More Fairy cards from the show!

I'm not normally a fairy loving type of person, it just doesn't fit into my radar of stamping choices, but when Tracey first sent me her designs about 18 months or so ago, I have to confess I changed my mind about fairies, these were the best I'd ever seen. There wasn't just fairies, there was THAT fantasy frame!! A great setting to show them off perfectly...

This card is stunning in real life, it was made by either Karen or Rachel Jackson, Karen is the lovely mum of Rachel Jackson whose work is published in Craft Stamper magazine. Karen was demonstrating with Tracey's new stamps at the HSNW show at Port Sunlight last weekend (amongst other things she demonstrated on the day).

Last weekend seems such a LONG time ago!!!

Anyway, Karen and Rachel made a number of cards, their ideas were great!




The background is brayered onto glossy card, the frame and fairies have been stamped on top with black ink and sparkle has been added to the fairies. I like the way that part of the frame has been used in the corners!

I also loved this next card, it shows that the frame doesn't have to be used with the fairies, you can add anything! But, as shown here, a greeting is just perfect!! It really is a versatile image.

Here is another card with the frame used in the corners, a cluster of stars have been added too. The background is starburst stains and glitter added for extra sparkle. Lovely!

Thank you very much to Karen and Rachel for these cards, I'll show the others they made another time.

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I've now set my sky box on 671 for 12pm (noon) for Wednesday, if you have freeview it'll be on freeview channel 36 or 22? (not totally sure which it is for Create & Craft since you had your re-scans!).

I hope you can join Kay and I for our next show. Having played with Kay's stamps again, I remember how lovely they are to work with!!

Starburst Fairies meet Starburst Stains!

Here are some more demo cards from last Tuesday's show...

Unfortunately these photos aren't brilliant and don't show the colours very well, so let me explain and I hope you can use your imagination! The frame is embossed in copper detail and the fairies, wording and starburst border are embossed in gold on top of a Starburst Stain 'wash' background made using a stain from the Icicle Creek set. They are mounted onto gold mirri card (which looks black in the photo!).

The base card has been 'tapped' with the same stain to give a matching sprayed look but I actually used a paintbrush tapped against an acrylic block (as demonstrated in Tuesday's live show). Remove the excess stain off the brush before tapping for a light misted shimmery flittered effect. If you do have larger blobs, good, they look great too, as they have so much shimmer to them! I don't mind mess (as you've probably gathered by now!) but sometimes in the past my splattering has hit anything but the intended target!

You can adapt this technique with ink pad ink too. Stamp the ink pad onto the non-stick heat/baking sheet to transfer the ink then dilute with a little water and then use this the same way to flick the speckled background. I will try to incorporate this into a demo on Wednesday for those that missed it on Tuesday and don't know what the heck I'm on about!!

Below is the same Starburst Stain wash background with a different image. I love this large fairy almost as much as that gorgeous fantasy frame! I also added the small starburst stamp to add some extra magic. As before, you will have to use your imagination as the black mounts are actually gold mirri card.

All the stains in the Icicle Creek set look great with the fairies, I only used one colour for the cards in the show as there was only one stain in the Moonglow Accessory kit featured and we have to stick to using the products in the show, but using more than one colour in this set is just TOO yummy, I will have to finish a card I started with them all and get a photo for you to see.

Just a quick post to end what has been a very nice day.

Jill Boulton was demonstrating metal embossing, her work is beautiful, she is very talented! I think everyone who watched her demonstrations found it fascinating.

Jill is holding a workshop for us on Saturday 31st October, there are a couple of places left if you are interested in joining her. It isn't on the website for booking, but I will add it when I've finished this post or, you can 'phone the shop to book. It is £20 for the day and believe me you will learn a lot of techniques during the day. Jill has 2 other workshops with us before Christmas, I will add details for these later this week.

Below are a few photos I took today...

Oh the concentration!

Kim in the centre is attempting avoidance of me taking her photo, but I gotcha my dear!! On the left is our very own blogging friend Christine, aka Ladylace (naughty lady) who stayed for most of the day and was true to her nickname, a very naughty lady!!! But hey, as she said, with a birthday and a ruby anniversary this week, she deserved to treat herself. We had a very quick play embossing some scrunch technique papers. It was lovely to see you Christine, it was such a shame that you actually missed meeting Debbie by minutes, you must have passed each other on your way out and Debbie's way in! I hope you enjoyed your holiday in Yorkshire!

Don't be fooled by the angelic smiles on the faces of this lot! You should of heard their cheeky chatter! What a hoot the local craft group and their visiting friends are!! Naughty in a number of ways you lot are:O Thank you for your support ladies, you were great company!!

Thank you so much to everyone who visited us and made it a lovely day.

Jill and (Mr Stamp Man) Ian

More from the show - Butterfly Beauties sheet

A couple more cards from the show on Tuesday coloured with pigment inks and clear embossing powder. I do love these stamps!!

I may be back later...

Jill x

Demo/Open Day Tomorrow - 20% Off Discount Day!!

We really hope you will be able to join us!!

Jill Boulton and I will be demonstrating various things tomorrow, metal embossing, the melt pot, the cuttlebug, alcohol inks (etc, etc) along with Kay and Tracey's new stamps.

All the cards featured in the live show on Tuesday will be there to see as well as some featuring in next Wednesday's live show on Create & Craft TV.

We have bagged up lots of great bargains for the shop tomorrow for our demo/open day and we will have 20% DISCOUNT on everything in the shop!

So if you are around Skipton tomorrow we will be open from 10am - 5pm. If you haven't visited us since we moved, I've added a couple of maps to help you find us.

See you tomorrow!!

Jill

Flower power meets the Bling Maiden!

I named her the Bling Maiden, I think it is an apt name as you can add so many accessories to her.

I used the rainbow pigment pad with clear embossing powder for the main image and multi stamped the side panel with the border stamp that can also be used as a dress neckline. The single flower is stamped over the top and the whole piece was also embossed with clear powder.

I watercoloured her hair using the inks from the pad so they co-ordinate with the outline.

I used brads with some flower embellishments for the finishing touches.

This was a possible demo card that I didn't have time to show, it's an unembellished version of the previous card. The blue and lime green inks from the pad were used for a different look.

Unfortunately we have been told that our show will not be repeated at the weekend as some of the products have sold out and there aren't enough of others left to allow them to let the show go out. So, sorry if you missed it and were hoping to catch it over the weekend.