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.

FOR MORE RECENT POSTS PLEASE SCROLL DOWN.

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!!!

Back Home!

Morning everyone. I am now back at home safe and sound albeit a little tired! My thanks to everyone who has left me some lovely comments in my absence! I have now had chance to read them all and to upload them so thank you so much.


I've had a really nice couple of days as it had been a while since I had been to Bedford. Thanks to everyone who booked onto the class on Friday - it was really nice to catch up with you all and I really appreciate it you coming to the workshop especially when you have to book time off work to attend or travel a fair distance. I just hope that you felt it was worth it!!

It was lovely to see so many friendly faces on the Saturday as well. I really like demoing and I had such nice feeback from you all which makes all the preparation worth while.

Rita - it was a pleasure to meet both you and your husband. I was so pleased that you were able to make it. What a lovely husband you have got to sacrifice some of the football for you!

Kym - if there is a next time please introduce yourself as it would have been nice to have met you properly!

Thankfully I had a good journey home and did it in about two and a half hours - totally different story on the way up though as it took me four hours to get there. Luckily there were no major road accidents this time - it just seemed to be sheer volume of traffic. I will begin loading up some of the demo cards this week for you all to see. (Poor Sharon forgot her camera didn't you?!!)

Don't forget that today is your last chance to enter for the blog candy.

Right I must go as have lots to do...........

Stamp Addicts Demo Day

Finally I have actually begun playing around with my own stamps which is about time too really as I am supposed to be demoing with them next weekend at The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend!! Once I have got some cards together I will begin posting some up but meanwhile today I will be busy demoing at Stamp Addicts so if you are free do come along and say hello as it would be great to see you!

The 2nd Workshop Card

So here is the other card we will be making today and as you can see a hint of brown crept into this card too. I quite like wearing pink and brown together but had never done this colour scheme before on a card but I think it worked out quite well! (The only trouble is the brown colour reminds me of chocolate and I keep wanting to rush for the Cadbury's Dairy Milk!)

The main image stamps that you see here are all off of the same Judikins stamp set and the papers are by Denami. I stamped and embossed another Judikins stamp (Mince Flourish) to create the background on the pale pink panel and then simply added some punched out flowers from scrap pieces of paper and card to embellish the card further.

This is the 'girl' that is most like me from this particular stamp range as I just LOVE to shop!

Stamp Addicts Workshop

So tomorrow I will be off up to see the Stamp Addicts girls. I am just keeping everything crossed that the weather will be nice and that I don't encounter any major hold ups. Every time I have driven up to Bedford I have been snarled up in traffic so it would make a really pleasant change if it could just go smoothly this time!

This is one of the cards that I have designed for the workshop. I thought it would be nice to use the new girl stamps and although this is a congratulations card for someone who has done well at school/college it can easily be turned into something else by replacing the books with a different image and altering the wording.

Yet another different colour scheme for me too! I don't often incorporate brown into my cards but I thought that it went quite well with my favourite colour of lilac!

As you can probably guess all of the products that you see on the card can be bought from Stamp Addicts - the strips of paper you can see is from a 12x12 sheet by Denami.

The Last Of The Penny Black cards!

Morning Guys. I get the impression from your comments yesterday that you all think I'm a little bit mad!! Well what can I say apart from sometimes needs must! I don't normally take my crafting out and about with me but I just couldn't bear the fact that I would be wasting valuable time. Anyway I got all the cutting out done that I took with me to do so I was quite pleased with that. (If I got any strange looks from anyone I didn't notice as I was too busy with my head down cutting away!!) My hair is now chopped and judging by the amount that was on the floor it is a wonder I have any left - it definitely isn't thick and heavy any more!

Anyway onto the very last of those Penny Black cards. I have saved my favourite to last!! I think that I like this one the best because it is in my favourite colour scheme as well as having my favourite Penny Black flower stamp (of the moment) on it. Also I went back to stamping my own backgrounds for this card with just an odd strip here and there of a MME background paper.

The flowers and the shrink plastic butterfly were coloured with the Coloursoft pencils and Sansador. The butterfly is from the Stampendous Flutterfly Friends clear set and all the other stamps you see on the card are by Penny Black. I hope you like it!

Hairdressers

So this morning I am off to get my hair cut which is just as well as it won't do anything that I want it to at the moment as it has got too long and thick. Believe me if I owned a pair of thinning scissors I think I would have had a go at sorting it out myself as it has been driving me nuts!

Because I am busy, busy, busy at the moment and can't really afford the time to go to the hairdressers, yesterday afternoon I spent my time colouring in some images so that I can take them with me today and sit in my hairdresser's chair and cut them all out!! I would've taken some colouring to do too but there isn't room there for me to find somewhere to put all my pens and pencils and there's definitely no room for me to assemble a few cards either!!

Internet Explorer Is Driving Me Crazy!!

Thank goodness there are other internet based programmes out there because at the moment me and Internet Explorer are most definitely not friends!! Nearly every time I try and use it, it decides to shut down on me - hence my post being rather late today!

And it is yet another shrink plastic card - see I was a very busy bunny!! All stamps on this one are by Penny Black and the papers are by My Minds Eye. Again not my normal colour scheme but this one reminds me of autumn because of the reds, greens and oranges.

Meanwhile I hope that everyone out there is having more luck than me at the moment with surfing the internet. Everything was fine until I downloaded Internet Explorer 8 - that was my downfall I think!

And Some More Penny Black!

As you will have probably gathered by now I ended up doing quite a few cards for that Glitter Pot demo day as here is yet another one from that weekend. The flowers were stamped onto shrink plastic, coloured with the Coloursoft pencils and shrunk down. The stripey paper is by Daisy Bucket. More my normal type of colour scheme this time too!

Mini Flowers

Apparently it is a lovely bright and warm day out there this morning,here on the south east coast. However I wouldn't know much about that as I have lots to do (yet again!) over the next few days.

I have finished the cards for my workshop at Stamp Addicts but am still working on some sample cards for their demo day. Sarah kindly sent me some new colouring pencils to play with and they are really nice. The only thing I have against them at the moment is that the colours are a bit limited as there is no purple, lilac, pale pinks, or aqua colours!!! This most definitely needs sorting out I think!! The colours that are in the set though blend beautifully and glide onto the paper. I will load up some samples using them once I've completed a few.


Meanwhile the card today is one that I did for The Glitter Pot's demo day using those Penny Black stamps. This particular flower stamp is most definitely my favourite at the moment along of course with that background stamp. The flowers were stamped onto the frosted side of the shrink plastic and coloured with Coloursoft pencils before shrinking it down. The papers (which I am sure you must recognise by now!) are by My Minds Eye. All available from The Glitter Pot.

And More Penny Black

Here's another card usinng Penny Black flowers and frosted shrink plastic. The shrink plastic was shrunk first then the flowers were stamped using Brilliance Starlight black to keep it 'soft' looking. Colouring was done with Coloursoft pencils, Sansador and paper stumps. Papers are by My Minds Eye and all stamps are by Penny Black.

Doesn't Time Fly??

I can't believe how quickly we are getting through this year and am astonished to think that a week tomorrow I will be heading up the motorway for my workshop at Stamp Addicts. (Originally when we arranged it - the end of May seemed so far away and now it is almost here!)


Anyway in honour of my forthcoming trip to Stamp Addicts I thought I'd take the opportunity of loading up a card we did on one of my previous workshops up there. The flower stamps were stamped with a pigment inkpad and embossed with Sticky embossing powder and then gold leaf was applied over the top. As well as the Sticky embossing powder holding gold leaf it will also take foil and glitter too. The flowers were from a Printworks set, the wording from a Denami set of 3 wording stamps and the background is one of my favourite flourish stamps called Mince Flourish by Judikins. All of which you can get from Stamp Addicts.

Over the weekend I will be putting the finishing touches to the cards that we'll be doing for this coming workshop so look out for these either next week or the week after!

Torture!!

Morning and what a lovely sunny and warm morning it is too!! I feel that I should be outside not stuck indoors with yet more deadlines soon coming my way!

The other day I spent all afternoon colouring the index sheets of the new stamp sheets to send to Jill. I can't believe that it literally did take me all afternoon! I would get so far with one of the print outs and then do something that I didn't like and have to start again!! I have added the finished sheets now to my sidebar for a little while so that you can see them - once I get bored with them I'll take them off! Meanwhile I have still yet to actually play with the stamps. I have got so far as to stamping out some images and that is it!! I now have got to put them to one side and start preparing for my visit up to Stamp Addicts next weekend. So I am sure that those of you who have already got your stamp sheets will be making cards before me!

A Buzzy Bee

Here's the second card that we made in the afternoon class on Saturday. It is a really sweet little card, as like the one I showed you the other day it is only 10x10cm once folded. I've used the same Penny Black background stamp that you have been seeing for several days now and the bee and wording is from that Stampendous Flutterfly Friends clear stamp set. You can't tell from this photo but behind the bee is a piece of clear shrink plastic that I stamped with the background stamp with white StazOn and then stuck to dark green card. The papers are by My Minds Eye.

Pink and Green Dragonflies

Morning. Here is a picture of the card that we made on Saturday afternoon at The Glitter Pot. Behind each of the dragonflies there is a textured piece of clear shrink plastic that is achieved using the intaglio technique. (Can't tell you anything more on how to do it, for now, as it isn't fair to those that booked on the class. However I will be doing a feature on this technique in the October issue of Craft Stamper so keep a look out for that to learn more.)

The papers are by My Minds Eye, the dragonflies you will probably recognise as I have used them before - they are from the Stampendous Flutterfly Friends clear stamp set and the wording and background stamp are by Penny Black. Everything can be purchased from The Glitter Pot.

So tired!!

Morning everyone - well it is just about still morning as I begin typing this! I am SO tired this morning that it is taking me forever to do things. Yesterday's classes were really quite hectic as they were both full as well as being fairly challenging. I think that everyone really liked the technique that we covered in the afternoon class using the clear shrink plastic. (I'll post that card up tomorrow for you to see.)

Meanwhile here is the second smaller card from the morning class - no-one actually got to make this card although several people did make a start on it and went away with the components to finish it at home. It is only 10x10cm once folded but makes a really sweet little card to give to someone. The flowers and background stamp are by Penny Black and the 'dreams' wording is from the Flutterfly Friends clear stamp set by Stampendous. The green paper is by My Minds Eye and the stripey paper is by Daisy Bucket all of which can be purchased from The Glitter Pot.

Latest Magazine Projects

Morning everyone. Just thought I'd take the opportunity to let you know that I have some projects out at the moment in a couple of magazines.

The first is in the June issue of Craft Stamper using one of my oriental stamp sets called Japanese Dragonfly Dreams. The cards I created for this magazine were more manly than my usual style using the oriental dragonflies along with gold leaf. For this project I made my own background papers using some of the background stamps from this particular stamp sheet along with some Distress inkpads and a Starburst Stain dauber. All of which can be purchased from The Stamp Man.

The second one is in the current issue of Papercraft Inspirations (which I personally haven't seen yet!) using the sets of English Countryside Art Impression stamps. F0r anyone that hasn't come across the Art Impression range of stamps, they are the most truly interactive scenic stamps. I just LOVE these stamps. Unfortunately I don't get an awful lot of time now to play with them but they appeal to me so much because they allow you to create so many different scenes and layouts using the same stamp combination. They are great for those of us who like to be able to get the most out of our stamps. To see the range click here and this will take you to Sir Stampalots website.

Shrink Plastic Class

Tomorrow I am at The Glitter Pot all day teaching classes on shrink plastic which is definitely one of my favourite mediums to work with. When I first started using shrink plastic (many years ago!!) I couldn't get on with it at all. It wasn't until I tried using a different heat gun (the white one that looks like a hairdryer) that it all came together for me and I haven't looked back since. I still don't get on very well using the long heat guns with the plastic as I find that they are too fierce.

Anyway I am digressing! The card I've posted up today is one that we will be making in the morning using Penny Black flowers and that Penny Black background stamp (that I keep using on all my cards). The little shrunken bees in the punched out flowers are from the Flutterfly Friends stamp set by Stampendous. The stripey background paper is by Daisy Bucket and the leaves are by My Minds Eye. All of these things are available from The Glitter Pot.

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...........

And More Penny Black Flowers!

Oops I'm a bit late posting again today as I have been a busy bunny.

Anyway here is another card from when I was demoing the other weekend using those same Penny Black stamps. I am fairly certain that the background papers are all by My Minds Eye and the rest was stamped using the Penny Black Srolling Along background stamp which I just LOVE! I don't normally put blue and green together but I think it turned out quite well.

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.

More Penny Black Flowers

Morning everyone. Well the stamp sheets didn't make it in time for the Port Sunlight show but hopefully it won't be too much longer and then Jill will pop them up on The Stamp Man's website for you to see.

Meanwhile just to prove that I have been making cards here is one of the cards that I was able to take with me the other weekend to The Glitter Pot's demo weekend. All the stamps are by Penny Black and the background papers are by My Minds Eye. The green panel at the top of the card was stamped with the Penny Black Scrolling Along stamp in both Versamark Dazzle and Brilliance Starlite Black. The Starlite Black is a soft black so isn't so harsh - I used this same inkpad to stamp in the corners of the flower panel too. A bit of a different colour scheme for me as I normally go for cool colours so I hope you like it!

Classes

Morning everyone. Well at last I can breathe again! I am glad to announce that finally I was able to use that cover mount stamp in a way that I was satisfied with! (I just don't know what it is with me and my own designs. I don't get this problem with other stamps - just mine!) So I just have the text to do for these now and they can be sent on their merry way.

Next Saturday I am teaching all day at The Glitter Pot - the cards for this are already done, I just need to get on with typing up some project sheets which I will probably do today. These classes are full up but I am back at The Glitter Pot again on Sat 20th June if anyone is interested. In the morning we will be combining stamping along with some backgrounds created with cuttlebug embossing folders and core-dinations cardstock and in the afternoon I will be showing how to double emboss in two different ways using cuttlebug embossing folders combined with some stamped foreground images. So if anyone fancies a day of cuttlebugging do book on! For more information on the classes click here.

Also Sarah (from Stamp Addicts) and I have now decided to base my workshop at Stamp Addicts on Friday 29th May at 3pm on the new Judikins girl stamp sheets so if any of you fancy a couple of hours of girl power you know what to do! Click here for information on how to book on.

Right I'm off to go and do some more typing!

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...........

Penny Black Flowers

Oh dear another late post!! I did have good intentions but have been SO busy beavering away! I'll tell you all about it tomorrow..........

Meanwhile here is another card from last weekend. All the stamps are by Penny Black and the papers are by My Minds Eye and are from The Glitter Pot. The butterflies (in the flowers that you can't see very well from this scanned image!) are from the Stampendous Flutterfly Friends stamp sheet.

Chasing My Tail.......Still!!

Morning everyone. Well after having to do extra work for the Glitter Pot demo day it has had a knock on effect and I am now desperately trying to get a magazine project completed and it seems that the cards are fighting me all the way - don't they understand that time is precious and that really they should have been sent off a few days ago???

Anyway once things are more under control here I will load up another card. I just don't have the time at the moment - sorry!!

Right back to those cards................

Flutterfly Friends

Oh dear!! I had meant to post much earlier than this but I am still trying to play catch up!

This card is one of my Glitter Pot demo ones using clear shrink plastic behind each of the butterflies. The butterflies and bees are off of the same clear stamp sheet by Stampendous called Flutterfly Friends and the swirly background stamp is by Penny Black. Background papers and stamps are all available from The Glitter Pot.

Gotta go as have SO much to do...............

Glitter Pot Demo

Hi guys. First of all a big thank you to everyone who took the time and trouble to comment on yesterday's post - I do appreciate it and am glad that you like the look of the new designs!

Well today I thought it was about time I stopped boring you all with talk of the forthcoming stamp sheets and have loaded up a card that I did for the Glitter Pot Demo Weekend. This was another one that I ended up not taking with me due to that Bo Bunny paper at the base of the card!

I really enjoyed myself on Saturday as I do love demoing and sharing my passion with everyone. I have most definitely missed demoing at the shows so far this year.

The flower and background stamps are by Penny Black and the bee has been stamped, coloured and shrunk on frosted shrink plastic and is from the Stampendous clear set of Flutterfly Friends. All the colouring was done with Coloursoft pencils, paper stumps and Sansador. I really like this method of colouring as you can get the colours to blend together seamlessly so well with very little effort. Anyway I hope you like it!!

All the materials used (apart from the Bo Bunny paper!) are available from The Glitter Pot.

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...............

At Last!! A Card!!

Hi guys. Just to prove that I have actually been working this week on making cards as well as the stamp sheets, here is one of the cards that I had made for The Glitter Pot but won't be taking with me tomorrow due to one of the papers being discontinued!

I hope you like it! The stamps I have used are all by Penny Black and are currently in stock although I don't know if they will be by the end of tomorrow! The paper on the left has been discontinued but was by Bo Bunny and the one on the right is by My Minds Eye. The type of shrink plastic that I used is 'frosted' which is pre-sanded one side and clear on the other.

Don't forget to call back over the weekend to see some of the new designs!

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................

The Stamp Man's Blog

Hi guys, Thanks so much for your kind words yesterday - they all really cheered me up and I'm feeling a bit more positive today. I know that I wasn't supposed to be working yesterday but I just had to do a bit and have at least got one of the stamp sheets finished. Just need to get the other 2 done which is going to take a bit more time!

I was chatting to Jill (from The Stamp Man) the other day regarding the stamp sheets and much to my delight she told me that she was going to start a blog. True to her word she has now got one up and running and already has posted up quite a bit of artwork so please do hop on over and visit her. I have added The Stamp Man's blog to my list on the left but you can also click here to see it.

Well back to those stamp sheets.............

Pulling My Hair Out!!

Oh dear!! So sorry that I didn't get round to posting yesterday. Have any of you ever had one of those days where you just wish that you hadn't gotten out of bed?? Well yesterday I had one of those days!!

It started off where I had to go out to The Glitter Pot to check up on some things for my classes there in a few weeks time. While I was there I was checking through their display of background papers and discovered much to my horror that practically all the papers I have used so far on the cards I've prepared for their demo weekend are very low and one of them has been discontinued!! I'd purposely used the most recent papers that I had bought too! To make matters worse their suppliers are out of stock of these papers too and there is no way that they can get any more in time!!

Then when I got home I found out that the fonts I had been planning to use on my new designs are most probably copyrighted and I can't use them!! I had thought that I had finished the stamp sheets but now it is literally back to the drawing board. Aaargggggghhhhhhhh!! I am currently trying to have a go at writing my own words and scanning them in but this takes so much time!

Meanwhile this morning I went to the chiropractor and have been banned from doing too much for the next few days! I cannot tell you how frustrating that is as things are just piling up here! So if you don't hear from me for a little while you will know that I am buried somewhere under a mountain of work!

Before I go and have a nervous breakdown I must just say a huge thank you to Lisa for the blog award which when I get a minute I will collect! Thank you so much - I was absolutely thrilled.

Also my thanks to Jo for your comment about the blog candy - that was really useful. I had wondered how people kept a posting at the top of their blog!

Ok I'm going now.............

Denami Flowers

This card was created some time ago now for one of my workshops that I did at Stamp Addicts. For this card I used a set of stamps by Denami Design. I shrunk translucent squares of shrink plastic, inked the stamps and stamped each one in turn into the shrink plastic while it was still warm to create a debossed effect.

I will be at Stamp Addicts for the first time this year holding a workshop on Friday May 29th and we are thinking that perhaps I will use the new Judikins girl stamps, so if anyone fancies it do book on - it would be great to see you!

Still Busy!!

Morning everyone. Still really busy here trying to get those stamp sheets completed so this will be a short post again!

My thanks to everyone who posted a comment on My Secret - they were all really helpful. Once I have got my act together a bit more I will sort something out regarding a 'giveaway' so do check back in the next couple of weeks!

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Clarky J - no problem at all regarding those cards. I was happy to help. I hope it all goes well.

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I haven't posted up any cards for the last couple of days so finally here is the other Magenta one that we did on the shrink plastic class at The Glitter Pot.

By the way don't forget that next Saturday I will be demonstrating shrink plastic at The Glitter Pot's Spring Spectacular so if anyone has any problems regarding shrink and lives close enough to Scaynes Hill do pop by and I will do my best to help you!

Right then. Back to those designs...........................

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Morning everyone! I am really busy today with trying to get those stamp sheets finished so that I can demo with them at The Craft Barn's June Weekend. Plus I am trying to prepare for The Glitter Pots Spring Spectacular weekend which is next weekend so I don't have time to post up any cards today. I'll try to do better tomorrow! Wish me luck with those stamp sheets!

My Secret!

Well yesterday I did sort of promise to let you in on a little secret of mine......................

After designing the stamp for Craft Stamper it got me back into the mood for doodling and so for the past month I have been working on some new designs! It has been almost a year now since the Oriental stamp sheets came out and so it really was about time that I put pen to paper again. However not only do I need to be in the mood to do it but I also need to find some time to fit it in! Currently I am putting the finishing touches to 3 new stamp sheets which I am hoping to launch at The Craft Barn's June Extravaganza Weekend!! As to what they are......................well for now I think I'll keep you guessing but I may in a few days time load up one or two of the new designs for you to see!

Meanwhile I really need your help! I was thinking that it would be really nice to run a competition or offer where the winner could make their choice of picking one of the new stamp sheets. I have heard of 'blog candy' but still being new to this whole blogging malarky I don't know how you go about doing this so if anyone could leave me a comment giving me some ideas I would be truly grateful!

Meanwhile keep watching this space for those new designs...................

Craft Stamper stamp

Do you remember me telling you a while back that I had been asked to design a stamp for the August cover of Craft Stamper? Well a couple of weeks ago I was sent the stamp!! Originally I was going to be working with it over the bank holiday weekend but as we know my hand had other ideas about that. (Thankfully it is now a lot better - it is still sore and tender but I can now use it normally!) Because of my hand I am now behind with everything and so I only got to play around with my stamp a few days ago and I must say that I am quite pleased with it as it stamped out quite well. As to what it is...................................I'm afraid that I still can't divulge as yet and unfortunately I can't even post up any sneaky peeks of what I made with it without giving the game away.

If you come back tomorrow I might let you in on a secret!

Magenta Flower

Hi guys. Thanks so much for those lovely comments that you left me on yesterdays post. It absolutely makes my day when someone bothers to respond to my posts so thank you!


The card I've uploaded today was one that I made last year for a shrink plastic class I took at The Glitter Pot. The little images at the base of the card were stamped onto frosted shrink plastic, coloured in and then shrunk to add as embellishments. Both the main image and the little shrunk images were from an un-mounted stamp set by Magenta. The flourishes you can see are from a clear set by Hero Arts and the wording is from Francoise's Tiny Phrases clear stamp set all of which can be bought from The Glitter Pot.

I hope you like it!

Peace Girl 2

Well this is it the very last card that I did using the new Judikins's stamp sheets from Stamp Addicts. I believe the background papers that I used here came from The Craft Barn but I can't remember whose they were - it's too long ago now!

As you can see I used the Judikins flourish to frame the girl's head in order to give the appearance that she is sitting outside under some foliage. I hope you like it!

The Last Of The Girls

This card was made using the Peace Girl stamp sheet by Judikins along with pretty background papers that I bought from The Glitter Pot. Both the loud flowery paper and the black and white strips of paper are by Daisy Bucket.

The black and white print out shows you all the stamps that you get on this particular stamp sheet.

May issue of Craft Stamper

Morning everyone. The May issue of Craft Stamper came out earlier this month in which I have got a 3 page project using the Stamps By Judith flower stamps. I have got to say that I really enjoyed working with this range of stamps as they interact with one another so well. All of the Judith stamps are available from Stamp Addicts.

Here is a sneaky peek of part of a card I did which didn't actually make it into the magazine as I had done too many! To see all the other cards that I made you'll have to buy the magazine!!

Ally Pally

Tomorrow and Sunday is the Big Rubber Stamping and Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace and unfortunately I will not be going! This is the first time since I started stamping that I will have missed this show in the Spring - if I haven't been demoing there then I have attended as a visitor as it is such a good show. As a visitor I used to love watching all the demonstrations on the different stands and used to spend a fortune and as a demonstrator I used to attend on the Saturday (the busiest day!) which I always enjoyed. It is so nice being able to interact with other stampers who love the craft as much as I do.

Unfortunately though I wasn't needed this time but if anyone is visiting the show do make sure you stop by Stamp Addicts's stand as they always have some great stuff and having been in the business for 15 years they know all there is to know about rubber stamping!

Also if any of you do go to the show I would love to hear what you thought of it and what was there.

Tunes Girl 2

Oops! I had fully intended to post yesterday but I was eager to get cracking on catching up with stuff yesterday and then I just never made it back to my computer! Thankfully I can now hold stamps and inkpads and although I had to press the bigger stamps with my elbow, instead of my hand, at least I was able to get on! So before I run away from my computer this morning and attempt another busy day of catching up I thought I would post up the second Tunes Girl card.

So here it is. As you can see I used some of the same background paper as for the other card but this time combined it with a brown spotty paper by My Minds Eye which I had purchased from The Glitter Pot. All the stamps used are by Judikins including the flourish in the top left corner which of course are from Stamp Addicts. The layered circles were done with my Nestabilities dies.

Back To The Girls

Good morning to you all. I must just thank Brenda and Lisa for your kind comments regarding my poorly hand - they were very much appreciated. It seems that something is working although I don't know if it is the pills, the ice or the rest so I will keep all three up today and hope for great things tomorrow. At least today I can actually pick up light things! Yippee!! (Thanks for the info Lisa on the Rosehip - I'll certainly make a note of that.)

As you can see from todays card we are back with the new girl stamp sheets from Stamp Addicts. The flourish you can see is by Judikins and is a firm favourite of mine - this too is of course available from Stamp Addicts. All the other stamps used were from the Tunes Girl stamp sheet. The stripey background paper is by Daisy Bucket and the dotty black background paper is by Pebbles Inc - both from The Glitter Pot. The images were stamped with Stone Grey StazOn and watercoloured with Zig Brushables.

I've uploaded a print out of the stamp sheet as well so you can see exactly what you get.

Playful Elephants

Well it seems that my hand hasn't appreciated all the attention lavished on it so far with ice-packs, anti-inflammatories and rub - how ungrateful!! My thanks must go to both Dawn and Lesley for your kind comments on yesterdays post. I shouldn't complain really (although I probably will!!) as most of the time the arthritis is under control but now and again it lets me know it is still around. Of course being right-handed it had to attack my right hand it couldn't possibly have gone into the left one - that way I could at least have had a good colouring session. Oh well fingers crossed (with my left hand!) that it improves tomorrow.

Anyway here is the second card that I promised to post up today of the elephants.

As you can see we used the same sort of layout and materials as for the first one but just juggled them around a bit. (And yes Lisa you do spy some cuttlebugging which was done on Core-dinations cardstock.) These elephants are also by Little Claire and can be purchased at The Craft Barn as can the Inktense pencils that we used to colour in the image.

Oh Dear!!

Hi guys. Thank you so much for all your lovely comments you left on yesterdays post. Originally I was going to upload the other elephant card that we did on that class but I have decided to save it until tomorrow instead.

As you already know I was supposed to be working all over this weekend but it seems that my body has had other ideas! Yesterday my right hand was a bit tender and today it has decided to swell up and become a lot more painful - so much so that I can hardly grip anything!! (For those of you who don't know I have a form of Rheumatoid Arthritis.) So unfortunately it means I am not going to be able to get on with stuff today. So it seems that I'll have to spend the day taking anti-inflammatories and treating my hand with ice and see if I can get the swelling down so that I can resume tomorrow. Meanwhile has anyone tried to wash their hair one-handed?? It's not that easy! I've now got the task of trying to blow dry it! Wish me luck!!

Dandelion Elephant

Today I thought we'd have a bit of a rest from the 'girl' cards so here is one of the elephant cards that we made last Saturday at The Craft Barn. The image is by Little Claire and is coloured with Inktense pencils. (Available from The Craft Barn.) The strips of card were just off-cut pieces left over from trimming the panels and I just drew a zigzag border on them to create more interest.

I'll post up the other elephant card tomorrow which we made in the same style as this one.

Shopaholic Girl 2

Good morning. Here is the 2nd of the Shopaholic Girl cards. As you can see this one isn't quite as busy as yesterdays card! The stamps that you can see on the purple panel are still by Judikins and so are from Stamp Addicts. I think I am right in saying that the black and white papers are by Daisy Bucket and these I purchased from The Glitter Pot. The flowers were punched out from black card and decorated with a white opaque gel pen and gemstones added to the centres.

I hope you all enjoy your Easter weekend. Unfortunately being that I work from home and that I have deadlines fast approaching I will be having to work over the Easter break. (Whilst munching chocolate though of course!!)

Shopaholic Girl

Out of all the new girl stamp sheets that Stamp Addicts have just brought out I have got to say that this one has got to be my favourite as I can definitely relate!!

I think that I threw just about everything at this card! I used my Nestablities along with some Core-dinations cardstock which I embossed with the swirl Cuttlebug folder and then sanded. (All from The Craft Barn.) The background papers I purchased from The Glitter Pot and they are by Daisy Bucket. I punched out some flowers from Bazzill card and added some Prima Petite flowers too along with gemstones for the centres. Lastly the girl was stamped in Stone Grey StazOn and watercoloured with Zig Brushables.

It's a very 'busy' card but I hope you like it nonetheless!

Here's the print out of the rest of the stamps on this sheet for you to see too.

Princess Girl 2

Thank you so much for your kind comments that you have all left me recently - they are really very much appreciated. I spent 2 days absolutely solidly beavering away on these cards for Stamp Addicts and as you know they didn't make it in time for their live show and now I won't get to watch the show either!!! I wasn't able to watch it at the time shown, so I set my Sky HD box to record it - so far so good. However my Sky box has been having a few problems recently and today the Sky man came to fix it but instead of fixing it he has condemned it! This means that I have now lost all the programmes that I had recorded to watch................arrrgghhhhhh!!!

Anyway here is the second Princess card - still without her tiara!! Once again the papers are from The Paper Company and came from The Craft Barn and of course the actual stamps are from Stamp Addicts.

Princess Girl

Well unfortunately none of my cards made it onto Stamp Addicts's new live show yesterday as Royal Mail let me down and my cards didn't arrive at Stamp Addicts HQ until 4pm yesterday afternoon! So I have decided to continue posting up the ones I made here so that at least you get to see them! I hope you like them!!

So here is one of the cards that I made with the Princess stamp sheet but she is without her tiara! All of these different sets of girls that I'll be posting up over the next few days are available from Stamp Addicts.

The background papers are from The Craft Barn by The Paper Company and the strips of black flowers were taken from another background paper but I can't remember which one!!

The flowers were punched out from Bazzill cardstock and decorated with a white opaque gel pen and gemstones were added to the centres of the smaller flowers.

I've posted up the print out of the stamps that are on this particular stamp sheet too so that you can see exactly what you get!

Stamp Addicts Girls

Here is another card that I made using that same Judikins Girl un-mounted stamp sheet that I posted up the other day. The green paper is by Denami and is available from Stamp Addicts and the black and white background paper I bought from The Glitter Pot - sorry I don't know who it is by!

Did anyone catch Stamp Addicts on Ideal World this morning with these new range of stamps?

Sarah Kay Class

Yesterday I was teaching all day at The Craft Barn. It had been quite a while since I had last held a class there and it was so nice to see everyone again. I am always made to feel so welcome when I am there which is really nice. It is a lovely place and crammed full of crafting stuff - heaven on earth to us crafters!

What really made my day was seeing some of my regular class attendees from when I used to teach at The Barn about once a month. It was SO nice to catch up with them and I must say a big thank you to Jo who had so kindly bought both me and my Mum (who had come with me) a bunch of roses each! What a lovely surprise and such a kind thought - they were greatly appreciated.

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I showed you one of the cards that we would be making on the morning class a couple of days ago so here is the other one that we did. I must say that each time I use these Sarah Kay stamps I am amazed at the quality of them - the detail is absolutely superb and I am eagerly looking forward to some more being released! The image was coloured with Copic Ciaos which are fast becoming a firm favourite.

A Peek At Some New Stamps

Hi Everyone. For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to get together a few cards with some new stamp sheets that Stamp Addicts sent to me. Because of other commitments I only had 2 days in which to do this so I'm afraid that I had to resort to using my stash of background papers!!

Stamp Addicts will be doing a live show this coming Monday on Ideal World at 11am and will be showcasing these new stamp sheets on there so watch out for it.

Meanwhile here is one of the cards that I made using one of these un-mounted stamp sheets by Judikins. I'm afraid that in my rush to do the cards I have no idea whose the background is but I do know that I bought it at The Glitter Pot and it is double-sided! This was also an ideal time to use my Nestabilities and my Prima Petite flowers that I bought a little while ago from The Craft Barn.

The images and wording were stamped with Stone Grey StazOn and then watercoloured with Zig Brushables.

I've also uploaded a print out of the actual stamp sheet too so that you can see the other images on there. Don't forget to catch the show on Monday to see what the girls make!

Meanwhile over the next few days I'll post up some more of the cards that I've made with these new stamps.

Another Date For Your Diaries

The Craft Barn are now officially advertising their June Extravaganza Weekend and I am thrilled to announce that I will be demoing for them on both the Saturday (6th June) and the Sunday (7th June). This is always a really popular event and has a really nice atmosphere.

This time it is being held back at the Lingfield Community Centre so if you live locally and are free do pop along. There are currently 17 demonstrators being advertised so you will be sure to find inspiration! As yet it hasn't been decided what I will be demoing but once this has been finalised I will let you know.

Meanwhile if you want to find out more information about this event click here to hop on over to The Craft Barn's website where you will find out who else will be demonstrating plus information on nearby hotels.

Dotted Flower

Good morning everyone. Just to prove that I do actually sometimes use the pretty backing papers that I buy I thought I'd post this card up that I did for a Stamp Addicts workshop a couple of years ago. As you can see I couldn't resist doing some stamped backgrounds too! The smaller flower in the bottom right corner was made by stamping the flower onto shrink plastic, colouring it and then shrinking. This bold flower is by The Artful Stamper and can be bought from Stamp Addicts - there are also some more great flowers in this range too.