Yesterday, I pushed myself further out of my comfort zone and did my first of 4 planned online workshops. I was joined by 6 lovely crafters for a ‘facebook live’ session, working with me to make up two project kits that I had previously posted out to them. I wasn’t too sure how well it would work, but using Facebook Live meant that the video was available afterwards for those who wanted to ‘make’ in their own time.
All projects over the 4 weeks use the Graces Garden Stampset, so all participating had purchased this. I used the mini pizza boxes for the first project, and the lovely Garden Lane Designer series papers, and supplied pre cut shapes from the co ordinating die set. I was worried that stamping onto an already cut shape might prove difficult, but most seemed to manage fine, but there was spare card to use incase of mess ups!
The sentiment was a mix of 2 that are in the stamp set, carefully ‘merged’ by using masking tape.
The second project was a card, again using the Garden Lane papers. This time we carefully removed the bottom part of the gate arch to make a solid piece to stamp the greeting on, before placing the die cut gate over.
The flowers were stamped onto the pre cut shape, coloured with the medium of our choice (I used water colour pencils for mine) and glued next to the gate after layering the paper and daffodil yellow card.
If lockdown continues, I am planning on doing more online workshops. If you are interested…contact me
Since Covid 19 and lockdown, i have been doing Facebook Lives every Monday and Thursday.
I’ve decided I perhaps ought to show you what I’ve been doing. Each day is still available to view, so if you want to go back over any, then you can, or better still join me ‘Live’ on Monday at 11am (BST) and Thursdays at 2pm (BST).
Scrappy Strips technique
cased from Bruno Bertucci
using Perennial Essence DSP and Floral Essence Stampset for sentiment for ‘Congratulations’ card
Perennial Essence DSP and sentiment from Peaceful Moments Stamp set for ‘All days are…..’
Subtles cardstock collection and Happy Birthday to You (SAB SET) for ‘Happy Birthday card
Easter Cards
Fabled Friends, Painted Poppies and Very Versaille Stamp sets used for these three
Tricorn Card
Idea from 2biggirlscrafting.co.uk from a sample given at a Stampin’ Up! convention
My cards used Bonanza Buddies and Family Party
and Best Catch stamp sets
Come Fly with Me!
A spot of masking with Free as a Bird stampset for the first card, and then co ordinating papersfor the second
Twisted Easel
Lilypad lake stamps and dies were used for the Egret card
Sea of Textures stamp set and co ordinating (retired) papers were used for the Octopus cards
A lot of Hot Air
Above the Clouds stamp set was used for all of these cards.
Bottom left card used ‘It Starts with Art’ Designer series papers for the balloons. And all used blends for colouring
Impossible Card
Can’t give this card credit to anyone in particular as there are hundreds of versions online, but here’s mine.
Ornate Thanks stamp set and co ordinating dies and papers were used for the floral card, and Geared up Garage stamps, dies and (retired) papers were used for the ‘car’ design
Want to find out more….pop over to The Stamping Booth Facebook page to see how these were made.
Hi, all. Hope you’re all keeping safe and well in this difficult time.
My life has changed lots since Covid19 appeared in our world as I’m sure yours has too. But I cant complain…most of my days were spent crafting, whether that was at home or in one of the various craft groups I attended or in the Coffee and a Card group I run and nothing has stopped me still crafting at home and now I’ve pushed myself out of my comfort zone and got out into the big wide world using Facebook Live
If you’ve missed them, just pop onto my Facebook page (the stamping booth) and you can always watch again.
Here are two of the Easter cards I demonstrated on Monday this week,
Easter Bunny
Fabled Friends stamp set
Easter..the Cross
Very Versailles stampset
Discontinued amazing you stamp set
‘Other’ brand cross
and the third card is another you might wish to try yourself. Details are under the picture.
Easter Greetings
Peaceful Poppies
Beautiful Bouquet
Fabled Friends
Instructions for the Easter Greetings card ;
For this card I used an A4 piece of whisper white card as the base cut in half down the length and scored in half.
The Crushed Curry layer was made up of plain Crushed Curry card stock measuring 7.5cmx 14.9cm, with a piece of Crushed Curry designer series paper from the regals collection measuring 7cm x 14.4cm glued centrally together.
I used the inner of one of the flowers from the Beautiful bouquet set to stamp along both long edges of the card base in Crushed Curry ink and then added the gingham layer it, lining up centrally from the edges.
On a piece of Whisper White measuring 9cm x6cm, I stamped the flowers from the Peaceful Poppies set using memento ink. I then coloured the flowers using dark and light Daffodil Delight blends to give a bit of texture.
This was then mounted onto a piece of Crushed Curry card measuring 9.5cm x 6.5cm. This whole piece was then attached to the card base using dimensionals.
The greeting was from the Fabled Friends stamp set, which was stamped in memento ink and then die cut with the layering ovals dies, as was the scalloped oval in Crushed Curry. These were glued together and then mounted onto the card with dimensionals
Bet you’re all in shock…..not long after publishing January’s blog, i’m posting February’s too!! Can’t beat striking while the iron is hot!
Firstly i’d like to apologise for the lack of pictures in my product lists…..the website I get them from seems to have thrown a wobbly and won’t work for me at the moment, but I am pushing them to try to help me sort it!
I’d also like to give credit to the people whose designs I’ve ‘cased’ this month….Splitcoast stampers for the ‘Woven Heirlooms’ card, Sally Stampers for ‘The Gangs all Meer’ card and unfortunately I cant remember who I got the ‘shoe Box’ idea and dimensions from, but Thank you!!
Here is what we’ve made this month at our Coffee and a Card group;
Do you like what you see? Come along for an hour (or so’s) crafting….every Monday 11 til 12 ish at The Mallard, Westwood Lakes, Boston, Lincs. PE20 1 RY
You can click on any of the items to go to my shop to purchase or contact me to place an order. If you want any more information please use the contact me tab at the top of this item
As a completely disorganised person, I have decided to try to get my blog in order this year! Yes, I know we are already into February, but that just proves my point as to how dis organised I am!
Instead of attempting to show you all on a weekly basis what we have made at Coffee and a Card groups, I am going to bump several weeks together, thus writing one post for several cards. So, Yes, it will be a bit longer, but I will NOT go into so much detail.
January Coffee and a Card
Below is a list of products used, if you want more detail, then please drop me a message using the contact me tab above
Not only can we put the last year behind us and make plans for whats to come, be they new year resolutions, holiday plans, weddings, house moves….we also have the Stampin’Up mini catalogue and Sale-a-bration catalogue to look forward to!
They are both available right now… contact me right now to get one heading your way!
After a hectic Christmas, today was the start of Coffee and a Card for 2020 and we started the year with products from both the mini catalogue and also free products from the sale-a-bration set.
As i said, I have had quite a busy time, so the two cards we made were ‘cased’ from ideas on pinterest. The first by ‘thecraftyscouter.com’, and the second by ‘Lynn Dunn -stamptastic designs.com’
On November 1st, this lovely product suite becomes available and although it is designed as a Christmas suite, I think we all love roses whatever time of year.
It is limited time only. Contact me for more information
Prep is nearly all done.. come and see some of whats on offer from Stampin’ Up! this autumn/winter and grab your copy of the catalogue…Saturday Sept 7th, 2 til 4pm at Holy Trinity Church Lounge, Spilsby Road, Boston.
So, on Tuesday I hosted my first ever workshop. It wasn’t too complicated as we used the lovely ‘Hugs from Shelli’ Paper Pumpkin kit, which had everything you needed to make 12 lovely cards.
10 lovely ladies joined me at my home ( and they had the bonus of seeing my much talked about extension and new kitchen), and we had 2 hrs of crafting fun.
As I mentioned, the kit is designed to make 12 cards, 3 each of 4 designs, and on the afternoon that’s what we set out to make.
But as some had commented that the ‘notecard’ sizes were small compared to what they normally made, I displayed an assortment of cards that I had made, making the cards into larger cards, one of which was almost C5 size.
These are the designs that came with the kit…..
And these are some of the ones I made as alternatives.
Not sure if they will ever release a Paper Pumpkin Kit again in the UK, but I feel another workshop may be needed – whether they do or not!
What a fab time I had…. think everyone who attended did too.
The past few days have been a little ‘grey’ to say the least, so I thought i’d share with you a blog hop I’m taking part in that hopefully will brighten your days and remind you of the better days to come!
Firstly let me tell you what a blog hop is!
A group of crafters have all made there own Spring themed card and then posted them on their Blog. If you follow the links at the end of my blog, then you can ‘hop’ across to another blog to see their card, and then the next persons and so on.
Hope you’ll all take a peak at what others have done.
Spring Blog hop
My card is made using Balmy Blue, Daffodil Yellow (how appropriate!!) with touches of Pumpkin Pie and Tranquil Tide (pearls on the butterflies) and although you can’t see in the photo, I used some Wink of Stella on the daffodil trumpets.
If you want to make the same, here are the ingredients;
Don’t forget to check out all the other people who’ve taken time to join this blog hop, by clicking on the links below
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