The Craft Barn Calendar Challenge - September

We've reached the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and the trees are dressing in their beautiful technicolour coats. I've tried to reflect this colour palette on September's tag for the Craft Barn Calendar Challenge where leaves/trees and the colour brown have to be used somewhere on the month's project.

I used autumnal colour Distress Inks sponged on the background and stamped over it, firstly with a Hero Arts stamp that looks like rose hips and then added the toadstool border stamp. The leaves and sentiment were stamped onto card which had been coloured with the same colours as the base of the tag, then cut out and attached. The tag was finished off with seam binding that had been coloured with Distress Inks.

Tag Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs Smooth Stamping Card 300gsm
Anna Marie Designs Smooth Printer Card 200gsm
Inks
Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Fired Brick, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint,
Ranger Archival Coffee
Versafine Vintage Sepia
Stamps
Background - Hero Arts Pod Branch E3651
Toadstools - maker unknown
Leaf - Inkadinkado
Sentiment - Hobby Arts CS034D Scene-it sentiments
Gold Sakura  Pen-touch Calligrapher pen
Other
Seam binding coloured with Distress Inks

The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge - Snow/Snowflakes

We've had beautiful late summer weather over the past few days in my neck of the woods so incorporating snow and snowflakes into a project for this week's Craft Barn Challenge has indeed been a challenge! I'm certainly not one of those people who has their Christmas cards all done and dusted before there has been even the slightest hint of winter.

I stamped the image onto a square of white card before colouring it with Distress Inks and pencils and placing it on a frame which had been coloured with Distress Ink. The background was embossed and the sentiment stamped below before attaching it to a mat that had been dusted with Distress Ink. The die-cut snowflake was coloured on the embossed detail and then Stickles glitter applied over the top.

That's one Christmas card completed way, way ahead of my usual schedule but will I be able to find it when the time comes to post it?

Card recipe
Card
Base card  and background - Craftworks Card
Anna Marie Designs Smooth Stamping Card 300gsm
Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Printer Card 200gsm
Inks
Versafine Onyx Black
Ranger Archival Jet Black
Distress Ink - Festive Berries, Rusty Hinge, Tumbled Glass,
Watercolour pencils
Spectrum Noir pencils
Stamps
Main image - Crafty Individuals CI - 240
Sentiment - Stamp Addicts
Die-cuts/Embossing
Snowflake - Spellbinders
Frame - Nellie Snellen multi- frames - square MFD006
Snowflake embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Other
Stickles - Star Dust

The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge - Stencils/Masks

It's our Grandson's thirteenth birthday tomorrow and ideas for a card were a bit thin on the ground. I've made computer and fishing related cards in the past for him so I decided on something that fits this week's Craft Barn challenge which is to use stencils on a project.

I sprayed some watercolour paper with Dylusions and water and then sprinkled rock salt over the top. The salt didn't leave really leave much of an imprint of their presence, so a bit of practice is needed with that technique. I then stencilled the arrows and dots with Fresco paint. The star was stamped and embossed with gold powder and fixed to the card with foam pads.

I needed something to enclose some money as a present, so with the remaining background paper I made a little "note" book. I've put a pocket on the inside cover to tuck in some money.

 

Card Recipe
Card/paper
Card blank - Craftworks Cards
Watercolour paper
Black card
White Card
Inks/Paints
Dylusion Inks - Fresh Lime, Lemon Zest, Squeezed Orange
PaperArtsy Fresco Paint - Snowflake 
Versamark ink
Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade
Gold detail embossing powder
Stamp/Stencils
Star -The Artistic Stamper
Arrows stencil - Tim Holtz THS025
Dots stencil - Paper Artsy Lin Brown design PS001
Other
No. 13 - computer generated Typewriter font

Notebook Recipe 
Card/Paper 
Grey board
Watercolour paper
Black card
Inks/Paints
Dylusion Inks - Fresh Lime, Lemon Zest, Squeezed Orange
PaperArtsy Fresco Paint Snowflake, Guacamole, Tangerine Twist
Stencils
Arrows stencil - Tim Holtz THS025
Dots stencil - Paper Artsy Lin Brown design PS001
Other
Words computer generated - Typewriter font
Eyelets
Bind-it-All wire




 



 

The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge - Stamping

This week's Craft Barn challenge is to use stamping on a project.

Some years ago when looking at rubber stamps on that well known auction site I saw the sentiment I have used on my project this week. I had intended using it on a plaque to hang in the staff area of the pre-school I worked at but it never happened. However a friend retired from a  pre-school recently after 35 years and the sentiment's time had come at last.

I painted a chipboard frame with Fresco "Caribbean Sea"  paint and then stencilled over it with Fresco "Snowflake". I stamp the toddler image (I love this stamp and it has been very well used) on card, coloured it with Copic markers and cut it out. The sentiment was printed onto a piece of background paper. I finished the hanging with a die cut flower using an inked piece from my scrap box, some leaves and a ribbon hanger. I then made the presentation box shown in the third picture.

    

Card

Chipboard frame

Craftwork Cards Digital Ultra Smooth Premium Cardstock

Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth 200gsm

Background paper download printed on 90gsm copier paper

Inks/Paints

PaperArtsy Fresco paints – Caribbean Sea, Snowflake

Picked Raspberry Distress Ink

Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Ciao markers

Stamp/stencil 

Toddler - Crafty Individuals CI-277

Tim Holtz Burlap stencil

Dies 

Tim Holtz Alterations - Tattered Flower Garland 657824, Spring Greenery 659573

Other

Sentiment computer generated – Kidprint font

White ribbon

Brad

 

The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge - Animals

I've made a very quick clean and simple card for my entry to the Craft Barn weekly challenge. This week's subject is animals.

I started by stamping the sentiment and then stencilled the bricks with Distress Inks. Finished by stamping the cat. Job done!

Card Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs Smooth Stamping Card 300gsm
Inks
Ranger Archival - Watering Can and Jet Black
Distress Inks - Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge.
Stamps
Sentiment - PaperArtsy Hot Picks HPXT03
Cat - Katzelkraft Mini 02