Sketching Stamper

Test post

2013-06-17T22:26:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, just making a test blog post for stats. Back soon Chris :-) Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Lupins or Foxgloves? Undecided!

2013-06-10T21:35:00.002+01:00

Hi everyone, hope your week is off to a good start. I'm sharing a spread from my Art Book today, trying to process the photo's and blog those that I haven't managed to yet. I'm undecided if the flowers are lupins or foxgloves, they feel like a bit of both to me but of course it's all with a huge amount of artistic licence :D! Lovely DecoArt paints have been used throughout over a layer

Kaisercraft and Kraft

2013-06-09T15:23:00.002+01:00

Hi everyone, hope you're having a lovely weekend! As mentioned in my previous post I'm sharing some more makes with Kaisercraft Stamps and this time with a theme of kraft, black, white and a touch of red topped off with shabby white embossing powder. For the card above the background stamping is done with black Brilliance ink and the Dictionary texture stamp with the dress form stamped

Cherish card - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Inspired by the letter 'S'

2013-06-05T23:24:00.003+01:00

Hi everyone, hope you're all well and enjoying some fine weather wherever you are. I've been away for a while recharging the batteries which was lovely and came back to demo last Sunday at the Craft Barn Extravaganza which as always was a great and very enjoyable day. It's always special to catch up with everyone and chat whilst demoing to all the lovely ladies who dropped by my table. This

The Craft Barn - Backgrounds Week

2013-05-23T07:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone, at the Craft Barn Blog this week it's all about backgrounds and I've been using my gelli plate to make the background paper and the flowers for my card above. A little explanation of how I made my print and lots of inspiration from the rest of the team is over on the Craft Barn blog where everyone's been getting messy with backgrounds! Craft Barn products that I used: Gelli

Craft Stamper 'take it, make it' Challenge two interim post

2013-05-21T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone! Here today with my second creation for the reminder post at Craft Stamper magazine 'make it take it' challenge two at Craft Stamper Blog. We're doing our versions of Helen's fantastic torn frame from last month's issue of the magazine and there's still time to join in with the challenge. I made another tag using a Sizzix framelets die for the shape and after colouring with

Fleur

2013-05-19T13:12:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, hope you're having a lovely weekend. I've made a little hanging which I'm entering into the 'a little paper' challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show. The paper which is around the size of a 6x6 paper pad I've made myself using a pretty Wendy Vecchi flower stencil and the heart stencil and mask together with another floral stencil from the stencil girl and some letter stencils.

The CrAft Barn Alpha Challenge - K

2013-05-13T13:39:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone. It's a new letter for the Alpha Challenge today at the Craft Barn blog and this fortnight the letter is K. My word is 'king' and I chose to work with one of the lovely new Crafty Individuals stamps and this is such a pretty image. I stamped directly onto the page with black ink, coloured with pencils and then outlined my word with black pen. Enjoy your day.

Distress paint on fabric - Postcard from Paris tag

2013-05-09T18:54:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good week so far. I have a tag to share today and this is one of the jumbo size Ranger tags which is a nice size for the big bloom I made using the large flower from the tattered florals die. I used some buckram fabric painted with some Fired Brick Distress paint and cut some flowers from the tattered garland die to go with the large flower.For the Tim Holtz

The Craft Barn - Spring Bouquet

2013-05-06T22:17:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone I'm here with a card and tag made for the Spring Bouquet week at the Craft Barn Blog which is showcasing the gorgeous PaperArtsy Stamp designs of Jo Firth-Young and Lin Brown, I know we all enjoyed working with the stamps which are beautiful and there's lots of inspiration from my team mates all week. I chose the lovely Lin Brown 02 set which features this gorgeous tulip and

12 Tags of 2013 - May and SSS&S Inspired by

2013-05-06T22:00:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, I got my May ATC done today for The Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2013 and enjoyed the new rub on's technique very much. I love how the rub-on's retain the white paper underneath after the ink has been applied, it's a great way to create a background. As I've been inspired by this technique I'm also entering my ATC into the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show which this week is '

Clown Tilda

2013-04-30T22:10:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well so far. Today I'm sharing a card with the sweet Tilda as a clown from the once upon a time collection. I've coloured with watercolour markers, given her a clown nose with red marker and drawn in a harlequin background. My background paper is made with a harlequin stencil and Dylusions inks and over the top I've added a die cut DooHickey doily to the

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter 'A'

2013-04-28T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is going well. It's a new letter for the Alpha Challenge today at the Craft Barn blog and this fortnight the letter is A. My word is Avenue and I chose to work with a Paperartsy Mini Stamp MN85. For this page I decided to stamp onto a Ranger kraft no. 5 tag and after doing that I added to the stamped image with some doodling in black and white pens before

12 Tags of 2013 - April ATC

2013-04-27T10:28:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. I've made my ATC for Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2013 and improvised as I went along. I don't have have the metallic distress paints and used a different brand bronze and copper metallic so the effect isn't quite the same, but I enjoyed the patina technique all the same and used broken china and peeled paint distress paints with the metallics to

Backgrounds

2013-04-21T21:26:00.001+01:00

...is the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week and I'm scraping in at the last minute with my little ATC sized notebook. I used stamps from the Penny Black Social Butterfly clear stamp set and a jewellery border stamp from the Paperartsy Lynne Parella stamp set 002 to create my background stamped over a layer of spritzed distress ink. The Tando chipboard swirly butterfly

Tilda Long Stocking

2013-04-19T07:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone! Today I've made a card with the sweet Tilda long stocking and coloured her with distress and wataercolour markers, cut her out and added her to my card base. I also used the gorgeous butterflies again this time stamping, colouring with markers and cutting them out to place amongst the flowers. I also added the Magnolia balloons with a chit chat sticker as this is a Birthday card

Ballerina Tilda

2013-04-18T07:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone, a card to share today with the gorgeous new Princess Tilda with ballet shoes, I do love the ballerinas :D! I coloured Tilda with distress and watercolour markers and added some faux stitching around the image. I also created the background paper with the fantastic new collage style stamps that are in the new 'once upon a time 2013 collection'. I used the two smaller

Canvas Swap

2013-04-17T00:52:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone, Back today with a long overdue post of my canvas swap with my lovely blog friend Kelly in the USA, apologies for the delay Kelly! We swapped canvases a while back, we both enjoy making these art doll (Christy Tomlinson style) canvases and it's always fantastic to receive art from a friend. A lot of work and thought has gone into the creation and there's always a feeling for

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - W with a twist

2013-04-16T22:41:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, I'm here today with the next letter in my dictionary for the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge. This fortnight the letter is W and my word is Watch with the twist of circles in the watches stencil from Prima that I've used with modelling paste and Dylusions sprays, accentuating the watches with some distress ink too. More information on the Craft Barn blog and inspiration from my team

Craft Stamper 'Take it make it' Challenge 2

2013-04-12T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone! Here today with my tag for 'make it take it' challenge two at Craft Stamper Blog where we are doing our versions of Helen's fantastic torn frame from the current issue of the magazine. For my version I used some Prima Madelaine paper and die cut two pieces with a Spellbinders die then tore the top layer as per the instructions into a frame, I decided on a circular frame for

Distress Paint and Gelli Plate

2013-04-07T20:47:00.003+01:00

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a good weekend! I had a lovely time at the Opening of The Craft Barn in it's new location, it's lovely to see friends and talk about crafts all day :D! I've been playing with my gelli plate and with this plate speed is of the essence to get the mono prints taken before the acrylic paint dries. I saw that someone had tried adding glazing medium to the paint to

Craft Barn opening weekend - FREE Postage

2013-04-05T21:07:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, just popping on with a message from the Craft Barn: As part of their Grand Opening celebration, The Craft Barn is offering FREE POSTAGE on all UK orders from 6pm on Friday (5th April) to 6pm on Monday (8th April) For customers outside the UK shipping is free for orders over £30 Looking forward to seeing some of my CB friends tomorrow and now I know the scissor sisters (not the

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter R - Tattered florals garland and decorated shoe

2013-04-03T00:23:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone, I'm sharing my latest Alpha Challenge Dictionary page today for the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge and this fortnight the letter is R and my chosen word 'rabbit'. I've chosen another lovely Crafty Individuals Alice Palace stamp 'Crowned Bunnies'......takes me right back to Watership Down :D! Once again I've painted on a layer of gesso, stamped with VersaFine and then coloured

Twelve Tags of 2013 - ATC 3 March

2013-03-31T00:28:00.001Z

Hi everyone, if you celebrate Easter I wish you a very happy one and hope you have a good long weekend. I'm joining in at the last minute with Tim's twelve tags of 2013 with my March ATC and I've gone with an Easter theme and improvised with what I had and for the size of the ATC versus a tag. I used distress paints for the background and followed along with Tim's techniques for the tinsel

Mini Album week at The Craft Barn Blog

2013-03-21T07:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone, here today with my florals tag album for Mini Album week at the Craft Barn Blog and if you've already been following along this week you'll have seen some fantastic mini albums from my team mates with more come. My album is made up of five individual tags of various sizes which I've given inky backgrounds, die cut elements and borders and then topped off with some of my