Woodware challenge - Stash Buster

 I love storage and had a brain wave this morning for this weeks Woodware challenge. Here is my idea for a little storage container thats quick to make and completely free!

I've got lots of braid which I found while going through my mum's sewing box. It was too good to through away, the braid is from Pakistan so it's not the kind of thing I would put on a card. But its colourful and good quality and its in my stash!!!

I've used a 4 pint milk carton, peel off the label, cut off the base making it about 3" to 4" tall, but you can make it any height. I found some white cotton fabric and dug

out the bags of braid from my sewing basket.

 You can sew this project together or do what I did.....I have a sewing machine but I'm too lazy to get it set up, Stix2 gave me a darling pink hot glue gun a few weeks ago and it was the perfect thing to use for this project.

I cut a length of the fabric to wrap around the carton and enough to fold underneath.

Heat up your glue gun while you sort out the braid. Cut it into lengths to fit the length of fabric. Apply hot glue to the fabric in sections and stick the braid on top. Add another layer of braid and continue until the fabric is covered.

Then just wrap it around the carton using the glue gun to stick it all together.

I've decorated mine with some paper flowers I've had for years and the centres of the flowers are from an old necklace which which was broken but

in my stash of buttons and beads.

The 4 pint milk carton showing the cut mark

Glue gun, braid and white fabric

Added flowers finish it off

Handy storage for bottles, brushes and bits and bobs

Woodware Challenge.....Shaker cards

The trick with these cards is to make sure your shaker box is well sealed!

I have picked out a section from this image as my shaker card and have

filled it with little blue beads.

The stamp used is JGS331 Spring Spray and I have coloured

it with ink pads and marker pens.

The frame for the shaker panel is cut from two Spellbinder square dies.

I have used foam tape cut carefully into thin strips to form my seal around the frame. The front is covered in acetate obviously!! It has a nice rattle when shaken.

The greeting is from JGS324 In the Frame Ditties.

Woodware challenge.....Black & White

 

We are pleased to be playing along with the Crafty Card Makers and More… this week, the challenge will be open on their blog for two weeks. If you would like to play along with us please check the Crafty Card Maker rules then use the link on the Crafty Card Makers Blog to add your card or if you are not a blogger yet you can e-mail your card to us as usual Dorothy@woodware.co.uk  and she will post it and add it to the Crafty Card Makers and more… Blog.

  

Don't you just love black and white cards? They look so stylish so I hope you like my idea for this weeks Woodware challenge.

I have stamped the image from JGS330 Summer Weeds several times onto white and black card using clear embossing powder and black ink on the white card and white embossing powder and VersaMark ink on the black card.

Using different sized circle punches from Woodware, punch circles

from the black and white card.

Stamp the image using black ink several times onto a large piece of white card

and emboss with clear powder.

Layer the circles on top of this matching with the image underneath.

I have edged the white circles with a little black ink to make them stand

out from the background a little more.

The greeting comes from JGS324 In the Frame Ditties.

Woodware challenge....sketch no 30

Another idea using new stamps for spring and summer 2014.

This stamp design is inspired by Indian fabrics and the colours for the card

are like the colours of beautiful flowing saris.

I've used gold embossing powder on shades of purple, lilac and pink. I really like the richness of the gold on the purple. 

The two stamps used are JGS343 Indian Flowers (for the single cut out flower and sentiment) and the background is JGS344 Indian Summer.

 

Here is the sketch that I have been following

 

 

Woodware challenge...retirement

Here is a retirement card for a lady, we always seem to presume

retirement cards are for men.

I've used one of my new images from 2014 release. This is JGS334 Daisy Panel.

I've stamped and embossed the image and coloured the background with ink pads and have used marker pens to colour in. The white Sakura pen adds highlights and detail.

I have use SSC055 Retro Alphabet set from Stampendous for the

sentiment stamped in purple ink.

Woodware Spring and Summer stamp release

Please take a look at the Woodware blog over the next two weeks to see card samples using the new Woodware stamps due out in January 2014.

Here is a little taster for you of one of the stamps I've designed and

featured on a card I made.

This is just a small area of the whole image

Woodware challenge - Good Luck

I've added a little sneaky peek of one of my new 2014 stamp designs on this card.....

it just so happens I have a mini stamp (JGS900) with the words 'good luck' on it along with another image which I won't reveal right now.

So it seemed a perfect opportunity to add it to my peel off card for this weeks post.

The peel off is in gold (code 94678) and I have coloured it in with

a black Sakura Stardust pen.

The black appears like a very dark blue/grey once you add a water wash.

Draw in some detail with the same pen.

I've added a strip of washi tape across the card too.