Long time no see everybody, are you all still there? I promise to try and keep in touch and update my blog more often. Must take my ca,era with me to classes 'cos I've had some brilliant photo opportunities during my classes around the country and I've not recorded them!!!

I've been up in Yorkshire and and Lancashire teaching this week and Easter has come at just the right time to give me a quick break before the next batch of classes this week. The Glitter Pot went well last Saturday, a chocolate inspired class with mini Easter eggs, home made chocolate cup cakes with pink, yellow and mint green icing (yummmy!). I think the girls liked them. We made some fun cards with browns, greens and pinks. The class is being repeated in May so I can't show you photos just yet so I don't spoil it for the ladies due on that date!!

Here we have another 'extreme' floral punch craft flower for you. It's big, about four inches across. I'm making them with some wonderful ladies in Farnborough  this Saturday at The Art of Craft, another very fine craft store with terrific staff.

You will have to make do with this pretty picture of some very cute lambs at the back of my friends garden in Skipton. What a place to live, fantastic views and peace and quiet. I just love this time of year and seeing the lambs in the field was such a bonus.

I'm in the process of designing my new Christmas stamps for 2009. I've done six sets so far and if I have time hope to do some ideas for Valentines and Easter next year with a few others thrown in for good measure.

Don't desert me just yet, I'll be back to show you more things to inspire you and news from fun classes. Watch out, it could be you pictured on my next blog.

The cat's whiskers..

I have a very happy cat on my lap at present... he's so pleased to see me because I've been away in LA for a week (trade show) and he won't let me out of his sight. I've come back with some great ideas for classes and demos so keep a look out for those on The Glitter Pot list. I tried out some fun make and takes and picked up inspiring catalogues. Not much to report really other than that. Looking forward to seeing some of you ladies on my classes this week especially my Rubber Stamp Tapestry class. Let's hope the stamps are in in time!!!

This is just a little taster of my new set of cat stamps. There's lots of images on the clear set so you can make nice background paper and even shrink the cat images using shrink plastic.

There are some fun new classes coming up at The Glitter Pot and Crafts U Love during February and March so please look out for those.

I'm back....!

I've not been hibernating, just getting on with lots of ideas for classes and new stamp designs.

 We had a great class last week at The Glitter Pot making extremley big flowers, here is an example of the flower we made. There is another card on display in the shop, so if you missed the class or were just too busy (Joanne, where were you, we missed your company) you can perhaps work out how I made it.

I cut up a large punched Woodware Cherry punch, edged the petals with black pigment ink. Using the DEET tool and mat, made lots of long character lines along the petals which created a kind of corrugated effect and curved the petals at the same time. 

I then punched a 2 inch circle and stuck a petal at 12, 3, 6 and 9 'o' clock positions. Then filled in the gaps working towards the middle in the same way. Leave an inch circular gap in the middle.

Punch out lots of smaller regular daisies from black card and cut them up into individual petals, then make a single character line with DEET through the centre. 

Using Woodware black Fluffy Stuff add some little blobs all over a 1 inch punched circle and heat to puff up (this stuff is brilliant for FPC projects, just watch out for it on my ice cream cards which come out in February!). Stick lots of petals around the edge of the circle from the back. Then using a good blob of glue stick this circle in the middle of your flower. Now you can see why it is important to leave that gap in the middle of your flower.

Hope you enjoy my card.

How about this shot then girls? What a line up!

Taken down in Exmouth on the 13th October at a Japonica workshop day.

I'm on the far left and Janet Caudrelier who owns the shop is on the far right. We had a great day and lots of exciting projects went on through the day. Her next one is in March next year so if you are in the area why not join us for another fantastic workshop session. Just contact Japonica for more info.

Thanks to all the girls who came to The Glitter Pot today to do Doodlebug and Magenta classes with me. We had a really nice day. The cards are all in the shop and I forgot to take photos of them again to put on my blog!!!

Off to Chichester to The Eternal Maker tomorrow to do Floral Punch Craft. So must go the bed and get some beauty sleep. Eastbourne on Friday and them Crafts U Love for a demo day on Saturday - gosh it's all go!!

Budapest was fantastic and very interesting, would love to go back and have a session in the thermal spas.

My next class at The Glitter Pot is on Saturday 15th November when we will be using the Art Impressions selection of trees. There are quite a few tree stamps in the range and I've got some interesting ideas up my sleeve. I look forward to seeing you all again if you have booked a space. There is a reserve list of people who can't get on the class so I might just try and persuade Bryan and Carolyn to put on another repeat for you.

I'm off to The Stoke Gallery in Gosport, Hampshire this Saturday to take a floral punch craft class. We are making 'mock orange blossom' and a session making leaves of all kinds, colouring them and learning how to put them together to make a leafy display. Fancy doing that at The Glitter Pot next year?

Just thought you might like to see a nice little photo of me with Leone Em taken a few years back while we were teaching in Skipton, Yorkshire. Have a fun week. Bye for now.

Today at The Glitter Pot

Thanks to all the ladies who came to my Rubber Stamp Tapestry class today, I think we all had a great time and everybody made some beautiful pictures ready to be mounted onto Christmas cards and Birthday cards. Once my samples are completed ie made into cards too! I'll get them photographed and on my blog. But there are lots of ideas at the shop. Off to Budapest on Sunday, no not to teach rubber stamping or floral punch craft but to get some quality time with my hubby and some serios relaxing for me. The cats are going into their usual hotel with Aunty Maureen till Wednesdy, I miss them already.

Poinsettia Perfection

Another great class at The Glitter Pot with some smashing ladies a couple of weeks ago produced this brilliant card in the floral punch craft class. Its easy peasy using a Christmas tree punch cut up to make the petal shape. Want to find out more? Then come and see me at The Glitter Pot this Saturday 18th October when I will be demonstrating Rubber Stamp Tapestry, see you then.

I'm off to Luton this Sunday to teach more floral punch craft to 18 ladies who are customers of Inspire Craft, a little gem of a shop stocked full of wonderful things and run by two fabulous people Helen and Paul. We will be making daffodils, orchids and fuchsias.

Last weekend I was in Exmouth at Japonica doing a workshop day. I used my Winter Warmers set of Christmas stamps and we made cute tags with stockings and hats. Janet (who owns Japonica) has some very nice customers. Lets hope I get invited back there again soon.