Christmas decoration workshop

Hi all! Well this week has been busy - my first week in a full-time job for 6 years! It's a temp. job so it'll maybe only last a few weeks, and I'm enjoying it so far.I've not had time for crafting, or blogging though, so here's some pics from the last workshop I did, on 12th November, and some pics of the various stages of the sample decoration I made before the workshop:


The circles were stamped and embossed with white embossing powder on black card, and painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours.  You need 20 circles to make one decoration. PartiCraft have a whole range of different designs. Click here to see them.

I didn't get pics of the later stages in the workshop - we were too busy trying to finish them!  The ladies used different colours of embossing powders, and made lovely decorations. I missed running the workshop this week, hope you are all able to do some crafting at home instead!

Keep crafting

Teri

Mirror workshop

Hi, I thought you'd like to see some pic's from my workshop on Friday. It was a larger project - taking a plain mirror and altering it. So here are some pictures of the work in progress, and some of the finished mirrors:

This one is going to be a jungle theme, using the jungle, safari and monkeys stamp sets from PartiCraft. Stamped onto white card with archival black ink, and then painted with distress inks.This mirror was painted with a Radiant Rain paint dabber, and the embellishments were stamed and heat embossed onto white card, then painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours.  The photo doesn't show the colours very well.  The stamps on this mirror are from the Birthday and Butterfly1 stamp sets available from PartiCraft.The butterflies on this one were stamped with archival black ink, on white card and painted with distress ink. 

This was the last workshop in this temporary venue, the next block starts on Oct 1st and will be back in Cornerstone House, in Cumbernauld town centre.

Thanks for coming!

TTFN

Teri x

Workshop fun!

Hi, the first workshop this term went well.  We are temporarily in a new venue, so here's a pic:

Yes, that is a plate of chocolate brownies, they were yummy.

We used Cosmic Shimmer watercolours to create shimmery backgrounds, then stamped and embossed images onto embossing acetate. The acetate was mounted on top of the background using brads. To make the brads match the colour of the embossed images, we used perfect medium and embossing powder on the brads.

Here's some pics of the cards:

I've left a space at the bottom of the purple one to add a greeting.  The greeting on the zebra card was made using a nestabilities die and edged with distress ink. 

All the stamps and materials for making these cards are available from me through PartiCraft, contact me for more info.

There are places available for next week's workshop, so send me an email if you'd like to come.

Teri x

Craft Fair on Saturday 22nd May

Here's a sneek peek of some of the cards I will be selling at the craft fair on Saturday (in the Muirfield centre, Cumbernauld).  This one's a bit out of focus, sorry. I had to take the pics with my mobile as the batteries were flat on the camera, oops.

The bird and branch are from PartiCraft's Jungle and Monkey A5 stamp sets.  They were stamped with black archival ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  Then I painted them with CS watercolours. I used Broken china distress ink to edge the white card. around the bird and sentiment.

This card uses one of the butterfiy stamps from Particrafts Butterfly1 A5 stamp set.  I ran the green paper through my big shot with and embossing folder, to get the texture, and used Walnut Stain distress ink to bring it up. 

This is a fairly basic step-type card.  I've cut the boy out separately and stuck him onto the back of the front step. If you are at the craft fair, please come and say hello.  I will have some PartiCraft products available to buy (including stamp sets), catalogues to browse, and I'll be doing some demonstrations too.

WORKSHOP NEWS

At tomorrow's workshop we will be making a card similar to this.   You will learn how to use angel fibres, and we will be doing heat embossing and  using distress ink.  this is the last workshop for this block. Block  4 starts on June 11th.  

TTFN

Teri

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

A pyramage experiment...

Hello,
Here's the "pyramage" type card I mentioned yesterday. I've seen quite a few people making cards in the pyramage style, either using pre-cut sheets, or using nestibilities to cut the shapes out. I don't have a die-cutting machine (yet...) so I have made this using a Fiskars shape cutter template - it has several different size ovals on it. I used the Lilies stamp from PartiCraft, and stamped it 4 times onto white card with black archival ink, and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I cut out 4 different ovals, taking care to get each one in the centre of the picture.

I used one of the "left-over" pieces as the lowest layer in my pyramid.
Here it is, painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours and layered up with foam pads.

Here's a pic from the side, so you can see (sort-of) the layers.And this is the finished card. I used green pearl paper as a mat and cut little slits in the corner's to tuck in the corners of the pyramid. The background paper is some I got from "payperbox" last year at the SECC.

I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out, and would love to have your comments.

At my workshop next week we will be having a go at doing this pyramage-style topper...though we may use different stamp images - bring your own if you want...

tomorrow I'm off to the Craft show at the SECC, can't wait :-)

Teri x

Triangle card...Polka doodle challenge entry

As promised, here's a pic of a triangle card I made for a friend's birthday...she may see ift here before getting it (if so Happy Birthday P!). I've decide to enter a blog challenge with it...the Polka doodle challenge is for a "shaped card". So here's my entry:
The patterned paper is from papermania, and all the stamps are from PartiCraft. The butterflies are stamped in black archival ink and embossed with clear embossing powder, then painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours. The other stamped images are stamped with Distress ink (Shabby Shutters). Love to have your comments...


TTFN

Teri

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

Burgundy and some other colours!

I have now given up on my laptop, and am trying to get things set up on our aging PC. So, I've not blogged for a fortnight! I have made a few cards and gift boxes, and finally finished decorating a mirror I got from Ikea several months ago. I am attempting to upload some pics of these now...
Ok, here's a pic of the finished gift box including the medallion topper, that was one of the projects we did at the workshops I ran in november. We used black card, and embossed with Golden Red embossing powder. On the left is abox I made and decorated with the flowers I made using my Eazi-score board, mentioned in an earlier post.



I have made a few cards for birthdays, Christmas and one sympathy card. I have used burgundy in most of these cards - hence the blog title! The Cat in the Hat card looks a little odd - it was photographed on my green craft mat - the card isn't green! All the other cards were made using stamps from PartiCraft, and a variety of techniques - heat embossing, stamping on acetate, glitter on acetate, cosmic shimmer watercolours and adirondack pens. If you want more details - just ask!







And finally...here is the altered mirror: One of my daughter's friends is going to get it as a birthday present, so I hope she likes it!
The mirror itself is from Ikea, and I was inspired by another PartiCraft demonstrator to have a go...click here to see their mirrors.
I used scrapbook paper to decorate the lower part of the mirror, after painting it with a Radiant rain paint dabber (mallard green). Then made some flowers using my Eazi-score board to decorate the top left hand corner. I'd love to know what you think!
Ok I think that is plenty for now...more soon.

Teri

Parents' workshop today.

Hi, my workshop at the local school was very enjoyable, but I was a bit disappointed only 2 folk turned up. Oh well, hopefully I'll get more next time. It was good to be able to give more attention to each person.

Here's a pic of the ladies making Christmas cards.

I've also been inspired by Becki to try making some flowers with my Eazi-Score board, here's the result. Check out Becki's great picture on her blog - linked on my sidebar. It's called Papercraft Adventures.

My two nieces had birthdays in the last few weeks so I gave them both a cross-stitch picture (the kits were from The World of Cross-Stitching Magazine) and personalised keyring. (their names were on the back). I stamped and painted the butterflies before putting them into the keyrings.

That's all for now,

Teri x

Workshop Gift Boxes, and some cards

At my workshop on Friday we made gift boxes. We used a stamp to make each side, and next week we'll make a medallion topper...hopefully I'll get some pics of the finished boxes. This is the stamp we used:

Earth whispers tall box stamp

We stamped the image on black paper and embossed it with Red embossing powder, and decorated them with glitter.

The ladies all liked their boxes :-)

My mother-in-law has retired this month, so here's a pic of the card I made for her. The basket stamp is from PartiCraft, I've painted it with cosmic shimmer watercolours, and added a bit of glitter in the centre of the flowers. I also made a baby card for some friends whose first child was born at the end of October, both the bear and "Congratulations" stamps are from PartiCraft, and I've embossed the bear in gold, and painted it with cosmic shimmer watercolours. The sentiment was stamped onto the card blank, and onto a piece of blue card. Then the blue card was stuck on with foam pads.

I've got 8 folk booked to come to a workshop I'm running in my kids school this week (for the parents), so I am looking forward to that. We'll be doing Christmas and Birthday cards.

TTFN

Teri

Crafty party

My PartiCraft party went well on Friday night. I demonstrated stamping on acetate, and using 3D Crystal lacquers and glitter to decorate the stamped images.

I did a little competition at the beginning of the party as an ice-breaker, and the prize was 3 mini-cards - here they are:The bear is stamped on acetate and glittered on the back.The images on the stocking card were painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours

The lilies were coloured with Adirondack pens.

Also, the new hostess plate for November is out - book a party with me in November and this A4 stamp set will be yours free!

TTFN

Teri