Winter Dawn - Sunday 4th November

Hello Friends!

Thanks for stopping by, I do appreciate you taking the time and also leaving a comment. I was missing yesterday - I have plenty of cards to share at the moment but so little time to write the blog! 

Today I am sharing another card I made using the Dreamweaver Bare Trees stencil - I did warn you there would be quite a few as I wanted to try different techniques and I'm barely started! 

This time I have used black card with Indigo Blu Mega- Flakes and Flitterglu. I do love using this product, but have to do it when I have plenty  of time and a clear desk as it can get quite sticky and messy (when I'm using it anyway!!)

The flakes I used are called 'Winter Dawn'...

I used white card as the base layer and matted and layered alternating black and white.

Then I used black card as the base for my stencil. You need to tape the stencil to excess card or your mat on all four sides with low tack tape, this prevents the chance of ruining your creating with movement.

When I have have some time, I will post a tutorial for this technique, because it is good fun to play with it and the resulting stamped or stencilled image is quite lovely.

Meanwhile, hope you like it and thanks for taking the time to stop by!

Carole X

Sunday Stampers WK 229,Autumn - Nov 1st

Good Morning Friends,

We had quite a few Trick or Treaters as usual last night, with very wet parents...what a shame about the rain! And so we are in November....oh my, Christmas is getting way too close! Today's post is my project for Sunday Stampers challenge and the theme this week is colours of autumn.

With last week's marathon of workshop, events and craft fair I missed last week's challenge for the first time since I started and I really did miss it! I don't have time to enter many challenges, but this one is a must for me!

Two weeks ago I made an autumnal card for the metallics challenge, so the challenge for me was coming up with something different!

For the main image I used the Dreamweaver Bare Trees stencil on white card. I wanted to create a bright background of autumnal colours - sometimes in a dense woodland on a bright day, it can look like the the whole landscape is on fire. I used a mixture of distress inks - Broken China and Faded Jeans for the hint of sky,Brushed Corduroy, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge and Mustard Seed for the bright colours and Brushed Sage and Crushed Olive for the grass. There may have been a few more in there somewhere - too many to remember! It took quite a while to get it so I was happy with it!

For the base I used Autumn Maple Leaves stamp set from Clarity Stamps. I love the sentiment. The stamps are all individual so I arranged the images around the sentiment. I stamped them with Versamark and then heat embossed. The powders are my own mixture and what fun I had trying to get it right!

I used gold, chocolate brown, holographic and red and I even threw in a tiny amount of stamp magic from the metals range. My aim was to create a brown-gold with a hint of red, just like you get when the leaves are changing.

The trees were matted and layered on brown, white, brown; then I tied some orange ribbon around the bottom (I promise you it's not such a bright orange as the photos would have you believe!) and added a pumpkin button and Spellbinders Leaf cut from craft foil. I added some hessian  to kraft card and mounted  the image on top. To finish I added a few maple leaf brads.

Hope you like this and thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment!

Carole X

Emergency Crafters DT Card - Monday 29th October

Hi Blog Friends,

Thanks for your comments yesterday, I did finally get a post written, albeit rather late in the afternoon!

Well it's back to Hallowe'en for the new Emergency Crafters challenge..something Spooky! For those of you who aren't Hallowe'en fans 'fear' not (!) it will all be over after Wednesday! I still maintain that this 'festival' is  just the best for creating - I could go on and on with spooky designs, but promise, just one more after today!

This is my spooky design team project..the card is made using the Dreamweaver Bare Trees stencil (be warned, more of this stencil to come!) on Clarity Card, inked through with a mix of Milled Lavender and Victorian Velvet distress inks. I then stamped the crow on black (Chocolate Baroque Halloween) with Versamark and heat embossed in black. I stamped the sentiment,(same stamp set) again on black card with Versamark and heat embossed in silver. The fence is cut on my Cricut.

The little crooked witches hat is from a pattern I've had for a few years. It's from a US Company called Country Friends, from which I get quite a few 'primitive' design patterns..they are lush! I made this one in a hurry; it's simply made using black glittery felt. When I took the photo, I noticed the shadows and decided to go with it...keeps it spooky!

Promise you a break from spooky-ness tomorrow,

Thanks for stopping by! 

Carole X

Bare Trees - Monday 22nd October

Good Morning Blog Friends,

Sorry I've been missing a few days...this coming week I  have a day of encouraging people to craft at the library, our last workshop before Christmas and a craft fair on Saturday, so you can imagine that  I have been busy busy busy...I have made some more stock for the fair, still not prepared for our workshop and just got all the card kits together for Wednesday...I am going to  be helping new crafters to make the paper piece dove card, that I posted on here a few weeks ago, but as we only have a small amount of time with all the people who come through, I made the kits, including doing all the stamping..phew...I made 24 kits!

So today, a little more spooky-ness using a Dreamweaver stencil...

I've just got this stencil and have been practicing with in in many different ways, so be prepared to see more of it! This was the first card I made: I just wanted to created an orange 'glow' behind the stencil using distress inks and then I  stamped and heat embossed the bats. The ribbon is from Fantastic Ribbons (watch out for my DT project coming soon!) and the Jack O'Lantern button is from stash.

Before I go, I wanted to show you what one of our hens, Bella got up to at the weekend. She is a terror for climbing and along the side of our garden, we have a 40ft grapevine...not a good harvest year but the hens go nuts for them. They see the starlings getting the ones on top, so Bella thought she'd join them!

The fence is 6ft high...little monkey!

Hope you all have a great week with lots of crafting...have made cards and will post when I can!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, I really do appreciate them.

Carole Z X