Imagination Crafts - Inspiration for August.

Hi everyone,

Here I am again working with the lovely stamps from Imagination Crafts. Iv'e made a Funky Foam Booklet for you this month. You can add papers inside to create a notelet holder. For this project I used the Decoupage Stamp Daisy on Gold Metal Sheet - I embossed the image with an embossing tool firstly on the front following the lines of the stamp then again from the back, then coloured in the flower with a permanent marker. A small wire swirl was added for decoration.

The booklet itself is made from Funky Foam. I cut out the foam using deckle edge scissors and snipped into the sides to give an old vintage effect.  I heated the foam with a heat gun, stamped the small flower from the set into the foam whilst it was hot,  let it cool,  then coloured the raised bits with gold paint to highlight the  surface.

I then added a side binder made with black cord and beads (your pages fit inside the booklet held in by this cord binder) Also I stamped some Shrink Plastic with the small flower stamp and added these to the side binder for decoration.
I particularly like working with metal sheets. Copper is great too as you can heat it and it changes colour. Perhaps I will use copper for another Challenge coming up soon..... Why not visit the Inspiration Blog to see more ideas from the Design Team. Click here to be taken to the Inspiration blog or visit the Challenge Blog and have a go yourself - you never know you may just win a prize. Click here for the Challenge Blog. .

Product used in making this booklet:
Funky Foam
Stayzon Black
Black Cord
Gold Wire
Gold Metal sheets and the lovely Decoupage Stamp Set - Daisy  from Imagination Crafts.

Next Month's Challenge is all about Butterfllies so watch this space for more creative ideas to come very soon...

Imagination Crafts August Challenge - Flower Power

Hello again,

For this month's Imagination Crafts Design Team theme "Flower Power" Iv'e used an Imagination Crafts Decoupage stamp to create the flowers on this Notelet Hanger.

I used a small piece of mount board for this wall hanging which I painted with black acrylic paints. I then brushed over the background with beige paint roughly to create texture.
I then coloured some Sparkle Gel with yellow mica powders and spread this onto the Honeycomb Stencil to create a textured background.

I stamped the Decoupage Flower stamp onto green vellum, embossed the images from the back to make the petals stand out and added these to the bottom left of the card. I also stamped the image onto some yellow cardstock with green ink and wrapped this round a post -it note to form a cover. Two holes were punched into the top of the mount board and decorated ribbon threaded through to create a hanger.


Why not join in with the Imagination Crafts August Challenge and see what you can create. Take a look at the Imagination Crafts blog too  - click on the Imagination Crafts Challenge badge on the right to be taken to the challenge.


Check out the Inspiration Blog too for ideas throughout the month  from the Design Team.

Imagination Crafts products used:
Honeycomb Stencil.
Decoupage Flower Stamp Set Daisy
Sparkle Medium of your choice

Rings and Things.

Hi all,

Iv'e been busy making some jewellery and thought I would show you a couple of things that Iv'e made.

I love making jewellery as you can make almost anything with just a few bits and pieces and one or two techniques. Here, on the left,  you can see a ring that I made which only took a few minutes. Below you can see a scarf ring that Iv'e made too using seed beads and wire.

Jewellery is so easy and with a little imagination lots can be created.

I am also starting to use beads on material and felt so keep an eye on this blog for more crafty inspiration.

. Back soon with more crafty images for you.

Imagination Crafts Design Team Inspiration Project - Tag Card.

Imagination Crafts - Design Team Inspiration Project - Tag Card.

Hi again,

This inspiration project "Tag Card"  was made using Imagination Crafts Diamond Stencil and Sparkle Gel Medium mixed with mica powders to add colour.

To create this Tag Card - Spread plain Sparkle Gel Medium over the Diamond Stencil onto dark brown cardstock to create the background for the card.  Then, mix Sparkle Gel Medium with coloured mica powders and spread this onto light brown cardstock and white cardstock.  Once dry, cut out tag shapes from both the light brown card and white card and layer up. (Glitter was added to the white stencilled image before it was dry to add sparkle).
Raffia ties and Forever Friends Die cuts were added to the card plus quilled and rolled flowers to decorate the corners and tags themselves. A Thank you sentiment was also added.

These tags can be used for parcels or presents if you carefully attach them to your card with brads or using the raffia.
Go to the Imagination Crafts Challenge Blog and Inspiration Blog for more ideas. There is a new challenge every month so why not join in and have some Imagination Crafting fun and share your ideas with us.

Imagination Crafts Products used for this project were:
Mica Powders
Sparkle Gel/Medium. There  are lots of lovely colours to choose from. 
Diamond Stencil
Spatula

Summer Lantern made with WoW Embossing Powders

Summer Lantern - use indoors or outside to enhance your garden with colour.

Hi again,

Iv'e made this Summer Lantern to hang either indoors or outside with a T-Light inside. These  look fab if you make lots of them using different coloured embossing powders and you can recyle all your old jars too.

They look stunning in the evenings when the sun goes down if you have a T-Light inside and really brighten up your garden with colour.

Iv'e also added flowers to this jar which were made using a silicone mould and melted embossing powders. I also twisted some wire and added that to the top of the jar for the hanger.

Go the the WoW Embossing powder blog to see lots of projects using the lovely range of powders.  You can access the shop from the blog too to see all the lovely colours and varieties of powders that are available.

Happy crafting and more ideas for you tomorrow.  

The Crafting Cafe's new Challenge - "Summers here"

Hi all

This month's Challenge on the Crafting Cafe blog is "Summer's Here" - to give you a few ideas and inspiration the Design Team have posted a few cards for you and will be adding new ideas throughout the month so keep watching for new inspiration and ideas.

Here's my contibution for this month.  Iv'e used one of the Digi-stamps of a Dragonfly to create this canvas. Why not pop over and join in with the challenge - click here to find out more.

The "Imagination Crafts" Challenge goes "LIVE" today

Today, the Imagination Crafts Challenge goes "LIVE"  - Check out the blog to enter the Challenge. Click on the Challenge Blog Badge on the right to be taken to the Imagination Crafts Challenge Blog.

Being on the Design Team gives me an opportunity to use the lovely products from Imagination Crafts to give a little bit of inspiration to everyone (hopefully) - here Iv'e used the Honeycomb Stencil and Antique Bronze Sparkle Medium to create this canvas. Iv'e also used Gilding Flakes to add to the  background to give the canvas more interest.

First paint your canvas light brown . When dry,  stick the stencil to the canvas with masking tape and  and spread Antique Gold Medium through the stencil. Lift off the stencil carefully and whilst the medium is still wet, add Gilding Flakes to the edges - Don't brush the flakes off yet - leave to dry. Once dry brush off the flakes and they be incorporated into the Sparkle Medium.

I then added a pebble for the bee's body, coloured it with permanent markers and added 3D foam circles for the head.

I added some wings I took off a net butterfly and re-shaped, then added antennae made from wire and adhesive gems. The Flowers were made with tissue paper which I added after inking the edges of the canvas to give depth to the picture. The leaves were hand-drawn, cut out and added along with some green die-cut swirls.  To finish I added a butterfly and some embossed flowers to the edges.  Back soon with more creations for you.

For more inspiration on using Imagination's lovely products click here - Imagination Crafts blog and to spoil you even more -  on 15th July there will be even more ideas for you. The Design Team have come up with a variety of projects to inspire and get your creative juices flowing. Happy crafting x