Celestial inspiration (by Miranda)

 

Hi there crafty people,

It's been a while but here I am again and I am happy to say that I will post every month some Chocolate inspirations. Still love to work with these wonderful stamps.

The first time I saw the new A4 sheets ' Celestial' and 'Sacred' I was in awe...... I am always attracted to geometrical shapes and themes like the celestial and mystical.

I created a background on black mixed media paper applying some chalky paints with a brayer. So it became a grungy kind of background.

 The large circle shape is embossed using the Seth Apter Weathered gold embossing powder from Wow. And also the words are embossed with the same powder.

 I stamped the 2nd geometric shape using a dark brown ink and embossed it using clear gloss embossing powder.

Than I used some pastel pencils and a paper stump to accent some parts of the circles. As a finishing touch I sprinkled some metallic, black and white frantage embossing powder and heated it from underneath.  The edges are darkened using some distress crayons.

I think it has become a great masculine card. 

I hope you did like my take on this one and next time I will be back with something with a Christmas twist.......

Thanks for visiting and till next time,

Celestial Dream by Rachel

 Hello there - Rachel here today with a couple more of my makes using the wonderful Celestial stamp set.

In this first one I have used a mop up background from a mica spray and stamped directly onto tht but then added the moon from a fussy cut image.

For the tag I started by using black gesso all over a board tag then once dry I stamped and embossed the images in gold. Next I painted in mica powders before finally adding the black and white moon to  the tag 

Hope you have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel x

Tarot Cards by Brenda

 

Morning everyone, I have some more samples from last months TV shows.

As soon as I saw Fiona Randall’s new stamps they yelled out Tarot Cards to me so I have to create some, not a who deck of 78 mind you as they have in the Venetian and Piedmontese tarot. In this case I just made the four with a band to hold them.

Using black cardstock which I cut to 5”x7” and rounded the edges, I stamped images from both Sacred and Celestial with Versamark and heat embossed with detail gold EP.  Using an italic nib gold pen I went round the edges of each card and flicked some watered down gold paint. The band was made with wide wired gold ribbon  and the word Tarot added using some chipboard letters which I also heat embossed with gold EP.

Using the worker stamps from Holly, Mistletoe, Christmas Rose and Poinsettia Script sets I created a wreath stamping in Versamark and heat embossing with details gold EP. Colouring was done with Distress Markers and glitter pens, a sentiment from the same bundle of stamps, a bow, some  bells for a bit of fun and a few red gems.

As always, thank you so much for your visits and words of encouragement.

Celestial jug and mobile by Rachel

 Hello there! Rachel here today with some makes using the Celestial stamp set from Fiona Randall launched in the July shows. For the jug, as usual I stamped in ink then overpainted in glaze before firing in the kiln at Pottyroos in Morecambe. 

Its really difficult to photograph a mobile but hopefully you saw it on the set. I had the ring and painted that with black gesso before adding the stamped images on the underside which would be visible from below. For the moons I did them in different colours and sizes to make them look like planets and stamped each one twice and stuck the images together with a piece of cotton between them which I then used to attach them to the ring.

I hope I have given you a little inspiration for different ways to use your stamps!

Have a great day!

Rachel x

Christmas concertina by Brenda

Morning Peeps, the first of my September posts sharing some inspiration from the August TV shows.

I do love a concertina card, this one is a little different in shape to the ones I usually make as I found this Timmy Movers and Shakers die hidden away unused. So I cut it five times and fixed together with ‘hinges’ made from the offcuts.

All five panels cut to fit onto the frame were inked with just one colour Oxide, Festive Berries and the images from Holly, Mistletoe, Christmas Rose and Poinsettia Script stamps, coloured all the leaves with sparkle pens and stamped the flowers again onto inked card, cut out and paper pieced and gold glitter added to the centres. 

This one using the new Celestial set. The background was created by inking Versamark through a stencil, removing it and adding Sticky Stuff, heating and rubbing old flakes. The moon was stamped into black card and heat embossed with details gold EP, as was the word from the same set. 

Have a good week and thank you for your visits.

Celestial Medley (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a couple of projects to share with you from last month's TV shows on The Craft Store. Today, I am going to focus on the fabulous stamps from Fiona Randall, comprising of two A4 stamp sets, Celestial and Sacred. If you like mystical, mysterious, mixed up with a bit of fantasy and a little bit of geometric, add butterflies, dragonflies, moths, and great fonts, then you will love these stamp sets. The Design Team, including myself, had great fun creating projects using the stamps, and I am sure that you will enjoy seeing all of their creations over the coming month.

For my first project, I stamped the moth twice onto kraft card, and masked the images before stamping one of the larger geometric images. I removed the mask, and coloured the images with pencils. I added the script, and attached the kraft card to a card blank.

My second project was a series of three little chipboard panels. I covered them in Chocolate Baroque Black & White Papers Series 1, using matte medium, and then when they were dry, I covered them with acrylic paint in shades of yellow, orange and red. I stamped the butterfly, moth and dragonfly onto smooth stamping paper, and coloured the images with pencils. I then cut out the images, and covered them with Versamark before embossing them with clear embossing powder. This gave them a glazed finish, and made them more durable. I stamped the background of each panel with one of the geometric images using orange Archival ink, before attaching the insects. I stamped the sentiments onto a separate piece of card, and edged them with a hand drawn border.

My final project was a quick card using a gelli printed background. I added an embossed moon and words using white embossing powder. I stamped the stars using white ink randomly over the background, and added Autumn Medley stamped in second generation stamping at the edge of the background. I coloured this image faintly, adding lots of white pencil, as if she is illuminated by the moonlight.

Thanks for stopping by,

Judith xx