Monday, 26 December 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Christmas candle
Tonight we made some Christmas candles using vellum for a shade and a wine glass as a base.
A simple crescent shape is cut from vellum and this is wrapped around the glass to made a faux shade
Anything from your crafty stash can be used to decorate the shade.
I have decorated one in a Christmas theme ... White stazon is used here to stamp a random snowflake design and i have added silver deer cut outs and some silver stick on gems to decorate it. A punch has also been used to mirror the snowflake design.
I also made this more shabby styled design using Papermania vellum. I thought the roses looked really effective.... A laced up ribbon design added both a design element and a practical application in that it held the shade together with having to glue it. Some additional detail has been added by highlighting some of the elements of the roses with a sticky glue pen and then embellishing with glitter. Again gems have been added around the edge to highlight the bottom.
Remember folks only use the faux tea lights in these. Our local store sells 4 battery operated tea lights for £1.00, so an inexpensive gift idea that can be personalised for any occasion.
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Christams candle
Tonight we made some Christmas candles using vellum for a shade and a wine glass as a base.
A simple crescent shape is cut from vellum and this is wrapped around the glass to made a faux shade
Anything from your crafty stash can be used to decorate the shade.
I have decorated one in a Christmas theme ... White stazon is used here to stamp a random snowflake design and i have added silver deer cut outs and some silver stick on gems to decorate it. A punch has also been used to mirror the snowflake design.
I also made this more shabby styled design using Papermania vellum. I thought the roses looked really effective.... A laced up ribbon design added both a design element and a practical application in that it held the shade together with having to glue it. Some additional detail has been added by highlighting some of the elements of the roses with a sticky glue pen and then embellishing with glitter. Again gems have been added around the edge to highlight the bottom.
Remember folks only use the faux tea lights in these. Our local store sells 4 battery operated tea lights for £1.00, so an inexpensive gift idea that can be personalised for any occasion.
A simple crescent shape is cut from vellum and this is wrapped around the glass to made a faux shade
Anything from your crafty stash can be used to decorate the shade.
I have decorated one in a Christmas theme ... White stazon is used here to stamp a random snowflake design and i have added silver deer cut outs and some silver stick on gems to decorate it. A punch has also been used to mirror the snowflake design.
I also made this more shabby styled design using Papermania vellum. I thought the roses looked really effective.... A laced up ribbon design added both a design element and a practical application in that it held the shade together with having to glue it. Some additional detail has been added by highlighting some of the elements of the roses with a sticky glue pen and then embellishing with glitter. Again gems have been added around the edge to highlight the bottom.
Remember folks only use the faux tea lights in these. Our local store sells 4 battery operated tea lights for £1.00, so an inexpensive gift idea that can be personalised for any occasion.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Animal card
Tonight I was inspired to make this animal card
The background is made from a single piece of black paper randomly ripped to create a camouflage style effect
A few animal type sentiments complete the look
I also used some fluffy hairy wool to make a rustic style sign for the "have a wild one" sentiment and a black brad to symbolise a nail holding up the sign
I used a single zebra stamp and the masking technique to replicate the zebra twice to make the little herd
The zebra are coloured with promarker in cool grey 5
I grounded the zebra by using a different promarker cool grey 1 to give the illusion of them walking in the bush velt
The border is simply a piece of ribbon from my stash which I thought mirrored the style and colour of the card
The background is made from a single piece of black paper randomly ripped to create a camouflage style effect
A few animal type sentiments complete the look
I also used some fluffy hairy wool to make a rustic style sign for the "have a wild one" sentiment and a black brad to symbolise a nail holding up the sign
I used a single zebra stamp and the masking technique to replicate the zebra twice to make the little herd
The zebra are coloured with promarker in cool grey 5
I grounded the zebra by using a different promarker cool grey 1 to give the illusion of them walking in the bush velt
The border is simply a piece of ribbon from my stash which I thought mirrored the style and colour of the card
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