WOO HOO!!!!! BONUS PRODUCTS!!!

Sale-A-Bration Countdown beginning 1 March – only 31 days left to book a party with me or shop online to get your hands on one of these four new bonus Sale-A-Bration products!   They say time flies when you’re having fun.  So true – we’re almost a quarter of the way into our “New Year”!!!! […]

You Brighten My Day

It”s been a long old week for me, especially when you’re performing under par nursing a horrid cold. Happily, I think I’ve turned a corner and back to full strength next week!  Best crack on with today’s offering! You Brighten My Day is one of the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets and the house image actually co-ordinates […]

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 […]

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 […]

Spoiler alert!

How fast time flies when you’re having fun!  Only 2 more sleeps till Sale-a-bration and the new Spring/Summer catalogue goes live! Back to reality with a bump next week, but in the meantime, something to whet your appetite for Stampin’ Up!’s biggest event of the year!  Sale-a-bration!   Did I mention it before?   These […]