Sketching Stamper

TOMIC 35 - Valentine + heart

2012-02-01T07:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone and I hope you're having a good week so far. A new challenge starts today at TOMIC with a theme of Valentine + heart, so there has to be Valentine text and a heart somewhere on your creation. I hope you can join us this week, as always there's a gorgeous prize to be won from Magnolia and lots of gorgeous creations from my DT friends over on the blog. I've used beautiful 'Tilda

TOMIC 34 - Oval card and embossing

2012-01-25T07:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone! A new challenge starts on TOMIC this week and our theme is to make an oval card and use heat or dry embossing. I hope you can join us this time and as always there's some beautiful inspiriation from my DT friends. I've used sweet Valentino, coloured with distress inks and cut out. My oval card is embossed using a Crafts Too hearts embossing folder and I've sanded back the

Doodles Unleashed Workshop - Week 2 - sunglasses may be required :)

2012-01-19T20:47:00.000Z

Hi everyone, hope your week has been good! A post today of week 2 of the free 'Doodles Unleashed' online course I'm doing at Strathmore and week 2 was all about doodling with a variety of water colour mediums, using found objects, templates etc., hand made stamps from foam which I did using a cut glass bowl to make an imprint in some cut and dry stamp pad foam for the mark making. The

Tilda with Peony tails

2012-01-17T00:41:00.000Z

Hi everyone! A card today with sweet Tilda with Peony tails from the Magnolia Sweet, Crazy Love 2012 collection. Tilda is water coloured and once again sitting in flowers :). I've used kraft card for the card base and matting and cut the top of the card with the Magnolia DooHickey romantic lace die. The patterned paper is Magnolia, I think from last summer and I used the DooHickey cloud

Make it Colourful Guest - Create blades of grass

2012-01-13T10:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a good week! I'm very happy to have been invited by the lovely Zoe [ace copic colourer and Magnolia teamie :)] to be a guest this week on Make it Colourful, so thank you Zoe and thank you to the wonderfully talented Make it Colourful design team for making me very welcome. The challenge is to create blades of grass so I've water coloured a fairy glen full

Grungy Monday 31

2012-01-08T23:56:00.001Z

Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend! I'm just scraping in on the Grungy Monday challenge at Studio L3 where this week the challenge is 'Happy Birthday Tim', celebrating Tim Holtz's birthday, so Happy Birthday Tim, I hope you had a great day..........with some Disney thrown in :). I used my new favourite of Tim's techniques which he showed us in the 12 tags 2011 of how to make

Doodles unleashed workshop - Piece 1

2012-01-06T13:41:00.000Z

Hi everyone and Happy New Year to you all! A new year and a new online workshop for me 'doodles unleashed' which started this week at Strathmore online workshops with Traci Bautista. The first workshop was interesting and has given me the prompt to move onto a larger scale. I enjoyed doing this piece from a different perspective, having no end product in mind too. Not sure what I'll do

Tag 12 - Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas

2011-12-30T12:55:00.002Z

Hi everyone! Here's tag 12 of Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas and just in time to link it up on Tim's blog as I didn't manage to do this last one before Christmas. I very much enjoyed making this one and loved all the techniques we were shown and which I used, especially the metal die cutting which does look like German scrap die cuts, another one to remember for the future. I didin't

Magnolia 'Cuddly Siblings'

2011-12-29T16:57:00.002Z

Hi everyone! If you celebrate Christmas I hope that you had a lovely time and that Santa was good to you :). I have a card to show today with the Magnolia 'cuddly siblings' stamp from the new 'sweet crazy love' collection and aren't they the sweetest :)? It's another beautiful collection from Pauline and I can't wait to colour them all! Cuddly Siblings have been painted with

TOMIC 29 - Snowflake symphony in purple

2011-12-19T11:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone and today is the start of the new challenge on TOMIC with a theme this week of 'snowflake symphony in purple', so the creation must have snowflakes and the colour purple. I hope you can join us if you have the time :), I've made some clay ornaments cut with cookie cutters, stamped with Magnolia snowflake stamps and when dry painted with acrylic paints and strung with dyed

Edwin with presents

2011-12-15T00:43:00.000Z

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good week and nearly ready for Christmas :)! I've had a go at a free standing pop up card which is a card style I haven't tried before and very much enjoyed. Of course I forgot to take a photo of the card folded down :) but here are a couple of extra photographs and one shows how it looks from the side. Edwin is coloured with distress inks and

Craft Barn DT Showcase and my last Craft Barn Blog post.

2011-12-14T21:33:00.002Z

Hi everyone! A lovely week on the Craft Barn blog this week with a DT Showcase where we're all picking our favourite projects or those that mean most to us from the year. It's a sad post for me also as it means it's my last post on the Craft Barn blog. Due to time constraints I've had to cut back a bit unfortunately but I will still be around at the shop for the odd demo here and there which is

Tag 11 - Twelve Tags of Christmas

2011-12-11T16:18:00.001Z

.......and tag 11 of Tim Holtz twelve tags of Christmas, once again improvised as I didn't have the stamps, die and I'd run out of utee so I didn't dip my shrink plastic holly leaves but covered them with glossy accents after shrinking and colouring them instead. I'll leave you with a slightly blurry photo of our Christmas tree which went up yesterday..............total festive overload,

Tag 10 - Twelve Tags of Christmas

2011-12-11T16:08:00.001Z

Hi again and here's tag 10 of Tim Holtz Twelve Tags of Christmas at least my improvised version. I've used different stamps and other items in place of those I don't have but I have to say the faux mercury glass facets technique is going to be a firm favourite. It looked complicated on first look but it was very easy and enjoyable and the effect is really special. I used fragments

Tag 9 - Twelve Tags of Christmas

2011-12-11T16:00:00.001Z

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend. Here's my version of Tag 9 of the Tim Holtz twelve tags of Christmas and another one I enjoyed as this was the first time I managed to get the rusted enamel technique to look like rusted enamel :D. Well my version has a verdigris look that I like a lot and the technique has a slightly new twist which you'll know if you've been following along

Fundraiser for four children who need help

2011-12-10T21:16:00.001Z

Claudia, of Pretty Pressings, is running a FUNDRAISER which started today to help a family in her neighbourhood. The children lost their mother to cancer and are living with their Grandmother who also has cancer and is very ill at the moment. To read more about the family, click -->HERE<--Crafters and craft/stamp companies have sponsored handmade cards, stamps and craft supplies which

Tag 8 - Twelve tags of Christmas

2011-12-09T23:50:00.001Z

Hi everyone, hope you're ready for the weekend :)! Here's my version of Tim's tag 8.......yes, it looks nothing like his tag :D but he made a tag that he said was non traditional and his own style which is steam punk so I went along those lines, well with the non traditional anyway. I've gone with a theme of a Very English Christmas and I used, I think, most of the techniques that were used for

Magnolia Advent Calendar - Day 8

2011-12-08T08:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone and today I'm hosting Day 8 of the Magnolia Christmas Calendar, so if you'd like to win a big prize from Magnolia, for more information and to enter pop over to my Magnolia Blog, A Touch of Magnolia. Good Luck and enjoy your day!

Tag 7 - Twelve Tags of Christmas

2011-12-07T23:46:00.001Z

Hi everyone and here I am with my version of Tag 7 of Tim's twelve tags of Christmas, late but on the same day as I try to keep up :D! Another beautiful tag today from Tim and he always shares lots of great techniques to try which I love. I didn't have the glassine paper he used so I used a white glassine bag instead and it worked although by the look of it the kraft glassine is a

Tag 6 - Twelve tags of Christmas

2011-12-06T22:47:00.001Z

Hi everyone and I'm here with of Tag 6 of Tim's twelve tags of Christmas, late but on the same day which is good and also means I'm up to where I got to last year with the tags :D, we'll see! As soon as I saw TH's tag today I knew it was going to be my favourite, I love the vintage and nostalgic (for me) look to it. It really does replicate the old style biscuit tins and vintage

Tag 5 - Twelve Tags of Christmas

2011-12-05T16:30:00.001Z

Hi and back again with my version of Tag 5 in Tim's twelve tags of Christmas, nice to have finished one on the same day :D. I improvised with a flourish stamp instead of the mirror stamps that TH used and this technique is another that gives such a beautiful look with the acetate against the card and ribbon. I used red pepper, watermelon and pesto alcohol inks and I like the addition of

Tag 4 - Twelve tags of Christmas

2011-12-05T16:17:00.001Z

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend. My version of tag 4 of Tim's twelve tags of Christmas and a bit of a marathon too, the rock candy crackle seemed to take forever to dry but it was worth the wait, I think it looks lovely after the addition of the distress stain, very sparkly under artificial light too. Stamping with the distress stains gives a lovely water colour effect, I'll be

Tag 3 - Twelve tags of Christmas

2011-12-04T11:26:00.001Z

Hi everyone! Tag 3 of Tim Holtz's 'twelve tags of Christmas' or rather two tags today as I enjoyed the custom ink pad technique and decided to do a couple :D. I've cut smaller tags today as I didn't have the large stamp in Tim's tag so I picked another solid style stamp that would cover most of the tag, it's the diamond background from Crafty Individuals and works perfectly for this

12 Tags of Christmas - Tag 2

2011-12-03T11:05:00.001Z

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is off to a good start! Here's my version of tag two of the Tim Holtz twelve tags of Christmas and this time I did have the die that was used and even a scrap of canvas :). I didn't have the kraft resist card so I made my own with clear embossing powder and used stamps from the mini holiday stamp set for the rest of the background stamped with permanent

The Craft Barn Gifts Week - Gifts for her

2011-12-02T11:48:00.001Z

Hi everyone! More gifts today for the Craft Barn gift week and again.......lots of photographs :D. The first item for today as it's 'gifts for her' is the wooden house shaped curio box which is a gorgeous shape and can be decorated in lots of different ways. Everything is painted with various colours of Fresco Finish paint and there are lots of shabby distressed flowers, Tando