Shrink Plastic Flowers

This sample Sheena has already posted on her blog just before the launch of the 4 Day deal.
I knew when I first saw these stamps they would be great for shrink plastic. I'll admit that I haven't played with this product for a few years which meant I had to go shopping.
The base is a piece of grungeboard from one of the board book sets from Ranger. I found some decorative paper from my stash attached to the grungeboard with Cosmic glue. Inked around the edge with Brushed Corduroy, then stamped some of the branches on with Archival Coffee.I used a watered down H2O to colour the leaves as I forgot to emboss the branches and didn't want to lose the detail.

Now to the shrink plastic,the sort I brought needed to be sanded,which I did in a cross- hatch pattern. I stamped with Versafine and carefully coloured with Spectrums. Once cut out which was easy to do because of the design,I heated them,using a  pokey tool to hold them and Sheena's hairdryer shaped heat tool. Before they cooled down I shaped them to give a more flower like shape.The layers were glued together with Pinflair glue and left to dry overnight.Before adding the flowers I stamped the wording in Archival Coffee.

Hopefully this has posted at the right time,if not sorry....
Happy Crafting

A Friend is......

Love the colour of this one, Shaded Lilac Distress ink one of the last releases of colours from Ranger. I used this for some of my Christmas cards it's such a pretty colour.
The background was made using oneof my favourite techniques with distress inks, the "bleaching" out of colour. Starting out by covering a piece of card with Distress ink,then mist a stamp with water, stamp on to the background  then wait for a couple of seconds before blotting with kitchen roll.This will remove the ink ,leaving an image of the stamp.I then over stamp with the same image in the same colour as the base. Making sure the base is completely dry,I then ink around the edge of the card,same colour but then cover with Aurora Crystal embossing powder hwich will cling to the Distress ink. After heating the edge will be slightly darker but lovely and sparkly.Like yesterday I cut the topper with a Spellbinders die and left it in the die to ink,giving a white edge.After stamping the greeting in Versafine,I stamped the leaf onto Centura Pearl and cut it out.The flower was stamped with the distress ink, the top layer embossed with the Aurora crystal as well to match with the background.
That's it for today,I'm not certain if I will have any internet connection for the next few days so for the first time ever I'm going to schedule some posts. I'm sorry it doesn't work,I will be back on Sunday evening,so they will be another one then if it doesn't work.
Kay( Hougie) and I are off to Exeter tomorrow for the Craft4Crafters show at Westpoint, so if your in the area come and say hello. I know Kay has some new products because we have no plan how to set up the stand yet!!!! So come and see how we got on.
Happy Crafting.

Rain,no it's snowing

Have you been watching C&C ? Two shows completed many more to go. I now don't think these samples will make it,so my blog will be the only place to see them.
There are two stamp plates with just wording but serious wording......they can be easily used on their own.Great if you are showing off your background techniques or want a quick card.
This one was was very apt for last year,we seemed to have plenty of it.
I started out by covering a piece of card with Stormy Sky Distress ink, then stamped the rain drops in the same colour over the top.The topper I die-cut first and inked the card while still in the die ,which give it a white edge. Then stamped over the top with the wording using archival ink, stamped out the image again and just cut out the umbrella to 3D on the topper.After a bit of rummaging I found the umbrella charm which I brought from Hobby House a while ago, which I felt just added to the card.
Lets hope we don't have as much rain this year and have a proper t-shirt Summer.
Happy Crafting.

Flower Frame

 

Here's the first of my samples made for Sheena's 4 Day Deal on Create and Craft, which starts on Monday at 8am.

The theme is flowers,which are always popular,but these are so versatile.Great for lots of different techniques  and especially for me and my fussy cutting.

The frame used here was an inexpensive paper based one.I did the crackle effect Sheena shows in her paint fusion dvd.Then once dry I stamped over the top with memento and coloured the leaves with Spectrums.
Sitting comfortably,I proceeding with the mammoth task of stamping,colouring and then cutting out of the flowers and leaves. All of which I enjoy of course,I love the effect it gives,not keen on flat cards.
Sorry to embarrass my daughter yet again but I do like this photo,it was taken a few years ago.
It matched the frame so well.
I'm hoping to get these samples to Sheena but it depends on the weather.She already has some of them I've done but these few I will put on my blog first so at least they will be seen here if not on TV.

Two cards today.

A treat today two samples, tomorrow I will start on samples from Sheena's 4DD starting on Monday on C&C.
Both these cards are fairly simple to do, the Spellbinders and my favourite thing to do fussy cutting ( i love this name) just give the finishing look.
The images were stamped with memento and coloured with Spectrums.
On the waterlilies card, the flowers which I fussy cut were embossed on patterned paper in True White powder from Creative Expressions

In the second card I did a bit of masking to give the impression that  flowers are in the vase. The image was cut with a die and then a faux mat made. I cut one of the fancy doily shapes in half and placed them underneath at each end.Fussy cutting again for the flowers, these were embossed with clear embossing powder.

Can't wait for tomorrow to show you what I've made with Sheena's new stamps.
Happy Crafting.

Daisy

A snowy morning here,not looking forward to  working in my studio, it will be quite pretty and my heater will keep it warm, it's just the walk in between.
It's getting close to showing Sheena's new stamps and the cards I made with them but for now here is one more Stamp-It card.
This was a fairly quick card to make,very simple to colour with the Spectrums,just a couple of pens.Then die-cut with standard circles, matted on to a scalloped circle.I played with papers from the same paper pack so they all matched and built up the layers.The wording came from one of the stamp plates. At the moment I'm having fun playing with designs from Kay's new book, had chance to play will all sorts of techniques.What to do now?
Happy Crafting on a snowy day.

Lilies

It's getting to be  a routine  this week to post at this time of day,with a milky coffee in hand. My friends will at this moment be saying " you can't drink coffee", I've recently found I can, if it's very weak and full milk, semi of course.
The routine will change middle of next week though when Kay and I will be off to Westpoint,Exeter  for the Craft4Crafters show. I cannot wait my my first show of the season, meeting up with my crafting family.Catching up on all the gossip,especially as some have been to CHA this year.
Well for today's card it could be a sympathy or even wedding.Some of my friends just love lilies so it could be a birthday card.
The image again came from one of the Stamp-It plates.Stamped with Mememto, coloured with Spectrum Noirs.Die-cut with Spellbinders,the dies use were the basic oval,the mount to that being a faux cut one as I wanted a smaller frame.I used the ends from one of the tags for the decoration,the wording tag was from Fancy Tags No1.
The backing was a piece of Centura Pearl card embossed using a Couture Creations folder called Washed Away from Creative Expressions.Before mounting on a black card I sliced it up to give another dimension to the card.
Ok, room is now warm, I've finished samples for Sheena( did you see one of my samples on Sheena's blog,shrink plastic is all I'm saying).So now I'm doing a few samples for Kay(Hougie) to test ideas for her new book.
Happy Crafting.