Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Christmas in August Blog Hop with Woodware


 

Yes! It's that time of year again! The time when we inspire crafters on both sides of the "pond" with a mix of both Dreamweaver and Woodware UK* products for the holidays! Six days, SIX, of beautiful, elegant, merry, cute, artsy, and craftsy projects to have you heading out to your local stores or internet sites to buy these goodies immediately!


Of course, there will be prizes as well. Three prize packages will be given to three commenters during this week's posts on the team's blogs, including five stencils and one nested die set. You can have an opportunity to win these goodies by leaving some holiday sweetness for each team member posting each day, to be one of the three winners for the week. Here are the team members that are inspiring you today:
Here's my creation: (or shall I say creations)
 


 
 
This is one stamp, two stencils, two Memory Mist Sprays, two Archival Inks, Stickles and crayons four ways..........
 
The stamp is from Woodware.
 
The stencils are Dreamweaver LJ 867 and LX 7002. 
 
 The tree is easy to see.  On the first one, I just sprayed through the opening.  On the second and last cards, I sprayed the stencil first and ran it through my die cut machine with the Rubber Embossing Mat.  It worked like a letterpress.  The third card used both of those techniques, first being run through the machine and then being sprayed through the opening.
 You say you can't see where I used the Plaid stencil?  Well, I embossed a piece of white velvet paper through the die cut machine with the stencil and the Rubber Embossing Mat and used it on the second and third cards. Here is a closer look:
 
I used the Memory Mists in Strawberry Daiquiri and Wheatgrass. The Archival Inks are Black and Olive.  I stamped the image first before making the letterpress effect.  The stickles are gold, silver, diamond, eucalyptus and mystery. The crayons added a little extra color here and there. 
 
So there you have it, one card four ways....
*For a stockist near you contact Woodware Craft Collection in the UK and Notions Marketing in the USA.

21 comments:

  1. These are so cool! I always try to match the cards that I send to the personalities of the recipients. These would be perfect for this! Some simple, some traditional, some blingy, some bright...and all of them fun!

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  2. Love this technique, bright colourful cards

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  3. Great projects.

    craftymom205 at yahoo dot com

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  4. Laura....love how you used the LJ867 in the background with the Woodware stamp! As usual I'm inspired!

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  5. These are fun. Lovely to see the different colourways

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  6. What fun cards! I love all of the different color variations.

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  7. It is always so much fun to see how many different ways you can use the same items.

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  8. Great integration of stencils and stamps! Really like the Christmas!

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  9. Oooo these are fun Laura !!

    hugs Diane xx

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  10. Lovely modern, colourful cards. A clever way of sneaking the plaid stencil in! x

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  11. Wow! Thanks for showing us so many varieties of cards! You are way ahead for Christmas already!

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  12. Love these cards and the technique used.

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  13. All very striking, lovely cards :)

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  14. Cute cards for a fun Christmas look.

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  15. those are great. love the amount of color used. pretty!!

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  16. All of your cards look good, and thanks for showing us the different techniques.

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  17. I love all the variations with just one Christmas stencil!

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