Housey, Housey

Last weekend....hold your breath... I made a CARD!! My DD has just moved into a new flat, and besides the ubiquitous moving in present, I thought I would make her a card. Now I never make cards, but you know moving house is always a special occasion....so what better than to use Kat's gorgeous House stamps to make a card.. I used Dylusions sprays to give it some background, and the sun was inked with Distress paints. I stamped all the houses and coloured them in with the new colours of Distress markers...love the brightness of them! I cut out the houses and layered them on, cutting out the doors to open. Very simple to do, and the words were like clouds floating in the sky!

I hope you like, and have a creative day
Hugs

Neglected, sad and a Happy giveaway!

That is what this poor old blog of mine is feeling...I have left her ( it is a her!) alone and unloved all week, in fact a whole 10 days! Has the mojo gone awol? Have I dropped off the planet?..no! Just been busy making these wonderful new stamps for you, and catching up on much needed business and family life. The Artistic Stamper launched some new stamps yesterday with more to come,   I have been playing with them this morning. Lots of ColorWash sprays, the new stamps, of course, and, oh be still my beating heart ,Tim's new Chitchat Stickers....fabulous for tags and journals... I have coloured mine with the new distress markers , and did go a bit overboard! but they take the colour well. I also played with a Picket Fence white over the black Archival stamps, and thought oops.. not colouring and then "pop" the white appears! loving it.. may be my favourite new pen....
Now would you like to win a set of these and this tag?

Then go on, post me a comment ( nice ones only please..LOL)  I will pick the winner next weekend...lots of time to add more comments and tell your friends, and if you would like another chance then pop over to our facebook page, and add a comment there too!
I am spending part of the day demoing at Pickleberry Papercrafts , so if you are in our part of Kent, please do come and say hello.
Have a creative weekend and good luck in the candy
Hugs

mini canvas workshop

Yesterday was great fun as always! A mini half day workshop at Pickleberry with yours truly always makes me realise that there is so much potential out there, and oh boy we always have so much fun! The idea was to semi recreate Tim's workshop from Stitches with the tools that we had. I managed to get a full set of the new Distress marker pens for everyone to use and try, and with lots of die cutting and craft knife cutting ( I was amazed that some people had never used a craft knife to cut out!) new techniques were learnt, and gorgeous original artwork was made! Thank you to Rosemary, Barbara, Lesley, Caroline, Liz and Carole for putting up with me, and to Kate for hosting!
Here are a few of the creations made during the morning. No pics of the class as I had my camera on the wrong setting and they are just a blur!! doh! Must remember to check settings before taking pictures! The last one is mine, and only half of it as I didn't get time to finiahs it! too busy teaching!!

Have a a very creative day

Splish splosh and a bit of spray!

No it is not raining in my world..thank heavens, just a lot of colour and spraying and an altered book page made with the fabulously colourful Dyan Reaveley at Stitches last weekend! I have been hooked on altered books since I first did a workshop, almost 10 years ago at what was then HIA ( now CHA) in the States! Tear up a book...never! sacrilegious! How could you? It was heart rending to tear that first page ( of an old and unwanted book, of course!) but I have never looked back. Don't get me wrong, I adore books, and am always buying them, but if a book is unloved and about to be tipped, then recycle it, and use it to make art!
Dyan showed us a great technique and we got to try her new sprays with Ranger ( they will be in the shop soon :)) and some of her stamps and her stencils .. . Lots of paint and my hands were their normal mess when we finished. Thanks Dy, it was a little bit of colour in a black and white world.

I am off shortly to my workshop at Pickleberry, to show my girls the new Distress Markers, and to give them a taster of working with them! hehe. My gorgeous loving hubbie bought them for me as pressie from QVC.. how lucky am I? You can pre-order them from us.... sadly not due in for at least 3 weeks as they have been delayed from Ranger. This week we have FREE postage with no minimum order!
Have a very creative day
Hugs