Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend Card 1

Hi everyone. It is now time for me to start sharing the cards that I made for The Craft Barn's weekend that I demoed at in June. They have been made in the same style as those that I made for Jill.

Here's hoping you like them!!

The flowers (from the Funky Frames sheet) were coloured with Copics and the background paper is by Basic Grey. The wording and flourishes are from the Fancy Flourish sheet.

August Issue of Craft Stamper

I had an excited email from Jill (from The Stamp Man) last night telling me that Debbie had just received her subscribers copy of the August issue of Craft Stamper.

For those of you who regularly read my blog you may remember me mentioning that I had been asked to design the cover mount stamp for this issue. You may also remember that at the time I wasn't allowed to tell you what it was and that I was really struggling to do some sample cards with it!! Well in the end it all came together and I ended up making more than was required so I have no idea which ones Katy (editor of CS) decided to use, so here is a little snippet from one of them!! To see what else Katy and I did with the stamp you will have to get the magazine!!

As you can see from this sneaky peek the stamp is a dragonfly. It has been designed to work well with the Flitters and Flutters stamp sheet that I did some time ago now for The Stamp Man. This time though the dragonfly is a solid image unlike the ones on the Flitters and Flutters stamp sheet which were outline images. Anyway I hope you like it and if anyone makes anything using this stamp please do let me know as I would love to see your creations.

Meanwhile make sure you check back here later on today as I will be posting up details later on the latest blog candy!!

Last Of The Cuttlebug Cards

Here is the second card we made from the afternoon class at The Glitter Pot using that same daisy stamp. This time I chose to use the two folders next to each other to form the background on the maize coloured panel. The colouring was done using those Coloursoft pencils again.

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I cannot believe that there are only a few days left of this month and that next weekend it is Newbury!! The days really do seem to be just flying past. I haven't been to the Newbury show for a couple of years now and am really looking forward to it. If you want to catch me I will be on Stamp Addicts's stand (on the Saturday only) demoing with those lovely interactive flower stamps by Stamps By Judith, so if you are going to the show do pop by and say hello!

More Blog Candy?

As I'm sure most of you are aware The Stamp Man's Blog Candy has now finished and been claimed which means it is over to me to offer up the Fancy Flourish stamp sheet along with some accessories for one lucky person to win. I have decided to start it this weekend so do check back then to see exactly what you will win and what you will need to do to enter!!

Personally I think the Fancy Flourish stamp sheet is the most versatile of the latest three stamp sheets and will definitely be the one that I will get the most use out of. Stamping a few flourishes here and there can often be just the finishing touch that a card needs and of course you have a lot of wording to choose from on this sheet too. Flourishes go with anything and I purposely made these flourishes generic i.e. no flowers in with them so that they can be used with any imagery.

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Tomorrow I will post up the last of the Cuttlebug cards which will take me nicely to the weekend for the start of the candy!!

Delicate Daisies

Daisies are one of my favourite types of flowers. There are so many different types and colours of daisies(and daisy shaped flowers) that I could never get bored of them, and somehow they seem such friendly flowers.

So as soon as I saw this daisy stamp by Magenta I just had to have it and as it had got swirls as well I couldn't ask for more!! This is one of the cards that we made last Saturday afternoon. The daisies were coloured with Coloursoft pencils. The pink background was double-embossed onto Coredinations cardstock - first using the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and then using the Stylized Flower. The green paper is by My Minds Eye.

All items can be purchased from The Glitter Pot.

Spikey Flowers

Morning everyone. Thanks to everyone who posted a comment about whether those little critters that I drew on the Funky Frames stamp sheet are dragonflies or butterflies. It seems that you can't make your minds up either!! At the moment butterflies are winning by a whisker at 5 for butterflies and 4 for dragonflies but it is not too late for you to have your say under this post. It just goes to prove what I have said all along about not being able to draw!!

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Anyway here is the other card that we made on Saturday morning, this time using a floral stamp by Hobby Art which I must say I rather like!! The stamp you can see in the background (on the pink panel) is Scrolling Along by Penny Black. It is such a lovely delicate stamp and most definitely one of my favourites at the moment. As you can see we used the same Cuttlebug embossing folder (Stylized Flowers) but this time embossed a brown Coredinations panel. I have got to say that I am a real fan of this range of card as I just love the fact of being able to have a different colour coming through. Plus it is textured so looks good anyway even if you don't sand/distress it. As you can see I am still really liking the brown and pink theme. Hope you like it too!! All the materials including the stamps, cardstock etc.. can be purchased from The Glitter Pot.

Purple and Blue Clusters

Well it seems as if the jury is still out as to whether the critters on my card yesterday are dragonflies or butterflies as currently it stands at 2 all!! So if anyone gets time do leave me a comment and let me know what you think as I would quite like to know what to call them myself!!

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As promised here is one of the cards that we made on the morning class on Saturday using Penny Black stamps.. The flowers were coloured using the Coloursoft pencils just on their own without any blending solution. The Cuttlebug Stylized Flowers embossing folder was used to emboss the purple Coredinations panel. I'll post up the other card we did in the morning tomorrow.

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Meanwhile on a totally different note there are only a few hours left now to enter The Stamp Man's blog candy where you can win my Funky Frames stamp sheet.

The Last of Jill's Cards

Morning everyone. I am already behind this morning as I just did not want to get up after doing my classes yesterday at The Glitter Pot. I nearly fell asleep again on the settee last night but just about managed to hold it together!! I think that everyone enjoyed the classes yesterday - the feedback that I got was certainly very positive which always makes it really worthwhile so thanks guys!

I will begin loading up the cards that we did tomorrow so you can see what we got up to. Meanwhile here is the last of the cards that I sent to Jill, who as I type this will be busy at the Doncaster show. If anyone out there reads this blog and goes to this show do let me know what you think of the cards in real life. I have got to say that this is probably my least favourite of the ones that I did for Jill as again I thought I would try a different colour scheme and didn't really like this one but then just because I don't like it doesn't mean that other people won't so I decided to include it. The background on the left of the card was done with a couple of colours from the Mayday Meadow Starburst Stain set and then was stamped with different flourishes and inkpads. The panel that you see on the right of the card was a piece of plain green textured card that I just stamped over with those flourishes again. The dragonflies/butterflies are from the Funky Frames stamp sheet. Perhaps you guys can help me out with this? I originally drew these insects as being dragonflies but now I can't make up my mind whether they look like dragonflies or butterflies!! What do you think???

Pretty In Pink

Here's another one of those cards that are now with Jill in readiness for the Doncaster show. Again I built up the background using different flourishes from the Fancy Flourish stamp sheet. The wording was also taken from this sheet and the letters cut out individually.

The main image is from the Funky Frames sheet and was coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador to give a nice muted finish. Out of all of the ones I did for Jill I think that this is probably my favourite. Infact I nearly couldn't bring myself to part with it so she doesn't know how lucky she is that she has got this one!!

The Coloursoft pencils and Sansador along with the stamp sheets can be purchased from The Craft Barn or of course you can get the stamp sheets from Jill at The Stamp Man.

Busy As Usual!

Today I have been busy printing out project sheets for my classes tomorrow at The Glitter Pot. Apparently both the morning and afternoon classes are full so I will be in for a hectic day!! I will have a day filled with cuttlebugging as in the morning we are making cards using the Cuttlebug and Coredinations cardstock along with some sanding blocks and in the afternoon we will be double embossing using 2 different embossing folders in the Cuttlebug.

I must admit that I don't get the most out of my Cuttlebug ordinarily, as I can go for weeks without using it! So I really enjoyed creating the cards that I made for tomorrow as it made such a nice change for me. There is still lots of stamping involved too though!! I will load up the cards next week sometime for you to see.

In just over a months time I will be back at The Glitter Pot again - this time on a Friday (24th July). I know that there are currently still places available for this so if anyone fancies a day, a morning or an afternoon of crafting you know what to do! Click here for more details.

Meanwhile I must get back to finishing my latest project for Craft Stamper. Can you believe that we are already working on the October issue - it means it won't be long before the Christmas stamps come out to play!!

Stamp Addicts Demo Day - Card 6

As promised here is another of those cards that I made using the Stamps By Judith range for when I was up at Stamp Addicts for their Demo Day.

I know that I have said before how much I like these stamps. I love flowery stamps anyway but these appeal to me so much because you can make different arrangements so easily. I only used the flower pot stamps this time around to stamp them into but of course you can put them into many other receptacles too such as buckets, jars, vases, watering cans etc... Or of course they can just be stamped coming straight out of the ground.

I think that (grudgingly!!) I must agree with Sarah (from Stamp Addicts) that it did me good not having pink and lilac pencils in the tin of Polycolor pencils that she sent me as it did make me use other colours for a change which made me think about different colour schemes both at the time and since.

The background paper that you see on the left of the card is by Daisy Bucket. I just jazzed it up a bit by stamping a couple of stamps onto it to make it tie in more with the main image.

As already mentioned the image was coloured with Polycolor pencils combined with paper stumps and Zest-It blending solution. Prior to this all the flowers and pots were stamped with Graphite Black Brilliance as I have found that StazOn tends to bleed slightly with both the wax from the crayons and the solution whereas Brilliance doesn't providing it has been heat set.

Stamps used:

Stamps By Judith
F-239 Small Single Daisy
F-36 Medium Flowerpot
C-55 Small Flowerpot
AAA-140 Sprig-let
AAA-04 Dots
AAA-141 Grass Tuft
AAA-195 Open Daisy
F-214 Birthday Wishes

Denami
M65 Large Dot Swirls

Judikins
2972G Mince Flourish

All the stamps and materials used on the card are available from Stamp Addicts but don't forget that they can't show the Stamps By Judith images on their website so you will need to give them a ring to order any. (Their contact details can be found on their website.)

Sunny Flowers

Hopefully by now Jill will have received this card and all the others that I sent along with it so don't forget if you are going to the Doncaster show this weekend to stop by The Stamp Man's stand and see these in real life!!

The flowers are from the Funky Frames stamp sheet and are coloured using Coloursoft pencils and the flourishes and wording are of course from the Fancy Flourish sheet.

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By the way don't forget to catch the Stamp Addicts girls live on Ideal World tomorrow morning at 11am. In honour of them being on the telly I have decided to post up one of my Demo cards tomorrow from when I was up there in May.

Citrus Flowers

For this card I chose an orange, lemon and lime theme but in muted shades so that it didn't end up too fierce looking!!

As you have already probably guessed the main image is from the Funky Frames stamp sheet and the words and flourishes are from the Fancy Flourishes sheet. Just like the card I posted up a few days ago I started off with 2 plain pieces of Bazzill cardstock and built up my backgrounds using different flourishes and inkpads. This is such an easy thing to do but looks really effective especially when you use 2 or 3 different sorts of flourishes.

The flowers were coloured with Copics again which I have got to say I just love!! The ink from these markers just glides onto the paper and as I said yesterday you achieve such a nice, clean, fresh look with them - perfect for summer flowers!! Sets of Copic Ciaos can be purchased from The Craft Barn and as you know by now the stamp sheets can be bought from either The Stamp Man or The Craft Barn.

Pastel Funky Flowers

Here is another card that is now on its way to Jill in Yorkshire. For this card I stamped an image from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet and then used the flourishes and wording stamps from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. On the flourish sheet you get absolutely loads of stamps as I wanted a nice range of wording and flourishes and they really mix together very well.

The background panel on the left of the card was done with the Icicle Creek set of Starburst Stains and then I stamped different flourishes and dots over the top once it had dried. The actual card base was stamped and embossed with flourishes along the right-hand edge and then the fine flourish was overstamped with Graphite Black Brilliance. The flourishes that you see in the top left and bottom right corners of the flower panel were stamped with Starlite Black Brilliance. The flowers were coloured with Copics which gave them a nice, fresh, clean look.

More tomorrow............

Another Card For Jill

Morning Everyone. My sincere thanks to all those who have been commenting recently - I have been receiving some lovely comments and I can't tell you how nice it is so thank you!!

So here is another card that will be winging its way up to Yorkshire. For this card I used one of the flowers off of the Funky Flowers sheet and all the flourishes and wording came from the Fancy Flourish sheet. (To see all the designs on both of these sheets take a look at my sidebar.)

The background of the card started off as 2 plain pieces of Bazzill card that I first stamped and embossed with one of the flourishes using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder then I picked a different flourish and stamped around the edge of the card using Brilliance Starlite Black and lastly picked the fine flourish and stamped around the top left corner and bottom right corner with Brilliance Graphite Black. The wording was stamped with Timber Brown StazOn.

The flower panel was done in the same way as for the last post in that I stamped and coloured my flowers first and then using the fine flourish I stamped and embossed over the whole panel using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder. I picked a more solid flourish to stamp in the top left and bottom right corners of the panel using the Starlite Black inkpad. Crystal glitter glue was then added sparingly to the flower design but once again the scanner hasn't picked up the sparkle.

You'll find as I load more of the cards up that they have all been made in the same way as I wanted to show you why I designed the flourish stamp sheet as I did. I hope you like it!

Pretty In Peach

I know that you have all been eagerly awaiting to see what I have created using my new stamp sheets so I have decided to carry on showing you what I will be sending on up to Jill.

For this one I have made my own backgrounds. The background on the left was made first of all with Mermaid Seashells Starburst Stains and allowed to dry. Then it was trimmed to size and stuck to the left side of a plain Bazzill green panel. Next using stamps from my flourish sheet I first randomly stamped and embossed a flourish all over the panels using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder, then I stamped a different flourish around the top left and bottom right corners of the card using Timber Brown StazOn. I stamped little dots (from the Flourish sheet) onto the Mermaid Seashell panel only, using the same inkpad, stamping 2 or 3 times before re-inking so as to get lighter and darker dots. Then finally using the delicate flourish I stamped this in Brilliance Graphite Black around the edge of the card. The Timber Brown inkpad was then used to ink the edges of the card.

The flowers (from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet) were stamped onto white card with Brilliance Graphite Black and coloured. Once all the colouring had been done I took one of the flourishes (from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet) and repeatedly stamped all over the flowers and surrounding white area with Versamark and embossed with Crystal embossing powder. In the top left and bottom right corners of the panel I stamped a different flourish using Brilliance Starlight Black.

Once again you are not getting the effect of both the Crystal glitter glue that I added to the flower panel or the Crystal embossing powder so it does look prettier in real life. As Jill said in her comment under yesterday's post if anyone is attending the Doncaster show next weekend, Jill will have the cards up on display for you to see them in real life.

(By the way I haven't finished showing you all the cards yet that I did for Stamp Addicts and I will continue showing these to you as well inbetween showing these latest cards.)

Mini Dragonfly Card

Good morning. So here is another of those mini cards that will be winging its way to Jill very shortly. The scanned in image has come out darker than it is in real life and again has not picked up the glitter both on the dragonfly and the background. The dragonfly is from the Funky Frames stamp sheet and the wording and flourishes are from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. The background paper is by Basic Grey and I just embellished it using different flourishes and inkpads. The tile behind the dragonfly is made from clear shrink plastic. I stamped into it while it was still hot with one of the flourish stamps to give it texture. The dragonfly was coloured with Coloursoft pencils, Sansador and paper stumps.

All the materials used are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps are available from both The Stamp Man and The Craft Barn.

Outside my old studio

So here are the last few photos of my studio at our old house. As you can see I had large patio doors in one side of the studio which allowed all the light to flood into my work space but I also had blinds that I could filter the light if I needed to. The inside measured 18'x10' so it was a really nice large area to work in plus it was thoroughly insulated and of course had electricity to it too. The only drawback was that when it rained I used to get wet going out to it! I had plug in radiators so that it was nice and cosy in winter and lots of spotlights in the ceiling to illuminate everywhere. As you can see the squirrel plaque was right outside my patio doors. One good thing I made good use of my workspace while I had it and appreciated it every second!

My Old Place

Well it seems as if you quite liked the look of my studio from our old place, so I thought I'd depress myself even further and show you a couple more pictures of it. Not only was it built and kitted out to my specification but I also had it personalised too. (By the way it was my Dad who built it and fitted it out as he is a builder/carpenter.)

The first picture shows the other end of my studio where the guillotine, die-cutting machine and a few other bits lived. You can see the window that was down that end has been decorated. I wanted to personalise my studio and so decided to paint the window and texturise it as well using glass paints.

The second picture shows the window up close and as you can see I chose a squirrel!! As most of you are already aware (from my sidebar), squirrels have a special place in my heart and as I had a few little grey visitors out in my studio on a regular basis it was only right that their image appeared inside. When we left I had to leave my window which was even harder than leaving the actual studio as this took such a long time to do. Trying to do the squirrel was an absolute nightmare using the black outliner first and then adding colour with the glass paints but I was pleased with the end result. The leaves were a lot easier to do.

Outside my studio door I had a squirrel that was carved out of marble laid into the path which I'll post up later.

Lilac Flutters

I have just completed some cards to send off to Jill (from The Stamp Man) using the new stamp sheets and I just had to share this sweet little card with you that I have just finished. It only measures 10x10cm but I really like making these tiny little cards as they look so sweet in real life.

The butterfly is from the Funky Frames stamp sheet (Don't forget to enter Jill's blog candy to stand a chance of winning this stamp sheet!! The link is on my sidebar.) and the wording and flourishes are from the Fancy Flourishes sheet.

The background is made up of layered stamping of the flourishes along with a strip of Basic Grey background paper and the butterflies were coloured with Coloursoft pencils, Sansador and paper stumps. All the materials are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps are of course available from both The Craft Barn and The Stamp Man. I hope you like it............ I like this one because it incorporates my favourite colour of lilac!! Funnily enough though most of the cards I have done this time I have striven to stay away from this colour as I thought that it would do me good to create some cards in other colours too!!

Time

Oh my goodness!! I cannot believe that we are about half way through this year already. This means that just under 3 months I am going to be celebrating my 40th birthday!! I am sure that I cannot be that old already!!!

Also it means that we have been in our new house now for just over a year!! Where does the time go?? Once upon a time I had a purpose built studio in our back garden of our old house and everything had it's place. Now I am working out of boxes the whole time as we have yet to convert one of the bedrooms into a designated craft room for me. The way things are going it looks like I will be working like this for some time to come!!

The photos are what my studio used to look like in our old place!! I won't depress you and show you a photo of what I am working in now!! As you can see I had loads of drawers, cupboards and shelving in which to house all my goodies. Nowadays I have most of my stuff in clear plastic boxes that are piled on top of one another and quite a few things in cardboard boxes that I don't use quite so much, so most of the time I spend a lot of time hunting around for stuff! Oh for the good old days...................

Stamp Addicts Demo Day Card 5

Good morning. I know that some of you are eagerly awaiting for me to start showing the cards that I made for last weekend but I have still yet to find the time to edit them. Hopefully though in a couple of days I will begin showing them to you.

Meanwhile here is one of the more simple cards that I did for Stamp Addicts's Demo Day using the Stamps by Judith range and those Polycolor pencils along with the Zest-It blending solution. The background paper is by Daisy Bucket.

The stamps used were -

Stamps By Judith
F-239 Small Single Daisy
F-36 Medium Flowerpot
AAA-140 Sprig-let
AAA-141 Grass Tuft
AAA-04 Dots
D-104 Just For You

Judikins
2972G Mince Flourish

All of course sold by Stamp Addicts.

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By the way I must just tell you that Jeanette who won my blog candy very kindly left me a link to show me a card she had made with the Funky Flowers stamp sheet. Thanks very much Jeanette. If any of you would like to take a look too click here.

The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend

I had intended to post much earlier than this today but I have had my nose firmly to the grindstone yet again trying to make a few cards for The Stamp Man with the latest stamps. I think that I must have been very wicked in a past life as there is definitely no rest for me at the moment!!

I am still on a high though from the weekend after hearing all your lovely comments. My thanks again to everyone that came and made it such an enjoyable time. I really do so enjoy meeting everyone. For those of you that came you will know how busy it was on both days so I hope you were able to see everything that you wanted to - I know from experience how frustrating it can be sometimes from when I used to go to these type of events as a customer.

Do you know I was so tired yesterday when I got home that I actually fell asleep on the settee whilst watching tv last night!! It is SO rare for me to do that as I normally won't let myself for fear that I won't sleep at night but yesterday I just couldn't stop myself!

My thanks to Jo who came on Saturday and brought my Mum a little gadget to play with!! I am so sorry that I wasn't able to have a proper chat with you but you know how manic it was. It was lovely to see you though however briefly and Mum says she would love to borrow the gadget again at the next event!!

I purposely didn't take my camera with me at the weekend as I have a really good camera (apparently) on my mobile phone so I thought I would take some photos with this instead. I got the camera operating on my mobile and lined it up in the screen to take a photo of my work table and then couldn't figure out how to take the actual photo!! This is the first mobile phone I have had that I haven't been able to work out how to take photos with as I don't normally bother with reading the manual. For the life of me I could not work out how to actually take the photo and I still don't know now so I am going to have to hunt high and low to find the manual so that I will know for next time!! I had thought that I would take some photos to upload to my blog to show you all what it was like there............................oh well perhaps I can figure it out for next time instead!!

Worn out but really pleased!

Hi Guys. I got home a little while ago now from a very busy weekend and have uploaded your comments - am too tired to respond tonight but will do tomorrow!!

A huge thank you to all those who came to The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend and bought my stamp sheets - they seemed to go down really well and I can't tell you both how pleased and relieved I am that you liked them!!! It really does make all the work worth while. I am not a natural rubber stamp designer (being that I am so limited as to what I can draw) and hearing all your comments over the weekend really gave me such a boost so my sincere thanks to you all.

It seems that you also liked the cards that I spent all week creating so again it made all those frantic hours worth while!! I will get round to uploading some cards from the weekend very soon.

I'll catch you tomorrow once I've had a good nights sleep.....................

Stamp Addicts Demo Day Card 4

As I write this I am absolutely shattered as I have been working hard all week trying to get my samples done for The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend!! Luckily I have made it and I just hope that everyone likes what I have created with my new stamp range. I will soon find out!!



Meanwhile here is another version of stamping flowers into pots. For variation I have used both the medium and small flowerpots. This time I have stamped the Simple Daisy and the Tall Aster into them and added the Sprig-let as foliage at the top of the pots. All of these are by Stamps By Judith and are available from Stamp Addicts. Don't forget they can't show these images online but they do sell them.



Hope you all have a great weekend. I will report back in due course as to how my weekend went! Wish me luck.................

Stamp Addicts Demo Day Card 3

You'll never guess what?? I have now got some cards together using my new stamps and what's more I didn't struggle with them either!! I think this is the first time ever when I haven't had to think and re-think when using my own stamps for the first time! So Dawn (All Pink Girl) I think your advice must have worked about pretending they were someone elses!! I will load the cards up onto my blog at some point but for now I will continue with the ones that I made for Stamp Addicts.

I have got to say that I seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment (which won't last!!) as all the Stamp Addicts cards came together easily for me as well. Mind you I really love the interactive flower stamps by Stamps By Judith - I just don't think you can go wrong with them.

For this card I stamped the medium flower pot 3 times and masked the top of the pots just with a straight edge of a piece of scrap paper. This then enabled me to stamp all my flowers into the pots. You'll notice that I also stamped some shrubbery bits in the pots too which helps it to look more natural. All the colouring was done with the Polycolor pencils (which I LOVE) and the Zest It blending solution. These pencils are so easy to work with and blend together really well. I most definitely need a large set of these at some point!!


Stamps used :

Stamps By Judith
H-195 Fine Poppy
F-239 Small Single Daisy
F-188 Simple Daisy
AAA-04 Dots
F-36 Medium Flowerpot
AA-66 Swirl Flower
AAA-140 Sprig-let
AAA-141 Grass Tuft

Judikins - 2972G Mince Flourish

Denami - M65 Large Dot Swirls

All stamps and materials can be bought from Stamp Addicts. (The Stamps By Judith stamps will not feature on their online shopping as they are not allowed to upload the images but they are all in stock - you will find both their email and telephone details on their website.)

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So tomorrow I am zooming off to The Craft Barn for their Extravaganza Weekend where I will be demoing with my new stamps along with Copic Ciaos and shrink plastic on the Saturday and Coloursoft pencils and Sansador on the Sunday. If any of you live close enough to drop by it would be great to see you and don't forget to introduce yourself!! I am absolutely rubbish at names though and although I often recognise faces I can't always put the right name to the face so I'll apologise in advance now!! Anyway hope to see you there...........

Stamp Addicts Demo Day Card 2

Morning Guys. Here is another card using that same Large Design Square but this time with different flowers stamped into it. The technique used for this card is exactly the same as the one I posted yesterday and the flowers were coloured using the Polycolor pencils and Zest-It blending solution.

The green background paper is by Daisy Bucket and I can't remember who the blue one is by but they are both available from Stamp Addicts. You'll notice that I stamped some imagery onto these papers using either the Dotty Swirl by Denami or the Mince Flourish by Judikins. The Dotty Swirl was stamped with Brilliance Starlite Black which is a very soft black with a shimmer to it and the flourish was stamped with Brilliance Graphite Black.


Stamps used :

Stamps By Judith
F-239 Small Single Daisy
AAA-04 Dots
H-218-HK Large Design Square

Judikins - 2972G Mince Flourish

Denami - M65 Large Dot Swirls

All stamps and materials can be bought from Stamp Addicts. (The Stamps By Judith stamps will not feature on their online shopping as they are not allowed to upload the images but they are all in stock - you will find both their email and telephone details on their website.)

Stamp Addicts Demo Day Card 1

So finally here is one of the cards from last Saturday. I stamped the large design square 3 times onto white card then stamped it again onto scrap paper. Using a craft knife I cut out the square following the inside line to create a reverse mask - imagine a square aperture in a piece of paper. This was then placed over each stamped square in turn so that I could stamp the flowers within the squares. As I knew I would be colouring the flowers with the Polycolor pencils and Zest It blending solution combined with paper/blending stumps, I did all my stamping with Graphite Black Brilliance as I have found that StazOn tends to bleed slightly when you add the blending solution. If you click on the image you should be able to see that I also very lightly stamped some green dots into the squares as well just to take away the starkness of the background. I stamped the background papers (Daisy Bucket) with a Judikins flourish stamp using the Graphite Black Brilliance inkpad too.


Stamps used :

Stamps By Judith
F-189 Tall Aster
AAA-04 Dots
H-218-HK Large Design Square

Judikins - 2972G Mince Flourish

All stamps and materials can be bought from Stamp Addicts. (The Stamps By Judith stamps will not feature on their online shopping as they are not allowed to upload the images but they are all in stock - you will find both their email and telephone details on their website.)

Blog Candy Winner

My thanks to all of you who entered my first blog candy giveaway and who spread the word and an extra big thank you to those of you who signed up to follow my blog - it was very much appreciated.

According to the random number generator the winner is...........

Jeanette (No.60)

So congratulations Jeanette. To claim your prize you will need to email The Stamp Man or phone them on 01756 797048 with your details telling them that you are the winner of my blog candy giveaway before midday Friday 5th June 2009. I hope that you enjoy your prize! Don't forget if the prize isn't claimed by then a new winner will be drawn!!

(So sorry that this posting was a little late but for some reason I have been having trouble with my scheduled posts so my apologies!)

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Tomorrow I shall start posting up the cards I made for Stamp Addicts's Demo Day.

New Classes Added

Morning everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I have another day of classes booked at The Glitter Pot on Friday 24th July. In the morning we will be stamping with some of my favourite flower stamps to create some pretty cards and in the afternoon I will be showing you my tips on how to make quick cards which still look stunning - even I have to do quick cards sometimes!! So if you fancy either of these classes do book on as it would be great to see you.

A bit later on today I'll be announcing the winner of the blog candy.................

As 1 Blog Candy Finishes Another Opens

Ooops I've been so busy today that I nearly didn't find the time to let you know about some new blog candy!! Mine has now finished and I will be announcing the winner tomorrow but you all have a chance of being able to win another of my new stamp sheets (Funky Frames) along with some other goodies over on The Stamp Man's blog. So head on over and have a look!!

My 1st Blog Candy

THIS POST WILL REMAIN AT THE TOP OF MY BLOG UNTIL THE CANDY ENDS AT MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 31ST MAY 2009.

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To celebrate the release of my latest stamp sheets (and in conjunction with The Stamp Man) I have decided to offer up some blog candy to one lucky person. The candy contains -

• One of my new stamp sheets (Aspects of Design No.56 un-mounted stamp sheet - Funky Flowers
• 1 pack of mixed 12x12 vellums
• 3 reels of ribbon
• Assorted organza ribbons
• 1 pack of fusible film
• 1 pack of frosted pale blue embellishments
• 1 pack of Magic Motifs
• Flower brads
• Domed alphabet stickers
• 1 set of chalks

(My thanks to The Stamp Man for providing these products.)

For those with blogs - to enter all you need to do is leave a comment below this post and spread the word on your blog by putting a picture of this blog candy onto your blog linking it back to this post. If you would like to sign up to become a follower that would be great but is not a requirement.

For those without blogs - please leave a comment below this post.

(Please note for those that blog as Anonymous you will need to leave your full name from now on (15th May) within the comment to be entered.)

Unfortunately due to postal costs, this time, the candy is only open to UK residents. (Sorry!!!)

Any duplicate entries will be deleted.

This candy will run until midnight 31st May 2009. The winner will be selected at random and announced on 2nd June 2009 at midday. I will not contact you direct so you will need to check back then to see if you have won. Further details will then be posted on how to claim your candy! If the prize has not been claimed by midday Friday 5th June a new winner will be drawn.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!