Woodware/Dreamweaver Blog Hop

Welcome to Woodware's first Blog hop! and we have a give away too! We are really happy to be joining with the Dream it up team to bring you innovative ways to use our wonderful Dreamweaver stencils and supplies all week long! By the end of the week, you'll have seen stencils used in inspirational ways you just couldn't have imagined, and you'll see that, although our stencils are wonderful for paper crafting, they have SO MANY other uses too! We'll have several posts a day for you, from Monday August 29th to Saturday September 3rd. At the end of our celebration, each designer will randomly select a winner from all blog comments to receive a free Dreamweaver stencil. We look forward to you partying along with us!


Eeekkk!! the hop starts with me along with 3 other ladies today and continues all week


Here's my entry for today:

As a stamper and dabbling in punches and die cut stencil embossing is an unknown territory.  Having had a little "go" many (like 18) years ago when I first started crafting it has come a long way with the introduction to beautiful designs, stencil paste and in my eyes the best thing, being able to do a beautiful embossed picture like this with a turn of a handle.  Using a die cutting machine and the mats required its literally that easy!

I fell in love with this beautiful butterfly stencil Dreamweaver Three Butterflies LL591.  I chose to decorate a book and this hard backed book was just £1 for 2 in Poundland :)  I ran the stencil through the Big Shot machine and kept the stencil in place, using various colours in inkpads and some stencil brushes I added the colour.  And lastly I dabbed glitter glue onto it too.

  

You can find all the supplies you need right here  and right here  

Your next stop along the hop is to Lee at Lee Kellogg blog.

I hope you have enjoyed my post and enjoy the week!  I know I cant wait to see what has been done by all the others :)

Cazx

Woodware Funny Folds

Today its my turn at the Woodware blog for Funny Folds.  Now folds can be making cards or as I have chosen a box.  Now I got this fab box from the Splitcoast Stampers website and in their resources section.  I was thinking of making tutorial for it but figured their instructions are fantastic and "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

So here is the link for what they call the A2 card box.  This box could quiet happily hold 6 cards and envelopes and would make and lovely gift.

When I saw the Woodware New Releases the stamp set that made me "squeak" with excitement (literally) was the little Garden Gnomes Clear Magic set FRCL202 and also the Woodland and Mushroom house.  All that colouring opportunity!

So I went about making my box following the instructions. And had such fun decorating it.

Here I have used the gnome, the ribbon border cassette to make a cute little fence, daisies and gems

Here you can see I  have used the wheelbarrow and mushroom (fairy tots set) to decorate the

edges of the box.

Now for the real fun!  And I made 4 cards to go inside the box.

My plans were to make more but as with any time you have plans the kids often have plans of their

own and Harvey didn't feel well so I had to sit with him instead of making more cards.  Still

this gives you a general idea on how wonderful this set is!!

Check in tomorrow to see what Debbie has made

Woodware Challenge - Sketch

Here is this weeks Woodware card and I cant believe that I picked the same stamp as Francoise :)  interesting to see how we used this set differently :)

I have used

Stamps : Fairy Tots - Clear Magic FRCL162

Paper Pad : CLOISONNE - 8 X 8 COLLECTION

Glitter Glue, Small Daisy Punch, Pink Nailheads

As you can see I have paper pieced the main image with the same papers

I hope you have managed to keep an eye out on the Woodware blog to

see the talents of my fellow DT members 

Cazx

Woodware Anything but a card Challenge

The challenge this week over at the Woodware Blog is "Anything but a Card".  Today I have decided to decorate a Pencil Box with some lovely little birdies and flowers :)  I have decorated a few of these boxes for the boys teachers at school and they make lovely gifts.

I used the Woodware Empty Pencil box to decorate 2865I painted it with white acrylic paint, slightly watered down to make it thinner.  I didnt want to completely "white out" the box, simply cover the kraft with a covering of white. 

I then used a reverse side of the Lost In Paradise 8 x8 pads the light yellow paper with the white grid on it.  Stamped with black ink and coloured with markers, stamping the solid flowers onto the paper in 2 shade of orange.  I distressed the edge with ink in a light brown colour and stuck this onto the top of the box. I went onto further decorated the inside top and bottom of the box with the same stamps.  The birds were stamped onto white card and coloured with markers and stuck onto the box.

To hide the popper at the front I cut a small Plum Punch in orange paper and then stamped a flower onto white card and cut with a small circle punch.  Additionally I sponged glitter glue around the edge of the lid.

I need to restock on these boxes as I think they might be the teachers gifts again!

Woodware Design Team Sketch time

This is the second sketch for the Woodware DT and this time I have gone all "boyish" with this fun robot card.

As a mummy to 2 boys I know how hard boy cards can be.  I love this Robot Set, all the pieces are separate and you can make so many combinations of "bots" and their non furry bot pets. Also to give this a boyish/robotish/industrial feel I added some fabulous SCREW BRADS and NAILHEADS.  One the green paper I used another Robot set and you can see them all here.

Check out the Woodware blog all week apart from Sunday for more ideas with the sketch!

Woodware Challenge - Birthday wishes

Another fab challenge and this time no colour restrictions so I have gone all out BRIGHT!!

I love these meeces to pieces :)  as soon as I saw this set I knew I had to have it... :)

Woodware MICEY MICE - CLEAR SET FRCL192

MISCELLANEOUS » CARNIVAL RIDE - 8 X 8 COLLECTION (48) » GCD601

STAMPENDOUS CUPCAKE NUMBERS - CLEAR SET SSC178

WOODWARE- BERRY WITH WHITE DOTS - 15MM ORGANZA RIB038

STICKLES - GLITTER GLUE - ICICLE GG20 Are the other items I used and available from your Woodware Stockist :)  Check out the woodware DT blog for all the other fab cards that the DT members have made for this week.

Woodware Design Week 1 - Wedding Day

Welcome to the Woodware Design Teams first challenge and this week its kicked off with WEDDING DAY as the theme.  I am scheduled to post today, Wednesday with my DT friends all posting on a different day.

Check out the Woodware Blog HERE to see what you have missed!

Here is my card and I have used a Stampendous Stamp called V126-R Happy Couple

Coloured with Coloured pencils and they sprayed with Iridescent Memory Mist to give it a beautiful shime

The papers are from CLOISONNE - 8 X 8 COLLECTION 

Woodware White flowers - perfect for altering have been sponged with pink ink and

then sprayed with the Memory Mist

The Woodware Grass punch has been punched out of white cardstock to create

some delicate sprigs.  These have been shaped using an embossing tool

and molding mat.

Tomorrow is Debbies turn to post.  You can find links to her blog and the Woodware Blog in the Woodware tab above.

Cazx