First Play with Fresh Cut dies from Claritystamps

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you had a great weekend. My shoulder finally seems to be on the mend which is brilliant. I don't want to over do things as I don't want to hurt it again, which I think would be far too easy.

I have a lovely crafty friend who lives near by. Recently she has been poorly and for one reason or another we have not seen each other since  just before Christmas. Last week I went round to her house for lunch.  Being a big Claritystamp fan and she has many of their products. Very kindly she let me have a play with some  and bring away what I had made. When I got home I decorated a card and a canvas.

For the card I picked up the colours for the mats and layers from the paper I had used from the gorgeous Shenandoah paper pad. 

This is the  Birds in a Tree Aperture die. I found some paper in made stash that I thought would make a good background. I cut a piece to go under the die cut and I covered it with a double sided sticky sheet. Then I covered it with a translucent glitter. 

 My plan had been to make the canvas all inky and try to match the beautiful papers. When I made the card I decided that I rather liked the clean and simple look. 

This is the centre panel of the canvas and this is what we actually made first. The die cut for the card was carefully removed from the die leaving the waste in place. The die was covered with a sticky sheet and it was rubbed all over to make sure the bits stuck. The sticky sheet was removed slowly so you could make sure all the bits were attached. Once it was fully removed the  whole thing was dusted with talcum powder to stop in being sticky. It was then stuck to a small canvas board. It did look rather like a coaster. Isn't it just amazing that you can do this with the waste. 

Here are my two makes together. I think I am going to have to gift them to someone as a set. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

Challenge 237 at the Crafting from the Heart Challenge blog

Challenge 13 at the Creative Crafter's Challenge blog

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste Challenge blog - Sponsor Scrapmatts

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. Unfortunately my husband has to work this weekend the University is having Open days and he is in charge of a stand. It only happens twice a year so I shouldn't moan. I do get some extra time to craft though and he has promised to take me out for a meal.

The beginning of the month is always busy with Design Team makes and today is no exception. The new challenge starts today on the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog. We have a sponsor Scrapmatts of Australia.  Do you remember last time they sponsored us I lost the bits and pieces I had been sent? Well when I was having a tidy up I found them - whoop. They were in a very safe place :)

I decided to decorate a tiny canvas as one of the things I had was a small frame.

First I painted the canvas with a coat of white acrylic paint, Then I mixed some colours and used a mask I had been sent to create the background. I painted the frame with a mixture of paints. The good thing about making something like this is if you don't like how it is going you can paint over it and change the look.  

I decided to make the poppies with the small dies in the Sue Wilson Exquisite Poppy set. The greenery was created with the Olive Branch die set.  

This is one of the words I received with my set of goodies. I painted it with Acrylic paint and added it to the design. 

It is a rather cute canvas. I might give it to my Mother-in-law she likes poppies. 

I would like to join in with Week 244 of Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artist - Canvas

Hi My Crafty  Blog Friends

It is Friday the weekend has arrived. We have a fun day planned tomorrow. Our daughter and her fiancé will be visiting as it is my birthday on Monday and that is the best day for use to get together. We will be starting off with hat shopping for a wedding in July.

My Design team makes have been nicely spread out this month. Last month three of them came together on the same day. Being the first Friday of the month the new challenge starts on the Creative Artiste challenge blog the theme is Anything Goes.

We have a sponsor Maja Design the prize will be a pack sent out from the sponsor.

I have made something I have never made before - a canvas.

I quite enjoyed making it in the end. I used lots of things from my stash that I haven't used before. This is quite a small canvas it measures 6" x 8". First I covered it with Gesso and then a layer of tissue paper to get some texture going. I found some spray inks in my stash and I had fun spraying the tissue paper. Once this was dry I used texture paste and masks to create some more texture. Once everything was dry I went through my crafts bits stash and added bits and bobs to the canvas. 

The butterfly was created with a Sizzix die and stamp set. 

The flower was made with the Sizzix Bigz die Tattered Florals. I love how those dies can cut fabric. 

The birds are from Marianne dies,

This bird started out white. 

More of the Tattered Florals. The bunting was created with a Tattered Lace die and the die cuts were left over from another project. 

I did enjoying making this canvas. Next time I will have a bit more idea of what to do. 

Have a wonderful weekend,

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie