Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Just a quickie, something I did very quickly on telly yesterday, using Jayne’s wonderful Poinsettia Stamp Set. This is so quick, blink and you’ll miss it. Stamp pine branch in corner using Library Green Archival once. Add a couple of little berry bits. Place a square Post-It. Repeat the stamping in the other corner. Piece of cake. Load Stencil brush with same ink, and dust across the other two corners. Back and forth. Sorted….
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Just in case you didn’t get to watch the 2pm show today, I was working with the beautiful new Christmas floral stamps by Jayne Nestorenko. I’m hoping to get to see her next week. Hoping to visit her while we’re up at the NEC. So let’s do a very traditional kind of stamp art – just as Jayne would like it… Big frame first… Do you know how many times I have to stamp…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. I’ve been busy blitzing the house today. It certainly needed it. There’s something very rewarding about leaving housework to the point where it looks like it’s been burgled though. Firstly, you see a really significant result instantly. Just by folding the mountain of clothes and thereby creating a clear pathway through the bedroom! And there’s nothing like a Dysson vacuum cleaner for actually SEEING the benefits through the window. Quite worrying really…. But that’ll…
Helloooo… Do come in. I know it’s rather spooky. Amazing what you can do with our Town stencil, a dose of Grunge Paste and a bit of acrylic paint… The sequence is worth noting. 1.Cover the card with paint by walking the brayer all over, left to right mostly. 2. Drag some Grunge paste through a portion of the stencil, in from the bottom, letting it fade as it gets to the rooftops. 3. Once the paste has set, walk…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Thursday’s blog is always blue, right? Well, here’s a fab little card which was very kindly given to me by Chris M. I have been walking past it every day for weeks, because it was perched by the door to the artroom. And today it beckoned to me, as I was wading through treacle trying to prep for Sunday TV. “Use me!” it called, “Use me for inspiration!” Chris used the House Martin from…
Hi there! Thanks for joining me here today. Blimey – the calendars flew out today! Signed 100 last night. Sold 100 overnight! Thank you. Been busy prepping the Sunday TV shows. One hour done – six to go. Ugh. Was thinking about a little cat nap. I read in the Guardian this week that according to research, a 30 minute power nap gives you renewed energy. Did they actually pay somebody to tell them that ??? The bit that was…
YAY!!!! The new calendars for next year have come back from the printers !Am I excited? I’ll say ! They look soooo lovely this year. Most of the artwork has been blogged by myself during the course of this year or last. Each month sports a seasonally appropriate piece of artwork, with the step by step project overleaf. For example, for February, I chose one of my favourite canvases from this year… …and on the back of that month it shows…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in on the first day of the week. Have to admit, I am feeling a little worn out after a very long Saturday at the Harrogate Parchment Show; I don’t ping back as fast as I used to…. then again, neither have the rest of our merry band! So it isn’t just me!!! If you were there, you will have got to see the lovely and very talented Tina Cox on our stand. What a…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in today, on this sunny Sunday in October. Ahh… you thought I was having a crisis. Funny how titles can make you inquisitive, isn’t it? No crisis here today, I’m happy to say. The title of the blog is the title of a poem I was reading last night when we finally got home from Harrogate at midnight. Reading poems at midnight?? Really?? Yes, really. It’s from a beautiful book which was given to me…
Hi There. Thanks for popping in. We fully intended to swing by the TV Studios en route to Harrogate yesterday, and pick up the House Tem-Plate Art Samples to display at the Harrogate Show today. But traffic was dire, and so we had to give it up. So I thought, why don’t I just blog a little sample of how it works, and then show you a few of the beauties which were made by our very talented Design Team….