Buttons and Bows...

This was the theme over on the Craft Barn Blog last week and I made a little button jar:

It used just one Kaisercraft stamp, stamped and painted tissue paper and stamped and painted buttons:

plus ribbon, braid and a doily.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Vintage flower card and vintage background...

Well, vintage in that I pulled the background out of my 'must save, too nice to throw away, use up later' drawer!
It was originally sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer sprays if I remember rightly, and I've overstamped with a Kaisercraft set of stamps that I'd forgotten I'd got until someone used them at my Apron class:

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Fantastic Fabric....

I'm demoing tomorrow up at the Craft Barn and this time I'm working with DecoArt So Soft fabric paints and the Ink Effects Transfer paint along with Kaisercraft stamps.
The So Soft comes in a fantastic range of colours and paints on beautifully. Here I've been experimenting on different fabrics, plain and patterned:

And here are a couple of cards:

The Ink effects paint is fascinating: you paint a design onto copy paper and then iron onto fabric. Of course I wanted to see how to use stamps, stencils, lettering etc. Here's one example of a simple leaf design transferred onto calico:

For the rest of what I'm up to, come along tomorrow between 10.00 and 4.00!

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

Halloween high jinks

I've been having a great time this weekend making a birthday card for my youngest daughter who's going to be 13! I bought some Halloween Cherry Pie Art stamps from Scrapz and have been dying to use them as I love all the ghoulish stuff and the swirly designs. She's off to Fright Night at Thorpe Park with her older brother and sister on Saturday so I thought I'd get her in the mood!I die cut the house and stuck some orange paper behind it and then really went town with the background. The swirls are Basic Grey Flourish Edges coloured in (just out of interest, does anyone else find these don't work very well with Stazon? they sort of 'stick'.) Then all the other stamps are Cherry Pie. The gravestones are great because they're quite a grey stamp and so appear to be in the background. there's also a cat and a mouse if you lok carefully. The blue and orange papers are from Kaisercraft Esperance collection - I've used this set of papers so much - and the sun comes from Cosmo Cricket Get Happy .Inside I went a bit mad:The tombstones are die cut again as is the web (that took about three goes!) Then I wanted the skeletons to hang so suspended them on some chain!I got so carried away I decorated the top layer as well:I'm not sure where we'll write our names, but never mind! Here's a flat view of the whole inside: Now I'm off to make some Stampbord Skeletons for bag charms!

Cheers!

Helen