Sunshine Tag

Sunflower Tag by Jane Robinson

Hey there!

Welcome back to our blog.

I’m Jane, and have recently joined the Design Team for Lisa Horton, and I’m here today to hopefully inspire you to try this project or something similar. Give it a go, then post in our group, and perhaps tag me with your amazing creation.

This quick and easy project will have you exploring your creativity in no time. Most of the products I used are from Lisa Horton Crafts, and can be found here

I started off by looking in my stash for a tag like base. I came across

some oval shaped card. I suddenly remembered; I’d saved these after buying some new socks. I’d bought some of those little trainer socks from Primark, and the socks were displayed over them. I kept them thinking they would come in useful someday.

Well… someday arrived, and I quickly dug out my stencils, acrylic paints, and other crafty goodies.

First step:

I laid a base coat of white gesso, even though the tags were originally white, they had a shiny surface. I need any medium I use to adhere well, so gesso is definitely the way to go, as it provides a primed base which will take anything your crafty hands will throw at it.

I used my heat tool, on the number one setting to dry.

Step two:

I used Lisa’s ‘Pennies In A Line’ stencil and Decoart Marigold Acrylic paint to create the background. The paint was applied sparingly, using a make-up sponge.

Third step:

I mixed some of Lisa’s Sunshine Mica Pigment Powder with some gritty structure paste, and a drop of ink refill in a summery yellow colour. Then pushed that through LHC ‘Spring Bloom’ stencil.

Step four:

Make a brew while the structure paste dries :D

Step five:

I used a finger dauber to colour the centre of the blooms with a dark brown shade of ink, used the same colour to stamp the script using LHC ‘Textures’ stamp set, and also ink up the edges for a distress look.

Sixth step:

I cut apart one of the white sentiment strips from LHC ‘Wordage Sheets’, coloured it with the same acrylic paint, and adhered using 3D silicone glue.

I finished it off with a brown cord tie.

Thanks for taking a peek today, be kind to each other.

Jane xoxo

Butterfly Hello

Hello Sweet Crafty Friends!

Kendra here today to share a card with you!

I am so excited to share my first project with you today using Lisa Horton Crafts products!

Tomorrow is the day!! Lisa will be on Create & Craft TV at 1pm UTC sharing her new products!!  They are sooooo amazing!!

I'm a huge sucker for butterflies, so I am very excited about the new EDGEcuts Collection Butterfly Flourish!!

I used the largest butterfly shadow from the set to die cut the window for this shaker card:

I then used the middle sized butterfly die to die cut from a piece of vellum.  I added to the center of the die cut shadow.  I really love the look!!  

I added some new pearls to the butterfly!!

I used the new Mermaid Tails: Lilac Set for the lovely glitter inside my shaker card!  I love the new Mermaid Tails!!!  Yummy!!

The designer paper used is from the new Capri paper set!

The stamped 'Hello' is part of thew new In The Loop stamp set!

Along with all the fun new products, I am also super excited about some fun new stencils coming soon!!!

I was going to get out some paste and created a fun background, but decided I wanted to keep it elegant and not take away from the butterfly, so I thought it would be fun to use the stencil to emboss my paper. These stencils are so thick and create an embossed background so beautifully!!

Here is a look at how to use the stencils to create an embossed background:

I used a Big Shot, so this may slightly be different between machines, I'm not sure.  But don't be afraid to experiment and have fun!!  That is exactly what I did!

Open the main plate to TAB 1 and place in your Big Shot, add a cutting pad, your stencil and then paper:

Then add your crease pad and another cutting pad:

Run it through your Big Shot!  
Use those muscles!! 

So easy and fun!!!

*Note I've learned from another crafter that if you lightly spritz the cardstock with water before running your sandwich through the Big Shot creates deeper embossing.  I did not do this with this piece, as I mentioned before these new stencils are made with really nice thick material and I didn't think I would need to spritz the cardstock. 

Here is a look at the cardstock:

How fun is that?!

So nice to have multiple uses for your supplies!  This new stencil I used is called Pennies in a Line!!

Have a lovely day!  

Be sure to tune into Create & Craft TV tomorrow for a look at all the NEW products!!!