15 BAG GIVEAWAY!!!

Evening all!

I hope you have all had a lovely crafty or cozy evening!

Bit chilly here in Scotland!

Anyway, if you would like a huge goodiebag for nowt, then enter my draw!!

All of the info is....... ------> HERE!

Loads of brand new stuff up for grabs to fifteen lucky people!

Home made Promarker storage!

Hi all!

I have noticed a few people asking me how I store my promarkers and my various pens that I use on every card I make.

Well, until I received all of Mum's craft stash, I was storing them in the official letraset storage cases that hold 24 pens in one case.

I had about 60 colours, so this meant individual cases which became a pain in the backside when I was crafting away and needed to see all of my available colours at once!

I was also limited for desk space, unless I worked on the floor!

When I received Mum's stash, I discovered where all of her promarker pens were stored!

Here is a nifty, compact and most of all, PRACTICAL way to store all of your promarkers, or indeed copics or any pens you use.

This box holds one of EVERY promarker available and still has some space!

Mum used a small flower punch on sticky backed paper to put on the end of the pens once she had coloured them so that you can see clearly at a glance what colours you have! :D

Stamp Sorting: Take One!

Well, those of you who have been following me know that I have been sorting out my Mums craft stash into mine...and what a job it was!

For those of you who didn't get the update...I will put pics on here later!

Well, she had 27 folders full of stamps, plus there are my stamps plus the additional BOX of stamps which are new still in packaging!

I am taking it upon myself to organise them today!

They are totally mixed up!!

Here are SOME of the folders....

Wish me luck...

A card with brayering....take one!

Well, today I decided to get the brayer out and to attempt  the cards that Mum used to make. She did teach me how to do some of it once, but I have not picked it up since and could not remember much of it.

First attempt was the basic task of making a sky and water background on silk card.

The brayer Mum used!

I now have loads of these, I chose "Waterfall" as I am creating a water and sky background!

One mask and some crinkled paper later.....

One background!

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OK, so once I had figured this out I decided to make a replica of one of Mums cards in her DoCrafts gallery...

Here is hers...

So...I got the stuff out and here we go!!

Image stamped with Momento Ink pad onto silk card.

Image Dippy toe stamp from clarity...not sure if that is it's real name but Mum always called it that!

I used this 3/4" stamp (now I know why she had it) to punch out a moon mask from a post it note! Make sure some of the sticky bit is on it.

Mask off the moon and the waterline to colour the sky.

Ink up the brayer as usual and then roll the excess off onto scrap paper and then fade at the edge of the brayer in the usual way :)

One coloured sky!

Mask off the sky to colour the water.

Ink up the brayer and take of the excess onto a crumpled piece of paper. Voilà  The ripples are transferred to the brayer!

Both areas are coloured and the water has a ripple effect.

Remove the moon mask to reveal the stamp below.

Trim to size.

Backing papers and peel offs.

scoring the backing card from A4.

Main image layered onto two pieces of card.

Corner peel offs added in three parts each.

Main lines added around edges of the backing card and then around the edges of the image and layers.

I added some ceramic roses to compliment the design as Mum did with silk roses.

Roses mounted with syllicone glue.

Peel off design.

Main image mounted.

                          Mums                                                                            Mine

How did she do this???

OK, so looking through Mum's gallery on facebook and docrafts, there is a lot of barbera grey stuff in there.

One of the main techniques she used was the brayer.

Now, she did teach me but it was years ago and I have totally forgotten how to do this.

I have all the kit needed and all the stamps....there are templates of the words "Love" etc with the centre circles cut out....

Do any of you have any idea how she will have created this card? Just the stamping techniques I mean with masking etc...

I know that there are several layers of card here all done seperately, the main thing I am concerned with it the stamping and colouring of the inside of the letter "O" and also, how did she do the backing card?

I am guessing some kind of brayer technique with scrunched card? but how did she get the leave pattern which is a barbera grey stamp to remain clear?

Mimi storage!

So,

I decided to use my Mums little mimi tote for my essential tools and stickies for when I am making any card :D

Who would have known that you would need so many little things!!

I also put in mini tubs of little embellishments that I seem to use on all cards, gems and such :)

I have my scissors, sticky pads, glues, rollers, pens, picky tools, embellishments, and even some glitter in there!

Mum was using it for something similar I think judging by what was in it, but alas, she was disorganised!

Job well done I think!!! :D

Oh - and flowersoft tubs once empty are amazing for glitter and gems!

Cuttlebuggy goodness - OH MY!

Box upon box of cuttlebug, sizzix and spellbinders folders and templates!

All of these were Mum's and she obviously decided on storing them in an interesting way!

She actually managed to organise something AND save space!! If you knew my mother, you would realise that this is as amazing as the first person to slice bread  :P

I do not even want to count how much stuff there is here or the cost! I think Dad might keel over if he knew!

She stored the embossing folders and dye cuts in CD cases with the magnetic wallets from asda for pictures to put on the fridge!!

Amazing idea!

CD case with embossing folders on right and brass templates on left!

Brilliant way to store all the spellbinders stuff!

Cuttlebug embossing folders

Nesties! All stored on magnetic plates! You never loose them!

Embossing folders galore!

Impressibilities, nestibilities and shapeabilities on the left, embossing folders on the right with some cuttlebug dye cuts!

Three boxes of stuff for the cuttlebug!!