Hi there! Thanks for popping in. I am so excited!! I couldn’t wait to get upstairs here to my little den and share some (what I consider to be) VERY BIG NEWS with you. Today I had the pleasure of meeting a certain young lady called Tina Cox. Do you know her? She is a parchment artist, and her art is fabulous. Absolutely sublime. We spent the day together at the house, and she taught me so many new parchment tricks!…
Good Morning! Thanks for popping in! Sun’s shining, birds are nesting in the garden. All good. Here’s a little easy step by step, combing stamping and Groovi One of my favourite stamps is our Lily of the Valley, which our Melanie drew a while ago. It comes in a little 2-stampset, with the verse I used here yesterday: Thought I’d combine it with our new coloured parchment…. Ready? Using an Archival Olive ink pad, stamp the stamps onto the colour…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Was watching Paul on telly earlier, using the lovely filigraphy foliage stampset + stencil, and thought, “I know! I’ll use them in the blog today!” They are so lovely. Filigraphy Foliage stamps! I used them a while ago with one of the Clarity Characters…. 7th September last year to be precise, if you want to get the step by step. Clarity Characters Anyway, thought I’d just have a play with a scrap piece in the…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Hope you are happy? TGIF !!! No work this weekend for me! Well, no exhibitions or TV shows. Anything else doesn’t count…. So maybe we can let our hair down, pick a flic, bake a cake chillax, do nowt. niddip niddip…. Up for a limerick? We do like a limerick don’t we….. I shall give you the first two lines, then you copy – paste them into the comments box below and add your…
Happy Thursday Thanks for popping in. Here’s another step by step project for you to try…. I am on a roll this week! Actually, I have had a lot on my mind, and the arty interludes have been like a real tonic. Which just goes to prove that Craft is a real mindful therapy; just stick at it until the pain or the panic fades. Remember a couple of days ago I did a Goosey canvas? And in between layers…
Hi there! Thank you for dropping in on this glorious morning here. I do hope the sun is shining on you today too. Dave and I went down to Brighton yesterday afternoon, for a walk along the beach and to get away. Because sometimes that’s what you have to do. It’s hard to see the spot you’re standing on, but even a little distance can give you a better perspective. So we strolled along from one end to the other,…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Let’s get the geese out. I have had a hankering to to a Goose Canvas for ages…. Probably because right by the kettle in the kitchen, (and I do visit the kettle muchly…) there is a little window, and in that little window sits another Goosey effort of mine, in a poppy field… So here’s a new one. Let’s start with the geese…. Stamp the pair on a piece of white tissue paper using Archival…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in! One tired but excited old Hector here! Sorted out and completed the New Design Clubs today, set out the project sheets, wrote them all up, did the lot. Which is no mean feat for 3 clubs. With a little help from Jim, it all went to the printers this evening and I am fit to drop. Then I remembered the blog, and actually thought it might lift my spirits, because to be perfectly honest, …
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Sun’s shining and I would love to take a walk through the bluebells before it gets dark, so here’s a quickie before I grab Dave and make for the woods! It’s a 5 minute card, using one of our background papers, which I shall resurrect next week and get loaded onto the website. Jim and I designed a bunch of them a while ago, and they really are so useful – especially when the…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in today. Was thinking about Scotland today. Don’t know why, but I was. Decided to make a piece of art to celebrate a very beautiful country. I wish we had more time to be able to explore Scotland, but I must be careful what I wish for! So I shall just content myself with half an hour making a simple picture of a Scottish castle…. Found a grey, purple pink Acrylic paint piece where I…