Art Journal Piece

 Afternoon S & K here, hope your all having a lovely weekend.

Miss K spent yesterday in the Craft Room and did a range of crafting.  She did some diamond painting and a little embroidery - using some fantastic kits from the Threaders Range by Crafters Companion and finally did a little paper crafting using a range of stamps and stencils from Crafters Companion.

She stamped on to Karft Card using a selection of Distress Oxides by Tim Holtz and heat embossed some areas to give texture.  She then tore the edges and mounted on to Black Card stock.

This piece will be going into her Art Journal.  She decorated an A5 spiral notebook from the works, using a range of stencils and die cuts.

Thanks for reading

See you soon

S & K

Its Been A Long Time!

 Morning, S here has K has gone to school.

Its been a long time since our last blog post and what a strange year its been.  I hope you and your family are well and have been able to keep safe.

Unfortunately are crafting took a back seat over the past year but now is the time to get back into the crafty mind set and enjoy our new happy place.

 

We have now got a lovely new craft room!  My fabulous all round handy man (aka my dad) has done a fantastic  job making most of the space.  We gave him our must haves and he came up with this - a place for everything and everything in its place!  

We got the desks, bookcase and shelfs from IKEA and the small mint green trolley and accessories came from Hobbycraft.  The bookcase near the door as you come into the room has all our Clarity stamp, Stamps, Groovi, Stencils, Masks, Dies, Paper and Parchment as well as Crafters Companion Stamps, Dies and Stencils and our growing collection of AALL And Create, Inkylicious, Tim Holtz, Visible Images, Leonie Pujol, Cardio and IndigoBlu Products.

 

Plenty of room for all our inks and paints. The two ink stands are prefect for keeping inks within easy reach  and the small white picture shelfs from IKEA and just the right size to store paints and sprays ect.

We also have room to keep our Scan and cut out and easy access to our printers.  Next to the printers that you cant see in the picture is our I-Mac and on the bottom A3 Paper Storage.

I'm a big Harry Potter fan and have had the feature wall done with the Marauders Map wall paper.

Hope you like our Craft room has much as we do.

Hope you all have a great day,  Thanks for stopping by.  Ill share some more photos tomorrow of us crafting together.

S.

Unicorn Bag

Afternoon all, its S & K again,

Miss K attended another craft class at Crafters Compaion and this time were using the fantastic products from Imagination  Crafts.  Imagination Crafts have a fantastic range of products for mixed media projects,  http://www.imaginationcrafts.co.uk/.  They have a range of paints, sprays,  Fabric paints,  Sprakle medium, waxes, rice papers, stencils and much more - you’ll be spoilt for choice!

To create the back ground she used Imagination Crafts Textile Fashion Spray in Lemon Yellow, Pink and white.  Miss K picked to do a canvas bag.  As the bag is porous Miss K put a piece of card inside the bag before starting.  Once the paint has dried it can be ironed on the reserve to “set” the paint and can be washed at 40c.

https://www.crafterscompanion.co.uk/imagination-crafts-textile-fashion-spray-paint-lemon-yellow.html

https://www.crafterscompanion.co.uk/imagination-crafts-textile-fashion-spray-paint-pink.html

https://www.crafterscompanion.co.uk/imagination-crafts-textile-fashion-spray-paint-white.html

The unicorn is a transfer from the Imagination Crafts new range.  Very easy to use and just irons on.  When using the transfers make sure the iron is set to cotton and the stream function is turned off.

As Miss K is only 10, I used the iron.  I also used a tea towel under the iron while ironing on the transfer.

https://www.crafterscompanion.co.uk/imagination-crafts-fabric-canvas-25x35cm-transfer-unicorn.html

Once the transfer as cooled it was easy to remove that backing paper.  I would recommend removing it slowly just in case the transfer as not attached properly you can easily go back and reapply the heat.

Very simple to do and these transfers can also be used on canvases.

Bye for now

Roadshow with Lizzy and Rossella

Hi its us again, we had a lovely morning down at Crafters Companion Chesterfield on Saturaday.  The lovely Lizzy and Rossella were show casing their skill with Theaders and Groovi.  One of the highlights for Miss K was being able to show Rossella some of her art work that she had been working on.

Miss K got a lovely Groovi Goodie bag with parachment paper and a Groovi Plate

There was also some Clairty Crafting Bargins to be had to, the stamps were a steel at £5 each!!

There was also a free make and take and Miss K had fun with the Mandela Bloom Groovi plate.  She then coloured the design with SN Colour Blend Pencils.

Click the link claritystamp.com a6-plates bloom-mandala

See you next time

S&K

Crazy Concertina Card

Hi thanks for stopping by again.

We have had a lovely weekend doing a couple of classes down at Crafters Companion https://www.crafterscompanion.co.uk/chesterfield-store

 I know we have said this before but we are very lucky to have a fantastic craft store right on our door step. 

On saturday Morning Miss K attended the launch of issue 18 of the Crafters Inspiration magazine and made a couple of cards using the free gifts.

The background was done using the new Spectrum Noir Aquatints and glycerin.  The heart shaped die is the Rustic Heart that complements Sara Davies Rustic Wedding collection.  Its a two part die that can be used to cut into the card stock or out of the card stock.  The coloured card was from the Flutterby range by Sara Davies.

On the sunday I got a few child free hours and went to class my self. This was a class by Debbie and we did a crazy concertina card.  I have never made any thing so complicated before but i was surprised how easy it was.

The basic card is completed, I just need to decorate it.

To make the base card you will need:-

Big Score by Crafters Companion and scoring tool,
Craft Knife and steel rule,
Red Line Tape,
Wet Glue,
Base card in your choice of colour, I used Ivory,
2 Pieces of card 12" x 8",
2 pieces of card 4" x 8",
2 Pieces of card 6" x 8",
For the Matting layer I used back card,
6 Pieces 7 3/4" x 3 3/4,
2 Pieces 7 3/4" x 1 3/4",
2 Pieces 3 3/4" x 3 3/4",
8 Pieces 1 3/4" x 1 3/4",
8 Pieces 3 3/4 x 1 3/4.

You need the Big Score on the inches side and working from the box lid side. Take one piece of the 12" x 8" card and place the shortest edge up against the box lid side on the Big Score.

Score at 2", 4", 8" and 10"

Turn the card around and place longest side against the box lid and score at the 2". Only score the inner panels and not the outer two.

Spin the card round and score again at the 2" mark.  These will become your cut lines.

Now you need to use your craft knife and steel ruler and cut along these last two score lines that you made.

Repeat above process on the second Piece of 12" X 8" card.

Take the two Pieces of 6" x 8" card and place the longest side up against the box lid side and again score at 2".  Fold and burnish these crease.

Take your two pieces of 12" x 8" card and fold and burnish the score lines as follows:-

2" Valley fold,
4" Mountain fold,

8" Valley fold, 

10" Mountain fold.

Then you need to fold the panels in any way you wish for the card to look when opened, just remember to make sure both pieces are identical.  Fix both pieces together using the 4" x 8" pieces of card.  One on the front and one at the back.  For this I used red line tape. 

Once both pieces are joined, take the 6" x 8" Pieces of card and attach one piece to each side of the card.  Using red line tape fix the 2" panel to the back of the card to match up with the 2" panel.

Now matt the black pieces of card on to the panels.

Now its ready for decorating with your choice of patterned/coloured papers and layer on top of the black. To get a nice border reduce the black card measurements by a 1/4" on all sides.

When I have decorated mine I will post a completed picture.

Hope to see you again

S&K

Birthday Card

Hi

S&K here again.

Just a short one tonight.  Miss K has been practicing her Groovi skills. She is a Diamond member of the Clarity New Design Club, which means each month she receives a new Stamp, Stencil and Groovi plate.  

She has been practicing her letters and numbers so they came out the right way on her Parchment.

She made a card for her friends birthday using the new club plate.

The backing paper was made using SN Sparkle Pens and attached using mini brads.

Thanks for stopping by,

See you soon

S&K

Party Gift Bags

Hi, Its S and K here

It’s raining, grey, cold and miserable here on this April Wednesday morning. I thought it was supposed to be spring!

Anyway has promised here is a step by step on how we made the gift bags for Miss Ks birthday party.

The bags started life as plain white and came in a pack of five for £2.50 from the Range. 

We finally got to play with our Distress Oxides.  The colours we used were:-

Picked Rasberry

Cracked Pistachio

Salty Ocean

Seedless Preserves

But this technique works with any combination of colours.  The nice thing about the Distress Oxides is that they colours don't seem to muddy when they overlay, unlike other types of ink. 

The first thing we did was to splodge the first ink on to the craft mat and then spritz with water from the mister bottle.

Miss K used a couple of sprtiz

The water then beads on top.

Next we then picked up the ink directly from the mat with the bag.  Changing the position of the bag each time to build up a random pattern.

We did this for each colour.

We then die cut a heart shape and the Unicorn from "Believe in Unicorns" by Visible Image was stamped in Black Memento.  The hearts edges were inked with one colour of the Distress Oxides.  The hearts were fixed to the front of the bags using 3D Pinflair glue.

Each bag was finished off with pink and white hearts tissue paper £.99p from the Range, and some metallic ribbon to hold on the label.  The label was stamped  with the saying "Anything is possible if you Believe"

The bags were then filled with crafting goodies for the girls.

We had a lot of fun doing these.

See you next time S and K