Confessions of a Papersniffer: Sheena Douglass

Sunday, 15 January 2017

Gorjuss Notebook

Something other than a card today, a little notebook, featuring a Gorjuss girl in shades of purple for Fibromyalgia Awareness.

The notebook started off as a bare chipboard blank; I covered it with purple pearl card on the outside and patterned purple paper on the inside. I used torn scraps of Papermania Capsule Collection papers in Heather (I used a sheet of this on the inside too) on the front cover, and stamped and heat embossed a Sheena Douglass sentiment with purple glitter embossing powder. I used the same paper to add some tiny punched butterflies. The edges of the book were rubbed with Imagination Crafts Alchemy Wax in Silver to cover the bare board and add a bit of shimmer.
The Gorjuss girl was made with my new Xcut die set, all the pieces are simply die cut, embossed and layered up. I used papers from a Papermania Gorjuss paper pack, and added some seed beads for eyes and a little coloured pencil for rosy cheeks.
The notebook is held together with metal rings, so, to decorate these, and, as a nod to the Fibromyalgia purple ribbon, I knotted on a selection of different purple ribbons.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges -

Alphabet Challenge - V for Violet
Crafty Catz - #353 - Butterflies
Really Reasonable Ribbon - #155 - Anything Goes With Ribbon
Aud Sentiments - #171 - Anything Goes + a Sentiment
Crafty Gals Corner - #105 - Use Patterned Paper
The Crazy Challenge - #239 - Three of a Kind - Three Butterflies
Pile It On - #124 - Colourfully Aware - Purple for Fibromyalgia Awareness

Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Santa's On His Way!

Another Christmas card today, this time made with a couple of Britannia dies and a simple black and white colour scheme.
It proved hard to photograph because I used some self-adhesive glitter film over black card as the backdrop to my village, which is both shiny and glittery, neither of which are friends of my camera. In reality, it looks much prettier, the black actually has a lot of different colours in the glitter that hasn't shown up in the pictures.

I used an A5 blank and stamping card, both from Anna Marie Designs, I find this card has a nice weight for embossing and layering, as well as all kinds of 3D projects, it's not just for stamping. The embossing was done with a Sheena Douglass embossing folder, I thought that it complimented the snowy scene well. All the layers were raised up on shaker tape to add depth.
As mentioned above, the dies used are Britannia dies; the village die is all one die, it cuts out the top of the oval and gives a dotted line for the bottom. I simply cut an overly for the image by cutting it a second time, and, using a craft knife, cutting along the dotted line to completely remove the image, just leaving a perfect frame. The Santa and his reindeer die has nice embossing on it which can't be seen in the photos on the black card.
To embellish, I added some glittery lace and some silver edged ribbon with a matching double bow.