New Products Now In Stock.....

We have some new brand new products in stock at the shop in Wanstead including stamps, masks and dies from Creative Expressions, stamps from Woodware and a fabulous Gingerbread clear stamp and die set from STAMPENDOUS! 

Below are photographs of some of the products. 

We hope you enjoy looking. 

Lyn and Dan x x 

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

'Card Making Craziness!!'...Look What We Made....

This month's craft workshop theme was 'Card Making Craziness'. We held the same workshop over two nights on Wednesday the 1st and Thursday the 2nd of June. We had a great turn out again this month and everybody said that they had a really wonderful time. Thank you to everybody that attended. 

The variations in everybody's cards looked fantastic and were going to be used for a mixture of occasions including Father's Day, an engagement and birthdays to name a few.

We used the new 'By The Sea' Clear Stamp Set from Creative Expressions to create a nautical themed card. The matching 'Lovely Garden' stamp and die set from Stampendous! was used to make the negative space themed card featuring the butterfly. The negative space background was coloured in using Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink markers and they were also used to colour in the boat on the nautical card. Also used on the night were a variety of WOW! embossing powders (they are fab!!).

Below are photographs of what was made on the night, we hope you enjoy looking through them.

Lyn and Dan

x x

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

FREE CRAFT DEMO DAY...SAVE THE DATE... Sunday 26th June 2016

Craft Demo Sunday - SAVE THE DATE IN THE DIARY!

Sunday 26th June 2016

Free Craft Demo Day, 12pm to 3pm at the shop in Wanstead.

Details of what we will be doing will follow but this is not a demo to be missed!

Refreshments will be served.

We look forward to seeing you.

84 Nightingale Lane, Wanstead, London E11 2EZ    

Telephone: 020 8530 1244

Free Craft Demo Day... 'I LOVE CRAFT' ... Sunday 14th February 2016

Craft Demo Sunday - ' I LOVE CRAFT'

Sunday 14th February 2016

Free Craft Demo Day, 12pm to 3pm at the shop in Wanstead.

We will be showing you a variety of techniques which you can do on all your craft projects, including Hot Foils. 

You will get a chance to see new craft products launched in 2016 that we are now stocking in the shop, including stamps, stencils and paints from Stampendous!, Dreamweaver, PaperArsty and lots more.... 

This is not a demo to be missed!

Refreshments will be served.

We look forward to seeing you.

84 Nightingale Lane, Wanstead, London E11 2EZ    

Telephone: 020 8530 1244

It's a White Wedding….

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson - Design World © Lyn Wilkinson All Rights Reserved

Happy Saturday! I hope there is lots of crafting going on this weekend.

We were recently asked to make a wedding card for somebody for a wedding they are attending this month. We really enjoy doing projects like this, because we think it is a compliment when somebody asks us to make something crafty for them. 

We thought it would make a great post on the blog, so you can see what we have been up to. It is another joint project from us and on this occasion we did not have a design in our minds before we started. All we knew was that we wanted it to be in either cream or white pearlised card and wanted to incorporate an embossing folder to add texture.

As you can see from the photograph above we went with a very simple colour theme. I think it is always very interesting when you limit the colour combination on a craft project and in this instance the  main colour is white with a hint of silver.

The card itself is made from Crafter's Companion Centura Pearl 300gsm card and the colour is 'Snow White Hint of Gold'. Using the same card and Creative Expressions Heart Lattice embossing folder we created the top layer. Once the card was embossed we then die cut out Sweet Dixie's Floral Heart Frame which created a heart shape in the card, again in the same Centura Pearl card. Behind the heart cut out we put a piece of silver swirl texture paper to create contrast. We then stuck down the embossed card layer with Scotch Double Sided tape and using STIX2 double sided foam pads stuck the heart die cut out over the top of the shape in the card to create a 3D effect.

Using the Wild Rose Studio Dies, 'Little Butterfly' and 'Peacock Butterfly', we die cut one of each in the Centura Pearl card and one of each in the silver swirl texture paper. Using glue dots along the bodies we stuck the silver paper butterflies over the Centura Pearl butterflies. The self adhesive pearls on the floral heart are white 8mm and the ones on the body of the butterflies (which hopefully you can see) are 3mm, both from Creative Expressions.

The sentiment proved the most difficult as we really could not decide what to do. We went quite subtle in the end and I think it works really well. We cut out a small circle die, stamped a Wild Rose Studio sentiment using a VersaMark Watermark stamp pad and heat embossed it using WOW!'s Metallic Silver embossing powder. We used the STIX2 Foam pads to stick it to the card, again creating a 3D effect.

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson - Design World © Lyn Wilkinson All Rights Reserved

Finally to add some finishing touches to make the card a little more special, we used a butterfly stamp from the 'Lovely Garden' stamp set by STAMPENDOUS! to stamp a butterfly on the inside of the card and the envelope in metallic silver. 

I hope you have enjoyed today's post.

Dan

x 

What a Lovely Garden….

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson - Design World © Lyn Wilkinson All Rights Reserved

We are really big fans of Jumbo Cling Stamp sets and the matching dies from STAMPENDOUS! They are versatile to use in lots of different craft projects.

So using the 'Lovely Garden' stamp and die set we did a joint project and something a bit different for tonight. A craft project in a frame! You can see the finished piece in the photograph above.

The first thing we did was to stamp the large and medium rose, along with some leaves and the butterfly using a Rangers Archival Wendy Vecchi Ink Pad in 'Watering Can' on smooth white stamping card. The grey colour can be a good alternative to a black ink as it is a little softer. 

Next we die cut out the stamped images and coloured them using Tim Holtz Distress Inks in a variety of pinks such as 'Victorian Velvet' and 'Spun Sugar' and greens such as 'Mowed Lawn'. 'Mustard' was used to highlight the leaves and flowers and 'Seedless Preserves' (deep purple) which adds depth again to both the flowers and leaves.  

For the butterfly we used a combination of blues including 'Salty Ocean', adding the orange of 'Spiced Marmalade'. We used a Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool, which is great because it is small and round and easy to work with.

WOW! Ultra High Clear Gloss Embossing Powder was used in conjunction with a Watermark VersaMark stamp pad to give the die cut images a ceramic look, which creates a beautiful shine.To make the centre of each of the flowers I used Rangers 'Daffodil' Liquid Pearls. 

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson - Design World © Lyn Wilkinson All Rights Reserved

To stick the large flowers and leaves to the white mount board we used Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue. The smaller roses and butterfly were stuck using STIX2 Double Sided Foam Pads to create a 3D look. This was also used on some of the larger roses around the edges to make them look more realistic. Mount board was used for the background because we were going to put it in a frame. In fact mount board is really good for using as a background on craft projects as it is sturdy but not too thick.

The picture frame we used is made out of a plain white wood moulding and was made in our Photography Gallery in Wanstead, 'Eighyfour'.

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

We had fun making this project, especially using the new products from STAMPENDOUS!

We hope you enjoyed tonight's post. Look out for another post on Friday night.

Lyn and Dan

x x x

What A STAMPENDOUS! Day We Had Today….

All pictures World © Geoff Wilkinson - All rights reserved

Today we had a card making workshop at our Gallery

in Wanstead and what a STAMPENDOUS! day we had. The sun was shining, the craft room was bright and airy, the refreshments were well received and we had a lovely group of ladies who spent the afternoon crafting. 

The theme of today was STAMPENDOUS! Jumbo Rubber Cling Sets and matching dies, to colour in we used a mixture of Tim Holtz Distress Ink pads, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints, Cosmic Shimmer Drawing Inks and in some cases we used WOW! Clear Gloss-Ultra High embossing powder. You can see some of the beautiful results for yourself in the photographs.

We will be posting more workshop dates soon, in the meantime we are having a Free Demo Day on Sunday the 31st of May between 12pm and 3pm. Come along and join us for an afternoon of everything crafty! We will be showing some of the latest products, plus demonstrating techniques with samples to share.

There will be Tea, Coffee and Cake! We look forward to seeing you.

CARD MAKING WORKSHOP - SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2015

SUNDAY 17th of MAY 2015

CARD MAKING WORKSHOP

Using New Dies and Stamps from 

STAMPENDOUS!

12.20pm to 2.30pm

Cost: £7.50 per person

(includes all the materials you need and of course tea, coffee and cake!)

Limited spaces available.

To book your place, please call the shop on 0208 530 1244.