More from Stampendous... Ice Skates

I just LOVE this new Ice skates stamp from the new Stampendous catalogue, below are a few ideas for it from the Stampendous Design Team...

The direct link to the Ice Skates is HERE

The full collection of new designs is HERE if you'd like to take a look.  Click on the products on our website to see more details and the inspiration from the Stampendous team.

Thanks for stopping by today

Jill

Celebrations!!!

Our next theme is Anything Goes - Celebrations!!

The projects can be for any celebration, a special birthday, anniversary, or a congratulatory card (maybe for all those Olympic medals that will be won in the next fortnight!)

As usual, the top prize winner will have £10 to spend on our website, www.thestampman.co.uk

I have used one of the newly released Stampendous stamps along with an assortment of their Shabby enamels to make a baby's first Christmas easel card.

Stampendous - First Christmas - Cling Rubber Stamp - CRR154

Stampendous Shabby embossing enamels

Woodware - JL711 - Chippies - Hearts & Flourishes

Woodware - JL724 - Chippies - Baubles

Woodware - JL725 - Chippies - Bracket Frames

Woodware Blending Chalks (2887)

So, are we all excited about the opening ceremony tonight and the Olympics themselves?  I'm certainly looking forward to watching the opening ceremony and there are certain events that I like to watch too, the swimming, gymnastics, athletics, and a few others.

There are so many bad things going on for people in our world these days that we really should be celebrating events like this and others we have had in the UK this year and be proud that we still have great events like this in our history to look back on.

So, let the celebrations continue!!!

We had an amazing 164 entries for our last challenge, we hope you will join us for our next challenge.

Thanks for visiting!

Jill x

A couple more Frantaged Handbag Chippie cards

I made some more of these handbags cards using various Stampendous Frantage Shabby Embossing Powders, mainly shabby white, pink, blue and green along with the colour fragments, glass, glitter, and shaved ice.

I also embossed the smaller pieces to add as embellishments, but otherwise tried to keep the cards quite simple.

I used the same ingredients on a piece of A5 card then cut it down to use as borders. I also added some brown chalk to the edge of the embossed handbag to give it definition.

Someone asked me at a show last week if I use hairspray to seal the chalks on my cards and I have found that I haven't needed to with the Woodware chalks.

I've used a tiny strip of my embossed border piece along with some printed paper on the card below.

Although the pearls are self adhesive I used silicone to adhere them to the embossed pieces as I felt they needed to have something extra strong to keep them in place.

There are 6 handbags and other smaller embellishments you can add from the chippie sheets.  They are A4 sheets and are currently £1 each so a good price.  There are many other themes too including a pack of 2 blank sheets that you can use to cut your own shapes with Sizzix dies, (they are probably too thick to use with Spellbinder dies).

Just ink them with VersaMark ink and use the shabby embossing enamels as you would with normal ultra thick enamels but you can sprinkle in the fragments, glitter glass, and shaved ice for extra texture as I've used above.

The items I've used are:

Woodware - JL726 - Chippies - Handbags
Stampendous Fran-tage Embossing Enamels/Shaved Glass/Micas/Glitter
Mark Richards Bling
Woodware Blending Chalks

Just to let you know in advance, I will soon have news for you about a competition with blog candy, so do call back to get the details for that.

Well, this weather is getting really stupid, we have had sunshine today and a chance for everything to dry up but all of a sudden, out of the blue, there was a really loud clap of thunder, our poor dog who normally isn't that bothered about thunder was outside in the garden and he was really spooked by it, it was so weird when the sun was shining.  The down pour followed soon after.  Crazy crazy weather!!!!!!

Apart from the weather, I hope you are having a great weekend!

Jill x

Bling It On Challenge

Our latest challenge starts today and I've certainly seized the opportunity of using Fran's encrusted jewel technique for my project!!!

I used:
Woodware Chippies - handbags and numbers
Stampendous Fran-tage Embossing Powders/Shaved Glass/Micas/Glitter
Mark Richards Bling - Gold Pearls and Mosaics

Organza Ribbon

Woodware Blending Chalks

I built up the texture with various colours of the shabby embossing enamels, shaved ice and glass glitters

I love these mosaics, they are self adhesive and can be cut into shapes so they can be added as a whole piece to save trying to line them all up!

All the chippie shapes are great to use with the enamels but adding numbers to cards are great for the special years.

I've been busy encrusting lots of chippie shapes, it's great fun!!!  I'll show more next week

Just a reminder that we are at a show on Sunday, 

Doncaster Rugby Club, Doncaster, DN2 5QB (10am-3pm)

More Info: http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk/

Whatever you are doing, have a great weekend, and I hope the weather improves for us all!!!

Jill x

London and the Thames Pageant Card

This is one of the cards we didn't get to show on last Wednesday's Stampendous show.

It is the London stamp that Fran Seiford designed and released early for us here in the UK as it is not available in the States until the Christmas supplement comes out.

I am beginning to wonder where my brain wanders to as this is my interpretation of the Thames drifting through the London word, maybe it is because I made this over the Jubilee weekend and I was inspired by the pageant.  I should have put some small boat images on there but maybe not the full 1,000!!!

I really should write down all the blingy bits that I use but I know I used Stampendous aged aqua embossing enamel for this one, it was perfect!!

I added some blue fragments, blue glitter glass and I'm sure other smaller amounts of the enamels and glitters, maybe even some aqua tinsel, which are all HERE.

Here's another card, a simple one and a bit less dramatic!!  I used Stampendous silver detail embossing powder onto blue vellum and mounted that onto red vellum.  Both colours are in the brights pack of vellum that is in our Special Offer section on the website.  I also used this to make some bunting as the colours are perfect for that along with some normal white vellum.

Well, it was nice seeing some sunshine over the last couple of days, have sadly waved it goodbye again today :(

Thanks for visiting!

Jill x

Peony card from Stampendous show

Here is another card from last Wednesday's Ideal World/Stampendous show for the International Event.

I demonstrated with the Stampendous CRS5001 CLING - Jumbo Peony stamp 

I chalked an A5 piece of white card then stamped the peony in black ink onto the card so that I could use it as a guide to add the enamels.

I had prepared another that I had embossed with aged black embossing enamel, chalked, then cut out to place over the top once I had finished adding the enamels, glitters, and glass fragments.

I used mainly the shabby enamels, letting them flow from the bottom of the peony design before heating from underneath.

Heating from underneath without any ink gives a more natural flow than applying ink from a pad.  Using pens to hold the powders tend to give a scribble effect so perhaps try painting the card randomly with embossing ink, a Versamark re-inker would be good to paint onto the card or, a glue stick like Tombow clear glue stick is also possible if you are struggling without any ink.

There is no right or wrong way to do it so best to try it out and see which way suits you.  The main aim for this flowing type of encrusted jewel technique is that it should look random with a natural flow.

Once this had cooled down I added the embossed cut out peony.

As the dragonfly chippie is a shape, I inked it with Versamark ink before adding the enamels, glitters and glass.  Unfortunately the photos don't show how gorgeous the colours and textures are.

Chippies are available in many shapes HERE.  I'll be showing a lot more with these as they are great with the enamels

Here's a reminder of the shows we have for the rest of June and July where I'll be demonstrating these techniques.  Local people note the show in Leeds, I want to remind you as I know people who didn't know about the last show were disappointed to have missed it.

SUNDAY JUNE 24TH 2012

Rainton Meadows, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, DH4 5PH (10am-3pm)
More Info: http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk/

SUNDAY JULY 1ST 2012
Doncaster Rugby Club, Doncaster, DN2 5QB (10am-3pm)
More Info: http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk/

SUNDAY JULY 22ND 2012
Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, LS17 8GS (10am-3pm)
More Info: http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk

SUNDAY JULY 29TH 2012
Bonus Arena at KC Stadium, Hull, HU3 6JU (10am-3pm)
More Info: http://www.rosspapercraftshows.co.uk

Thanks for visiting

Jill x

Stampendous Railway Clear Stamp Set - a few more cards!

Here are a few more cards made with the Stampendous Railway clear Stamp Set SSC1139 that I featured here on Sunday with some other ideas/layouts.

I have used the Stampendous CRN247 Locomotive cling stamp for the main panel.

Again I used a coffee background and a Quickie Glue Pen to edge the mount for the main panel along with Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing Enamel.  I coloured the main panel with chalks.

The railway map makes a great border.  I have trimmed off the border lines and torn one of the edges on the card below. 

Finally, a smaller version of the steam train card.  I added some gold halo glitter into the mix to give it a bit more sparkle.

I really think this is a great set for mens cards, especially those that are older who perhaps don't appreciate the usual sports or drink themed cards.  Using them for scrapbooking would be good too!

I'll be taking my cards to the Ross Papercraft show, Rainton Meadows, Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland on Sunday if you'd like to see the cards I made for the show and I'll be demonstrating the encrusted jewel technique there.

You'll find more details about the show HERE, we'll look forward to seeing you if you are local and able to attend :)

Thank you for visiting!

Jill x

TV Update - I'm on IDEAL WORLD on Weds, not Create and Craft!!!

Sorry, I didn't find out until this afternoon, I assumed it would be Create and Craft.

If you wish to record the show then please record Ideal World instead!!!

I hope you are able to join me live though, I'm going to be demonstrating on behalf of Stampendous as part of the Ideal World International Craft Day.

I'll be Fran-taging, using all sorts of lovely bling to create Fran's Encrusted Jewel technique.  Here's a sneaky peek photo of something I'm featuring in the show.

I hope you are able to watch the show.  I believe it may be repeated on Create and Craft later on Wednesday.

Jill x

I'm back on the telly next week!!

Yes, I am on Create and Craft TV next WEDNESDAY, 13th JUNE at NOON!!!  Sorry for shouting but it's been a long time since I was on, it's REALLY exciting!!!!!!

It's a busy time here as amongst other things we are also at the Stamp Magic show at The Dome in Doncaster on Sunday.  We hope to see you there if it is local to you.  I will be playing with embossing powders again and today I'm showing a tag that I made at the Port Sunlight show we attended in May

I used the Stampendous Butterfly Post stamp and fran-tage products on our website, HERE

I used Woodware Chalks to add colour and Moonshadow Mist to give a vintage look.

I don't know about you but I'm feeling quite patriotic at the moment, we really should be proud of our Queen and fellow country folk for making it such a great weekend of celebrations.  Shame about the usual British weather though!

I hope you are having a good week so far!

Thank you for visiting :)

Jill x

Make It For A Man Challenge

Our next fortnightly challenge started on Friday, Make It For Man, a chance to get some male cards made especially with Father's Day coming up this month

I decided to use the Stampendous clear stamp set Railway along with a little Fran-taged engine steam.

I used coffee for the background and kept it pretty simple, I just need to add some wording when it's ready to send.

I used:

Stampendous SSC1139-R Railway Perfectly Clear Stamps

Stampendous Fran-tage Shabby White Emboss Enamel (FREG027)

Stampendous Fran-tage Shaved Ice (0.67oz) (FRG10C)

Coffee

With the bank holiday approaching and having beautiful sunny days last week Ian and I decided to get out for an afternoon to make the most of the weather and knowing that it would likely be crowded there over the bank holiday.

We took the hairy mad monster to 5 rise locks in Bingley, shame that we just missed a barge going up by only just catching the last stage.

So far we've been lucky that the HMM doesn't leap into the canal but the little monster managed to find a really muddy puddle to roll in on the way back!!!

Oh for some more sunshine!!

I'm sitting here today wondering how my Mum is getting on, she's gone to London to see the Queen!!  At 5' she isn't going to see much in amongst the many people that will be there but like she said, she'll enjoy the atmosphere and excitement of the occasion.  I think she'll need her brolly though!!

Hope you are having a great Sunday!!!!

Jill x

Encrusted Jewel Technique Vintage Photo Frame

I finally got round to taking a photo of the frame I made for the workshop last weekend.  I made another frame using the Ikea mirror that the ladies were going to decorate as the smaller frame is no longer available (typical!) but it did give us a bigger area to work with.

It is the type of project where no 2 frames would be exactly the same so I wanted to decorate the new frame  to give the ladies something visual to look at while at the same time, adapting the techniques for their own frames.

It is really hard to capture the colours of the Moonshadow Ink and the gold embossing so I took these photos outside in the sunshine today which has helped a bit.

The frame is stained with Moonshadow Ink and stamped with Stampendous Elegant Border stamps.

I made up a magical mix of embossing powders, fragments, glitters etc, then added aged gold and shabby white embossing enamels randomly.

Ribbon was embedding in the embossing here and there too and also stained with Moonshadow Ink before fraying and adding to the centre

One of the reasons I'm only just getting round to posting this is that I was floored by a really nasty bug this week, thankfully it is gone now, it's far too hot to have a bug!

I hope you are having a great weekend and enjoying this lovely weather, keep cool :)

Jill x

Workshop yesterday in Snod Hall

Ian and I had a fab day yesterday at a workshop organised by Cazro who many of you know in blogland. 

 

The workshop was to decorate a Vintage Photo Frame.  The original frame I used as the basis of the workshop was no longer available (the frame at the top right of the page) so the design was changed but still made in the same style.  I haven't taken a picture of my frame yet but will show it another time.  I have more photos to show from the day but here is a start.

The hall is a fabulous place to hold a workshop, there was plenty of room to work in and natural light.

The 15 ladies learnt the general techniques and then applied them to their frames in their own way, it was lovely to see so many variations, each one different to the next.  This was the first time the ladies had tried this and some felt out of their comfort zone but they all should feel proud of their work.  

Some feature vintage photos, others are made back into mirrors.  This selection is from my camera, I also have some on my phone to show.  

Unfortunately the photos really don't do the frames justice, the true colours and shimmery effects just don't seem to photograph well on my camera but they will give an idea of what we were doing.

Adding an old photo really brings the frames to life

We used Moonshadow Inks on the frames along with the Fran-tage Encrusted Jewel Technique.

We initially used a magic mix I made up that contained embossing powders and lots of bling to create random  textures.

This frame was made for a grand daughter one of the ladies, they make great gifts.

I'll show more another time.

I'd like to thank Carol for organising the day and for all the ladies who came and made it a very special day.

We've been asked back to hold another workshop later in the year and we will definitely look forward to it!

Jill x