These dies are a new release by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions and they are as ‘cute as a button’! To create the background I primed a wooden tag with gesso, and then added some book paper before painting over with matt medium. With acrylic paint I coloured a gel plate and transferred it to […]
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I love these cute wooden slices, and this sunflower stamp was just the perfect size for decorating it. It’s a quick and simple project too! I stamped and heat embossed the sunflower, and coloured with Intense Pigment Stain. Added some black dots with a fine pen. I then used Glossy Accents over the flower, and
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Who doesn’t love sunflowers! These stamps are perfect for a coaster, just ready for that sunshine cup of tea! I coloured a plain wooden coaster with Shimmer Shakers. They contain mica powder so give a lovely shimmer to a project. I stamped and heat embossed the sunflowers and coloured using a mix of Shimmer Shakers
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Butterfly Heart….a gorgeous stamp ideal for any papercraft but gorgeous too on this wooden heart! I applied gesso onto the heart first and then stamped the heart and heat embossed. The heat embossing gives a slightly raised effect which makes it easier to colour. I used the Intense Pigment Stain and Shimmer Shakers to colour
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I just love this skyline rubber stamp by Andy Skinner. It’s easy to carry it on too so you can make it as long as you want. Ideal for making a couple of coasters, which are similar but not the same! I prepped a couple of wooden coasters with gesso, before adding a couple of
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I just love a wood slice! Oakwood Direct do a lovely large sheet of mdf baubles and alongside those baubles are cute little stars and circles which were ideal to decorate these slices. Firstly I randomly stamped with a star cluster stamp and added Stampendous heat embossing around the edges of the slices, and onto
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Check out this cool stencil by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions! I love creating with a wooden base and thought this stencil was perfect for some Halloween coasters. I painted the wooden base with the Pigment Stain. Such a little goes a very long way. I used embossing ink through the stencil and then white
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Take a blank wooden plaque and make it Halloween! And at the same time take part in the Spooktember challenge at Creative Expressions! I stamped and heat embossed in white, the Inked Journal stamp. I then coloured in purple and orange using acrylic paint in a watercolour effect. Die-cut Happy Halloween in black card three
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We are on the tenth prompt of Creative Expressions Spooktember – Wicked White! Cotton Reel bunting is a cute way to either plan ahead for a future papercraft project, or, along with the ghost toothpicks, use as decorations on a cake! I stamped the ghosts and spiders twice and coloured lightly before fussy cutting and
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It’s prompt #8 of the Creative Expressions Spooktember – Inky Terror! It is lovely to have a bigger base to work on and this is a basic 12×12 wooden clock with greyboard roman numerals. All painted with gesso and white acrylic as the base. I then added a few bits of black acrylic around the
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