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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Week 34 - Colour Challenge - Red

A colour challenge to tempt you this week!
Hopefully one alot of you will be using around this romantic time of year
RED
This week we are pleased to have Donnas Den of Crafts


back as sponsors - with these romantic goodies








And what have the DT come up with!




























Junior Dt






So as long as the main colour of your project is Red
you are in with a chance for those crafting goodies from
Please have your new project with Mr Linky by 8p.m. GMT
Wednesday 27th January.

We will let you know who will be chosen as GDT member for February but as this is an ongoing thing please keep trying if you aren't chosen this time!


Winner Week 33

Thanks for all the great entries to Eileen's Sketch Challenge it
was great to see so many different projects using that fab sketch.
Random.org has chosen as the winner of the 6 promarkers

Cheryl


Please have a look at the colours available - you can choose any 6!
E-mail us with your colour choice and we'll have them
posted onto you!

Thanks to Craft Obsessions


Thursday, 14 January 2010

Week 33 - Sketch & Guest Designers Wanted

This week we are all playing with this fabulous sketch from Ei.
Hopefully this will be a little less challenging ( but as rewarding) as the resist
Challenge from last week!



We welcome back Craft Obsessions as sponsors this week



They have very kindly offered 6 promarkers as a prize -
and you even get to choose your colours -
 fantastic or what!
Its also worth paying their fabulous Sale a visit - lots of goodies on offer!

From the Dt this week we have








Jo






Junior DT
Come on give it a go and you could win those fab promarkers from Craft Obsessions

GUEST DESIGNERS WANTED
  If you are interested we will be having Guest Designers starting in February , if you put GDT by your name with Mr Linky we will have a look and somebody will be invited to join the Design Team next month
(a different member of the DT will choose someone each month).

- it's fun.....go on have a try!

Winner week 32 - Resist

It was a truly great tutorial and lots of fun if you had a go  - obviously quite a challenge!
Random.org this week has chosen the winner as....

Sue C.



Please get in touch and I will pass your details onto Your Special delivery.

A huge thank you and well done to those that gave it a try - your projects were all fab! As a wee thank you for you effort I would like to send you all a little something... so  Suzanne,Chris , Vicki and Sue if you all e-mail us your postal addy I will pop a wee thank you in the post!

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Resist Tutorial

For this week’s C.R.A.F.T Challenge we’re presenting a tutorial as

we are aware that not everyone knows what a ‘Resist Technique is!

There are a couple of different versions and they enjoy various
names so I’m going to name them what I know them by, although
you may know them by another name.

Almost the same supplies—just the card differs.

The first one I’ll call Joseph’s Coat. The reason will become apparent!

Materials
Plain white standard cardstock bigger than your stamp.
Dye ink or inkpad(s) ‘Big & Juicy’ multi–colour are brill or you can
use a variety of smaller pads. Distress inks work well.
Ink blending pads (Cut & Dry works well) or brayer
Rubber stamps(s)
Clear embossing inkpad (Versamark is brill)
Clear embossing powder
Heat Gun
Black pigment ink or inkpad
Kitchen roll or soft cloth.




Method
Using either the brayer or the blending pads, cover the cardstock
with patches of colour in linear (brayer) or random (pads) pattern.

Ink up stamp with clear ink and stamp your image.
Use the clear embossing powder and heat gun to clear emboss the
image.



Wait for the image to cool, then apply black ink to the whole surface
of the ink using either the brayer or the pads—your own preference.



Wipe over the embossed image and the bright colours will shine
through !



That’s why it’s called Joseph’s coat!


The second technique produces a more subtle effect.

Materials
Gloss coated cardstock bigger than your stamp. Colour is your
choice. Astralux is brill.
Dye ink or inkpad(s) ‘Big & Juicy’ multi –colour are brill or you
can use a variety of smaller pads. Distress inks work well.
Ink blending pads (Cut & Dry works well) or brayer
Rubber stamps(s)
Clear embossing inkpad (Versamark is brill)
Heat Gun
Black pigment ink or inkpad
Kitchen roll or soft cloth



Method

This method differs to the first in a couple of ways.
Using your clear embossing inkpad, stamp your image.
‘Set’ the ink using your hear gun.

Then, using either your brayer or your pads, cover the whole of
the card with your lightest colour
Using cloth or kitchen roll wipe over the stamped image and the
original card colour will remain.



Repeat step one with your next stamp.
Repeat step two with the next lightest ink.
Polish with cloth again.

Repeat these steps as often as required for your design to build
up
You can even overstamp with a strong colour at the end, if you’d
like, using your design like a backing paper


Thanks Eileen for two handy tutorials - hope you give it a go and have fun - I'll definitely be doing more! Great for creating your own backing papers if you use tiny random stamps.

Week 32 - Resist technique.....and a fond farewell

I'm sad to say this week we are saying goodbye to
They have all been fabulous members of the DT and will all be missed both for their support as part of the team and for all their great projects, but we all wish them well.

We welcome back Your Special Delivery as sponsors this week and the lucky winner will
recieve a digi bundle from them.


The DT had the option of working with the fab image of rabbit in a plane
from Gina - "Handcrafted" at Your Special Delivery.

This weeks challenge is a little different for us.
A technique challenge which will have attached a fabulous tutorial by Eileen!
RESIST
Eileen has kindly showed a couple of ways to produce resist effects, but if you know others we would love to see them also. My first thought when Eileen suggested doing this was the wax crayon and ink firework pictures we did at school.....but of course there is so much more!

So from the DT this week we have




Just had to show both of Eileens cards in all their glory
- great tutorial work!








So If you fancy trying something new or if you do resist (and no I'm not talking about chocolates here) all the time we'd love to see your project. Random .org will choose a winner of the digi bundle from Your Special Delivery. Just have your project with Mr linky by 8p.m.(GMT) on Wednesday 13th January.


Winner Week 31

Welcome back everybody and a Happy New Year to one and all!
May 2010 be an extreamly creative year for everybody.

Than you for all your lovely thank you projects - we spent yesterday finishing off the childrens thank you cards, so pleased thats another job off the to do list.

Anyway Random.org this week has chosen....
Rosette

A very beautiful thank you card indeed!


Please e-mail me your snail mail and I will pop your crafting goodies in the post.