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.

 

 

 

 

A demo day card

 

As I said yesterday I had a lovely day on Saturday at the shop demoing how to use gilding flakes.

This card was one I had made to show how to use double sided adhesive sheets and your gilding flakes. The border punch is from EK Success and I wont lie its tricky to do and would work better on some metal border dies. The leaves are Spellbinders dies that have been run through the machine with a thin sheet of adhesive sheet on a thin layer of card and then the top layer peeled off and the flake applied. The small holes in the stamp have been made with a cropodile punch again with double sided adhesive.

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Woodware Bubble Bloom Clarrisa, Inkylicious Flowers that Bloom

Dies: Spellbinders leaves

Punches: Ek Success Arbor border punch, Nellie Snellen Floral Punch

Gilding Flakes: Indigo Blu Yorkshire Dales

Candi: Craftwork Cards

Extras: Creative Expressions Black Pearls, Gold mat and black cardstock, Woodware adhesive sheets, Gold gel pen

 

 

Back tomorrow with more samples.

 



Brayering Class at Forget Me Knot

I need to have a catch up session and I promise I will over the next few days. Today though I had a Brayering class so here are the details of what the ladies did this morning.

Both cards are very simple designs, just so that they could get the hang of Brayering and blending

Products used:

Stamps: Inkylicious Flourishing Vine, Woodware Tag Builder
Inks: Distress Ink Milled Lavender, Tumbled Glass, Black Soot, Adirondack Salmon
Punches: EK Success Retro Flower punches
Extras: Creative Expressions Black pearls, Speedball Brayer

The next card uses a brayer and embossing powder to create and resist effect. The damask stamp was stamped over the card and embossed with clear embossing powder. The brayer was then rolled over the card and any excess ink rubbed away with kitchen roll.

 

 

Products used:

Stamps: Indigo Blu Dinkie Vintage Flourish, Paula Pascual sentiment Punchable Labels, Artemio Butterflies
Inks: Adirondack Mountain Rose, Archival Viridian, Distress Inks Squeezed Lemonade
Dies: Sizzix Framelits Fancy Wrappers
Extras: Embossing Ink and clear embossing powder, Speedball Brayer

We had a wonderful day last Saturday to kick start the sale and demonstrate how to use gilding flakes. I will be back tomorrow with some of the cards I made. If there is anything you would like to buy or order contact Forget Me Knot, details on my side bar. The sale is on all this week and although a lot has gone there are still plenty of lovely things to buy especially if you like Indigo Blu and Inkylicious stamps....ttfn!

Acetate class at Forget Me Knot

Last Thursday we had a class using acetate and these are the cards the ladies made. The first one uses some heat resistant acetate with white embossing powder.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Heartfelt Creations Vintage Bold background & Floret stamps

Cardstock: Bazzill Bling and Black

Inks: Versamark Ink pad, Black Stazon

Extras:  Black Pearls, ribbon, Heat resistant aceate and White embossing powder

 

 

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Stampendous Dreamy Leaves, Paula Pascual sentiment, Inkylicious Meadow Breeze

Punches: EK Success Photo label punch

Inks: White Stazon, Adirondack Lettuce, Distress Ink Tea Dye

Extras: Mark Richards Gold Nailheads, acetate

 

Everything can be brought and ordered from Forget Me Knot, have a lovely weekend

 

 

Pan Pastels class

Last week I had a class using Pan Pastels, these are the cards we made

Products used:

 

Stamps: Inkylicious Vintage Butterfly, Chicken Wire and Stampendous Happy Birthday

Pan Pastels: Diarylide Yellow Tint, Turquoise, Turquoise Tint, Bright Yellow Green

Die: Sizzix Fancy Wrappers die

Inks: Archival Coffee

Extras: Script Washi Tape, gems,

 

 

This card is a large 8" square card

 



 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Inkylicious Memories of a Lady, Personal Impressions Paula Pascal sentiment

Dies/Punches: Spellbinders Heartfelt creations Vintage Floret, EK Success Photo Labels

Mask: Special Touch  6" Small Polka Dots

Pan Pastels: Violet Tint, Violet, Red Oxide, Red Oxide Tint

Extras: Feathers, Pearls, Lilac netting

 

All items used can be brought/ordered from Forget Me Knot

 

Will be back soon with details of acetate class

 

 

 

Cosmic Shimmer class

At last I am up to date on class prep etc. so I can now update this blog with some recent classes.

Todays post is all about the Cosmic Shimmer class I did the other week. The first card uses the Cosmic Shimmer powders. This is very hard to photograph as its difficult to hold and take a picture when the shimmer is at its best. In real life it has turquoise and green hues of colour running through it.

products used:

 

Stamps: Inkylicious Alliums and Tumbling Vines and Justrite fancy sentiments.

Inks: Black Archival, Versamark

Cosmic Shimmer powders : Gold and Antique

Extras: Black ribbon and Gold Nailheads.

 

 

 

The second card uses Cosmic Shimmer mists to make a background and then that piece was dried and embossed with a 6" square template. A aperture was cut with a square die and the sentiment stamped and embossed with Black ink and clear embossing powder onto some pearl card. The butterflies were stamped and embossed as well and then coloured in with the same powders used in the previous card but mixed with water to make a paint.

 



 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Inkylicious Gentle Breeze and Artemio Butterfly's

Mask: Crafters Workshop Flower Frenzy

Cosmic Shimmer: Mists Pearl and Teal Wash, powders Antique Tones

Extras: Black pigment ink, clear embossing powder, Black pearls.

 

I will be back soon with some cards made at a Pan Pastels class, enjoy the sunshine

 

 



Stamping and Embossing class

Had another lovely class this morning at Forget Me Knot, using basic stamping and heat embossing powders.

First card uses one of my favourite stamps from Hero Arts. Each flower was stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder. The card we used was some of Tim Holtz Distressed card but you can use any coloured card to get this effect. The banner across the bottom is from one of my new Sizzix Framelits from Paula Pascal. Love this die set and you get a smaller die to use for the sentiment. I used some liquid pearls to do some clusters of dots to finish.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Hero Arts Dotty Flowers, Paula Pascal Double Sayings sentiment set

Card: Kraft, Tim Holtz Distressed card Crushed Olive and Tattered Rose

Dies: Sizzix Fancy Wrappers

Embellishments: Mark Richards Silver Nailheads

 

 

Next card uses the fabulous card Candi from Craftwork cards combined with the co-ordinating stamps from Woodware. I choose the Candi from the shop and went with White with Silver dots, so decided on a monotone colour combo for the card. The stamp is quite big and I wanted to use one of the Woodware big sentiments so decided to use one of the new Craftwork Cards shaped cards we have just had in. The stamp is inked with Black pigment ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder, the same for the sentiment. The embellishments on the flower are a combination of card Candi, Black flat back pearls and Nailheads. The leaves were stamped and embossed again and cut out and paper pieced back on with foam pads. Finished off with some lovely Craft Creations paper and some lush Silver satin ribbon

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Woodware Bubble Bloom Felicity, Double Birthday

Paper: Craft Creations Antique Vines, Black and Silver Mirror card

Card: Craftwork Cards 8" Fanciful

Embellishments: Craftwork Card Card Candi Silver Wedding, Creative Expressions Black pearls and Mark Richards Silver Nailheads.

Silver Satin ribbon

 

 

 



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