Create and Craft

Create and Craft

Tom and Hazel were on Create and Craft this morning and 11am and what a great show. Great products and great products! What a show....nearly a sell out so make sure you get yourselves over to the Create and Craft website and order the kits before they sell out.

Don't forget Tom and Hazel will be back on at 3pm.

and so much more.........
Thanks for calling by :-)

Susan x

Kathleen and Zoe's Free Range and Abstrakt!

Good Morning Splodgers,

Only 1 more day to go until Tom and Hazel are on Create and Craft at 11am and 3pm. Very very excited and also a launch of a new product???

Today we are showcasing Kathleen and Kay's Abstrakt project and also their Free Range Project.




"I decided to decorate a bag for a change. I embossed a piece of SplodgeAway Easy Ink card with the Square Lattice Mask which I left in place while using my SplodgeAway ,ask and distress ink to colour the background. I did the same method using the flowers and leaves from the Flower Creator mask, some were spritzed with dylusions ink and some with distress inks. A spellbinders circle was cut and embossed and again inked with the help of my mat. a stamped sentiment complete the look. Hope you like it."

"I used the same Abstract mask for all three projects. The pink and green were done in the same way. I put distress ink onto my SplodgeAway Mat and using a blending tool coloured through the mask. Then moved the mask and used the same colour to ink through again, this was repeated a few times until most of the white SplodgeAway Easy Ink card was coloured. I used Indigo blu stamps on both, decoupaging the flower on the green and die cuts on the pink. The pink was finished off with glitter a few pearls and a sentiment.

The black and white was done by simply drawing round the gaps in the mask with a black micron pen and then zendoodling the ‘splodges’.  A spellbinders edgeability and some black card was used for the middle piece and edges. Stamps, die cuts and a little red water colour paint to finish"
Thank you Kathleen. Check out Kathleen's blog for more fab projects.

Zoe has also made a beautiful Abstraktz journal page using zentangling.


Zoe has used the Mask of Many Faces, Card King and Diamond Mesh to create this fab card.


Don't forget to visit Zoe's blog for more amazing work :-)

See you all tomorrow and thank you so much for calling by,

Susan x

Kay's gone Abstrakt!

 Good Morning,

How is your weekend going? It is now only 2 DAYS until Tom and Hazel appear on our screens again. SplodgeAway will be on at 11am and 3pm so don't forget to tune in :-) A few people have been asking me what channel Create and Craft are on:

Sky - 671
Freeview - 813
Virgin - 748 and you can also watch online over on the Create and Craft website.

Today Kay is sharing her Abstrakt project with us, Kay decided to zentangle through the mask which I think is a great idea :-) Last Sunday Kay joined us at the Ross Papercraft show, she was a fantastic help, Thank you Kay x

"To make this card I covered the mask with Tim Holtz Seedless Preserve and Salty Ocean distress inks and then placed on some SplodgeAway Easy Ink and ran through the e bosser. I then left the mask on and secured it. Next I drew around the shapes and zentangled.  I had no idea at this stage what I was going to do and only zentangled because Tom mentioned it. Hahax When it was done and I looked at it I immediately saw seaweed!!!! this inspired me to stamp along the bottom with a seaweed stamp and emboss in silver. I wanted it to be subtle as I didn't want to detract from the mask. I then dusted some card with Scattered Straw and Sage Green and then stamped and embossed some fish and then cut them out. "For more of Kay's work please call over to her blog.

Thanks for calling by and see you tomorrow,

Susan x

Rae's Abstraktz!

Good Morning Splodgers,

It's the weekend, yeahhh. Are you doing anything nice? Over here at SplodgeAway Towers, Tom and the team and just putting the final touches ready for Create and Craft this Tuesday :-) Make sure you stay tuned to the T.V as SplodgeAway is launching a new product which we are all very excited about.

Rae has been busy today and here is her fab 'Abstraktz' project.

"For this piece I took inspiration from 2 of my fave artists Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. I stuck to primary colours and clinical black and white I turned once again to the winged horse/mermaid mask which has turned into an absolute favourite, Dotty the Lot, the Abstraktz collection and the Altered Images collection. To keep the vivid bright clean colours I used acrylic paint - drying off between each layer to stop colours merging. I am really loving the bright modernist "thang" I got going on just now :-)'
Thank you Rae for a fantastic project, something a little different. For more of Rae's work please call over to her blog :-)

Enjoy your day and see you tomorrow,

Susan x

Jayne's Abstrakt Project

Good Morning Splodgers,

Can you believe it is only 4 DAYS UNTIL Tom and Hazel are back on CREATE & CRAFT! I can honestly say it is well worth watching ;-)

This week the team has brought us elegant, funky and today Jayne is bringing us 'Steampunk' with the Abstraktz Masks.



"I have had the abstraktz  masks for a while now and I LOVE them! They’re soooo versatile and look fab whether you’re making cute, men’s, mixed media steampunk or vintage projects.



I think this creation would do equally for a male or female! I used brushed corduroy and spiced marmalade distress inks through the mask then re-inked the whole of the card to soften the design- it goes so well with the die cut cogs! The image was stamped straight onto the card and softly coloured with pencils. The ‘style’ stamp is from my own collection and I finished the whole thing off by adding liberal amounts of foiling!!! Have a go with the fab SplodgeAway abstract set and see how useful it is for yourself! Thanx  for looking. Have a great day! Hugz, Jayne xxxxx"

Thank you Jayne for a fab project. Check out Jayne's blog for more Steampunk inspiration.

Have a lovely day,

Susan xx

Claire and her Abstraktz.

Good Morning Splodgers,

Thank you for visiting us today. I hope you are all well and ready for more inspiration from our truly talented DT Team.

5 DAYS UNTIL SPLODGEAWAY APPEARS ON CREATE AND CRAFT.

Today we are continuing with the SplodgeAway 'Abstrakt' kit. I love how each member has created such a different style with the same set of masks.

Claire's samples I feel are very elegant which you wouldn't expect with this type of masks. Once again you can emboss them, ink, spray, spread various medium, etc...

"I think the Abstraktz masks are real worker masks, they are so useful for creating all kinds of different background for your projects. For my first sample I've made a vintage themed card using the mask to create a background using acrylic paint and my gelli plate."

"I've also made a little canvas using ranger tissue, I've applied Maimeri glassy gel through the mask, added a sprinkle of microbeads and left it to dry. Then I added lots of black mica spray and wiped it off the glassy gel which acts as a resist so you can see the printed tissue."

Thank you Claire, these are beautiful, check out Claire's blog for more amazing work.

Enjoy the rest of your day and don't forget to visit tomorrow,

Susan xx

Carol and her Abstraktz project.

Good Morning Splodgy Splodgers,

How are you all today? Are you having a great week? I hope so, my feet are still recovering from Sunday..I must get fit!!

6 DAYS UNTIL SPLODGEAWAY APPEARS ON CREATE AND CRAFT

This week we are showcasing the amazing DT team and the SplodgeAway Abstraktz 8x8" Masks.

Today Carol is going to showcase her beautiful Abstrakt project.

Hi Everyone,

Here are a couple of cards made with the Abstraktz Mask from SplodgeAway. I have used the same mask in both but have tries to create a very different feel to them. These masks are great for background but also as the main feature to a project.

 

This card was designed using the mask. distress inks and little else, but goes to show I think how you can build the card with a limited amount of work or materials!!

Card was cut to size to fit the mask and completely covered with forest moss distress ink and then highlighted in some areas with Spiced Marmalade. A second piece of card was treated in the same way but using Scattered Straw highlighted with crushed Olive. The white backgrounds of each were toned down a little with the lighter of the two colours.

The backgrounds were then cut into 6cms squares. ( I put both pieces together through the guillotine but it was a real jigsaw fitting them back in the right place!!!! LOL) The squares were mounted as shown onto gold and green cardstock, using an alternating pattern. All that was left to do was add the flowers and gems.
Hope you like the design and will have a go at chopping about some of your masks to see what effects you can come up with!!! Have a feeling in seasonal colours that I might use this for a modern Christmas look this year"

"The second card is completely different but using the same mask.

Had such fun messing about with water and distress inks, paint brushes and sponges to create a really random background here. I was intent on introducing as much colour to contrast with the stark background for added effect.

I used the Mask of Many Faces as a stencil and cut the background out, which was then masked off with the Abstraktz mask and coloured in Black Soot Distress ink, for a stark contrast. I  had no quick way for the next step so with a black fine liner and ruler set about drawing the horizontal and vertical lines as shown. I lay the face onto the lines, slightly forward of its final position and drew around it to stress the outline. ( I wish now I had done this BEFORE drawing the lines!! )

Finally used a free little stamp to stamp out the wording.. VISAGE, which I thought was appropriate.

Hope you like this one and again created with a minimum of supplies!!! Thanks for any kind comments you wish to leave

Happy Crafting

Carol xx

Thank you for calling by today and don't forget to check out Carol's blog for more stunning work.

Enjoy your day,

Susan xx