Bottle it!

These bottle bags are a great way of adding a little extra to that gift of a bottle of wine. Make them for Christmas or another occasion - class is this Saturday 6 September at The Craft Barn.

Come and join me for some fun!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Sneak Peek....

The new Eclectica Darcy stamps are out and I was lucky enough to be asked to make something with them.
Here are a couple of close ups of what I made:

 Hop on over to the PaperArtsy blog to see the finished projects and I'll do some step by steps in a later post.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

In Fashion...

I've made a little something for the Crafty Individuals Blog Challenge "Autumn Fashion".
This uses a piece of oval stampbord that I found lurking in a drawer and one of the latest stamp sets CI-401 'Ladies who Latte':

and close up:

The amount of detail you can etch in is amazing.

You've still got time to enter before the end of August.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Craft Barn Classes

I've got 3 classes coming up at The Craft Barn, three weekends in a row!
The first is the stamping on Bisque and we're going to make a 6x6 teapot stand (or you can turn it into a piece of wall art) and 4 coasters. Here are the coasters:

This is on Sunday 31 August 2014.

The following weekend we're going to try out the new Pebeo fabric paints and decorate some bottle bags. I went for one Christmassy one and one flowery one. Here's the Christmas one:

That's on Saturday 6 September 2014.

And then lastly we're going to decorate a couple of bottles, perhaps to go in the bag! These are very addictive.  Here's a pic of one of the bottles:

This class is on Saturday 13 September 2014.

If you fancy having a go at any of these, just click on a link!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Bag Charm...

It's my turn over on the PaperArtsy blog again and this time I made something small and quick using one of my favourite products - Stampbord!

Hop on over and take a look.

Helen

That white picket fence...

This piece of work also features a new Crafty Individuals stamp, CI-415, and some of the Faber Castell Papercrafter crayons that I've just got from The Craft Barn. These are wax crayons that twist up and down and can also be sharpened. I used them on the flowers and picket fence and then slapped on  Distress Stains - a really easy way to colour this image in and keep the white of the fence:

Gate shut:

Gate open: 

I've added extra details from several other stamp sets - easy to do as they all work so well together.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Get pedaling ...

This is card no. 2 with the bike stamp and uses the cut off piece of card from an A4 sheet:

Really quick to make: just a bit of a spritz with some Dylusions Sprays and a bit of white pen for highlighting.

Thanks for looking!

Helen