Craft Consortium Steampunk Card

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I have a card to share using the new Essential Craft Pads by Craft Consortium. 

The Essential Craft Papers Vintage Emporium

The Essential Craft Papers Metal Effects 

The Herbarium Herb Scissors Metal Charms

The Riverside Adhesive Enamel Dots 

1. Use a 5x7 Kraft card as the base.
2. Cut the base paper down to 5x7 and then cut off 10mm around each side roughly.
3. Glue this onto card and you should have a Kraft card boarder.
4. Next tear up a few strips of the metal textures and then cut out the ephemera from the Vintage Emporium pad.
5. Layer these up and use 3D foam pads to make them stand out from the page.
6. Cut some cogs out using card and the scraps of paper. 
7. Decorate the card cogs with texture sand paste and then add rust coloured paint.
8. Slot the cogs and ephemera amongst the layers and use 3d foam pad to build up dimension.
9. Finish off by adding charms and enamel dots 

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Craft Consortium The Essential Craft Papers Eastern Influences Best Wishes Card

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I have been playing with these exotic patterned papers for Craft Consortium. These are from the Eastern Influences Paper Pad

1. Cover a 5 x 7 card with patterned paper
2. Cut a wide strip of paper and glue across card
3. Cut out a fishtail flag in red paper and stick to corner of card
4. Use a word die to cut out the sentiment using craft foam

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Craft Consortium Eastern Influences Butterfly Card

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I have a card to share using the Eastern Influences Papers from Craft Consortium.

The Essencial Paper Pads Eastern Influences

The Essential Paper Pads Watercolour

Large Butterfly Die

Dragonfly Die

Self Adhesive gems

Bows

Boarder Punch

Corner Rounder Punch

Cover a 5 x 7 card using the Eastern Influences  patterned paper

Cut out a large square from the Watercolour paper pad and round off edges

Adhere square to card and then cut out a strip from the Eastern Influences pad.

Use a border punch along the sides of the strip and adhere over the square.

Cut out two butterflies and one dragonfly using the Watercolour pad.

Decorate the butterflies with bows and add gems to the dragonfly.

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Craft Consortium Wildflower Meadow

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I have a card to share using the Wildflower Meadow collection by Craft Consortium.

Cover the card with patterned paper and then use nesting dies to cut out two smaller squares of coordinating papers.

Ink the edges and then layer them together.

Cut out one of the tags from the paper pack and adhere to the center of the card using foam pads.

Next slot tickets behind the tag

Die cut a circle from paper and adhere this to the tag using foam pads.

Stamp out a rabbit onto card and colour it in, cut out and glue to card.

Decorate with flowers and gems.

Craft Consortium English Garden Ephemera Card

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I have a lovely card to share using Craft Consortium's English Garden Collection and printable ephemera from Mixed Up Magazine. 

Start off by covering the card with paper and then rough up the edges with scissors. Next ink the edges using a make up sponge.

Cut up a few strips of paper and cut out the ephemera. Rough all the edges and ink.

Place the pieces onto the card and once you are happy with the arrangement glue it all down.

Stamp out the mouse images onto watercolour paper using a permanent ink. Colour them in using watercolour pencils. Cut them out and adhere them to card.

Cut out one of the tags from the front of the English Garden.pad and ink it up before using it as a card topper. Stamp a small sentiment over the top of the tag and decorate with enamel stickers. 

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Get English Garden Here https://www.craftconsortium.com/shop

Ephemera is available at Mixed Up Magazine

 Some are available free to subscribers https://mixedupmag.com/ or on the Etsy site https://www.etsy.com/market/mixed_up_magazine

New Product Range Craft Consortium MDF Altered Storage Box

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I have an exciting new product range from Craft Consortium to share today. Yep they now do MDF products and you know i love working with MDF. As seen on Hochanda i present to you the Storage Box. This is huge and can hold an A4 stamp set or maybe cards if you want to keep them all organised.

Product list

MDF Storage Box With Dividers https://www.craftconsortium.com/product-page/craft-consortium-3d-mdf-storage-box-with-dividers

Decoupage White Wood https://www.craftconsortium.com/product-page/white-wood-decoupage-papers-set

Decoupage Old Newspaper https://www.craftconsortium.com/product-page/old-news-decoupage-papers-set

Tell The Bees Clear Stamp Set https://www.craftconsortium.com/product-page/tell-the-bees-clear-stamp-set

Kori Kumi Floral Die  https://www.craftconsortium.com/product-page/santoro-kori-kumi-floral-die-collection

Kori Kumi Sequins https://www.craftconsortium.com/product-page/santoro-kori-kumi-floral-sequins

DecoArt Gold Metallic Lustre

I started off by painting each piece with white gesso and leaving it to dry and then i gave it a coat of cream chalky finish paint. 

I then covered each piece in pva glue that had been watered down with a little water. I used the White Wood Decoupage papers and covered each piece. Once it had dried i used the hineycombe stamp from the Tell The Bees Collection to stamp across the sides using black ink. I then cut out the flowers from white card and coloured them with brusho powders. 

I then sanded back any rough and uneven edges and rubbed on some  gold metallic lustre. I then glued the flowers onto the sides of the box and filled in the gaps with sequins.

I covered the inserts with the Old Paper Decoupage papers and glued resin flowers on to the tabs to finish.

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Winter Woodland Layout Mr Robin

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I have another layout made using the Winter Woodland Collection by Craft Consortium.

Start off by applying gesso to a 12 x 12 sheet of paper. Use a pallet knife to drag the gesso across the page.

Once dry apply a stencil mask over the top using modeling paste and allow to set.

Spritz are with a couple of green mist sprays and allow to dry

Cut up the Winter Woodland papers into squares and strips and position them onto the page before gluing down.

 Just play around with the paper layers until you are happy with the final look.

Mount your photograph onto card and trim to fit layout.

Using the robin stamps from the Winter Woodland Collection, Stamp out the little birds onto card and then color in with watercolor paints. Let them dry and then cut them out before adding to the page.

Add a few holly leaves and use the enamel dots from the Kori Kumi collection to add the berries.

Finish off by adding a title using alphabet stickers.

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Oak House Studio: Introducing The New Bigger Texture Stamps

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I am up on the Oak House Studio Blog with a new layout and I have some new texture stamps to show you. These are the larger versions of the texture stamps that come with the Double Daisy set but now are a good size for mixed media projects. The stamps are available to buy here http://www.oakhousestudio.com/ourshop/prod_4936011-Mixed-textures-stamp-set.html

I started my page off with some stenciling around the layout using texture paste mixed with Peacock  Pure Colour Chemistry Ink. I used the Ledger Sheet stencil mask by The Crafters Workshop and added the texture randomly around the page. I then Flicked Sapphire Acrylic Ink

                            I added some lace trims to my page and dotted around a few pearls

I cut up a couple of sheets of Gypsy gypsy paper pad and cut out the postcards. I distressed the edges and added stenciling on them before layering them up.

I took the texture stamps and stamped them around the page and over the stenciling. I used Vintage Sepia and Cobalt Blue Colour Chemistry Ink Pads.

I added more of the texture past around the scrabble tiles to distress them

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