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Here's today's card -

I started by stamping the verse from the Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 3 Cheers for Art Stamp Set and the sentiment from the Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Parisian Art Stamp Set using Garden Patina Archival onto Coconut White Card cut from Sue Wilson's Scalloped Lattice Frames Set B. I edged with Faded Jean Distress Oxide using a Smoothie. I matted onto Black Card and then another piece of Coconut White.

I set the Efcolor Stove up and added some CS Clear, Midnight Blue, Ocean Black and Tropic Pearl Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals to a Melt-It Case. I popped it onto the stove platform, added the lid and left to melt. I inked up the sentiment from the same set using Clear Perfect Medium. Once the crystals were molten I poured some onto my Craft Sheet and added the verse stamp to it.  I left it to set for a couple of minutes and then peeled away the stamp. I brushed CS Phill Martin Old Gold Mica Powder over it. I added my UTEE verse over the top of my stamped verse with a little Hi-Tack Tape and a little CS Glue.

I poured some more of my molten powder into a mould that I had made from a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 embellishment and some Mould n Pour. After a couple of minutes, I removed it from the mould and added it to my card with a little Hi-Tack Tape and a little CS Glue.

 I completed my card by adding a 5mm Black Pearl to each corner.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Wendy Vecchi Tag Topper with Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals

Hi Bloggers.

I have a tag for you today -

I started by inking a piece of Coconut White Card with Broken China Distress Oxide. I placed the Wavy Mask on top and lightly misted with water. I removed the mask and blotted with Kitchen Roll. I inked around the edges with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide.

I painted a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Tag Topper Art Part and a The Guys Art Part with CS White Gesso. Once dry, I added Broken China Distress Oxide to them both.

I stamped the gentleman from the Studio 490 3 Cheers for Art Stamp Set onto The Guys Art Part using Watering Can Archival. I heat set the ink.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set using Watering Can Archival and then glued my gentleman in place.

I inked up the large text stamp from the same stamp set using Clear Perfect Medium. I added Clear Perfect Medium to the Tag Topper. I covered with CS Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals and heat set using a Low Speed Heat Tool. Keeping the heat on, I sprinkled over some CS Tropic Pearl and Midnght Blue Embossing Crystals. Once all moulten, I added my stamp and left to set for a few minutes. I peeled away my stamp and added a little CS Phill Martin Chic Moss Mica Powder. I glued my Tag Topper to my card. I punched a hole using my Crop-a-dile.

I added some Broken China Distress Oxide to my Craft Sheet. I misted with water and dragged a piece of Blue White American Seam Binding through it. I dried it with my Heat Tool and repeated the process with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide. Once dry, I added it to my tag.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Stamping into Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals

Hi Bloggers.

Here's today's card -

I started with a square piece of Coconut White Card. I dabbed a little Faded Jeans Distress Oxide onto my Craft Sheet. I misted it with waterand then pricked it up onto my card. I repeated the process with Broken China Distress Oxide. I dried the ink with my Heat Tool and then edged with Faded Jeans Oxide using a Smoothie.

I stamped the gentleman from the Wendy Vecchi 3 Cheers for Art using Forget Me Not Archival.

I stamped the sentiment from the same set using Watering Can Archival.

I doodled around the edges of my card using a Pigma Micron Pen.

I matted onto Black Card and then onto Coconut White Card.

I set the Efcolor Stove up and added some CS Clear and Midnight Blue Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals to a Melt-It Case. I popped it onto the stove platform, added the lid and left to melt. I inked up the sentiment from the same set using Clear Perfect Medium. Once the crystals were moulten I poured some onto my Craft Sheet and added my sentiment stamp to it.  I left it to set for a couple of minutes and then peeled away the stamp. I brushed CS Phill Martin Chic Grey Blue Mica Powder over it. I added my sentiment to my card with a little Hi-Tack Tape and a little CS Glue.

I completed my card by adding 3 x 5mm Black Pearls.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Weaving without a Frame

Hi Bloggers.

Here's today's card -

For the background, I used a leftover middle piece of Coconut White Card that I'd cut a frame from using Sue Wilson's Double Pierced Squares. I swiped some Faded Jeans Distress Oxide onto my Craft Sheet. I misted it with water and picked it up onto my card. I dried it using a Heat Tool and repeated the process with Wilted Violet Distress Oxide. I edged with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide using a Smoothie. I matted onto Black Card using CS Glue and then onto Coconut White Card using CE Mounting Cushion.

I then stamped the large text stamp from the Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Parisian Art Stamp a couple of times using Faded Jeans Oxide direct from the pad.

For my weave, I cut the Striped Weaving Die out of Sky Blue Card and the Intermediate Weaving Die out of Coconut White Card. I popped a piece of CE DS Self Adhesive Sheet onto a piece of Coconut White Card. I measured roughly how much I'd need to cut out the Classic Weaving Die. I trimmed it, added CS Lavender Glitterbitz and cut the Classic Weaving Die out of it.

Leaving the Intermediate die cut with it's ends intact, I wove the Classic and Striped strips through it as shown. Once I was happy with the amount woven, I secured my pieces on the back using DS Tape. I trimmed the Inermediate Die Cut away from it's ends as shown. I also trimmed the Classic and Striped pieces in a pleasing pattern. I added it to my background using CS Glue.

I set the Efcolor Stove up and added some CS Clear and Midnight Blue Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals to a Melt-It Case. I popped it onto the stove platform, added the lid and left to melt. I added Clear Perfect Medium to the same text stamp that I used before. I popped a metal heart-shaped cookie cutter onto the stamp. Once the Embossing Crystals were moulten, I poured them into the cookie cutter. After a couple of minutes I removed the cookie cutter and peeled my embellishment off the stamp. I dusted a little Chic Grey Blue Mica Powder on top. I added it to my weave using a little Hi-Tack Tape and a little CS Glue.

I cut Sue's Birthday Wishes Die out of a piece of Sky Blue Card. I used the negative piece for this card. I popped it onto a piece of CE DS Adhesive Sheet. I added CS Frosty Sparkle Glitterbitz to the exposed adhesive. I edged with Faded Jeans Oxide Ink using a Smoothie and popped it on my card using CE Mounting Cushion and a little CS Glue.

 Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Cheerio Chaps!

Hi Bloggers.

I have a tag for you today which features the gorgeous Tarnished Gold CS Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals -

I started with my background card which was a piece of Milk Card with some mopped up waste Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink on it. I dusted with an Anti-Staic Pad and stamped the image from the Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 3 Cheers for Art Stamp Set using Clear Perfect Medium. I added CS Gold Detail Embossing Powder and heat set. I stamped sentiment from the Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Parisian Art Stamp Set using Potting Soil Archival. I edged with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide using a Woodware Blend-It Tool.

I edged a Tag Toppers Art Part with Antique Gold Shimmer Paint. I then applied a good coating of Clear Perfect Medium on the top. I added CS Tarnished Gold Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals and set using a Low Speed Heat Tool. It's best only to do one coat to keep the definition of the mixed crystals.

I glued the topper to the tag using CS Glue. I trimmed the ends of my card in line with the top of the Tag Topper. I used my Crop-a-Dile to punch the hole in my tag through the Tag Topper and added some London Tan American Seam Binding.

I set the Efcolor Stove up and added some CS Clear and Tarnished Gold Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals to a Melt-It Case. I popped it onto the stove platform, added the lid and left to melt. Once moulten, I poured it into a mould that I made from Ranger Mold-n-Pour (I usually fill a few in a session). After a couple of minutes I removed my embellishment from the mould and added it to my tag using a little Hi-Tack Tape and a little CS Glue.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Tag on a card with lovely Wendy Vecchi products

Hi Bloggers.

Had a brilliant time at my workshop yesterday. My next workshop is on October 15th in Sherringham with Sherringham Crafts, then the following Saturday in Lyndhurst with Emerald Crafts and my last one in October is on 28th when the lovely Leonie Pujol is coming over to Milton Keynes to join me. For the first 2, you need to contact the shops if you want to join in. For the one with Leonie, you can book here. Hurry though - only 5 spaces left!

Here's today's card -

I started by cutting a strip of Coconut White Card approx 3 1/8" wide by 6" in length to fit the width of the Wendy Vecchi Tag Toppers Art Part.

I swiped some Fired Brick Distress Oxide onto my Craft Sheet. I misted it with water and picked it up onto my card. I dried it and then inked all over with Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide and added some Fired Brick Distress Oxide around the edges. Finally, I lightly went around the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Oxide.

I stamped the Crazy in Love text from the Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 3 Cheers for Art several times using Carnation Red Archival Ink from the Wendy Vecchi Mini Ink Pad Kit 1.

I covered a Tag Toppers Art Part and an Arty Hearts Pop-em with CS White Gesso. I then covered them with Fired Brick Distress Oxide. I edged them with Walnut Stain Oxide. I misted some water into my hand and clapped over them to create little splats. I blotted with Kitchen Roll.I stamped onto the Tag Toppers with a stamp from the 3 Cheers for Art Stamp set using Carnation Red Archival.

I added Clear Perfect Medium to the Art Part then Clear CS Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals and heat set using a Low Speed Heat Tool. I added some more ink and some more powder and heat set again. While still moulten, I sprinkled a little Tarnished Gold and Tropic Pearl CS Embossing Crystals and also a little CS Golden Sand Glitterbitz.

I stamped another stamp from the 3 Cheers for Art Stamp Set onto the Pop-em using Red Carnation Archival. I added Clear Perfect Medium, Clear CS Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals and heat set using a Low Speed Heat Tool. I added more ink and more powder, heat set and then sprinkled some Golden Sands Glitterbitz while still molten.

I set the Efcolor Stove up and added Clear and Blue Raspberry CS Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals to a Pie Case and added the lid. Once molten, I added it to a couple of moulds that I made during the shows I did last December. After a few minutes,I popped them out of their moulds. I added one to the Arty Hearts Pop-em.

I swiped some Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide onto my Craft Sheet, misted it with water and picked it up onto another piece of card. I dried it and then repeated the process with Fired Brick. I cut a couple of leaves out of it using Sue Wilson's Spring Foliage Die Set and edged then with a little Walnut Stain Distress Oxide.

I cut the largest solid flower from Sue's Striped Nasturtium Die Set twice. I inked another piece of card with Fired Brick and cut the same sized open flower from the same die set twice. I glued them together, shaped them and added my other embellishment to the centre.

I swiped some Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide onto my Craft Sheet, misted it with water and picked it up onto a piece of Blue White Ameerican Seam Binding. I dried it and then repeated the process with Fired Brick. I glued the Arty Hearts Pop-em and the Tag Topper Art Part to my tag. I trimmed my card to the shape of the tag using scissors. I used my Crop-a-dile to punch through the hole in the Art Part and through my card. I added my ribbon.

I decided to pop my tag onto a card. I embossed a piece of card using the Creative Expressions Brambled Rose Embossing Folder. I edged it with Fired Brick Distress Oxide using a Smoothie. I matted onto Antique Gold Pearl Card using CS Glue and then onto Coconut White Card using CE Mounting Cushion.

I completed my card by adding an 8mm White Pearl to each corner of my embossed background.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Parisian Art Tag

Hi Bloggers.

I'm up at Creative Expressions HQ today running a Christmas Stamping Workshop - lots of inky stampy fun!

Here's today's offering -

Products used -
Wendy Vecchi - Art Parts : The Guys and Tag Toppers, Studio 490 Parisian Art, Archival : Forget me Not and Watering Can
Distress Oxides - Broken China, Wilted Violet
Cosmic Shimmer White Gesso
Blue White American Seam Binding
Clear Perfect Medium
Cosmic Shimmer Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Crystals

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk

Takeover Shows on Hochanda today

Hi Bloggers.

I have another two-fer for you today.

I have 3 hours on Hochanda UK today and 1 hour on Hochanda Netherlands.

First up, at 8am UK and then at 9am Netherlands, I have shows with Sue Wilson's Snow Globe Dies.

Products used -
Sue Wilson - Snow Globe, Santa's Reindeer Snow Globe Scene, Classic Poinsettia, Pine Twig, Holly Swirl, Double Pierced Squares A & B
That Special Touch - Nordic Christmas
Cosmic Shimmer - Phill Martin Old Gold Sparkle Texture Paste, Iced Flake & Glacier Ice Glitter Jewels, Golden Sands Glitterbitz
Creative Expressions - Snow White Micro Beads, Circle Treat Cups, Heat Emboss Acetate, Card : Coconut White, Antique Gold Pearl
Woodware - 2mm Foam Tape

At 11am and 3pm, I have UTEE shows.

Products used -
Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 - 3 Cheers for Art, Potting Soil Archival
Distress Oxides - Fired Brick, Walnut Stain
Cosmic Shimmer - UTEE : Clear, Tarnished Gold, Phill Martin Old Gold Mica Powder
Creative Expressions - 5mm Black Pearls, Card : Coconut White, Black

Hope you can join in the fun today on Hochanda. The full schedule is in the left-hand sidebar of this blog.

I've added photos of the samples from all 3 of my shows to the Gallery Section of this blog and to 3 albums on my Julia Watts Crafts Facebook Page.

My Website is up and running again! Yay! It's not perfect but it already looks much better, I think so anyway. I have added a section for the Takeover weekend. You can find it here. Please note - prices are shown as ex-VAT (sigh!) - it will be added at checkout. If you're an existing customer, I think you will need to create a new account but then all your details should come up.

You can enjoy 10% discount on products in this section but it's NOT automatic - you will need to enter TAKEOVER in the discount box at checkout. Please don't ask me to amend your order if you forget - I have tested it and it does work. Offer applies till midnight tomorrow night.

You may want to read the Shipping and New Website Info pages at the bottom as navigation is not brilliant just yet and I'm not shipping outside UK at the moment.

Any problems - shout but be patient as I'm a bit busy!

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
Free card with all website orders over £10 (ask for one in the comments box at checkout).

Takeover Weekend Sneak Peek

Hi Bloggers.

I thought I would start sharing some sneak peeks of some of the projects I've made for my shows on the Takeover Weekend. I have 3 different shows over the weekend across 5 hours plus 2 hours to the Netherlands. One show is on UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) and this is your sneak peek for today -

Products used -
Wendy Vecchi - Art Parts : The Guys, Tag Toppers, Stamps : 3 Cheers for Art, Parisian Art, Archival : Potting Soil
Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain
Clear Perfect Medium
Cosmic Shimmer - White Gesso, Clear UTEE
Creative Expressions - Blue White American Seam Binding, Milk Card
Low Speed Heat Tool

Website - update : Still not working 😩

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
Free card with all website orders over £10 (ask for one in the comments box at checkout).