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

Drink me!

Hi Everyone

I hope you had a good weekend. I was able to go to the local Sincerely Yours Papercraft show in Portsmouth. The icing on the cake was that I won £50 in vouchers to spend at the show. There were so many lovely  things that it  wasn't hard to do.

Today's card is one of my offerings for the Creative Studios By Sam Poole design team. My day for posting on their site is a Monday.



This card started life as a  7" x 7" Kraft card blank. I cut a black mat and then a brown mat. I embossed the brown mat with the Hexagon Haven A4 embossing folder by Sue Wilson. Once embossed I inked the brown mat with Black Soot Distress ink to emphasis the pattern. I cut a smaller white mat and I embossed this with the Rope Frame Mask and then inked it with a brown distress ink. I used the Spellbinders  Fleur De Lis Squares die to cut and emboss the blue mat.

The bottle was fun. I used heat resistant acetate for the first time. The stamp I used was the "Ship in a bottle" so I had to work out how to get the bottle without the ship. I stamped the whole stamp onto the sticky part of a post-it-note. Then I cut out the ship making sure it had some of the sticky on it I used jet black Archival ink to stamp the I covered the ship with the post-it-note ship and then stamped onto the acetate.  I heat embossed it with Cosmic Shimmer fine detail embossing powder. This was a bit of an experiment for me so I din't take photos this time when I do this again (which I will) I will take photos. I also stamped the bottle in the same way onto some white card I heat embossed that too.

I cut out the acetate bottle leaving a flap down each side of the main part of the bottle. I added some colour to the white bottle with Promarkers. The I cut some double sided sticky sheet to fit the lower portion of the white bottle and I covered this with small green beads to look like a liquid. I used some very strong tape to attach the flaps of the acetate bottle to the back of the white bottle. To my surprise the bottle has a curve to it.

The sentiment was from the Lovely Labels collection by Sam Poole. The label I cut with a die and I inked round the edge then I wrote on the label just like in Alice in Wonderland. I tied the label to the bottle with string burlap. Everything was stuck together with a very strong glue.

I thought you might like to see the state the dining room gets into when I craft. This is what it looked like when I was making this card. My family is very tolerant.

I also though you might like to see my stash from the craft show in Portsmouth. It was fun and they are coming back in February.

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may leave I appreciate each one.

Hugs Jackie

Ship in a Bottle

This is my first card made for the Creative Studios Design Team. 

I started with a card blank 7” x 7” and I cut a black matting layer. For the next layer I cut a piece of pearlised paper just slightly bigger than the Netting Mask and I inked the paper with browns and greens. Over the top of this in brown ink I stamped lightly  the Father sentiment and the Ship in the Bottle stamp. I did like the Father sentiment very much and I kept wanting to add it to every project. Once everything was dry I embossed the paper with the Netting Mask to give it a soft texture.

Next I stamped the U-Mount Tree Bark A6 Rubber Stamp on to some textured brown card with brown ink; I then trimmed it and I cut a black matt for it. I stamped the Ship in a Bottle stamp onto white card with brown ink  then I  heat embossed  it with clear embossing powder. I used  Promarkers to add a little colour to the design. The Ship in the Bottle image is so easy to cut out. I stamped the Father Sentiment on to white card in brown ink and then I heat embossed it with clear powder.  I cut the sentiment out with a tag die and I inked through the die with  a Distress Ink.

Then came the fun bit, putting it all together. Firstly I stuck the black matt to the card and the wood panel to its black matt. I used foam pads to stick the boat on the wood panel  to give it some heightOnce this panel was complete I  attached it to the pearlised paper. I took some of the Natural String Burlap and wrapped it round the pearlised paper and added the tag. Once this was done I could stick the paper to the card; this way there are no untidy ends from the Burlap.

The final touch was to add some Self Adhesive 3mm White Pearls in the corners of the wood panel.

That was my first Design Team project finished. I have made some other things that I am very keen to share with you over the coming weeks.  Sam is  on Create and Craft next Saturday 10^th May at 11:00am and 4:00pm.  Maybe you will be able to see some of my cards too. 

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Hugs Jackie

Wedding Anniversary Cards two different colourways.

The golden wedding anniversary card was a commission the other I made for my husband. I love the gold corner dies by Spellbinders they deboss as well as emboss and they cut out cleanly as they have a outer cutting die. The central die is from the Ornate Squares set also by Spellbinders. The sets go together well as they both feature piercing. All the card is centura pearl I just love the colours and the sheen.The golden wedding card has the center panel embossed through a mask I didn't do this with the blue one. I'm not sure which is better. The words and numbers are Britannia dies I really have stopped using peel offs since I discovered these dies.Finally it is all finished off with faded denim distress ink. I stuck it altogether with red sticky tape and Aleene's Turbo Tacky glue.

Thank you  for having a look at my cards.

Birdcage and Birds Birthday Card

Here is a card I made for a friend at work who likes the cards I make with birds on them.

The finished card is 6 x 6. I used Centura Pearl card for the background that I inked with  Faded Jeans  and Peacock Feathers Distress ink. I stamped a Clarity Stamp Birdcage and then I embossed it using a Special touch mask. The cage is a Spellbinder die and the birds and leaves are Marianne dies. I punched the flowers with a Martha Stewart punch. The centres of the flowers and the corner pearls are made with Beads in a Bottle by Tulip. It is all stuck together with Aleene's Turbo Tacky glue.

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