Category: Christmas

Card making, Christmas, Stampendous Stamps

Stampendous October Blog Hop!

Robyn Wood

Each month I am creating a project with brand new Stampendous stamps to inspire you. You also have a chance to win them via the monthly blog hop competition run by The Stencil Specialists, the Australian wholesaler for Stampendous.

I love nothing better than getting a brand new stamp inky…even better when it comes with its own dies so I don’t need to do any fussy cutting! This month we are using the Seated Elf stamp & die set and I just love how cute this elf is. I thought he would look perfect sitting on a present, just ready to decide if you have been naughty or nice.

The images were coloured with Ecoline markers and I had stamped an extra pair of ‘bows’ to use for layering. They were trimmed a little extra, cutting off parts of the bow and attached with foam tape. I like the dimension this gives to the card.

So have you been good?

Why not visit all the blogs on the hop, leave a comment on each October blog hop post and you could be in the running to win this cute set.

Julie – The Stencil Specialists

Donna – Luv to Emboss

Tracy Moloney – Tracy’s Creative Adventures

Contest details –

To enter please visit each blog post and comment on the October blog hop post, make sure you tell us what state you live in so we know you are an Aussie. Each comment is one entry, so comment on each blog and you will have four entries into the contest. Make sure you only comment once per blog. This competition is open to Australian residents only and the winner will be selected randomly by Julie after the end of the month. The prize will be cling Seated Elf CLD09.

Good luck!

PS You can subscribe to my blog to receive updates and sneaks for the next challenge.

 

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

Card making, Christmas, Stampendous Stamps

Stampendous July Blog Hop!

Robyn Wood

Each month I am creating a project with brand new Stampendous stamps to inspire you. You also have a chance to win them via the monthly blog hop competition run by The Stencil Specialists, the Australian wholesaler for Stampendous.

This month we are using the Pine Ornaments stamp designed by Fran Seiford and is a sweet trio of Christmas ornaments just waiting for you to embellish them. As we didn’t run a hop last month, Julie has kindly created a bumper giveaway this month to celebrate the launch of the new Stampendous catalogue.

In honour of the bumper prize, I’ve created three cards to inspire you –

 

The first features a touch of red fine glitter. I’ve stamped the image with a grey ink to give more of a contrast to the luscious red & gold ribbon and sparkle from the glitter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next is a cute tag with the image embossed with Stampendous white embossing powder. I love how well this powder works on fine images like this one.

 

Lastly a card using soft pastels with pops of purple. I’ve also stamped this one with grey ink to give the design a subtle look.

Don’t forget to also pop over to the other blogs to check out what they have created for the hop! This month we say goodbye to Dot Leathbridge from Ink Art Designs as she takes on a new venture. This means we say hello and welcome to Tracy Moloney from Tracy’s Crafty Adventures.

Julie – The Stencil Specialists

Donna – Luv to Emboss

Tracy Moloney – Tracy’s Crafty Adventures

Contest details –

To enter please visit each blog post and comment on the July blog hop post. Each comment is one entry so comment on each blog and you will have three entries into the contest. Make sure you only comment once per blog. This competition is open to Australian residents only (please tell us what state you live in) and the winner will be selected randomly by Julie after the end of the month. The prize will be cling Pine Ornaments & Pen Pattern Bird stamps, two Dreamweaver Die sets, two packs of adhesive rhinestones, two jars of speciality embossing powders and one jar of the brand new ‘Twinkle Glitter’.

Good luck!

PS You can subscribe to my blog to receive updates and sneaks for the next challenge.

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSaveSaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

Christmas, LuLu Art, Mixed media

Joy to the World–a stencilled fabric project

Robyn Wood

 

Robyn Wood - Joy to the WorldI’m sharing a Christmas project on the LuLu Art blog this week.  It features stencilling onto gessoed fabric – such a fun technique!

Robyn Wood - Joy to the World aAs you can imagine we work well ahead for design team projects – it was early November when I first started thinking of ideas to try and stinking hot in Brisbane. But this colourful, glittery project emerged featuring the title of one of my favourite Christmas carols. Can you see the sweet star/moon/heart? Come check out the video so see how they were made.

You can find details of how the project was created and full details of supplies on the LuLu Art blog.

Christmas, Darkroom Door

29 Days of Christmas Inspiration #29

Robyn Wood

and #28! missed one again.

RW Classic Christmas Cards (4)

Thanks so much for joining me over the last month! It has been a challenge to blog regularly and find enough images to add a little variety. I have another couple of projects to appear on other blogs over the next month so keep an eye out for a few more!

Today I’m sharing a card and a tag, both featuring stamps from Darkroom Door.

P1040392

This one features a glittery rosette made with a Tim Holtz rosette die – the die makes it so easy to create quick embellishments!

P1040393

Backgrounds, Christmas, Mixed media, Tutorials

29 Days of Christmas Inspiration #25

Robyn Wood

RW Dec 13 Card 7 (1)

At first glance this card looks very similar to yesterdays but techniques used are quite different.

– Start the same way as yesterday by stencilling stars using modelling paste.  But make them more uniform in coverage.  Allow to dry.

RW Dec 13 Card 7 (2)

– Paint with Silks acrylic glaze in Sky Blue, Majestic Blue & Mediterranean Blue. Make the colour a little patchy looking.

– Apply metallic Pan Pastels all over the stars using one or two of the metallic colours.  I used a little silver and gold.

– Spritz the Pan Pastels with Spectra Fix Degas Pastel Fixative and allow to dry.

– Drizzle along the top edge with turquoise acrylic ink and spritz with water, the ink will run & mix with the Pan Pastel colour and Dylusions layer to create a lovely shimmery effect. Allow to dry.

– Add a greeting and it is done.

Backgrounds, Christmas, Mixed media, Tutorials

29 Days of Christmas Inspiration #24

Robyn Wood

RW Dec 13 Card 6 (1)

As you might guess from the cards I have been sharing this month – I do love turquoise and blue tones for Christmas cards!  This one is no exception and has a beautiful, textured feel to it.  Your recipient is sure to put this one is pride of place on the mantel.

RW Dec 13 Card 6 (2)

Create the card by –

– stencil a scattering of stars over cardstock using a Tim Holtz star stencil and moulding paste.  Allow to dry well.

– spritz with Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise & Calypso Teal.  Remove the excess colour with paper towel and allow to dry.

– replace the stars template and spritz lightly with water.

– the water will remove some of the colour and give a variegated effect.

– add a little pizazz with a gold embossed greeting.

Christmas, Darkroom Door, Tutorials

29 Days of Christmas Inspiration #23

Robyn Wood

Today I’d like to share a pair of ATC’s with a Christmas theme. If you aren’t into ATC’s, these can be easily adapted to create Christmas tags or use them as a focal image for a card.

Both ATC’s feature older Christmas sets by Darkroom Door but I find myself still using them year after year – I’m sure you would as well!

Nov ATC D

This ATC uses the Noel rubber stamp set and a word from a Yuletide Wordstrip.  The image was created using an embossing powder resist technique. Usually I use clear embossing ink and clear powder but for this one I used white embossing powder instead. 

Once stamped and embossed, trim the image to size and sponge with blue Distress Ink.  A touch of Distress Glitter on the leaves adds a bit of sparkle. A red bow and words finish it off.

Nov ATC C

The Christmas Reindeer stamp set was used for this one – the sweet reindeer was stamped with red chalk ink for a solid, matt image and trimmed out closely.  The word comes from the same set.  The paper underneath is also Darkroom Door and is a great background for the image.  A sprinkling of rhinestones gives Rudolf some sparkle.

Christmas, Tutorials

29 Days of Christmas Inspiration #22

Robyn Wood

A few years ago Tim Holtz started a series of books called Compendium of Curiosities and buried within volume II is a really cool technique called ‘enamelled metals’. The cards I’m sharing today are based on this technique.

P1000797

Begin the card by embossing some metal sheet to create the main card image.  Paint the sheet with a coat of acrylic paint and allow to dry.  Sand lightly to expose the metal.

Coat the piece with clear Versamark and emboss with clear powder.

P1000798

I love the effect this technique gives – the embossed piece ends up with rich, deep colours that mimic enamelled metal.

P1000802

For this card, I painted the embossed piece with a base coat of green paint and added dots of red to the berries.

P1000786

P1000787

Another time consuming technique but so easy to do assembly line style. If you use a large pattered image like this holly one it would be easy to create a large panel and trim to smaller shapes to make more than one card.