Stampendous Railway Clear Stamp Set - a few more cards!

Here are a few more cards made with the Stampendous Railway clear Stamp Set SSC1139 that I featured here on Sunday with some other ideas/layouts.

I have used the Stampendous CRN247 Locomotive cling stamp for the main panel.

Again I used a coffee background and a Quickie Glue Pen to edge the mount for the main panel along with Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing Enamel.  I coloured the main panel with chalks.

The railway map makes a great border.  I have trimmed off the border lines and torn one of the edges on the card below. 

Finally, a smaller version of the steam train card.  I added some gold halo glitter into the mix to give it a bit more sparkle.

I really think this is a great set for mens cards, especially those that are older who perhaps don't appreciate the usual sports or drink themed cards.  Using them for scrapbooking would be good too!

I'll be taking my cards to the Ross Papercraft show, Rainton Meadows, Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland on Sunday if you'd like to see the cards I made for the show and I'll be demonstrating the encrusted jewel technique there.

You'll find more details about the show HERE, we'll look forward to seeing you if you are local and able to attend :)

Thank you for visiting!

Jill x

Make It For A Man Challenge

Our next fortnightly challenge started on Friday, Make It For Man, a chance to get some male cards made especially with Father's Day coming up this month

I decided to use the Stampendous clear stamp set Railway along with a little Fran-taged engine steam.

I used coffee for the background and kept it pretty simple, I just need to add some wording when it's ready to send.

I used:

Stampendous SSC1139-R Railway Perfectly Clear Stamps

Stampendous Fran-tage Shabby White Emboss Enamel (FREG027)

Stampendous Fran-tage Shaved Ice (0.67oz) (FRG10C)

Coffee

With the bank holiday approaching and having beautiful sunny days last week Ian and I decided to get out for an afternoon to make the most of the weather and knowing that it would likely be crowded there over the bank holiday.

We took the hairy mad monster to 5 rise locks in Bingley, shame that we just missed a barge going up by only just catching the last stage.

So far we've been lucky that the HMM doesn't leap into the canal but the little monster managed to find a really muddy puddle to roll in on the way back!!!

Oh for some more sunshine!!

I'm sitting here today wondering how my Mum is getting on, she's gone to London to see the Queen!!  At 5' she isn't going to see much in amongst the many people that will be there but like she said, she'll enjoy the atmosphere and excitement of the occasion.  I think she'll need her brolly though!!

Hope you are having a great Sunday!!!!

Jill x

Port Sunlight Show on Saturday!!

I get to play for the day with Fran-tage and Fran's Encrusted Jewel technique:)  It is a good time to have a look at how gorgeous these products are in real life.  My camera isn't brilliant so it's difficult to capture the texture, sparkle and total yummiousness of the different mixes.

The show is ticket only so we hope you have yours, Ian and I are looking forward to the show and hope to see many of you there.

Have a great weekend whatever you are doing :)

Jill x

Colours of Spring / Easter Challenge

Well, we are one week into our latest Stamp Man challenge, there is still time for you to join in as the challenge ends on Thursday at 9pm.

I'm only just getting round to adding my entry and chose a deep almost mustard yellow which is a favourite shade.

I have wanted to play with the Stampendous Frantage embossing powders so chose the aged gold.  The picture above shows this combined with a scrunch Starburst Stain background paper I made a while ago.

Normally when I emboss these background papers I gently swipe my embossing pad over the peaks then add the embossing powder to highlight and make texture.  This time I poured the embossing powder onto the dry paper and moved it about with my hand until it fell into the recesses.  I then carefully heated it from underneath.

I wanted to add more texture to the border, so used the same card  that was an offcut from the main image.  I frayed some white mesh ribbon and coloured it with alcohol inks.  I used alcohol inks rather than normal ink as the ribbon has a coating.

The products I used are

Stampendous CRP152-R Cling Botanical Daffodil
Stampendous Aged Gold Fran-tage Embossing Enamel
Starburst Stains
Mark Richards Self Adhesive 5mm Mosaics - Gold (MR5537)
Mark Richards Self Adhesive - Metals - Gold 3mm (MR1983)
Buttons
Mesh ribbon
Copier paper for scrunch technique

I love the randomness of Fran's Fran-tage embossing technique, you can see it on the border strip below.

I added a bit of bling too, the gold button was nicely textured and I added some gold mosaics, I really must use them more often!

So, I hope you will join in with our latest challenge too!

As I'm going on about the challenges, I would like to welcome our newest DT member, Kim Reygate.

I've know Kim for many many years, she is a very talented card maker and a very lovely lady too.  Kim has written a couple of books, one on tea bag folding and the other rubber stamping and is frequently featured in magazines as well as producing artwork for a number of other paper crafting companies.  We are proud and honoured to have her on our team.

Here's the link to Kim's blog Kim x, you'll find amazing artwork there and I believe Kim is on a mission to blog every day if she can so it's well worth you bookmarking or following her too.

We have a new challenge starting on Friday so I'd better get this current challenge card posted and get on with the next one!

Thanks for visiting

Jill x

Stampendous 2012 Catalogue!! WOW!!!!

The stamps and accessories are now on our website HERE

There are some great designs on various themes, here's a little selection...I LOVE the Butterfly Post!!!!

Then there's the beautiful botanicals....

Steampunk....

Creative steampunk...

Alice

And then there's cute...

and nostalgic romance...

I reckon there is something for everyone's taste stamp-wise

Now take a look at these beauties!!!

Fragments...

Enamels...

Glitters and Glass

Tinsels

 and Mica mixes!!!

Yum, yum, yum!!!

Sorry I got a bit carried away adding pictures... but there are lots more great stamp designs if you want to have a peek at the rest of them HERE.  Our sale is still on so it is a great time to treat yourself!!

Thanks for visiting

Jill x