Hello there, Chris has asked me to do a guest blog spot on his new shop, to showcase a couple of products from his store. I will link the items I used from his shop, so go ahead and click on the links if you want to know more...
I have been having fun creating flowers from some altered painted paper scraps and making them into simple cards recently. I watched a video on YouTube by creationsceecee that got me all inspired!
I made several on card bases I made from cutting sheets of Neenah Solar White cardstock in half and scoring them to make side fold standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch cards...Neenah SW is letter sized, coming as it does from America.
For the first few cards I used the Helmar Craft glue, one of my all-round favourite adhesives, but I soon switched to Ranger Multi Medium Matte, as it was easier to manage neatly on these smaller pieces.
I have been having fun creating flowers from some altered painted paper scraps and making them into simple cards recently. I watched a video on YouTube by creationsceecee that got me all inspired!
I made several on card bases I made from cutting sheets of Neenah Solar White cardstock in half and scoring them to make side fold standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch cards...Neenah SW is letter sized, coming as it does from America.
For the first few cards I used the Helmar Craft glue, one of my all-round favourite adhesives, but I soon switched to Ranger Multi Medium Matte, as it was easier to manage neatly on these smaller pieces.
Use what you have to hand to make these, I did...
The envelope looks nice with a similar decoration added too...
While making the pile of white cards I also wondered what they would look like on kraft card, so I used the 225gsm A5 natural brown kraft card from Paper House. To make the cards I simply score each piece in half and as this card is metric sized, I have lovely weight 15cm x10.5cm cards...
In case you are wondering about the colour of this kraft card, I took this photograph of one of the cards lying beside a piece of Neenah Desert Storm kraft, as a comparison. The Neenal is smoother and lighter, the natural kraft is warmer in colour and a little rougher in texture.
In case you are wondering about the colour of this kraft card, I took this photograph of one of the cards lying beside a piece of Neenah Desert Storm kraft, as a comparison. The Neenal is smoother and lighter, the natural kraft is warmer in colour and a little rougher in texture.
For a colour comparison, the small square is Neenah Desert Storm card...
Some more of the gesso and painted cards...the paper on these three cards is an old National Geographic page which altered some time ago with orange oil...the gesso moved the residual surface ink beautifully.
As well as swirling on the gesso to make the circular motifs on the papers I used, I also simply cut circles roughly by hand from scraps of other papers. These had either not been coloured in anyway, such as some lovely creamy textured handmade paper from the Makers Workshop in Burnie, Tasmania, some coloured and sealed pieces and even a small trial heat embossed piece, These scraps would not have responded colourwise to the gesso treatment, so they simply were used to doodle on...
Some are painted and some are doodled...
A couple of cream hand made paper and doodles cards...
Some of the white cards with doodled flowers...I don't doodle very well, but I keep practicing...the thing is to know when to stop! (but isn't that always so?)
Painted paper card detail...
I am making some boxes for these cards and will package them up and will make them available soon as boxed sets in the store, if you are interested in having a look, but do have a try, these are great fun to make.
Well, that's it from me for today...I am sure I will be back from time to time to share with you how I have used some more of the products from Chris's shop...
Bye now,
Di
Well, that's it from me for today...I am sure I will be back from time to time to share with you how I have used some more of the products from Chris's shop...
Bye now,
Di
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