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Archives for February 2009

Feb 28

Welcome to my Craft Blog

Welcome to my Craft Blog
Posted by Jo in Featured Articles on February 28th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Wandering round my house I’ve found so many things that I have made over the years – I think I must have been crafting all my life – and I look forward to sharing them with you. If you want any explanations about anything then please contact me – if I can remember how I’ve done it then... 

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Feb 28

Playtime

Playtime
Posted by Jo in Random stuff on February 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment

What a great evening we’ve just had! I invited a good friend of mine, Janet, to come play in my craftroom and also asked CarolineB (from the DoCraft Forum) to join us. We’ve never met Caroline before but have ’spoken’ via email – she lives about 1/2 mile up the road from... 

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Feb 6

Autumn Calligraphy

Autumn Calligraphy
Posted by Jo in Calligraphy on February 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

My very first entry for a competition didn’t actually make it to the show! I had learnt this calligraphy technique and we were doing a ’season’ so I produced Autumn, shown here. I hadn’t realised at that time that we were not allowed to openly refer to our own institute name... 

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Feb 6

Grid Technique

Grid Technique
Posted by Jo in Cardmaking, Rubberstamping on February 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

The theme for a competition I entered was ‘Cinderella’ – my take on it didn’t win any prizes! I do love the grid technique though. I don’t have any ‘girly’ stamps so didn’t have anything that looked like the cartoon character herself but I thought that... 

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Feb 4

Bag making

Bag making
Posted by Jo in Embroidery, Sewing on February 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Maybe this should be under embroidery rather than sewing? Oh well, it’s a bit of both I guess. One of the mailing lists I subscribe to had a digitising competition a few years ago and this was my entry – didn’t win anything this time but had a lot of fun doing it. Digitising, by the... 

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Feb 1

Spotlighting

Spotlighting
Posted by Jo in Cardmaking, Rubberstamping on February 1st, 2009 | No Comments

This is such a lovely idea to use when you’ve got a ‘busy’ stamped image. This is another Non Sequitur stamp, from one of their oriental plates. The image is stamped twice, here onto glossy card, and embossed with a clear powder. One of the images is then mounted onto the card blank... 

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