Day 14 - 30 Day Craft Challenge ~Earth~

Day 14 of the 30 Day Craft Challenge and the word for today is

~Earth~

Today I am sharing a project that I completed for a friend of mines sons 5th Birthday. He loves dinosaurs and my friend made an amazing dinosaur dig cake (will see if I can share it with you later in the week) and she asked me to do a few signs for her. The first photo is the little signs that go into the cake (Dig area) which where printed onto card and covered with glossy acents (AKA my new best friend) then put onto sticks. The second photo is of the banner sign I made it was done by printing a bone font (found free on the internet) onto brown card then I went over the font with glossy accents and sprinkled on (brown sugar coloured) Zing embossing powder. Once heated the embossing powder and glossy accents bubbled and made a letter that looked and felt like bone. I love using the glossy acents with the embossing powder it has a really precise nib so you can paint it into small areas and combines so well with the embossing powders (just make sure to heat in a well ventilated area).

Cake Banner and signs

Now here are a few projects from yesterdays word

~ Wish ~

Card by Nicky Normandale for best wishes on the arrival of a new baby :)

Gorgeous drawing by the talented Leanne Poke - of a care bear wish bear :)

Tomorrows word is ~Sew~ I look forward to showing you more great projects then,

Kate xx

Day 13 - 30 Day Craft Challenge ~Wish~

Day 12 of the 30 Day Craft Challenge and the word for today is

~Wish~

Almost half way through and finding it easy to find inspiration but difficult to find my supplies in all the moving boxes building up in the house.

Today I decided to do a layout, as I had stumbled across this amazing photo I took in India around 3 years ago when I was looking at photos for the Paper Flourish Project 30 Challenge.

The photo was taken (as the writing says if you can read it :)) on an early morning boat ride down the River Ganges in Varanasi. These monks where riding down the river also and joining in a Morning Prayer ceremony, in which you whisper your prayers or wishes to the tiny dish of Marigold petals - light the candle and float it down the river.

I love this photo with its rich oranges and it helps me relive the feeling of spirit I felt constantly throughout my travels in India...certainly a spiritual and sacred place.

In this layout I also tried out a technique I have wanted to try for a while - DIY Rub-ons- I used my inkjet printer and normal transparency sheets with a little dried spray adhesive and printed the text you can see in the above pictures backwards. Then when printed placed the transparency printed side down and rubbed over it with a blunt pencil. Not as sharp as normal rub-ons but still a great technique to try and perfect :) Note: the ink on the transparency will not dry so cant be stored long term.

Now here are a couple of projects from yesterdays word

~Time~

Project by Carol McCann  

Creative use of Time pieces by Leanne Poke

More to share with you all tomorrow.

Kate xx

30 Day Craft Challenge participants - Map-

A litttle late but here they are a few of the participants projects for

~Map~

A layout by Carol McCann- using an actual map as the feature. 

Leanne Poke has used the paper scroll technique to create her picture of a map 

Beautiful Layout by Linda Bromley - Love the detail and the use of the Map. 

Amber Budden's Layout uses a Map from The London Underground. 

It's great to see the different ideas that each person has with the same word for inspiration...

I will be posting more this afternoon and tonight with the Inspiratonal word for today being

~Wish~

Katexx

Day 12 - 30 Day Craft Challenge ~Time~

Day 12 of the 30 Day Craft Challenge and again it has been a busy one - blog now then dinner then shooting off to a sewing class in the city :)

For todays project I chose to do a project I have wanted to do for a while but have put off for lack of time. It is a Photo Transfer Clock canvas - an idea I came up with when I saw a blog post tutorial for doing photo transfers onto canvas. I love the way the photo comes up on the canvas it gives it a vintage look and I have added paints and tints to blend it into the canvas as well as some handmade flowers and a clock in the centre.

I will go searching for the blog post for the transfer technique and link it here later tonight :)

Todays word is ~Time~ and I think it links in perfectly!

One of my wedding photos transferred onto canvas.

More to come late tonight after my sewing class...until then

Have fun creating

Katexx

Day 11 - 30 Day Craft Challenge ~Map~

Day 11 Of the 30 day Craft Challenge - the word is

~Map~ 

and it has been a busy one - Packing up the house and working on a craft project I can not show you yet - and finished off with a nice afternoon walk and cuppa with a friend...

So only now am I getting time to do my project. I had intended to make a card with a cut out from paper out of an old street directory but running out of time I spyed the free download I got from silhouette last week of a paper aeroplane and thought it would be a cute project to make out of the street directory sheets.

So below are the cut outs (from my silhouette) put together, they  are quite delicate but I am working out a way to sew them all together in a line one below the other etc. into a little mobile which would be cute for a little boys room or party decorations

I love how the planes look cut out of the street directory (which is from the 70's) and look forward to showing you when the mobile is complete :0)

 

Here are a few projects from yesterdays word ~Pearl~ to share with you...

Carol McCann - Tag made with Perfect Pearls

Ann Place - Some beautiful Pearl Jewellery pieces

Gorgeous tags made by Linda Bromley

And a pretty decoration made by Ellen Budden

until tomorrow - Kate xx

Day 10 - 30 Day Craft Challenge ~Pearl~

Day 10 of the 30 Day Craft Challenge

~Pearl~

Was the inspiration word for today,

I decided to make something simple today, and played around with using cut out hearts to nake a flower. In the centre I put 3 Potato pearls and some Kaisercraft rhinestones in pink. The flower was cut using two different sizes in a heart punch and the edges slightly distressed using "Tattered Rose" Tom holtz distress ink pad.

Flower

I then attached the flower onto a dollie and onto a Pearl card with Kaisercraft card as a background and some pretty glittery ribbon. Stamp is My Creative Times.

Finished Card

Above is the finished card!!!

Here are a few of the participants for the 30 Day Craft Challenge, projects from yesterdays word

~Stamp~

Nicole Lamb - Layout using background stamp

Ann Place - Glass tile and postage stamp

Erin Boxsell - Stamp image on back of Notepad 

Amber Budden - Postage stamps used in travel layout 

Carol McCann - Stamped tilda holding a stamp

More Participant projects tomorrow for todays word

~Pearl~

Katexx

Day 9 - 30 Day Craft Challenge ~Stamp~

Day 9 of the 30 Day Craft Challenge - with todays word being

~Stamp~

I thought today I would take the opportunity to do a quick tutorial on "Stamp Making"!

I love stamps and love doing my own designing so loved the idea of creating my own stamp designs with some of the commercial stamp making machines on the market.

Though also being a thrifty shopper I was not keen on the idea of spending upwards of $250 on a stamp making kit. So I turned to my trusty friend "Google" and discovered a cheaper way to go.

Before I get started and you go out and buy the supplies for this tutorial I have to disclose that it does take a bit of practice and can still be hit and miss with certain designs and words do not work very well with this technique, having said that I have acheived some great effects.

Tools needed:
* UV lamp
( 9V with 6 bulbs - the same as a nail technician would use, you can find these on Ebay for around $35 - $40)
* Transparencies
(If you only have an inkjet printer you will need to buy the ones specific for inkjet printers)
You can get them lazer printed for you at places like office works quite affordably
* Photopolymer image packs for stamps
(I use the Teressa Collins ones as the are affordable and come in a nice neat packet)
* Two acrylic blocks

You will also need:
* Two small trays
(I use chinese containers because they fit well in the small space in my UV lamp)
* Warm soapy water
* Nail or hard brush
* Scissors
* Timer

Directions:
First you will need to create a design for your stamp - for mine I used a picture of the Taj Mahal I had taken when I was in India. I used photoshop to turn it black and white as well as the magic wand tool to cut out the back ground and I believe I also used a pencil filter on it as well. I then inverted the colours so the black was white and the white was black and then printed it onto transparency with my laser printer.

Original Photo



Photoshop altered photo before it was inverted

Inverted Image

I then took my image pac (make sure you dont subject it to, too much light as they are photosensitive) and placed it on the acrylic block with transparency on top of imagepac and second acrylic block placed firmly and evenly on top of pac and transparency.

Put into UV box and turn on light and expose for 3 mins.

Turn off light take out and cut open pac.

I find it works the best if you scrub the gel pac with out to much water on the brush until you have most of the non exposed (where the black of the picture is) stamp removed.

Then continue scrubbing in warm soapy water until you have removed all the unwanted gel and the hardened (white area) area only remains.

Once this is done, place into the second chinese container with clear water and expose for a further 2 mins.

This is my final result.

Hope you have fun with this tutorial and can create some of your own fun designs...

And now here are a few entries from yesterdays word

~Patch~

Linda Bromley made this gorgeous card.

A Patch work quilt made by Carol McCann

And beautiful card by Erin Applebee

Thanks everyone for following along with me on this challenge, so much inspiration to get from all the great participants entries.... more tomorrow!

Kate xx