Bees (by Magda)

Hi again
Mixed media journaling is for me very relaxing because the thoughts fly from the head to the page:

blending Distress Paint acrylic colours on white gesso, stencil several items, stamping the new stamp "Garden House" with Archival Jet black, colour with Faber Castell aquarelle water colour pencils in matching tones, highlighting here and there with Stickles and finally dividing the sentiment.
What do you say about the result of this page ?

As last project for this month I used the other new Plate of Chocolate Baroque "Trees a Crowd"

a collection of trees and sentiments.

For this card I used watercolor paper, Archival Jet black for stamping and Faber Castell aquarelle water colour pencils for coloring.

At first I coloured the background with the pencils using the technique of holding two or more pencils together before blending with the wet brush.

Then I stamp the trees masking them if required in order to create the scene.  I assembled the mat on the card, stamped the sentiment and finished the card as you can see. 

I wish you a nice crafting June, see you soon again

Magda. 

Autumnal Tag Art and Summer Garden - by Penny

Hello lovely Peeps, I hope you are all well and enjoying some lovely weather wherever you are.  I'm back with my second post for May, a couple of cards featuring some of the gorgeous and quirky house stamps from the April shows.


Autumnal Tag Art.

I have used stamps from the Acorn House, Trees A Crowd, and Tagtastic sets; sepia Versafine ink, clear and gold embossing powders, alcohol markers, Distress inks, and some ribbons from my stash.

I began this project by creating the tag.  I stamped the Tagtastic image onto white card with Versamark ink and embossed it with gold EP, and did the same with one of the 'holes'.  I then stamped one of the tree images in sepia ink and embossed it with clear EP.  I coloured the trees with pens and painted a background using DIs, then cut out the tag.  On another piece of white card I stamped the Acorn House in sepia ink and embossed it with clear EP.  I coloured it with pens and cut around the image, leaving a margin around it.  I blended ink around the edges then attached it to the tag with 3D foam.  I completed the tag with some ribbon and bakers twine from my stash.

I took a piece of Kraft card and stencilled some trees onto it using DIs.  I used a gold marker pen around the edges of the background panel and attached it to a white base card.  I then attached the tag to the card.  On a spare piece of Kraft card I stamped a sentement using brown DI, put gold pen around the edge and attached it to the card.

Summer Garden.

I have used stamps from the Garden House and Honey Bees sets, white embossing powder, Versamark ink, Distress Inks, and some Hessian from my stash.

I took a piece of Kraft card and stamped the Garden House image and the Bee Hive image using Versamark ink and embossed them with white EP.  I added a couple of Bee images then painted the images using Distress Inks.  I added white marker pen around the edges of the panel, then stamped and embossed a sentement at the top of the panel.  On a spare piece of Kraft card I stamped and embossed the flowers from the Garden House image, painted them and cut them out.  I took a cream base card and stamped a honeycombe image repeatedly around the edges of the card using DI.  I then used strips of Hessian from my stash, pulling out some fibres to create a fringe.  I attached it to the back of the focal panel with red liner tape, then attached the whole panel to the base card.  I added the flowers with 3D foam.

Thank you for joining me on the CBDT blog today, I hope you have enjoyed these projects - I certainly enjoyed creating them!

Take care everyone, I'll see you next month with more crafty fun,



                            xx Penny xx

Stamping on Patterned Paper (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have some more projects to share with you today showcasing the beautiful bookmark style houses that we brought to Hochanda last month. These three projects formed part of a TV demo that I did on one of the shows. I wanted to demonstrate how to stamp onto a patterned surface, and when an image is coloured, the image pops out, and the patterned surface recedes to the background.

I used a piece of Lesley's Chic Script Designer paper pack, and cut  a piece of the script paper to size. I stamped the Tree House onto the paper. I added a few lines at the bottom using a fineliner pen to finish the landscape, and coloured the image with pencils. I added shading with grey pencil for added depth.

I took a plain piece of green paper from the pach, and using one of the trees from Trees a Crowd and a sentiment, I created a piece of background paper using Memento Ink. This was really quick to create, and you can have your own designer background in minutes! I inked the edges of both pieces of paper with the green ink for definition. As you can see, the script paper looks great as a background, and the house sits really well on the pattern.

For my second card, I used the large Tagtastic stamp and stamped onto a piece of book paper. I stamped the Garden House image inside the tag, and coloured the image with pencils once again. I added a bit of shading on the background using Distress Inks.

For the large background, I used a large acrylic block and added pink, blue and green Distress Oxide which I spritzed with water. I smooshed it across a piece of drawing cartridge in one go. I stamped two bees from the Honey Bee stamp set, and added a sentiment. I coloured the bees with pencils.

For my final card, I created a gelli print background, adding a bubble effect texture, and stamping a sentiment randomly over the background. I used a Crafty Individuals script effect tag and stamped the Heath Robinson House, which I then coloured with pencils. I added bright red highlights which I matched with a bright red ribbon. I added shading to the tag with Distress Inks, matching the colour of the gelli print background.

I hope that you have enjoyed my projects this month, I will be back next month with lots more to share with you, thanks for stopping by,

Judith xx

Monochromatic woodland by Brenda

Hello Peeps, Brenda here sharing some more trees and bookmarks. 

For the top card I stamped a selection of the trees from Trees A Crowd, cut around the tops and used a die to create an aperture which is easily done by placing the bottom section of the die behind the tree so the pop up in from the background. The top section can then be mounted with foam pads to give a dimensional look with in this case just a sentiment from the same set.

I created a little box using a score board and dies to give a decorative top, added panels to all four sides using stamps from Acorn House, Garden House, Heath Robinson, Tree House and Trees A Crowd. Next I made four tags and stamped the houses onto these, coloured in with pencils, stamped elements from each a second time and decoupaged. 

                            

Finally, all four were mounted onto corrugated and seam binding tied to the top of each and the four tags fit nicely into the box.

                                 

An inky background using Distress Oxides, some stencilling and a sun added after creating the background by placing the mask and inking around it, I find doing it this way preferable in some instances as it's less stark and blends in with the background. Next I stamped Acorn House twice using Versafine black and then used Silhouette Palace 1 mask and DI to the background and sentiment from the same stamp set.

For my final share today I took a piece of card and stamped the large tree from Trees A Crowd using Versafine Clair, randomly stamped one of the smaller trees using another colour of the same ink and added some leaves to the focal tree using an stamp from Spinney Design a Tree. I then used an oval die to cut the centre which I then lines up and mounted with foam pads Finally some sentiments from the same focal stamp set. 

As always many thanks for your kind visits and words of encouragement.

Tree house and Garden House (By Rachel)

Hello there! Rachel here today - I have some more samples to share with you from the Shows in April and this time it is my samples using the Treehouse stamp and the Garden house stamp.
On this first card I stamped the image in flitterglu and added metal flake - it showed the image up very well on the black card.

Next I again used the Tree House stamp and this time used inks to create a scene around it. 

Next I moved to the Garden House stamp and for this first sample I used silver relief paste to create the image and added it to some preprinted paper. 

In this second and third sample I used the stamp to create a scene - in this first case on a card.

and finally on an MDF tag. 

I do hope you have enjoyed looking at my samples and may gain inspiration from them.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

Tag Cards (by Magda)

Hello,  I am back today with two Tag-cards.
I used for the first one the new stamp "Heath Robinson House". This image is really in Heath Robinson's style, the famous illustrator.

Step by Step

1. Stamp the House on a tag with Archival Jet Black 
2. Repeat point 1 on a second tag, cut the shape and cover the image of point 1
3. Colour the background of the tag 1 with several blue shades of Distress Ink pads

4. Colour the house with Faber Castell watercolor pencils 
5. Draw white circles for having more bubbles on the blue backgrounds.
6. Glue the Tag on the left-over Tag of point 2 with PVA
7. Stamp with Archival Jet Black  a chimney and more bubbles on it and colour these images
8. Colour highly the front of the card
9. Use the new Tag as a mat and glue it on the card
10. Colour with a blue Distress Ink pad  a white piece of cardstock and stamp the sentiment in
      Archival Jet Black 
11. Cut the sentiment and glue both pieces as shown.

Be Different :  for this Tag- Card  I used 

1. a brick shaped stencil and colored the Tag with green and brown Distress Ink pad
2. Archival Jet Black for stamping only the upper part of the "Garden House" stamp
3. Faber Castell watercolor pencils 
4. White cardstock that I cut as a Tag Card
5. The sentiment is in the same plate "Garden House"

I hope you liked this idea of Tag-Cards, hugs

Magda

Beautiful Homes (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I am sharing two projects today showcasing the fabulous bookmark style houses that we brought to Hochanda last month. These lovely designs drawn by Sue have been a delight to work with, and I hope that you will enjoy what the Design Team are showing you this month.

My first project is an acrylic tag, and I have stamped the Garden House onto the reverse of the tag using Archival Ink, then painted the image using acrylic paints. I used a piece of patterned paper from the Chic Script Designer paper pack, and stamped the sentiment onto the paper before adhering the paper to the tag using Matte Medium.

To create my second project, I stamped the Acorn House twice, masking the image as I went along. (I took care not to ink the sun in the second repeat of the image, by covering it with masking tape first, inking the image and peeling off the masking tape before stamping). I coloured the background with a watercolour wash, then stamped the large tree several times. I added foliage using Glade Design a Tree and several colours of ink, building the colours with first and second generation stamping.

I removed the masks and coloured the house with pencils. Finally I added a sentiment to finish.

The sentiments on these stamp sets are so uplifting and would be suitable for lots of occasions.

I will be back later in the month with more projects to share with you, thanks for stopping by,

Judith xx

Autumn sunset by Brenda

Good morning everyone, Brenda here with some of my creations made for Lesley's Hochanda shows where she showcases some wonderful new stamps.

I've always had a bit of a thing for tree stamps so was really in my element with the new Trees A Crowd set which I used for the above card. I started by creating a background using masks and Distress Inks plus Pan Pastels, I then stamped four of the trees from the set, used second generation stamping to create the shadows in the water and used a fine line pen to continue the ground lines. The sentiment is from the new Acorn House set.

This one features Garden House which I repeat stamped to extend the fence line and flowers which I decided are Hollyhocks, coloured in with pencils, added some clouds with Pan Pastels and matted onto a back panel stamped with the honeycomb pattern from Honey Bee set. The sentiment from the same set as the focal image is stamped onto a torn piece of vellum along with a Bee also from Honey Bee set.

A simple four panel base created on a score board and Acorn House, Garden House, Heath Robinson and Tree House stamped onto tags using Versafine Majestic Blue, some ink splattering around the images and just yellow colouring added.

For this one I used a frame card inking the frame with DI's and using Versafine Clair stamped trees from Trees A Crowd (before assembly) and on the insert I used deeper shades of DI's, a sun mask and stamped the tree using the same Clair ink and added some branches around the top of the piece plus some hand drawn birds.

Thanks so much for visiting today.