Shernocky Crafts - Tags

Hiya Crafty froends,

As promised, here are the tags that I have made to go with my 'Turn The Page' project

Supplies used (available from Shernocky Crafts):

• PaperArtsy Stamps - HPXTO1,  
• PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint - Baltic Blue,  
•  Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Fired Brick, Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet

There are some great background stamps in this set. I particularly like this map and also the postage mark stamps, which stamp beautifully.

I added the blue elements by watering down the Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint (this is such a versatile paint)  and brushing onto the areas I wanted to highlight.

I used the fab cog and oriental text stamps on this tag. I after distressing I used the watered down paint wash all over to give a weathered look.

 Another great stamp in the clock face. I used pretty much the same technique on this tag as the one above, but instead of washing the whole tag I just just highlighted some of the lighter faces

Again, the same technicque was used on these last two tags, but this time at the end of the process I spritz the tag, quite heavily, to give a real bleaching effect.

All these tags now live in each of the pages of the book.

My mum now owns this book and is adding photographs to each of the tags...love that idea!!

Shernocky Crafts - Turn the page

Hiya Crafty friends,

I wanted share with you my loooong delayed Shernocky Crafts DT project.

I had been mulling over what to do with my small manila envelopes I got in my DT pack for a while (changing my mind many times). When I finally decided to do a book, it then took on a life of it's own. The finished project ended up being completely different to what I had planned at the beginning. It was going to be white, but as you can see it didn't end up that way...lol :)

Supplies used (available from Shernocky Crafts):

• PaperArtsy Stamps - HPXTO1,  
• PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint - Baltic Blue,  
• Jute Ribbon, 
• Small manila envelopes
•  Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Fired Brick, Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet

 

I love how the distress ink have made the envelope I used to cover the front look like old leather, and believe it or not it sort of has a feel of it too :)

The sentiment on the front was cut with my Silhouette Cameo and then coloured with a walnut Promarker

I embellished the spine with some 'left-overs' from the lattice I cut for the pages (see below)

The page tabs where cut out from a silhouette file, which I them coloured with Fired Brick Distress ink

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The front of the pages where decorated with the PaperArtsy stamp set using Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet distress ink and the back of the pages were decorated with lattice work, which I coloured with Tea Dye Distress Ink.

Pop by next week and I will share with you the tags I have made to go in each pocket :)

Shernocky Crafts - Stamped Album

Hiya crafty friends,

It's time again for my Shernocky Crafts project!!

This weeks project is something a little different for me, as I enjoy a bit of experimenting and learning through it :)

For today's project I have used, which are all available from the Shernocky Shop:

•  PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint - Baltic Blue
•  PaperArtsy Stamps - HPXTO1
•  PolyView Photo Display Book
• Indigo Blu  - Ella Bella
• Hobby House Pearl Brads
• Hobby House Ribbon

I have never stamped with paint before (well not since nursery school...lol) and as this paint says it pretty much can be used on anything, I thought I would give it a go on the display book.

The paint stamped great! But unfortunately it is possible to scratch it off. Maybe I should have sanded the cover a bit to give it a anchor. But a lesson learned.

So this design does not scratch off I am going to cover it with clear contact film, so I can retain the effect the paint has given.

 

Getting messy with Shernocky Crafts

Hiya crafty friends,

I love being part of the Shernocky Design Team. There is a little buzz of excitement when my monthly pack arrives at the start of the month.

I am playing a bit of catch up at the moment, as family commitments have restricted my crafting lately, but I am determing to show you all the fantastic products we were given to play with last month. They are all available from the Shernocky shop, and they were:

PaperArtsy Stamps - HPXTO1, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint - Baltic Blue, Jute Ribbon, Small manila envelopes and a PolyView Photo Display Book

The first project I have made is a collage card.

I used distress ink (also available at Shernocky Crafts) to distress a piece of card using the Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutter colours.

I then, with a sponge dauber, dabbed the Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint through the jute ribbon, which gave a grid effect and adding a postage mark using a stamp from the set.

I stamped the  postage stamp image fro the stamp set twice and cut the head out of one of them and decoupaged it, to give some depth. Before I did this I gave it a wash of colour by watering down the Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint and applying with a brush.

I added small pieces of the jute ribbon to add to the distress look and added some stamped cogs with 3D foam pads, to again add depth. And finally backed it with black card and wrapped twine around.

I mounted the whole thing to a plain white card, as I quite like the juxtapose of them both being used on one project.

My 'travel' with Shernocky Crafts

Hiya crafty friends,

I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on for the fabulous Shernocky Crafts's 'One for the Men' challenge that was run through my sister challenge blog last month.

I had a go at making an altered suitcase box..

That holds two 'envelope page' albums

I don't know about you, but I always find masculine projects quite hard to do (I wonder why that is???) and it took me a while to finalise my ideas for this project. It's been through many looks and changes, I can tell you. It didn't start off being a suitcase, but took off on a life of it's own :) And this is the first large piece of altered art I have done ( it started out life as two Christmas cards boxes and a banana box...), but it all seems to come together in the end and I'm really pleased how it has came out.

I was so pleased when I found these little key hole brad :)

The washi tape I have had for ages (a freebie from a magazine) came in very use full :)

The page will be decorated as I fill the album up, to correspond with what is inside the envelope