Steampunk page #3 stamping

Hi there Katrina the design Elf here with my 3rd Steampunk page to show you and this time the technique is stamping.

   Now I do have a bit of a confession to make, I got so carried away with this page I totally forgot to take any photos along the way but I will talk you through the process instead.

  OK here is how I did it.

1. I took a piece of Crafthouse Press Watch face paper and a paper for the back, cut them both at the same time using the Tim Holtz alterations cabinet card die. Then keeping them together cut to the size of your page.

2. Stamp the Artistic stamper Slow Fast stamp and 2 of the Judikins instrument block images you like twice too and cut them out. Distress them using the Tim Holtz distress ink.

3. Cut 2 pieces of acetate to fit your page and using a clear dry glue stick the stamped images back to back then to one of the pieces of acetate. Once dry stick the 2 pieces of acetate in between the 2 pieces of cut paper making sure the shapes line up.

4. Decorate the page with 7gypsies Numbers rub ons and any other embellishments you want!

I have 2 more pages and techniques to show you then onto something new!

  Happy crafting

                                           Love Katrina

Dapper Man ATC

Dapper man ATC

This was made up using the CraftHouse press Men's, Transport and Sport CD rom and the Woodware ATC blanks.
Print out the motor background paper, the dapper man decoupage sheet, the vintage cars background and the small letter sheet. Cut out the elements and collage together.

Katrina's ATC Folder

 

ATC Folder - If you make or collect ATCs its nice to have something to keep them in to show your friends your collection. This is a lovely way to keep a themed collection together too.

OK you will need-
some card stock,
Woodware Vellum envelope ATC kit,
Crafthouse Press collage sheets - Brodies Imperial collage and American prescription,
U mount Vintage games stamp set,
Distress ink - old paper and Tea die,
old book papers,
Imagination Inkadinks - brights
Alterations Die Chip Block alphabet

To make -
1. From your card stock cut a piece 8 3/4 by 3 inches, a piece 3 3/4 by 3 inches and a third piece 5 1/2 by 3 inch
2. Take your 8 3/4 by 3 piece and score at 4 and 4 1/2 inches. Fold. This is your back and cover. Take the 5 1/2 by 3 piece, with the 3 inch being the height, score and fold every 1/2 inch to form a fan fold. this is the bottom of your folder.
3. Use your Distress inks to age all your card pieces and the stamp the checker board from the U mount stamp set onto the front cover. Using a foam sponge apply the blueberry ice ink from the inkadinks around the outside edges. Cover the reverse with book papers.
4. Use double sided tape to attach the back cover to the fan folded piece. Cut 2 small strips of card and attach them to the front of the fan fold, fold around then back up the back of the fan fold to keep it all under control. Then attach the 3 3/4 by 3 pieces of card stock to the front of the fan fold.
5. Carefully take out 5 of the vellum envelopes, the library card style ones, from the set, make them up and then attach with double sided tape to the back of each fold.
6. Now to decorate the front. Cut out and distress with ink the 2 playing cards from the collage sheet. Stamp onto brown paper the middle part of the Bingo card and the heart and club images from the stamp set with brown ink. Cut out Bingo card strip and use a round punch to cut out heart and club images.Stick the cards and Bingo strip to front cover.
7. Cut another strip of card to make the closer, bend around and stick to the back of inside cover. To this attach the heart and club images and A T C cut from the Alterations alphabet.
All you need to do now is fill it with ATCs!! If you want to use more envelopes, then just make a longer fan fold base. I have made a larger one using little brown envelopes to keep my Cinema tickets in, decorated accordingly.

Wild West Book Tunnel Card

Book Cover

Book Tunnel card-
I made this card for my Hubby's birthday, he loved cowboys and Indians as a child but it would make a great Fathers Day card too. All the images come from the fantastic Crafthouse Press Men's travel and Sport CDrom. You will need to print out the Boys adventure and cowboy being chased by a train decoupage onto card then one of the background papers ( I used the advertising one ) onto both sides of a piece of printable cardstock.

Cut out all the bits of decoupage and then measure the size of the background image of the Boys adventure and cut a piece of the background paper the same height. Take this piece and score every 1cm, fold into a fan fold.

Decide how many pieces of the cowboy and train decoupage you want to use and remembering you need the back piece and an extra mountain fold for the cover, cut the number of folds off you need.

Do the same amount for the other side. If you do all the layers you need 5 mountains for your sides. Using Imaginations crafts magi bond, this is ideal for this as it has such a fine nozzle, run some glue down the first 1cm at the back and glue to the back of your background image.

Do the same for the other side. Take the next image in the layering and stick that to the down side of the next mountain, the same on the other side.

Carry on until all your larger images are used up, the cowboy on his horse and the bit of rock I used 3d foam to put them onto the picture as you would normal decoupage.

You should now have an extra mountain at the front. Cut a piece of acetate the same size as the card and stick to the up side of the extra mountain at the front.

Cut two 1cm strips from your background paper and glue them to the front of your acetate to frame the tunnel picture.

Cut a piece of background paper to cover the back of your Book of adventure image which will be the book cover and then stick that to the outside of the extra mountain on the left hand side to form the hinge. You can cut extra 1cm strips to cover any white card.

Decoupage up the front of your cover and cover the back of you card and you are all done.

You can also print off an envelope from the CDrom to match.

Tunnel Card

Tunnel Card

Top View of Tunnel Card

Tunnel card

You will need, from the CraftHouse press Men's, Transport and Sport CD rom, the Happy Woman decoupage sheet and Airmail background paper printed onto card and a piece of acetate.

From the Airmail background sheet cut out 2 pieces 4 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Then score lines at 1/2 inch then 1/4 inch fold up into a fan fold with the pattern on the outside, do the same with the other piece. Cut out the background of the decoupage.

Then cut out the other layers with as much spare area to the side as possible. OK now to put it all together.

Using PVA glue, the Imagination Crafts magi bond is great for this as it has such a thin nozzle and gives you a tiny line of glue, run a line of glue down the back of the last fold in you fan folded sided. Push the background into the fold so it meets the edge of the fold. Do the same on the other side.

Line up the next layer and run a line of glue down one side, stick the layer to the back of the next fold ( if there is not enough card to do that just cut a slither of white card and use it as a bridge from the image to the side )

Do the same on the other side and for the other 2 images.

Once they are all in place cut a piece of acetate to fit and glue to the back of the 1/2 inch front fold, add a 1/2 inch piece to the top and bottom of the background sheet to make the frame.

Cover the back with background paper to make it neat and tidy and add the title " A Happy Woman" to the top and you are done.

The Motor

The Motor Car Card
From the CraftHouse Press Men's, Transport and Sport CD rom.

Print off the motor car background paper, insert, envelope and Ephemera sheet. 
Cover the front of your card using the background paper, use distress ink around the edge to age.
Cut out the Motor magazine from the ephemera sheet, add distressing ink around the edge and add to the front.
Cut out the insert and add to the inside.
Cut out and fold up the envelope, stick together and you are ready to send.

Pocket Card

Pocket card :-

From the CraftHouse Press Men's, Transport and Sport CD rom

Print off the car background paper, insert and envelope, the ephemera sheet and dapper young man decoupage sheet all in paper then the car tag sheet on card ( or if you do not have printable card do it onto paper then mount it onto card after )
Cover the front of your card with the background paper, distress around the edges with distress ink.

Cut out the magazine article from the ephemera sheet, distress around the edges with distress ink and cut down to fit the front of your card, add double sided tape to the two sides and bottom and add to the front of your card to make the pocket.

Cut out one of the dapper gents and add him peeking out of the pocket.

Cut out 2 tags, run the distress ink around the edgers, add greetings if you want too, add Fibre to the holes and pop them into the pocket.

Cut out and add the insert inside.

Cut out and make up the envelope.

Chinese Triptych

Chinese Triptych

Katrina used -

* Card stock
 * 20 Assorted Josss paper pack

* Assorted Oriental Ephemera

* 12 Crafthouse Press Oriental Woodcut Prints

* Replica Chinese coin

* Alterations Die Vintage lace

* Imaginations Crafts Magi Bond

* Eco Green Acrylic Paint Pure Gold

* Craft time Silicone glue

* Hougie board - optional



1. Cut a piece of card 8x5" and sore a line at 2" and 6" so you get 3 panels, 2" 4" 2".

2. Apply PVA glue to the middle panel and stick one of the Joss papers. Don't worry if it goes over into the other panels, it is so thin it won't show. Cover the side panels in the same way.

3. Cut out one of the wood cut images and glue it to the left hand panel. Cut the images from the chopstick wrapper and glue them down the right panel.

4. Cut a length using the Alterations vintage lace die from a co-ordinating paper or card ( I used the wrapper from my Chocolate bar I was eating at the time, well you have to have chocolate when you are crafting and I'll use anything in my projects!! ) and glue it to the top and bottom of the middle panel.

5. Paint the Eco Green pure gold paint round the edges of your triptych and around the images from the chopstick wrapper to help them blend in.

6. Glue a Chinese coin the top of the left panel and bottom of the right one using silicone glue, leave to dry and you are finished!

Never Ending Father's Day Card

Fabulous card from the very hardworking Katrina.

Fathers Day card - This is a never ending card made from the wonderful Craft House Press Mens, travel and Sport CDrom. Although you could make this for any occasion and with any paper.
You will need to print off 2 pieces of backing paper from the CD onto printable card, on both sides, this makes it easier to decorate. I used the vintage sport paper in the faded image ( the CD gives you each backing paper in a normal and faded )
You will also need to print off the sheets of old Tea cards that match the sport you want to do, my Dad is a football fan so I chose football as my sport but there is rugby, cricket,cricket, golf and even some horse racing.
Also a sheet of the balls that can be cut into borders and the Scrabble tile alphabet sheet.

Now we are ready to make the card. From your printed card cut 4 pieces 6 x 3" . With the pieces portrait score a line on them all 1.5" from the top and from the bottom. Take 2 of your pieces and lay them next to each other landscape, so they are touching, on your table so the score lines are running in the same direction, top to bottom.
Match up the score lines rather than the edges of the card, if they don't quite match we can trim them later. Apply double sided tape to the outer 4 corners of your 2 pieces.
Take the other 2 pieces of card and with the score lines running right to left place them on top of the first set.
Your magic card should now fold in a never ending sequence. It may need a little coaxing the first time and perhaps burnish the edges so they are well creased but after a couple of times it should run smoothly. If it is sticking a bit just trim a slither off the side.
Now all you need is to decorate with the tea cards and borders. Just be a little careful where you put your images that you are not sticking anything over any score lines as that will stop the card from working.
Use the Scrabble tiles to create your greeting and then play!!

Introducing Katrina

 Our new wonderfully talented Design Team Member...

Katrina Rollings

Hello, my name is Katrina Rollings. I live with my hubby Andrew and 3 very tame cockatiels ( well 2 very tame, the other we are working on ) in Bristol.

I have been crafting most of my life, my Mum teaching me tapestry and sewing, then went on to crosstitch. I bought my first rubber stamp at a stitching fair over 20 years ago and was hooked. That lead me to scrapbooking and then about 6 years ago a friend introduced me to ATCs and my love of mixed media was born. I love the freedom that Mixed Media gives you. To be able to play with paint, ink, paper, anything you fancy really, even that ticket stub you picked up on the way home!! My favourite images and embellishments have to be vintage ones, so I am so excited to become a member of Sarah-Jane's design team. I am so looking forward to working with her fantastic products!

When I am not in my craft room I love to read, bake, watch old films or be out with my camera, Andrew and I are both keen photographers. I also look forward to our walking holidays in Austria, of course a journal, pack of blank ATCs, scissors, glue, pens, stamps and ink get snuck into the suitcase!! 

Travel Tag Book

Craft House press collage sheets - New York and Loyd Express

Manila Tags x 3

Distress ink - Tea dye, Old paper and Walnut ink and applicator

Photo from old photo collection

Slide mount

Old bus tickets

Gold safety pins

Garden string

Book papers

Travel themed rubber stamps - my own

Butcher twine - my own

How to make it -

Cut out the 2 large travel tags from the New York collage sheet. Distress the cover tags and the 3 manila tags, front and back, with the distressing ink. Cut out all the images from the 2 collage sheets and use them as well as some strips of old book paper and other ephemera to collage both sides of the tags and inside of the front and back covers. To make the slide mount, distress with ink, stamp with a script stamp and leave to dry. Tear a square of book paper, add an old bus ticket and distress with ink. Stick to middle of slide mount and stick together, punch a hole in the top and add to book with a safety pin. Tie everything together with string to finish off.

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If you'd like to see more of Katrina's fabulous artwork and projects visit the Gallery and her Blog.

You'll also find her artwork scattererd throughout the website.

Thanks Katrina for joining us, we look forward to more of your wonderful work.