Boys birthdays

Hi, here's a wee pic of a 3D card I made for my daughter's friend's birthday (he's 4).  I used the candles from the birthday stamp set from PartiCraft, stamped with perfect medium and embossed with cosmic shimmer embossing powder.  I stamped the sentiment (from PartiCraft's Safari stamp set) with black archival ink, and then used nestabilities circle dies to cut it out. I cut another, larger circle as a mat.

WORKSHOP NEWS

The next workshop will be this Friday at 9.30am - 11am at Cornerstone House.

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TTFN
Teri

Candles

Just a quick post - these are the candles I've been working on this week, pics as promised.  Some turned out really good, and some not so great, I think I need a bit more practise...

The stamped images are from the Birthday A5 stamp set and the Butterfly 1 A5 stamp set from PartiCraft, except the celtic cross image, which is from Heritage Crafts. They were all stamped with archival black ink, and coloured with Adirondack pens.

I also did a couple with animal images from the Safari A5 stamp set, with text on the back: 

Any suggestions/comments?

TTFN

Teri

Borderabilities and birthdays

Hi,
I thought I'd show you a pic of this birthday card I made for my husband, the design is one Sue Wilson (see her blog here) did for Papercraft essentials magazine, a few months back. It's a step card. My husband saw it in the magazine, and liked it, so I had to make it for him. I changed it a little as she had used the "Murray" character from Murray and Ethel holding the cake, and I don't have those stamps :-( I used the explorer from the Safari stamp set instead, cut off the net and drew my own cake! The colouring is all done with cosmic shimmer watercolours, except the cake, which I drew and coloured with fineliner pens, and the images were all stamped with black archival ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. And here's an easel card I made with one of the borderabilities dies out of the set I bought at the SECC, and the Happy Birthday stamp from PartiCraft. The patterned papers are Fancy Pants and I distressed with shabby shutters around the Happy Birthday, and I used walnut stain and shabby shutters on the die-cut/embossed edge. My 4-year old stuck on the foam letters, and they hold the card up nicely!

PartiCraft have some fabulous new stamp designs out now, click here to go have a look. There are new girly designs, space/aliens, undersea, military, squirrels etc from Sam Poole as well as the new lavender and create-a-scene sets from Sheena Douglass, something for everyone!

I'm off to prepare for tomorrow's workshop...it's going to be good!

TTFN

Teri

playing with my new toy... and Polkadoodles challenge entry

Hi, I had a great day out at the SECC on Saturday, and bought a new toy - a Big Shot embossing and diecutting machine. I got the Victoria embossing folder with it, so I've been embossing everything in sight, with lots of help from my 4 year-old. Here's my first card - a mother's day card. this is my entry for the polkadoodles week 9 challenge - stamping and wings. I stamped the dragonflies from the Butterfly1 plate (available from PartiCraft) with archival black ink, and painted them with distress inks (broken china and walnut stain).This is the inside of the gate-fold card. I've cut this image from Fancy Pants paper "Abigail".

Would you believe me if I told you the silver card I've embossed is actually the carton from apple juice! Here's a pic of the other side in case you don't believe me!

I did buy a borderabilities cutting/embossing die set too, so will be playing with that too. Just need to get some tan embossing pads, and then save up for some nestibilities too...

One of my little sisters is turning 30 at the weekend, so I decide to make her a special card. I loved lynsey's mini-book idea when I saw it last year (click here to see her tutorial) so I thought I'd give it a go. I found some old pics of her as a small child (at similar ages to her own kids now) so i scanned them and printed them out.. and here's the result:
I used a sheet Fancy Pants "Best friends" double-sided scrapbook paper
(12"x12") to make the book, and embellished it with various bits from my stash, and stamped a few images on it.

That's all for now...got a few birthday cards to make so best get on!

thanks for visiting

Teri x

A few cards...

Here's a pic of a birthday card I made last week for a friend, using the A5 Monkey stamp set from Particraft. I stamped the sentiment across the card in black and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I distressed it with Pine Needles and Black Soot Distress inks. The monkey was painted with adirondack pens.



I also made 2 baby cards, using the A5 Bears and Butterfly1 stamp sets from PartiCraft.


Here's a pic of a gift box I made using my Eaziscore board, and a Birthday card. Some of these will be for sale at the craft fair on Sat 13th.

I had another new person at last week's workshop, so there's only room for one more now!

This week is the last week of Block 1. Block 2 starts after the half-term weekend, on Friday 19th Feb. Contact me for more details.

I'm full of the cold today, so too tired to write much,

TTFN

Teri x

Check out this fab blog candy!

PartiCraft are offering more blog candy - the draw will take place when they reach 500 followers, so pop over and take a look.

This morning was the first workshop in my next block, but a couple of folk have dropped out, so there are places available if you are interested - contact me for more info. (email link on the sidebar).

We made gate-fold birthday cards today with heat-embossed parcels on the front, painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours. Everyone was pleased with the results, despite some saying they weren't confident about painting. The great thing about painting heat-embossed images with watercolours is that the paint won't stick to the embossing - so it is easier to stay inside the lines.

Next week we are going to use distress ink and adirondack pens to colour stamped images. And then the next 2 weeks we'll be making gift boxes. It's going to be fun!

Teri

Jungle stamps

Happy New Year!

It was my birthday just before Christmas, and I got some fabulous jungle stamps! So here's my first attempt at a card: I used distress inks to colour the background and to colour the stamped images, and cut a wee hole for the hippo's legs, so she looks like she's in the water. What do you think?

If you'd like to see more cards made with these stamps, check out Sue's blog posts here and here. She's made some great cards, and there's some from a follower on there too - click here to see them.

It was a friend's 70th birthday in December too, so I made her this card with the BIRTHPLAT stamp set. I used cosmic shimmer watercolours to colour the presents, and distress ink for the background to the sentiment stamp.

And then it was my eldest daughter's birthday after new year, so I made her this card using the UMCGGIRL stamp set from PartiCraft. Both these stamp sets are very versatile - they can be coloured to suit the recipient. My daughter likes purple, so I included a lot of purple in the card.

This month's free gift from PartiCraft is a valentine's theme - looks like a great selection of hearts etc - take a look.

to get hold of this stamp set all you have to do is host a demonstration party - invite some friends round and I will come and demo some products/techniques for you - you can earn free products from the catalogue as well. For more info contact me (email link on the sidebar - or comment on the blog).

Happy crafting

Teri x

Taster workshop

This morning I had the opportunity to run a taster session in my kids' school - for the nursery & P1 parents - to let them try making cards.

The 4 ladies who came enjoyed themselves and were pleased with the way their cards turned out. Only one of them had made cards from scratch before. I let them choose if they wanted to make a birthday card, or a christmas card, based on these two designs:

They chose different colour card and paints, for the birthday card, and different christmas stamps for the central image of the christmas card, so all the cards looked quite different by the end. I didn't take any pictures there.
Tha backgrounds are stamped with Perfect Medium, to give a watermark effect, and the embossed images were painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours.

Tomorrow evening I am doing a PartiCraft party, so I'm looking forward to that...not sure what I'm going to demo yet though!

Teri

Workshop fun!

Just wanted to show you a few pics from the first workshop I did today - so here are a couple of pics I took at the workshop, and then a few of some cards I made as examples of cards we could make using stamps and coloured paper, without painting, or colouring them in. Tom made a layered medallion card. And this lady made a birthday card by layering up sections of the birthday present stamp, and "Happy Birthday" stamp. All the stamps are available from PartiCraft, so contact me if you would like more info, or to buy them!

As always, please let me know what you think!

Teri

Birthday boys

This is a busy time of year for birthdays in our family, so here's some pics of cards I made this week for various boys' birthdays.

I made them all with the A5 birthday unmounted stamp set from PartiCraft, the background papers are from my stash and the Thomas badge re-used from an old card! They were embossed with cosmic shimmer metallic embossing powders, and painted with Cosmic Shimmer watercolour paints, also from PartiCraft.

My eldest daughter (age 11) also made a butterfly card, embossed with clear embossing powder, on black ink, and painted with Cosmic Shimmer watercolours, I think she did a good job :-)

I have a PartiCraft party coming up soon, in Shetland! If you want to come, click on the link to my PartiCraft page and contact me. It's on 14th or maybe 15th of July, depending on when folk can make it.

Teri x

Fab pens...

Hi, I made a card ths morning, and thought I'd try out the Adirondack pens I got from Particraft.

They are great! I stamped an image using black archival ink, let it dry and then coloured it with the pens. You can use them as felt pens, or draw a bit onto a plastic surface, and pick up the ink with a wet paintbrush. New colours can be made by mixing them on the plastic. Lighter or darker shades are achieved by adding more or less water, or painting several coats. I mixed red and green to get the brown for the hair, and all the blue was done using the denim coloured pen, with added water. I managed to get a pale pink for the skin , by using very watery red. I also added a few glittery star shapes by drawing them with Dries Clear glue, and adding Cosmic shimmer glitter. Here's the result:

My kids are off school/nursery for the first May bank holiday tomorrow till Wednesday, so no more crafting till then...

Teri

First ever blog post

Well today is the first day I've had a blog, so welcome!

I have just started as a demonstrator with Particraft (http://www.particraft.co.uk/) and received my starter kit last week.

I am hoping I'll be able to fit working as a demonstrator around my kids. I have 2 kids in primary school, and one in a pre-school nursery class.

I have been making cards for several years and recently started scrapbooking as well. I also do cross-stitch and I have some sewing projects on the go too.



This morning I finished my first ever stamped and embossed card, using some of my new kit from Particraft. I embossed the candles with cosmic shimmer white embossing powder, and then painted them with watercolours. It's not perfect, but not too bad for a first attempt.