Happy Monday lovely That's Crafty! Creatives.

Today's project is all about the Gel Press and a quirky stamp by Art by Marlene. 

I spent the day on Saturday making backgrounds on my Gel Press plate with a pal, and it inspired me to use one for today's project. The Jigsaw Plate is such a fun little plate to work with, and it means you can build up a fabulous unique design.

...you're going to paint them black so that they're silhouetted. I then cut them out to give a crisper outline.

I stencilled a yellow moon using Distress Oxides and the A4 circle stencil, then inked in the whole piece of card.

 

Then I inked just round the edge of the moon with the Weathered Wood Distress Oxide inkpad to make it stand out.

After that it's just a case of building up the stamping with trees, the scarecrow, the stalky things and the bird.

Add some bats with Craftyboard and a Dinky stencil.

 Hello!

 

I have a tutorial this week on how I created the cover for the brand new shaped journal from That's Crafty! that came out earlier this month. It was designed to fit the gorgeous new mask by Melina Dahl which of course can be used in lots of other projects as I'll be showing over the next few weeks.

So the first thing I did was to use the mask with texture paste to add a pattern round the edges. As it was quite difficult to avoid getting the paste over the edge of the mask, I decided to roll with it and used a palette knife to apply more paste in the centre.

I then took some Multi Surface Paints in Pink, Green and Yellow and diluted them slightly with water. I used them to paint the pattern of flowers and leaves around the edges.

I decided to paint the centre so used diluted Yellow and Pink brushed lightly over the paste. The effect is subtle but tones perfectly with the outer edge.

I stamped Melina's gorgeous new Floral Butterfly stamp on stamping card with dark brown ink and coloured the image with watercolour markers. I then cut the image out and added it to the front using scraps leftover MDF to raise up various areas.

 

 

I finished off with some inspirational text from the That's Crafty! Lots of Words set, stamped with dark brown ink on ink spray overflow scraps that toned with the background and added them to dark brown mats before gluing in place.

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Well after a weekend crafting in Greece I returned with a most unwanted gift and have really struggled to do anything for the last 10 days. Thankfully I had made and written up last weeks blog project so that went ahead seamlessly. However, whilst I had made this project I had not written it up so I am afraid there will be a much more limited tutorial today but still I still wanted to do something.

 

Sweet Village was inspired by one of the latest moulds by Stamperia - Sweet Village. I started by casting the pieces using Amazing Casting Resin and once they had cured painted them with either the White Primer Paste (buildings) or Black Primer Paste (accessories). Once the primer had dried I painted the houses using two different blue paints - Blue Aviation and Prussian Blue. Once the paints had dried I then used the White Vintage Patina Gel all over the pieces before wiping back to reveal the detail.

The lamp posts and sign posts were treated with a little of the White Vintage Patina Gel and then the details highlighted with gold metallic wax. The bench was painted with chocolate paint with the Grey Vintage Patina used to bring out the details and then a little more wax.

 

To provide a home for my scene I then covered a Round Top Shadow Box with papers from the 12x 12 Winter Tales paper collection before constructing the box component. To the edge of the Shadow Box I then added a thick layer of snow using Pentart Snow Paste.

Finally I put my houses in place. I hope my normal in depth tutorials will resume next week and in the mean time I wish you a safe and enjoyable week ahead.

Happy Monday That's Crafty! Creatives. Hope your weekend has been full of lovely things.

For today's project I've decorated a glass jar - perfect for these dark, winter nights, and a quick enough make that you can do a set of them in an evening.

I started with a piece of That's Crafty! Surfaces Tea Bag Paper and one of Melina Dahl's fabulous ATCoin Stamp Set 9.

I stamped the image with Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves and coloured in with a  selection of That's Crafty! Multi Surface paints in Green, Orange, Yellow and Christmas Red. I added water to the paints so they weren't as opaque. 

Once painted, I traced round each image with a paintbrush and water, let it soak through then carefully tore around the image. 

To adhere the stamped images to my glass jar I used Pentart Decoupage Varnish and Glue pasted on the back, then pasted gently over the top when positioned on the jar. Once dry, I applied That's Crafty! 3D Gloss Gel Medium with a soft paint brush in a dabbing motion to cover the blank areas of the jar, then let dry.

To finish I painted a rough layer of That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint Metallic Bronze around the rim of the jar, and added Studio Light Fairy Lights inside. 

A really quick project but really pretty and effective!

The moon is made using the A4 Circles stencil.

Then I stamped some trees in purple.

I randomly stamped the background in Medieval Blue.

 This has an Autumn feel to it, or maybe Hallowe'en, I'm not sure?

Anyway I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I made it.