Christmas cards

Hi, I'm still working so haven't had much time for crafting this week.  I've made some Christmas cards for folk who ordered them though:

What do you think?  I used the Light of the World A5 stamp set from PartiCraft, and cosmic shimmer embossing powder (festive set), also from PartiCraft.  I really like this set of embossing powders, they include several sparkle colours, and are really effective on black or white card. 

bye for now

Teri

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

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.

Email me for more info, or to book a place.

TTFN
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

Cards, mirrors and bracelets...

Hi, I've finally managed to get some pics from my camera to the blog..so here's a couple of pics of cards I did as samples for one of last month's workshops. We were using masking to create stamped cards. In the first one I stamped the boy first, then masked him and stamped the animals, so thye look as though they are behind him.  I used distress ink to stamp the animals, rather than give them the black outline you'd get with black archival. This one's an easel card. The stamp images are from the Safari A5 stamp set from PartiCraft.

The second card uses masking too, but this time I just used one stamp - the present from the Birthday A5 stamp set. I painted it with distress inks, and used a borderabilities die to cut the purple border.

Here's a pic of a mirror I decorated using the Jungle, Safari and Monkeys stamps, I sold this one to a little boy.  Hope he's enjoying having it hanging in his bedroom. 

And finally, here are a couple of pics of some bracelets I have been making to sell at the Charity fashion show on Saturday:I've used several stamp sets from partiCraft to make these, including the new religious 4 set.  The ones laid out flat are made from recycled or re-purposed leather.  The images were stamped and embossed onto the leather.  The ones shown fastened, are grungeboard - Sheena Douglass-style.

The Charity fashion show on Saturday evening is at 6.30pm at Cornerstone House, Cumbernauld. Tickets are £5, includes soft drink and nibbles.  There will be a catwalk show, raffle, plenty of second-hand clothes to buy, as well as handmade jewellery and the bracelets pictured above.Contact me for more info.  turning into a long post, if you're still reading, thanks!

WORKSHOP NEWS

Tomorrow's workshop (9.30 till 11am, at Cornerstone House) will be covering heat embossing and painting with cosmic shimmer watercolours, they are fab!'s still places available, contact me if you want to come.

PARTICRAFT PARTY

I am demonstrating at a PartiCraft party in Garelochhead tomorrow night, so if you are coming, I look forward to meeting you, it's going to be good.  Feel free to bring a friend.  If you haven't been invited but would like to come, please email me before 3pm Friday (link on sidebar).

Better go and do some crafting ;-)

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 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

Jungle birthday card

Hi I thought I'd show you a pic of another jungle card I've made. I've used distress inks to colour all the animals and trees, and then cut them out and stuck them onto the card base. For the background I used cut 'n' dry foam with distress ink (pine needles and black soot), then stamped and embossed the sentiment several times with white embossing powder. I mounted this onto a piece of dark green card.

I've been playing with my fiskars shape cutter templates to try and make my own pyramage style cards...pics next time.

At the workshop tomorrow we will be stamping on acetate and using glitter to colour the images...it's not to late to join us.

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

Sheena Douglass workshop

I was at a workshop run by Sheena Douglass last weekend (I've put a link to her blog on my sidebar) and I've been asked to blog about it, so here goes. It was a great day, about 25-30 people were there, and we made 4 projects:

These 2 were made using distress inks, and water, and then the trees were stamped with archival black ink. The one on the left is on the front of a notebook - one of those shopping list ones. Great gift idea!

The one on the right is a card. and the swirl was embossed with silver embossing

powder. The moon and snow flakes were made with water. I can demonstrate how to do this, so if you'd like to learn, just get a few friends together and book a PartiCraft party with me. Those distress inks are great to work with, can't wait to get my hands on some more...

These 2 images were made using heat-proof acetate, pigments, tissue and floor polish! I did the castle one first and the pigments mixed up too much, I think the second one, the stag, turned out much better. I've not mounted it onto a card yet.

This is the fourth project - we put floor polish and pigments into a glass bauble, the different colours came out well, and every one had a different look. The photo doesn't do it justice!

I'd love to read your comments,

Teri x

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