Hello,

Just to remind everyone we are now off to the Newbury show, so we wont be around as from Wednesday the 30th until Tuesday the 6th July. So if you place an order during this time  i’m sorry, but it will not be posted untill we are back sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As for any of you that maybe attending the show then hopefully see you there.

Thank you

Harrogate.

Sorry to let all my customers down who intended to see us at Harrogate in  September with Craft work cards, unfortunately there where no spaces for us this year, i can only apologise for this but keep checking the  Exhibition dates out for any new shows that we may be doing.

Thank you

Hi There,

Just thought I would mention we have a whole new range of stamps due to go onto the website in the next week….check out my Gallery and see what you think….

Click onto Latest Products and you can view them.

Hi Everyone,

Just to let you all know we are at Edinburgh as from the 4th of June and will be back on the 15 th June, we will be attending the Artstamps show held at the Corn Exchange on the 6th and 7th June, the rest of the time we will be taking a break in this magnificent city along with our son, a break well needed.

So just to let you know if you are placing any orders with us they will be dispatched just as soon as we get home,thank you and maybe see some of you in Edinburgh,

Take care

Tracey and Kevin

Lovely landscapes by Lynne, it appears that Lynn has really mastered this technique, thank you for sending them in.

Both images are embossed with black sparkle embossing powder on the pre-prepared backgrounds. These were made as part of a mini workshop by Paddy at Paddy’s Stamping Place.
The pink one has ink applied using cut’n'dry foam, which was then stamped with a rollagraph and text and gold pearl paint stencilled through a snakeskin stencil.
The green one has a small flourish stamped with versamark then coloured pen was put on crinkled cellophane, spritzed with water then used to apply colour to the glossy card. It was then stamped with a rollograph.

Thanks for sharing that with us Sarah, i just love the texture on the background

Jackie has sent in a lovely card,

Jackie has stamped the Thistle in Adirondack Twilight Purple and then mounted it on a floral purple card which compliments the Thistle beautifully,

Thank you

I have had a few people contact me regarding the technique of Brayering and  a few of you experience lines on your card,and have tried everything to get rid of them  some of you have had to walk away in pure frustration…….,i do sympathize i am a little like that with computors….Anyway its down to one simple thing TO MUCH INK ON THE ROLLER , once you have inked your roller up make sure the area that you are using on your roller is completely covered, then on a scrap piece of A4 paper take the ink back off three or four times the length of the scap paper, so there is no surface ink on the roller left, now you can start using the Brayer on your card.

if youwant a stronger colour just repeat the above process dont be tempted to put a whole load more ink on, you wil just end up in one big mess……..

Your card is important i use matt card but it still needs to be very smooth …no texture almost silky.

Use a one way movement…..not backwards and forwards.

Its really that simple…. if anyone has any other questions please email me,and i will do what i can to help,

in the mean time i hope this helps some frustated people out there……

xx

Just a quick reminder to let everyone know we are away from the 15th to the 19thof April, so if you are placing any orders with us, i am sorry but they wont be posted out to you till we get back on the 20th of April,

Thankyou

Tracey x

This lovely card was sent in from Kim, and heres how she did it.

Thanks Kim

I masked out the fairy and moon on the stamp and inked just the starswith embossing ink, then removed the mask and stamped and silver embossed the stars. Then I masked out the embossed stars and stamped the fairy and moon with versafine imperial purple. I stamped a second image onto a post-it, cut out the moon just inside the line and stuck the mask over the moon. I then brayered the top part of the picture using an Adirondack Wildflower rainbow pad, then using torn paper I did mountains at the bottom with Adirondack Eggplant. The mask was removed to reveal a white moon. Finally I added the Orchid stamp to the top and the fern leaf to the bottom. I used mini gems and glitter to embellish, and a dragonfly brad. The picture is mounted on two shades of purple. Couldn’t have done it without your lovely stamps!

Hi There everyone,

just thought i would let you all know that the new stamps are all finally on my website, keep looking at the gallery and hopefully i will getting some new pictures up this week using some of the new stamps, we are at Ally Pally next week,so we are away from the 15th April to the 19th April.

Take care

Trace x