Winterstoke Road Craft Club

Tonight we held our 3rd craft club class.  Our theme was 'male' with the thought of Fathers Day in mind.

Here are my examples from the class:

Here are the ladies hard at work!!!

And here are the finished creations:

Enza

Di

Ruth

Josie

Joan

The ladies all had a fabulous evening and their creations were wonderful!





Sunday Stamper - Week 207 - Words

It's been a scorcher of a weekend!!!  Unfortunately I have been feeling under the weather and so have not been able to enjoy the beautiful sunshine.

 Over at Hels' place this week, the Sunday Stamper theme is 'words'.  Here is my creation:

I coloured a tag using shabby shutters and broken china distress ink.  I then flicked water over the tag to leave some lovely watermarks.  I edged the tag using walnut stain ink.  The script is one of my favourites - French script stamp from Stampin' Up.  The doily was die cut using a fabulous new die that I found and quote stamped using broken china distress ink.

To finish, I created a rosette which I finished with a button and used 2 heart pins.

Hope you like my creation.  Pop over to Hels'   to see what everyone else has created.

Thanks for looking.

Alcohol Ink Techniques Workshop

A couple of weeks ago I attended an alcohol inks workshop at The Stamp Attic, which is owned by the lovely Wendy.   The workshop was run by the wonderfully talented Hels Sheridan. 

The workshop taught us 13 techniques with alcohol inks - which was great, because if you are like me you have loads of them but only know how to do a couple of things with them!

At the end of the workshop we bound our techniques into a tag book

As you can see from my pic I messed up by not lining my words up  correctly!!  But, regardless of this, I am delighted with my results!

Here are some of my faves:

If you haven't attended a workshop with Hels yet, you need to get booking!!! Not only that but you get to browse the wonderful Stamp Attic which is a crafter's heaven!!!

Thanks for looking....

New Home

Evening everyone. 

Hope you are enjoying the lovely weather at the moment.  I finally got to spend a couple of hours in the garden yesterday - it has only scratched the surface though!

Today I would like to share a card that I made for friends of ours:

I stencilled shabby shutters and broken china distress ink through a circle stencil (one of my faves) and over stamped a French text stamp in the same colours.

I stamped the Paper Artsy houses in Archival ink and coloured them before cutting out and adhering to the card.  I stamped the ruler directly onto the card using walnut distress ink.

To finish I die cut the wording and glued to the card.  The card was edged in walnut stain distress ink.

Hope you like it!!



WOYWW Week 154

Well, it's that time of week again!  Don't really know where the last 7 days have gone!  If you are wondering what this is all about, pop over to Julia's to see what everyone is up to.

Firstly, thank you so much for all of the kind comments last week - I was quite overwhelmed.  I promise that at some point over the next 2 weeks I will post a tutorial of how I made the gerberas - so keep checking back!

Here is my desk this week:

I've only just tidied away from craft club last week so there is not much going on right now.  Later today I plan to have a good play with my Tim Holtz and Wendy Vecchi goodies, so you may get a peek at y creations later in the week.

Right I am off  to snoop at everyone elses' space.  See you later!

Rebel Stampers Tag Swap

The theme for this month's tag swap was 'ribbon'.  Here is my swap:

I coloured the tag using wild honey distress stain and then used a stencil to add more texture.

The main image is a Stampin' Up label die which you can get the matching apothecary art stamps for, one of which I have used here.

As for the ribbons  - starting from the top!  I coloured seam binding with bundled sage distress for the attached ribbon.  I created paper ribbon using tissue tape and a satin rose using satin ribbon.

Below this there is pleated ribbon (which is new from Stampin' Up) and lace.  I have also added a thin satin ribbon and gems to this.

Finally I have used a shaped ribbon for the bottom.

Thanks for looking.

So, lots of ribbon!!! 

If  youfancy joining in with the monthly swaps, join in over at Rebel Stampers

Winterstoke Road Craft Club

This evening I held the 2nd craft class at work.  The 'theme' was die-cutting.  Most of the ladies had never seen a die-cutting machine, let alone use one!  They were amazed with their efforts, as was I - well done ladies!!  Here are some photos of them hard at work!

Here is what we created:

And here are the finished creations:

Jennie

Chris

Amanda

Ruth

Josie

Tracey

I'm sure that you will agree that there are some fabulous creations!  Looking forward to the next workshop already!

Thanks for looking!