Hi there! Thanks for popping in. What a luxury it is to be able to write this blog on a proper Mac! Having cobbled together blogs every day for weeks from 7,000 miles away on an Ipad, and 7 or 8 hours behind you, it is great to be back in real time, in sync so to speak! So back to the grindstone, eh. Monday’s blog is Flowers and Trees, so here’s a very simple card, made with our ultra…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by on the last day of the year. It being Wednesday (Wednesday’s Blog is something new), and it being NEW YEAR’S EVE, I thought I would tackle something new, which I hope will grow in 2015. I just want to really get arty, let my hair down a bit and get more adventurous! Are you up for it? Let’s tackle a tiny little canvas board and see where it takes us, shall we? This, my…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by on this sunny Sunday. Woke up this morning and was pondering today’s blog. The first thing which came to mind was LEFTOVERS. (probably because we’re going to be eating leftovers for at least a week!) So I came up to my little room, and unearthed a bunch of LEFTOVERS from Gelli Plate demos I did at various exhibitions this year, using the Leafy Swirl Stencil Oh boy! Have I done a lot of demos…
And into the Craft room! Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Those pesky little menaces, Wurka and Hollick were up bright and early again this morning. This time they were trying to convince me at 5am that I hadn’t boiled enough spuds for today’s potato salad, and that the potatoes I had boiled were over-cooked and would just turn to mush. So uppy getty, send Davey to shoppy for more spudsy. Now we’ve got enough potato salady to feed a…
Hi! Back again, but this time with a easy step by step stencil trick. In the lead up to Christmas, most will be too busy to think about making anything apart from sausage rolls! But there will be some who still really enjoy this brief creative intermezzo here, so I shall carry on undeterred! Right. Here’s a lovely stencil The Dove Heart Stencil There’s another one, which has the same feel, but comes with deer instead. The Deer Heart Stencil…
Hello there!Thanks for popping in again. I want to thank all of you who left a comment on yesterday’s blogpost. It was a real turning point for me actually. After all my protests about Panic Saturday, and “I’m not stepping foot in a shop today”, late last night I went shopping after all! But not as you think. Took somebody’s suggestion, looked up local food banks and their needs, went to the supermarket, filled the boot with – as Wanda pointed…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by on this chilly Wednesday. Clarity Advent Day No. 3 Time to sing it from the rooftops with a lovely carol set. We have a whole wonderful stamp collection of these traditional Christmas Carols and their corresponding images. Let’s go with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Stamp the music score onto a piece of square Gelli Card using a Black Archival. Time to get the miniatures out! Bottled Distress Inks: Tattered Rose Weathered Wood Tumbled…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping and and supporting the daily blog. Thursday blog is always blue, right? So I decided to have a play with my hares. (That sounds awful!) Ready? First we need a dramatic background. Here’s one I did earlier, using an 8″ x 10″ Gelli Plate, Process Magenta acrylic paint (pink) Process Cyan acrylic paint (blue) and one of our stencils: The Tangle Stencil I cut round a cup to make this huge moon mask! You can…
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by on this dreary, leaves-falling-off-the-trees Wednesday! Wednesday’s blog is something new. So here’s a brand new stencil, hot off the press. I had a lot of work this morning – catch up and all that jazz. So I really REALLY enjoyed stepping away from the business side of the business and turning my attention to the blog. Introducing the new Maple leaf Stencil. Place the 6″ x 6″ Gelli Plate on the 7″ x 7″…
X Hello there! Thank you for stopping by. After yesterday’s YOU TUBE TUESDAY, and all that hilarity with Clarity, let’s get arty with a brand new stencil and some rather lovely new stamps. I used: Woodland Stencil 7″x7″ there are 2 other 7″x7″ stencils which make up the set: Bullrushes Cottage Flyaway Boy with Birds Claritystamp Love is in the Air Claritystamp (watch TV on Sunday for the boy and the girl stamps) New Word Chain inc. Dream (watch TV on Sunday for the next…