Stenciled Tree

Hello my crafting friends, good to have you back here with me today, I hope you are all well and looking forward to your Bank Holiday weekend. I am off for a week, Hooray!!! Though I wont have much time for crafting as it is MIL funeral soon and with Family down no doubt time will be spent with them, so apologies if I am absent next week.

Now as we all know today is Friday so that means 'Oldies Friday', now I have searched through my files to find this one lol! I don't think I have ever showed it on my blog as I was not pleased with it!!!

I started with my base card which was a sheet of A4 card  folded in half, sorry cannot remember what colour or who the supplier of the card was, in the center of this I matted and layered with embossed card, (not very straight either lol!) Green card & Kraft card. On some White card I stenciled my Tree and fallen leaves then over the top I lay another stencil and used my Versamark Ink Pad over the top, removed the stencil then heat embossed with Clear embossing powder, this did leave a nice shine but not visible in this photo.

For the sentiment I added this onto a tag in the bottom right corner, some self adhesive pearls finished the card.

Items used (That I remember lol!)

White card
Green Linen Card
Kraft Card
Sweet Poppies Stencils - Tree & Diamond Grid
Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments
Papermania Embossing Powder Clear
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Vintage Photo, Fired Brick
Habico Self Adhesive Pearls
There was an embossing folder used but cannot remember which one!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends in the Sun!

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well, plenty of hugs to those who need them. 

Well a few more days and it will be the end of another month, I had better start thinking about starting my Christmas cards lol! I know some of you have started already, I did intend to make one every week from January but that did not happen lol!

Well today's post is not a Christmas card, far from it. Some of you may remember a card I made of Two Cats in the Moonlight, you can view it HERE, at the time I said I would make one with the Sun so here it is.

I did make this one just after the other but waited to post it as I did not want to post the same image close to each other. 

I cut a piece of White card to size and coloured the Green landscape first using masks and two different colour Green Distress Inks, then the sky using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I then embossed the stencil with the same card, placing the stencil over the top again I coloured the tree in with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Removing the stencil I coloured the Sun in with Squeezed Lemonade and Scattered Straw going over the edge of the embossing hoping to create a haze, not sure I have achieved it! 

Using Promarkers I coloured in the leaves and the Cats, I added a little Yellow Promarker across the top of the branch and on some of the leaves. I did not colour in the 'Friends' as the colours from the sky and the sun did this for me so I left it as it was.

I decided to turn this into an easel card so matted it onto some Black card, made the easel card out of Cream card and attached some Black card on the base that I had die cut with SW French Collection and added a boarder on top for the stopper that had been die cut using SW Spanish Collection.

Hope you like this version, I am sure it would also look good with a sunset behind too maybe over the sea!!!

Items Used:

Sweet Poppy Stencil Friends

Sue Wilson French Collection Corners, Boarders and Tags

Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Corners, Boarders and Tags

Creative Expression Gilding Wax Spring Green

White card
Black card
Cream Card

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Scattered Straw, Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss & Vintage Photo

Promarkers

Foam Pads/Tape
Clarity Masks Hills

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Horse!

Hello today to all my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well, lots of hugs to those who may not be.

Thank you all for your kind comments Sunday concerning the Vicar, no one else seemed to mind so I guess it was just us few that thought it was a bit disrespectful, my Uncles family certainly never complained anyway!

KarenLotty - yes I did hand cut round the Rectangles shape after embossing this way it leaves just enough for a boarder.

I decided to do a card made of stencils, so I started with my basic 6"X6" White base card, cutting more White card to size I stenciled through the Doodle Crosses stencil with Distress Inks Cracked Pistachio, Bundled Sage, Brushed Cordroy, Weathered Wood and Vintage Photo, then I used more Weathered Wood and Black Soot to go through the Funky stencil just around the edge.

For the focal point of the Horse I cut another piece of White Card and first embossed through the stencil then stenciled in the horse over the top to give it just a little dimension. Sadly these images do not show this up.

I then proceeded to continue around the Horse using the same inks and pattern as before in the background to try and match them up!

Once complete I adhered the image to the background by matching up the pattern as it is on the card, which leaves the card focal point at an angle.

This possibly would look better in more brighter colours rather than the dull look it has here. I have left the sentiment off the card until it is used.

Items Used:

Sheena Douglass White Stamping Card

Creative Expressions Sam Poole mask Doodle Crosses & Funky

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Cracked Pistachio, Bundled Sage, Brushed Cordroy, Weathered Wood, Vintage photo & Black Soot

Sweet Poppy Stencil - Horse

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends in the Moonlight

Morning my crafting friends, hope everyone is okay today, lots of hugs going to those who are not. I thank you all for coming by and visiting me its good to have you along.

Thank you do much for all your wonderful comments on my MDF Love Heart (last post) we now have a date to scatter Joys ashes, 21st April, cannot believe we have to wait so long but never mind.

Now I have recently bought three new stencils from Sweet Poppy, I bought some a couple of years ago and love them because they are sturdy being metal as well as easy to clean, nothing wrong with any other kind they all do a great job and yes it means they are a bit more expensive and these were on offer, as soon as I saw this one I had to have it being a cat lover and all that lol!

I knew I wanted to keep the cats as a silhouette so I attached my stencil to the Hammer card and inked through with my Versamark ink pad then heat embossed with two Black embossing powders, one sparkly the other Matt.

I inked round the image with Black soot but leaving the moon White, then went over the edges with Black Soot again and I have just noticed that I have left it looking like the tree is floating, silly me!!! I should have trimmed it back to the end of the tree branch!

To keep the monochrome look I matted this onto some White corrugated card then onto my Black base card.

Very simple to do, I am sure it would look just  as good with using Black Soot or some other ink through the stencil rather than embossing.

I shall do it again but with the moon as the sun...watch this space!

Items Used:

Soho Creations Hammered brilliant card

Sweet Poppy Stencil Friends

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot

Crelando Corrugated Card White (Lidls)

Crelando Card Black (Lidls)

Versamark Ink Pad

Papermania Embossing Powders Black Sparkly & Black

I would like to enter this into:

http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/hls-april-cas-challenge.html
http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/designers-choice-challenge/dcc48-heat-embossing/
http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/challenge-256-always-anything-goes.html
http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/ttcrd-challenge-april-7-april-13.html
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.ca/2015/04/colour-challenge-week-218.html 

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Stags Head

Morning my crating friends and a very Happy Good Friday to you all, I hope you are all well and have an enjoyable Easter weekend ahead. Now don't get sick eating all them Chocolate  eggs lol!

Recently I have got back into stamping and stenciling, as you may have noticed lol! Today's post is a stencil I bought last year of a Stags head, I love the detail on this one. Some of you may remember the Christmas card I did with him last year which can be viewed HERE.

I wanted to show off the beautiful filigree parts of the stencil so I decided to mix some modelling paste with some acrylic paint to make the Brown and spread this over the stencil onto some White card. I was quite pleased with how it turned out as I was not sure I would catch every bit of detail, the second image below just about shows the depth of the paste.

Once dry I rubbed the chisel end of a Promarker pen around the edges then matted it onto some 'Leather Look' Cream card and Pearlescent Brown card. I was going to keep it to this size but then decided to add it as a topper on a larger card to make it stand out more.

Adding the sentiment at the bottom completed the card.

Items Used:

Sweet Poppy Stencil Stags Head

Printed Heaven Leather Look Cream card

Crafters Companion Pearlescent card Brown

Soho Creations Hammered Brilliant White Card

Maimer Modelling Paste

Reeves Acrylic Paint Brown

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo

Promarker Brown

I am entering this into http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/hls-april-cas-challenge.html

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-happy-birthday-3/ 
http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

 

Peace At Christmas

Morning my crafting friends, so nice of you to join me today. If you have a blog of your own then please do leave a comment with a link back to your blog and I shall return the favour.

For those of you who may be interested I think Sue Wilson's dies are on Create and Craft this Saturday at 9am onwards, its a special weekender so lots of shows.

Today's card is the rescued Stags Head from the other week. You can still see the spots of ink but I just coloured it in more around the head to try and hide it a little. Once finished I applied a piece of Double Adhesive sheet and covered it with Micro beads, I am afraid the photo does not do it justice. I then matted it onto some Brown foiled card.

I matted some White card with some Gold Miri card and Christmas paper I had found with a tree scene that I have had for a number of years, cutting it down just to show the row of trees in the background. I attached my image to the left of the trees.

I stamped my sentiment from two different stamps onto White card using Forest Moss Ink and die cut with Imperial Gold Four. I placed this into the bottom right corner to finish the card.

Dimensions are 7.5" X 7.5".

Items used:

Basic White Textured card

Create and Craft  Gold Miri Card

Dovecraft Victorian Christmas 12" X 12" Paper Pack

Hunkydory Foiled card Brown

Sweet Poppy Stencil Stags Head

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo & Forest Moss

Creative Expressions Micro Beads

Spellbinders Imperial Gold Gold Lables Four

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Winter Greetings

Crafty Impressions Clear Stamps

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Stags Head

Morning my crafting friends, now I know todays heading may make you think I was meeting up at the Pub but sadly not lol! But the center piece to my card today is this lovely stencil of a Stags head!

I loved this stencil the moment I saw it, so much detail. I did stencil it on White card at first but got a little ink in the wrong place so if I can rescue it I will show that one at a later date, however, I decided to stencil this one onto Kraft card to see how it turned out.

I inked through the stencil with Rusty Hinge & Vintage Photo then inked round the image with Forest Moss. I found some Tartan card in my stash so used that as a background before mounting it onto some Green card followed by Red card.  I stamped my sentiment onto another piece of Kraft card using Vintage Photo and inked round it with Forest Moss, I covered this with a piece of Double sided Adhesive Sheet and coated it with Micro Beads then attached it to the bottom of the card and added two gems either end of the tag.

There you have the finished card, very simple and maybe a little traditional with the colours but the stags head is the focal point. Finished dimensions 5" X 7".

Items Used:

Creative Expressions Rich Green & Red card
Creative Expressions Micro Beads
Tartan card -own stash
Create and Craft Kraft card
Create and Craft Iridescent Gems
Sweet Poppy Stencils Stags Head
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo & Forest Moss
Justrite Large Fancy Holiday Sentiment Stamps


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

The Pheonix

Morning crafters, hope this finds you all well. It has been a lovely weekend weather wise but I will be glad when all the rain stops, we have been lucky here, no where as bad as down South West, I do feel for them.

Well I planned to have a good play day Saturday being as I had the house to myself but things never go as they are planned do they? By the time I had been the stables (to collect hay & straw for my Rabbits), sorted the mud dip in the front drive, getting so bad my son was having trouble getting up the drive so I dug it a little then put some shingle on top, hopefully that will help, answered everyone's posts on the blog, then started to tidy up the house a bit, had to clear some damp patches in my Sons bedroom, he is allergic to mold, fungus and dust (like my Mom) and it has started to affect him badly so out comes the bleach today, so by the time I did all that it was getting on for 4 pm so not much play time at all!! Sunday was cleaning our rabbits and cooking, I did have time for a little play but I am counting down the days till next week, half term so a week off work and I plan to PLAY!

Anyhow, todays card is one I did on Friday, Sweet Poppy Stencils bought out The Phoenix which is gorgeous, I have not seen it anywhere else so yes I had to buy it! I tried various combinations of  media to colour the stencil and found the best result was with Tim Holtz Distress Inks! I used Squeezed Lemonade, Fired Brick and Dried Marigold then heat embossed with Heat it Up! Clear Embossing Powder.

I cut round the image with SB Grand Decorative Ovals using the second largest die and inked round the die with TH Dried Marigold.

Now the base card was a sheet of Orange card from the Lidls card, on top of that is Creative Expressions Foundation Card Burgundy followed by Black Velvet Self Adhesive Paper, which was very old stash, I embossed this with Embossilicious Folder Regency Swirls, unfortunately the photos do not show this up. I wrapped a piece of Orange ribbon around the base of the Black Velvet before attaching it to the base card. I attached the image to the card and stamped my sentiment from Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps- Classic Sentiments with TH Black Soot then die cut with SB Fancy Framed Tags Two, inked through the die with TH Dried Marigold and attached this onto the card on top of the ribbon.

There you have the finished card, this did take me around 3-4 hours to do but that was also playing with various mediums through the stencil to see which looked best. I do plan on having a go with Gilding Flakes when I get some more glue!

The card dimensions are 17 X 24 cm.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx