Alexandra Palace 2013

Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show

 

September 2013

 

 

 

Card samples from the Creative Expressions Stand

 



Beautiful samples from the Paper Artsy stand  blog.PaperArtsy.co.uk

Samples From the MDF man

www.annamariedesigns.co.uk

 

Linda with the lovely Sue Wilson

Card Sample by Sue Wilson

 

More photo's to follow soon .......



MJ Crafts quick guide to stamping

Stamp Essentials Guide

 

 

Many new crafter's are swamped with the amount of stamping products available so here's a quick guide to the different types of stamps to help you get started.

 

There are many types of stamps available and from lots of different brands

• Clarity Stamps designed by Barbara Gray, they are clear stamps. Single stamps are nearly always pre-mounted on an acrylic holders, but they can also be peeled off if required.

 

• Un-mounted rubber stamps sheets have several stamps which you cut round the edge and mount yourself either permanently onto an acrylic block or on to EZ Mount Foam which allows you to easily peel off on and off your block.  Sheena Douglass usually mounts her stamps on to Rock-a-blocks with Stick and Spray adhesive.

• Un-mounted clear stamps are usually stored between 2 sheets of acetate, they simply peel of the sheet and you apply them to a similar sized acrylic block. If they stop clinging simply clean the back with some warm water and they will be as good as new?

 

• Just Rite Cling Stamps are  pre-cut rubber  mounted on to foam "cling" to attach to your acrylic block.

 

More Short Guides will follow soon......including a guide to ink pads and adhesives.



 

 



Hougie Board Backgrounds

Easy Score Backgrounds

 

Here's a couple of simple backgrounds that can be achieved on the Hougie Score Board

 

Tip 1: Measure your background square in the measurement you will be scoring on, in other words if you want to score at every cm as above, cut your square to the nearest cm ie 20cm by 20cm. Same applies to inches ie 7 by 7 inches and score at every 1/2 inch.
Tip 2: To achieve the above background I scored vertically at every 1cm mark on the back of the card.

 

Tip 3: For this pink card score from the back side and use the 15cm marker line as a guideline. Start by scoring diagonally corner to corner and move along and score at every 1 cm. Rotate the card and score from the opposite corner every 2 cm repeating the same process. 

 

Give these a try as a starting point and you'll soon be trying other creative backgrounds
 

 



Splodgeaway Holly the lot

Just a quick card

 

Materials

• A5 Clarity coated card stock
• Holly the lot Splodgeaway Stencils
• Distress Ink (pine needles)
• Distress Ink (Festive berries)
• Silver mirri card
• Christmas Ribbon
• 8 x 8 scalloped card
• Speedball brayer
• Red Promarker
• Glitter snowflake peel offs

1)Use the mirri card and the holly stencil through your Grand Calibur or Ebosser to emboss the card.
2)Repeat the process with the Clarity coated card.
3)Ink up the brayer with the green Distress ink and apply to the coated card.
4)Trim the card to fit the card as illustrated above and use the excess green holly embossed card to cut out extra holly leaves and adhere to add dimension.
5)Distress the edge of the scalloped card with red.
6)Mat and layer starting with the silver and then the green. Add ribbon and colour in the berries with the red promarker on the silver mirri card.

 

Crafters Inspiration - Issue 2

Cute Drawer Easel Card 

 

 

Materials & Equipment

• 3 Pieces of A4 Card Stock
• Hougie Score Board
• Crafters Inspiration Issue 2 Cd Rom
• Scissors
• Double Sided pads
• Ultra Red Tape
• Co-ordinating ribbon and 1 Brad

 



 

1) Start with cutting a A4 sheet of card down to 6 inch wide by 10 1/2 inch long

2)With the card in the landscape position score a the 4inch mark, 5inch, 9 inch and 10 inch mark.

3)Turn the card anti clockwise and score at the 4 and 5 inch marks.

4)Turn your card so the large 4 inch square is at the bottom right hand corner and cut away so that your template looks like the image below. Apply Ultra red tape to the tabs and adhere.

 

 



 

5) For the drawer cut a piece of card to 14.9cm x 14.9cm (sorry for all you crafters using inches, cut a 6 inch square and cut 1/8 off the top and bottom). The main thing is the finished square needs to be slightly smaller than a 6 inch square.

6) Now to scoring....score at the 1 inch mark, turn the card and score at 1 inch, continue scoring so that you have a 1 inch score line on all 4 sides.

7) Cut away as indicated by the red sections shown below and punch a hole for the brad as indicated below.

8)Use ultra red tape on the tabs and stick on the inside.

 



To make the easel card for the top of the box cut a piece of card to 4 inch wide by 8 inch.
9)With the card placed landscape score at 4 inch and 6 inch mark.
10) Cut a piece of co-ordinating card to 4 inch square, attach to the easel by only adding tape just under halfway up.
11) Use the Crafter Inspiration cd rom and print of toppers and card of your choice (I've used the woodland characters for this box)

12) Attach a piece of ribbon as above before you adhere your easel card. Fold down the card and tie the ribbon in a bow to give as a gift.

13)When the easel is open tie the ribbon in a bow as shown below.

Happy Crafting!!!!



Window Card

17th September 2013

Deck the Halls

 

Materials:

• Distress Ink pad(weathered wood)
• Distress Ink pad(tumbled glass)
• Distress Ink pad (Bundled Sage)
• Tim Holtz Applicator tool and foam pad
• Black Archival Ink Pad
• Clarity Repositionable Set of 3 Tree Stamps
• Clarity Merry Christmas Stamp 
• Britannia Die - Ivy
• Pearlescent Card (Light green, Ivy green, Royal Blue)
• Tonic Snowflake punch
• Liquid Pearls (white opal)
• Copy paper
• Post-its
• Hunkydory white Ink-Me Card
• White 8x8 inch Scalloped card
• Collall Tacky Glue
• Superfine glitter

Create the Scene
1) Cut a piece of card 14cm square.
2) Use the black ink pad and stamp Merry Christmas in the top right hand corner. Then stamp 3 trees at varying heights.
3) Rip some copy paper to create hills, lay the ripped edge along the base of the tree trunks and apply some bundled sage ink (less if more you only want a light application)
4) Continue using the same technique to create hills in the background.
5) Cut a small circle on the sticky edge of a post-it (10p size works well). Apply the circle in the sky area (this will act as a mask to create a moon) add some weathered wood and tumbled glass ink to create the sky, remove the post-it.
6) Now the scary bit...cut your creation into 4 pieces (7cm x 7cm)

7) Cut the blue card (7 1/4 Inch square) and adhere to the scalloped card with double sided tape. Cut the light green card to 6 3/4 inch square and adhere on top of the blue piece). Place the 7cm pieces into position, lift 1 piece at a time adhere tacky glue to the back and stick down, continue with all the pieces.

8) Cut 2 pieces of ivy and arrange and glue into place. Attach some snowflakes to embellish and some glitter as desired.



September 2013



16th September 2013

Clarity Stamp Card

To make this card I used:

• Distress Ink pad(weathered wood)
• Distress Ink pad(tumbled glass)
• Distress Ink pad (Mowed Lawn)
• Tim Holtz Applicator tool and foam pad
• White pigment ink pad
• Emerald Green Archival Ink Pad
• Clarity Forest Ridge stamp
• Clarity Maple Autumn leaf set
• Britannia Die - Ivy
• Pearlescent Green Card
• X-cut Scalloped oval die
• Liquid Pearls (white opal)
• Copy paper
• Hunkydory white Ink-Me Card
• C5 card
• Double Sided tape and pads

Background
1) Cut a piece of ink-me card 1cm smaller in height and width than the card front.
2) Stamp the background using the white ink pad using the maple leaf stamp.
3) Use the a blend of the 2 blue distress inks to colour the background, give the card a few minutes to dry and buff off the ink from the white leaves to allow them to show through.

Oval Scene
1) Cut out a large scalloped oval from the white ink-me card.
2) Stamp the forest ridge using the green archival ink pad about a third from the bottom of the oval.
3) Apply some the weathered wood distress ink with the blending tool at top of the oval and about halfway down to create a sky, leave areas of white to create a more realistic scene.
4) Add hills using the mowed lawn distress ink. To do this rip some copy paper and use this to mask the sky so you only add the green ink on the bottom part.

Mat and Layer
Use whatever adhesive you prefer, I used double side tape on the back of the leaf background and positioned it leaving a 5mm border. I added 2mm double sided pads on the back of the oval die and 1mm pads on the back of the ivy dies.

Embellish
1) Use the ivy die to cut 4 sprigs using the green pearlescent card, arrange and stick down as desired
2) Use some liquid pearls and randomly dot to create a snow effect

 

 

Hope this card inspires you, feel free to comment x