Lavinia Hares & Fairies

Hi crafters, well it's workshop day, hope you're all looking forward to it like me.

This is my last post using the Lavinia Scene Scapes and Stamps and it's another quick card.

This time I've used the Lavinia Sacred Scene Scape and the Hares, which were in stock at the time I made the card, take a look there are plenty of other creatures to use.

So I stamped a few of the Lavinia Willow on both edges and along the top of the card using Black Archival.  Then placed the Dancing Fairies over the moon, the stamped the Hares as if one of them was looking up at them.

As the scene scapes and stamps seem to speak for themselves in the way of simplicity and effects I thought I would just add a little sparkle by using a ruler and a quickie glue pen and running from top to bottom of the card and started on the right hand side of the card, I drew in some lines and sprinkled  some Glamour Dust over them to look like rain.

I then mounted the whole thing onto some black card before placing on to the 7" x 7" card blank, and the card was done.

That's it for today, hope you liked it and thank you for dropping by the blog today.

Love, Jan -x-



Little Bauble Shaker Card

Hello crafters, well this is the final card in the Bauble series for me, looking forward to the MDF class today 😊

This little card used the Bough from the Hobby Art Nature Trail Stamp Set and the Little Bauble Dies.

 

I started with. 6" X 6" white card blank, some black card, gold mirri and white super smooth card.  I took a spare piece of super smooth and cut it down to about 5.5" X 5.5" and started to stamp across the top of the card with the bough stamp using Mowed Lawn Distress ink.

 

I wanted this 3D so carefully cut around the whole image, this would work ok if you just cut around the image rather than going into the detail like I did.  I left that to one side while I created the main card.

 

I cut the gold mirri slight smaller that the main card, then the black card slightly smaller than the gold, thus created my matt.  As I was going to create a shaker I decided to cut the centres out of the background card as you can see below.

The white super smooth card was going to have a circle to emulate a bauble.  So I lined up the white card onto my card blank, then placed the bough stamped imaged across the top so I could see where I was going to hang the little baubles.  

 

 

I placed a circle cutting die where I thought I would suit best and tapped it down with low tack tape.  I then threaded some fine gold organza ribbon through the top of the baubles then lined them up next to the circle then laid the ribbon up towards the bough before piercing a small hole for the ribbon to go through, I secured the ribbon on the back with some tape and left that to one side.  

 

 

Next was the apperture, I passed the die and card stock through the cutting machine, this took a couple of passes because of the thickness of both pieces of card.

Turned the front piece of white card over and stuck some acetate to the back then 3D foamed the sides and around the circle ensuring it was all encased so the glitter couldn't escape.

 

I then stuck this to the black matt frame then onto the gold frame.  I add a further layer of 3D foam around the circle.  I placed a large spoonful of crystal glamour dust (I actually wished I used the Gold Glamour Dust really because of the gold mirri) then missed in a little of the Imagination Craft Cracked Ice and covered the area with another piece of acetate before sticking the whole lot onto the card.

 

I 3D foamed the back of the bough stamped imaged and stuck it to the top of the card, making the sure the little baubles were in place I 3D those are well,  Where the ribbon was threaded through the bough image I covered that little hole with a red gem then added some more to embellish.  

For inside the card I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Hobby Art Rufus stamp set onto one of the cut out circles then matted that with some gold mirri, then placed that inside the card to it lined up with the aperture so the sentiment could be seen through it.

 

 There you go, quite simple and I think the shaker cards are a nice Christmassy effect.
Thank you for dropping by the blog and hope you enjoyed it.
Looking forward to seeing you all for the last time this year
Love Jan -x-
 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature Trail Bauble

 
Hello all, hope you're doing ok and enjoying any Christmas crafting you may be doing.

So today's little card is a take on the last workshop using the bauble aperture and Hobby Art's Nature Trail Stamp Set.

 

I started with a 7" x 7" card blank and measured the bauble aperture we had in our workshop packs and cut a piece of black card and silver mirri to matt under the bauble.

I wanted to use the little house stamp from the Hobby Art Nature Trail Stamp Set to create the little scene inside the bauble.  I laid the bauble aperture over a square of white super smooth card and using a pencil very lightly drew inside the bauble to use as a guide and line up the stamp.

I stamped the image using Versafine Black Onyx and Wow Clear Embossing Powder.  I then stamped it again onto some Mask-it and Memento black ink pad, I cut out the section I needed as seen in the photo below.

I also stamped two of the trees onto white card and cut them out.

I then rubbed out the bauble fine line pencil marking and covered the little house scene with the mask-it and took one of the Clarity Brushes and Ranger Antique Linen distress ink pad and lightly covered the skyline.  I removed the mask-it and coloured in the image using water colour pencils.

I then wanted a bit of sparkle and fluff so drew some lines on the hill under the house using a quickie glue pen then dipped that in Crystal Glamour Dust (any glitter will do) to create a snowy looking scene.  Then did the same on the trees and various places on the image.    I  stamped the snow from the Hobby Art  Rufus The Reindeer Stamp Set using Clear Versamark and Bright White WOW Embossing powder, then added a little sparkle using the quickie pen and glamour dust again.  The Fluffy Stuff came in handy to create a snowy roof for the house.

Next step was to add the cut out trees to the back of the bauble aperture so it gave it a bit of a 3D effect, and added a little more of the Fluffy Stuff.  I then added a small piece of silver mirri to the back of the bauble to create its top and then a piece of acetate to cover the aperture so it looked like a glass bauble.

I wanted a little bit of depth so lined up the image under the aperture and cut away the excess card before placing foam pads on the underside of the aperture and stuck if over the image.

I used the sentiment from the Hobby Art Poinsettia Set but any sentiment will do, and stamped it around all four edged of the card blank, again using Versafine and Clear embossing powder.  Then drew some wavy line and hid the corners with some little black gems from my stash.

I matted and layered the image onto the black then mirri card and attached to the centre of the card.

I added a silver bow to finish it off.

Hope you enjoyed the little tutorial, see you again very soon and thanks for dropping by.

Love Jan -x-

Hobby Art Rufus The Reindeer

Hi there again all, hope you're all well.  Today's project is a little gift bag that can be converted to a card if you wish 😊

I used the Hobby Art Rufus The Reindeer Stamp Set for this one.

 

I started with a 5.5" X 5.5" peice of Super Smooth card that I stamped with Rufus using Versafine Black Onyx and Wow Clear Embossing Powder.  I stamped some of the little decorations to his antlers using the same materials.

I wanted to give his hoofs a bit of gloss, so coloured them with black water colour pencil then topped them with Versamarker and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I'm very fond of water colouring so used my pencils to colour in Rufus and also used the fine detailed water brush, which I love.  I added a little bit of Glamour Dust to his antlers with a glue pen and created a sparkle border using double sided tape.

I then used the lovely bauble shape we had at the Friday workshop and created a gift tag using the smallest Christmas tree stamp from the same stamp set along with a few of the stars.  I coloured them in and created some foiling around the edge with my finger and Silver Sparkle Medium.

 

I added a little piece of silver mirri card to create a top for the bauble, attached some sparkly ribbon which I then attached to the top of the bag.

 

I matted the main image with black card then silver mirri, I then stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment from the same stamp set, matted it the same then stuck everything onto the Craft Bag.

 

As you can see it could be a large topper to create a sweet Christmas Card.

 

Thank you for dropping by the blog and hope you enjoyed it.

See you again very soon

Love Jan -x-