Background and Burrterfly

Hello Peeps

 

I'm going to show you a card that I did with my stamping group the other week. It was a design that was inspired by a design that I came across in craft stamper magazine.

 

It comprises various elements and includes using spellbinders labels one die and the new tuck fold dies which are like the old lace templates but with the hard work done for you.

 

Below is a picture of the finished card.

 







 Ok so to make this card you will need the following:

Swirly stamp mine came from Clarity stamps
Distress inks: Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass, Broken China
A5 card Blank
Black micron pen
Spellbinders dies: Labels one, the biggest die
                              Cut, Fold, Tuck, Dies Floral Burst, S5-113
Non-Stick-Grid (more on this later)
Splodge mat
Punchanella
Ink Blending Tool
Black Archival Ink Pad
Butterfly Stamp
Angelina fibre and film
Iron
A5 spare card.

 With the labels one largest die create and aperture and stick centrally on to the front of your A5 card front. Keep the cut out bit as you are going to use that as a mask later on. Use low tack masking tape to fix aperture in place. Using the lightest colour in this case tumbled glass begin applying ink on to the card.

 Gradually cover the aperture with the other two colours. Don't worry about it being uneven or dark bits as its going to be covered later on anyway. As long as we have a nice coating of colour that's fine.

 

 Keep applying the colours until your are happy with the results and the level of colour. As I said earlier don't be to fussy here.

Once you are happy with the basic layer , lay your piece of Punchanella across diagonally across one corner as in the picture. Using a  make up sponge dab some distress ink through the holes. Be careful of the edge between my forefinger and thumb as you don't want a straight edge.  Keep the ink with in the holes.

 Once you are happy with the corner and you have applied enough ink clean of the Punchanella and we can m move to the opposite corner.

 Here I'm using a mesh which I picked up in the Pound shop. Its basically a non-stick mesh for cooking chips and stuff in the oven. So its non-stick, heat resistant and a good stencil to have in your kit.
So lay it across the opposite corner and again dab with ink through the holes applied with a makeup sponge.

Here you can now see the two corners stencilled.

 Now remove the aperture and your hard work is now nicely featured on the front of your card.

Next stage is to highlight the square with a black border. So place the aperture back over your square but don't stick it.

 With the black pen go around the edge of the aperture to crate a line around your square.

 Here you can see I have gone all the way around and removed the aperture. If you want you can have just the one line.

 Here I have put the aperture back in place and moved it a few mm to the left and gone around again, I repeated this step again but a few mm to the right so you end up going around three times. this just gives a slight quirky feel to the card.

 Ok the next step is to stamp in the flourishes in the corners. So I have my stamp, Archival ink pad and most importantly the cut out bit from when we die cut earlier. The bit I said to keep, you did didn't you

 Ok so lay mask over the blue square and if you feel more comfortable use low tack in the opposite corners you not stamping to hold in place. Ink up your stamp and stamp in the corner using the picture as a guide.

Now reaper the process in the opposite corner. Clean your stamp and remove the mask.

 So here we have the beginnings of our card. Next thing is to move on and do the flower and butterfly topper for the middle.

 Using the two largest dies from the flower burst set run through your die cutting machine following your manufacturers recipe for your particular machine.
I now have my two die cuts and inks ready which are the same as I used before. Important thing here is NOT to do the folding.

 As before using the colours begin to apply to the dies cuts. I used Tumbled glass first and covered the whole piece then moved to broken china, but did not go quite so far in. Then finally the peacock feathers for the outside edge.

 The final coloured piece. Once you are happy repeat with the smaller circle.

 Take one of the thin pieces of card and bend it towards your right, Before you tuck it under you need to fold the next piece so do that then you can tuck the first bit under the card that's left repeat all the way around. Repeat with the smaller circle.

 Here I have now done all the tuck and folding and have layed the smaller one on top of the other I have used 3D foam pads to give a bit of dimension..

 Again using 3D foam pads I have placed my flower over my square.

Next is to do a butterfly in the middle or you can leave as is and just have a sentiment in the middle your call but I will give instruction for the butterfly.

 Here I have gathered all the things needed for the butterfly so just to recap: Angelina fibre and film 2 pieces as we are going to make a sandwich, Iron (I use an encaustic art Iron) you can use a cheap travel Iron and use it without the steam. Butterfly stamp. Grease proof paper. Black Archival ink pad. Acrylic block

 Switch on the iron an put on high setting if using a encaustic art iron or cotton setting if using a steam iron(without steam).Ink up the butterfly and lay one piece of film on top.

 Add a little of the fibre and you dont want to much here.

 Add the last bit of film.

 And most importantly add the grease proof paper.  The trick here is not to move the sandwich.

 Apply the iron to the sandwich and you should see the image of the butterfly come through

 like this.

 Separate all the parts carefully and the film and fibre should be all fused together.
Cut out the butterfly including antennae.................. seriously life's to short to cut some things

Using a bit of pinflair glue stick butterfly to centre of the flower. For the antennae use a stamen that they use for flowers in cake decorating here I have used black ones and cut in half and stuck into the silicone glue

Here you can see the completed butterfly with antennae

Finished







Hope you enjoy this and I welcome your comments.

Happy Crafting.

Andy xx

 

Art Masking Fluid

Hello Peeps

I'm going to show you how to do a background using masking fluid.

The masking fluid itself is good for all water based products and can be applied using a paintbrush. The great thing about using masking fluid is no matter how detail the stamp you can still mask it

For this particular tutorial I used Stampin up "The Open Sea stamp set, with father's day coming up I thought it might be good way to start .

Here's how to do the card.

You will need

Stampin up Stamp set: the open sea Product code: 123032 for the clear set

                                                                                 123030 for the wood mounted set

Apothecary Accents die set  product code: 127 003

Stampin up soft suede ink pad product code 126 978

You can purchase the above products from the link below.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/craftyandy17/

Dayler Rowney Art Mask Fluid

Acrylic Block

Cream Card approx. 19 x 13 cm

Ink Blending tool

String

ok lets do the card

 Here as you can see I've started getting my things ready for the project, masking fluid, block paintbrush, ink pad and stamps.

 Here as you can see I have mounted the anchor, world and compass stamps  on to the acrylic block. Using the stampin up soft suede ink up the stamps and stamp onto the cream card.

 Here I have stamped the card with the images. if you have space left just fill up with the two smaller stamps , doing them individually might be easier at this stage.
Once you happy then we can mask them.

 Shake the masking fluid. I recommend here using an old paintbrush or getting a cheap kiddies one. So basically don't use good ones.

 Apply the masking fluid to the stamped images.

 So here I have painted the masking fluid all over my images.

 From the open sea mount the "Ledger Stamp"  and ink up wwith the soft suede.

 We now need to start tamping over the images completely covering the card.

 Here you can see a close up of the ledger stamp over the world image.

 One completed stamped background. At this stage go and have a tea or coffee while the whole thing dries about 5 minutes

 If you really are impatient then blot with a kitchen paper towel

 With your finger gradually rub the masking stuff from the stamped image and completely remove from the card. It should be a bit elastically and rubbery. Remove all the masking from the stamped images.

 So here I have removed all the masks.

 A close up of the images after mask removed. As you can see particularly the compass there is no hint of the ledger stamp it looks as though its behind the compass which is what we wanted to achieve.

With the same ink pad we are just going to give the edges a worn and distressed look. I find it easier to do this using either a splodge mat or non-stick craft mat.

 ink up your blending tool and starting from the outside gradually bring the tool in towards the card edge thus slightly discolouring the card.

 Here you can see the half that I have done giving the outside of the card a slight aged look which is what we are trying to achieve here.

 Place a piece of kitchen towel under you fingers to help prevent paw prints appearing on your card.

 One completed background.

 Select the die from the apothecary accents and run it through your die cutting machine. I used the same card as for the background.

 Stamp the ship in the middle of the shape. Blend the edges of the shape as before.

Mat and layer the background on to another piece of card and go around all four edges with Double Sided Sticky Tape.

Tie a reef knot ( left over right and right over left) . Leave long enough tails to go around the card to the back, and have it towards the left side of the card.

Here you can see the tails on the wrong side, fix them to the double sided tape.

Attach the background to the front of an  A5 card blank.

Job Done

Enjoy..

Mica Stamping

Hello Peeps

Hope you are all well. Today I'm going to show you how to stamp using mica powders. Now the thing is here the technique I'm going to show you will end up producing two colours of mica powder on the same card.

 

 

 So above you can see the finished background. The mica powder does not show up all that well but trust me its there.

You will need.
Stamps I used the sailing boat from "The Open Sea" set from Stampin up.
Selection of distress inks: I used Antique linen, Tea Dye
Perfect Pearls Mica powder in Rust and Perfect Gold
Cut and dry foam
A6 piece of card stock
Versamark ink pad.
Baby wipes.

Begin by applying the Antique linen to the piece of white card. making sure its covering the card. Random here is good and you don't have to be all that particular. Apply tea dye distress ink in the same way

 

This is what you want to end up with a card covered in the ink and saturated.

 

Next with your perfect gold mica powder cover the WHOLE of the card with the powder.

Now get your baby wipes, second colour mica powder (here I used rust), stamp and Versamark.
resting your stamp on the work surface take your ink pad to the pad and lightly tap to apply some ink to the stamp.
Starting up in the left hand corner press firmly and remove immediately clean the stamp and dry it.

Apply a small amount of mica powder to the stamped image and move it around with the brush to cover the whole of the image.
Repeat this over the card, stamp, clean, mica, stamp, clean, mica.

 

 This is what you should end up with a nice background with two different mica powders on it.

Enjoy.x