Toadally fantastic card!

Meet Mr Toad, a card made using my Woodware stamp JGS560 Toadally Fatastic.

He’s coloured with Graphmaster alcohol markers, some favourite pens of mine now

since joining up with Creative Expressions.

Ive used a distress pad to create the green edges. 

Add some glitter glue for a toadally awesome finish!

Another card from Jacqui

Using JGB001 Jacqui’s Garden again. I’m loving this image for lots of colouring techniques.

This is done with distress inks and then bleached out in areas.

The embossing folder on the background is from Creative Expressions and

I can’t think of its code or name! Duh!

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Jar of dreams

Here’s wishing you all a very happy new year and may all your dreams come true.

Try making this shaker card yourself with my Woodware stamp JGS561.

Jacqui’s Garden

While in the USA last summer, I stayed with my brother and sister in law. My sister in law, Jacqui, had motor neurone disease. She had been suffering with this dreadful illness for nearly four years and while I was with them, she sadly passed away.

During my time with them I drew lots of images for my stamp designs and this image and is a larger than usual stamp set. The code is JGB001.

Toadstool delight

One of the cards that was on my recent Hochanda show showing my

toadstool stamp JGS554 toadstool clump.

I’ve coloured it with alcohol markers called Graphmaster pens from Creative Expressions.

It looks great with glossy accents on the red dots on the toadstool caps.

Art of Craft class

Thought I would share with you two of the cards we will be making

tomorrow afternoon (Saturday 6th May) at The Art of Craft.

I call them my 'Peek-a-boo"cards. 

The images I have used are from the latest collection of

Woodware stamps from Creative Expressions.

The first flower is JGS513 bold blooms - Delilah and the

purple flower is JGS511 bold blooms - Mildred.

Woodware challenge - Thank you

Now's the time to batch make some thank you cards to send to all those nice people

who invite you to parties, buy you presents or have you round to stay over the festive holidays.

With a little help the children can make these simple cards with punched or die cut shapes.

Hand draw in the tail feathers and wing and the google eye adds a bit of fun.

Crafty Carmakers - non traditional Christmas

These are not traditional Christmas trees even though the stamp set has been

designed as a Christmas one.

Its quite modern and you can add so many things to the image.

Here I have stamped in black and embossed with clear powder.

Then gone over the whole image with  faded jeans Distress Ink.

Once that covered all over, I use thin, household bleach to take away the ink.

Use an acrylic paint brush and here I've painted bleach onto all the circles

and have given an outline to the trees.

I also added extra dots of silver glitter glue.

Add some star gems and ribbon to finish.

If you don't want to use bleach, stick some blue or silver gems over the circles.

Woodware challenge - sketch 57

I've used a selection of music stamps to create this card.

The stamps used are…

JGS467 Christmas horn

JGS111 sheet music

JGS110 music notes

and here is the sketch that inspired it

Newbury Papercraft Show

I'm teaching three workshops at the

Newbury Papercraft show

on the 28th January 2017

Show time is 10.30 till 4.00

at the Berkshire Stand, Newbury Racecourse

Newbury Berkshire RG14 7NZ

Booking for the workshops are taken on the day, on a first come, first served basis.

Bookings can be made at the workshop booking desk from 10.00am.

Classes are....

10.30 till 12.00      12.30 till 2.00      2.30 till 4.00

We will be using Brushos and rubber stamps to create a double Z fold card

using four different techniques. Maybe you could bring an apron with you!

Here's a little taster.....

Woodware challenge - Christmas tags

Here is my little snowman tag made from….

three circles in different sizes from white card

two googly eyes

from card, hand cut a red scarf, brown twig arms and an orange carrot

black marker pen for his mouth

I have stuck the circles together using foam pads.

You can either write your message on the reverse or around the edge of the circles.

Woodware challenge - Quick Christmas

All you need for this quick'ish card is…..

white linen card

stamp JGS357 delightful dangles

Watermark ink pad

silver embossing powder

marker pen in your choice of colour

silver card for layering

All the images on this card are on the same stamp set.

Woodware challenge - Table decorations for Christmas

I just love making these Christmas trees from paper mache cones, Dreamweaver

white embossing paste and as many embellishments from my craft stash.

This can include buttons, sequins, gems, beads, card candy and more.

Just spread the paste in small area first, push in the buttons or gems, spread more paste

and continue till its all covered. Don't be tempted to cover the whole thing

with paste because it will start to dry before you have finished.

I've used a small sherry glass as my stand and have put some

chocolates in the glass as a surprise.

Why not make one for each guest at Christmas lunch with their favourite choccie in the glass.

Woodware challenge - sketch 56

I like this sketch and it lends itself to die cut letters brilliantly.

I've used my stamp JGS102 Rudolf and have coloured him in with Copic and the Pointillist technique. It's lots of dots basically.

I like to colour my background with a light shade and use three darker

colours to do the dots. I've added a grey line under the image

outline to create a shadow effect.

You will need a set of die cut letters and cut up some little squares to fit.

Woodware challenge - Christmas greetings for the men in our lives

My slipper stamp set JGS428 man slippers, has come in very handy for this weeks challenge!

Stamped in black, they have been coloured using a combination of Copics

and marker pens to create the 'tartan' effect.

I've used two mini pom poms as decoration and have stamped a tag onto shrink plastic.

I had to write the 'to my husband' underneath the greeting using a permanent pen!

It adds a personal touch I think!

Woodware challenge - from our house to yours at Christmas

Using my Woodware stamp set JGS408 three houses, I've created this folk art type Christmas card using marker pens, glitter glue and fluffy stuff.

I punched the heart and hand wrote the words with a Sakura white pen.

I also cut out the windows and stuck some yellow card behind the house image in 3D to create the look of a warm, cosy festive interior.

I also cut out the windows and stuck some yellow card behind the house image in 3D to create the look of a warm, cosy festive interior.

Stamping and card making class at The Craft Barn 10th November

It would be great to see some friendly faces on my class on Thursday 10th November

at the Lingfield Community Hall, Lingfield, Surrey.

Please join me for some Christmas and spring cards made with my

Woodware stamp designs.

There will be die cutting, colouring, folding and a fancy fold or two.

Here is a little taster of one of the cards.

Crafty Carmakers challenge - Things that go BUMP in the night!

IF YOU DON'T LIKE SPIDERS - THEN LOOK AWAY NOW!!

Woodware are again sponsoring Crafty Cardmakers this week the theme is Things That Go Bump in The Night the theme runs for two weeks on there blog.

Don't forget to check out the Crafty Cardmakers blog and play along with us all, we have a prize!

As I don't have any Halloween themed stamps I've made a dinky little

gift bag for sweets which you could give away to those trick or treaters.

The finished bag is only about 8cm x 8cm and is made from a piece of orange paper

that measures  18cm x 11cm. You could make any size you like though.

Hopefully the following photos will guide you through the step by step.

I decorated the bag with a hand drawn cob web using a Sakura black pen

and made my own spider. I'm sure there must be a spider die out there.

Cut paper to 18cm x 11cm

Fold both sides to the middle overlapping a little and
stick together

Fold the bottom up by approx 2cm and fold
the top down about 1cm

Open out the bottom folds so it looks like
his and keep it flat

Cut a small piece of matching paper
big enough to cover the base and stick over the folds

The base finished. Put your hand inside to
open out the bag, fill with treat!

Woodware challenge - Falling Leaves

For this weeks Woodware challenge I am revisiting an old stamp

called English Leaves JGCL566. 

It has a selection of six leaves on it, four of which I have used on this card.

I have distressed the background, spritzed it with water and blotted the water away.

Some leaves are stamped onto the card and some have been cut out

and put on with foam pads.

I use a Kaleidacolor ink pad in Autumn Leaves, quite appropriate!

The greeting comes from a Woodware singles stamp JWS003.

Woodware challenge - Sketch 55

This week we have a sketch a bit of a wobbly effort from Dorothy but perfect for this stamp set...

For this weeks challenge I've used JGS477, my football boot stamp set.

Stamp out nine football boots, cut out and arrange over a piece of contrasting card.

Attach the cut out and coloured boot to the corner of the card so it swings around.

I've attached the stamped football boot to the
corner of the card so it swings around.