Julie's Crafty Makes

 Hey all! Just wanted to share with you a DL card I've made using Time for Tea Designs collections Hogs & Kisses and Storms Don't Last. Firstly I took a sheet of kraft card and cut out a panel using the scalloped slimline die.  Then using the over the rainbow stencil to ink blend clouds on to the kraft card panel using my time for tea designs beautiful blender brushes and distress oxides - tumbled glass, speckled egg, peacock feathers and black soot. Once I was happy with adequate number of clouds on the panel I then took from my pre-cut and stamped images a pig holding umbrella and splashing in a puddle.  To add colour to the image I used Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens. Following colouring I decided I would heat emboss a sentiment in white along the bottom of the kraft card panel. To heat emboss I started by taking the sentiment stamp 'the greater the storm the brighter the rainbow' and sticking it to an acrylic block before adding Versamark ink to it and stampi...

Hey everyone, hope you are all well! Today I have decided to share a card I made which contains two moving elements and makes me think of a lovely spring day. To start of with I got out a 6 by 6 card blank from Crafters Companion in centura pearl baby blue, before finding two different light green shades of card - one of which I cut out a slight line of grass to the top of panel and the over a curved edge of grass and the wavy slider element. The grass edges and the slider bar I used is from Time for Tea designs landscape edge standalone dies. I then decided how much of each grass panel I wanted where before sticking down the lighter grass panel down as this would be behind the darker panel with slider element.  I then lined the darker panel to where it looked right and stuck down just the strip that had been cut out as this would sit behind the slider element. Next on to making the slider element I took the grass panel which I had cut the slider element out off, placed a 1p coin b...

 Hey everyone, hope you are all well! So I cant believe we are already half way through February already - wow how has that happened!  Just to remind you all to get your entries into the challenge over at Color it - Create it - Show it off blog, and the theme is anything goes so get those entries in. So with February's main focus being valentines day along with pancake day; I've decided to steer away from this theme with this card and make a home sweet home card which would be perfect for a new home card, thinking of you or a card just to write a message in to send to a friend whom you may not be able to see because of the current restrictions.                                                        So firstly I took a piece of white card and my autumn leaves stencil from time for tea designs along with a palette kn...

Hey all! So as promised here is my blog post explaining how I go about mass die cutting and stamping coordinating collections. Firstly I take several sheets of my silky smooth ultra white card (A4) and cut it down into either A5 or A6 pieces depending on the number of dies in the collection to cut out; for today’s purpose I have cut them in half so have A5 pieces of card. For today's demonstration I am using Time for Tea designs Beavering Away collection along with Time for Tea designs Be Kind Be You collection. The next step was to take the dies out of their packaging, as it was the first time using these collections there were a few dies inside each other so I had to remove the inner die by cutting the connectors using my jewellery pliers. Onto my Gemini cutting plate I then placed a piece of the A5 sized card I’d trimmed down and then I  placed the dies I was going to use face down - with the cutting edge against the paper. Ensuring adequate space between any loose dies so that ...

Hi all! So today I thought I'd share with you another card I've made using Sherri Baldy's My Besties Gnome 3.  In this card I collaborated the digi image with a Pink Ink Designs stencil along with Time For Tea Designs sentiment stamps and a die.   I started off by reaching for a 7 by 7 white card blank, I then chose that I would use distress oxides inks in the following colours for the background: wilted violet, seedless preserve and abandoned coral.  In order to keep my stencil in place I used a small strip of masking tape to hold the stencil to my glass mat where the stencil over hanged the card blank.  Firstly using the abandoned coral before moving onto seedless preserve and finally wilted violet I blended the inks over the stencil using my Time for Tea Designs medium blender brushes - with these I have a separate brush for nearly each colour oxide however you can just have one brush per colour family: red, blue, green, purple, yellow, orange, pink and black alon...