2 Mixed Media workshops in Cork

Hello everyone,
We would love to invite you to join us for full day workshop in Cork.
More details on the poster.

Here is the link to our facebook group and event where you will receive all updates:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1374274016205035/?ref_notif_type=like&source=1

Hope to see you there,
Marta & Sylwia xx

December Sketch Challenge

Good morning and Happy December 1st! 

To mark the last month of 2014 we here at Cardz 'n' Scrapz have decided to have a fun sketch challenge. We have a fantastic prize of a €25 voucher for the Cardz 'n' Scrapz store and all you have to do is  create something using the sketch below and share it with us!! 

You can create whatever you want - a card, a layout, a mixed media or Off The Page item. You can flip it, twist it, turn it around, add a bit, remove a bit... we want to see your interpretation of it. However, we must be able to see the sketch in your project/s. 

The challenge will be open from December 1st through to 11.59pm (GMT) December 31st and we will pick a winner shortly after the closing date. 

To get those creative juices flowing we have both a 12 x 12 scrapbook layout and a card to inspire you with. Both projects were made following the sketch and using Prima Marketing's new Cigar Box Secrets collection. 

Products used:

Cigar Box Secrets Double Sided Cardstock 12X12 Figurados

Cigar Box Secrets Double Sided Cardstock 12X12 Perfecto

Cigar Box Secrets Paper Pad 6X6

Cigar Box Secrets Cardstock Die Cuts - Ephemera

Cigar Box Secrets Flowers Paper Volado

Cigar Box Secrets Flowers Paper Lonsdale

Cigar Box Secrets Flowers Paper Maduro

Tim Holtz Idea Ology Chitchat Stickers
American Crafts Thickers
Viva Decor Pearl Pen

To Enter:

• Create a project using the sketch provided
• Post a link to your entry in the Inlinkz below. Please link directly to your blog post and not your whole blog. 
• If you don't have a blog you can share with us by posting to your Facebook, or any online gallery, and share the link with us. If using Facebook, please ensure that photo is set to Public or we won't be able to see it. 
• Entries must be submitted by 11.59pm on December 31st, 2014
• You can enter as many times as you like, using a separate link for each entry. 
• Competition is open Ireland, United Kingdom and Europe only. 

Looking forward to seeing your entries!!

Cardz 'n' Scrapz Team

Enchanted Garden Book Box Card

Hi! It's Sandie here today and (sadly) I am sharing my last design team post for Cardz 'n' Scrapz. I have loved being on this team and have enjoyed every moment of working with the rest of the team. Alas, all good things must come to an end :) 

 I made a Book Box Card featuring the Enchanted Garden 6x6 paper pad

Supplies:

Enchanted Garden 6x6 paper pack

Ribbon

Embellishments of choice. 

6" x 10.5" piece of White cardstock for the base

5 7/8" piece of medium turquoise cardstock x 4

5.75" piece of white cardstock x 2

5 5/8" piece of patterned paper x 4

For the  book 'pages'

7.5" x 5.5" pieces of cardstock x 2

7.5" x 4.75" pieces of cardstock x 2

Tools

Paper Trimmer

Scoreboard

Adhesives - Wet glue and/or Double Sided Tape

1. Place the 6" x 101/2" piece of cardstock horizontally (landscape orientation) on the scoreboard. Score at 5" and again at 51/2"

2. Fold along the score lines to form an 8" x 5" card with a 1/2" spine. 

Concertina fold (mountain, valley, mountain, valley, etc.) the two 7.5" x 5.5" pieces of cardstock and the two 7.5" x 4.75" pieces of cardstock at 3/4" intervals. (Note that the 7.5" x 4.75" pieces are scored and folded across the short length). 

To assemble the book frame take one of the long pieces and one of the short pieces, weave the folds together and use glue on the top and bottom to hold it in place. Once you have all 4 pieces secured set it aside.You will get a much better fit if your folds are precise and even.

On the front and back of the Book Box Card I layered up the medium turquoise card, the white card and then the patterned paper. On both sides of the inside I left out the white card panel between the turquoise and patterned paper. 

Note: Add  your ribbon to the front and back of the base before adhering the front and back panels. 

Decorate the box as desired. I used Prima flowers, rhinestones, pearls, Papermania bows and other paper flowers. 

And that is it from me :) 

Thank you so much for dropping by

Sandie

xXx

Mermaid Dreams

Hello lovelies,

I am back today with my last project for the design team with Cardz'n'Scrapz.  It has been an absolute pleasure, I have loved every minute of it, the end of something lovely :)  I have enjoyed sharing my work with you all so much.

For my last project I created a canvas, as it had been a while since I had played with one.   I created a back ground from the lovely Bo Bunny Enchanted Garden papers and played with white gesso and paste with the Prima star stencil by Finnibair.  The kraft dollies made great waves to place at the bottom of the canvas.  Loved how this paper collection allowed me try colours I would never have picked myself.

Lace, mosaic glass stones, wood flourishes, ribbon, and petaloo flowers where used as embellishments.  I also did some random stamping to add dimension with a Prima stamp and my Archival Ink from Ranger.

I hope you like this project.  Sending big goodbye waves to you all.

Hugs Mandyxxx

'Perfect Memory' layout by Marta + VIDEO tutorial

Hello there,

It's Marta here today. I am back with new layout for September and video tutorial.
To create this project I used Prima and  Bo Bunny Paper Pad.
To create backround I used Prima stencil and sprays from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

Some beautiful embellishments are flowers from Petaloo,  Wood Flourishes Clam Shell
and Petaloo Paper Doilies.

I added some mosaic glass stones and mini shells. As for final touches I added summer chipboards.

Here is a complete step by step tutorial created specially for you.
I hope you will enjoy it :)

Marta xx

Dare to explore - mixed media canvas by Sylwia

Hello Arty Souls!

This is my final project as a DT for Cardz' n' Scrapz. I have to say that it was a big pleasure to be able to create for them with all the beautiful products from the shop. And also to meet other DT members- creative, talented souls!!!! Thank You Cardz'n'Scrapz for this opportunity!

Today I prepared for you a brave project:) I decided to use pastel colours and black feathers!!!

Enjoy!!!

Products I used:

Bo Bunny Paper Pad

Elementals Stencils Bubbles by Prima

Petaloo Darjeeling Paper Wild Blooms 

 Wood Flourishes Clam Shell

Feather Picks

Mosaic Stones

 

It was a brave project but I like it, because it is important to 'Dare to Explore' new materials and new colours!!!

Thank you for looking at all my projects:)

Feel free to visit my blog:

www.tandiart.blogspot.iehttp://tandiart.blogspot.com/ 

Love,

Sylwia

Enchanted Garden

Hi! It's Sandie here and today I have a card to share which features Bo Bunny's Enchanted Garden paper collection. 

These papers are amazing and, with a little fussy cutting, you don't need any embellishments. 

The card is 120mm x 148mm kraft base with a 115mm x 143mm white panel. 

The butterflies on the book page is from one of the papers in the pack. I used the same paper again and fussy cut the butterflies, adhering them just along the bodies so that the wings could stand up. I layered a Lacey Circle between the panels. 

I also fussy cut some flowers on the banner and the postage from other papers in the pack.  Finally, I applied some liquid pearls around the card and on the Lacey Circle. 

Products used:

Kraft & White Cardstock

Bo Bunny Enchanted Garden

Spellbinders Lacey Circles

Liquid Pearls

Double Sided Tape

Tacky Glue

Sandie

xXx

' Follow your feelings' by Marta

Hello in September ;)
It's Marta here.
Today I wish to show you my art journal pages. I created my spread in an old book. You can purchase book like that in every second hand store. Pages are old and brownish which I love.
When you will look closer you will be able to see that I have used my book upside down :) I like this kind of effect.
I used images from beautiful paper pad BoBunny (Enchanted Garden).
I sticked the cut outs from the papers and created some sort of composition.

You can also see beautiful Petaloo Paper Doilies. It added extra dimention to the project.
The brown colour around the edges was created with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.
I love how this turned out - like an old, rusted image.
Here is more phots as I could not limit myslef to only 2 or 3 as I loooved them all.
Those cute wording are from Cosmo Cricket - tiny text stickers.

Products used:

 

I hope you have enjoyed this creation.
My next inspiration will have a video tutorial ! I hope I can see you here again.
Sending you lots creative hugs,
Marta xx

Mindful Layout

Hello!!!

Hope all of you are well!  Here is my project with the beautiful kit we received for September.

This is a layout of sorts.  It has no picture to it.  I wanted to try something different.  The purpose is that I will place this near my desk and the colours, shapes and embellishments will be a reminder to take a few minutes out and think of something nice.

The base was created with 12x12 paper on cardstock, layered with coarse texture paste using the lovely star stencil by Prima in this months kit. I also added some spraying....always need to spray!

The BoBunny "enchanted garden" papers were cut down into random different sizes and layered over a craft paper dollie which also got the spray effect.  The main feature is one of the empty wooden packaging boxes that hold wooden pieces by Prima.  This was painted and papered.  I added a glittered Kaisercraft wooden shell and some other embellishments.

For finishing touches are Prima flowers and gem stones.  For some added interest I added Distress Glitter to the flowers :)

I hope you enjoyed this project and that is inspires you to have a play with these products.  Take care and see you for my second project for September soon!

Mandyxxx

'You are my fairy'- mixed media canvas by Sylwia

   Hello Arty Souls!

Welcome in September:) Holidays are finished, kids are back at school, so do you have more time for crafting now? Well, for me there is no difference, my little daughter is keeping me very busy ;) However when she goes to bed, its Mummy Time!!!!  I am tired but still have energy to create:)

This time I decided to go back to my favourite art- mixed media on canvas and my precious fairy girls:)

I used following materials:

Bo Bunny Paper Pad

Elementals Stencils Bubbles by Prima

Petaloo Darjeeling Paper Doilies

Petaloo Darjeeling Paper Wild Blooms

Acrylics

Stamps

I started with gluing pieces of paper to the canvas. Than I layered some gesso with a stencil.I chose my favourite pieces of paper for the skirt. I outlined  my girl and then I painted rest of the background in pink.

 

I love turquoise eyes:)

I added flowers to the quilt skirt. I love the combination of green and pink.

 I made the wings out of the paper doilies.

I hope you enjoyed the project :)

Love,

Sylwia

Every Princess...

Hi! It's Sandie here with the first post featuring our September DT kit, and today I am sharing a mixed media canvas. 

I covered a 6x8" slim canvas with Bo Bunny's Enchanted Garden papers and whitewashed them with a layer of watered down gesso. I dried it quickly with my heat gun before adding some butterflies with the Prima Butterflies stencil and modeling paste. I then added a kraft doily and gave the whole canvas another layer of gesso. 

I then used some spray inks to add colour. 

I drew some hills with a black paint Sharpie and shaded them with Gelatos - adding some little toadstools with a stamp I had in my stash. 

The house is made from card. I covered the bottom piece with tissue paper and drew the door and windows. Then I used gelatos to colour it all. The title is made up from various different stamp sets - Stampendous Small Typewriter clear stamps, Urban Stamps Typewriter & Bo Bunny Upper Case wooden stamps.

I added some stars and then applied Emperor's gold Silks to a few of the butterflies, the sentiment and the stars. Finally, I applied some liquid pearls around the canvas. 

Products Used:

Slim Canvas

Bo Bunny - Enchanted Garden 6x6" paper pad

Gesso, Mod Podge, Modeling Paste

Glimmer Mists, Dylusions Spray Inks

Petaloo Darjeeling Kraft Doilies

Prima Butterflies Stencil

Alphabet Stamps - Stampendous Small Typewriter, Urban Stamps Typewriter & Bo Bunny Upper Case.

Emperor's Gold Silks

Gelatos

Have a fabulous day!!

Sandie

xxx

Spell Book

Hello!

Today I have a spell book to share with you that I created from our August kit.  This was an old fabric covered lilac note book that I had that had truly seen better days.  It was time to re-purpose.

I started by painting the covering with black craft paint and spraying with black marble Dylusions.  I added some of the black spray to texture paste and created a 3d effect with paste and stencil on the cover.  To add more dimension I randomly rubbed over my Versamark and sprinkled on some of the Lindys Stamp Gang embossing powder.  I used papers from the Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale to cover the binding and the inside of the book.

Prima flowers were sprayed along with some leaves and grouped and adhered.  I also used a Tim Holtz fragment in the center, this was set in place while the paste was still wet.  I finished this with a Halloween charm.

I added lace, charms, painted chipboard and a die cut hinge from Tim Holtz grunge paper.  The aged look on the pages was achieved by spraying  Tattered Angels Simply Sheer in rich brown.  I allowed the pages to curl when I used my heat gun to dry.

Thank you for visiting and looking.

Mandyxxx