Cleverprints Blog 14

 Cleverprints

Hi - and this week's 'make' is a simple card, comprising images from 'Build Me Up' stamp sets. The initial design evolved into something completely different. Enjoy!

Build Me Up Butterfly Card

Materials:-

Cleverprints Products

• Stamps - Flower  Fragments, Bugs and Bits
• Stencil - Dizzy Daisy

Extras

• Ink Pads - Versafine Clair Nocturne; Distress Oxides - Ripe Persimmon, Dried Marigold, Crackling Campfire, Vintage Photo
• Alcohol Markers 
• Card - Whit, Black, Kraft

Instructions:-

1. Stamp small circle series stamp from 'Bugs and Bits' set with black on white card. Stamp this image onto a sticky note and trim. Reserve. (Please ignore the score lines throughout all photos - originally intended to include these but trimmed them off in the end.)

2. Stamp two large petals as 'wings' - one on either side of initial image. Stamp two more petals on a sticky note and trim. Add onto stamped image.

3. Add to stamped image.

4. Stamp two smaller petals for lower wings.

 

5. Stamp images from 'Flower Fragments' to form first flower, using sticky note masks to prevent areas from being over-stamped.'

6. Repeat for second flower.

7. Add stems and leaves, masking where required.

8. Colour. Add background stamps in a toning colour. Blend Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon and Crackling Campfire lightly over card maintaining darker tones around the perimeter. 

9. Mat onto black card. Set aside.  

9. Attach stencil to another white card. Blend Vintage Photo Oxide over. Remove stencil and apply more Vintage Photo to deepen colour around edges. 

10. Attach main image onto stencilled image, trim and mat onto black then Kraft card. 

Et voila! Build Me Up Butterfly card. 

Meantime, happy crafting!

Best wishes,

Shelagh,

'The Making Lady.' 

 

Cleverprints Blog 13

Cleverprints

Hello and welcome! 

This week's project is a slight deviation from the norm and something I wished to explore for some time. Details and photos below as usual. 

Quilling with Patterned Flower Stamps

Materials:-

Cleverprints Products 

• Patterned Flowers - Swirly Flower

Extras

• Quilling Tool - split needle; a needle lodged in a wine cork may be used at a push
• Quilling Strips or coloured paper cut from long side of A4 paper to width 1/8th inch
• Glue
• Ink Pad
• Alcohol Markers

*My quilling accoutrements - tool and strips - were from a well known book/craft store but I also have similar which were craft magazine free gifts. 

Instructions:-

1. Stamp large flower image and trim along black outside lines.

2. Colour stamped image with alcohol markers - colours to match quilling strips. 

3. Colour some outside petals green for (leaves.)

4. Select strip to complement circles in flower centre. Beginning with the largest, coil a strip and place into largest circle on board. Remove carefully without unwinding coil, place a spot of wet glue to adhere outside edge of strip thus forming a secure coil. 

5. Adhere coil to largest circle. Continue until all central circles are covered. 

6. Form coils in the same manner to fit the four largest outside shapes, this time pinching both ends once the end of strip has been adhered to the coil. (Almost an 'eye' shape.) Adhere to stamped image as before.

*Use shorter strips for the smaller petals. 

 

7. For leaves, cut strips into quarters and 'quill' as before. Attach. 

8. Continue until complete.

9. Adhere quilled flower to card and draw a pencil line stem. Quill a number of leaf shapes from short strips of green paper and adhere over pencil line to form stem. (Check main photo.)

10. Edge card with toning alcohol marker. 

*(I decided to leave the surrounding 'white' space unadorned.) 

Et voila! A 'swirly' quilled flower. 

Thanks for looking in. 

As always,

Happy crafting!

Shelagh

'The Making Lady.'

 

Cleverprints Blog 12

 Cleverprints

Hi and welcome to Blog 12. Exciting times with the introduction of new stamp sets by Jane Royston - the 'Build Me Up' set comprising Bugs and Bits set, Floral Fragments set and Positive Affirmation set. The beauty of these stamps is that the images may be used to make large or small projects - the choice is entirely yours. Today's example is on the small side! 

Mini journal

Materials:-

Cleverprints products:-

• Build Me Up set - Bugs and Bits, Floral Fragments, Positive Affirmations

https://www.cleverprints.co.uk

Extras:-

• Ink Pads - Black (Versafine Clair Nocturne) 
• Card for mini journal - 2 strips measuring 7 3/4in x 2 1/2in (these were offcuts from my scraps box); 
• Coloured squares - Ombre ink pads swiped over A6 card and cut into 2in x 2in squares, all edged with a black marker pen. 

• Alcohol Markers

Instructions:-

1. Two strips of card 2 1/2in x 7 3/4in, each scored at 2 1/2, 5, 7 1/2in leaving 1/4in at the end. Glue the end 1/4in of one strip and attach second to form a zig zag book as in photo. 

2. Bugs and Bits and Floral Fragments stamp sets.

3. Stamp a selection from both sets on coloured squares and extra 'bugs' to layer over. Colour with toning alcohol markers. 

4. Stamp a selection from Positive Affirmation stamp set.

5. Adhere one square to each 'page' of journal. Trim out selected affirmation, edge with black alcohol marker and attach, one to each square. 

 

6. Repeat on reverse side. 

Et voila!

Thank you for looking in and as ever,

Happy crafting!

Shelagh

'The Making Lady'

Cleverprints Blog 11

 Dances with Waves!

Hi and welcome. Today's project - a sea scene for the sunny day we have here, even warm down at the beach despite the north east coast breeze. Included is a quick way to create a watery background, too.   

Materials:-

    Cleverprints Products:- Stamps - Nautilus, Jellifish sets

Extras:- 

• Ink Pads - Black, Turquoise
• Colouring Medium - I used Inktense Ink Blocks 
• Card - White; Turquoise - Light and Dark for matting layers
• Brayer
• Garden Twine

Instructions:-

1. Using black ink pad stamp Nautilus once on white card.

2. Stamp again onto a sticky note and trim - this is a mask to cover the stamped image.

3. Attach over stamped image. 

4. Stamp Nautilus tentacles over masked image - and off the foot of the page -  to create sea grass. 

5. Remove barrel from roller and secure garden twine at one barrel end with a knot. Wrap twine around the length and secure at other end, once again with a knot.

 

6. Roll brayer over turquoise ink; apply over stamped image - MASK IN PLACE!

Repeat as required.

7. Stamp sentiment over masked image and anywhere else to suit!

8. Layer onto backgrounds - the final blue layer is a shimmery spray background from stash. 

9. Scribble chosen colours onto card, pick up with waterbrush and colour 'grass' areas. 

10. Continue in this way to complete then flick over some watered down Inktense. 

. . . And there we have it - the 'naughty nautilus' as my husband referred to it when he photographed it on my behalf. 

As ever, happy crafting!

Shelagh 'The Making Lady'

Cleverprints Blog 10

 Journal Page 2

A second addition to my journal comprising two stamp sets and three stencils - all from Cleverprints. 

Materials:-

• Stamps - So Sweet, Ice Cream?
• Stencils - #024 Lollipop, #025 So Sweet, #040 Shape Fun
• Ink Pads - Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow; Versafine Clair Morning Mist
• Colouring Pencils
• Cardstock

1. Stamp a frame using grey ink pad and the small rectangular stamp from the set above. 

2. Stamp the main image from 'So Sweet' stamp set in grey, as before. 

3. Colour as per photographs.

5. Trim image.

6. Attach image over frame. 

7. Create two backgrounds - one slightly larger than the other - using the three stencils listed along with pink, red, orange and yellow ink pads - all blended over.

8. Adhere stamped image onto background 1 then stencil 'SWEET' at each side.

Et Voila! Today's project. 

Thanks so much for looking in.

Back next week with another creation!

Happy crafting.

Shelagh

'The Making Lady.' 

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