Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Janneke de Jong

Welcome to another amazing Crazy Crafters Blog Hop! Today we have the absolute pleasure of hopping with the amazing Janneke de Jong! Once again our goal this hop was to select one of her amazing cards to CASE (copy and selectively edit) I had such a hard time choosing just one of her incredible cards to work from this time. However I eventually settled on the below image, I absolutely love her use of black, white and gold in this as well as her crooked placement, something I struggle with, usually even when I plan on using this placement I always end up gluing it down straight. So with today's card I wanted to challenge myself to actually use the offset placement in my card.

I hope you are enjoying the blog hop and have been to see the other projects from the talented crazy crafters and of course our special guest, if this is your first stop don't worry the links below will help you find all the other projects. Now for my card I really love Janneke's card and I used many of the elements in my card, using her black and gold scheme, offset placement and sequins to finish my card.

     

I really love how Janneke softened the back two layers by using the semi transparent paper over it, however I didn't have any unfortunately, so I took some window sheet and sponged white craft ink to the back of it. The ink was rubbing off too easily so I decided to try and heat set it a little to see if that would help, which is definitely did, and it warped the plastic at the same time. I decided I liked the effect though, it helped to add a little more texture to the card and allowed those background pieces of dsp to poke through a little more.

Finally I found some black sequins in my project lift kit I brought but haven't used yet, I am not usually one for adding sequins to my cards but I loved the effect on Janneke's card so much I had to add them in too.

I hope you have enjoyed my take on Janneke's card and hope I did it justice, but now it is time to leave my blog and venture onto the next blog in the hop. Please use the below link to follow on with the hop or to jump to a blog you might have missed.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Heartfelt Sympathy Photopolymer Stamp Set [138764] $30.00	Gold Sequin Trim [132983] $8.75
Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack [142687] $31.50	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $8.75

That's it from me, I hope you have had a wonderful weekend and that your week is just as wonderful, happy crafting.

Thank you card and puppies

Well I had every intention of putting up a blog earlier then this unfortunately I wasn't able to access my craft room due to a robbery leaving it in disarray and having to wait for forensics to clean. Good news is they didn't take any of my beautiful craft things, they did take our camera but with some awesome work from the police we got that back the very next day.

We were also broken into back in December and had been saving to get extra security measures in place as soon as we could, unfortunately we couldn't get it done soon enough. However thanks to our amazing family we are able to get our house secure so hopefully no one else will be able to violate our privacy like this again.

So once I cleaned up the house and got my craft room sorted I decided I should make some thank you cards for those in our family who have helped us make securing our home possible. So far I have only made one, I have found it very hard to turn my brain from stressing to crafting but will hopefully put a few more together over the next few days even if they are the same.

     

I hope you enjoy this simple card, the hardest part was lining up the delicate details stamp set to make it stretch the whole 6" of the card, but with a few simple steps I found it rather simple. Can you spot the seams?

To achieve this I used the Stampin' Up! grid paper to help keep my lines straight and after stamping and embossing the first image I placed a piece of clear plastic cut from a sandwich bag over the stamped image leaving the smallest bit of gold sticking out. From here I lined the stamp up overlapping the previously stamped image and stamped down before applying the embossing powder. 

By protecting the already stamped image you don't risk making the pattern look muddy if you don't stamp it exactly right, allowing for a margin of error without making the error totally noticeable.

Feel free to ask me any questions if needed, if my above instructions don't seem clear I apologise it's been a stressful few days but I am more then happy to help in any way I can if anyone wants help extending their lace patterns.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Delicate Details Photopolymer Stamp Set [143314] $0.00

So Very Much Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143343] $0.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $58.00

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend no matter what you do, I for one will be celebrating my baby boy Rocket's 1st Birthday tomorrow by having all my friends and their dogs over for a play. I will be sure to take some pictures with our recovered computer and share it with you. :)

Which reminds me I haven't introduced you all to my babies yet so here they are my babes, Rocket and his baby sister Luna. They also have 2 feline brothers who might feature in another blog.