Funky's In Lilac!!

Hi guys.  Ok back to the Funky Flowers for this post.  This is one of the cards we made using the Funky Flowers stamp sheet in the afternoon class at The Craft Barn the other Saturday.  If you look on my sidebar you can see all the different elements on this particular stamp sheet consisting of different flower heads, leaves etc...  When I designed this sheet I had it in mind that it would be fun for people to be able to make up their own flower compositions using these different elements. In particular I thought this would be really handy when you have a particular size or shape of space to fill - for instance when you have cut one of the Nestabilities templates you can then stamp an arrangement to fill it perfectly.  So for this class I showed this easy version where you just take some of the elements and stamp them in the appropriate places without any need for masking.  The stems were simply drawn in by hand using a waterproof fine line black pen.  There are just so many different compositions that you can obtain using this stamp sheet to fit any size of space apart from teeny tiny!!

The flourishes and the wording came from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet which again is on my sidebar.

To colour the flowers I used a combination of light coloured Copics and Sakura Stardust pens along with a water brush.

The stamps and materials used on this card are all available from The Craft Barn.

I hope you like it!!

Guess What Came Today?

My wait is over as this morning my stamp sheets arrived from The Stamp Man. Yippeee!!!! So this means that they have now got them in stock!

No prizes for guessing what I will be doing later on today - providing I get time that is!

Fingers crossed that my mind doesn't shut down once I start working with them. If anyone else purchases any of these sheets and makes a card please let me know as I would love to see what you come up with.

Right I'm off to go and finish the cards that I am currently working on...........

Funky Flower stamp sheets

Hi guys. Just a quick post for now to let you know that you can see the designs of the 3 new stamp sheets (Apsects of Design un-mounted stamp sheets No's 56, 57 and 58) on The Stamp Man's website! Click here to see them. Plus you can pre-order them too as we now expect them to arrive sometime this week.

Port Sunlight

Well tomorrow it is the Port Sunlight show and both Jill and I are keeping everything crossed right now as we are hoping that the new stamp sheets will arrive tomorrow at the show! This will mean that anyone who attends the show will get to see the finished rubber before I do! Because of the show Jill won't be able to post my sheets to me until Monday at the earliest so someone could be playing with my new designs before me!! Anyway if the sheets do make it in time and any of you out there see them do let me know what you think. Meanwhile just incase the sheets don't turn up Jill and I have been working on a little surprise for you.................I won't tell you what it is - you'll just have to stop by The Stamp Man stand and see!

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Well what a manic time I have been having recently! For the last few days I couldn't tell you what the weather has been doing as my eyes have been permanently glued to my work table and I've only just about managed to eat and sleep inbetween. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my editor who I think has saved my sanity! With a lot of focus and hours I had managed to get my main magazine project done - just! However I am supposed to be creating a few things for this particular issue with the cover mount stamp that I'd designed and to be honest I absolutely hated what I had done with it but I had run out of time to do anything about it. Katy has been an absolute star though and has given me today and the weekend to sort it out. You would think that working with my own design would be a walk in the park wouldn't you? But for some reason every time I work with a stamp that I have designed my mind just completely shuts down and I just can't create anything nice with it until I have just about exhausted every possibility! (What a great designer I am?!!) With 3 new stamp sheets about to come out aren't I going to have fun???

Ok back to that dratted cover mount stamp...........

Another Peek

Hi guys. I'm a bit later posting today as I had quite a bit to catch up on after being out all day yesterday.

My thanks to both All Pink Girl and Lisa for your kind comments yesterday. As you were SO nice I thought I would load up another sneaky peek for you. This image is also from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet. I am keeping everything crossed that you all like the new designs.

I have actually finished the 3rd stamp sheet now so this is the bit I find the hardest as I then can't wait for them to be made into rubber!

If you get time I would really appreciate your feedback as to what you think of the new designs.

Enjoy the rest of the bank holiday!

A Little Taster!!

Good morning everyone. Well as promised here is a little peek of one of my new designs that you have been hearing about this past week. This particular design is off of the Funky Flowers stamp sheet which is the first one that was sent off to be made so with a little bit of luck this may make an appearance at the Port Sunlight show next weekend!!


Once both Jill and I get our act together each of us will be offering some blog candy so do check back! Meanwhile for another little peek of one of the new designs from the second stamp sheet hop on over to The Stamp Man's blog! I hope you like them!


Meanwhile I must scoot as I am demoing at The Glitter Pot all day today! Wish me luck...............

A Quick Update

Two down and one to go. The new stamp sheets that is! I finished the second one last night but now have a lot of alterations to do on the third and final one as this one is full of words!

Apparently the first sheet has now been sent away and is in production! I know that Jill is hoping to maybe have at least one of the new sheets at the Port Sunlight show on 9th May - this will be an extremely tight turnaround but you never know...... However if this does happen this will mean that if anyone buys them they will get them before me!! That is never right is it??? Anyway fingers crossed that Jill does get them in time.

Meanwhile just to whet your appetite both Jill and I are going to post up some sneaky peeks of some of the new designs this weekend so keep tuned!

Right back to that last stamp sheet then................