Upcoming Workshops & Demos

Hi everyone,

Some of you have been asking where I'm teaching in the next few months ... so I thought it would be a good idea to give you an updated list ...

Saturday 14 May - That's Crafty
(Harold Wood, Essex - 01708 344146)

Art Journaling : 10am-4pm
Cost : £35 - SOLD OUT

Sunday 5 June - Birds In The Barn

(Marks Tey, Essex - 01206 211099)

Demonstration : 10am-1pm

Cost : FREE

Mixed Media Cards : 2pm-4pm

Cost : TBC

Saturday 23 July - The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin

(Rochford, Essex - 01702 547833)

Art Journaling : 10am-4pm

Cost : TBC

Saturday 29 October - Keep On Crafting

(Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 01284 701101)

Mixed Media Card Making : 10am-12.30pm
Cost : TBC

Mixed Media Triptcyh : 1.30pm-4pm
Cost : TBC


Saturday 4 November / Sunday 5 November - Stampers Grove
(Edinburgh, Scotland - 0131 221 9440)

Workshop Details & Cost Coming Soon

As you know, I love bright colours ... and I have lots of ideas to share with you ... so each class will be a bit different. I'll add photos to the blog once the class samples have been completed.

On each class we will of course be using the fabulous PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints and my PaperArtsy EEG stamp sets.  We'll also play with stamps, stencils & masks, mark making, textures, lots of layers and more...

I'd love you to join me. Why not contact the shops above to book your place...

Crafting At Ally Pally - Demo and Make & Take

Hi everyone,

As you may know, the craft show at Ally Pally is coming up in a couple of weeks (Sat 19th and Sun 20th to be exact).  Are you going?  I certainly am.

I'll be on the No.1 destination of the show ... the PaperArtsy stand ... and the Make & Take table will also be returning.  If you went to the show in April, you will know how popular this was and how quickly all the spaces sold out. If you want to do one of the projects ... get there early to book your place!

I'll be running a Make & Take Saturday morning ...

... and also demonstrating either side of that ...

... I have lots of ideas for backgrounds using the Golden Gels.  I might even get my gelli plate out and use it with a BRAND NEW medium from PaperArtsy!

Talking of brand new products ... they will of course have all the NEW stuff ... including TWO new seasonal stamp sets from yours truly. :)  Exciting times. You'd be mad to miss it!  If you want tickets or more information on the show, then you can find it here.

See you there!

WOW!

Hi everyone,

I'm so excited to share some news with you ... I am now officially a WOW demonstrator! {squeal}.

If you're not aware of who they are, then you can check them out here ... as you know, I {heart} embossing powder.  And look how many colours there are!   And foil too!

Last week I went to a demonstrator training day run by the fabulous Marion Emberson ... and she taught me a lot of stuff I did not know ... I got to play learn lots and I'm so excited to get started.  My head has been buzzing with ideas since, and I can't wait to get a chance to create some of them...

Here's a card I made this morning... (Yay, I took new photos, though this card has so much sparkle on it the photos still don't do it justice).

I used WOW! Mulberry Mist for the background stamp, WOW! Metallic Platinum Sparkle for the word and butterfly, and WOW! Metallic Gold Rich Pale for the "birthday".

Enjoy!

Ally Pally Make & Take

Hi everyone,

I've been asked by a few people for the instructions on how to make the 4"x6" card that was the Make & Take at The Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace a couple of weeks ago. So here goes...

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of Smoothy card 4"x6" and stick three pieces of book text onto the card. Then use a wet-wipe to add Snowflake paint over the book text.

2. Wipe Limelight paint and then Beach Hut paint over the card with a wet-wipe (leave some white space in the top right hand corner).  As the paints are translucent, you'll get a nice watercolour effect background.

3. Stamp the scalloped borders (EEG07) onto a scrap piece of Smoothy card, and then wipe Eggplant paint over them with a wet-wipe.

(Oops ... looks like I forgot the white paint over the book text in this photo!)

4. Sponge (or make up a water spray with) Snowflake paint through the stencil (PS016).

5. Stencil the square border along the two short ends of the card using a Jet Black Archival Ink Pad and Cut’n’Dry Foam (positioning the stencil so the main bit covers the card means you won't go over the edge on your card).  Outline the square border with a white Extra Fine Sharpie pen.

6. Stamp the large scribble circle (EEG07) randomly over the card (leave some blank space, and also think about where the photo will go).

7. Cut out the scalloped borders, and stick them and the photo (2.5"x4") in place.  Add detail with the white pen to the scalloped borders.

8. Stamp your chosen words (repeat them three times), and stamp the small scribble circle if necessary to fill in any gaps.

9. Add dots with the hard end of a paintbrush dipped into the blue paint (the more paint on the end and the harder you press the bigger the dot).

10. Edge the card with the black ink pad.

(Here's the finished French sample that they made in Paris)

  

(And a close up of the English version)

These cards were made using my brand new PaperArtsy stamp set EEG07.   You can find it here.

Enjoy!

New Stamps and Ally Pally Catch Up

Hi everyone,

What a fabulous weekend we had at Ally Pally!    Thank you so much to everyone who came to the PaperArtsy/It's Crafting Time stand to watch me, Darcy and the Guest Designers demo, do a Make & Take, and of course shop!

I'm normally useless at taking photos at shows, but I did manage to get a few this time (though I apologise now for the blurry ones!) ... 

Setting up on Friday

Ready for the show to open Saturday morning

Darcy, Courtney and Emma

Lots of lovely stamps

Nina's photobomb!

One of the new art boards

 A lovely bunch doing my Make & Take

 The lovely Jo Myhill demoing

 The very talented Liz Borer

 This was my demo ... a Project Life layout

It was lovely to catch up with some #PATWITS Saturday evening too ... and boy, we needed a drink!   It was a shame we couldn't stay longer, but Courtney and I had to get back to PA HQ to trim more stamps for Sunday!

Darcy, Courtney and Me

Alison, Jo and Kirsten

And some photos from Sunday...

The fabulous Alison Bomber and Julie-Ann Lee demoing

Julie-Ann and her wonderful bird samples

  

 Darcy with some of her Make & Takers

One of my demo samples

And if you came along to the show, then you'll have already seen these ... but if not, then I have some exciting news to share ... I have two BRAND NEW PaperArtsy stamp sets!   And yes, your eyes do not deceive you, they are in French.

Leandra asked me to design them for the Version Scrap show in Paris ... they do love their pocket scrapbooking over there!   But I managed to include lots of fun elements and borders (as well as one or two easily recognisable French words).  I hope you like them ... and if you "need" them ... you can find them both here.

The Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show

Hi everyone,

Well, this weekend is The Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace.  I'll be there on behalf of PaperArtsy, though the stand will be a little different this time around.    

Unfortunately the Ally Pally show clashes with Version Scrap in Paris, so Leandra came up with the fab idea of asking Nina at It's Crafting Time to hold the fort for her in London, while she, Mark and Lin go to Paris.   The stand will be in the same place and will look just like the normal PaperArtsy stand ... but this time we have an added bonus of a Make & Take table!

Darcy and I will be taking it in turns demoing and make & taking on both days, with the other demo desk taken up with a fab mix of guest designers from the PaperArtsy blog.

The Make & Takes will be on a first come first served basis ... so make sure you make a beeline for the stand as soon as you arrive and book your slot!   Here's a sneak peek of mine...

Which also gives away that I might just have a couple of new 'trés beau' stamp sets to be revealed at the show too...