A Card and Box using Woodware stamps

Woodware Sewing Card and Box

Hi All

As soon as I saw this stamp it just fired up my imagination and I just could not wait to get started. Firstly I created a card then spotted the box and just let rip. Hope you like what I put together.
Would really like to hear what you think of them . . . enjoy

The original card

And now turned into a box

Top of the box close up

An even closer view of the box top

A close up of the card

Check out the glossy accents

Box side detail

Box top detail

The Box showing the lid detail

Close up of the box and lid

Box side close up

Box side detail

Box side detail

Box side detail

The complete box

Hope you enjoyed looking at the samples, that’s all for now folks - take care and see you soon.

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My Mixed Media Messy Weekend

My Mixed Media Mayhem Messy Weekend

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So what have I been doing recently - well for the first time I went on a two-day Mixed Media Crafting weekend held at the Crooklands Hotel held by Rowan Tree Crafts in Carnforth, Lancashire. The tutor was Mark Gould from DecoArt.  A big thank you to all who organised this fab weekend, I had a great time I can't wait to go again next year, i'll start saving now!

It was all about surfaces - On the first day we decorated a box and made small ATC cards. On the second day it was Alice in Wonderland and creating a book using stamps, painting and gilding flakes -  Hardly any ink in sight just a bit of Stazon and Archival - a bit of a trauma for me there then! There were 13 lovely ladies on the weekend and two days of intense crafting with demos continuing into the evening. It was a great weekend and I learned a lot! I also found lots of 'must have' paints and stuff I needed to be able to do it all over again at home.

Here are some images of the ATC Cards and box I made on the first day, using a range of surface techniques, chalk paints, stencils, vaseline, gilding flakes, texture paint, crackle glaze with antiquing fluid, using acrylic paints on acrylic and stamping and a whole new concept 'working from behind' - took a while to get my head around that one!

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Distressed box with ATC cards

Two of the ATC cards I created

More ATC cards

ATC card with magician

Side view of ATC card showing how its put together

ATC card showing magician and bird

Day Two
Here are some images of The Alice in Wonderland Craft Book, I made on the second day.  Mark gave us wonderful items to work with to consolidate the techniques we used on the first day.

The Cover Chalk paint in two layers then image transfer

Painted acrylic with a background paper

Back of the Acrylic Page

Stamped then crackle glaze with black antiquing

Wet paint techniques then stamped with ink to finish

Journaling page

Its all going on here, painted acrylic, with gilding flakes on the back then sprayed with paint in four colours

Just ink on paper for a journaling page

Stamped with white paint on black chalk paint

Journaling page just stamped ink on paper

Image transfer on chalk paint

Love this rabbit page

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum painted on acrylic.

This is a lovely MDF frame

For the past month I have been busy creating a range of sample cards for a well known stamp company - but you’ll have to wait a while to see those.


That’s all for now folks - take care and see you soon.

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Poppy Inspired Card

Poppy's

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Wow what a week - I have been inspired this week by our recent trip to see the poppies at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, when we saw the poppies flowing from the bridge I thought they looked so beautiful.  I saw this Hobby Art Stamp and I wanted it to flow out of the page, I hope you like it.  The poppies will also be one of the cards on next Saturday's class at The Paper Warehouse in Kendal.

All three cards I have made this week are for friends birthdays in January.  Next week I will add the other cards we will make on Saturday.

Thats all for now folks

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Make a wish Poppy Card

Floral Gate fold card

Craftwork Card Mens Card

Christmas Holidays

Holidays - Fun to Do

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Just before Christmas we went to the lights in Alnwick Gardens, and watched the parade through the town, it was a great day, what a way to get people in the gardens in winter, the whole story brought the gardens to life and the voice in the gate was brilliant, then the lantern parade through the town, all the children with the lanterns they had made and the bands were fantastic they got everyone clapping to the rhythms. Then on the second day we went to the Angel of the North, in the rain.
In this week of Christmas Holidays we have been hit by more horrible wet weather, we thought the water was coming our way this time, but thankfully it was not too bad this time here in Kendal, our town is still trying to recover from the floods just before Christmas. The memorable day, my class was cancelled due to flooding, and many friends and colleagues were very badly flooded and have had to move out of their homes.
We have been out and about this week, over to Skipton, and yesterday went to the Yorkshire Sculpture park to see the Poppies, we had already seen the whole lot together in London last year, they were really spectacular, and just a sea of red from the top of the Shard, but now they are on tour and we thought it only right to see them again, and they looked beautiful falling from the bridge.  On our way we went through the recently flooded villages and saw the poor home owners gutting their houses and felt very sad for them.
I am not able to make any cards this week due to the Christmas Tree taking over the space in the living room where I normally have my craft table, but I thought I should have a play with my jelly plate, I really want to - I might just have to take over the dining room table for a little while!!!! I also have another card to make for my class in January and several friends and family with birthdays in January - including me! (although I have stopped counting).
Thats all for now folks.

Here is a link to my pinterest page - and a link to my scrapbook pinterest page - please drop by and take a look.

Alnwick Gardens

Alnwick Lantern Parade Drummers

The baghdaddies jazz band

Angel of the North

YSP Poppy Waterfall

Happy Christmas Holidays

Happy Christmas Holidays everyone

Now that Christmas is over and I have some time to sit down and write the next instalment of my blog, admittedly a long time since the last update. In the meantime I have been offered a job at Queen Katherine School, and have been making sample cards for Woodware, in addition to the regular monthly classes for The Paper Warehouse. The next class at The Paper Warehouse will be on the 16th January 2016.  A few months ago one of the ladies on the class asked if we could use pencils and the oils and paper stumps for blending, so on the class this time we will be using Crafters Companion Pencils, for colouring a skater boy by Woodware, together with Dutch Doobadoo Grafiti stencil (my favourite at the moment) and Clarity stencils,  together with distress inks we will also be die cutting a sparkly easel card using Desire Dies, and I have one card still be be finalised. I will upload them after the class for you all to see.


Here is a link to my pinterest page - and a link to my scrapbook pinterest page - please drop by and take a look.

Here are a couple of cards I made for my girls for Christmas and some I designed for Woodware. The one I wanted to show you the most miraculously disappeared from my iPad - i am not impressed, but this technology thing sometimes goes a bit crazy.

Christmas Card 2015 - Girls walking in the snow

Christmas Card 2015 - Skiing girls

Woodware Snowman tag

Woodware Snowman Card

Woodware Snowman Stack card

Woodware Robin 2014

Woodware Owl 2014

Woodware Jingle Bells card

Woodware Rudolf Tag card

And finally my New Year’s resolution is to get to grips with the blogging software and blog more often - so Happy New Year and see you all soon.

Lesley.