Shabby Chic Flowers

Today I am sharing how I made my Shabby Chic (sounds much better than just plain old shabby) flowers like I used on this card.

To make the black flower I used:

Heavyweight white paper

Black dye ink

Brayer

Spellbinders Blossom Nesitibilities (but blossom type punches will work just as well)

Sanding block and/or emery board

Button or large brad for centre

 

To get the white core I brayered black dye ink on to the white paper, giving a good even coverage.  However you could use any designer paper instead and miss out this part.

 

Cut out three shapes using the three smallest dies in the set, don't bother embossing them

 

Sand the edges of each layer to expose the white core (do this with designer paper as well)

Crumple each layer up well.

Open each layer out but don't straighten the shapes out too much

Apply a strong glue in the centre of each layer - the one I use is clear drying and holds all embellishments really well.

Using wire cutters snip off the shank of the button (you may need to sand this smooth if you don't get a clean cut)

Apply the button to the centre, pushing down well.

And there you have a shabby chic flower, quick and easy

I hope this will be of use to you, and I'm looking forward to seeing lots of shabby chic flowers in blog-land.  Have a great weekend!

hugs

 

Sketch 13 – Create4Fun

Wine Glass Lamp Shade

Today I have a parchment wine glass lamp shade to show you.

I used the following materials
This Pattern
Vellum or parchment, I used pearlescent vellum from Joanna Sheen
Stamps – Whiff of Joy Christmas Candle and Christmas Swirls Collection
Versamark Ink
Gold Detail Embossing Powder
Anti-Static bag or sheet
Embossing tool and firm mat (I used a piece of vinyl flooring as it’s just the right density to emboss on)
Scalloped and straight scissors
Stamp Positioner and dark ink
Wine Glass and battery operated “candle”



Print off the template, cut out and trace on to vellum.  I used scalloped scissors along the bottom edge of the shade.  Ink up the candle stamp with a dark ink and stamp on to stamp positioner.  Rub the vellum with an anti-static bag/sheet to ensure that the embossing powder does not stick to the vellum apart from on the stamped images.  Line up the image on the stamp positioner where you want the main image to be stamped. 



Ink up the candle image with Versamark ink and stamp on to the vellum.  Using the small swirl from the Christmas Swirls set stamp a border along the top and bottom using Versamark Ink.  Emboss with gold detail embossing powder and heat set.



I then flipped the shade over and using the embossing tool embossed the back of the image gently till the vellum turned white.  This really makes the image pop.  I also embossed along the bottom scalloped edge to highlight the scallops.


A close up of the front of the image once it has been embossed


One wine glass candle shade.  All in all it took under 10 minutes to make.


Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas
hugs Bev x

Sketch 12

Side Step and Snowflakes

I have made a side step card as well as what I use to make my snowflake embellishments for the Whiff of Joy Tutorials and Inspirations blog.  This is just a few pics of how I put the card together.

So firstly I designed the template to fit the images. There are lots of templates out there, all very similar but I needed slightly different measurements to fit the images that I wanted to use so made my own (with a ruler, loads of sheets of paper most of which went in the bin and a lot of muttering till I was happy with the sizes). If you want to use this template, click on it to get the full size. This is designed to fit an A4 sheet of card.

Then I decided where I was going to place the designer paper and cut the red mats and DP to fit. I also cut a Spellbinders Fancy Label for the sentiment.

The card taking shape when the papers are added

I chose Wee and reindeer and Wee and Christmastree which I coloured with distress inks and H2O's. I cut the images out and adhered them to smaller die cut Spellbinders Nestibilities Rectangle dies (I did it this way to keep the rectangles small enough not to overwhelm the card). Once I had made the card I decided I wanted a sentiment so cut another couple of rectangles out of red and white card, stamped the sentiment and then adhered this with prepositional tape. This way I can remove the sentiment to write on it and pop it back in place.

Now for the Snowflakes

For the snowflakes I cut several acetate and parchment snowflakes with the Spellbinders Create-a-Flake 1 and I punched out some small snowflakes with a Punch Bunch snowflake punch.

For the acetate snowflakes I coat the acetate die cut with Glossy Accents and then dip it in to a tub of Twinklets (push down on the back of the die cut to make sure it is coated properly). I prefer Glossy Accents as it does not shrink when it dries and is nice and thick to grip the Twinklets. Allow this to dry (I usually place mine on a radiator as I am too impatient to wait for it to dry naturally).

For the Parchment snowflakes, cut and emboss the snowflakes (I use Pergamano parchment paper but any parchment will do). Go around the edge of the snowflakes with a Krylon Silver Leafing pen and allow to dry. Then apply some Stickles Stardust to the raised, embossed parts and allow to dry.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sketch 11

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