Cupcake Birthday Card

This birthday card was made for my son's girlfriend, who celebrated her birthday yesterday.  If you count up ALL the candles on the card you will see how old she is now. 

Creating Faux Lace using a Gel Plate on a Tag

I thought that I would take part in the latest challenge over on Tag It Tuesday.  As I had my large Gel Press plate out anyway and one of the prompts was to use lace, I decided to create a faux lace effect by making a gel print.  The four prompts for April are: 1) Tag, 2) Book Paper, 3) Pearls, 4) Lace.

Faux Doodling using Stamps and a Stencil

This card was my 50th sample since being invited to join the Claritystamp design team at the end of last year. Since the start of this year I have made samples for 12 shows and am currently working on samples for shows 13 and 14. It is a labour of love and I am really enjoying stretching myself and coming up with different ways to use the items that I am lucky enough to receive in advance.  There has been a real increase in interest in doodling recently and I decided to create a faux doodle effect using the #1 outline stamp in the Floral Forest three way overlay stamp set.

Building Up Layers for an Art Journal Background

I started the background to this art journal page at the last JJAMMMA (Junk Journals and Mindful Mixed Media Art) meet up in Stockport.  I managed to finish it on Tuesday, so at least that is before the next meet up lol.  I was working in my leather bound journal full of handmade paper, so I gave the pages a coat of clear gesso and dried them thoroughly before getting started.

WOYWW 514: 1000 Blog Posts

A week has passed and it is time to share our desks once more.  This also happens to be my 1000th blog post and I am so pleased it has fallen on a Wednesday.  We are creeping ever closer to the 10th anniversary of WOYWW, only 6 more weeks to go and the community is as strong as ever, thanks to Julia over at the Stamping Ground keeping things going all this time.

Just my side of the desk to share today.  As you can see if you look to the other side, Eva's chair is empty and will be for a few weeks as she travels the country examining on her days off.  I decided to show a wide view again.  I was working on an art journal page in my leather bound journal.  You can see some of the stamps and stencils that I had been using.  For once I remembered to take a picture before I put everything away.  If you want to see the finished piece, I will be sharing tomorrow.  As you can see,  I have space for up to four visitors, so if you ever want to join me in the shed, let me know!

I will be round to visit this evening after work, so see you all soon.

Row of Tags with Gel Press and Stamped Patterns: A Thank You Card

I was originally going to create a one layered card using stamping, masking and use of a gel plate, however, messy fingers lead to me adding the stamped images to a kraft card blank instead.  I actually prefer what I ended up with, so making a mistake needn't ruin a project.

Fusible Fibres as a Finishing Touch

To be a bit different, I decided to work on a card of a smaller scale.  I also used fusible fibres as the backdrop for my sentiment as a change.