Winter Robin

Good morning, Kirsten here on the last day of October. I hope you've had a good month. I've got two very quick & simple projects to show you today, I used the beautiful Winter Robin Art Stamp from Imagination Crafts on both.

My base for this project is a white/greyboard postcard from That's Crafty. You can use either side, I chose the white side & as I was stamping & using Distress inks. 

I stamped the Winter Robin in Vintage Sepia Versafine ink with the intention of adding clear embossing powder & heat setting, but I had forgotten that my ink pad is not as juicy as it used to be & I got a slightly faded result, which I really liked & decided to keep. 

I dried the ink with my heat tool, then added some colour with watered down Red & Emerald Starlights. When that was dry I blended Antique Linen & Tea Dye Distress inks around the outside of the image & added the greeting from the Hobby Art Christmas Frosting stamp set. I also added some Diamond Sparkle Medium with my finger to the tree branch.

To finish the postcard I painted two scraps of card with Red, Topaz & Green Starlights, die cut the scraps with the Leane Creatief Flower die 004 to make a poinsettia & glued it & the flourish to the postcard with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue. A spatula tip of Welsh Gold Sparkle Medium to the centre of the poinsettia & I was finished.

The second project is even simpler. A 6x6 white card blank, Distress inks - Candied Apple, Bundled Sage, Spiced Marmalade - on to a piece of white Super Smooth with splatters off watered down Pearl Starlights, the Winter Robin stamped with Onyx Black Versafine & heat set with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder, a piece of grey card as a matted layer & the Hobby Art Christmas Frosting greeting stamped directly on to the card blank.

             

        

               

  I will be back next week with another October project as the 

November class is not taking place until November 11. 

Take care & have a nice week.

Kirsten

Winter Robin Triptych

Good morning everyone, Kirsten here. Happy Monday & happy October, I hope you had a nice weekend. Thanks again to everyone who joined us for the classes in Maidstone on Friday. You can see photos of the day in this blog post & project photos in the October Classes album on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page. I'm starting my month of projects with the Imagination Crafts' Winter Robin Art Stamp & a That's Crafty MDF Triptych arch. Lots of steps to this one, so feel free to skip to the end...............

I applied stencil paste through the Craft Emotions Romantic Provence stencil to one side of all three pieces of MDF & set them aside to dry.

Two points to mention here:

1. It wasn't necessary to paint the MDF with gesso first, I just changed my mind about what I was going to do. 

2. The central MDF panel is wider than the Craft Emotions stencil, so I had to wait until the paste was dry then fill in any large gaps by moving the stencil around & applying more paste.

When the paste was dry I began applying Starlights paints; Topaz, Antique Gold, Black, Silver Gold. I just kept adding paint & blending it until I was happy & that was the back of the triptych finished.........

I applied more stencil paste as above to the other side of the central panel & this time I masked off the window so that it was flat. When the paste was dry I replaced the stencil & blended Red & Rich Gold Starlights through the window, to give the impression you're looking into a room with a blazing fire. I also applied Starlights to the rest of the MDF piece, using paler colours; Silver Gold, Diamond, Antique Gold.............

I painted the window frame with Black Starlights, the shutters with Blue & above & below the window with Topaz............

I stamped the Christmas Words Art Stamp on to each side panel with WOW! embossing ink & heat set with WOW! Gold Rich embossing powder, then I applied Coral Reef Alchemy Wax on top, wiping some off to show areas of gold underneath. The Craft Emotions wooden letters were painted with Rich Gold Starlights & stuck to the MDF with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue......

I stamped the Winter Robin on white Super Smooth card with Onyx Black Versafine, heat setting with WOW! Clear Gloss EP, then I painted areas using Starlights - Emerald, Red, Silver Gold - as watercolour paint, by adding water to them first. When the paint was dry I cut out the piece, added some Antique Linen Distress ink to tone down the whiteness of the card & glued it to the central MDF panel. 

I painted the tiny Craft Emotions embellishment with Silver Gold Starlights & wrote '25' on it with a permanent black pen. Once all that was done I attached the jump rings (supplied with the MDF) & the triptych was complete.

The closed triptych...........

The open triptych.............

                                   

If you'd like to attend a Lisa B Designs Christmas party class on December 2, please read THIS BLOG POST & contact Lisa to order your MDF Bauble class project by tomorrow, Tuesday October 11, at 6pm.**

If you're still reading, thank you! I'll try to do a shorter blog post next time..........

Until then, have a great week. 

Kirsten

Faux Embossing

Hello crafters, Kirsten here, happy Tuesday. This idea came to me because I didn’t have a suitable embossing folder & I wondered if die cuts would give a similar effect.

I used the Joy Craft Ice crystal die to cut the snowflakes & glued the pieces to the base card with Cosmic Shimmer glue, then trimmed off the edges. I think it worked quite well.

 

Handy hint; if you’ve chosen to use a white background, use the same card for your die cuts & base layer. It’s amazing how many different shades of white there are.

Next I wondered if you could achieve a letterpress effect. I covered the base card with Memento London Fog ink, applied with a blender. Obviously you can use any colour card, but if you choose to use ink, make sure it’s a permanent one. If you use something like Distress ink, the wet glue will cause it to run & you won’t the letterpress effect.

No before photo I’m afraid, but again, I think it worked.

On both cards, I coloured the Hobby Art Winter Robin with watercolour pencils, as per my blog post from last Tuesday & added white liquid pearls as an extra embellishment.







         

That’s it for now. Don’t forget the blog challenge, there’s still a few days to go. See you next time, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten