Jingle Tots Nativity

 

Today we have a festive make from DT member Sara.

To make this fun card she has used

Art impressions jingle tots nativity set 1 and 2.

Sara has stamped the barn straight onto card

 and done some masking to add the characters inside.

Some of the other characters have been cut out and decoupaged.

Gold stickles was used on the star and crowns for a real Christmas feel.

Sara uses distress inks to colour the characters in with.

Products used are-

Jingle tots nativity 1

Jingle tots nativity 2

Bo Bunny double dot paper

Gold card

Gold stickles

Distress inks used are-

Antique linen,Walnut stain,Tattered rose,Spun sugar,

Picked raspberry,Abandoned coral,Peacock feathers,

Dusty concorde,Pumice stone,Scattered straw,

Tumbled glass,Brushed corduroy,Chipped saphire,

Wild honey,Mustard seed,Black soot,

Rusty hinge,Cracked pistachio,Dried marigold.

  

Just because

 

Another floral card today made using Justrite's

Floral vintage labels stamp set.

This stamp set has two beautiful flower images and some lovely sentiments.

The flowers have been stamped on X-press it copic card in

 Tuxedo black memento ink and coloured with copics.

The flowers are then die cut using

Vintage labels two die set.

A larger frame from the vintage labels set is then cut in white card.

The card base is made using Timeless rectangles by spellbinders cut out in white card.

A rectangle shaped piece of card as been cut in white and then embossed with 

Heart lattice embossing folder for a little more detail under the flowers.

The card is finished off with a bow and crystal and some stickles on the flower stamens.

The sentiment is from the Floral vintage stamp set.

Know that you are loved

 

Hello, Louise here again with a floral card today.

Cream and gold mirror card is used to create a base for this card,

and a little paper piecing using a Tim Holtz ruler for a guide is also added around the edge.

A Sue Wilson die called Ornate Pieced design is used for the cream frame.

 You get 6 dies with this set and there is lots of ways to use them.

The flower, inside frame and words all come from a set by Justrite called

Magnolia vintage labels seven.

 

The frame was stamped and embossed with detail gold embossing powder

and die cut out using Vintage labels seven.

The sentiment is also embossed in gold.

The flowers are stamped out several times onto X-press it copic card using

 rich cocoa memento ink and then coloured using copic pens.

The flowers are then cut out and layered up using silicone glue.

A wink of stella clear glitter pen is used in the centre of the flowers.

To finish the card four gold nailheads are added to each corner of the card.

Once Upon a Springtime Album by Lisa

We have another instore weekend retreat lined up for November this year and repeated in January 2016. Lisa will be teaching this amazing ‘album in a box’ which features another of the limited edition collector's packs from Graphic 45 - Once Upon a Springtime.

The album is actually part of a box. And the top of the box is just beautiful. Lisa likes her fussy cutting and you can tell by the amount of delicately cut out animals, flower and foliage she’s incorporated.

BOX TOP

The inside of the box then opens out to reveal lots of pretty pages. All with the same format and all using the gorgeous papers from the Once Upon a Springtime deluxe collector’s edition pack. There are magnets and flaps and pockets and all the cool album techniques Lisa loves to feature when creating her albums.

PAGE1

PAGE2

PAGE3

PAGE4

PAGE5

PAGE6

PAGELAST

The album is also on the counter in the Sir Stampalot, Peterborough shop for you to look at when next visiting :)

Absolutely beautiful. Thanks Lisa.

- Janice

Those Crazy Birds again

Hello, I am back today with another Bird Crazy card and

this is one that I have made for the shop.

I have used a Tim Holtz stencil and distress inks for the background.

The sentiment is by stampendous and a verse my mum used to say to me when I was young.

I have stamped the bird out in archival coffee and coloured with distress makers.

I used the dies to cut my bird out and cut another wing and set of eyes to decoupage 

Products used are-

Tim Holtz bird crazy stamps

Tim Holtz bird crazy cutting dies

Tim Holtz stencil 'Rays'

Stampendous sentiment 'Sunshine face' 

Archival coffee to stamp with

Distress ink pads for rays in- Scattered straw 

                                            Mustard seed 

                                         Rusty hinge

Distress markers for bird in- Antique linen

                                      Tea dye 

                                                   Mermaid lagoon

                                              Mowed lawn

Have a lovely weekend and I promise my next post will be bird free

Louise

Tim Holtz - Crazy Birds

Hello, it's me, Louise with a blog post to tell you about the crazy birds that have landed

 here at Sir Stampalot.

The new Tim Holtz stamps are just flying out the door (sorry could not resist)

One of our lovely customers (Maggie Moore) came in with this fabulous card to show

 us using the stamps and the dies that match.

The dies are pretty amazing they cut really close to the stamped image and if you are like me and hate cutting out too much these are a must have.

Maggie teamed one of the birds with the woodware wreath stamp for a

 fun Christmas card

but the stamps can be used for lots of occasions

 Items used are -

Crazy bird stamp set

Crazy bird dies

Cream shrink plastic (used on sweets and bauble)

Woodware wreath

Black and white enamel for the eyes (makes the eyes look great )

Spellbinders curved matting basic A 

Bye for now

Louise

Mini Album by Lisa Maybank using Garment District 6x6 paper pad

This beautiful mini album was created by Lisa for an all-day class at Sir Stampalot. The mini album is sewing themed and uses the 6x6 Garment District pad by Marion Smith Designs.

There's lots of fun techniques and products Lisa has used on this project, including the (unfortunately discontinued) Sewing Room die and on the edge Sewing die.

Lisa has used the Button Box embossing folder, mini spools and metallic wax rub-ons.

Love the handle, it's by The Hobby House and the Pearl Strings to accent the front cover.

Take a peek for yourself, isn't it cool? Each page is made from one 12x12 black sheet of Bazzill and folded so that you get flaps and pockets.

Enjoy :)

FRONT VIEW

TOP VIEW

INSIDE COVER

PAGE ONE

PAGE ONE EXTENDED

PAGE TWO

PAGE THREE

PAGE THREE EXTENDED

PAGE FOUR

Times Nouveau

Don’t the weeks pass so quickly? Well another “weekender” session at Sir Stampalot is nearly upon us :)

Lisa will be teaching here this weekend. She’s created this amazing album using the deluxe edition pack from Graphic 45 – Times Nouveau. Lisa has already taught this class once but due to the interest she’s running it again this weekend. I was so busy last time I didn’t get to see the girls putting the album together so I hope to be able to take several sneaky peeks at what they are doing over the course of the weekend.


Here's a couple of pictures of the front cover:

Lisa has used one of the Hobby House drawer knobs and the Tim Holtz elastic band to create the closure for the album. A lone hitch fastener is attached to the clock on the front cover to create a hidden spot behind if you open it :)


The inside front cover has a little open pocket to slide in a tag or notes, along with some 3/4 sized pockets for tags 'n things:

Lisa has created a little waterfall on the next page with a closure using one of the designs from the paper.

Plenty of flaps and pull out sections with chipboard closures using the chipboard pieces from the Times Nouveau kit.

Lovin' the big dotty paper:

you've guessed it, more flaps and flippy bits!

and then finishing off on the back inside pages with a grid area for multiple mini photos.

And finally the back cover. A drawer ring holding the elasic in place and a border edge punch on the spine cover:

Amazing, classy and elegant :)

Another album made completely from scratch. It makes you feel so good as you go throughout the day just using G45 papers, some Bazzill and chipboard and suddenly you have an album forming – a real satisfying feeling :)

Happy Crafting Always
Janice
Sir Stampalot