Hello there. Thanks for stopping by! It’s Day 2 of the Ally Pally Show today, so I am up at the crack of sparrows here in my lovely lofty art room above the garage, enjoying the cool morning air, before we go back into the sauna that is Ally Pally. It was way too hot for this old bird yesterday. Once they opened the big doors underneath the Rose Window it cooled down, but by that time I had pretty…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. We are at Ally pally today, so it’s all systems go there ! It’s historically the busiest show of the year for us…. Remember a month or so ago, we were on TV with a new and clever custom Christmas stamp idea? You received a comprehensive remountable set of Christmas message stamps as pictured here: Recognise the snowflake? It was the one I used in the Twas the Night Card shown in yesterday’s blog. …
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Friday’s blog a private peek. But not into my world. No, this time we are going to peep into the life of Sue Plampton whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Ally Pally back in April. Sue came to me at the Clarity stand and showed me something that she was making. Something, which she agreed to let me share with you. It all came packaged in a very classy, dark brown envelope,…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Thursday’s blog is always blue, so here’s a little Christmas number I did recently on TV, using one of the Twas the Night Stamps. No. 1, in fact. There are 10 altogether. Let’s just call it a work in progress, which I am drawing as and when I get time! Speaking of which, I must get a wriggle on, because it’s the Big Ally Pally London Show this weekend, and there is a LOT…
Hello there! Thanks for popping in. Wednesday’s Blog is something new, so how about a brand new FABULOUS STENCIL! Launched here today. Nope, as soon as Jim handed it to me, I got lost in the whimsy world of hares and full moons. Well done Jim! Let’s get started. First, attach the new winter tree stencil to a 7″x7″ piece of our white Gelli Card with low-tack masking tape. The ink pads I have used are Meadow Adirondack Broken China Distress…
Hello there, Thanks for stopping by. Welcome to YOUTUBE TUESDAY! Here’s a very simple How-to use Perfect Pearls (Mica Powders) with a Detail Claritystamp and preserve the detail. I have chosen our very delicate, new lacey Swallows large swallow Small Swallow to show you how to preserve the detail when working with metallic powders on glossy card. There are 2 sets of Mica powders on our website: Set 1 and Set 2 I went with three colours from the first…
Happy Monday! Monday’s blog is Trees and Flowers, and since we have just had the busiest Clarity weekend EVER in Catterick (well, since Crowborough Open Days earlier in the year!) I hope you will forgive me for just uploading the card I did on TV recently. I gave away every card I made over the weekend! But what a super time and what a fabulous welcome up north! Two days of smiling, friendly guests. Visitors came from as far away as…
Hi there. Thanks for stopping by. Sunday’s Blog a step by step and typically Gray. This is pretty typically a Gray piece, methinks… What think you? Let’s start with a blank piece of Gelli Card, Build a panel with low-tack masking tape. Using stencil brushes and Stream, Juniper and Stonewashed, Fill the panel with those colours. Stamp the fabulous branch in Black archival into the aperture, before removing the masking tape. It should look like this now…. Time to add…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Saturday’s Blog a new technique, so let’s take a look. This is just a simple way of creating a lovely, colourful background in a specific shape. Read on….. Stamp our lovely Garden Heart stamp in black on a piece of copy paper, and cut out the heart. If you do this carefully, you can use both parts…. Position the aperture heart over a piece of white Gelli Card, and dust through the heart-hole with …
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Friday’s blog a private peek, right? Well, we’re up in North Yorkshire today, all revved up to go to Catterick for the set-up of our WEEKEND of CLARITY OPEN DAYS What a glorious day for it! I say I say I say!! Heather and Elaine are twittering away in the kitchen, all ready for the off. Young Chloe has just surfaced, too. So I will keep this short and sweet. The doors for our…