Saturday, August 17, 2013

Christmas in August with Dreamweaver and Woodware!



Welcome to the annual Dreamweaver and Woodware Christmas in August extravaganza week! Monday through Saturday we will be knocking your Christmas stockings off with fun and inspirational ideas for the upcoming holidays. All that you need to do is hop back and forth across the "pond" on each day, oohing and aaahhhing as you go, and leaving us plenty of holiday love. In return, you'll be entered to randomly win one prize package for a UK commenter, and a second prize package for a US commenter, featuring products distributed in the UK by Woodware...including Dreamweaver and Stampendous!

Prize includes four stencils, one die, and two stamps, selection may vary.


Here's what I've created:
I hope you enjoy these cute little mice as much as I enjoyed creating them.  They are part of the House Mouse collection now from Stampendous. This one is called Hang on Tight. I stamped it with an archival ink, which I then heat set.  They were colored with Derwent Inktense water soluble ink pencils.  The background was created by running Black Coated Mercart Aluminum through my die cut machine with the Dreamweaver Rubber Mat and Snowflake Stencil LJ 819 (see embossing tutorial from Thursday).  It was sanded to reveal the snowflakes.  The Happy Holidays Stencil LM 139 was debossed with Red Coated Aluminum (again, see Thursday's post) and enhanced with the Mercart Teflon Tool before being sanded.

I used shrink plastic for the snowflakes.  First, I cut hexagons with my die cut machine, and then I sanded them.  I taped the sanded side to the back of the stencil.  The larger snowflakes were LL 399 Traditional Snowflake and LL 396 Gothic Snowflake.  The smaller snowflakes were from the Snowflake  Stencil LJ 819.  I used a stencil brush to apply black pigment ink on to the shrink plastic.  I punched a large hole in them and used my heat gun to shrink them.  They were attached with embroidery floss and accented with small rhinestones.



Now's the time for you to leave a comment and move on to the next designer for today:

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Woodware and Dreamweaver Blog Hop--Christmas in August!


Welcome to the annual Dreamweaver and Woodware Christmas in August extravaganza week! Monday through Saturday we will be knocking your Christmas stockings off with fun and inspirational ideas for the upcoming holidays. All that you need to do is hop back and forth across the "pond" on each day, oohing and aaahhhing as you go, and leaving us plenty of holiday love. In return, you'll be entered to randomly win one prize package for a UK commenter, and a second prize package for a US commenter, featuring products distributed in the UK by Woodware...including Dreamweaver and Stampendous!

Prize includes four stencils, one die, and two stamps, selection may vary.


Here is my creation today:
I used:
Scissors
Green Card Stock
Manual Die Cut Machine
Sanding Block
Cotton Swabs 
A Very Quick Tutorial (because I can't help myself)
1)  Cut the metal to just a little larger than your stencils--red for the background, green for the other two.
 2)  Run all three through the die cut machine with your mats and the Dreamweaver Rubber Mat (it pushes the metal into the stencil).  Place the background stencil face down with the red face down on top and the rubber mat over that.  That is embossing.  The other two stencils go face up with the green over them face (green side) up and the rubber mat over the top of that.  This is debossing.  Do not remove the stencils from the metal.
 3)  For the saying and the mistletoe, use the fine tip of the teflon tool to push the image in a little bit more.  You will be running it around the edge of the stencil.  You can "color" in the inside as well if you like.  I did.
4)  With the stencil still in place, sand both of the green metal parts.  The green should come completely off the raised parts.

 7)  Remove the stencil from the red metal and gently sand off some of the color.
 8)  Place a little of the Color Solutions Cleaner on the cotton swab and remove the green color from the inside of the berries and the bow.

 9)  Use the cotton swabs to add the Winter Red Color Solutions in the bow.


 10)  Sand off any excess color.
11)  Remove the mistletoe and saying from the stencils and place on Double Sided Mounting Paper.
12)  Use the flat end of the Teflon tool to burnish the metal down to the mounting paper.  You do not need to burnish everything, just the flat parts around the image.
 13)  Squeeze the Liquid Pearls into the berry sections and let dry.

14)  Place mounting paper under the background metal.
15)  Trim around the edges of all pieces and assemble.



Now's the time for you to leave a comment and move on to the next designer for today:

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

A Paper Craft Planet Tutorial!

Today, I have a tutorial post featured on Paper Craft Planet.  Here is the project:
If you want to see how it was made, check out the post HERE.
If you would like to get more Dreamweaver Stencil inspiration, check out the team that is posting this week.  They are:
I hope you get a chance to take a look--they are creating Christmas in August!
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Friday, August 2, 2013

Stampendous and Dreamweaver Summer Fun Blog Hop: Day Five

It's fun in the sun time again with another collaboration between Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils! We'll be playing together all of this week, with a fabulous hop on Friday, August 2nd, featuring a slew of amazing talent from both teams, and of course...prizes!!!

Two prize packages will be given away for the comments left on posts Monday-Thursday, July 29th - August 1st, and one prize will be given away for comments left on the hop day, Friday, August 2nd. Winners will be selected randomly and announced Thursday, August 8th. (Note: USA addresses only, please, due to shipping costs.) Here's what you could win:

Stampendous Surfer and Sandcastle Kiddos • Dreamweaver Hot Air Balloon, Ice Cream Cones, Summer, Mosaic Swirls, Bird Words, and Sandcastle stencils



 Here's what I created:
It is a notebook--actually, a composition book that I purchased for 50 cents.  Instead of a full blown tutorial today (I know you have a lot of blogs to visit), I am going to include just the materials list and a few close up pictures.
MATERIALS:
Dreamweaver Die DX7020 Leafless Tree
Dreamweaver Stencil LJ 901 Mosaic Swirls
Dreamweaver Stencil LJ 848 Fish Background
Dreamweaver Stencil LM 181 Seahorse
Dreamweaver Stencil LS 4 Nautilus
Dreamweaver Stencil LS 6 Scallop
Double Sided Mounting Paper
Stencil Brushes
Splendor Stamp Pad
Handmade Hawaiian Soap
Stampendous Cling Mermaid Stamp
Stampendous Encrusted Jewel Teal Kit--Teal Color Fragments, Aged Teal Embossing Enamel and Teal    
                  Mica Flakes
Stampendous Royal Blue Pearl Glitter
Stampendous Green Pearl Glitter
Stampendous Pearlized Mica
Stampendous Gilded Mica
Stampendous Tarnished Mica
Stampendous Magenta Pearl Glitter
Stampendous Red Ultra Fine Glitter
Stampendous Bronze Glass Glitter
Stampendous Crystal Glitter
Stampendous Golden Sand Embossing Powder
Stampendous Fun Flock Envious Green
Stampendous Fun Flock Raspberry Tart

May Arts Blue Ribbon
May Arts Hemp Ribbon
White Glue with a Fine Tip
Acetate
Stayzon Jet Black
Scissors
Xyron Machine in 5" and 9"
Patterned Paper
Composition Notebook
Colored Pencils
Shrink Plastic
Sandpaper
Big Bite (just to make holes in shrink plastic)
Heat Gun
Manual Die Cut Machine

Here is another overall look, so you can see how it was put together.

Thanks for stopping by.  Don't forget to leave a comment here and at all the other blogs listed for your chance to win that fantastic prize!
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Stampendous and Dreamweaver: Summer Fun Day Four


It's fun in the sun time again with another collaboration between Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils! We'll be playing together all of this week, with a fabulous hop on Friday, August 2nd, featuring a slew of amazing talent from both teams, and of course...prizes!!!

Two prize packages will be given away for the comments left on posts Monday-Thursday, July 29th - August 1st, and one prize will be given away for comments left on the hop day, Friday, August 2nd. Winners will be selected randomly and announced Thursday, August 8th. (Note: USA addresses only, please, due to shipping costs.) Here's what you could win:

Stampendous Surfer and Sandcastle Kiddos • Dreamweaver Hot Air Balloon, Ice Cream Cones, Summer, Mosaic Swirls, Bird Words, and Sandcastle stencils




 Here's what I created:

 Here are my simple instructions:
MATERIALS:
Stampendous Cling Breathe Stamp
Dreamweaver Stencil LM 267 Lg Conch
Dreamweaver Stencil LJ 880 Deckle Edge
Dreamweaver Stencil LJ 838 Waves
Mercart Metal Medium Blue Coated Aluminum
Pearlescent Embossing Paste
Palette Knife
Removable Tape
Acrylic Block for Stamping
Stayzon Jet Black Ink
Sanding Block
Craft Knife
Drawing Blending Stump
Patterned Paper
Card Stock
Adhesive
Brads

DIRECTIONS:
1)  Pick a spot to place the stamp and sand off the blue from the area.
 2)  Stamp with Stayzon or another solvent ink.  Using the cling stamp with the acrylic block makes it easy to place it exactly where you want it.
3)  Use the removable tape to position and secure the stencil in place.
4)  Spread the Embossing Paste over the stencil with the palette knife.
5)  Remove the stencil and let the paste dry completely.
6)  Position the metal over the deckle edge stencil and "find" the edge with a blending stump.
7)  Run your craft knife gently around the edge of the deckle stencil to cut the metal.  It does not need to be exact.
 8)  Place the project on top of the wave stencil and rub with the blending stump.  Use it only in the areas that you want the waves to appear.  Avoid the area around the pasted shell.
 9)  Lightly sand over the areas that you want the waves to really show up.  Avoid the pasted shell.

10)  Assemble the card.

I hoped you liked my project.  Be sure to leave comments here and on the blogs linked below for your chance to win.  Good luck!

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