Let’s wear a lovely blue dress and go to Paris! Sounds wonderful, at the moment, I am sitting in a cold waiting room at Edenbridge train station, waiting for the 12.10 to London. It’s cold and raining, and I’m dressed for the arctic. What are the chances of getting back home with the hat, both gloves AND the umbrella?? But we can pretend we are off to sunny Paris, can’t we? The imagination is a wondrous thing you know… I…
It’s Wednesday’s blog – so something new. I thought we could take a look at a new flowery stamp and our Circle Dots Stencil. And I must tell you, prepare to be bowled over by the quality of the photos! I could not believe how good the new Ipad Air camera is! I HAD to invest in one, you understand, now that I am a full on Blogger! But seriously, what a difference! See for yourself… These shape stencils are pretty…
Hi there! Don’t the weeks come around quickly? Tuesday again already! So rolling back the hours, where were we last week? Ah yes, last week I was telling you about my very first product, the Victorian Rhyme Chart. So the old boy, the sales rep, encouraged me to open up other product doors: Magnets, Stickers or Stamps; those were the logical follow-up options at that time with ye old Rhyme Chart. For me, it made sense to be able to…
The Silver Birch. Of all the trees in the forest, isn’t it the one which stands out? Here’s a piece of artwork I did a while ago, using the Walter de la Mare Poem. But let me tell you how I found the verse. I didn’t. It was given to me. Years ago, I was doing a demo at a show somewhere, and there was a lady to my left in a wheelchair, watching intently, whilst I did this technique…
Happy Sunday! Dave and I are off to London to see KT Tunstall tonight; so lots of Lemsip required. No way no how am I missing the concert. She is one special lady. Did you know she used to be a busker? Yep. Used to busk on Street corners. Says it made her a better performer. For one, she had to learn to play standing up and in the cold! It’s funny. 20 years of demonstrating art at shows set…
I am so excited to show you this new technique! Well, it’s new to me! I was lying in bed last night, wide awake, because of the coughing, and I got to thinking about stencils on Gelli Plates, as you do. Well Jim had designed a super stencil earlier in the day, one of our Filigraphy style ones, and I was trying to figure out in my head how to get a really crisp image on a Gelli Plate with…
Well dear readers and followers of this blog, Do you realise that it’s been about a month to the day since I started on this blogging journey! I have to tell you, I am enjoying it immensely! I would never have believed how relatively easy it is once you get going. After a couple of faltering starts, where I kept deleting posts with new posts, I finally grasped that UPDATE is a button to be avoided in Blogsy. And whenever…
This has to be one of my absolute favourite stamping and masking techniques. Very happy with this one. Remember last Saturday’s blog? He would go fishing with his best friend? Well, this is just an advanced spin on that. All you need is the Gymnast Silhouette Set of Claritystamps A5 Claritycard Speedball Brayer Denim, Black and Juniper Adirondacks. Versamark Ink Pad Bubble Wrap. Black Micron Pen Here we go then! Leotards and leggings on, and stretch! Reach for the sky,…
So here we are, it’s Wednesday, and for me, when I think of what’s NEW, I think Claritystencils. There are loads of fabulous designs now, but the latest ones, the aperture stencils, have to be the most useful in my stash. It was Maria Simms who made the shapes suggestion, and am I glad she did! Sometimes we get all caught up in complicated, when simple is perfect. The shapes are pretty self-explanatory: a square, an oval, a circle and…
Remember last week, I spoke about my can of P’s? And we looked at Predicament? Well, this Tuesday, I thought we would take a look at Product. What is it that you want to produce? Do you want to make something yourself? Or do you want somebody else to make it for you? When we start out, unless we are the Big Cheese, we tend to opt for cobbling it all together ourselves, don’t we? For me personally, I wanted…