Gilding Flakes & Wildflowers

Hi All,

I'm back again with another tutorial from Dabble Day - I'm working my way through in between website updates, which I'm way behind on! 

The gilding flakes on this card make a great background and I love these Tim Holtz Wildflower dies! 

On a 7x7" card blank use 12mm double sided tape to create a border around the whole card - make sure you butt right up to the edges and have no gaps. Then peel the backing off the tape and sprinkle gilding flakes over the top (I did this one side at a time). Use a piece of Rub It Scrub It or a stencilling brush in a circular motion to remove the extra gilding flakes and tip them back in the pot.

Diecut a set of Tim Holtz wildflower dies from black cardstock and also punch a circle and diecut a pierced square. 

Cut a square of A4 adhesive sheet and stick it to the same size piece of card. Remove the top layer of the backing and stick down your diecut flowers and circle moon - some can hang off the edge and you can trim the excess off later. Use the backing off the adhesive sheet to rub over all of the positioned diecuts to adhere them properly. Cover the leftover sticky area with gilding flakes and remove excess as before.

Wrap black twine around this panel and add a twine bow and black pearls. Mat onto your ready diecut square and onto card blank.

Stamp words onto black cardstock using a WOW! clear inkpad and emboss using WOW! Fairytale embossing powder. Chop words as required and add to card.

Products used (items not on the website available in store)

Tim Holtz/Sizzix Wildflower dies

Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes

A4 adhesive sheets

Black Twine

3mm adhesive black pearls

Circle Punch

WOW! Express Yourself Clear Stamp Set

Sue Wilson Pierced Square dies

7x7" cards & envelopes

Black cardstock

WOW! Clear ink pad

WOW! Embossing Powder - Fairytale

Hope you like it!

Bye for now

Lisa xx

Fishing you a great day!

Hi All,

Long time, no blog! I really do need more hours in the day.....or helper monkeys! 

As promised to those of you who came to Dabble Day a couple of weeks ago, I promised I would get round to doing some instructions.

Sue Wilson gave us the idea for this card using her Fishbowl Die set at the Trade Show earlier this year. She has a video tutorial here.

I had filled the Creative Expressions treat cups with hand sanitiser and used Cosmic Shimmer glue to adhere an acetate circle to the back to seal it ahead of time, as advised - it really does take a couple of days for the glue to completely dry!

Using the circle die that come with the Fishbowl die set I diecut a piece of coconut white cardstock - this is what i created my fishbowl scene onto. 

I stamped and heat embossed all of my images (from the Fishbowl Friends set) using black Versafine Ink and clear embossing powder. Stamp the pebbles first and then mask them off and stamp the cat so he'll look like he is peeking through the fishbowl - Tigger would definitely do this if i had a fishbowl, in fact I think he'd have his paw in 'fishing'! I stamped the No Fishing sign and fish onto extra coconut white card and cut these out by hand. Smoosh various colours of distress ink pads onto a craft mat and mist with some water to create your own water colour palette and use a paintbrush to colour the images. Stamp some bubbles using Tumbled Glass distress ink. 

The seaweed was diecut from coconut white cardstock and distress inked using a blending tool in one of greens (possibly peeled paint). I diecut my fishbowl out of the piece of Colorcore cardstock that i used for my backing, seeing as you will cover this anyway, and lightly sanded to reveal the 'core' around the edges. 

Distress the edges of the aqua coloured cardstock with a distressing tool and mat the spotty paper on top with an equal border around the edge. Then use the circle die from the Fishbowl die set (the same one you used to cut the circle out for your scene) and cut a circle from the bottom right hand side (make sure you leave enough room so that the lip of your treat cup will not hang out of the side once it is pushed through). Lay this piece which now has a circle aperture onto your card blank and stick your fishbowl stamped scene through the aperture onto the card blank.

Now put glue round the lip of the treat cup push it up through the back of the circle aperture, use tape to hold in place for extra adhesion until the glue dries. Now stick this whole piece onto your card blank and your fish scene should show through the treat cup.

Stamp and emboss the greeting onto the back on the patterned paper circle you have left (it then matches the ivory spots perfectly), distress around the edge with tumbled glass and stamp some bubbles. Mount this onto your card with foam pads.

Products used (i have created links to the items we have on the website, all other items in stock in store)

Sue Wilson Fishbowl Die Set
Creative Expressions Clear Stamp Set Fishbowl Friends
White 5x5 Cards & Envelopes
Creative Expressions Treat Cups
Distress Ink Pads - various colours
12x12 Colorcore cardstock
12x12 Canvas Corp Paper - Blue & Ivory Dot Reverse
Versafine Inkpad - Onyx Black
Clear Embossing Powder
Paintbrush
Craft Mat
Water Mister
Heat Gun
Blending Tool & Foam
Distressing Tool
Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
Acetate

Thanks for reading.
Bye for now
Lisa
xx

Living in a Fantasy Land....

Hi All,

Hope you are all enjoying the gorgeous weather!! I'd enjoy it more in the garden with a cocktail! But after a lovely holiday in Wales last week it's back to the grind stone. We weren't quite as lucky with the weather but it was perfect Snowden climbing weather (not quite the terrain i expected!!) and we did manage a lovely sunny day at the beach.

Today I'd like to share with you a card i made for class recently - which I think I will be making quite a few more of! - using Cosmic Shimmer Colour Cloud inks which are fairly new out from Creative Expressions and some of the newer release Woodware stamps by Francoise Read. 

For the background I used Smoothies to sponge the Chalk Colour Cloud inks onto white laid cardstock and then used Tim Holtz's spritz and flick technique to create the faux bleached splotches. I then scraped Cosmic Shimmer Texture Paste through a star mask up the left side and stamped the heart in clear embossing ink and embossed with one of the WOW! glitter embossing powders.

The Woodware Unicorn stamp was stamped in Versafine Grey ink and embossed in a clear sparkle embossing powder. I coloured him with the Chalk Colour Clouds and for the heart I used a zig glue pen and WOW! Sparkles glitter - love these!! I stamped the sentiment from the Woodware Fantasy Land set using the Chalk Colour Clouds again - so versatile!!

Thanks for reading! 

Bye for now

Lisa xx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Creates and Makes - Challenge 12 - Anything goes (optional use of yellow)

Crafting by Designs - Animals

Crafting with Friends - Challenge 45 - Anything goes

Relax....Father's Day Slippers

Hi All,

Thanks for joining me. We're still enjoying lovely weather aren't we! I'm off to Wales for a week next week, so I'm sure that will change lol.

Today I would like to share a card I made for class last week using the Woodware Man Slippers stamp. I have stamped my base image on kraft card and then another on some Fancy Pants patterned paper. I cut them both out and coloured in some of the trim.  

The Father's Day words are from another Woodware set - Wearing it Well. And the diecut letters are Tim Holtz Block Talk.

All backed onto another piece of Fancy Pants, which is distressed anyway, but i paper scraped the edges, added some distress ink and some splats to grunge it up a little more :-)

This would make a great retirement or birthday card as well. 

Bye for now

Lisa

x

I would like to enter my card into my first ever challenge on the Cardz 4 Guyz - Your Favourite Colour Combo Challenge #170

Throwback Thursday - Patch Elephant

Hi All,

Hope you are all enjoying the GORGEOUS weather! I love getting out all my summer clothes. And it's definitely Aperol Spritz weather, which i enjoyed last night when I got home. 

Well it's that time again, so I'm sharing another oldie but goodie this week. 

I think there is definitely a theme with many of cards and that's Woodware stamps! LOL! There is so much you can do with them. 

I have used this Baby Patch Elephant stamp a few times. My friend had asked me to make a non-religious Christening card so out he came again. 

I stamped 'Ellie' onto patterned paper and cut him out and stuck this onto a base image that i had stamped on white card. The name has been cut from one of Tim Holtz' alphabet dies - Wordplay, and the stars from a nesting set. I printed the date on the computer.

Thanks for reading. 

Bye for now
Lisa x

Throwback Thursday - Woodware Felicity Bubble Bloom

Hi All,

Hope you are all well.

Gosh isn't it miserable at the mo!! Makes a supermarket run even less enjoyable!

I realise I'm slacking again in the blog department. I really do need helper monkeys :-) I thought I would introduce a throwback Thursday to my blog and share some of my older makes with you all.

This card is still one of my favourites - quick and easy but effective. I have used Woodware Bubble Bloom Felicity clear stamp and stamped onto Kraft card with clear embossing ink and embossed with white embossing powder. The verse which comes on he set is done in the same way. I have then coloured some of the 'bubbles' with a white pencil and some with a white gel pen, added some white Card Candi, twine and mat and layered onto white card and a Kraft card base. Simples :-)

Thanks for reading my post.
Keep dry!
Love
Lisa xx

Decopatch & Prosecco

Hi All,

What a great combination this makes heh! We had a lovely time decopatching elephants last night, with a glass of prosecco.

Don't they all look fab in all the different patterns......

Bye for now

Lis x

Garden Shadow Box Card

Hi All,

Twice in the space of a few days! Well, I do have a lot of catching up to do! 

Today I'd like to share with you a card I taught at my last Dabble Day, as always a jam-packed day and we all go home shattered, but think they are always well enjoyed.

I have used Sue Wilson's Garden Shadow box die in a slightly different way and stamped the Woodware Wiggly Stems flower stamp on a separate piece of card (watercoloued with distress inks) and placed that behind some of the openings. These dies are great because you can put anything inside the openings!

Lots of scrunching, inking and splatting with Distress inks on the background paper. 

I stamped and embossed in clear the sentiment which comes on the Wiggly Stems set and made a little sign and then added the hessian ribbon and 'trellis' cut from one of Tim Holtz's Sizzix framework dies poking out of the side. The garden tools and flower pot come in the Garden Shadow Box set.

Thanks for reading. Bye for now 

Lisa x

Secret Message Pull-Up Slider Card

Hi All,

Hope you are all well. Firstly (!), slap my wrists for being THE worst blogger ever. My original target was a post a week at least, it seems I'm not managing a post a month! I will aim to rectify this....she says! :-)

I wanted to share a quick tutorial with you all for a Secret Message Pull-Up Slider Card that i have just taught at The Craft Studio. I've been meaning to make this style of card for a while and had planned on using a completely different stamp set, but anyway..... I have seen tutorials in inches, so adapted slightly to fit a C6 card blank in cm's.

We made this card using Woodware Wood Panel background stamp (possibly my most use stamp!) and Marianne Design Eline's beach Hut stamp set - love these stamps!! I used them on a Dabble Day last year and thought I'd revisit the set for another card.

The finished design looks like this....

And then you pull the tab to reveal the secret message...

You need the following pieces of card - 

2 x white 10 x 14cm 

1 x white 7.5 x 12cm

1 x navy 10.5 x 14.85cm (C6)

Then extra white card to stamp images onto, to be cut out or torn out.

I distress inked both of the 10x14cm pieces of card in faded jeans distress ink and stamped the wood panel stamp in Colorbox Bon Voyage Blue onto both - i think in hindsight i would stamp the wood panel on only one to make the message stand out more. I then stamped various images from the Beach House stamp set using the same colour ink on one of the panels - this is to be the front of the card.

Then for the cutting and scoring........

You are cutting a 'U' shape into your front stamped panel at 2cm in from the sides and then scoring at cm, 7cm & 11cm, only in between your cut lines as in the (rather crude) diagram below....

You  then turn this piece over and stick red line ultra sticky tape to the bottom 1cm section of the flap and round the 2 sides and bottom of the whole piece of card, as below

Use a circle punch to create a semi circle at the top of both of your 10x14cm pieces (as shown above).

Line your 7.5 x 12cm piece of card up with the bottom of you flap and stick to that piece of redline tape - this piece will overhang either side of your vertical cut lines of the flap and should line up with your top edge.

Then stick the whole of your other piece of inked card on top (so that once it's stuck the inked side is facing away from you, and you will see it from the front when you pull up your slider. This is where you will stamp/write your 'secret message'.

Your mechanism should now work :-) Punch a hole in the top of the 'tag' pull up piece and tie some twine through. And mount the whole piece onto navy card - avoid taping near the top where your pull up tag is. This now fits on the front of a C6 card blank.

Stamp, cut out or tear out all of your other images from the Beach House stamp set and add to card as desired - just make sure to avoid taping over any scored lines, so stick the main ship image only to the bottom section of the moving panel. I added some distress inked and torn pieces of card as 'sand' and 'sea' and some twine. 

Thanks for reading - I hope my first ever blog tutorial all makes sense! 

Bye for now

Lisa xx

Yee-ha!

Hi All,

I have a card for you today made with another fab Woodware stamp! I love their designs. And again on a show theme. We made this card on one of our Dabble Days.

This Cowboy Boot stamp is great for men or women, if prettied up a little, and fab for any line dancers!! 

I created the faux wood panel background by scoring lines down a square piece of white card on my Hougie Board and then dragging 3 different shades of brown Distress Ink Pads downwards, starting with the palest first. 

For the boots and hat I tore up a paper bag and scrunched each piece up, then opened them up again and glued them all to a piece of dark card using Matte Mod Podge. I then stamped and embossed the images using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossing powder, cut them out, coloured in areas with brown Koi Pens and added a lillte extra brown Distress Ink all over using a blending tool.

The stars are die-cut from gold mirri card and 'tarnished' with Alcohol Inks, and the lasso made from twine and bradded on. 

Hope you enjoyed my card, I'm off to the NEC this weekend for the yearly CHSI Trade Show so we will be looking at lots of new goodies to buy in for Loobi Crafts. Very Exciting!!! I am working on a twist and flip tutorial for my next post, I can reveal the card on my blog now the recipient has received his :-)

Bye for now
Lisa xx

Flip-Flop Girl

Hi All and welcome to my blog, which I have been meaning to do forever!!! Although you may have to bear with me at times - I am SUCH a technophobe at times.

It's been a busy week this week with my week of 'monthly classes' at The Craft Studio. I will post what we have made over the next few days - so far the 2 cards we have made have been enjoyed by all :-)

In the meantime here is a card I taught last year a few times at Loobi Crafts.
This is such a me card!! I would live in flip flops if I could!!

I have stamped the Flip Flops stamp from Woodware onto this lovely bright stripey Fancy Pants paper in grey Versafine ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I have cut the image out and coloured in the straps with a bright pink Sakura Koi pen.

The little flowers and the sand grains and dunes are on the same set of stamps which is great! The words are a Woodware mini sentiment stamp and the sky & sand papers are 12x12 sheets from Loobi Crafts.

Hope you have enjoyed my first blog post and join me for lots more :-)

I have evening card making class this evening to finish cutting up kits for, so bye for now

Lis xx