Welcome to the official start of the weekend! ... and the Friday Funny

Morning all,

What a change in the weather? Still hot and sticky but cooler than the day before and MISTY all day, had to turn the lights on around 14:30!!!

I needed to make a gift card holder for some dinner show tickets for a friend celebrating his 60th birthday ...... he has an awesome sense of humour so I was pretty sure I could get away with the cheeky sentiment too!. Not only that but I had recently seen some awesome masterboards on-line and wanted to see if I could combine that, and some new stash .... here's how it evolved

My finished masterboard card

Materials used: for the masterboard

• White 200gsm A4 card (Rymans)
• White gesso applied to the card
• Fresco paints: Banana*, Bora Bora* South Pacific*. Ranger acrylic dabber in pearl, applied with a brayer
• Tim Holtz woodgrain stencil used with Ranger pearl acrylic and a piece of cut and dry
• That Special touch squares stencil* brayered with Bora Bora* and both the positive and negative used
• Stamposaurus stencil (small squares) and South Pacific paint* applied with a piece of cut and dry foam
• Seth Apter images stamped using Hobbycraft white and Daler Rowney blue acrylic paints before setting aside to fully dry

Materials used: for the card

• CAS-ual Fridays WTF, ? and sentiment + Happy Little Stampers numbers stamped with Ranger Archival ink
• I obviously didn't want to reproduce the same image inside the card (as this is where the dinner show tickets will be) or on the envelope so used the Anita's sentiment, stamping it with Ranger Archival jet black ink

New stash marked with * ...... see the materials used laid out below

I'll be entering this for the following challenge:-

1. Little Red Wagon - challenge No. 356 - BIRTHDAY
2. Creative Moments - challenge No. 100 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Through The Craft Room Door - August 23rd challenge - ANYTHING GOES

 

Here's how it went from a piece of white A4 card to a masterboard and on to a card

Gesso followed by brayered layers of acrylic paint

Followed by some stencilling with acrylic paint

Shows the white stencilling a little better

And then some stamping with acrylic paint

Looks like I have plenty left for more cards and an ATC ... yep! I was right ......

Not bad, four cards AND an ATC from one piece of A4 masterboard
you would hardly believe how little waste there was either!

One ATC

With one of the smaller pieces left over

A 10cm square card

a 12cm square card

Further materials used:

• 250gsm card blanks and matching sized envelopes - C6, 10cm square and 12½cm square
• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white, bright blue and navy
• Inks: Ranger Archival jet black and cobalt blue + Versamark
• Stamp Cabana cobalt blue embossing powder + heatgun
• Images by: Imagine That, Stampers Anonymous

 

I'll be entering the following challenges:-

1. Crafty Galz - challenge No. 86 - EMBOSS IT - that'll be my ATC as it was heat embossed

• Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 292 - ANYTHING GOES - that'll be my THANK YOU card
• Cards in Envy - August 15th challenge - HIP TO BE SQUARE - that'll be my SQUARE THANK YOU CARD

1. Simon Says Stamp - August 24th challenge - HIP TO BE SQUARE - that'll be my SQUARE BIRTHDAY card
2. Craft Your Passion - challenge No. 326 ANYTHING GOES - that'll be my SQUARE BIRTHDAY CARD

• Stampin' Royalty - challenge No. 343 - BIRTHDAYS - that'll be my RECTANGULAR BIRTHDAY card
• Crafting from the heart - challenge No. 124 - ANYTHING GOES - that'll be my RECTANGULAR BIRTHDAY CARD
• The Crazy challenge - challenge No. 229 - BIRTHDAY CARD - that'll be my RECTANGULAR BIRTHDAY CARD

And now for this week's Friday Funny ... I get to thank facebook for this one too .... ENJOY

Have a great weekend