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Month: October 2013

Thursday's Blog is always blue…

Thursday's Blog is always blue…

Here’s one Martyn and I did together in the Classroom on TV last time, using the Jigsaw Puzzle Stamp and the Winter Wonderland. Both sets are very versatile, and very popular! It’s never hard for me to find something blue; I guess blue is just bluetiful! Ready for a simple step-by-step? All you need is A5 Theuva Card Cobalt Archival Ink Pad Black Archival Ink Pad Versamark Ink Pad Cloudy Blue Adirondack Our fab Stencil Brushes! Clear Embossing Powder Heatgun…

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Another little bird told me …..

Another little bird told me …..

This blogging can be challenging, can’t it! Don’t you just love it when you delete a whole post? So this is a feeble attempt at reconstructing what I thought was a really cool set of photos and fun! That’ll teach me! Here’s a sneak peek At a rather fabulous beak; A brand new Stamp and Stencil Set Not just any old bird – But our finest yet! So if you would like to know how to get from here… to…

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Grant me the Serenity…

Grant me the Serenity…

Rolling back the hours, and the years, I went to my little memories box, to see what I could find. I am not a big keeper of things from the past, I don’t have loads of photos all over the house, or boxes of stuff from previous lives. But I do have a little box I made many years ago, in which I store a few precious photos and lovely things. I found this Serenity Prayer which I stamped on…

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Blogging at 65mph in a van in a storm…

Blogging at 65mph in a van in a storm…

Monday’s blog is trees and flowers. Well, here we are trundling home after 4 days at the Glasgow Craft Show, and the weather is pretty bad. Actually, it always is when we leave Scotland! Rain, snow, blizzards…but we had a brilliant time in Glasgow, so many thanks to all those kinds visitors to our stand, who made us feel so very welcome. And since Monday’s blog must be writ, This is it… The background was made by pulling a ghost…

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A Leafy Window…

A Leafy Window…

Sunday’s Blog is step-by-step and typically Gray. Here then, is a little leafy picture. All you need is The Leaf 3 Clarity-Stencil Dotty Wave Stencil Theuva card A6 Raisin and Slate Adirondack ink pads Make-up sponges and Claritystencil brush Pine Ridge Claritystamp Low-tack masking tape. Are you ready to start? Right, here goes… Tape the leaf stencil in place. Load a Clarity stencil brush with Raisin ink and lightly swirl around the edge of the leaf stencil. Use a make-up…

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Fancy a Gelli Sandwich?

Fancy a Gelli Sandwich?

Saturday’s blog, a New Technique. Here’s one for those of us with a Gelli Plate appetite. I have been playing with my Gelli Plate for a year now, and the more I figure out, the more I realise what I haven’t figured out ! This simple new sandwich trick which I worked out last night, after the Exhibition at the SECC had closed, (so that I could stick to my Blog Poem!) made me think of all the hundreds of…

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An evening with another man….

An evening with another man….

Friday’s blog, a private peak…Well, I may as well start as I mean to continue, and level with you. Last night, I spent the evening with another man. I’ve known him since I was a teenager, so it was great to spend a few hours with him again. The last time was back in the 70’s! He’s still quite handsome. We weren’t entirely alone mind; there were a few others there, at the new Hydro, Glasgow. But Peter was on…

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A Delft Delight….

A Delft Delight….

Thursday’s blog is always blue. This was a piece I did in the Classroom TV Show several months ago, using the Reeds and flowerheads from the Windmill kit. One of the Clarity Design Team ladies, lovely Sylvia Marshall, sent me a piece of artwork just like this, and I was so taken with it, I borrowed her classy blue design. Hope you like it as much as I do! Mono colour work always looks so classy! All you need is…

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New? To who? To me!

New? To who? To me!

Wednesday’s blog is something new. To who? To me? To you? Clearly, I can only approach this from New to me, because new and old are very subjective, don’t you agree? If you’ve been stamping for 20 years, you will encounter a lot less NEW stuff than, say, somebody who has just walked through the crafting saloon doors! Here I have taken a brand new Claritystencil, Madeleine, and run her through a Gran Calibur embossing machine. This may be old…

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Tuesday's blog rolls back the hours….

Tuesday's blog rolls back the hours….

Hello there! Now I’ve established a blog theme plan for the week, it will be much easier to tackle! Tuesday’s blog rolls back the hours, so I thought we could take a look at one of the ways we can age our work, make it look older. We like to do that, don’t we! For this one, you will need; The Paris Collage ClarityStamp Set of Remountable Claritytags Old Paper Distress pad Black Archival Craft Scalpel C-thru ruler with steel…

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