That's Crafty!: December 2018

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have Anne Redfern joining us as a guest designer and we'd like to wish Anne a very warm welcome!

Hello! My name is Anne Redfern (or Redanne as I am known in blogland) and I am thrilled and honoured to have been asked by Laura to be a Guest Designer for three months. Thank you Laura!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and you are getting ready to let the New Year in.

My first project uses a That's Crafty! ATC Stack. I have a few steps to share with you.

The ATC Stack comes in four pieces, three of these are clear acrylic and they have a protective coating which you need to remove before you start.

I painted the base of the stack with Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy Paints in Blue Green and Teal Blue. I mixed a little of 13 Arts Magic! Powder into the Teal Blue paint and applied this through a That's Crafty! Dinky Bubbles Stencil to create a bubble effect. The Magic Powder mixes with paint to create a wonderful texture paste, with a hint of a sheen.

Next, I stamped onto the thickest acrylic piece with Black StazOn ink (a nice juicy pad helps) with the Seahorse stamp by Olga Heldwein for AALLandCreate and then used Dina Wakley Heavy Body Paints in Turquoise, Lemon and Lime on the back of the stamped acrylic. Painting on the back means you do not have to be so careful within the lines!

Here is a view of the completely painted seahorse. Using the larger of the acrylic pieces gives an almost 3D appearance to the seahorse.

To finish off I had some random foliage left over from Christmas and I painted these in the same colours of paint as the seahorse, and added one to each layer along with some gold Mica Flakes to create my sea floor. Finally, I attached all the pieces together with the four bolts that are supplied with the ATC kit.

Products Used:

That's Crafty! Surfaces ATC Stack
13Arts Magic Powder

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil - Bubbles
Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy Paint - Blue Green
Prima Finnabair Art Alchemy Paint - Teal Blue
Seahorse Stamp Set by AALLandCreate
StazOn Midi Ink Pad - Jet Black
Dina Wakley Heavy Body Paint 1oz Turquoise
Dina Wakley Heavy Body Paint - 2 oz Lemon
Dina Wakley Heavy Body Paint - 2 oz Lime
Prima Mica Flakes - Gold Leaf
Die cut foliage from my stash

Thanks so much for your visit, I hope to see you again next Monday. All that remains is for me to say is, I wish you a Very Happy New Year!

Crafty Wishes, Anne xx

Hello!

I have a rather cheeky card to share this week to wish you all a very Happy Christmas. Fred has come out to play with 2 rather cheeky mice and the expression on his face is rather bah humbug and he looks as if he's been up to no good!

What I Did:

I made the background paper first by applying Distress Oxide inks to my craft mat - I used Scattered Straw and Victorian Velvet - misting them with water and dragging my paper through to pick up the colour. I repeated this after drying with my heat gun until I was happy with the effect.

I stamped the fish skeleton randomly over the coloured paper using the Scattered Straw ink. Once it was dry, I stamped the row of hanging fish several times across the top to resemble Christmas decorations (I think it works rather well).

I coloured the fish with Zig brush pens and doodled a little with a fine black pen to add some more detail to my decorations.

I stamped my Christmas tree, together with Fred and a couple of mice on smooth cartridge paper and coloured all the images with Zig brush pens, scribbling on an acrylic block and picking up the colour with a damp paintbrush. I then cut all the images out.

I distressed the edges of the background paper with an emery board and glued this to a kraft card blank. I added the images with double sided tape, tucking the mice behind the tree so that they're peeping at poor Fred and looking as if they're saying na na na na na.

I finished off with my chosen text using a stamp that came free with Craft Stamper a while back and is still a favourite for tongue in cheek cards.

Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - The Freddy & Friends Collection by Donna Gray

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Christmas Collection Set 2 by Donna Gray

Distress Oxide Inks - Scattered Straw and Victorian Velvet

Kuretake Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Fine Black Pen

That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive

Double Sided Tape

Kraft Card Blank

I hope you all have a really lovely Christmas and wish you all you wish for in 2019.

See you next year!

Fliss x

Hi Everyone

This is my last post for That's Crafty! for 2018 and I have had a fabulous year sharing my art with you and I would like to bring my That's Crafty year to an end with another Christmas card using the fabulous character stamps from Katzelkraft stocked by That's Crafty! who, to my knowledge, carry the biggest range of these French stamps, in the UK.

Follow that star (trying to find a particular stable)

Here's What I Did:

I made this with the same technique I made my previous one, which you will find HERE. I first die cut the inlaid stars with a die from my stash and then created my background using Distress Oxides swooshing them on my craft mat and then picking the colour up, drying with a heat gun inbetween colours. I then edged around the card using distress inks in the same colour as I had used as the Oxides.

I stamped the donkey and the angel, both Katzelkraft stamps, and coloured with my chosen medium which was blendable coloured pencils and I then cut them out ready to add to my card. The words were also cut using dies from my stash and added to the card. All were then glued onto the background. It was finished off by adding a Tim Holtz seasonal chit chat saying. I then mounted onto Tim Holtz Kraft gold cardstock and then again onto black card.

Here's What I Used:

White Mixed Media Card

Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft Stock

Distress Oxides - Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke, Squeezed Lemonade, Brushed Corduroy

Distress Inks - Hickory Smoke, Brushed Corduroy

Kazelkraft A5 Stamp Sets - Les Pabos - Sherlock Holmes KTZ211 & La Ferme des Animaux

Both of these are currently out of stock but these will all be back in stock tomorrow! There will also be some new additions to the Katzelkraft range stocked by That's Crafty!

Spectrum Noir Colourblend Pencils

Spectrum Noir Pencil Blending Solution

Paper Stumps

Tim Holtz Chit Chat Stickers

That's Crafty Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive

Selection of dies from my stash

I just want to say thank you for your lovely comments throughout the year and have a lovely Christmas and New year, I hope you get lots of crafty goodies from Santa, and I will be back with some new art Tuesday January 8th 2019

Until then Enjoy!

Love

Amanda X

Hello!

As promised last week, I have another make to share using the festive papers I used to create my tree card as there were enough papers to make quite a few things and as I wanted to show you could make something other than cards, this Christmas decoration was the result.

What I Did:

I created my wreath first using an MDF one which is part of a kit and I chose the middle one.

I applied texture paste to the wreath using my favourite mandala stencil, having first taped the wreath to the stencil to keep it in place.

I then added blobs of multi surface paint to my craft mat - lime, evergreen and gold - misting with a little water and then roughly applying it to the wreath until the surface was covered. I dried it off with a heat gun and then covered any bits that I'd missed on the first coat. Once it was dry, I dabbed a gold ink pad over the raised areas to add some shimmer.

Once the wreath was made, I created my trees using some of the left over paper from my card last week and the same technique. You can find all the details of how I made it HERE

I used the largest bunting die in my set with the next 2 down as these were a perfect fir for the wreath. I assembled the trees and glued these to the wreath with dimensional adhesive.

I stamped my chosen text on some spray overflow sheet scraps in my bits box and added these to dark grey mats before gluing them to the trees.