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YouTube Tuesday – Style Stencils on a Gelli Plate

24th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 42 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by on YouTube Tuesday! Blogged this Gelli Plate technique last week, and decided to do a video of it, so that you get a real feel for the timings and the amount of paint you needs etc. Items Used: 6×6 Inch Gelli Plate 7×7 Inch Clarity Mega Mount Speedball Brayer Elegant Ladies Stencil Set Dotty Wave Stencil 7×7 Inch Gelli Card Phthalo Turquoise Acrylic Paint Titanium White Acrylic Paint Buff Titanium Acrylic Paint Spectrum Noir Pencils…

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Tree Box and Memories.

23rd February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 28 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. What a blimming run around! That’ll teach me for having a weekend sale! Didn’t see that coming, I can tell you! Plenty of jumping around today at Clarity Towers! So here’s a late after supper blog… Actually, I really like being able to unwind alone, with a little blog task. Monday’s blog is flowers and trees, right? Here goes then! Dig out a Gelli Plate inky background from my stash. How did I do…

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Practical Recycling – Central Park

22nd February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 62 Comments

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by on this rainy day. It’s raining cats and dogs here! On the rare Sunday when we are at home, it’s roast dinner day, and I love making it all lovely and homely. Lamb today. There’s nothing quite like feeding a bunch of grateful men, is there? Mark, his friend Deklan, Dave and my brother Steve certainly fit that bill! Then Grace called from New York, so she was in the kitchen chattering away on Facetime, and…

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Mountains and Pearls…

21st February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 39 Comments

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Saturday’s blog a new technique, so I decided to get out a cool stamp and some Perfect pearl Mica Powders, and have a play… The set above, 7 colours, is the set I used here. Do you know that in this weekend’s sale, that set is reduced from £17.99 to £14.39 for the whole set? With another 10% off for club members! Tis true!! I just checked!! CLICK HERE So anyway, using a Black…

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So sorry I’m late….had an important date.

20th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 51 Comments

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. So sorry I’m late tonight! Did some priority sorting today, and spent the day with my parents, which was lovely. Wurka and Hollick were locked in the garden shed; didn’t even get to ride in the boot. Mum and I went off for a spot of lunch and shopping. Then back to Dad with the cake and fresh cream! So please excuse me for cheating a little. I am simply going to take the…

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Glazed Chinese Lanterns

19th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 69 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Rainy Thursday afternoon here in the South of England. Poor old Dave didn’t escape the lurgy, I’m afraid. He’s just arrived at where I was about a fortnight ago. Don’t envy him that at all. So now it’s my turn to be nurse. Poor sod. Haha! Poor sod because he’s ill? Or poor sod because I’m his nurse… So here’s a step by step which I did this afternoon. Just decided to go where…

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NEWSFLASH!! STYLISH NEW GELLI PLATE TRICK!

18th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 72 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. What’s today? Ah yes, Wednesday… Wednesday’s Blog is something new, so here are some delightful new Style Stencils we launched recently. They are very retro, very chic, What’s really cool, too, is that you get both the inny and the outy, the positive and the negative. There is also an excellent set of Stamping accessories, which work brilliantly to jazz up the stencil girls. But let’s get to grips with a new technique too……

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Back to earth with a special offer and a prize winner!

17th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 33 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. No YouTube Tuesday this week, but we will I hope be up and running again by next Tuesday! That bout of illness certainly knocked the wind out of my sails there! But getting back to normal again, I’m pleased to report. So today, when I got back to the office, I dug out one of my favourite stamps, and just stepped away from reality for a quick hour again. Here’s what evolved whilst I…

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Love love love these girls!

16th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 48 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Once again I am at the TV studios, getting revved up to do a live US Show. So the blog is suffering again. I will get back on track by Wednesday, I really plan on it! Have missed getting creative daily, and touching base with you. But I did run into a couple of my favourite women at the NEC today: You will recognise these two, Leonie Pujol, A-Star supreme TV Presenter on Create…

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Oh What a Night!

15th February 2015 Barbara Gray Comments 128 Comments

Hello there! Sorry it’s so late tonight. We’ve been at the NEC Trade Show. And boy did we get a surprise! We went to the British Craft Awards Ceremony 2015 this evening, because I had been asked to present some awards, which is a great honour. And then Barbara Gray was called out for the Favourite Card Designer! Didn’t see that one coming! Nor the next one, Best Rubber Stamp Range! And when they called out Barbara Gray a third…

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