April Newsletter

Hello, welcome to the April newsletter, I hope you had a great March & enjoyed the Easter weekend. Thankfully, Spring seems to be here at last. It's wonderful to see all the Spring flowers & the buds on the trees. All we need now is for the temperature to rise by a few degrees......

As usual, I had a busy month, what with demoing on the Imagination Crafts' stand at the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC & now preparing for the next Imagination Crafts' shows on Hochanda. The Hobbycrafts show was a madly busy four days for us, but we really enjoyed it. There were so many nice people who took the time to watch my & Sue's demos & complimented us on our Hochanda programmes. It was lovely to get so much positive feedback. 

The next Imagination Hochanda shows will be a One Day Special, launching on 

Saturday, April 2 at 8pm,

then on 

Sunday, April 3 at 9am, 12, 4 & 7pm.

If you follow HOCHANDA on Facebook, you will have seen their statement regarding the interruption to their Freeview channel. This will affect the Imagination Crafts' shows for the next six weeks. For details on the other ways to watch HOCHANDA, click on this link.

More orders from the trade show have been arriving & I've added them to the website. I now have LOTS of new WOW! embossing powders & embossing glitters & the colours are really gorgeous............

       

Also available are new clear stamps from WOW!, as well as their new range of foils...............

           

Find all the WOW! products HERE.

Also new are Woodware Clear Magic stamps...........

  

& a selection of  new stamps & scenescapes from Lavinia Stamps........

   

All of the products new to the website can be found in the What's New section.

I also have restocks of Imagination's Starlights, Sparkle Medium, embossing mats & stencils.

The April workshops in Maidstone are this coming Friday, so I am busy preparing the class projects. We will be using Dylusions paints, Lavinia Stamps & a selection from the  Celtic Dreams cutting dies range.

Here are two of Kirsten's samples...............

The amazing offers for the April classes are;

A fantastic, one time only offer on the Celtic Dreams dies.................

The RRP is £19.99 each. My price at the classes will be £14.99 each, or 2 for £20.00.

Yes, I do mean TWO for the price of ONE!!!

I only have a limited number of dies, so once they're gone, they're gone. 

The dies I have in stock are..........

Fleur

Una

Nurture

Silhouette Castle

Hideaway

Melody

Stargazing

Fauna

Flutterby

It would be handy if you can bring the following to the class .................

A Brayer
Background Stencils

Domed Stencil Brushes
Small Stencil Brushes

Baby wipes

**Please ensure your items are labelled with your name/initials.**

There are just a couple of places left in the evening class. The cost of the class is £16. This includes two projects, your class kit & complimentary tea/coffee & cake. 

To book your place, you can contact me via email; lisabaker1@btinternet.com, by telephone; 01622 675078, or message the Lisa B Designs Facebook page.

As always, the mobile shop will be open from 2.30 to 9.30pm on Friday. You can, if you prefer, order through the website - no later than 8pm on Thursday night, please - and I will bring your goods with me on Friday.

 **Remember to bring your loyalty cards & cameras, if you would like to take photos of any of our samples.**

That's it from me for now, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday & I'll be back here next Wednesday.

Hugs, Lisa B x

Poppy Stencil part three.....

Good morning all,

Wow.....

I have had such a busy week being away at the NEC Hobbycrafts Show with Imagination Crafts and only got back late yesterday, so I am feeling somewhat exhausted at the moment!
Thank you so much to everyone who visited the stand and supported us, we had such a busy show and thank you also for all your lovely comments to Sue and I for our shows on Hochanda, it means so much to us.....

But onwards and upwards as they say..... Kirsten and I are busy preparing for my class next week and also there are more Hochanda shows coming up, so I am preparing for those too.

We have also been very busy putting LOTS of new items on the website and you can find them here in the WHAT'S NEW section.......

I have not had any time to play lately so I thought that I would show you some more samples that I made for the last class using my poppy stencil. Sorry but it is a quick post today as I have so much to do....

These next two cards were made in a similar way as my last two posts here....... 

I cut away the main image that I created with the Poppy Stencil and 3D'd it on to another background that I created using a couple of stencils and Distress Ink. 

Here is a list below of the products that I used to make this card:

Imagination Crafts Honeycomb Stencil
Imagination Crafts Falling Leaves
My Imagination Crafts Poppy Stencil
Poppy Red Stencil Paint
Lime Green Stencil Paint
Sage Sparkle Medium
Light Copper Sparkle Medium
Distress Ink Bundled Sage

For this next card, I created the main image using my Poppy Stencil in the same way and then added a background with the hexagons stencil and Distress ink and then die cut a circle away and added a matting circle layer of black in between. I also created two extra flower heads to decoupage on top......

Here is a list below of the products that I used to make this card:

Imagination Crafts Hexagons Stencil
My Imagination Crafts Poppy Stencil
Poppy Red Stencil Paint
Lime Green Stencil Paint
Sage Sparkle Medium
Light Copper Sparkle Medium
Distress Ink Barn Door and Bundled Sage

It is short and sweet today my lovelies but I hope you like the makes and I will be back soon.....

Remember you can always pop over to our Pinterest pages for more inspiration here:

https://www.pinterest.com/lisabdesigns/

Bye for now......

Big hugs Lisa B xx

  

  

   

Imagination Fairy

Hello again all, hope everyone is doing ok.  Today's blog is a dreamy image using the Imagination Crafts Bluebell Fairy.

Sorry but I've been quite busy this week so it's a very quick and easy card today.

I started with a 7" x 7" white card and cut three smaller pieces of white card as follows:

The first was 6.75" x 6.75"
The second was 6.5" x 6.5" which I cut down using one of my square pierced dies
The third was 6" x 6"

The first and third sizes I wanted to  make them look like background cards, so used the Black Starlights Paint with a piece of cut 'n' dry and dabbed it around all four edges of each card.

I think this is a nice easy way to create your own backgrounds.

The next step was to have a another pieces of white super smooth card cut slightly smaller than the 6 x 6 and I taped it to a blending mat placing the Imagination Crafts Bluebell fairy stencil over the top and using repositionable tape on all four sides of the card.  Using the Black Stars Sparkle Medium I spread the paste across the top of the stencil and drew it down using a spreader.  Sorry I forgot to take a photo at this point but I think we've all had a go at this before.

I left it to dry for a while, in the mean time I matted all the layers together before placing the fairy image on top and finishing with a little bit of bling.

A very basic, easy card but using some wonderful materials from Imaginations Crafts.

Thank you for dropping by the blog again today.  See you next week.
Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

 



Creating a scene with Imagination Craft Stencils part two.......

Good morning lovelies, I do hope that you are all well out there........

So today I am away setting up the stand with Imagination Crafts for the Spring Hobby Crafts show at the NEC, so if you are visiting drop by and say Hi to us. We are on stand A12......

I thought that I would show you today more cards that I made for my workshop last month using my Poppy Stencil from Imagination Crafts......

These are made in the same way as my tutorial last week, if you missed it it's HERE but I started with the background first using lots of Stencils and Distress inks and then used Stencil Paints through the stencil as I did last week and foiled again with Sparkle Medium........

Here are a list of the products that I used for the card below:

Imagination Crafts Honeycomb Stencil
Imagination Crafts Wheat Stencil
Imagination Crafts Wisteria Stencil
My Imagination Crafts Poppy Stencil
Poppy Red Stencil Paint
Lime Green Stencil Paint
Sage Sparkle Medium
Light Copper Sparkle Medium
Distress Inks Antique Linen and Bundled Sage

Here are a list of the products that I used for the card below:

Imagination Crafts Diamond Stencil

Imagination Crafts Deco Branch

My Imagination Crafts Poppy Stencil

Poppy Red Stencil Paint

Lime Green Stencil Paint

Sage Sparkle Medium

Light Copper Sparkle Medium

Distress Inks Antique Linen and Bundled Sage

Here are a list of the products that I used for the card below:

Imagination Crafts Diamond Stencil

My Imagination Crafts Poppy Stencil

Craft Emotions Pine Sprigs Stencil

Craft Emotions Field Flowers Stencil

Mallow Stencil Paint

Lime Green Stencil Paint

Sage Sparkle Medium

Light Copper Sparkle Medium

Distress Inks Antique Linen and Bundled Sage

I love building up the background with all the different stencils and then making the foreground pop with the Stencil Paint and Sparkle Medium. I hope that this has given you the inspiration to have a go at home and I would love to see your projects, you can always post them on my Facebook page....

Take care and have a great week.....

Big hugs Lisa B xx