Woodware Challenge - Inspired by nature

This 5" x 5" card creates a feeling of looking out of a window

onto a field full of wild flowers.

I have uses JGS383 road side weeds. The image is stamped on the background

and again onto some extra white card.

I've used the direct to paper technique and have coloured the backgrounds of both images with pigment ink pads. Punch four squares from one and layer onto the base card.

Use some glossy accents to highlight the seed heads.

The tag is made form white shrink plastic and stamped using the

greeting from the same stamp set.

Christmas comes to Woodware

Just to get your Christmas taste buds going, here is a sample of one of my new Woodware stamps. in fact there are two sets on this card, the holly and words from JGS420

and the greenery around the border from JGS414

Its my new wishy washy water colour technique with Sakura Koi brush pens.

Woodware challenge - Friendship

I demonstrated these great Stampendous cutting dies and stamp sets last month at The Craft Barn in Nutley and this is one of the samples created on the day.

The two I have used here (which come in separate packs) are the cling

stamp set CRS5067 and the die set is DCS5067.

Having the die to cut the image is quick and easy but it helps to have a

magnetic platform for your die cutting machine.

I've coloured the Hydrangea and leaves with Sakura colouring pencils. These come in a fabulous set of 24 in a very posh box with two drawers for easy, safe storage.

You can mix colours together and they blend beautifully right on your art work as you work.

The greeting comes from JGCL570.

I stamped the images in sets so I could die cut them together. Colour them in, you don't have to keep inside the lines and then die cut them in your machine. Simples!

Woodware challenge - House Mouse

These fun little critters are sooooo cute and my verse from JGS365 really says what the mouse is thinking (I think!).

The house mouse stamp is by Stampendous code HMCP05 Cupcake Jump.

Using a tacky watermark ink pad and powdered chalks to colour in the image

keeps it soft and delicate.

Add some pink glitter glue and high and low lights with some Koi colouring brush pens.

The selection of products used to create this card

Woodware challenge - sketch 43

Here is this weeks sketch

For this weeks sketch I've used my JGS389 sneaker stamp set and

JGS388 sneaker background stamp.

The pair of sneakers have been stamped onto shrink plastic and

make a great embellishment. 

The wording is JWS03 and is one of the 'Just Words' stamps from Woodware. 

The great thing about clear wording stamps is the fact that you can curve

them to fit around circles like I've done here.

The Mirror Cracked challenge - Shadow box

This week we are joining with The Mirror Crack'd Blog

The theme is Shadow Boxes, and you can see lots of wonderful samples on their blog.

I created this shadow box to display a floral arrangement of my punched paper flowers.

It's about A5 in size with an outer cover of brown card decorated with a single flower.

The frame was made using four pieces of cream card, all the same length (24cm) and two

different widths to fit the size of the card.

You can make any width frame you want as long as the lengths of the four pieces are are all the same and that measurement divides equally by two.

Scoring every two centimetres, the card was first punched along one edge (the shorter edge) of each piece then folded concertina style along the score lines.

The ends of each concertina were woven or slotted into each other to create

the corners to complete the frame.

You will need to stick the corners together with using the first and last folds.

The cover of the box

The corner of the shadow box showing the 'woven' folds

The flowers are made form coloured paper and
woodware punches

Woodware challenge chosen by Kim - Window Cards

Window cards, aperture cards call them what you like but we all love'em!

The white base card is tent fold with a 10cm die cut hole in the centre of the front.

The front of the card is double thickness card and the circle is die cut

from both pieces at the same time. The second piece of card is kept separate

so I can stamp on it and adhere it to the base card later.

I have stamped the images from my Woodware Grass Stems stamp set (JGCL576) using VersaMark or a Watermark ink pad. With a palette of powdered chalks dust over the top with a small sponge applicator and the chalk will stick to the tacky VersaMark ink. I have used earth tones in golden yellow, green and two shades of brown.

You'll get powdered chalk on the white background too but I like that, its OK.

Inside the card

When the card is propped open the light comes
through the 'window'

...and now for a close up!