Playing with paper.

I've been cardmaking for nearly 20 years and have gone through lots of different techniques. It took a long time to force myself to like stamping rather than thinking of it as a sometimes necessary evil but once I did that was it & almost all other forms fell by the wayside.

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

bokeh & pringles

Have lost the use of the 2 letters that go between the m & v so will keep chat short until fixed cuz copy & paste is a pita lol. ...

Sunday, 25 January 2015

#Artchain

I'm currently taking part in a facebook game called #artchain. The object is to share 5 pieces of art you've made over 5 days and n...

Thursday, 22 January 2015

That sinking feeling..

It's my grandsons first birthday today and as per usual I was being lastminutedotcom... Ade shouted up the stairs last night.. "hav...

Bokeh backgrounds

I'll admit to succumbing to the latest fad trend in papercrafting... bokeh backgrounds. If you want a proper explanation you'll ha...

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Freebie feather die & stamp

On the cover of one of the UK craft mags this month is a free feather die from HOTP, and on a sister mag is a matching stencil & set of ...

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

playday projects

Just a quickie before I forget to post it. One of the projects we're making at the Feb playday is an altered notebook which involved ...

Candy box crafts 4 drawer mdf box

Back in November I bought an mdf kit to make a 4 drawer unit to store my brushos in at the Oysterstamps retreat. Taken me a while to get...

Friday, 21 November 2014

IndigoBlu Challenge Blog Let It Snow

I was dead chuffed last month to find that random org had chosen me as the winner of the sketch challenge at IndigoBlu Challenge Blog . As ...

Friday, 7 November 2014

Brusho mop ups meets Jofy

Been a week for birthday cards, it was one of my BFFs birthday yesterday and I made this one for her. Nowt really but a lot of white card!...

That'll teach her

My mate Martine has got a great sense of humour so when she posted on facebook that she didn't like card in a box/pop up box cards I had...

Monday, 13 October 2014

Playday yesterday

We had our monthly playday yesterday and the theme was Tim Holtz Luminarys. I only decided on this one because Kelly said she had the die a...

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Frugal Poppys

If you've read the last post you'll know I went all tight fisted and used the "ink" I'd picked up from stamping into w...

Are you bored of brushos and that poppy stamp yet?

I don't know about anyone else but I'm a huge lover of pinterest when my mojo has deserted me and when I've got a new product. ...

Sunday, 5 October 2014

Drippy Poppys

2 in one day, guess who was enjoying using the spritzer to blow paint around lol. Dark brown and one of the red brushos sprinkled onto w...

Freehand Brusho Christmas Tree

On Pinterest there's a pin of what the lady calls Triad trees that fascinated me but after having a play I sound found it isn't ea...

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Panic stations and an all nighter

On Friday I went to the Range with my mate Tracy.. it was her wanting to go not me and I very kindly offered to take h...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

remember those mop up pieces?

Back a few weeks I was playing around with distress paint & brushos and rather than waste paint I always dab offcuts of white card in it...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

rubbernecker Flowers in the Breeze

Quick post because to be totally honest this stamp does all the work.. there was NO shading to be done at all... the texture of the stamp ...

Under The Sea

Get me, yet another new stamp set used.. and only 8 days after buying it!! (Don't mention the stencils lol) This is from IndigoBlu Un...

Thursday, 18 September 2014

rubbernecker poppy

I was playing with the rubbernecker Poppy stamp day before yesterday and it's not quite as it seems.. it looks to be a solid silhouette ...

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