Time Flies......When you your having fun!.....

Good Morning all,

Well it is a scheduled post from me for today as I am at Hochanda TV Studios today for Imagination Crafts with 3 hr shows at 8am, 3pm and 6pm. I have planned the shows for you to be able to get to grips with all your core Imagination Crafts products with lots of tips and techniques. I have a canvas planned for the first show amongst other demos and some really lovely projects to create. So whether it is mixed media or just classic and simple cards, there is something for everyone.

Apologies for no post last Wednesday, I was rushed off my feet and was a day behind myself and totally forgot what day it was. Nothing new there then!...........

So today is a quick post as as I have so little time but I wanted to show you the card samples that the last card was based around using my new stamp sets which I designed for Imagination Crafts 'Take Time' and 'Time to Celebrate'. The ladies did their own take on the cards as they are always free to do so and created some wonderful projects. These can be found HERE in an album that Kirsten created on Facebook. 

The other items used were Imagination Crafts Starlights, Stencils, Texture Art Stamps and Distress Inks. 

The great thing with the stamps is that you can use them for both male and female cards and the second card was a man's card by just adding a few Craft Emotions Wooden Embellishments and coloring them.

I love using Distress Inks to get such vibrancy on the backgrounds......

By adding some Paper Artsy Infusions to a background and adding Antique Linen Distress Ink you can get a great Army looking background...... 

Well that is all from me for today, wish me luck as I will be busy in the TV studio all day.

Take care and hopefully you can tune in at some point......

Love and hugs 

Lisa B xxx

    

  

          

      

Class Cards with Woodware Stamps and Infusions......

Good evening my lovelies,

Apologies for the late hour of this posting but better late than never, eh!

Wow, it has been a crazy busy week for me and I came down with the horrible cold virus that is going around and sinusitis last week, so to say it has been a tough week or so is putting it mildly!!!

I am very busy making samples and demos for my next Hochanda shows for Imagination Crafts at 8am, 2pm and 6pm on Saturday. I am doing another mixed media show with our lovely Canvas Journals/Planners, new large Mixed Media Stencils, gorgeous new Texture Stamps and also cards using our lovely products. Heads up, shh hush, look out for the Gold Gilt with the Mixed Media Sprays its won't hand around for long its goooorgeous!

I am covering a range of products and going to get inky and messy as usual but also have some clean and fresh cards planned for you, even a man's card!... lets hope the stock stays around long enough!

So on to what was meant to be this morning's blog post....... 

Below are the cards that my ladies created at my class workshop last Friday. We used the gorgeous NEW floral Woodware Stamps that were launched at Stitches in February and the fabulous PaperArtsy Infusions. I never thought that I needed Infusions as I love my Brushos but Kirsten persuaded me to give them a go and now I am hooked. I still love my brushos but Infusions give you a totally different look. They have ground walnut added to them so you get a really vintage effect with them, I just love it.........

There are quite a few photos to this post, so I am going to just list the items used as they are quite self explanatory and will go in to more depth next week, when I have a little more time.......

Items used:

Woodware Circle Flowers Stamp Set

PaperArsty Infusions Emerald Isle

Crealie Die On the Edge No12

Crealie Stamp Bits and Pieces No 60B

Distress Inks :

 Mermaid Lagoon

Gathered Twigs

Bundled Sage

Mowed Lawn

Antique Linen

Starlights: White Gold

Versafine Onyx Black

You can see the lovely sparkle from the gilding flakes in the Starlights on this close up.....

Items used:

Woodware Long Tall Flowers Stamp Set

PaperArsty Infusions Are you Cerise

Crealie Die On the Edge No 8

Crealie Stamp Bits and Pieces No 60B

Distress Inks :

Picked Raspberry

Festive Berries

Spiced Marmalade

Bundled Sage

Mowed Lawn

Starlights: Platinum

Versafine Onyx Black

Woodware Wiggly Stems Stamp Set

Die cut circles from my stash

Distress Inks :

Picked Raspberry

Festive Berries

Mini Preserves

Shaded Lilac

Wilted Violet

Bundled Sage

Mowed Lawn

Starlights: Platinum

Versafine Onyx Black

Everyone made a version of their own based around these cards and you can see some of the class cards in a lovely album that Kirsten made on Lisa B Designs Facebook Page here ......

The second class card was made using one of the lovely Sheena texture dies to cut a textured aperture in the white card and we used the lovely Lily Stamp from Designs by Georgina and a Crealie Decorette No 17 Intertwined Circles die.

They had a choice of Infusions colour and used similar mediums as the above cards to colour the flowers and elements......

Well, it is short and sweet from me for tonight as I am getting so tired now. I have been in my craft studio since 9.30am this morning and need a rest now. So I am going to say goodnight for now and hope you enjoyed taking a look at the class cards. 

Big hugs 

Lisa B xxx

Hobby Art Class Cards........

Morning my lovelies,

Well it has been a crazy time lately........

It is always very busy this time of the year with the Spring NEC Trade Show in February and the NEC retail show looming up next week. We have also had TV shows on Hochanda to deal with so what with my classes as well, my feet have not touched the ground somewhat so as you can imagine I am slightly shattered lately!

However....... 

We had my class on Friday and as you may know by now it was all about Hobby Art and we showcased the Brand New Hobby Art stamps designed by Janie Burnett-Bleach which I absolutely adore, they are just so gorgeous. We did sell out on the night but I will be restocking soon.....

So today I thought that I would share with you the class projects that I set for the night for the ladies to do their own take on. We used Distress inks for the backgrounds, along with aqua pens and Starlights for the colouring of the images.....

The first card was a choice of the gorgeous Oliver Owl Stamp or Nature Trail with the lovely bird stamp......

The backgrounds were made by blending Distress inks on to the card with a blending tool and then adding a moon using Starlights through a circle stencil. They had the choice of doing the night sky or a bright coloured background or natural day scene........

 They also had the choice of colouring the images with Distress ink, Watercolour pens or Starlight Paints.

The night owl background was created in the same way but water was splattered on to the background once the ink was applied and then removed with kitchen towel. I also showed the ladies how to water down the Starlights 1 to 5 parts with water and splatter the background to get a starry effect.......

For this one I did a vibrant background and added some texture using a Crackle Background from Indigo Blu which is 22% off on my website at the moment......

Here is a closer look it gives great texture.......

For this one, I kept it as a natural day scene. I wanted to give them a lot of choice and again added some texture with the Crackle Background stamp.......

You can really see it clearly in this photo, it really is a great stamp if you want an easy way to create crackle without having to do it yourself with products......

The second card was a lovely little Book Mark Tag Card using the Funky Flower stamp from Hobby Art which I love. It was created in a very similar way using the Texture Stamps on the background.....

The ladies made some fantastic makes and you can see them all here in a album that Kirsten created on our Facebook page HERE

I am celebrating 500 likes on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page with a little giveaway, it's open until Sunday, March 12, if you'd like to join in.

***On the website, some Hobby Art stamp sets have been reduced in price by 25% - 40%.***

Well I hope you have a great week and I will catch up with you next week with a tutorial on a canvas that I created for the class......

Love and hugs 

Lisa B xxx

More That's Crafty Acrylic Stackers with Starlights.....

Good morning my lovelies,

How are you all? 

Are we all ready for this cold spell that is coming our way? I certainly am not as I have said many times before I hate the cold, it really does me no good at all.

Those of you that managed to catch the Imagination shows on Hochanda at the weekend will know that I am a little under the weather somewhat at the moment!!

I actually had to go to my doctors when I got back from Peterborough on Monday and my doctor  gave me a flu jab, I have a chest infection and my asthma has come back!!!  I just can't believe my luck lately, I was unwell before Christmas and now have this on top. I have got anti-biotics now and will just have to take it a bit easy over the next few days.....

Thank you to all of you that tuned in and supported our shows by buying the fabulous products. Kerry-Ann and I had a great time and I don't think we have ever done so many techniques in an ODS before!  

I will be back on your screens in a couple of weeks on 22nd January with some fabulous NEW products doing a mixed media show, so I hope you can join me as I will be flying solo, ekk!! My first time!!!........

Well enough of me and my problems let's get on to the crafting........

As Kirsten and I said last week we are bringing you some of our Acrylic Stacker samples that we made a while back and Kirst did a fabulous post, step by step HERE if you missed it.

All the stackers are made in a similar way, just with products of your choice. I forgot to take any mid way pics, I always get too involved with the piece and just steam on in to it!!

The first two were made with the Stacking ATC's or if you wanted to make a slightly larger one, then the Panel 1 Stacker is a great size and my favourite as you have more surface space to work on.

I have listed the ingredients used to produce each of the stackers below them.......

Stacking ATC

Fresco Paints

That's Crafty Dinky Stencil Bubbles

Stampendous Field of Poppies Stamp

Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints

Hobby Art Lavender Stamp

Hobby Art Winter Snowflake Stamp

Gold Stickles

Stacking ATC

White Gesso

That's Crafty Dinky Stencil Reverse Honeycomb

Stampendous Field of Poppies Stamp

Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints

Clarity Line Sentiments Stamp

Gold Stickles

The stacker below is made using the Butterfly Acyrilic Stacker, I really loved working with a different shape and this butterfly was great .......

Butterfly Acrylic Stacker

Fresco Paints

Distress Inks

Stampendous Field of Poppies Stamp

Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints

Hobby Art Lavender Stamp

Gold Stickles

Hobby Art Busy Bees Stamp

Well I do hope you have enjoyed seeing more of these and I will catch up with you all next week.

Take care and keep warm.....

Love and hugs 

Lisa B xxx

Woodware Stamps, Poinsettias and Cones......

Good morning all,

I do hope that you are all wrapped up warm, hasn't the weather taken a real change lately. I am really not too keen on the cold and neither is my body!!!

I can't believe that Christmas is looming up so fast, where has this year gone? Have you done all your Christmas shopping yet? I am chuffed to say that I am nearly done this year! So unlike me I know, it is usually a mad rush at the end......

So the last workshop of the year, the Christmas Party Class is nearly upon us (this Friday) and Kirsten and I have been really busy getting ready for it and will be over the next couple of days. I am really looking forward to seeing you all, we have lots of fun in store for you......

So today I thought that I would do a quick post and show you a couple of cards that I made for the last class using the Woodware Poinsettia Stamp and Fir Cone Stamp.....

This first card I stamped the Poinsettia Stamp on to white velum several times with Versafine Black Onyx Ink and then heat embossed with Wow Sparkle Embossing powder. I then brayered over them with Diamond White Sparkle Medium to add some sparkle. Once dry I layered them up to create four flowers and added some Rich Gold Starlights to the centres...

For the cones, I die cut a white circle of card and stamped and embossed the cone image onto the card. I then stamped and embossed it three times more on to brown card and brayered Diamond White Sparkle medium over the top of them as well and then cut them all out.
I painted the spruce on the cone stamp with Green Starlights and attached one of the cones on top of the stamped cone image on the die cut circle. I cut the top of one of the other cones away cutting along the wavy line and then repeated this on the other one lower down. I decoupaged the pieces on top of the cone and then added the cut off pieces to the side to make it look like a bunch of cones (see pic below), waste not want not I say! 

I then matted and layered it all up on to a 7" square card and added my flowers and a sentiment.

A simple but effective Christmas card......

I used the same stamps on the card below but this time on a bauble and cut away some poinsettias and layered them over the top of the cone. They were coloured with Red and Topaz Starlights.

To create the background I foiled some Gold Shine Sparkle Medium through a Diamond Stencil with some cut'n'dry foam......

Well that is all from me for now my lovelies and I will be back soon.

See many of you on Friday.....

Big hugs 

Lisa B xx