Website Update

The "Our Video's" section of the SplodgeAway Website has now been updated with several new tutorial videos.  This will be updated often, so be sure to keep checking them out.
The videos can be found here http://www.splodgeaway.com/video

Just to let you all know, the blog updates will start again tonight. So thanks for hanging there with us.  

Tom

Sam's Anything But Square!

Anything but Square!

Today Sam is going to guide us through her 'Anything But Square' project with a step by step tutorial. What a great idea! Thanks Sam.


Materials Needed:

SplodgeAway Mat

SplodgeAway Gate Mask

SplodgeAway Swirl Mask 

Clarity Stamp

Ranger Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough

Dylusions Ink Spray - Vibrant Turquoise

 8"x8" Card Stock

Grand Nestabilities Die

Flowers of your choice

Metal wording or a self made Tag?

Peg to make card fastening

  I would just like to thank Annette Lee for teaching me the Technique of the "dressed" lady at one of her classes.

Step 1. Stencil the mask onto the insert card.

Step 2. Fold an 8"x8" Card into a gatefold.
 

Step 3. Emboss and colour the mask.

Step 4. Stamp and dress image as required.

Step 5. Mat, layer and embellish as required.

Step 6. Glue a peg on side of the gate so that when the card closes the peg can hold it together. I have used a flower to cover the peg.

End Result: Definately Not Square!

For more of Sam's inspiration check out her blog:

http://www.samshomecookeddesigns.com/blog.html

Happy Splodging
:-)

Kay's Winter Warmers

Winter Warmers, Plenty of Layers!

So we are still in Winter and hoping for Spring, its been a cold Winter so to warm us up we have Kay's Showcase card for 'Plenty of Layers'. I am sure you will agree this card gives us a warm feeling inside.  This card makes me wish I was sat with a hot bowl of soup and warm crusty bread with lashings of butter...a tuna sandwich will  :-)

Kay has kindly given you a step by step guide to making this card so why not treat yourself  to this mask and have a go??? It's a bargain price of £3.45 from the SplodgeAway Site.

Over to you Kay:

My view on this weeks theme lent towards warm colours and lots of layers. To make this card I used:

SplodgeAway Easy Ink Card

SplodgeAway Lattice Mask

Grand Nestabilities Labels 4

Spellbinders Edgeabilities

Molly Bloom Stamp

Dimension Stamp

Buttons

Paper self adhesive lace

White pen

Adirondack Inks in Mountain Rose, Terra cotta and Cranberry

Promarker pens

Memento Black Ink Pad

Pinflair glue and Art Glitter glue 

To start I cut a piece of Easy Ink 7.5" square and embossed it using the mask. I also cut out the smallest two Grand Nestabilities labels and embossed the largest with the mask. I then distressed the base card with Mountain Rose . The embossed  label was then coloured with Terra Cotta and edged with Cranberry. Next i stamped the Molly bloom little girl with Momento onto the smallest label and coloured her in with a selection of Pro Markers. I then edged this with Cranberry.

The border was next to be cut out and then edged with Cranberry on the top and Terra Cotta on the bottom. I then stuck the self adhesive lace along near the top of border.

The flower stamp was then made by stamping the two smallest flower heads and two leaves in black momento. I then cut out and coloured with shades of peach and green. used the white pen to fill in the dots. When it was dry I shaped with my fingers and glued together with pinflair glue .

All of the pieces are now ready to assemble onto base layer and I think this is self explanitory if you look and the card. The only thin left is the buttons which I glued on last with pinflair.

I hope you enjoyed this project. I have to say I really enjoyed making this one.

Happy Crafting

Kay

Just a quick update,

BLOG UPDATES
Firstly I would like to say sorry for the Blog not being updated.  As some of you are aware Susan went into labor early.  There has also been many complications, but in the end everything has worked out and Baby Holy is strong and healthy other than a couple of battle scars and poorly arm.

STENSKAPE TUTORIALS
Just before Susan was admitted to hospital I was working on a few StenSkape tutorial videos which Ric has very kindly edited.  These will be posted on the blog and website ASAP along with the StenSkape postings.  The design team has been working very hard its just a shame I have not got them up as of yet.


ROSS PAPER CRAFT SHOW
SplodgeAway will be attending the Ross Paper Craft Show in Eston on Sunday and I will be there demoing.  I hope to see you all there.  Baby Holly may even make an appearance.


DESIGN TEAM CALL
Thanks you to the people who have applied to become a DT member the work submitted has been AWESOME!  This call is still going on however we have been having a few technical problems with the email address.  Please send all DT application to tom.johnson@splodgeaway.com   As soon as I get myself back to work I will contact each and every one of you to give you feedback.


I  hope this has brought you up to date a little, I am sorry for the lack of communication, if you are following us on Facebook, no doubt you will be aware of the situation.  Thanks to everyone for all of their continuing support.  I really appreciate everyone and I will be back in action very soon. 

Keep Splodging......  Tom :)

SplodgeAway Design Team Call Out

SplodgeAway Design Team Call

Please note this post will stay at the Top of the blog .... additional new postings will appear below.

As you may be aware SplodgeAway is growing from strength to strength each day with new designs, more shows on Create and Craft, standing at Craft Fairs across the country aswell as running a busy website and blog.

Today we are putting out a DT call for papercrafters and scrappers to join the SplodgeAway Design Team for an initial 6 month period. We are looking for people with a creative committment who can submit at least a minimum of 3 projects a month including a competition project and blog projects. On top of this, when required additional T.V and show samples. We also ask for you to push the SplodgeAway products on your blog as and when needed. You must be able to work as part of the SplodgeAway Team. In return your work will be featured on the blog and T.V when possible. We will provide you with the masks or stock you need aswell as a DT kit each month and the opportunity to put your creative focus into new stock and ideas.

What you need to do is send the following information to susan@suzicraft.com

• Full name, address, email address
• A short biography on why you would like to be part of the SplodgeAway Design Team
• Links to your online blog
• A List of any other Design Teams you have been with or are still with
• Submit 3 photos of your work. The projects must show that SplodgeAway has been used for the majority of the projects.

The closing date is Saturday 9th February and new members will be notified by the end of Sunday 10th February. New DT Members will be asked to complete a confidentiality form and a project must be submitted by February 16th ready for the introductions on the blog commencing on the 18th. 

Best of Luck

Susan and Tom