Happy Halloween 2015

BOO!!!!!

Did I scare you? lol Hello Crafty Bloggers and Happy Halloween if you live in a part of the world that celebrates the holiday.
Today we bring you some great Halloween inspired cards from Team Designer Leanne.


This fabulous card uses Graphic 45's Time to Flourish - October Cut Aparts.......

A few more Graphic 45 inspired cards........ featuring the Rare Oddities collection. .....

 

Such a fabulous collection - why oh why G45 are you discontinuing it already??!!

Thank you Leanne for sharing and inspiring.

Happy Halloween spooky crafters. I hope you enjoyed these cards and maybe picked up a few new tricks, and I hope you found them a treat ;)
Aunty Vera :)

Bird Crazy Journal with Deb

Hi Crafty Bloggers!

You may remember a few weeks back, our Road Tester Deb tested out Grumbacher Miskit Liquid Friskit and had a whole lot of fun with Tim Holtz's Bird Crazy stamps.

Deb created this awesome journal cover and today we bring you the step-by-step instructions to create your own fabulous journal cover.........

Crazy Bird Journal Cover by Deb Speijers

1. Tear up pieces of Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap (Melange) and glue onto cover using Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte and let it dry.

2. Paint watered down Gesso over the tissue wrap and let it dry.

3. Sponge on some colour using Tim Holtz Distress Inks

4. Stamp Birds using Ranger Archival Ink in Black, also stamp other stamps to add more interest in the background.

5. Add some more texture with Tim Holtz Stencils – Honeycomb and Stars using Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste.
6. Add more colour by sponging again with Distress Inks and spray with some water to get some of the ink running down the book to create a nice effect and let this dry.
7. Paint a layer of Multi-medium Matte to seal the cover.

8. Stamp birds onto white cardstock using Black Archival Ink, add Liquid Frisket to the birds eyes and beaks. Once the Frisket has dried sponge birds in different colours using Distress Inks. Fussy cut the birds out, I trimmed off their feet and finer pieces as when you layer them over the top of the stamped birds on the journal cover these finer pieces will show.

9. Glue on sponged birds using Multi Medium Matte.
10. Add embellishments etc.

Products Used:
Eco Basics Journal, Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte, Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste, Miskit Liquid Frisket, Tim Holtz Stencils ‘stars’, ‘honeycomb’, TH tissue wrap ‘Melange’, TH Ideology, TH Crazy Bird Stamp Set,  Funny Bones ‘Friend Verses’ RWD-032 Stamp. TH Distress Inks Dried Marigold, Dusty Concord, Peacock Feathers, Ranger Archival Ink Black.

WOW! I so totally love love LOvE this journal cover! I may just have to plagiarize......errrr ....I mean.... BE INSPIRED.......... by this.

Thank you again Deb for sharing!
Aunty Vera :)

One Collection, Three Designers...... Kaisercraft's Into the Wild continued...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Back in August, we had a special feature on the blog called One Collection, Two Designers.
For this post, I sent the same paper collection (Kaisercraft's Into the Wild) to my three (yes I said three.... I'll explain in a bit) Team Designers and asked them all to create something using that collection, focusing on the type of crafting they enjoy most.

Unfortunately Sarah wasn't able to participate as - poor Sarah, I feel so sorry for her - she was visiting Europe at the time (I know, what a sad and terrible life...lol).

SO - Sarah is back (well, she's been back for a while now but I've been blog-slack) and so today I get to add HER creation to the blog. But first.... a quick recap......

Amira created these fabulous 3-dimensional projects:

A Zoo Diorama.....

A Card in a Box.....

And a Surprise Box Card.......

Leanne made a set of jungle themed cards and tags.....

Sarah is our Project Life / Pocket Page Designer, and she had heaps of fun with the collection. I love that she took on a completely non-zoo theme...... the collection was perfect for her pocket style Man Page..... great outside the box thinking :)

Here is the page sitting nicely in a Project Life album....

A big thank you to my three lovely ladies.

One Collection...... Three Designers.... and three very different takes on the same set of papers. And that's what crafting's all about!!

Aunty Vera :)