Barbara Gray Blog

Hello there! Welcome to YouTube Tuesday! It’s a beautiful morning here in the South. Let’s not go to work, let’s go to the seaside! Here are the ingredients: Claritystamp Remountable Harbour Set REMHARB-GG Claritystamp Seagull Clear Stamp GULL-D Claritystamp Street Clear Stamp STR2-FF Clarity Bending Mat A3 A5 Clarity Card Low Tack Masking Tape Promarker Pens Fine-line Black Micron Pen Pitch Black Adirondack Dye Ink Pad Versamark Ink Pad Stonewashed Adirondack Dye Ink Pad Speedball Brayer Copy Paper Cotton Wool…

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Hi there! Happy Sunny Saturday,  and thanks for stopping by. After yesterday’s fun in the Wendy House,  I thought it was time to showcase a brand new stencil.  This wonderful Tulip stencil was designed by our very own Amanda Branston, so let’s hear it for Mandy! No sooner did I start using it,  than I decided we needed a Vase stencil “and we need the vase bits, too!”  I called over to the stencil makers.  Now we can begin. Think…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. One evening this week, I was on my way home, and the traffic going through Tunbridge Wells was savage.  So when I got to the exit for John Lewis and Home Sense, it was a no brainer! Sit in traffic or go mooch in the stores until the cars are all gone….. Result? Look what I found!!!! I have been looking for a little wrought-iron day bed to go in my little Wendy House…

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Hello and welcome to the Thursday Blue Blog. Thanks for stopping by. Today I thought we would take the fabulous Horse stamp  and simply add a little blue. It lends itself perfectly to colouring in and Zentangle. So on TV on Sunday, I got as far as Dee’s black and white version  with the unicorn’s add-on. I have to tell you that Dee and I prep the shows together now. And what a difference that makes to my life!  Here, we…

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Hi there! Just a quickie, to recap the coloured Grunge Paste technique from Sunday’s TV show. Several people wanted to see that part again, so let’s take a closer look, shall we… So what was used? The A5 Ploughed Fields Stencil The Remountable Plough Claritystamp Set A5 Theuva card Butterscotch Adirondack Lettuce Adirondack Grunge paste Green Spreading tool Light Olive Acrylic Paint Low-tack stencil tape Stencil Brushes Potting Soil Archival Ink pad Spectrum Noir Pencils Nature Attach the stencil to…

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Hello there, and thank you for joining me on this lovely You Tube Tuesday in sunny Kent, the garden of England! Why am I mentioning our whereabouts?  Well, during the past few weeks, we have noticed a veritable surge in YouTube viewers from all over the world!  USA, Germany, France, Australia – the list goes on. But how exciting is that? So if you are from other climes, do please leave a message;  we think it’s brilliant that you are…

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Hi there.  Thanks for stopping by. What a busy weekend it was! Here are a couple of Stamp sets which were showcased yesterday on TV. Julie Owens kindly helped me out with this extra demo if I needed it. It’s a really neat way of making use of scrap inky paper. Let’s take a look… Here you can see what looks like a blurry, inky mess! Which is what it is! But let’s take a closer look, firstly how we…

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Happy Sunday! Thanks for popping in. If you’re reading this in the morning,  I’m probably hopping about like a loony in the studio, getting ready for the TV show at 9am.  If you’re reading this in the afternoon,  I’m probably fast asleep in the car on the way home, or on the sofa! Either way, the show must go on – as must Sunday’s blog ! Sometimes, I am so busy running the business (and jet setting!)   that I miss…

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