Speed Craft Sunday 12

Morning!

And Happy Easter to those who celebrate it, Happy Bank Holiday weekend to those who don't.

Speedy project today involves reviving and old custom ink pad, created with Distress ink re-inkers.

I stamped the sentiment and covered it with a mask, then used the custom coloured inkpad to stamp the mix of leaves and flowers. Would be rude if I didn't add some winged creatures too!

I like all the white space on this one, but you could trim it and make it a smaller card instead.

Time to make, 10 minutes max once I'd selected the stamps.

I'll be back tomorrow to announce the winner of the FIF card.

Have a great day whatever you are doing.

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 11

Afternoon, hope your Sunday has been a good one. 

I have been lucky enough to spend time with both my kids, Mothers Day has mixed emotions for me, but what I take great comfort from is that both Steve and Amber did actually WANT to be with me today. Im sure I dont need to tell you that not everybody was born to good decent nurturing parents, you would have to drag me by the hair to get me in the same room as either of my biological parents, yep I just said that out loud, deep breaths.

Lets get on to Speed Craft Sunday quickly!

I started with coloured card for a change, I love Black and Yellow.

I stamped the large butterfly and small butterfly, then placed a piece of acetate over the card to position the small butterfly on the other side-there would still be ink on the stamp so you can end up marking your card while trying to achieve the correct postion.

Then I covered the butterflies with masks and brushed black ink around the edges, next I inked up a piece of bubble wrap with the same black ink, this bubble wrap has little bubbles, then lay the wrap over the card and rub lightly in the central area only, this gives a softer random spread of pattern.

Remove masks and then add little accents with white pen. Create two matching strips to stamp Line Sentiments onto, and mount everything up on a 7 inch card blank.

Time to create, about 18 minutes.

Thanks for popping in, I appreciate it.

Speed Craft Sunday 10

Morning! Only just, I know, I had a nice sedate pace this morning, tired after telly!

So while still in my pjs I spent 12 minutes at my desk...

I stamped the entwined hummingbirds in Cornflower archival ink and covered the circles with masks, luckily they are the perfect size for the woodware 2 inch punch, so no cutting involved.

I then inked up the script stamp from the Journal set, Buttercup archival all over then Sap Green just around the edges. Stamp it across the middle.

Stamp again, above and below. Sponge a little yellow ink around the circle masks. I pondered putting the yellow into the circles instead but that would have involved cutting an aperture mask-not gonna do that when my lovely hubby is cooking my breakfast downstairs, Im starvin!

Hope you like!

I havent linked to anything, breakfast is ready, but everything is on the Clarity website, not my breakfast though, thats mine.

Thanks for popping in!

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 9

Good Morning!

Very quick post again. I have a very full Groovi class today, but just enough time to show you my speedy creation...

I used the circle stain stamp from the Journal set with 3 colours of archival ink, 1st 2nd and 3rd generation ink for each.

Then I added bits of the harlequin stamp in yellow, and then the script stamp in grey.

Finally the butterfly and dragonflies and some splashes.

I decided not to put a sentiment on, I like it just as it is.

Time to create, about 15 minutes including cutting the extra butterfly.

Hope you like!

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 8

Good Afternoon, thanks for popping in for another speedy project, today,s is super speedy, I created it whilst peeling veg for the roast dinner and cooking fry up for brekky, even with my dodgy arm I can still multi task!

So here's what I made...

I didn't have time to take pics along the way, I just had to go for it.

I started with a torn piece of paper, brushed yellow ink along from the paper, then added black to the edges. 

Then to add the stamps, and here's a confession...

I cut the stem off one of my Alium stamps, so that I can make the flower lean either left or right.

The same stem has a chunk missing from it, no idea how it got damaged, but to be fair it's years old, and I could just fill in with a pen, but on this occasion I thought i'd use the gap for the crossover of stems.

And just to finish off, I added a yellow shadow!

Done in about 8 minutes.

Hope you like!

Have a lovely Sunday.

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 7

Hello, thanks for popping in, hope your Sunday is going well so far.

I have a Groovi class today, only local though, so no motorway trip, yay!

Just time for me to show you this weeks Speed Craft Sunday project.

I stamped the Rose first then stamped the Line Sentiment around to make a frame, a stamping platform is helpful with this.

Then I gently brushed green ink toward the corners through a circle stencil.

I coloured the leaves with waterbased markers blended with a clear sparkle pen. The Rose needed to be white so I just used the clear sparkle pen with the tiniest bit of green ink just to tint slightly.

I tried for black and white plus one colour, so i can use this as a second entry into the Country View Challenge.

Time spent on this one, including colouring, 20 minutes max.

Speed Craft Sunday 6

Afternoon!

Firstly, i wonder if you will notice that i have used the same stamp for this weeks SCS (no not the sofa company) as i did for last weeks? well i only just realised when i was loading photos and spotted last weeks photos lol, but actually i'm not worried because iv'e done very different things with the stamp, so i'm gonna let myself off the hook!

I started the project this morning before i left home for the poker finals...nope i didn't do too well this time, bad cards bad cards and then more bad cards, but its always fun, and it meant i could get home early and crack on with some work.

I stamped the Poppies then covered with masking fluid, i left it to dry while i went out, although it only takes a few minutes to dry i didn't want to rush it and risk ruining it.

I added a few splashes too.

Then when i came home, i used one of Leonie's new stencils and brushed some Apricot ink first, then added Blaze for a bit more depth.

Rub off the masking fluid CAREFULLY, i tore a tiny bit of the card by being heavy handed.

I toyed with the idea of colouring the poppies with very pale apricot, but i worried about a mottled effect where the card was torn, so i decided to just glaze with a clear sparkle pen instead, its nice and sparkly and theres plenty of colour on the outside of the image instead.

Time taken, not including drying time, about 10 minutes.

Hope you like it!

Thank for popping in, please come back tomorrow for the first Mixed Media Monday.

Maria xx

Speed Craft Sunday 5

Good Morning, hope your weekend has been good so far. Its supposed to be  weekend off for us Moorhouses but Pete went into work yesteday for a couple of hours (turned into most of the day) so i just sat and plodded on with Groovi sample making.

Today though we are defffffffffinitely not working, Pete is cooking brekky as i type and then we are taking Tillypops out for a wander around an artisan market, maybe find a dog friendly pub for late lunch.

SO, i best be quick with this lil ole blog post!

The Brusho pots and watercolour card are still on my desk from yesterday, so i grabbed them and chose a stamp quick...

I stamped the Wild Poppies in Versafine black ink and gave it a waft with the heat tool to dry.

Then i sprinkled the red brusho onto the flowers and spritzed with water, filled the flowers in a little with a paintbrush then sprayed a little more water to get some colour spread. 

Not too much though, i'm not that confident with brusho actually, so ill stick with less is more i think.

Time taken on this? Well if you don't count the first project that went badly wrong, then 10 minutes including trimming and mounting.

Another one done ready for next months birthdays!

Lets have a go at a couple of challenges too...

Crafty Friends theme is Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge theme is also Anything Goes

Enjoy the remainder of your weekend gang.

Maria xx

Speed Craft Sunday 4

Well its only just Sunday, busy day.

So here is my speedy project for today, it really needed to be super speedy, so 10 minutes later...

I used the Clarity stag stencil, but just the head, easy to mask off with tape. Then i used tape to mask the bottom area and used the texture from the body.

Bog standard blank ink and a sponge, add a wordchain, easy.

Oh and the base is a 5 x 7 topper from the Indian Summer pack.

OK, night night!

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 3

Good Morning!

Its Sunday, so it must be time for a very quick crafty project.

I need to show you one i did earlier this time, because i'm slightly demented trying to do too many things at once. January is always a challenging month for me, i get myself into a right state over my tax return, but i'm struggling extra because of my bad arm, everything is taking longer than it should and some things i simply cant do for myself at all,  and i'm beginning to question if  i'm doing a good job at work, so quite honestly wondering if its time to change direction.

But for now i'm trundling along as best i can.

So here's a speedy project...

 This is a DL card made by stamping the outline of the Marigold and Friends stamp set, 1st 2nd and 3rd generation in Library Green archival ink, then stamping the outer fill, again 1st 2nd and 3rd generation ink, Prickly Pear this time.

And what about some speed craft coasters to match?

Same colours with the addition of, hang on i'll go and check...Buttercup archival.

Ok that's all folks, thanks for popping in, have a lovely sunday!

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 2

Evening!

Better late than never? Its been a busy day, class at Preston actually, but i did manage to make a speedy card while the ladies were busy crafting away...

So i had my precious Pan Pastels on the desk, and my beloved Deerscape stamps, soooo...

I took a piece of linen card, sectioned off an area with low tac tape and sponged yellow pastel.

Then i borrowed the Leafy Swirl stencil from my good bud Susan 10 Toes, i sponged versamark through the stencil, lightly though, i only want a bit of subtle texture.

Remove the stencil and rub over the card with a sponge without adding any more pastel, subtle see?

Reposition the tape to work on the top area, sponge a good amount of red and yellow pastel, then blend together in circly movements. Yes circly is a word, i just invented it!

Some stamping, now the thing you gotta remember with linen card is when you stamp you need to press firmly to get past all the lovely texture, this is where my stamp platform is invaluable.

A cool trick for the moon, place the waste from punching out moon masks on the card and use a pencil eraser to remove the pastel.

Cherry Blossom foliage and a cool sentiment, edge in black sharpie pen and slap it on a A5 card, good to go!

Hope you like it, thanks for popping in.

And also, incase you didnt know, our Paul Church is on Hochanda with the current One Day Special, hes covering for someone who has had to cancel, so bless him! He will no doubt have some cool demonstrations, check him out if you can.

Maria x

Speed Craft Sunday 1

Morning!

I had an idea for another regular feature for my new bloggy, yep its called Speed Craft Sunday.

The idea is quite literally to create a project very quickly-we all have that occasion when we need a card fast don't we.

So here is instalment number 1, i'm actually trying to get ahead with my cards for the next couple of months.

I started with...

 My trusty brick wall stencil, some stencil card, Wee Fairies stamps, Wordchain stamps, Wordchain Alphabet stamps, I love those for personalising cards!

I stamped the text first in Cornflower archival ink, it doesnt look very blue in the pic but it is.

Next i stamped the fairies in black, then added a few stars in Buttercup.

I added a touch of colour with my stencil brushes, but didnt add any fresh ink, just what was left on the brushes, nice and subtle that way.

Edge in black sharpie pen and mount onto an 8 inch card blank.

It was so quick to make, i thought id add a touch of colour on the inside too...

Hope you like it!
I found a handful of challenges to enter...

Love to Craft  Anything Goes
The Happy Craft Challenge {love the name} Anything Goes
Artistic Stamper  Anything Goes
Crafty Catz  Anything Goes, optional twist Birthdays

And can i just say a little thank you to the volunteers at Paper Playful, they spend the time collating tons of challenges every single day so they are easy to find in one place, Thanks ladies!

Thanks for popping in, i really appreciate your visit!

Maria x