Workshops Update

Hi everyone,

Just a heads up that I will be teaching two workshops at The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin on Saturday 16th September. All the details are here, or you can contact Sharon Everett on 01702 547833.

And then I'm at That's Crafty on Saturday 28th October for an all day art journaling class.

Hope to see you there!

JulyWorkshop #1

Our apologies, but we have had to cancel the Crop & Shop and workshops on Saturday 18 June. The workshops will now take place on the next date, which is Saturday 16 July. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

March Workshop #1

October Workshop #1

Hanging Around

Hi everyone,

Here's a lovely little project for you ... a door hanger decorated JOFY style!   We have the wooden door hangers in our shop here ... they are only £1.25 each!

Instructions
1. Paint the door hanger with Fresco Finish Stone, Taupe and French Roast.   I used a piece of Cut'n'Dry Foam to apply the paint.  The first coat will soak in, but I applied only a light second coat as I liked the fact you could see the wood grain through it.

2. Stamp the words (JOFY31) using Fresco Finish Snowflake.   Remember to not apply too much paint each time ... and make sure you clean your stamp straight after.

3. Paint an A5 size piece of Smoothy card with Candy Floss, Orchid, Spanish Mulberry and Mermaid.   I let the pink colours blend together to create a graduated effect.

4. Stamp your grasses and flowers (JOFY09, JOFY22, JOFY33) onto your door hanger using a Coffee Archival Ink Pad.   You will need to know what ribbons you are going to use later to work out where to position the stamping.  It's nice to have some of the flowers etc going off the edges/slightly over the hole.

5. Paint over your grasses/stems using Fresco Finish Hey Pesto (a translucent paint so it won't cover up the stamping).   Add highlights/shadows with Fresco Finish Green Olives and Old Gold (these are more semi-opaque, so you'll need to be more careful with them).  Paint in the dots using the Mermaid paint (again, this is an opaque paint, so be careful).  When everything is dry, use a brown pen to go back over any detail you've lost.

6. Stamp the flowers you need onto your painted cardstock.  Highlight areas with a gold paint pen.  Then cut them out and stick them onto your door hanger using 3D Foam Pads.

7. Glue your ribbons into place.

8. To finish add some dots with a White Sharpie Extra Fine Pen, and go around the door hanger with Brass Treasure Gold.

Enjoy!

Oriental Flower Card

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share a card I've made using one of the rather gorgeous JOFY stamps from PaperArtsy.   Not sure if this flower is oriental or not ... but I think it looks like it.

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of white card 3.5"x5.5" and have another spare piece a similar size.  I started by stamping my greeting (from the imagine that... Write Big stamp set) first (as it was quite large and I wanted to make sure it would definitely fit). I used Jet Black Archival Ink as it is waterproof.  Stamp the large flower image (from the JOFY32 stamp set) on both of the pieces of card (the sized piece will be for the front of your card, and the spare piece for the cut out flowers).   Outline the piece that is going on the front of your card with double lines using a black fineliner pen.

 

2.   Paint the flowers on the spare piece of card using Prawn Fresco Finish paint (from the Limited Edition JOFY 3 set) and then shade the centres with London Bus Fresco Finish paint.  When dry, cut out the flowers and the large bud at the top.

 

3. Colour the buds and stalks on the card front piece using the same paints as in Step 2, plus Hey Pesto Fresco Finish paint.  All these paints are translucent, so they won''t obscure the lines of your stamped images. You don't need to paint the flowers and bud that you painted on the spare piece.

4. Make a card blank from black card (8"x6" - folded in half to make a 4"x6" card). Cut a mat measuring 3.75"x5.75" from gold card. Stick the gold card and card front to the card blank.   

5. Shape your flower petals around a pencil so that they curve slightly. Glue them onto your card.  Add some accents using a gold paint pen.

Enjoy!