with gold ribbon. The bits that were left over after taking the loo roll inner through the Big Shot have made the hinges for the Card box. Painted them black to accentuate the card box colours as below.

Next thing to do was to add three tags reflecting the theme used for the loo roll card which is birds. Used Paper Artsy images from the Hot Pick plates 1004 and 1005 to create the tags.  Used mica sprays to create the background paper before overstamping and cutting the images out.

Here are the cards that will go inside; have posted the loo roll card before on a previous entry.

 

Off to play with more of my craft stash. Thanks for stopping by :-)

Playing with Tim Holtz Alterations

Never made my own rubber stamp before, today I made a border stamp from one of Tim Holtz’s Alterations Dies.  Bought some Funky Foam A4 size

Covered the back of an A4 sheet of the foam with red tape which is very sticky.  Cut the sheet in half and put the sheet over the Die. Ran this through a Big Shot manual die cutting machine and the green shapes are the results.  Peeled the backs of to reveal the sticky back and stuck to very thick acetate (this acetate comes from the packaging that houses the Sizzix Dies).

Cut the acetate to slightly larger than the funky foam stamp so can handle them and then had a go at stamping. The results are not that good but good enough for me to see what i needed to get right next time I made a stamp.  

I ran over the acetate with a brayer to try and help achieve a clear and consistent  border, didn’t work but doesn’t look too bad.  The shapes that accompany the border are shapes that were taken from the funky foam to be able to get a perfect border.  They look quite good and am hoping to complete a card quite soon using all the above elements if possible.

Have been saving some drinks cans as i read they can be recycled and treated the same as the metal we buy to use with Walnut Hollow kits.  I tried putting the prepared cans through the Big Shot using another of Tim Holtz’s Alterations Bigz Dies.  Used the Angel Heart die and this is the result.

Need to be careful when handling the cans as the edges can be a little sharp so wouldn’t recommend trying this method with young children.  Just need to alcohol ink these elements and see how they look when completed.

Off to do some more stamps and to cut out from some more drinks cans.  Thanks for stopping by :-)

Aintree Craft Show

Managed to purchase most of the items on my list but was quite disappointed by the lack of stalls with quality papers and stamps…I did however manage to get one of the new Creative Expression Plates and my favourite Darkroom Door Plate.

These four quite large words are going to be decorated and altered sometime soon… haven’t quite worked  out what colours to use but you can bet there will be blues, turquoises and greens along with copper, bronze and silver.

   

The Everything For A Pound Stall was great and got a few bargains

 

There were plenty of bead and embellishment stalls so stocked up with these

Found a great place for trimmings and thought these were particularly fab

Finally i spent most of my money on Tim Holtz Alterations Dies.  Still need another two and then i am done but i know i will enjoy making lots of things with these.

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