'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

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Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

'I LOVE CRAFT' Demo Day....

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson 

Thank you to everybody that attended our 'I Love Craft' Demo Day on the 14th of February. We had a great time demonstrating some hot foil techniques as well as some heat embossing techniques, the PaperArtsy paint brayer technique and stamping and colouring on wood using Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir pencils and pens, as you can see in the pictures. As it was Valentine's Day, there was lots of chocolate to eat as well!

Lyn and Dan

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Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson 

First Craft Workshop of 2016.... Making Your Mark!

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson 

Our first workshop of the year was held at the shop on Wednesday the 27th of January. It was an evening workshop and everybody said they had a great time. It was an evening dedicated to making Crafty Bookmarks and the end results from everybody were beautiful as you can see in the picture above and those below. We wanted to say a big thank you to everybody that came on the night, we had a great time too.

Lyn and Dan

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So what products did we use? Well the rubber stamps were all from PaperArtsy designed by Jo Firth-Young and Lin Brown to name a few designers and also from Indigoblu. The backgrounds were created using Tim Holtz Distress Inks and the stamped images were coloured in using a combination of PaperArtsy paints and Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir Pens. 

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson 

Photograph World© Geoff Wilkinson 

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