Barbara Gray Blog

Hi there! Thanks for popping in on this sunny Saturday. Saturday’s blog a new technique, right? The question which has been on my mind all week is Do stencil and parchment work together? Only one way to find out, and I even procured a brand new stencil for the occasion! Introducing the lovely, arty and oh so useful  Skeleton Leaf Stencil: The question I wanted to answer was whether parchment would pick up the stencil design when run through a…

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Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Thursday blog is always blue, right? So I decided to lose myself in the groove this evening. Late night last night; early start this morning! Lots of thinking, action, planning, listening. So what better way to wind down and clear the head than get in the groove and stay there for an hour or so… I’ve been itching to try this new netting Groovi Plate! And I am DELIGHTED with the result. Just exactly…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Today is You Tube Tuesday, so here’s a groovi little card, putting the new Christmas Border Plates to good use! Enjoy. I actually got to do this demo on TV on Sunday. Leonie used a good word, when we were doing the corners: Mitred corner. That word eluded me when I was doing this demo. Mitred. Not bevelled. Mitred. Love and hugs,

Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Just a quick step by step today,  using one of my all time favourite stencils: The Leafy Swirl Brilliant for using with the Gelli Plate, this one. But today I want to use it with an E-Bosser,  or Die-cutting machine. Let’s take a look… Place the stencil on a piece of copy paper and cover it with  Black Soot Distress Ink using a brayer. Here’s a piece of Gelli Card scrap. I have been…

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Hi there! Thanks for popping in. It’s so sunny out there, we really ought to make the most of it. But I wanted to share the latest with you. When we were in France, the Groovi experts,  aka Maria and Sylvia, mentioned that we really should have some concentric shapes  for framing. I wholeheartedly agreed with them,  because I had also noticed that it’s all very lovely  embossing the fab Groovi Designs on A5 parchment, but then what? The Borders…

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