All posts tagged with "papercrafts"
Stamping Workshop part 2
The afternoon session saw Gloria and Sue swap places and Sue proceeded to show us how to make this fabulous Star Book. Again, we didn’t know what we were due to produce but had duly brought along ‘themed’ stamps as directed. My theme was ‘Christmas’, Jan’s was ‘Faces’....
Craft Room Updated
***N.B. At the bottom of this post I’ve added something new – I’ve explained how I index and store my rubber stamps – a few people have asked me how so I’ve done my best to show the system which works for me!*** When we decided to join our house to the garage we thought it would...
Playtime
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...
Autumn Calligraphy
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...
Faux Layering
This is a technique I taught to my stamping club friends. It involves an aperture cut in acetate, sponges, various inks and outlines to make the flat image look like several layers on top of each other. Tweet
SweetPea
I’ve been card making for many years now, lately I’ve been more into papercrafts but I did used to embroider everything – including most of my cards. The sweetpeas on this one were for one of my sisters who grows the most wonderful sweetpeas in her greenhouse every year. They smell...