New Stamp Designs - EEG16, EEG17, EEG18 & Minis

Hi everyone,

I have a surprise for you ... tonight I get to reveal three more brand new stamp sets from PaperArtsy ... and eight minis! Whoop!

The stamps are in the same style as the last three ... lots of bigger images, quotes and phrases, and some useful little bitty stamps. The Mini's have essential sentiments for card making in the same typewriter style font as the big sets ... which I love because they'll work for boys and girls, plus some other on trend background images. 

So, here are the actual stamps...

 

What do you think? I hope your brain is buzzing with ideas of what you could do with them.

If you pop over to the PaperArtsy blog, tonight is the big release night! You'll get to see what I made with the stamps, and also some fantastic pieces made by my wonderful wingmen (Tracy Scott, Gabrielle Price and Kim Osbourn).

And there's a video ... lights, camera, action ...

They are all available to buy here if you must have them straight away! :)

Thank you once again to my fabulous wingmen - your creativity left me speechless!

Enjoy!

February Workshop #2

February Workshop #1

New Stamp Designs - EEG13, EEG14 & EEG15

Hi everyone,

Well tonight I get to share with you my brand new stamp designs from PaperArtsy...

Before we get to the stamps themselves, here's a close up of a journal page I made with one of the new sets...

These stamps were inspired by my love of art journaling. If you've ever seen me demo, you'll know I love my paint, stamps and layering - and these stamps are perfect for that. And quotes ... yay ... I do love my quotes. But they're not just for art journaling - you'll see plenty of ideas over on the PaperArtsy blog for cards, canvases, scrapbooking, ATC's etc.

And here are the actual stamps...

Some of you will have seen EEG13 and EEG15 in your local craft shop (or on the imagine that... website) for a few weeks as Leandra released them as an early Christmas present, but EEG14 is brand new.

Over on the PaperArtsy Blog you can see what my fabulous wingmen (Anneke De Clerck, Lauren Hatwell and Etsuko Noguchi) made with the stamps, and I also have a couple of projects that I show step-by-step.

Lights ... camera ... action ...

I hope the projects have got your inspiration flowing and if you think you might "need" them, then they are all available to buy here.

Thank you once again to my wonderful wingmen - you did a brilliant job ladies!

And ssssshhh, this is top secret ... but there might be more to come very soon.

Enjoy!

Workshops In Essex

Hi everyone,

I have some great news ... I'm going to be teaching and demoing at some fabulous shops in Essex over the next few months.

Saturday 12 March - Birds In The Barn
(Marks Tey, Essex - 01206 211099)

Mixed Media Card Making : 10am-12.30pm
Cost : £20

Free Demonstrations : 1.30pm-4pm

Saturday 2 April - The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin
(Rochford, Essex - 01702 547833)

Art Journaling : 10am-3.30pm
Cost : TBC

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

Art Journaling : 10am-4pm
Cost : £35

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.

We will of course be using the fabulous PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints ... plus my brand new stamp sets that are being launched at the CHSI Trade Show in February! We'll play with stamps, stencils & masks, mark making, textures, lots of layers and more...

I'd love to see you there ... so why not contact the shops above and book your place!

Because She Chooses To See The World In Bright Bold Colours

Hi everyone,

I spent a lovely day yesterday with Emma Humphreys and we played in our art journals. A couple of the pages I can't share just yet (new stamps alert!), but this one I can ...

I really wanted to use this quote (it's a Donna Downey stencil), and the brown splodges were already on my pages (a mop up from another page when I was playing with Bistres),

I stuck some music book text down and then added a few more splodges with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Limelight and Beach Hut paints.  I then stenciled the quote and stamped the circles from my PaperArtsy stamp set EEG15 using a Jet Black Archival Ink pad.

I coloured in the circles with the same paint colours, plus Eggplant (they're all translucents - so you can still see the stamping through them - yay!). To finish I stamped a PaperArtsy Mini text stamp in the big circles, added some scribbles (randomly and around the circles) with a HB pencil, some dots with the Eggplant paint (using the wrong end of a paintbrush), and some details with an Extra Fine White Sharpie Pen.  Done.  It was such a quick page to do - think it only took me 20 minutes!

Enjoy

January Workshop #2

January Workshop #1