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I have been blogging over on Wordress for almost a month, if you haven't seen the new blog yet do come and have a look.

 

 

 

Best wishes and keep on crafting

 

Billie xxx

 

Welcome Back

 

Well I have now got myself a blog on Wordpress, not that I have a clue how to do much on there yet, so there may be posts on both sites for a few days. I have gone over to wordpress as this blog host just doesn't allow for comments from non Windows live customers!

 

 

 

Best wishes

 

Billie xx

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DH has been doing maintenace on the machine and has more to do so I appologise in advance for any delays in updating this blog

 

This month's theme for The Virtual Crafting Challenge has been embossing. My wonderful friend Lynn from http://craftandwaffle.blogspot.com/ sent me some stampboard as I had never tried it before. I now LOVE stamp board, if you haven't tried it go get some it is fantastic stuff.

 

Having had a play I stamped my design on the board then painted the back and sides of the board in acrylic paint to hide the brown unfinished side. My fab Crop A Dile punched through the board easily and I then applied Versamark embossing ink to the piece followed by clear embossing powder and heated it with the heat tool. I applied more powder, and reheated the piece a total of three times and then let it cool.

 

Inks; Ranger Adirondack www.rangerink.com

Stamps; Crafty Individuals http://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/

Stampbord; http://www.stampbord.com/about.html

 

Here is a photo of my finished necklace

 

 

Best wishes and thanks for reading

 

Billie

 

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I spent yesterday sorting out these pictures, so here you go... detailed pictures of all the panels from the Jacob's Ladder. The stamps are all from Crafty Individuals http://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/  the ink is Ranger Adirondack www.rangerink.com and the technique I used for the colouring was inspired by Isabelle Norris http://isascrapandstamp.wordpress.com/ 

I think that covers everyone... Now here is what I made

 

   

 

  

 

 

   

 

  

 

Hope you like them, best wishes and thanks for looking

 

Billie

 

 

 

 

 

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Well I have had a go with Photoshop and here are some pictures of the Jacob's Ladder, they may look familiar from the other day, but I have increased the file size. Now when you double click on the image you WILL get a larger picture  sorry about the tiny pictures before, they will be in this new format from now on so

 

Here goes...

 

 The box   The Ladder

 

 The Floral side  The Bird side.

 

For anyone unsure of how these Jacob's Ladders work, check out the online demo by Tricia Morris on www.tvweekly.com Here is a link to the episode itself  http://sbl.tvweekly.com/player.php?c43eadeae46f61fbecd49bde4356b006w872

 

Of course me being me, I did mine the hard way, I attached all the images to the base card BEFORE I assembled it. I got nice straight images that way but it made for a much more tricky assembley. Without the pictures in place this is a much simpler project, just assemble the ladder then slide your pictures UNDER the ribbons. It is important that your pictures go under the ribbons or the ladder won't 'flip'

 

I am currently exploring Stab bindings with the help of Keith Smith's Volume 1 Non-Adhesive Binding- Books Without Paste or Glue. I bought a Dremmel tool just after Christmas and due to my weak grip I need a drill press to hold it so that I will get accurate holes for the stab bindings. I have already tried the most well know stab bind Japanese 4-Hole Binding otherwise known as Yotsumme Toji  and this went well. Yesterday I had my first attempt at the Tortoise-shell variaty of stab binding known also as Kikko Toji. This was a bit of a nightmare till I got DH who is very clever to read the instructions and we worked it out in the end. Once I understood that a UNIT in Keith's world referred to a group of three holes rather than the total number of holes across the whole bind I got on fine.

 

I would recommend Keith's Books as they are excellent reference books for all kinds of sewn bindings, but for the short of patience they can also be quite hard to get to grips with his style of writing  It is well written just a bit confusing! Still buy the books though as they are worth every penny.

 

I have some book reviews planned so must find some time to get them written. Moo Album tutorial should be up next week

Thanks for reading and see you soon

 

Billie