Imagination Crafts TV debut on Create and Craft

Imagination Crafts show for Create and Craft TV -  Sparkle Medium and Stencil Sets.

These samples were made for the show today 6th Feb- I had great fun decorating lampshades, making wall-fans, cards, felt and more with this lovely versatile medium.

Some ideas below for you...

Imagination Crafts on Create and Craft TV

Well - at last - IMAGINATION CRAFTS has come to Create and Craft TV

Watch on 6th February at 2p.m. to see the latest from Imagination Crafts. Sue will be demonstrating lovely new Sparkle Medium colours along with Stencils and much, much more,
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Iv'e been creating some samples for the show and have added one on here as a taster for you. More to come tomorrow -

"Love is in the Air" at Imagination Crafts

Hi

Here's my project for the February Challenge at Imagination Crafts. I decided to make something a bit different again using Sparkle Medium on Felt.

Firstly I cut out some heart shapes with felt, one in yellow and one in red (at the back)  then added Bright Red Sparkle Medium to the yellow felt using the Heart Leaf Stencil and Gold Shine onto the red felt. This was then left to dry out.

Once dry I sewed the seams together with red cotton leaving a gap on the top right hand side (for the arrow to come out)
I covered a skewer with red craft tape and made a hole in the centre of the yellow felt, threaded the skewer through and out at the top right. I then added some cardboard cut-outs of the arrow-head and quill at the back. These were drawn free hand and painted with Gold Mica powders.

Before closing the top right seam I stuffed the heart with a little capoc filling to pad it out a bit and added a ribbon to hand up the piece.

I used a "Love" wire embellishment for the front which was sewn onto red felt and added to the front of the heart. I then covered two flowers from the MDF Lantern set with both  Gold and Red Sparkle Medium and Gold Mica powders and added these to the front to finish. Adhesive Gems were added to the arrow at the toop and bottom to give it a bit of bling
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Have a go with putting sparkle medium onto felt. It adheres really well and dries really quickly. You can then make all sorts of things for your house and home.

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PRODUCTS USED FOR THIS PROJECT

Sparkle Medium - Bright Red

   "                         Gold Shine

Mica Powders - Iridescent

MDF shaped - Lantern 

Stencil - Heart leaf. 

Airbrushed Picture "Light is Life "

"Light is Life" picture - Airbrush on canvas

This picture was painted a while ago using an Airbrush - quite a challenge getting the hang of how an airbrush and compressor work and how to use masks to create the picture that you need.  It's sort of a reverse process but lots of fun all the same. 

You have to be very delicate and not add too much paint. Less is more as they say. This picture represents life itself hence the " Light is Life" title. 

Now Iv'e found my painting kit and airbrush again I must get down to creating more pictures in future. 

I can't remember where the idea came from but I;m sure I saw a picture somewhere of hands and thought I would paint something similar. 

Got the painting bug again...

Whooohoo - After a very busy ~Christmas and New Year I'm getting the painting bug again at last.

I love to paint and landscapes are my favourite subject - this picture is painted in oils and is of a Dorset Beach close to where I used to live. It's now on the wall of my new craft room.

The craft room will end up like a Gallery I expect - having your creations around you always inspires you to create more and more.

More pictures to come in future.

Imagination Crafts Fushia Stamp

Hi all,

I hope you are having a good New Year. Iv'e been busy making a Birthday Card from the lovely Imagination Crafts Decoupage Fushia Stamp set. This card compliments the gift box that \I made at the begining of the year.

Iv'e used inks and Micas for this project to colour the stamps along with the Dove from the Imagination Crafts MDF Dove Set for the feature at the bottom of the card.

To make the card I folded a square card diagonally along the left side - this made the step part.   I then embossed the card with a Butterfly embossing folder and inked it over to highlight the pattern. I also inked  edges too.  I used the Decoupage Fushia Stamp Set and stamped this with black waterproof ink, then blended the edges with blue and pink dye ink.

The image was coloured with pink and blue inks blended together to make the purpley/blue flowers and green and yellow inks on the leaves and stalks. I also added mica's to give the flowers a sheen.  Black irridescent adhesive gems were added to the flowers to finish.

The Dove, which acts as the stopper for the card was made using an MDF shape taken  from the Dove Set and I painted this over with inks then added mica to create a shine. A Happy Birthday stamp was used from the same set to finish.

Prodects used

Fushia Decoupage Stamp Set.
MDF Dove Set
Irrisdescent Micas
Rocker Blocks
Momento Ink Pad

Re-vamp your old Christmas boxes

Happy and Crafty New Year to you all,

I don't know about you but I hate to throw away all those gift boxes at Christmas so thought I would re-vamp one or two to keep my crafty goodies in for the New Year.

This old gift box was painted with white acrylic paint and purple paint. I stippled a few other colours such as lilac and pink to add interest then stamped images of branches on the top. I also added stippled micas to the top to add a sheen to the box.
I then stamped the Fushia stanmp onto white card and painted it with Imagination Craft mica powders. This was then cut out and stuck to the top of the box. To add depth and interest I added some adhesive gems to the flower and a bow round the box to finish.

Why not join in one of  Imagination Crafts Challenges - click here to be taken to the blog for details. Take a look at the rules and if you use Imagination Crafts products and win there are lots of lovely goodies to choose from with your prize winnings.


Products used:

Imagination Crafts Fushia Stamp
Mica Powders 
Stazon Azure Blue