Julie's Crafty Makes

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...

Hey everyone,  So today I wanted to share a penny slider card that I've made using Time for Tea Designs Workout pigs. Firstly I cut a piece of laminate wood effect paper measuring 148mm by 63mm and a piece of silver mirror card to 148mm by 84mm.  Then on the wood effect paper I placed the larger slider element die from the hooray hamsters set roughly in the centre before then running it through my Gemini machine.   The idea was to have a pig skipping moving with the slider element, therefore the next step was to colour the pig and skipping rope handles using Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens and then adhered to skipping rope to the pigs trotters using Gert's glue. Next I stuck down the silver mirror card panel to the top of a 6 by 6 black card blank. Putting together the slider element you need a penny (well any coin will do but a penny is the cheapest), then I stuck 4 square foam pads across the coin and then stuck another row on top given it slight dimension.  I ch...

Hey all! I hope you are all well - how are those new years resolutions going?  So today I'm sharing a fun card for those who decided to workout more this year but however due -to the weather and lock-down are finding they are eating / pigging-out more.   So firstly before I even knew that I was going to make this card I spent some time mass die-cutting and stamping some of my new release sets from Time for Tea designs; the new sets are  Happy Mail Critters ,  Workout Pigs  and  Smitten Kittens .  I will share on a later blog the process I use for my mass die cutting and stamping.   Once I had decided to use the workout pigs I started by colouring the pigs in using Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens. With the triblend pens I use the lighter shade first, before adding the darker shade to where shadows are, then using the mid shade going over the edge of the dark shade blending it in and going over most of image but leaving the areas which light would...

Hey everyone, glad you have taken the time to stop by and check out my latest blog post.  Today I'm sharing a card I have made using Time for Tea Designs products in particular the autumn scene cover plate die set as I have been meaning to use this for a while now just never got opportunity or idea to inspire me.  So my thought for this card was to create a scene of a teddy bears picnic under the tree with them sitting on a rug but as you can see that idea changed slightly. Firstly I die cut the autumn scene cover plate set - the frame, tree, and clouds in white card and the hills along with the leaves in a pale light green card. I then place the frame, tree and hills on top of an A6 white card blank and marked lightly in pencil where the edge of the frame was at the top and where the top of the hills were too - I did this to give a guide of the area I needed ensure adequate to ink blending. For the ink blending I initially used spun sugar and crackling camp distress oxides bu...