Winter Wonderland

Its full on now with Christmas card making, so thought I would share a card I made for a class recently at Bitz & Glitz.

I stamped the tree image twice with a soft grey ink. Die cut and embossed the Deer's and then sponged through some Brown ink to highlight. The snow is done with torn pieces of White card and then glittered along the edges.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Bare Forest, Sentiment from Crafters Companion

Dies: Sue Wilson Deer Family

Inks: SU Early Espresso, Versafine Grey

Glitter: Stickles

Cardstock: SU Early Espresso

Indigoblu class

Todays cards are from a recent Indigoblu class, using some of the new stamps released for this Christmas. The first one is a bauble from Spellbinders, that has been distressed with inks and then the Snowflake stamp inked with Flitter glue and the new gilding flake rubbed over the top. I also used some more flake on top of double sided tape to make an edge around the card. The ribbon was sprayed with a pearly spray mist, scrunched up and wiped through some of the distress ink.  Once its dried you can see the shimmer of the pearl spray plus it matches the ink used on the card

 

 

Products used:

Dies: Spellbinders Heirloom Baubles
Distress Inks: Evergreen Borough, Tumbled Glass
Stamps: Indigoblu Snowflake lace and Noel (dinkie)
Flake: Indigoblu Chocolate Box
Extras: Seam binding ribbon, pearl spray, Creative Expressions gem, Flitter glue

 

products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Rockin Robin, Merry Christmas Circle

Embossing folder: Die'sire Snowflake 6x6

Pencils: Spectrum Noir

Flake: Indigoblu Chocolate Box

Extras: Stampendous Frantage white, circle punches

 

 

Back tomorrow with some cards

 

 

 



 

 

 

In and out of the box technique cards

Today's cards are from a class I did a while ago using the in and out of the box technique. You use your dies in this case Spellbinder circles and labels with your stamps to have part of the stamped image inside the die shape or outside it. 

This first card show the image from Indigoblu coming inside the circle. 

products used:

Stamps: Indigoblu Anemone Corner, Woodware sentiment

Dies: Spellbinders Circle, Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Lattice Bow and Spanish Collection Border, Tag and Corner set

Cardstock: Cream, Blush and Mocca Foundations

Ink: Sepia 

Extras: Creative Expressions Small Dazzler

The second card has the daisy part of the stamp coming out over the side of the labels die

products used:

Stamps: Justrite Hello daisy

Dies: Spellbinders Labels 4 , Sue Wilson Spanish collection border

Coloring: Spectrum Noir Pencils

Ink: Memento Black 

Craft Club at Forget Me Knot

Now the seasonal festivities are over craft club has started up again. I have had some blogger problem so could not post until now....this is the card we did last week using Creative Expressions Micro beads. A piece of white card was stamped all over with the Indigoblu stamps. Then I covered it with a piece of double sided adhesive and cut into 4 equal sized pieces, then sprinkle the micro beads over the sticky panels. I mounted each strip onto some coral and attached to a piece of green card , wrapped some ribbon from the front and stamped and matted a sentiment to finish.

 

Its hard to see the effect the beads have from the photograph, I took a closer one to get a better look

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Bloomin Great, Sentiment from Steampunk Dreams from Sam Poole

Inks: Adirondack Lettuce, Watermelon, Mountain Rose

Extras: Double sided adhesive sheet, Creative Expressions Micro beads, ribbon, coral, white and green cardstock. 

 

All products can be purchased or ordered from the shop, we have lots of new stock starting to come in now and a new class list is now available and can be viewed here

 

 

Gilding Christmas cards

Gilding flakes are so popular at the moment and are so easy to use. The tree card I have shown before as it was a demo card but as everyone loved it I did it a class card as well. The first card uses a Inkylicious stamp with an embossed frame. Mirror card is not easy to photograph but you get the idea.

Products used:

Stamps: Inkylicious Christmas Deer [happy]
Embossing folders/Dies: Die'sire Snowflakes 6", Spellbinders Squares
Flakes: Cosmic Shimmer Persian Dawn
Extras: Indigoblu Flitter glue, Bronze Mirror card, Black ribbon

Products used:

Stamps: Indigoblu Trees, Paula Pascual Christmas sentiments.
Flakes: Cosmic Shimmer Silver Dream
Extras: Mark Richards Nailheads, Indigoblu Flitter glue, Silver Mirror card

Acetate class

Love using acetate on cards and for this class we used two different types, the thick one to make a card base as it needs to be strong enough to stand up. The second one, a thinner type was suitable for just stamping on but use the correct ink or else it wont dry....for these cards I used White Stazon.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Christmas Greeting, Sam Poole Silhouette Poinsettia

Dies/Punch: Martha Stewart Branch, Tim Holtz Festive Greenery { swirls},Spellbinder Labels 22

Papers: Echo Park Reflections

Extras: Distress Ink Festive Berries, White Stazon Ink, Red Gingham ribbon, Yellow pearls

 

Second card, hard to photograph again but the base is 12" x 6" and scored in half. You also need to remember to cover all your glue with layers of card as you can see it. The red glitter was adhered to adhesive sheets instead of using wet glue.

 

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Snowflakes { from sentiment set} Crafty Impressions Bauble sentiment

Dies: Spellbinders labels

Extras: Cosmic Shimmer Red polished glitter, Mirror card, Gems, White ribbon, double sided adhesive sheet, silver glitter gel pen.

 

Back tomorrow with some cards using gilding flakes

 

 

 



 

IndigoBlu/Inkylicious class

Todays cards use stamps from two of my favourite stamp company's. First one uses the Coppice stamp from Inkylicious.

 

products used:

 

Stamps: Inkylicious Coppice stamp, IndigoBlu Seasons Greetings

Inks: Distress Ink faded Jeans and Black Soot

Extras: Creative Expressions Black Pearls, Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Rock Candy, Post it notes

 

The second card uses some lovely Silver Gilding Flakes and the stunning bauble stamp from IndigoBlu.

 



 

Products used:

 

Stamps: IndigoBlu Bauble and Seasons Greeting stamps

Dies: Spellinders Botanical swirl corner

Papers: Bazzill Bling and Craft Creations Christmas paper

Extras: Silver Giding flakes, Burgundy Ribbon, Silver Nailheads

 

 

Back soon with some White on White cards

 





Embossing folders and Masks

Todays cards use an embossing folder to make a quick and easy card and then a card made with the new Hero Arts tree mask.

First up the embossing folder from Crafts too. Lovely Holly corner flourish combined with some fabulous Indigoblu stamps.

 

products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Poinsettia, Stampendous Merriest Wish

Embossing folder: Crafts too Holly

Extras: Red Nailheads, Yellow Pearls, Red and Green cardstock

 

 

The Hero Art mask card uses some of the lush new glitter from Creative Expressions. I used the texture paste from Cosmic Shimmer to apply through the mask.

 

 Products used:

Mask: Hero Arts Christmas tree
Stamp: Paula Pascual Christmas Messages
Card: Craftwork Cards Christmas Post, Brown/Kraft card
Extras: Cosmic Shimmer Texture paste Clear, Cosmic Shimmer polished glitter Sea Green, Red Nailheads

Back soon with the next class using Inkylicious and Indigoblu stamps

Quick and Easy Class

This time of year quick and easy cards are great, todays cards use simple designs that you can mass produce easily.

First up a stamp I saw at Ally Pally and as the Nordic theme is so popular still I had to have it. Secondly its a Stampendous stamp and they are a joy to stamp with.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Stampendous Sweater stamp, Woodware Heartfelt Christmas Wishes

Inks: Adirondack Red Pepper ink pad, Black Memento

Punch: Martha Stewart Snowflake

Extras: Vellum, Red Nailheads, Gingham ribbon, Red and Kraft cardstock



 

 

Second card uses one of the Woodware Candi stamps that are made to co-ordinate with Craftwork Cards Candi.

 

 
Products used:

Stamps: Woodware Snow Flower Bubble Bloom { sentiment comes with the stamp}
Papers: Echo Park Reflections Snowflake cardstock, Kraft and Red card
Extras: Craftwork card White Candi, Red Gingham ribbon, Stickles glitter glue
Inks: Distress ink Brushed Corduroy, Black Pigment ink

Lastly, as these cards took hardly anytime to make we made a third using the new Craftwork Cards die cut cards.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Seasons Greetings includes the tiny snowflake stamp on the background

Dies: Marianne Snowflakes LR0125

Cards: Craftwork Cards Fancy Edge Embossed cards Snowflake

Inks: Black Memento, Adirondack Viridian

Extras: Glitter card, Silver Nailheads

 



Next time I will have some cards made with embossing folders and masks.

All that glitters class

I am determined this week to catch up with posting cards from my classes at Forget me knot over the last few weeks.

First up is all that glitters class the Poinsettia background stamp is from Stampendous, which was coloured in with Promarkers and inked around the edges with Distress ink. We then used Ranger sticky embossing powder and Tim Holtz Distress Rock Candy glitter. Sentiment is from Indigoblu.

The second card uses a snowflake mask from That Special Touch, Cosmic Shimmer glitters and another sentiment from Indigoblu. Finished off with some Nailheads, ribbon and some mirror card. The mask are quite big so this is a 8x8 card.

 

All products can be ordered or brought from the shop, back tomorrow with more cards

Gilding flakes using a mask

Todays card uses gilding flakes again but with a 6" square template/mask. The only thing to bear in mind is if you are doing the whole template you will use quite a lot of flake. So on this card I did a smaller area of the template and then cut into 4 squares to give the illusion its a bigger piece than it is. I temporary attached the mask to a piece of white card with some masking tape and then using more tape masked an area roughly the size I wanted. Using the flitter glue and cut n dry foam press the glue over the area making sure the glue goes in all the detailed areas. Carefully remove the mask and pop into a bowl of soapy water so it cleans the glue off. Now you can apply the flakes to the sticky areas and using a scrubby sponge take off the excess flakes. I then cut this piece into 4 even squares and matted with black and then using a smaller piece of card stamped the flower stamp slightly off set and applied flake in the usual way.  Its a quick and easy card and a great use for all those masks of any size.

 

products used:

Stamps: Indigoblu Wild Meadow, Paula Pascual sentiment from Mix and Match set
Mask: Crafters Workshop Flower Frenzy { although I think this one is discontinued they are similar ones}
Flakes/Glue: Cosmic Shimmer Copper and Indigoblu Flitter glue
Extras: Black card, Black Ink pad and Mark Richard Black pearls.

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Another card today from the demo day { not many left promise}. This using some stamps from Indigoblu and the Copper flakes. When using flakes with words its always better to use a plain coloured flake as it shows the wording up much better than the multi coloured ones. I also wanted to show that you don't have to always stamp onto white/plain cardstock, this is some double sided 12x12 cardstock that where in the shop and the stamping was done directly onto the reverse sides, which happened to have a plainer more distressed look which I really liked. Then I used the more patterned pieces to make up the rest of the card, I also stamped one of the dinkie flourish designs onto the pink panel. I used some distress ink after I had flaked the heart stamp whilst the Spellbinders die was still attached to the square card.

 

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Truly, Madly Deeply, Love is Dinkie, Vintage Flourish Dinkie, Justrite Fancy Sentiments

Papers: Glitz

Dies: Spellbinders Squares

Inks: Distress Ink Tea Dye, Memento Cocoa

Flakes: Cosmic Shimmer Copper

 

 



Summer Lovin

Back to demo days cards, this one uses a fab stamp from Indigoblu.I teamed the stamp up with the Chicken Wire stamp from Inkylicious, which has been gilded with Silver flakes. The Silver flower has been gilded as well on a separate piece using the highlighter glue from Cosmic Shimmer, cut out and attached with foam pads. The flowers and butterflies have been very simply coloured with Distress pens, these are the only colours I have so had to make do as I was running out of time.

 

products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Summer Lovin, Inkylicious Chicken Wire, Justrite Fancy sentiments

Flakes/Glue: Cosmic Shimmer Silver, Highlighter flake glue

Pens: Distress Markers

Card: Black and Mirror

 

Back soon with more

Letter rack and Gilding flakes

I have had the blank MDF letter rack hanging about for months so I thought I would paint it and show you can use gilding flakes on wood as well as paper.

 

The rack was painted with Kaisercraft acrylic paint , then I dry brushed a darker colour over the top to age it. Next I used a crackle stamp to make a distressed look all over the back and front with a Adirondack ink pad. I then stamped the flourish stamp a few times from Indigoblu with Flitter glu and applied the flakes and buffed off as you usually would.

 

 

I stamped the verse on a piece of card and then added some stamps from another Indigoblu set and gilded certain areas. Finally I stamped  butterfly from the set onto acetate and using the new Cosmic Shimmer flake glue that comes in a bottle like a nail varnish, I applied the glue to the reverse side and waited for it to go tacky then applied flakes and buffed off excess. This was then attached with some foam pads to create dimension.

 

 

Lastly, I took some patterned paper from the shop and covered the inside of the rack to give it a more finished look.

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Wild Meadow, Vintage Flourish {large}, Crackleglaze

Paint: Kaisercraft Acrylic paint White and Eggshell

Inks: Adirondack Pebble and Slate, Stazon Black

Glues/Flake: Indigoblu Flitter Glue, Cosmic Shimmer Flake Accent Highlighter glue, Cosmic Shimmer Silver Dream flakes

Paper: Glitz

Extras: Letter Rack from the MDF Man, Acetate

 

As before everything except the MDF blank can be brought or ordered through the shop, stamps are a bargin 25% off this week until Saturday.

 

 

 

 

Distress Class at Forget me Knot

This week I had a lovely distress class, using the Tim Holtz ink pads and pens. The first card we made uses some of the fabulous stamps from Indigo Blu. I showed the ladies how to colour seam binding using the ink pads. The frame was stamped twice and one cut out and attached with foam pads onto the background. The flowers were stamped and coloured using the foam applicators and a pen was used to colour the centres. The leaves were stamped using the pens....a great idea if you have a colour in a pen but not the same colour in the pad.

 

products used:

 

Stamps: Indigo Blu Blooming Great

Card: Distress Co-ordination Crushed Olive, Brown card, white smooth

Distress Inks: Dried Marigold and Shaded Lilac

Pens: Crushed Olive and Mustard Seed

Ribbon: Seam Binding

 

Next card was made using a super stamp from Justrite, great for mens cards and with fathers day just around the corner ideal. I stamped the image twice and from one piece cut out elements to colour and attach back on foam pads. The sentiment is also from Justrite but could easily say Happy Birthday. This is a huge red rubber stamp and I can see lots of ideas to play with over the coming months, its stamps beautifully...as do all Justrite stamps whether they are rubber or poly.

 

products used:

 

Stamps: Justrite London background, Justrite All in the Family sentiments

Inks: Distress Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo, Black Soot

Tumbled Glass, Fired Brick,

Embellishments: Bakers twine

 

All stamps and inks can be brought or ordered from the shop

 

 

Gilding flakes class

This week I had a class using gilding flakes. We made 2 cards using 2 different techniques, first one using Indigo Blu Flitter glue

Apologies for photo not being great but photographing mirror card is a nightmare, I added some gold Nailheads to the corners in class but forgot to take pic, will replace next week

products used:

Stamps: Woodware In the Hedgerow
Glue: Flitter Glu from Indigo Blu
Inks: Archival Black
Flakes: Cosmic Shimmer Egyptian Gold

products used:

Stamps: Justrite Fancy sentiments
Die : Marianne Butterfly
Embellishments: Mark Richards Nailheads
cardstock: kraft and mirror from shop and Woodware adhesive sheets


The second card uses double sided adhesive paper to run through a die cutting machine. When you take the top layer off its sticky enough to hold your flakes, rub away excess flakes and you are left with a great embellishment to a card. I stuck mine onto a piece of thin card before running through machine so I could have it attached to card with some foam pads down the middle.

All stamps and dies can be brought from Forget Me Knot contact details on side bar. Next weeks class is using Distress ink pads and pens, there are a few spaces left if you are interested.

Pan Pastel class

Had my first class today at Forget Me Not craft shop using Pan Pastels.

First card is just using 3 shades of Magenta Pan Pastels....Magenta Tint, Magenta and Magenta shade. The stamps were inked and stamped with versamark ink and then using the sponges 3 Magenta pans were blended over the top, the same technique with the lattice stamp. I then took a battery operated rubber and took away some of the pastels to highlight areas.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigo Blu Anenome corner, Inkylicious sentiment and Lattice background

Mediums: Pan Pastels

Inks: Versamark pad and Black dye ink

Extras: Black satin ribbon, battery operated rubber

 

 

The second card uses Pan Pastels through a mask...you can use any mask you may have, this is a 6" square one from Crafters Workshop. The butterflies were stamped on a piece of card with 2 colour of Pan Pastels blended on them and then stamped with a brown ink and cut out. The mask was laid across the tag and using the knifes with socks tool gently apply Pan Pastels through the mask. The little flourish stamps are from the sentiment stamp set.

 



 

Products Used:

 

Stamps: Artemio Manuscript Background & Floral Butterflies, Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments

Mask: Crafters Workshop Mini Flower Frenzy

Mediums: Pan Pastels Turquoise, Bright Yellow Green

Ink: Archival Coffee

Embellishments: Gems/ribbon

 

 

Ideally, these cards need to be sealed, I used cheap hairspray or you could use the Crafters Companion sprays.

 

 

All the products used in the class can be brought from here Forget Me Not crafts ,details of my other classes here are on my side bar and can be booked through the shop on 01702 547833.