Monday Monday! Trees and Flowers. Thought I would introduce you to a lovely set of brand new Clarity flower stencils today. Especially since there’s a Stencil Sale on ALL stencils until midnight tonight! Honesty Stencil Pods Stencil Seed Heads Stencil Poppies Stencil I took the Seed Heads Stencil and played with it. Here are my findings. I used White Square Card 7″x 7″ Seed Head Stencil 7″ x 7″…
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for a project on what to do when you get fingerprints all over your lovely work! I suppose the key is KEEP GOING!! I used: The Magical Toadstools A5 Claritycard Espresso Adirondack Lettuce Adirondack Mushroom Adirondack Promarkers White fineline Pen Versamark Pen Detail Clear Powder Heat Gun Clarity Moon Masks Water Speedball Brayer Blending Mat Here goes… Stamp the Toadstools in Espresso on Claritycard. Colour in with Promarkers. Add the white dots. Colour the whole…
Hello and happy weekend! So here, we are, Saturday. Saturday’s blog a New Technique. No TV Classroom for another 2 months yet! April 3rd is the first official TV Lesson. Do you miss the Lessons? Or more importantly, do you miss the homework? The challenges? Are you ready for this then? Let’s turn the tables. Let’s play a game. Let’s win a prize! I have made a piece of artwork, which I hope you will like. I am going to…
Hi there. I have got some very cool news which I would like to share with you. The latest Craft Award Winners were announced yesterday…. I have been awarded Runner-up PRESENTER I have also been awarded Winner OVERALL DESIGNER And. For the fourth year running Claritystamp have been awarded BEST RUBBER STAMP RANGE THAT’s THE ONE !!!! When you are a Stamp Company, which award do you hope to win?! This one makes my heart sing. It’s the one which…
Hello there! Thursday’s blog is always Blue, so here is a young lady called Laurel. I know she looks as if she’s running for her life! She is a great source of amusement at work in the picking department. Whenever you mention Laurel, all the guys throw their arms in the air! I think she is excellent actually! (Apart from the fact that I drew her!), She is ideal for highlighting something. You just position the Sentiment or gift or…
Wednesday’s Blog is something new, so a perfect day to introduce not only a new Stencil to you, but also a neat way for using up all the Gelli Plate papers we have been creating! If you are into the Gelli Plate as I am, you will have a prize stash of paper prints, which are way too lovely to throw away, but what to do with them? Paper collage backgrounds. This is the first time I have made a paper…
Hi there, I hope that you are happy and healthy? Enjoying this daily blog? I cannot believe how much I enjoy writing it! Seriously! It is so therapeutic, to be able to switch off from Work-work, and disappear into Blogland alone. It gives me so much pleasure preparing the artwork and setting it all up! And here’s the best headache cure ever! Zentangle. Or Filigraphy. Or Doodles. Whatever you want to call it. There are some copyright issues round the…
Hi there! It’s Monday so it’s time for a Trees and Flowers blog. Let me tell you where I went on Saturday, who I met and what was going on. There is a cool shop in Tunbridge Wells, called the Pantiles Papertole, owned by the lovely Val Marshall. Well, on Saturday, my good friend Paul Church was doing a demo day there, so I popped in to say hello. Val, Paul and the ladies gave me such a warm welcome! Paul…
Hello there, And welcome to our HOME It’s a really neat Framer Stamp. You can pop any picture in it. Let me show you how. You start by stamping the Home Framer and the pets directly onto a sheet of double-sided adhesive, using Black Archival We used to have 2 beautiful black Labs, Dutchie and Duke, and two beautiful black cats, Romeo and Juliet. Dutchie, Duke and Juliet are already on Rainbow Bridge. Faithful Romeo is still here with us….
Hi there! It’s Saturday’s Blog a New Technique. So let’s take a look at a collection of very cool animal stamps we designed a while ago, which I have to say, I absolutely love. You can clearly see that the animals are created with their spelling – a big educational plus. Also, from an arty point of view, they all come in pairs: outline and silhouette. This is so super to use. Let me show you a neat card, then…