Shimmering Crafty Individuals...

It's that time of year again .... I'm busy beavering away for the Craft Barn Extravaganza on the 1st and 2nd of June.
This year I'm going to be demoing different things on each day so that those of you who come along for the weekend have got lots to see. I'm going to demo the new Lynne Perrella stamps on one day and then Crafty Individuals stamps on the other (don't know which order yet). On both days I'm going to be combining them with Pebeo products.
If you haven't seen the new Pebeo iridescent paints yet then you're in for a treat - they are gorgeous!

It's very difficult to pick up the sheen on these paints in a photo - you have to see them in the flesh. These are just three of the colours, there are others as well!

Here I've used them with stencils, lots of them, layering over and over and then used one of the new Crafty Individual stamp sets ( CI- 383) over the top:

This stencilling is seriously fun!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Lynne Perrella and glass paints

There are a few places left for this workshop I'm doing up at the Craft Barn on Saturday so if you're interested in trying out stamping and glass paints then just give the shop a ring.I would give you a sneak peek of what we'll be making but I forgot to take piccies! It involves Tando arches, Vitrail glass paints, Lynne's stamps, gesso, cocktail sticks and more!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Last of the Challenge ...

Here are the last few pieces I made for the Crafty Individuals Challenge this month:
A bird on a scrap background:

A piece of haberdashery art:

and lastly, just for a bit of fun, a Spring Fashion Parade:

Thanks for looking!

Helen

A bit of old TAP...

This card is made with a TAP transfer that I'd not used in my Craft Stamper bag article - knew it'd come in useful!
It was already ironed onto the paper so I added some diamond stamping on the background to tie in with the birdcage. Then I used some die cuts and lots of twiddly bits. You can also see it over on the Crafty Individuals blog where their Challenge is still running.

Love making things like this where you start off with something already stamped (ie. not a blank canvas) and then can play around to your heart's content finishing it off.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Down in the meadow...

Here's another card using the new Crafty Individuals stamp CI-385:

I stamped it first over some background paper that I'd made and then stamped a selection of the flowers to go in a bunch at the side to give a focal point. The tiny text is from the grasses elements set CI-207.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

New delights from Crafty Individuals

Crafty Individuals have just brought out some new stamps and I've been having a little play with a couple of them:

To see the others, pop on over to their blog!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Craft Stamper Take it, Make it Blog Challenge

Over on the Craft Stamper blog, the Take it, Make it Challenge for this month is based on my tearing techniques article on page 78 of the May magazine. To go with it I've made another card using some of the same techniques:

The stamps I've used are Kaisercraft Madame Boutique.

Hop on over to the blog and see all the other DT projects and then join in the challenge for a chance to win a prize.

Thanks for looking!

Helen