Thursday, 8 October 2009

2 MORE ANGEL CARDS

I made a couple more cards using Sandra Kuck's wonderful angel stamps, available here -


On the above card I extended the column simply by drawing vertical lines on a piece of card and covering with the rose stamps that come with the set.

On the card below I cut off the column altogether and swiveled the image so it looks like she's laying down.
Both were coloured using water colours.




Monday, 5 October 2009

MAGNETIC SHEETS

(Above) Asian Magnet on birthday card


We recently received a packet of A4 Inkjet Magnetic sheets. 

At first I was a bit stumped with what to do with it - then my brain jumped into gear and I crafted like mad.
I had a great time making fridge magnets and thinking of different ways I could use the magnetic sheet, now the fridge is almost full.
If you've never tried this media you HAVE to give it a go!
The soft magnetic sheet is bonded with a layer of high quality matt photo paper on one side that you can ink on, print on with your printer, stamp on etc.
I found that stamping works particularly well and because it is soft and slightly cushioned it gave a perfect image.
I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality that came out of our old HP printer. (my washed out, blurred photo's on this blog don't do it any justice) the images and colours were very crisp.
The only down side to it is that you can't saturated it with water, although it IS meant to be used on a printer I did try water colours on it and it buckled slightly, Promo Markers and felt pens worked perfectly though.
I used Brenda Pinnick's hardboard frames for a couple of the magnets leaving a boarder around the images to take the weight of the frame and toppers. I covered the frames with gems, sentiments and flowers which I attached using double sided tape and micro dots. although the sheets seem quite flexible and thin it can hold an amazing amount of toppers and embellishments and STILL cling tightly to the fridge metal.
Cutting it into shape is simple you just use your usual scissors or a craft knife, it has the texture of a very soft leather or suede even cutting out those "fiddly" bits was so easy!
You could print out your favourite recipes and have them to the fridge door where you can always find them.
Print off emergency or important phone numbers.
Print out paper dolls and their clothes from the net (there's loads of freebies out there )
Print off a digital scrapbook page of your loved ones or memories.
Print photos and attach to Christmas cards, that gran and gramps can put on display.
Scan in your favourite ATC's, print them off, put them on your fridge and let your visitors admire your artistic talent.
Stamp your favourite stamps on paper, scan them into your computer, enlarge them, print them off - you could colour them either on your computer by hand and you have large A4 sized magnets, you could cover the whole door of your fridge!.

Oooh I've slipped back into gear again, I'm off to make some more!

Vince x







Ooooh ! There's still room on the fridge door for more ;0)

Vince X

Saturday, 3 October 2009

Teddy bear and her Dolly

I drew this little bear on a piece of scrap paper while house sitting for a neighbour of ours for and hour or too (I get bored easily)

Most of the doodles I do usually go in the bin but I thought this one was quite cute and so thought I'd upload her in case anyone would like to have a go at doing something with her.

You can click on the picture to download the JPG or on the link below for the PDF file.

Vince X

DOWNLOAD the Teddy PDF file here

Saturday, 26 September 2009

MY HEART IS YOURS

This is a card I made for the other half ... for no other reason than ... just because!

you can't tell from the photo but the whole of the background is highlighted using a Sakura Stardust pen.Her lips and nails were also coloured with red Sakura.
The picture is decoupaged with the box having the most layers so that it stood out proud which was then embellished with gems.

The red card reflected the red of the box.

Vince X

ANGEL CARDS

















These are 5 cards I made for "Hobby Habbit" using Sandra Kuck Angel Stamps available here
I really enjoyed using them as they seemed to me to be much sturdier than most of our other acrylic stamps they gave a good clean image too.
The cards were all coloured with water colours and watered down Sakura pens.
Vince X


Tuesday, 22 September 2009

ORIENTAL EMBOSSED CARD


Oriental card using a freebie stamp from Craft Stamper
I stamped the image and painted it using Cherry and yellow H20 Mica pigments, rubbed Blue chalks around the image and backed it with Gold mirror.
I then stamped Japanese text on blood red card using a Gold ink pad and embossed with clear embossing powder to give the card some texture. ( I dabbed slightly on the edge of the inked stamp to take off some ink so that the image faded into the red background) I then over stamped the text with a large flower image twice and backed the whole thing on Gold mirror card.
The card was finished by adding a few Black stickers on and around a circle of Gold mirror card.
Vince X

Monday, 21 September 2009

8"X8" COLLAGE

I went through our "scrap Drawer" yesterday and decided I should try to use up some of the smaller bits of paper.
I cut the scraps into 2" pieces backed each with Black card and played around with some of our stamps using mostly "Vintage Ladies" and "Silhouettes & Shadows" stamps by Hot Off The Press.
I laid the stamped images out and arranged them 'till I was pleased with the layout
then attached them to an 8"X8" piece of Black card using foam pads to lift every other image, this give the whole thing a two dimensional feel.

I think this would make great piece of wall art if I frame it, or else I'll have to invest in some 8"X8" cards and envelopes. ;0)
Vince X

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