Promarkers

Well, I've finally had time to have a little practice with the Promarkers I bought ages ago. I don't usually 'do' character stamps, but when I see the beautiful cards other crafters have created using Magnolia, LOTV, Whiff of Joy etc, I really want to produce pretty cards too!

Here are my first two attempts - I need lots more practice but even so I'm quite pleased with these.

See what you think-

Bye for now x

Busy Month

What a busy March that was!
I had a great time demo-ing the Eco Green range of paints for Creative Expressions for three Saturday's in a row. Their seemed to be plenty of interest in the range, particularly in Angelsey where I had loads of people stop by. I have to say a big thank you to all the Garden Centre staff and local crafters who made me very welcome at all the places I visited. I also had my demo day at Stampezee using the Cosmic Shimmer Mica Powders. The day went so quickly and I would like to thank Sarah - lil paper pixie-  if she reads this, for keeping me topped up with caffeine.

I have been having a little play afer seeing a project for a wall hanging by Jean Hardy in Craft Stamper. I must say the first one I made is very much like her's as I really liked the colour scheme and papers she used although I hand cut the frame and squares as I didn't have the ready made one she used-

I was so pleased with it that I decided to do another one using the Sewing Plate from Creative Expressions - a little smaller and more vintage, as a sample for my demo day-

I had a few nice comments about this hanging so now I'm doing a variation of it in a workshop at Stampezee in May.
Below is the card  we are making in my June workshop, using Creative Expressions Cupcake stamp plate:

 Cutting apertures using Nesties and painting with mica pigments - a pretty card!

That's all for now.

Bye 

New Samples

Well, I've not posted for a while - good New Years resolution huh! I am so busy with normal work and my 'other life' I don't seem to find the time to post regularly. Oh, well sporadic can be good too!

Anyhow I've been playing with the Eco Green Crafts paints, stamps and substrates, getting ready for demo's for Creative Expressions. Had one in Preston at the Inspirations store in their 1st Birthday week and there appeared to be alot of interest in the techniques and effects achievable with these products - see what you think....

Used the Spackle to create this sample - good for texture. The flowers are made from Grunge Paper and the central image was created with alcohol inks on acetate and overstamped with black archival ink. I think this is quite pretty!

The next few are small pieces of mountboard and cards showing some of the techniques that can be achieved with the paints:

Cling film technique - stamping with petroleum jelly - crackle - stamping with the paints.

 The next couple of samples show a key cabinet I altered using spackle, the paints and a couple of Tim Holtz Alterations dies, and the Chubby Bird substrate from Eco Green Craft, (couldn't think what to do with this so it is a little unusual) - 'Time Flies':

Now for something a little different. I have a demo day in March at Stampeeze in Coventry and have been making samples for this using the Cosmic Shimmer Mica Powders and several Creative Expressions stamp plates:

This double twisted easel card uses the Button Floral stamp, painted with mica pigments (photo's do not do these pigments justice), and shaded with Distress Ink. The paper roses are also made using an image from this stamp plate - sooo pretty!!

I have used the Butterfly 1 stamp plate for this, and the following card - very different looks.

Vintage Sewing has been used for these two cards. On the main image above I used the cracked ice technique - triple emboss in clear, put in freezer and when card has curled/contracted bend back to straighten out, cracking the embossing powder to give an aged look. To accent the cracks I rubbed over with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

A little bit of shrink plastic - we're all big kids at heart.

Anyhow, that's all from my mega post for now. Be back soon!



New Year - must try harder!

Well, I haven't done a very good job of blogging so far - this year I will try harder- anyhow I had a great Christmas - lots of new goodies to play with!

Well onto some samples:

This is a card for a stamping & embossing workshop I am teaching at Stampeezee in Coventry on January 24th and again on 9th February.

The above card is for a workshop at Stampeezee on 5th February using the Wine stamp plate from Creative Expressions and Nesties to produce a pyramage topper, and the one below is for a workshop on 14th March - double slider card using the Button Floral stamp plate from Creative Expressions.

Thought I'd add a few of the cards I made for Christmas - samples for demo's for Creative Expressions using some of their Christmas stamp plates, the Shimmer Mists and Twinkles and also personal cards for family & friends.

Well that's all for now - I'm currently working with the Eco range from Julia Andrus for an upcoming demo in February - date to be confirmed - at Inspirations in Preston, so I'll get some samples posted soon.

Bye for now.

Just a quick post to show this card, a workshop using shrink plastic I'm running on Wed 29th Sept at Stampeezee in Coventry. Coloured the butterflies using Sakura Stardust pens, gives a lovely finish, especially when shrunk. 

This one is using a resist technique - workshop on 20th October at Stampeezee - I have used Dream Tree from Unity Stamps; a lovely stamp to work with and very versatile.

I had to upload this - had a go at the faux porcelain flowers as featured in Craft Stamper. I think they turned out really well. I don't have a melt pot so used a foil cake case; probably took a little longer as I had to keep re-heating the embossing powder but I think the end result was worth it!

 

Finally, just thought I'd share this card - was asked to make a pretty card for a 40th so chose to use one of the Glitter Girls boards - fans always look so elegant.

Anyhow that's all for now.  



This is a project for a workshop I'm taking on 25th September at Stampeezee in Coventry. Crackle paint, embossing and inking. Lovely!



Well, I've finally taken the plunge and become a blogger. I've looked at so many other peoples blogs over the past few months, reading their posts and checking out their fabulous art work that I decided it's time that I got out there and joined in.
I'll try to post regularly, adding samples if I think they're worthy and any techniques that I've used if I think they will be interesting to anyone who happens to pass through my page.
Well I'm going to preview this now and see if I can publish it - wish me luck!