Hi everyone, today I’m continuing the birdie theme with a lovely bird zen tangle stamp from Lost coast designs. I’m also using one of my gelli plate print background designs which was created using Amsterdam acrylic paints. This is how it began. To create extra texture and colour, using Carabelle studio stamps,distress oxide and archival… Continue reading Fly free
This canvas is a little play using a few left overs after a gelli plate mono printing session. I liked the marks left by a shadow print. It created some lovely rough texture. Waste not want not! I used Amsterdam acrylic paint, inks and pastels. The stamp and mask are Carabelle studio. Highlights were added… Continue reading Tweet tweet
Hi everyone it’s Visible Image day again. Today I’m featuring the fabulous new Sea horse stamp teamed up with one of the wonderful new backgrounds. It’s an mdf tag mixed media piece. It’s a more masculine project- makes a change! Links to the stamps can be found here: https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/create-your-calm/https://visibleimage.co.uk/product/elemental/ The tag uses a mixture of… Continue reading Create your own calm
Well for some Valentine’s inspiration I brushed the dust of my Gelli plate; I took out a few products from Carabelle studio, a stencil, distress inks and a few acrylic paints.. and oh what fun! Here are some of the main products used: I also used a couple of the printing stamps from Carabelle; a… Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day
Today I’m sharing a couple of sewing projects using the ‘Vintage tea party’ Sara Signiture collection from Crafter’s Companion. With the Gemini die cutting machine and a little fabric stabiliser there’s no reason why you can’t use your dies to produce shapes for your appliqué and free motion embroidery projects! Vintage purse: I also used… Continue reading Tea party-Sewing
No self respecting Crafters Companion collection would be complete with out a create-a-card die and the one included in the ‘Vintage tea party collection is yummy! For this sample I’ve created a panorama type card- 3 long pieces of adorable storable card (2 green 1 pink )scored twice at each end an inch apart… Continue reading You’re my cup of tea!
Staying with the new Sara Signiture collection -‘Vintage tea party’ launching on Hochanda tonight, here’s another idea combining a few of the dies, papers, embossing folders and trimmings.- recipe book for jams and chutneys. I purchased an inexpensive notebook.I opened the ring binding and removed the front and back covers. I inked the embossing folders… Continue reading Recipe notebook
For all you Crafter’s companion fans Sara has a tasty treat for you launching on Hochanda Tv Monday night! Yes it’s a very tempting signature collection- ‘Vintage tea party’. Fabulous dies; embossing folders; trimmings; stamps and paper pad. Here’s a peek at some of my projects and the products used. An MDF tag where I… Continue reading Vintage tea party
Today I’m showing how much fun you can have with alcohol inks and yupo paper. The idea is to drop the ink onto the paper, let it expand and run and then see what shapes there are. I saw tulips! To begin it looked a little like this. ( I did two and this is… Continue reading Tulips
Hello everyone it’s Visible Image day again! Today’s piece was briefly shared on the day of the 2018 new stamp launch in early January .Its also been lucky enough to travel to Creativation ! Time now to share it in a little more detail. Here are the stamp sets I used. Firstly the new set:… Continue reading ‘Bloom and grow’
