December - Music

This month we went with a theme of Music.  Everyone bought along stamps, peel-offs and paper etc, that linked in with the theme of Music.  I brought along cards or images of cards that I had created over the last 12-18 months for inspiration.   Everyone then did what they wanted.

Inspiration Cards

 From Clarity Stamps

 From Dimension Stamps

 From Paper Nation/Jolly Nation

 From Paper Nation/Jolly Nation, Dimension Stamps (Record and Background) and Indigo blue (words)

 Clarity Stamps letter set.

 From Craftsuprint

  From Dimension Stamps

 From Dimension Stamps

From Dimension Stamps

This is the card I created on the day, in-between helping others.

The butterfly music collage stamp (from Imagination Crafts) was stamped on heat resistant acetate in versamark and black embossing powder applied and heated.  On the reverse of the image, it was coloured using mica powders mixed with water (from Phill Martin Cosmic Shimmer Range).  The music paper was sections I cut out from an old sheet music book (brought at a charity book shop).

December - Masks and Masquerade

This month we concentrated on a theme rather than a technique.  The theme was bring along anything you might have in your craft stash that would fit Masks/Masquerade.  My contributions to this theme play session.

 A variation on the Dimension Stamps monthly club project.

 Using the Spellbinders die.  Handle is a hat pin with some beads threaded on it.

Clarity Large Mask Stamp

Clarity Small Mask stamps and some coordinating charms.

 

Forgotten to take picture of 6 x 6 plaque - will upload later.

September - Masking

This month we practiced using Masks to create an overall picture.

This was the first project card.

Stamp the vase, mask it.

Stamp the table and flowers.

Add some zentangling and then assemble card

 

This was the more advanced project card.

Stamp the vase and mask it.

Colour the flower stamp in two colours using distress pens.

Change vase mask, so vase can be seen but not the background.

Stamp crackle through the mask.

Sponge through the mask.

Apply Versamark through the mask.

Add embossing powder and heat.

Assemble card.

 

These two cards used the same stamp repeatedly and several masks of the image to create the background.

On one the right bits of the slices have been coloured and on the other, the wrong bits have been coloured, using promarkers.

 

 

This one had to practice placement of the girls so it looked right on copy paper first.

Stamp the girls and then mask them.

Stamp the wall twice to get it the right length - use a fine liner black pen to join up the two pieces of wall if necessary.

Need to make sure that the masks are cut well, so that the wall goes in the all between areas of the girls.

April 6th - Generation Stamping

After explaining what Generation Stamping was and how it is used in filling out vegetation, creating backgrounds, 3D effects and movement, we went on to create the following cards.

 

Background stencil is from Peerless Designs and the words and cars are Tim Holtz

 

 

The stencil is from Ali Reeve (Stamps Away)

 

 

The scroll stamp is from Dimension Stamps.