Crafting with Maria Simms

Spent the morning embossing card with stencils and then highlighting the embossing with brushing techniques with wax and inks.

Afternoon was spent playing with the Groovi plate - still does not float my boat now that I have tried it.

Female 21st Birthday

This was the project card from Nina Craft's last year.

 

Card adapted for Female footballer.

 

I lengtened the hair on the footballer stamp, to turn it from male to female.

 



 

Comissioned Card for same birthday.  Birds and letters - Clarity Stamp - flowers Little Claire.

April Card Swaps

The themes for the two card swaps I am taking part in this month are "Watch the Birdie" and "Smile".  Both made me think of taking pictures of birds.  I came up with the following design which was to include a camera embellishment, but it made the card look unbalanced, so I added the word smile instead.  I made one card for each swap and one to keep - tough decision - as each one was layered up differently.

April 17th - Maria Simms Workshop

Here are my finished cards and wall hanging from the workshop that Maria ran.

First Project - Had to add a greeting of my choice when I returned home. 

 

Second Project - Played with grunge paste and gold leaf.

Made the topper and choice was ours to make a walling hanging or a card.

 

 

Project 3 - This was Maria's card (lilac) that she allowed people to take a picture of so they could finish their cards when they got home - mine in the orange one.

 

 

Project 4 - stamping and embossing in black and colouring in with spectrum noir pencils.  I don't have these pencils, however I have some metallic pencils so used  those instead.  Again, first card is hers, which we were allowed to take a picture of, so we had something to work towards when we got home.  Fortunately, I had the same stamp at home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catch Up

Cards I have made but never got put in a posting on this blog - Sue Wilson calls them Orphans.

Male 50th Birthday

 

Stamps and stencils from Clarity Stamps, except for 50 which is from Inky Doodles.

Maria Simms Workshop

Coming soon near me (Scunthorpe) a Maria Simms Clarity Stamp Workshop, I had better start saving those pennies.

Here are the cards made at the previous workshops I have attended

November 2014

The snow is a Little Claire Glitter Adhesive Sheet I added when I got home.

Just added Glitter Adhesive Sheet to the wings

 

April 2014

Male Teenager Birthday Cards

 

Boy from Molly Blooms, Statue of Liberty from TabbyKat, Map from a clear set of stamps.

Greeting from Clarity Stamps.  Coke bottle is a button.

 

Happy Birthday stamp from Little Claire.  Laptop and headphones from Dimension Stamps.

Commissioned Cards

Two cards I was recently asked to create - a card for a girl who sings in a 50/60s band and a cricket playing gentleman.

 

Background stamps and record stamp from Dimension Crafts, Saying stamp from Indigo Blu and Paper Nation people.

 

Mixture of stamp sets used.

Male Birthday Card

For a chess-man nephew I wanted to create some cards that were not pictures of the chess board and the chess pieces.  Thankfully the Little Claire man set of stamps arrived in time so that I could create a Knight card and a Castle card.

February 2014

Challenge Card - Theme 'Diamonds'

Back in December at Craft Club the theme was Mask & Masquerade.  I took this stamp along but never got around to making a card with it.  Hels theme for her latest Sunday Stamper is Diamonds which makes me think of rings and harlequins.  So I dug the stamp out and made a card.

 

The background music paper is from a pack I got from Chocolate Baraque.  I inked through an Imagination Crafts Diamond stencil over the top of this.  The Music message was created using stamps from Clarity.  The Harlequin stamp is from Crimson Cloud.  I also dug out my fiskars punches and some of my prick and punch patterns that I have not used in a while.  The grey around the Harlequin image is stronger in the picture than it is in real life.  The Harlequin image was 'coloured in' by paper piecing.

January 2014

Joanna Sheen Forum - Card Swap - Theme 'Dream Holiday'

 

Topper backgrounds created using alcohol inks and dabbing with the tool - all the stamps used are wood mounted.

 

Card Swap - Theme Bird Houses/Cages

 

I did a bird table!!  Card inspired by one I saw on a Sue Wilson show on the telly.

 

Liked the idea of the really off-centre topper.

 

Main image is from Clarity Stamp.

 

November

Joanna Sheen Card Swap Card - Theme House and Home

 

I made this card after I had been to a charity event at BJ Crafts near Kings Lynn.

 

I was pleased with my brick wall - Kraft Card Embossed with a brick effect stencil.  Coloured through the stencil with distress inks (Butterscotch, milled lavender, metallic brass and antiqued bronze).  Stencil removed and Imagination Craft Sparkle Mediumapplied with a brayer - great colour and texture effect.  Little Claire stamps used.  The embellishment is plated raffia.

 

NB Background paper picked first and then image coloured to tie in with it.

 

Female Birthday

 

Variation on a craft class project.  The same rose in two different sizes from Clarity Stamp, repeated stamped and masked, before being coloured in.  Large female head from Indigoblu - the face does not have that "checked" pattern over it.

 

 

 

For the girl who likes holidays in the sun sipping cocktails.  Stamps from a Dimension Stamps club project set.

 

October

Swap Card

Break out the glitter!  The Magnolia stamp is from Just Ink Lined and the background card is from a set of pattern card and paper that I have had for a while.  You get the same designs in plain version and an all over glittered version.

Male Birthday

A set of stamps from Tabby Kat that I have finally got round to using. 



 

 

The background paper was created by ironing screwed up waxed paper onto ordinary paper and then inking over with a dye based ink pad.

 

 

Used something new on this card - the large bubble stencil from Clarity Stamp.  Inspired by something that I saw Barbara do with the same stencil and the gelli plate.  I did not use the gelli plate, I inked the stencil and "stamped" with it to created the stencil.  All the stamps used are from Clarity except the round birthday greeting stamp.

April Card Swap

Joanna Sheen Card Swap for April - Theme Spring Flowers

Stamps used from Clarity stamp. Backing card and paper from one of my scrap boxes.

Fantasy Butterflies

Today I have been playing with my latest spellbinders die and fantasy film/fibres. The stamps used in this card all come from Clarity Stamp.

The Stampman - June ATC Challenge Swap

This is the first time I have been able to join in this challenge - the theme for this month's swap is - TREES.

The stamps are all from Clarity except for the hillside which is from BJ Crafts.

Collage Hanging

For another swap challenge, I was asked to create a 5 inch square collage wall hanging. I decided to play with a Clarity Collage stamp, and alcohol inks.

The background is corrugated card and magic mesh.