Classy Lady

Sam has created a lovely card as part of our vintage ladies week

By Sam crowe

Materials Used

SplodgeAway Mat
SplodgeAway Masks - Dot the Lot and Heart
Range Distress Inks - Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Barn Door, Broken China
Indigo Blu Stamps
Art Deco Stamps from Magazine
Co'rdinates Paper
Papers from my Stash

Method

I decided to keep this card simple and concentrate on the Inking and the Masks because thats what I love to do the most.  I cut out the Vintage Lady from a scrapbook page I had, you can start with any image - the card was designed around my image.

Decide on your centre piece positioning but don't stick down until the end.  Cut a piece of Co'rdinates card 9cm by 20cm then with the patterned paper cut two pieces 3cms wide, this saves wastage as you can just slip it under the centre piece for the edges to show.

The Photographic paper was from my own stash.

Centre piece - using Tea Dye and Vintage Photo to age the cor'dinates card and the side panels.  With Lady Stamp, stamp over the photograph paper and cor'dinations, this joins them up.  Stick the centre piece to each other and put the lady in position with Foam Pads and put to one side.

Use the centre piece as a guideline for your outer stamping - the words vintage etc.  Put your Dot the Lot mask over the 8"by8" card and with the the Broken China ink splodge over the mask with a light touch and don't go over every dot, leave big gaps, then do the same with the Tea Dye.

Now place the Heart Mask over the card and splodge till you get an aged look that you are happy with, but don't make it too dark, I started with Blue using the same method as above, then the Tea Die. 

On the Edges start off with the blue splodging some areas darker than others, the go round all edges with the Vintage Photo and a tiny bit of black in the lighter areas.

Put the whole card together and finish off with three heart gems.

Hope you like the card and give it a go.
Sam

Just to remind you all Tom will be at the NEC on the create & craft stand today, demoing the SplodgeAway mat and Splodge masks, pop by and say hi, and then don't forget to catch him on Sunday create & craft TV @ 3pm

Tomorrow we will show you one more sneak peek!

Don't forget the SplodgeAway challenge is up and running to be in with a chance of winning some SplodgeAway goodies just enter a card you will find all the details here

Very Vintage

 Vintage Ladies - Project By Sue Jimson

Well this week its our vintage ladies and I've really enjoyed putting this card together. Hope you like it

Ingredients
8x8 Scalloped Cardstock
Swirly SplodgeAway Mask
Vintage Paper From Suzicraft
Stamps from Craft Stamper Magazine
Spellbinders Dies Labels 18 and Lattice Rectangle
Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Liquid Pearls in Gold
Rose From My Craft Stash
Computer Generated Image Of Vintage Lady (Not Copyrighted)

Recipe
I cut my vintage paper to fit my card and embossed it with my swirly mask and edged it with vintage photo distress ink. I then cut a lattice rectangle using my spellbinder die and coloured through the die with vintage photo. I used labels 18 and cut my picture and inked through with tea dye distress ink.
I then stamped my paper with the vintage stamp and flourishes using tea dye and dragged the colour through the flowers with my paintbrush. I attached my rectangle and my picture to the main card and then I edged with gold liquid pearls and finished off with the rose. Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it.

TFL Jimbo

Thanks for stopping by again i hope your enjoying our vintage lady theme, why not join in with us and try a vintage lady of your own, just post in the comments and we will be along to see what youve created.

Vintage Ladies

I hope your enjoying our little sneak peeks, its not long now until Sunday when you Will see the full reveal, i also believe one of our design team has a few sneak peeks of their own going on, Check out Eileens blog.

We've got an inspiration post for you today from Rosie, she has been working hard getting some cards together, for our theme of Vintage Ladies.

All the stock Rosie has used is available from Suzicrafts, and off course no card would be complete without using the SplodgeAway mat and masks. make sure to check out the SplodgeAway products by clicking the tab at the top of the page.

Inspiration by Rosie

Sneak Peek part 2

Did we wet your appertite yesterday?

we did! well here you go here is another little peek on what will be on offer. Dont forget Sunday Create & Craft @ 3pm

If your lucky we may have one more sneak before sunday, if we get enough requests via our comments, we will show a little more.  

Sneak Peek!

As you may be aware SplodgeAway is on Create & Craft on Sunday @ 3pm  so we thought we would treat you and give you a bit of a sneak peek at what’s coming up in the show.

You really do need to tune in as Tom has excelled himself with the designs for this show, I’m sure there are going to be many sell outs so make sure to tune in early and catch the show and bag yourself one or a few of the new masks. 

 If you haven’t already got your SplodgeAway mat you will see it in action, it’s a must for one of your craft staples, you do need this in your craft room, and why not treat yourself to a smaller mat for when you’re on the move at groups and crops.

So without further ado here are your sneaks

Check back tomorrow when we will be revealing a little more!

Second SplodgeAway Monthly Challenge

Second SplodgeAway Monthly Challenge

SplodgeAway Monthly Challenge number 2

Blue and Silver

Hello and welcome to our second SplodgeAway challenge. This is a fairly new feature on the blog, the first Sunday in the month will see our very own challenges set and we will have prizes every month for the winner.

The rules are pretty simple as follows

·         You must use a SplodgeAway product, be it the mat a mask or SplodgeAway card

·         Leave a link back to us on your blog

·         remember to follow the given theme

·         Above all have fun!

You can enter by Inlinkz (at the bottom of the page)

The design team will pay your blog a visit to see your amazing creations, we will notify the winner on the blog so be sure to check back to see if its you.The  comment verification has been removed to ,ake it easier and it would help if you remove any comment verification you may have on your blog as it makes out life easier to comment, thanks.

Now onto the first SplodgeAway challenge, up for grabs this month is a selection of SplodgeAway products

As the winter nights have approached along with the cold and Christmas well on its way,
your challenge is to use the colours blue and silver in your Christmas project.

The cut off date for entries is Midnight 28th NovemberHere are the Design Team cards for your inspiration, we have all used a selection of products from SplodgeAway available here

Eileen Godwin

Jayne Davies

Kay Foreman

Sue Jimson

Sam Crowe

We look forward to seeing your projects,
Good Luck x

And the winner is....

Sparkle and Gems Blog Challenge.

Thank you to everybody who entered the first SplodgeAway Challenge. I must apologise for the delay in posting the winner.

So without further delay CONGRATULATIONS to:

Zoe Russell



Zoe please can you email your address to tom.johnson@splodgeaway.com and we will post your SplodgeAway goodies out on Monday morning.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the November Challenge.