My diary using the Faux leather technique

Here is my attempt at Faux Leather for my diary cover the technique was much easier than I expected I have linked in the video from You Tube if you want to have a go. You will have lots of book covers drying away before you know it!Here is the link below to watch Sheena demonstrating how to make the Faux leather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfunaRazSSo

My idea of making a diary was started off by making a notebook at one of the workshops with Paula at Whichcraft Doncaster. It inspired me to go and make a diary with some Graphic 45 papers which I have had tucked away for some time in my craft stash. 

The papers worked well as you can see in the photo there was even enough paper for covering the tags too. 

Unfortunately  I cannot buy the papers in 6x6  they only come in 12x12 so only good for a larger book but I have found some lovely papers at Whichcraft so I'm going to have a go with those, so until then I hope you enjoyed taking a look at my work and thanks for stopping by.

Lynn 

 

Rustic Charm

Joined in with a workshop at Whichcraft Doncaster we made some lovely cards with a Rustic theme. Then at home I thought of a way to package the card, as my envelopes did not fit well. I made a template first for a small box envelope, it seemed to work, so I then continued to decorate the box as you can see on the picture . Making the box for the
 card means my card wont get squashed and should be ok on postage as it is only 1cm in depth (no problem going through the letterbox)

As I'm not posting  my card  I did not need to leave space for  the address, so I decorated the front with some stamping, papers, and a computer font for the writing.

Thanks for the workshop Paula really like the Rustic theme.

Bye for now

Lynn

Clarity challenge 18- feminine

To make my card I used:

Remountable Journaling Clear Stamp Set 

Elegant Ladies Stencil 7 x 7 Inch

This week while walking through town I came by a small art studio tucked away in a corner, I just had to have a look and so pleased I did . I was drawn towards some art books which had been  made from old books they looked fantastic but very time consuming a good ongoing project, therfore I took some inspiration from using book pages as a background on my card for this months challenge.

I cut a page of text paper  to a suitable topper size for my card, placed my stencil over, then used my distressed inks to add colour Walnut stain around the edges and fired brick in the centre.

After removing the stencil I went around the edge of the paper with my craft knife to give it torn appearance then inked the edges, adding some small circles made by using a lid off my spray bottle as a stamp.

Taking some cream card I made a frame using the journaling set of stamps and also made a band across the centre of the card making the appearance of hessian behind the image.

After mounting the work it was time to add some embellishments made out of paper from my craft stash, using a flower die to cut the layers. After some careful rolling and shaping the rose soon took shape. Behind the rose I added some scrunched seam binding and a heart embellishment to hang down from the flower.

Last week I spent a morning at my local craft shop  'Whichcraft' crafting along with a group of ladies making some flowers for our cards and now that's it i'm using up all those little scrap bits of paper to make roses.

So here is my card for this months challenge thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Bye for now
Lynn

Clarity challenge

The background of my card was made using the shaving foam technique and ink sprays which I did at the Clarity workshop in Nottingham with Sally-Ann Hanes.

 I added some stamps from the jounaling stamp set, with distress ink and went around the edges of the card with the same ink.

The flower was made by applying texture paste to the Filigraphy Flower Stencil and when it was dry I added some distress ink over the top and went around the outline with a black fine line pen.

To finish I added a sentiment and a small butterfly which I made with Martha Stewart clay.

These backgrounds are great to keep for when you want a quick card, hope to get back for another workshop soon.
Bye for now Lynn

Gallery of cards

Back after a while but as you see I have been busy making cards this month I thought I would add a selection of my work using various techniques.

On the anniversary card I have used embossing folders and tonic frames to create this box card, I then added a few die cuts around the frame. The box closes with a ribbon joining with a sentiment tag.

Here I have used stamping onto parchment with vera mark and white embossing powder, to lay over my stamping background, and embellishments were made with Martha Stewart clay.

Here is some art work using clarity stencils and stamps, the sentiment was by  indigo blu .

For my final post I was inspired by Marianne Skjelstad’s blog  she had a tutorial to make the punched folded card. To make this card I used vintage  papers from  Which craft    (http://www.whichcraftuk.co.uk/ )

and some scraps of paper from my craft box. Again I have used my clay flowers as embellishments along with ribbon and netting.

Thanks for stopping by hopefully next month I will be back entering some card challenges and a great show to look forward to Stamp magic at The Dome,  Doncaster . This year is Paulas 10th year of bringing us the show so I wish her well I'm sure it will be a great success.

Bye for now 

Lynn

Clarity blog Challenge - Monochrome

Treescape Stencil 7 x 7 Inch

Clarity club stamp

Distress ink Walnut Stain

Cream card

Craft card

8x8 white card blank

Here is my card for this months challenge monochrome theme. I chose to use Walnut stain as this year I used this technique on my christmas cards and really loved the colour tone. 

This is how I put my card together:

1. First I Masked off a square in the centre of my card then stamped my image, added some ground below the tree and work my ink around the mask square .
2. Next I mask off the stamped area and placed my tree mask on top using a stencil brush I gave a light coating of ink.
3. After removing the mask I stamped the tree around the edge of the card.
4. To finish I mounted my artwork, on the craft card I made a watermark with veramark using the same tree stamp.

Thank you for stopping by, good luck everyone.

 Really enjoying the Clarity You Tube every Tuesday on the blog , and I've just received  my Clarity order good job I have another week before I go back to work think I may be doing lots of crafting!

Bye for now 

Lynn

Easter treats

 Been busy this week using an MDF box which I bought from Harrogate GNPE in March.We had a great time at Harrogate making my first MDF clock on one of the make and take sessions. So I was determined to have another go this time I have made a lovely box for my mum added some chocolate eggs inside for an Easter treat.

Used papers from House of Zandra, and made the flower decoration from bits in my craft stash.

clarity challenge - Flower Power

To make my card I used clarity stamps

Small Fuchsia Clear Stamp

Fuchsia Bud Clear Stamp

Remountable Journaling Clear Stamp Set 

To make my card background I used versamark through a mask and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then added colour with my distress inks using a brayer over the top of the clear embossing, adding  more colour where needed with a sponge.

For the stamping  background well this was a bit of an experiment but it seemed to work, I put some distress ink onto my craft sheet taking blue and purple shades then sprayed with water, placed my card over the ink and  when I lifted it up I had a lovely blend of  ink giving  a lovely distressed look.

After drying my card I began to stamp, embossing the fuchsia and bud , then painted mixing my distress inks with perfect pearls. Filled the spaces around the flowers with stamps from my jounaling set, and mounted on white and purlple card, set another brayed card behind the flowers to give some depth.

At the bottom right I added a greeting for Mothers Day and attached some white ribbon and a die cut butterfly to embellish.

I would like to enter my card into the Clarity Challenge Flower power.

 

Thanks for stopping by 

Lynn

Spring flowers

This week I have used a new stamp which I bought from a Demo Day at Which Craft Doncaster, it was nice to see some spring colours at last and the sunshine!

To make my card I used :

Green/white spotty paper 

cream card 

Cream netting

Handmade frame using  Martha Stewart clay

Yellow ribbon

6x6 Card 

Distress inks Shabby Shutters, and Mustard Seed

Used the sketch from Sketch Saturday, with the green and white spotty card as my background layer, then I covered the cream card with the net to make my next layer. Stamped my flowers onto watercoloured card and painted  using my distress inks.

To finish  I mounted the image and cut out the top flower so it stands off the card , then attached my frame embellishment to the bottom right corner.

Really like using the Martha Stewart Clay its so light when dry so it adds no weight to your cards, and it was easy to add colour with my distress inks too.

I wish to enter this card in the Sketch Saturday Challenge 

Thanks for stopping by Lynn

Clarity challenge love and romance

When my club stamp came this month and I saw you had a challenge for love and romance I thought I should have a go . I'm quite new to Clarity and still building up my collection of stamps but I am getting more adventurous at giving new techniques a try.
To make my background I stamped randomly with the stamp in my hand using a distress ink fired brick I held the stamp in my hand to do this rather than on my stamping block as I wanted to see the stamp but not too bold, and fading out in places.Taking my Clarity  heart mask  I inked  through the mask in between the stamps I had just stamped.then continued to ink the edges of the card using the same ink.

The next step was to add texture and I used one of my masks with a leaf design hope you can see it it was hard to get a good picture of the embossing.

To  make my topper I stamped my image and embossed with clear embossing powder ,then colouring the background with a red promarker. The stamped image was cut out leaving a small white space as an outline before attaching I went  around the edges with ink.

To finish I mounted the heart on white card and mounted onto a die cut square.

Good luck to everyone entering there are some really nice designs.

Thank you for stopping by
Lynn

Winner of Little claire challenge

I was delighted to find out my card has won the Little Claire Challenge today  take a visit to Little Claires blog .when I started cardmaking I found their stamps were great to work with and still do now, after joining their club for a year my stamp collection started to grow and I became more confident to try new ideas.You can see my card on http://www.littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Sketch # 296

For my card I have used
6x6 white blank card
red and spotty papers
cut out stamped image of bear
Red button

This week I cut out a rectangle shape from the centre of the spotty card before placing it on top of the red card. This made the main part of the sketch I went  around the red card with a white gel pen to form stitches liked this  look, I was going to use my sewing machine but it did not like sewing on card so I went back to using a pen.
After colouring my bear I cut around the outside leaving some white card showing to make the image pop out. Her arm looked a little lost up in the air so I added a sentiment flag for attaching it to her paw.

To finish I made the tag on the sketch with my red, and spotty card placing some hessian underneath then placing a small button on top .


I wish to enter my card in the Sketch Saturday challenge
#296
Thank you for stopping by be back soon
Lynn

Sketch # 295

Here is my card for sketch Saturday # 295 this week I coloured my image with distress markers on watercoloured card. Bought some craft supplies recently these pens included and I was  pleased with the results.
Mounted each layer of the sketch on blue card , a sentiment of  'Birthday wishes' at the base of the card , and a small paper flower to embellish on the left.
Thanks for the sketch look forward to next week.

Lovely stamps, join in with the blog candy

Lynn - Sketch 294

Happy Everything

Really enjoying these sketches, this week I used some papers that I've had for some time felt like using some bright colours to brighten the day as the weather has been so dull lately. I used my circle punch and a button stamps to make my embellishments, then mounted the sentiment on black card and fixed in place with sticky fix pads. 

The image was coloured with promarkers and edged with walnut stain distress ink, then placed on a black square mount.

I was to enter this card in this weeks 'Sketch Saturday'.

 Looking forward to another sketch next week, thanks for stopping by 

Lynn

Thank you

Today I have used the little Claire stamp Cherish, hugs, and Dream stamp set this is one of my favourites and the florish from the Butterfly florish set.First I made my background with a brayer adding distress inks faded Jeans to the top and bottom and tumbled glass through the middle. Stamped the flower image at the bottom with versafine onyx black, once dry I added more ink by painting with distress ink onto the centre of flowers, then finished by adding a white detail around some of the stamped area.
Keeping with  the blue tones I embossed my backing paper and used the plain blue card to make flower embellishments, and for mounting the image and the strip through the middle of the card


I wish to enter my card into the Little Claire challenge for January .

Thanks for stopping by
Lynn

Just for you

Found a cute design in my stamp stash for this weeks challenge by folding the front of the card back I then arranged my sketch adding dimension. Stamped then used my watercolor pencils to paint my image this week, and used my Lilly of the valley papers to line the inside and front of the card adding a sentiment tag and ribbon to the top right corner.
Thanks for stopping by
Lynn                                


                                                                                                   
                                                                                                           

Lazy Afternoon

Love this stamp bought it just before Christmas and it fits perfectly inside the heart of my Clarity stencil.I started with some text paper from my Beach Bliss pad, positioned my stamp in the heart , then used distress ink to create my stencil design around the heart.

To make my card I used:
papers from Lilly of the valley
Heart Stencil from Clarity
Distress inks Walnut brown, mustard seed, and dried marigold
Stamp from Lilly of the valley Lazy Afternoon.