Merry Christmas

Another share from my Anna-Marie weekend!  As I had such an amazing weekend I have treated myself to another weekend with her in March 2017 😁

For this card we used a piece of printed cardstock, distressed the edges and then put a small amount of distress ink to soften the edges.  We then used our own templates which had been cut out of card to form the heart, which we then added texture to the card by using glitter and the polystyrene balls - I love these polystyrene balls!!!!

We then layered up the flower and leaves, again using distress ink to soften the edges, added a small amount of glue to the petals and used glitter to highlight the edges.  The flower was then layered up  on top of some natural fibre and a few berries added.

Finally the mdf Christmas tree was glued and glittered and placed under the flower and the mdf Merry Christmas added with some moss and a flower.  The very last piece to be added was a small twig that was placed under the flower.

This is such a lovely card and would work at any other time of year with a different sentiment.

I hope you have enjoyed my Anna-Marie cards as much as I enjoyed making them.

Roll on March 2017 for my next weekend away 😁

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny xx

Noel

Well I am back from my amazing weekend with Anna-Marie Designs.  This has to be one of the best organised workshops I have been to  Our first project was a card which incorporated some MDF items with the Noel and the deer. 

We started by taking a piece of white card where we roughly brushed on some Viva Chalky Paint (smokey blue) which was then followed by stencilling.  We then used some white chalky paint to add some additional stamp detail in the corners.  The deer was also painted in the smokey blue paint, once dry we used a layer of crackle glaze, dried again and then added some white chalky paint and then let for the paint to crackle.  I didn't use enough of the crackle glaze to get a good crackle but I was happy with what I produced!

Finally we distressed inked the background card and  distressed it with scissors.  This was followed by making up the flower and leaves, inking and shaping them.  The flower was then edged with 3d Schnee and crushed ice crystals.

The final part was to assemble the card which involved using some natural fire to add some dimension and additional interest to the back of the card.

We used lots of embellishments to add interest to the card and I have to say I was very pleased with the finished product.

All items were supplied by Anna-Marie and are available from her website.  I would thoroughly recommend attending one of these creative weekends as I really enjoyed it and you get really pampered into the bargain!

There are lots of other projects that I will share over the coming weeks -  I really cannot make up my mind which one I like most as they were all fabulous!

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny xx

Antiquity Book Box

Well this weeks post is once again something a little different.  I attended another workshop where I had my first attempt at working with MDF.  We used the MDF Antiquity Book Box which  is a really useful storage space

Firstly we started by painting the box with Americano Décor Chalky Finish paint.  I think it was the Yesteryear shade but cannot be 100% sure as I did this a while ago!  We did this before assembling the box as this made it so much easier to access all the nooks and crannies.

Once the box was dry we assembled it before we started the decoration.  Firstly we stamped on the base of the inside of the box just to add some additional interest on what would have been quite a large blank space.  This was done in a pale colour cloud ink to add a slight vintage feel.

After this we started working on the outside of the box.  We used Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Polish in pearl lustre and colour cloud to soften and distress the corners, using the same colour cloud colour to do some messy stamping on the box using a word stamp - this really is not that visible from the photo's I'm afraid.  Pearls were also added to the base of the box to add additional interest.

Once this was all done we were able to start adding the embellishments.   Now we got to play with the flowers, leaves and raffia which were all secured using silicone glue.  Once these were set we added the MDF items (hearts and gate) which were again highlighted with the CS pearl lustre gilding polish.

I was really pleased with how this turned out and ended up giving it as a birthday present for my mother.  Hence why it has taken me a while to post it!

Anyway I hope you have enjoyed this little project and it inspires you to try out working with MDF!  I so enjoyed doing this that I have booked myself on a course with Anna-Marie Designs later on in the year, so watch this space for some more samples!

Until next time.

love & hugs

Ginny x