Woodware Design Team - Gift Tags

This week we are all making gift tags. I also did a quick gift wrap to show off one of the tags. I couldn't be bothered to make the effort to bring down the Christmas wrapping paper from the loft. After all it's still November!! So I stamped some brown parcel paper with gold Staz-on and olive green snowflakes. I punched a strip of green scrapbook paper with the snowflake crafty edger on both sides, to create a wrap around band for my parcel. 

 
For my tag I made a snowflake from silver tin foil. This is a lovely way to create some lovely cheap embellishments. I have made a little tutorial on how to do it, rather than go into to much detail here. Just go into the tutorial tab at the top of the blog if you are interested.

The rest of my tags are all quick and easy and match some of the Christmas cards I have already made.

The border for this tag is from the elegant Stampendous set "Damask Chair" The snowflake brad was blue so I inked it with gold Encore and embossed with gold powder.

I am sure you will recognise this stamp of the Wise men by Stampendous

These stamps all come from a Stampendous set of Christmas messages

Be sure to check out the Woodware blog for product links and to see what the other girls have made!!

Siobhan

Woodware Design Team - Sketch Challenge # 6

This is my second project for this week's Sketch Challenge. For this card I have chosen a Woodware set with Jane's Bubble Tree. I love this stylised tree because it's such fun to decorate. I have gone for a slightly more grungy look. I am using a lot of creams and browns this Christmas. Do you find you go through periods of certain colour combos.......I know I do!

Bubble Tree

I stamped the tree with Vesamark and embossed with white powder on to Kraft card stock. I then die-cut my circles and stamped a few little snowflakes in brown. I coloured in the tree trunk with some paint from the Vintage micacolor palette. I splattered some of these gorgeous paints over the entire circle. Then you can decorate to your hearts content!! I used various pearls and gems from my stash. I particularly like the 3 sizes of natural coloured pearls that Woodware sell. They are great as they go with just about every thing!!

Detail of Bubble Tree

 The background was a combination of scrapbook paper (this was an old Magenta Christmas paper), Kraft card and brown Bazzill. I stamped the sentiment and some extra snowflakes in brown onto the background paper. To give the layers a more snowy feel I sponged a little Versamark along the bottom and top edges of the paper then embossed with white powder. I quite like this effect. It just softens the edges and adds to the slightly grungy look.

Go to the Woodware DT Blog for lots of inspiration.

Woodware Design Team - Blue Christmas

Well this is more like it!! Blue is my favourite colour scheme for Christmas. Last year I bought 2 stunning bird stamps from Magenta. This one: 

C43.028L  Musical Bird Collage

And the other one is :

C43.030K  Musical Bird 2

I told you they were lovely!! Such detail as Magenta are known for. And not just for Christmas. 

For my card I chose the first one. I stamped it with a blue dye ink onto white card and layered it onto blue Bazzill. The background was done using the technique I did in an earlier post. I blended 3 colours of dye ink onto a 14 cm square of thick white card. I then inked up a background stamp (here I have used a musical score by Stampendous CRR103, with Versamark. You then spritz lightly with water and stamp onto the blue panel. Lift off and watch the negative resist develop. If you click onto the tutorial tab at the top of my blog you will see a step by step tutorial for this technique.

I then over stamped with some snowflakes and the sentiment. When I am making Christmas cards I like to batch them in 4's. So the designs tend to be quite simple but you still want to try to achieve a little bit of a wow factor.

Here's another card using the same technique from an earlier post. This one uses the lovely image of the 3 Wise Men from Stampendous. 

Be sure to visit the Woodware blog to see what the other girls have been up to. You are sure to find plenty there to inspire you

Woodware Design Team - Look what I did with my Flock

This week at Woodware we are all flocking!! Actually most of my flocking ended up in the bin. I think I left my Mojo in Ireland. After much huffing and puffing I decided to flock a little flock of sheep.

I sponged a little back drop of mountains and field. I stamped the sheep in black onto the scene and also onto a piece of white card. The two sheep are a little Magenta stamp 37.216 Sheepish Pair. I applied a glue pen (Zig) to the sheep on the white card and covered with flock. If you press down with the back of a spoon, you will get better coverage with the flock. One dry I cut out the sheep's bodies and stuck onto the scene with foam pads.


I then cut a strip of Kraft card and punched with the ribbon crafty edger. I sponged some brown ink on top to create the little fence. The sentiment I typed on the computer and cut out. The buttons came from a pack of Coffee and Cream buttons and the foliage is a punch called Ash Branch.

Detail of my flocked sheep.

I don't know what it is about sheep, but I used to get asked a lot for sheep stamps in the shop!! Be sure to check out the Woodware blog and see what the other girls did with their flock.