Vintage Lace Tag

By Nicki Moss

A vintage-style card using the SplodgeAway Mat for ink blending.

What you need:

SplodgeAway mat

Distress Ink – Dusty Concord

Stamps - Crafty Individuals tag; round birthday sentiment

Dies / punches - scallop border punch; decorative corner; plain and scallop circle

Colouring pencils

Ribbon, lace and flowers

What you do:

Cut a square of patterned paper and use your SplodgeAway Mat to blend Distress Ink around the edges. Mat it onto a co-ordinating piece of cardstock, then onto a square card blank.

Stamp your tag  in brown ink and colour the image with pencils, cut it out and mat it onto 2 pieces of cardstock, lightly edging all the pieces with Distress Ink.

Use a scallop border punch on both sides of a wide strip of cardstock then add some lace and ribbon.

Stamp a round sentiment onto a scrap of card, distress with ink, punch out and mat onto a scalloped circle. Fix to the card just under the bow.

Embellish your card with a decorative diecut corner and some paper roses.

Lacey Flowers

L  for Lace

Project By Karen Wright

Start by applying distress inks onto your SplodgeAway mat, then spritz with water, rub the easyink into the ink and allow to almost dry, then drop a couple of drops of ink from a reinker and agin lightly spritz with water and allow to dry naturally or use a heat gun (Do not use a heat gun on the mat)
Once completely dry over stamp with your chosen image and mount onto bazzil,
For the flower, use a piece of the same inked paper that you created earlier and make a rolled flower then gather the lace around the outside and using a hot glue gun attatch to the card, finish with a greeting.

You Will Need

SplodgeAway mat
Distress inks
Inkadinkadoo stamps
Bazzil Cardstock
SplodgeAway Easy Ink card
Crafty individuals butterfly stamp
length of lace

Hope you have a go yourself. Thanks for stopping by!

Karen x

Papillion Lace

         

Project By Rosie

6’’ white card
SplodgeAway mat

Distress inkpads – shabby shutters, bundled sage, wild honey
Memento inkpad – rich cocoa
Dimension stamps- petal passion
Hero Arts – Papillion
2 x labels
Versa mark stamp pad
Embossing powder – copper
Embellishments - Lace, ribbon, a brad and your Sentiment

I used the three distress inks and a blending tool on the splodge away mat to create a colourful background on the white card.

Next to create the background I over stamped all over the card using the verse stamp and the bundled sage Distress ink.

 While the card was drying I cut out two different sizes of tags and coloured these to complement the card, this can be done either using punches or cut freehand or use luggage labels.

Decorate the larger tag using Memento rich cocoa inkpad and the butterfly stamp.

Using  Versa mark ink pad stamp two images onto your card and cover with copper embossing powder, now use your heat gun to heat emboss and fix in place.

Now it is time to assemble the card.

 I made a hole in the top of the small tag and threaded ribbon through it and you can stamp a secret message on to this.

I attached the lace around three sides of the large tag using double sided tape and added a brad at the top for decoration .The tag was attached to the card to form a pocket into which the small tag fits. I used a foam pad stuck to the bottom of the large tag leaving the top open to enable the small

Tag to slide in and out easily. Finally I added a sentiment.

TFL
Rosie x

'L' for Lace

Todays card is continuing with our 'SplodgeAway' alphabet theme and this is mine for 'L' for lace.

Three pieces of A4 cardstock two in beige and one in brown both pearlised and might I add the best quality and value for money I've found, which is in Suzicraft greatest place to craft ever :)

One piece folded to A5 for base of card, the other beige and brown card was cut with spellbinders edgeabilities in different patterns to form my 'faux' lace technique the beige and brown pieces were stuck together and placed alternately on a piece of cardstock with the beige lace glued into place.

I distressed the edges of some organza ribbon using my ever present SplodgeAway Mat (best thing ever for blending ink) and crinkled it carefully with my heat tool and added it to my card with two hat pins. The sentiment I used was from creative expressions. Labels 18 was cut in beige card and then I faux cut it again in the brown and added it to my card. Hope you like it and might I add all these products were bought at Suzicraft the friendliest craft shop in Stockton-on-Tees!!!

Hope you enjoy making the card.

Project By Sue Jimson

Please make sure you do not use a heat tool on your SplodgeAway Mat

bye for now Jimbo xxxx

Beaded Pearls

Hi everyone I hope you’ll join in with our alphabet crafting, over the next few weeks we are going to be showing lots of cards and other paper crafting creations using products and techniques spelling out the word SplodgeAway. This card fell into a couple of categories and we have decided to post under ‘P’ for ‘Pearls’

My card is a pretty simple creation, using a two- step stamping technique.

I started by using my SplodgeAway mat and brayer to colour tint the white card with big and juicy ink. Then using a stampin’ up 2 step stamp, I stamped the first step with black memento ink, then on the 2^nd step I used a stamp positioner to make sure to stamp in the exact location, then inked up the stamp with versamark before dusting with mica powder, then to finish I randomly stamped the edges with another stampin’ up stamp.

Assembly was using bazzill card, some ribbon and pearls, then stickled for a little bling.

Project By Karen Wright

TFL x

Corset & Pearls

Corset & Pearls

Project By Sam Crowe

Core'dinations Card Stock - Adirondack Collection
SplodgeAway Mat
SplodgeAway Mask - Inner Swirl
Distress Ink - Broken China
Adirondack Ink - Denim, Juniper
Liquid Pearls - Onyx Pearl
Corset Stamp by  Clarity Stamps
Lace & flowers - my stash

I was lucky enough to use Barbara Gray's Corset Stamp from Sue at www.suziecraft.com. On this occasion I only wanted the bodice so I cut it out from the background wording. I then used the Inner Swirl Mask to make a pattern on the bodice by stenciling over it, I then re-coloured over the whole bodice using my SplodgeAway Mat and the same ink.
 I used the cut out shape as a guideline for a dress shape on the card itself, I then coloured the rest of the card the same way as I would when distressing, using my SplodgeAway Mat my inks and sponge to make my backing.
I also coloured the centre piece of card in the same way as the backing card after ripping the edges and bringing the tear in at the middle to shadow the shape of the bodice. I also dry embossed the card using the Inner Swirl mask.

After decorating the Bodice with Liquid Pearl I did a bit of hand sewing with the ribon to make it look like a lace top. (very fiddly) I then added the pearls from my stash on top and onto each of the dress shapes on the backing.

The lace across the card was adhered with a technique I learnt from Annette a while ago using double sided tape and folding it into itself as you stick it down. I then dry embossed the strip of card to go on top and used liquid pearls on top of the swirl to match the dress.

For the background I used cardstock from www.suzicraft.com Core'dinations - Adirondack Collection. In fact all items used were bought at Suzicraft!

I made up the verse as a finishing touch.

I would like to offer one word of advice to anyone who is using the Liquid Pearls, do it first or last and put it right out of your way until it is set, I ruined a fair few cards by putting my hand or fingers in it, but luckily I actually ended up with a better card stock, and kept the Pearl to the bodice. You can go a bit mad with the Liquid pearl! Less is more as they say. Hope you like it.
Sam

Lady In A Pearl Necklace

Project By Rosie

8’’ x 8’’ cream card
Black Paper
8’’x 8’’ patterned black and cream paper
Cream card
White Splodgeaway Elegance Card
Embellishments – pearls, black crystals, feather
Black and White Cosmic shimmer glue
Black Memento ink pad
Ladies Portrait Stamp


Cut your black paper to 7 ½’’x 7 ½’’ and then punch a border around the edges . I used a Fiskars punch. Then stick this layer to your cream card.
Cut the black and cream patterned paper to 6 1/2’’x 6 1/2’’ then using foam pads again, attach this layer to the card
Next I cut an oval using a spellbinders die in elegance card, big enough to stamp your image onto and then using a slightly larger die to cut an oval out of the cream card.
Now stamp your image using Black Memento onto your white elegance card.
Colour in your image, I used promarkers – Ivory, Blush , and pastel pink for the lips.
Glue on your feather and arrange and stick your pearls and crystals to form a necklace.
Using foam pads mount the image on top of the cream oval and then again with foam pads attach to card.
Stick on your sentiment .
Next I used a silver pen to go around the edges of both ovals and finally I did a border around the card using alternate black and white cosmic shimmer PVA glue to create faux pearls.

Thank You

Rosie x