Jo's cards from our last show

Jo recently joined our design team and kindly made these cards for us for the last show.  Jo hadn't photographed them before she sent them to me so I'm showing them here as we are keeping hold of the cards for a while so people can see them in real life in the shop.

The first card features another way of using the butterfly of acetate.  Jo has also used 2 of the smaller stamps on the sheet to stamp the background.  I think this is a really pretty card.

The next card is from the same stamp sheet, it's the design I've been calling the bling maiden!  Jo has used gold leafing and a white gel pen to highlight parts of the design.

I love the Glitz Spritz background Jo has made for the fairy frame.  It's subtle but still lovely and shimmery! 

Now onto the Classical Instruments sheet, Jo has used mica pigment powders to add colour to the guitar.

This card has an acetate overlay.  Jo stamped the violin onto the acetate with Timber Brown Stazon ink and has added gold leafing to the body of the violin, unfortunately my picture doesn't show how lovely it looks.  The stamped swirls on the acetate are a great frame idea. 

Moonshadow ink has been used on the base white card.

Thank you for all of them Jo! 

Jo is a Springer Spaniel lover hence the name of her blog, The Life and Creations of a Springer-Lovin Paper Stroker...  A great name for a blog!  Do go and visit Jo's blog she has some great stuff over there!

Thanks for visiting

Jill

Butterfly Beauties and Moonshadow Ink

Good morning!

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Today's card is another from the show on 28th November, with the same Butterfly Beauties sheet, Moonshadow inks, and course salt.

We had acetate on the show along with Timber Brown Stazon which worked well with the butterfly image.

I added some nailhead embellishments on the acetate and wording strip to add a little bling.

I cut the wording panel and threaded through a Moonglow card strip as a change from using ribbon.

You can see the little flowers made with the salt and ink.

Just to answer a couple of the comments from yesterday's post...

Wilma, you mentioned that you missed the show, well I have been asked back for another show on Saturday 16th January, 11am, they have asked me to do a techniques show and they will also have the DVD I made.  It covers the 8 products in the Moonglow range but mainly features techniques with Moonshadow Inks.

McKinkle, I usually do my messy stuff in the kitchen, spread lots of paper out and it shouldn't be too messy, although I have to admit to hitting the toaster and kettle before now with the Moonshadow Mists when I've got carried away!  But it all cleans off.  If you have a non-stick craft sheet you'll find it a lot easier to keep the area clean.

Jill

Gold leaf card from Saturday's show

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I'm back home after my wandering around down south.  I had a fabulous time with the filming and seeing my family.  I was shattered when I got back but it was all worth it!

I am really grateful to Tracey for doing the show with me and for all the cards she made and for her great demos with the gold leafing.  Also huge thanks too to Vix and Jo who also made cards for the show, they were brilliant ideas and I know that sticking to using mainly the products in a show can be a challenge, especially at short notice, and they did a great job!!

Today's card is one I made for Saturday's show using Tracey's fairies sheet.

The border on the card was made by using double-sided tape, I attached it to the card, removed the backing then added the gold leafing.  Yes, the normal tape that is on a roll!  Try using different widths together with a little gap between each for a different border.  I fixed a square brad to each corner.

I stamped the fairies in black onto the cream card and stamped again onto the acetate.  If you find acetate a bit slidey to stamp onto, rub it over with your antistatic bag first, it really does help.  Apart from the powder being there, it also very slightly sands the acetate to give the ink a key, don't leave too much powder on the acetate before stamping though, as the ink isn't absorbed like stamping onto card, it can make a bit of a mess when the ink hits too much powder!  I know as I did it!  Do give it a try though as it really does make a difference!

I cut out the fairy wings roughly and stuck on the double-sided sticky sheet, I removed the backing and added the leafing sheet to the sticky side.  I then added another piece of the backing so that I could use this to stick the wings onto the card without spoiling the leafing.  Wet glue can drag the leafing away and spoil the effect so I prefer to use 2 pieces of tape with this technique. 

I cut the wings out and then fixed them into place.

Once I had them all in place I found I had the odd white space around the edges so I used a black pen to hide them and complete the silhouette.

I confess to not cutting out a tiny star for her wand, I coloured it with a gold Sakura Stardust pen instead.

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