Cullercoats Charms and Curios

  Trees stamped on background Image made from die cuts            Background image and trees from embossing folders. Night Sky Using distress inks to make a starry night sky . Randomly ink white card with green,  purple and bluish distress inks.  Ensure you completely cover the card.   Cover the colours with a coating of black soot distress ink.  The more black you apply the darker the sky.  You can layer the coloured ink on top of the black and then add more black for a richer deeper effect. Once you are happy with the depth of colour and darkness allow to dry.  Once dry spray the card with a water spritzer.  Press a paper towel over the card to remove the water drops.  This causes a faux bleaching effect and removes some of the colour from the card where the water drop weregiving a splatter effect which hopefully looks like stars or planets in the sky. ...

LEGO Scrapbook Pages Double layout to try and capture the fun we had visiting the Lego store in London.  Made the lego bricks from 2 x2 cm and 3 x 2 cm pieces of primary coloured card with 1/4" punched circles glued on top.  Used craft foam in matching colours to raise some of the bricks to give dimension.  This is a simple idea but I think it looks quite effective. I ended up gluing on two layers of dots to give better definition as one dot on its own looked a bit flat.

                                 Harry Potter Expecto Patronum Shadow Box Picture I have recently bought the sizzix forest frame die and the doe reminded me of Snapes patronus guiding Harry to the sword of Gryffindor in the woods.   I used it in a shadow box and then also made a similar shadow box using Harry's stags patronus instead of the doe.  To make the shadow boxes you need the following: 12 X 12 paper or thin card to make the frame.  Pearlescent gold card Pearlescent white card Fun foam Backing paper  Distress Ink Sizzix thinlits 661744 Forest frame die Tree trunk die Tattered lace Alphabet die Tattered lace Stag Die Hunkydory Owl Die Wand die Needle and thread die docrafts Making the shadow box  I  strongly  recommend that you make up one of the shadow boxes as a practice run  first. It is a bit f...

What you will need to make this card: White stamping card Kraft card 8" x 4" Patterned Christmas paper Green Sharpie pen Spun sugar, scattered straw and pumice stone distress ink Red dye ink Waterproof black ink Little bow Penny black Christmas mouse stamp from christmas critters stamp set Docrafts 25th dec stamp from At Christmas Lucy Cromwell set. Foam pads Glue Make a 4 x 4" card using the Kraft card. Cut a piece of patterned Christmas paper slightly smaller than 4 X 4" and stick to the front of the card. Cut a square of stamping paper or card 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" Stamp the mouse image onto the card using versafine onyx black ink or any other black waterproof ink. Use the scattered straw distress ink to colour the Christmas list.  Press the inkpad onto a glass mat and use the ink on the mat to watercolour the image as shown. Then use spun sugar in the same way to colour the mouses ears and paws and finally u...