JoFY Snowman

Good morning, Kirsten here, happy chilly Monday. I hope you had a nice weekend. I've got two quick Christmas cards to show you today, both made with the very cute snowman from stamp set JOFY58 from PaperArtsy...................

This one has a background of Victorian Velvet Distress ink, with Picked Raspberry DI sponged lightly through a snowflake stencil and splatters of Silver Starlights Metallic Paint.

I stamped the snowman on to the background with Jet Black Archival and again onto white card with Onyx Black Versafine, heat setting with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder. I coloured his hat and the baubles with pens before cutting him out and fixing him to the background with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue.

I finished the card with a little bit of scribbling with black pen and matting and layering onto a 6x6 card blank..............

Card no. 2 was another very quick background. This time Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade Distress inks on white card, with Royal Blood Infusions from PaperArtsy sprinkled on top and spritzed with water. When that was dry I added splatters of Rich Gold Starlights. 

I made sure the background was thoroughly dry before applying Imagination Craft's Structure Paste through the same snowflake stencil as above, otherwise the inks would have tinted the paste. I added glitter to the wet paste, but it's not showing up in the photo. 

I repeated the steps with the snowman as above, placing him at the bottom of the card this time and adding the sentiment from JOFY56....................

On Friday and Saturday of this week the Lisa B Designs Christmas Party Classes take place - SO much to do beforehand!! :-) There will be a newsletter going out in the next few days, but please note the time of the AFTERNOON class............

Saturday, December 2 at Grove Green Community Hall, Maidstone ME14 5BT
between
***1.30pm and 4.30pm***

The evening class will take place at the usual time of 6.30pm to 9.30pm on Friday, December 1 in Fant Hall, Maidstone ME16 8NN

The shop will be open during both classes if you want to drop in.

***Look out for a sneak peek of one of the class projects on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page later on this morning.............***

                    

         

Gift Vouchers Available 

                                               lisabdesigns@btinternet.com/01622675078

That's it from me for now, have a great week.

Kirsten

October Newsletter

  Hi everyone, long time no see!! Welcome to the October newsletter. Apologies for not blogging for a while. I had great intentions, but every week Wednesday seemed to come and go before I'd even realised!

 I hope you've had an enjoyable September. I spent a few days with Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts two weeks ago. Sue and I demoed at the Exter Hobbycrafts show and as always, we had a great time. We met lots of lovely crafters and had a lot of fun.  The next time I'll see Sue and Harvey will be at the Hobbycrafts Christmas show at the NEC in Birmingham, I'm already looking forward to it.

The most important thing to tell you right at the start is that there are NO classes in Fant Hall, Maidstone, next Friday October 6. The hall is not available, unfortunately, so I have decided to take myself off to Spain for a little holiday. I leave tomorrow morning and I can't wait! As a result, if you order from the website between now and October 11, it won't be dispatched until October 12. However, if you're attending my Grove Green workshop on October 15 select 'Store Pick-up' when you check out and I'll bring your order to the workshop.

Speaking of the workshop; there are still places available if you'd like to learn how to get the best out of Imagination Crafts' fantastic Rusty Patina. 

There will be two projects; a working clock and an 8x8 canvas panel.................

 

   

We'll be using various colours of Rusty Patina as well as Alchemy Waxes and Starlight Metallic Paints.

Included in the £30 workshop fee will be the projects, a bag of embellishments to use on your projects - any you don't use will be yours to take home - and a FREE 6x6 stencil.

The venue is Grove Green Community Hall, Penhurst Close, ME14 5BT.

You can book online, or email me; lisabaker1@btinternet.com, before Saturday, October 14.

Please bring your lunch, (there is a Tesco beside the hall), an apron, paint and stencil brushes - my go-to stencil brushes are the domed stencil brushes and they are available on the website.

The workshop after the Rusty Patina one will be the Christmas workshop on November 12.

A kit to the value of £20 is included in the £40 workshop fee and more information can be found HERE.

The next classes at Fant Hall, Maidstone ME16 8NN will be on Friday, October 27. The projects will be two cards with a snowman theme..............

We will be using Distress and Versa Color inks, colouring pens and lots of loose glitter!

     

If you would like to join us on Friday October 27, there a couple of places left in both classes; 2.30 - 5.30pm and 6.30 - 9.30pm. The class fee is £16 and this includes your projects, a tool kit to use during the class and tea/coffee and a slice of cake.

Places must be booked in advance; a deposit of £6, or full payment, will secure your place. Please contact me by lunchtime on Thursday October 26; lisabaker1@btinternet.com/01622 675078

I've added some very cute snowmen stamps to the website and restocked items that sold out at the September class, as always, you'll find all the new products in the

 What's New section.

I have scheduled a few blog posts for the next few weeks, so you'll see me here soon......

I hope you have a great weekend. Until next time, happy crafting.

Lisa B xx

Vintage and Pretty with Imagination Craft's Rice Paper

Hello all, Martina here! How are you doing? Crafting lots? The kids break up this week and then it's several weeks of mayhem! Not sure how much crafting I will have the energy for in the evenings - unless someone would like to borrow my 4?!? Let's hope the weather is kind to us all...

This month we are looking a different ways to use the HUGE collection of Rice Papers from Imagination Crafts. It was only recently I found out that there are 100s of designs to choose from, and with them being so versatile it can be hard to know where to start (not to mention that quite often I just want to stroke them and not use them anyway!)

Last week I used some Rice Paper as a backing paper on some MDF, so this week I thought I would use some as a backing paper on some card, building up layers and adding more treasures from my stash to bring it all to life.

Using the Rice Paper Pattern 448 with Magi-Bond Decoupage Glue, I covered my card topper with the section of paper that I wanted to use. I saved the rest for another project.

Once dry, I inked the edges of the paper with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink to bring the eye in. I also fixed some ribbon from my stash onto the card to add some different texture (in the photo below I tried one option with tying the ribbon, but I went with another idea in the end, as I did not want to obscure the words).

Using some Brown Archival Ink I stamped and die-cut some flowers (these were Heartfelt Creations Sunkissed Fleur, but whatever you have in your stash will do!)

I then water-coloured the petals with Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. Whilst they were still wet, I shaped and scrunched the flowers up.

Back to my card topper and I had sorted the ribbon arrangement, but also decided to add some more detail with some Topaz Starlight Paint through an Imagination Crafts Stencil. Now in all honesty, I had stuck the ribbon on and then decided to add the paint, so had to remove and start again, but obviously a WISE person would do this more logically...

Now for some more texture using one of my favourite products...SPARKLE MEDIUM!!! I used Welsh Gold Sparkle Medium through the PaperArtsy PS006 Stencil straight onto Acetate. I LOVE this stencil, it is amazingly versatile and a definite 'must' in anyone's stash, it also looks great when cut out (even I do say so myself...see later on!)

Once I had cut my leaves all out, I fiddled about (as you do) and came up with my final arrangement.

I hope you like my finished card, I think it turned out well in the end! The Rice Papers really do most of the work for you, it is up to you how much you want to add to them!

See you next week,

Love

Martina

xxx

   

Dreamy Summer Days with PaperArtsy

Happy Monday to everyone, Kirsten here with the last of the projects I made for Lisa's PaperArtsy workshop at the end of May. I used a That's Crafty! greyboard panel with an assortment of PaperArtsy stamps & stencils.............

I painted the panel with Lavender Americana Acrylic, then with Imagination Crafts'  

Crackle Medium & then Bright Orange Americana Acrylic. Next, the stencil layers............

Titanium White Americana through PaperArtsy stencils PS009 & PS001

Purple Cow Americana Acrylic through PA stencil PS034 & PS060

Heather Starlights through PA stencil PS059............

Detail stamps from PaperArtsy stamp set EKC07stamped with Jet Black Archival ink & the flowers, butterflies & words from set EKC01 stamped onto white card, very lightly coloured with watercolour pens, cut out & glued to the greyboard panel..............

The finished panel, mounted onto black card...............

                    

                         

Lisa is taking bookings for the next two workshops at Grove Green. You can find the information about them HERE and there are a couple of places available on Friday's classes, information HERE.

She is taking the mobile shop to the Barton's Point Model Flying Spectacular this Saturday & Sunday, July 8 and 9. she'll be demoing on both days, so if you fancy a fun family day out, that's the place to be!

That's it from me. Have a great week & I'll see many of you on Friday.

Kirsten