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Month: March 2014

Freesias for my Mum.

Freesias for my Mum.

Good Monday morning! Monday’s Blog is Trees and Flowers, so here’s a lovely Flower stamp we didn’t get to show off yesterday on TV.  Oh boy were we busy though! Thank you for watching.  Freesias. What a fantastic work of God’s art . I am actually looking at a vase of lilac and white freesias in front of me here; the fragrance is wonderful. So let’s get started. A very simple exercise, using Parchment. I used: the Freesias Claritystamp The…

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Tits galore!

Tits galore!

Hello there! Well, it is TV day on Create & Craft 9-11am, and I am hoping I will be able to do a demo for you with these lovely new Garden Birds of Mel’s. But if for whatever reason, I cannot show you my little birds on TV, I thought it would be good to do a step-by-step here, too, and take a really good close-up look at them.  They are pretty special! I used: A large Garden Bird Small Garden Birds…

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Hanging my laundry out !

Hanging my laundry out !

Happy Saturday! It’s a New Technique Blog today, and I am pretty chuffed with my first attempt at using paste through a stencil. Sometimes, having no clue about a new medium can be advantage, because you just have to figure it out.  The first attempt didn’t go so well.  Paper too thin. Too much Paste. Fiddled with it too much.  Bindit… So the next time, I went with thicker card, less paste, and I worked fast. Result? Well, decided for yourselves…

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