tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15725690619072614162024-03-06T00:25:26.040-08:00Laura's Handmadelauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-69162605278655887012014-05-28T15:15:00.002-07:002014-05-28T15:16:32.637-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I actually managed to get some crafting done the last couple of days. My boys are on mid term break, baby has a bad cold, partner has a bad cold, I got tonsillitis, had to help partner get his companies VAT done, but still, I managed to craft and not just throw it together Hunkydory either...I'm so pleased with myself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My first card was with the Stampendous Dragonfly Vine stamp and my old creative expressions Swirls stamps. I used the resist technique and several shades of blue, pink and purple Distress Inks for the background. Stamped the Dragonfly Vine in Memento Black and highlighted it with a white gelli roll pen. I designed the sentiment myself using Craft Artist 2, Swirls 2 and two compatible fonts and then used my Theresa Collins stamp maker to create it. I stamped the sentiment onto Vellum, put strips of red tape on either end, coated it in Hunkydory Glitter and then put it all together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Second Card was with the Stampendous Rose Heart, again using the resist technique but this time accenting the roses with Promarkers. I designed and created the sentiment stamp myself again.</span><br />
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<br />lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-5011282483348674942014-02-11T01:49:00.001-08:002014-02-11T01:49:49.931-08:00I Love My Craft Artist...and if you do too this FREEBIE kit is great. I have downloaded this one myself with no problems.<br />
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This is an 8" x 8" card with Mirri Card base, white glitter card, white and blue Centura pearl card. Snowflake and snow drop embossing folders. I can't remember where I got the swirls from but the Snowflakes are from Spellbinders 2013 Snowflake Pendant dies.</div>
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Thought I'd give Kenny K's Krafty Crew Challenge a go, have only entered once in all the time I've been following it, so about time I gave it a go again. This is a case (I hope) of one of the DT's cards, got my promarkers and Copics out again to colour the image and used some spellbinder dies and some old backing papers I had.<a href="http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/</a>lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-33145482779015185322013-05-22T01:51:00.001-07:002013-05-22T01:51:28.594-07:00Air Dry Clay...A Card Two Years In The MakingI bought some air dry clay about two years ago for this project, finally this is my first draft. The script is a Hero Arts wooden stamp but any script would do, I inked the stamp, pressed it into the clay and then cut the shapes out with small heart shaped cutters.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6yGDu-i5DTiaqddczJzT_5lY5SdIKH1dsrugNOCGcj0DkEUlllJJQFVMcTyalM-xziIc6btmfQSNaKH0WhVpOCdXcqR6BplgBBJzLKpbPMO7cHe6-znogLDgreOq_0jAnJ7aRhKgaALo/s640/blogger-image-99441137.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6yGDu-i5DTiaqddczJzT_5lY5SdIKH1dsrugNOCGcj0DkEUlllJJQFVMcTyalM-xziIc6btmfQSNaKH0WhVpOCdXcqR6BplgBBJzLKpbPMO7cHe6-znogLDgreOq_0jAnJ7aRhKgaALo/s640/blogger-image-99441137.jpg"></a></div><br></div>lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-60160531242026389832013-05-20T14:26:00.001-07:002013-05-20T14:26:19.016-07:00It Seems Like Forever Since I Made A CardGot a lovely Stampendous stamp from my local craft shop and was desperate to do something with it and this is what I came up with, an 8x8" layered card...I do feel its missing something though!<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEWOJrtj19zLi1OrqAbA_erc6ZfCQ-19p6vSn5T-7n7DYRHi6ghVto_ruO0kGTprApbA3hDl_KJy8RcchCa1RLf0xyXqw66a7XCM6nKoAr7I5ewhuh5ldhQ32MBotsvqcK_flbUEH2Usv/s640/blogger-image-2065666098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEWOJrtj19zLi1OrqAbA_erc6ZfCQ-19p6vSn5T-7n7DYRHi6ghVto_ruO0kGTprApbA3hDl_KJy8RcchCa1RLf0xyXqw66a7XCM6nKoAr7I5ewhuh5ldhQ32MBotsvqcK_flbUEH2Usv/s640/blogger-image-2065666098.jpg"></a></div><br></div>lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-89901764275132999972013-03-20T15:54:00.001-07:002013-03-20T15:57:39.273-07:00Party PawsGot my new party paws cd and I have to say I am loving it.<br />
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I did reuse the same foam a few times and it just gave me different looks, definitely worth playing around with to make backing papers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Saw these lovely Enchanted Fairies by Docrafts/Papermania. They are super cute and girlie, my daughters loved them and this card. If anybody is interested in the recipe it is as follows...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">250gsm Pillars of Light card</span></div>
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<br />lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com0Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire NG23, UK53.167462 -0.8041153.157943 -0.823851 53.176981 -0.784369tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-5607992092621424382012-01-04T12:52:00.000-08:002012-01-14T17:03:20.189-08:00Young Boys Birthday CardI needed to make a card for my sons friend and I was really pleased with how this card turned out...<br />
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I chose a 300gsm, 8"x8" brown card for my base and topped it with ruled card, corrugated card, film strip embellishment, a journalling tag cut in half, crumpled glassine paper and a Kenny K image superimposed on to a brick wall background and cut out with spellbinder dies. The sentiment was a piece of ruled card stamped with happy birthday and backed with silver card.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQQ4Ab2gpbZ4_QfRvMdc2ExTRnyNVau74mJLwkS3JJan_Mg9WnSzOLbeUXkedGoM9otb_qRXlmMnetXasRW3FcS3E70lJO3b8nHRsksPkzMiASEkuuT9XmIj4TPtncqZPuEY-6pgXLQe3/s1600/P1010999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQQ4Ab2gpbZ4_QfRvMdc2ExTRnyNVau74mJLwkS3JJan_Mg9WnSzOLbeUXkedGoM9otb_qRXlmMnetXasRW3FcS3E70lJO3b8nHRsksPkzMiASEkuuT9XmIj4TPtncqZPuEY-6pgXLQe3/s320/P1010999.JPG" width="310" /></a></div>This is a mixture of a photo and Kenny K Digi Images coloured with Promarkers mounted on to an easel card with the Ferarri logo as the 'stopper'.lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-26275740387230205892011-10-20T17:46:00.000-07:002011-10-20T17:46:08.118-07:00Today!I spent the day cutting out decoupage pieces ready to make christmas cards, this has to be THE most boring part of card making. I do like to make up from scratch most of the time but I'm hoping to sell some christmas crafts this year at a local schools christmas fete so need to save a little time. I also need to make my monthly donation of cards to Cancer Research so will probably spend tomorrow cutting out even more decoupage for that, well I'm sure that counts towards my crafting target so feel okay about that, especially as it's been a rubbish day health wise, hey ho bring on tomorrow!lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-48183379125246585582011-10-19T14:06:00.000-07:002011-10-19T14:07:33.099-07:00For My Oldest DaughterToday I spent time making a card for my older daughter, I tried a combination of new (dies) and old (papers and stamp) and I like the results. I also made her a pair of matching earings, my very first piece of hand made Jewellery. She loves pink so I went all pink! I also used my lovely Flexmarkers on the stamped image, the suble colours really lend themselves to that type of stamp.<br />
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I do like Jewellery making but worry about my combinations way too much, I end up ditching all my designs and I know I shouldn't, trial and error is the only way to learn, but I hate making things that I don't really like at the end of my effort. I have a box full of things I made and boxed as soon as I realised I hated it.<br />
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I firstly cut out a piece of white tisue paper the right size to fit around my candle and stamped my image on to it. I wanted to add a hint of colour to the butterflies and writing, so used Promarkers gently on the tissue paper. If you press too hard or if the pen is in contact with the tissue paper too long it will break the paper and/or flood the tissue with too much colour. Once I had done this and my image was ready I wrapped the tissue paper tightly around the candle and then covered with grease proof paper. The grease proof keeps everything together while you heat the candle and excess wax sticks to it.<br />
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When you heat, keep the heat source moving or you can over heat and damage the candle, I used my heat gun on high, heating one section of the candle at a time. As the outer layer of the candle melts you can see it quite clearly through the grease proof paper. As soon as you see this happen it's time to move to another section until the whole candle has been heated. I found scrunching a section of the grease proof made a handle for me to hold the grease proof smooth against the candle, you can reposition the greesproof as many times as you like and stop and start as many times as you need to just as long as you keep the stamped tissue paper smooth against the candle at all times.<br />
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The most important thing is to use a candle that you are never going to light as the tissue paper around the candle could catch light, not a good thing! lol<br />
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This one was for a friend who had been through a tough time, Just to say we were thinking of her and hopefully make her smile.<br />
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This one was made for a challenge, I love butterflies.<br />
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This one was an atempt at sepia tones, not quite there but as a first attempt, it's not awful lol.<br />
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This is the first of many cards requested by my son for his friends, I do love these Kenny K images for men, I think they are fab especially for my sons age (20's) <br />
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This card was made for a challenge, I really like the colours on this one and love the Sarah Kaye images<br />
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This was for a very close friend who has been ill, I was experimenting with Autumn colours. <br />
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Thes are two of the first cards I made with dies and my Tatty Teddy summer stamps, I wanted completely pastel summer cards.<br />
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I've been playing with my Tim Holtz/Ranger stuff again, I really could spend all my time playing with these things but I want to try a bit of everything so I put the box on the highest shelf and only get it down once a week.<br />
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lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-58647288780965883982011-07-15T06:28:00.000-07:002011-07-15T06:28:29.102-07:00My New Stamps - Tim Holtz - Papillon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGpV5LE9aR-eYy6oFyiXrj_uE2mPWTfquNPKtmz9IA9ax7nzbXxrcmACW9DDtVkLl9amBK9eLueeztz7ujHM7OlnKMGYII1GT8LUEvrR_xE9yc3zrSUxLMQa78UBuokiYy0PF04jCN3nx/s1600/P1000792.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGpV5LE9aR-eYy6oFyiXrj_uE2mPWTfquNPKtmz9IA9ax7nzbXxrcmACW9DDtVkLl9amBK9eLueeztz7ujHM7OlnKMGYII1GT8LUEvrR_xE9yc3zrSUxLMQa78UBuokiYy0PF04jCN3nx/s320/P1000792.JPG" width="235" /></a></div>I've loved these stamps since I first saw them but it's taken me this long to get them. This card idea comes from one of my favourite magazines, Craft Stamper, with a few small changes.lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-19110860303229156372011-07-04T08:21:00.000-07:002013-03-20T04:21:09.370-07:00Fanciful Flight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjww9Qb-3L5uChpcOZzS3y6MWqee6g_Alt9pDxvomF0edFs8FtjXZnyYva7p-hi8qtLsXO6Hr-Rm8m9fnHEuLbgDMRDUm5UpgJWSaftoP4NmI21cATrkpiObTbhyQ_hMiLWdBJbzixhAYKD/s1600/P1000619.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjww9Qb-3L5uChpcOZzS3y6MWqee6g_Alt9pDxvomF0edFs8FtjXZnyYva7p-hi8qtLsXO6Hr-Rm8m9fnHEuLbgDMRDUm5UpgJWSaftoP4NmI21cATrkpiObTbhyQ_hMiLWdBJbzixhAYKD/s320/P1000619.JPG" width="245" /></a></div><br />
I got my fanciful flight die and thought I'd give it a test run with this card, I also added in a bit of distress painting on a tag for backing. I do love this die and cut with the coredinations card allows for a little extra distressing.<br />
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What I used<br />
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Big Shot<br />
Fanciful Flight Die<br />
Paper Rosette Die<br />
Tag and Bookplate Die<br />
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Plain Dark Brown Card stock 250gsm+ ( For Main Card)<br />
Happily Ever After Mat Stack (For Layering)<br />
Corrugated card Stock (Gold or Light Brown) (For Matting)<br />
Ivory Card Stock 250gsm+ (For Tag)<br />
1 Tim Holtz Journalling Tag<br />
1 Tim Holtz Metal Tag<br />
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Antique Wood Acrylic Paint<br />
Natural Acrylic Paint<br />
Crackleglaze<br />
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Tea Dye Distress Ink for a little Distressing<br />
Pearl Brad Distressed with a Promarker<br />
Sandpaper Block for distressing the card.lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-52610536175354241732011-06-22T11:28:00.000-07:002011-07-01T13:21:02.750-07:00Messing About With Cosmic Shimmer Mists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgztKBgGaT9S11pZoWY9lQIG5s9K7aZPNCJPr-ZuxPN4SFjm_0ZtuG_zW_Mxw_C7ut9eF_6UGZA_9A8dAd3HBz6SqqCfEm6yU5qg4rdfpxA-jhl8Y8HvaziDw4sHDJ3nlTEZrNcWN_hfQOl/s1600/P1000616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgztKBgGaT9S11pZoWY9lQIG5s9K7aZPNCJPr-ZuxPN4SFjm_0ZtuG_zW_Mxw_C7ut9eF_6UGZA_9A8dAd3HBz6SqqCfEm6yU5qg4rdfpxA-jhl8Y8HvaziDw4sHDJ3nlTEZrNcWN_hfQOl/s320/P1000616.JPG" width="287" /></a></div>This is my attempt at making a background with Cosmic Shimmer Mists.<br />
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Black Card Stock<br />
Ivory Card Stock<br />
Big Shot<br />
Grand Calibur<br />
Tim Holtz Tag and Bookplate Die<br />
Tim Holtz Paper Rosette Die<br />
Spellbinders Bird Flourishes Die<br />
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Cosmic Shimmers - Lava Red and Blue Ice<br />
Distress Inks - Chipped Sapphire, Lipstick red and Dusty Concord<br />
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Stamps - Hero Arts French Script and Tim Holtz Stuff To Say<br />
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Crafters Companion - Spray and Shine and Spray and Sparkle (Silver)<br />
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I used Black card (A5 size) and sprayed it with Lava Red Cosmic Shimmer Mist, waited for it to dry then sprayed it with Blue Ice Cosmic Shimmer Mist. I think it worked out quite well, it gave me blue and red as well as mixing into purple in places.<br />
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I then cut out two tags with my Big Shot and Tim Holtz Tag and Bookplate Die and used Distress Inks (Chipped Sapphire and Lipstick Red) to give me a starting point. I then stamped the top tag with Distress Ink (Dusty Concord) and a Hero Arts French Script Stamp and used my favourite glue to stick the finished first tag on top of the second tag at a slight angle. I then stamped the bottom of the second tag with a Tim Holtz Stuff To Say Stamp. Once it was all dry I attached with my favourite paper glue and began my embellishments.<br />
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My first embellishment was from the Spellbinders Bird Flourishes dies. I cut them out with my Grand Calibur and then sprayed them both with Crafters Companion Spray and Sparkle. I waited for that to dry and then finished them off with a light covering of Crafters Companion Spray and Shine.<br />
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My second embellishment was a paper rosette made with my Big Shot and the Tim Holtz Paper Rosette Die. This die does all the cutting and scoring for you so all that is left to do is mountain and valley fold the finished piece and use a little paper glue to stick the two ends together. My tip here is to cut out two of the circles that you get in the die, that way you can secure your flower on the bottom and the top and you have a smooth surface to attach to your project. Once the paper glue is dry, press your flower into place and secure with glue, bottom circle first and than add your top circle.<br />
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I them added all my embellishments to my card and took photo's to catalogue my journey into crafting!lauramatthews171http://www.blogger.com/profile/16970195660614614464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572569061907261416.post-8820165559822101152011-06-15T16:31:00.000-07:002011-06-15T16:31:49.069-07:00My First Attempt At Crackle GlazeI really enjoyed making this one and think it came out okay for a first attempt.<br />
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