Template Resist

Hello crafters, Kirsten here, I hope you’re all well.
I’ve got another resist technique card to show you today, using a template so that you get the effect in certain areas only.

 

I made a simple template by die cutting circles from a piece of kraft card.

Then I stamped the Joy Craft Vintage Flourish flower stamp with Victorian Velvet distress ink through a few of the circles, making sure I protected the remaining circles with scrap paper. Next, I used a clean piece of Cut & Dry foam to apply embossing ink through all of the circles. I removed the template & covered the circles with clear embossing powder & heat set.

The next step was to blend Weathered Wood DI over all of the card, then wipe it off the embossed circles with a clean cloth/paper towel. You could also use a baby wipe, but you need to ensure you don’t wipe off any ink from outside the circles.

I wanted to create the illusion of more depth, so I replaced the template, but I offset it just slightly. Then, using the edge of the blending foam, I applied more Weathered Wood DI. Again, be careful to keep the ink just where you want it, make sure it doesn’t mark other areas of the card. Remove the template & you’ve got shadows on one side of the circles.

To finish the card I die cut the Joy Craft Vintage Flourish coordinating die twice, on scraps of card I’d inked with Evergreen Bough & Victorian Velvet DIs. I cut the petals from the VV piece & glued them onto the EB die cut with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

 

 I cut a piece of silver diamond mesh & added the die cut heart & greeting from the

 Craftwork Cards Opulence collection. I covered the heart with Glossy Accents (it was still wet when I took the photo) & added a dew adhesive pearls. Finally, I framed the card with some scribbled lines & layered it onto a piece of CWC Opulence patterned paper.

 

                   

                                             

That’s all for now, thanks for looking. There are still ten days left to take part in the blog challenge, we’d love to see more entries.

 

 Until next time, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten

Acrylic Paint Resist

Hello crafters, Kirsten here.
I hope you had a nice weekend.
I’ve got a quick card to show you today, using white acrylic paint as a resist, instead of embossing powder.

 

Put some paint onto your craft sheet & spread it out with a  palette knife. Put your stamp - I used the Joy Craft Vintage Flourish Leaf 1 stamp - onto an acrylic block & tap it GENTLY into the paint, you want a fairly smooth, even coverage.

 

 Stamp onto the paper, gently again. Putting too much pressure on the acrylic block will cause the paint to spread. I’ve used a piece of one of the patterned papers from the new

CWC collection ‘Opulence’. Dry the paint with a heat tool – that will take seconds.

 

Remember to clean your stamp immediately with water. Alternatively, cover it with a wet baby wipe until you have time to clean it properly.

Next step, cover the entire piece with distress ink, I used Dried Marigold. ( You could also use Adirondack inks). Take a clean baby wipe & remove the DI from the painted image, dry the paper with a heat tool for a few seconds.

 

I layered the paper onto another piece from the Opulence collection, added the birthday greeting, also from Opulence, (layered with a scalloped die cut) & embellished with gold diamond mesh & gold liquid pearls.

 

 

 

 

                     

 

Thanks for looking, see you next time.

 

Kirsten

A Little Bit of Recycling

Hello crafters, Kirsten here, happy Tuesday. Probably like most of you, I keep all sorts of things, thinking I’ll find a use for them in my crafting projects. The other day I was idly twirling a scrap of ribbon around the plastic ring from a reel of red line tape, wondering what I could do for this post, when suddenly an idea dawned.

I wrapped string around the ring, securing it with Cosmic Shimmer glue & creating a loop. When the glue was completely set, I used fabric glue to attach a length of blue ribbon & a bow.

I cut the large peacock from a sheet of Craftwork Cards Vogue collection (10% off at the moment) & glued a button to the centre of the die cut flowers from the same collection & glued them to the ring with hot glue.

I applied some black adhesive pearls & Patina stickles to the peacock’s feathers, added some Glossy accents to his breast & gold liquid pearls to the flower. I would have liked to add some feathers, but I don't have any – strange but true.

        

That’s it, thanks for looking. There’s still a few days left to take part in the January challenge & I will be back on Saturday with a new challenge for February. Happy crafting.

Kirsten

Four Cards for Christmas

Hello, Kirsten here with my regular Tuesday post. I don’t have anything new to show you this week as I didn’t get time to meet with Lisa before she went to Birmingham to demo at the NEC for J & C Creations. Hopefully, we’ll meet up this week at some point. So, I have four different cards to show you, all quick & simple, made with Hobby Art stamps & Joy Crafts dies.

 

 

For the first card I used the Craftwork Cards chipboard letters as a mask, placing them on a card blank & spritzing over the top with acrylic paints I’d mixed with water in some mister bottles. I then spritzed with a mix of pale gold mica powder & water. To highlight the word I doodled with a black waterproof pen. Georgie was coloured with watercolour pencils.

Card number 2. I stamped the Hobby Art snowflakes with Evergreen Bough distress ink, coloured Georgie with watercolour pencils & added Icicle stickles details. I cut two ‘hills’ from white card & embossed them & made a tree from scraps of glitter card.

Card number 3 couldn’t be simpler. Nitwits patterned card with a snowflake wreath on top. The die cut circle greetings are from an old CWC set of messages in my stash. They take distress inks really well, so you can change the colour easily.

 

Card number 4 is definitely not a traditional Christmas card. I coloured the card blank & a separate piece of white card with Peacock Feathers distress ink. Then I dry embossed the separate card with the Embossalicious Lattice embossing folder, adding a little more DI afterwards & matting it onto black card. The Joy Crafts snowflakes were attached with Cosmic Shimmer glue & adhesive gems put on top.

 

                          

That’s all for now, thanks for looking. We’ve had more entries in the November blog challenge & there’s still plenty of time to take part, so if you’re thinking about it, have a look at the details on the challenge page.

 

Until next time, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten