Archive for 2011
Thank you everyone
Mini Fairy Book
Lavinia stamped onto shrink plastic using Staz On ink.
Lovely idea Lainey…thanks so much for sharing this with us
Hi Tracey … I loved getting messy making this card,using all your beautiful stamps and various Adirondack Inks. My Blog( eileen’scraftyzone ) gives some more details and advises my crafty mates to pop over to your Web Shop, see your designs and ‘fill their boots’! Hope they do … Best wishes to Kevin. Eileen x
STUNNING…..
i want to see the inside…!!
Thank you for generating interest with your buddies Eileen…hope they like the website??
A different colour variation for the silhoutte stamps
Yet another great clock Karen… ! great Christmas pressies hey.. well done… im looking forward to seeing the next one
This card was inspired by one of your super projects on your new DVD Tracy. Various Adirondack and Versafine Inks (too many to remember!) a Speedball brayer and my new Nestabilities Daisy Die… great fun making this card. As it is poring with rain at the moment I have tried to capture some Sunshine … Best put your shades on ! lol
This is stunning Eileen… you are so clever… love the colours… its got real depth…looks like you have used Cut’n'Dry around the edge…!
After purchasing you fabulous DVD set I finally tried the brayer technique. This is the second I made.
I love the colours in this Linda…beautiful
After purchasing the double DVD set, I tried the brayer on some ATCs. This was the first one I made.
‘Come play with me”
what a great verse for a great card… thank you for sharing this with us Linda
I made this picture for the competition at Happy Stampers North West (October 2011) – the theme of the competition was “100 Years of Photography” and entries had to use only sepia tints. I wasn’t sure what to do and then I remembered the story of the girls from Cottingley who had taken photographs of the fairies at the bottom their garden in 1917.
I used the following stamps: Tree Root; Stars; Bullrushes; Foliage; Small Pixies; Slender Mushrooms (small); Willow;Wild Poppies (plus some Grass from Stamps Away).
I masked the edge of my card before brayering very lightly with Adirondack Ginger to give the sepia tone. Next, I transferred a copy of a photo of my great-niece, Elsie-Mai, using a technique demonstrated by Barbara Gray on CreateandCraft TV – taking a copy of a photo which I’d made sepia on the computer and then printed out onto ordinary copy paper, and using nail polish remover on a cotton wool ball which was dabbed over the image to transfer it onto the card.
I then used my stamps, with Versafine Vintage Sepia, to build up the image, before removing the masking tape to reveal the border of the “photos”.
I made the photo corners by using the Versafine Vintage Sepia direct to card and simply cutting four triangles.
I wasn’t sure whether people would get the connection to the theme so I was delighted when my card was chosen as one of the winning entries!
Thanks to Lavinia Stamps for the inspiration!
I love this picture Dawn.. thanks for sharing your story with us…. love the card you deserved to win..
Hello everyone,
I cannot believe Christmas is just a month away now, the weather has been so mild!! ( although i dont want to speak to soon )…it just doesn’t feel like winter….not that i am complaining …we have had some beautiful sunny days haven’t we?
Well i hope you have all been busy making your Christmas cards….unlike me who always leaves it to the last minute ….infact i haven’t even thought about Christmas shopping yet….since arriving back from the N.E.C its been all systems go here as alot of you already know we are moving house/business….. it has been slightly stressful to say the least…but all very exciting too.
We have had a date put forward in which we hope to be in our new premices, around the 5th Dec fingers crossed so although the website will be open to take orders it maybe a week before you recieve them, but we will do our up most to get these orders out to you as soon as possible, so i am thanking you now for your patience.
We have tried every which way we can to keep our business line but unfortunately due to us moving to a different exchange area we can’t, so i will be sending out our new details to you all just as soon as we are in, but please dont be mithered by this as ghere will be a message on our old number redirecting you to our new.
Our new Calendars are now available to buy online…while stocks last anyway !!. These calendars are all based on our NEW background papers, take a closer look on our website, click on the image to enlarge.They will make great Christmas pressies as well as practical ones…..i know thats what my family and friends will be recieving of me this year..!! Talking of Background papers, i have just this second posted them up on the website, so they are now available to buy… take a peek, for those of you who aren’t keen stampers, these papers are perfect …great for scrapbooking, ideal to make a quick card….brilliant if you are a cutter and a sticker….they are so versatile… im a stamper myself but these papers have opened up another door for me and i have had great fun using them for some new projects…so much so… i will definately be designing some more.
I will be using January to start designing again….plenty more ideas in the pipe line just not enough time to get them all down on paper as of yet…. hopefully they will be worth waiting for, i will be sending out another news letter just as soon as they are available.
As for shows…we will be attending a few new venues which i will be posting up on the website shortly…we have a couple of one day shows with Ross Papercrafts in January which are proving to be increasingly popular, Bluewater with I.C.H.F in Febrary and we are back at the” Make it” show in Farnbrough in February as well. We will also be attending the new show been held at Manchester with the I.C.H.F. So exciting new venues for you to come and see us at if you are in the area.
Well thats all for now.. Dont forget we will update you on our new address and phone number just as soon as we are in.
Thanks so much for your time and patience and supporting us over this last year and we look forward to seeing you you all in the new year.
Have a wonderful Christmas and peaceful blessings for the new year ahead.
Take care for now
Tracey and Kevin x
I dabbed various colours of Distress inks onto a craft mat, sprayed water over the ink then pressed the card onto the mat. I repated this to create a layering of colour and texture. I then sprayed Shimmers of Gold and Burgundy, stamped the images then finished off with liquid pearls. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute thank you!
Thank you for sending in this lovely card Pamela