Hi there.

Thank you so much for popping in,

 and thank you for joining Tina, Paul and myself on HOCHANDA this weekend!
We had a great time! Happy to report that the new Pergamano tools sold out despite the fact that we loaded double the initial stock, and the lovely Christmas outline stamps sold out in hour 3 too.

Happy days. Busy busy busy. 

At 9am I started a Groovi project on black parchment, 

using the nested Christmas poetry plates, which were also very popular! We designed them as funky, random nested shapes, 

for you to create your artwork within.

But here you can see the beautiful core poem shapes by Mel,

which sit nestled in the centre of the shapes. 

I just went with them, because they speak volumes.

All 4 plates

Here is the start.

Check out the order in which you work:

Bird, Heart, Bell, Tree.

Can you see that?

I used a straight grid and a 2-needle bold tool to perforate around the inner frame. You definitely need a Lightwave to work on black parchment though!

I then went off piste with the same 2-needle tool around the trees and irregular shapes, all set to cut out.

I’m right into cutting out in between shapes and images at the moment. It’s like creating little apertures for the background to peep through.

Once I had picot cut out all the little areas, it was time to add a little sparkle with Perga Glitter and Sticky Ink.

Finally, I used brads to mount the black piece to a sheet of good quality Glitter Card.

No colour, no whitework.

The black parchment and glitter do the job perfectly.

Now it’s time to stop for the day.

Many thanks again to the team!

Teamwork makes the dream work. 

If you missed any of the shows, but would like to watch them, simply go to HOCHANDA.com and watch on Catch Up.

xxx

Love and hugs

Barb