Tuesday 22 July 2014

Big Tag for Big Present

Hi to all you lovely people out there!

Shoe cannot believe that the time is flying so fast by and we are making Christmas cards and tags already!
It is still such lovely weather here in Scotland.  We were away in the Motorhome again and it was just fab! Cannot wait for our hols now it is so soon and we are going to tour down to the southern point of the United Kingdom. We are also going to the New Forrest and meeting up with some of our South African friends. We will be touring for the whole of August.

Across at SweetStamps.com for the month of July it is Christmas!!

This weeks challenge is a 

Christmas Tag!!

Come a  long and play with us you could win $20 of goodies and it will all be your own choice!
There is still time to enter and share your creation with us. Just pop over to the 


and share!


Big Tag for a Big Present


The base of the TAG is part Spellbinders die that I just cut the edges from
I used a Scalloped Circles Spellbinders die and 2 plain circles all in different color reds
I rapped ribbon on the base before adding all the circles


This is such a lovely Poinsettia stamp from SweetStampds.com
I used Promarkers to color it in:
Gold, Orange, Berry Red, Pine and Apple Green 
In the center I added some Yellow Seed Beads
I cut into the leaves and then just curled to give dimension
Cheery Lynn Designs Flourish Holly Lacy Die


I created a bow with the ribbons and added a green button to the center of the bow
Added another die cut to the top and the bottom of my tag from
Ivy corner Dies from Marianne Designs and
a lovely corner Creatables Corner Die

You can find all the product I used in the online shop of SweetStamps.com




I hope you enjoyed this project of mine and hope I inspired you!

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to visit my Blog!
I would love a comment and
why not become a follower if you are not one already!

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I am going to enter and play along with the following challenge blogs:

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Sunday 20 July 2014

Monthly Technique Parchment

Hi to all,

It has been the most beautiful weather here in Scotland the last few weeks!  It has been the summer holidays for my grandchildren and I have been very busy with them crafting. They just want to go to my craft room, or the way my granddaughter Alia say: "My Ouma's Studio" and play with everything.

Well it is that time of the month for Monthly Technique across at SweetStamps.com.
This month it is 1 of my favorite crafting techniques and it is


Parchment also known as Pergamano, is an ancient art form that dates back to the 15th or 16th century. It occurred principally in Catholic communities where crafters created lace like items such as communion cards and gifts for young girls receiving their First Communion. Over the time the craft developed with new techniques and refinements being added. Up to 16th century, Parchment Craft was a European art form. Some of the missionaries and settlers relocated to South America took this craft with them. There was a loss of interest in hand made cards and items after the invention of  the printing press. By the 18th century the
people were regaining interest in detailed handmade goods. During the 19th century, influenced by French romanticism, parchment crafters began adding floral themes, cherubs and hand embossing.

Parchment is the art of embossing and decorating parchment paper through the use of techniques as Embossing, Perforating, Stippling, Cutting and Coloring. The techniques are being applied to related items such as bookmarks and picture as well as 3D sculptural paper projects such as ornaments and boxes.

The basic tools you will need are:
Mapping Pen
Use to trace your image onto Parchment, normally white ink is used
White Pencil
Can also been used to trace images onto Parchment
Embossing Tools
They coming in various sizes, the bigger the ball the softer the embossing the "grayer" and the smaller the ball tool to "whiter" the embossing.
Needle Tools
Needle tools are sometimes used for embossing details, but mostly used for perforating to make lace-like patterns.
A 1 needle tool used for embossing or stippling
A 2 needle tool used for even perforations for making areas which could be cut with scissors.
A 4 needle tool is a square shaped and necessity for classic lace patterns.
There is the 3, 5, 7 and half-circle needle tools are used for decorative additions to lace patterns.
Scissors is used in combination with needle tools to cut crosses and slots into the patterning.
Embossing and Perforating Pads
These pads are to be used as support whenever pressure is places upon the parchment.
For Embossing a soft pad is required to provide even support.
For Perforating a felt pad is used.
Coloring Tools
Any waterproof or acrylic ink
Acrylic Paints
Oil Pastels
Watercolor Pencils
Felt-tip pens or markers

Techniques
Tracing
First step in any Parchment Craft project. Tracing creates the guidelines for the areas of the design that are to be embossed.
Parchment has two sides. One side is smooth and  the other side is a rough surface.
The tracing is done on the rough surface, the ink adheres better to the rough surface when ink is used.
There should be no pressure on the pen/pencil when tracing, you do not want to emboss the parchment.

Embossing
Embossing is the process of creating raised and relief with you design. Debossed and Embossed.
Using the embossing tools and appropriate embossing pad, the parchment is rubbed forwards and backwards or side to side in the same movement with very little pressure just enough to stretch the parchment evenly.
A finished embossed piece should be satin white in color and will contrast with the translucency of the parchment paper.
Fine lines can be obtained by embossing with a Stylus Tool.

Stippling
The single needle tool is used for stippling. Stippling is a technique used for generating a matte white surface to areas or for fine detail work such as the centers of flowers.
To create a matte white surface the parchment is first lightly embossed and then small holes are perforated on the parchment in very close proximity. You can use a cardboard pad rather that a felt pad so that the needle will not pierce through the parchment, but rather create an embossed dot.
Perforating
Perforating is used to create decorative and special lace patterns in Parchment Craft.
Minimal tracing is required when perforating, designs are usually created by taping the parchment over the pattern and perforating directly over it.
Various tools are used in the perforating technique.
Perforating is also used to create edging and borders or to denote guidelines for cutting.
Cutting
Cutting is used in combination with perforating.  Cutting is used with the 2 needle tool to remove shapes from the design, it is used within 4 needle tool to create crossed and strips within a lace pattern.
Coloring
In the 20th century coloring technique became very popular in Parchment Crafting.
Before Parchment Craft was always just white work.
There are many methods for coloring parchment Craft work.  One of the most popular "dorsing". Dorsing creates a soft background color for embossed shapes of the areas around them. Color is applied in the dorsing process using oil pastels or Dorso crayons which are rubbed on and then blended using paper toweling and odorless mineral spirits or an oil based medium such as linseed or lavender oil.  For coloring that is applied to the parchment in entirety, the coloring is done before any tracing or embossing.  If color is to be added to small areas, dorsing would be applied in a similar manner to specific areas before the embossing process.  Dorsing can also be done using other colouring media such as felr-tip pens/markers, watercolor pencils, acrylic paints or inks.

Information from Wikipedia


Here's my Parchment Craft creation I made for inspiration for you
 and scroll down for the details of crafting goodies I used from 
the wonderful shop of SweetStamps.com.


I used 2 different stamps for this project


I Embossed, Stippling, Perforating and Cutting


I used a Straight Magnetic Grid for the detail






I hope you enjoyed this project of mine and hope I inspired you!

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to visit my Blog!
I would love a comment and
why not become a follower if you are not one already!

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I am going to play along with the following challenges:


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Wine and more Wine!

Hi to every one!!!

Yes you are correct! 2 post in 1 day! WOW I have been busy!  But had so much fun creating the cards for inspiration for you!

This weeks challenge across at SweetStamps.com is Anything Goes, every bodies favorite!!

Come a  long and play with us you could win $20 of goodies and it will all be your own choice!
There is still time to enter and share your creation with us. Just pop over to the 


and share!

SweetStamps.com has brought out another fantastic new range of Stamps and you could have so much fun with it! so pop over and have a look!

Here is mine!

Front of the card


I used plain white card stock and made a A5 card
I layered with Pink card and Black Glitter card
I added a nice Bow and some Pink Pearls

Inside of the card


I used the lovely new stamps called 

Wine! Clear Stamp Set AF4817



You can find all the product I used in the online shop of SweetStamps.com






I hope you enjoyed this project of mine and hope I inspired you!

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to visit my Blog!
I would love a comment and
why not become a follower if you are not one already!



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I am going to enter and play along with the following challenge blogs:


To be updated

Sunday 6 July 2014

My Colour Combination

Hi all you lovely people out there!

Hope you are having a fab weekend with your family and friends. 

Well, there is a lovely challenge across at

 Hobbycutz.  

Our sponsor for this weeks Challenge #55  is 


and they have sponsored some lovely digital images 
for our DT Members to use

The theme this week is 

Use your favourite colour combination 


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Well here is my take on it:




My favourite colour combination in this project is 
Green, Orange, Yellow and Blue 

These lovely Digi's is sponsored by


A & T Digital Designs

They are called Spring Fence and Jewel

I used Promarkers to colour in:

Well I hope you enjoyed this project of mine and hope I could be of some inspiration to you!

Thank you again for taking the time out of your busy lives to visit my blog!
I would love comments and 
why not become a follower if you are not one yet! 
I would love that
xoxox
I am entering this project into the following challenges:

To be updated

View of the Snowy Trees

Hi my dear friends

Hope all are well were you are!


Well it is Sunday and time for me to share my creation 
with you for this weeks Challenge at 
SweetStamps.com.

Challenge #176

Dream of Snow


Well pop over to SweetStamps.com's and have a look at the lovely 
DT members cards for some lovely inspiration.  

While you have fun entering into the challenge you can win a price too!!!

We'd love to see your Creations, 

so come and join us and have some fun with us 

You could win a $20 shopping spree for goodies at

SweetStamps.com's 

online store just by playing along!!

Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

Next week's Challenge #177 is

Gold Silver

We have another Technique Challenge once a month and is ending on the 

14 Painters Tape

The theme for that challenge is 

14 July

Well everybody here is my take on the Challenge:



I created a A5 card and used hammered card stock for my main card
Layered it with blue card and created my image 
added a bow with a snowflake 
and put a dome around my image with Acetate  

Links to all the lovely products are below. You can stock up on some 
needed supplies from the SweetStamps Store
it is packed with fantastic products.
Go and have fun and shop till you drop!!




 Well I hope you enjoyed this project of mine and hope I could be of some inspiration to you!

Thank you again for taking the time out of your busy lives to visit my blog!
I would love comments and 
why not become a follower if you are not one yet! 
I would love that
xoxox


I am going to play along with the following Challenge:

To Be Updated