Workshop Monday 5th March

Here are 3 cards for tomorrows workshop. I have been playing with Distress Crayons and discovered that if you seal the card first the crayons spread much better. The stamps are from the box magazine set from Chloe.

Make & Take Friday 2nd March

Here is this weeks card for our Make & Take. A new stamp from Creative Expressions.

Workshop Monday 5th December

Here is my first card for Mondays workshop,  the stamp is from Stampendous and I have used Starlight paints with stencils

Another card for monday's workshop, I was making a red poinsettia card and was sponging the back of the parchment and made a lovely background and decided to make it in Lilac.

Workshop cards for Monday 25th July

We shall be using Beadz on some of the cards with carpet tape and fancy dies.

Make & Take Friday 3rd June

Here is this weeks Make & Take & card, nice and early this week.

Make & Take card Friday 21st August

I managed to finish the lilac 

Make & Take card from yesterday.

I have used a Penny Black hedgehog stamp.

Make & Take Friday 29th May.

I have used the flower stamp from the Butterfly Basics for this weeks card, come along to 

The Prop House Cafe at Pinewood nurseries on Friday from 10.30 if you would like to make this card.

Make & take Friday 27th February

Here is last Friday's card , sorry its a bit late but pc has been out of action.

I used a free set of stamps from a magazine.

Make & Take Friday 12th September

I am early this week with the Make & Take card.

I have used Artkure paint brushes and stamped 3 times from one inking

 sprayed with my trusty Pearl-ex in water.

 

 

Here are another 2 in different colours.



Make & Take Friday 6th December

I found a pack of small doylies so thought I would use them for this weeks Make & Take.

It looks very like a Tattered Lace die cut.

Another "What no Gelli Plate"

Here is the card that I made today with backgrounds from club night playing with acrylic paints in the Gelli Plate fashion but without one.

Another Stampin Up card

Here is another card for the Stampin Up workshop.

A really simple card but very nice.

Here is a slightly different version by Mitch

Make & Take Friday 2nd November

Here is this week's Make & Take card. 

I have got some new embossing powder and glitter 

to do the Frantage effect on the background.

Here is a different colour version that I made today.

2 more Prick and Stitch cards

Here are 2 more cards from the Pricking & Stitching workshop.

Make & Take Friday 13th April

Here is this weeks Make & take card.

I looked through my pile of  ink pads and found the Dc Martins iridescent ink pads, I have always found them very wet and hardly used them so I made a messy background with lilac and blue then stamped on the top with the lilac and the background looks great I was really pleased with the result, it looks quite pearly and also used it to stamp the flower. I have put a close up of the corner section but I still don't think you can see the lovely pearly effect too well.

make & Take Friday 15th April.

The background on this card is made by spraying a piece of white card with water then stamping the flower using Dusty Concord Distress ink and the ink runs slightly and makes a lovely background.

The main image has been stamped with black Versafine and embossed using WOW pearlescent violet embossing powder, you cant't see it on the picture but it looks lovely as you catch it in the light it looks a lovely pearly violet.

Come along on Sunday if you would like to make this card, it was very popular today.

Craft Club Night 11th January

 Tonight at Craft Club we played with the Black Magic Technique.

Here are my 2 cards.

You need a solid stamp, black card, white Brilliance ink pad or 

another white pigment ink.

On the blue card I have stamped the flower at random over the black card using the white ink, dry with a heat gun, then take water colour pencils and colour over the flowers, then take the white ink again and stamp a smaller stamp on top of the coloured image. I added some white dots and layered on to blue card that has been punched using a Martha Stewart punch.

On the lilac card I just used a single stamp, stamped using the white ink and coloured over the top, this time I coloured over the top of the colour using a white pencil to shade the petals and added white Inkssentials pen to highlight the flower centres and the stems, stamped the swirls and punched the corners, the lilac card base has been embossed using a Crafts Too embossing folder on to colour core card and then sanded lightly to show a different shade.

Make & Take Friday 17th December

Getting away from Christmas cards now here is the card for this week.

 If you would like to make this card then come along today -Monday 20th Dec

Make & Take Friday 4th September

This week I used some lace on our Friday card, it seems to be very much in fashion at the moment and today we have Ruth Demonstrating using the lace and her sewing machine - not necessarily together though.

The stamp is from a new set by Prima just £2.59 here at the shop, I have stamped and embossed it with the border from the same set, I have coloured it with a tiny dab of Distress ink or Adirondack ink and a tiny spot of Cosmic Shimmer powder mixed together with your water brush. The background is a scrapbook paper that I have sponged with the same colour Distress inks and Adirondack inks which are Dusty Concord and Cranberry.

Make & Take Friday 13th August

This card was very popular, The printed background a a technique called glue distress. I used a page from an old book and dotted PVA over it then spread it with my finger then dried it, the next step is to rub 2 or 3 colours of ink pads over the dried glue, then it is buffed with a clean tissue and the glue shows through and gives the distress look. I then tore it to the right size, then stamped and embossed the swirls with black ink and clear embossing powder, then sponged ink around the edges. Then just layered on to the lilac card and placed a stamped image on the top.