Metamorphosis!

What’s that got to do with card making I hear you cry!  Well I’ve been playing with the Butterfly Basics set, and you can’t have it without the matching Framelits, so Stampin’ Up! bundled them together to save you 15% !  It’s an enormous set, mine is wood mount, so it came in two boxes! […]

It’s All About the Ink – Bokeh

This is the final card using the Bokeh technique, but done entirely through the use of masks and four shades of  blue ink as well as Whisper White ink.  We started  sponge daubing with the lightest shade first, and got progressively darker.   The Whisper White  ink was added last.  We then used the Decorative […]

SAB Choices!

It seems such a long time ago since I came into contact with the video camcorder and I’ve had to adjust to new surroundings in my new craft studio to shoot the first footage in 2015.   I must say it feels good not having to borrow space from a corner of the living room […]

Sheltering Tree meets Lotus Blossom

Hi everyone!  I’m back!  Seems I’ve been away forever especially since Sale-A-Bration goodies and all the  toys in the Spring/Summer catalogue have been beckoning! Here’s a different take on the Sale-A-Bration Lotus Blossom stamp set which is one of the freebies you can get with a £45 spend before shipping and handling.  I’ve combined it […]

More Bokeh

Following on from my previous post, here is the second card we made. Instead of applying colour with the brayer, we sponged the entire background in Cherry Cobbler to the intensity we wanted and created the Bokeh effect using the masking template I’d made previously. The stamp set is called You Plus Me and can […]

Bokeh

Bokeh (pronounced Boh-kay, sometimes pronounced as Boh-ker by the Japanese) is a term used for the aesthetic qualities of the blur produced in the “out-of-focus” parts of an image a camera lens produces when it renders “out-of-focus” points of light.  This is the latest trend to hit  paper crafting.    I taught this in my […]

Lovely Lace Thank Yous

Officially I am still on leave with my hubby  and trying to have a well earned rest even though we aren’t jetting off to warmer climes.  Re-modelling rooms, even it isn’t structural is time consuming and disruptive and has spanned over several months.   Essentially, we were doing up 4 rooms, but they had to […]

A DOUBLE WHAMMY! SALE-A-BRATION & NEW SPRING/SUMMER CATTY!!!

Woohoo!!! Drum roll – it’s here!  Sale-a-bration, Stampin’ Up!’s Annual Event – there are lots of ways to earn Free product during Sale-a-bration. Shopping – earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product for every 60€ / £45 spend between 6 January and 31 March  You can see the goodies in the Sale-a-bration catalogue here or and the Spring/Summer catalogue  here on […]