Poppy Elements Five Ways...........

Good morning peeps,

How are we all today, I do hope that you are having a good week?

We had Paul's ( my husband's ) dad's funeral yesterday and everything went really smoothly and it was a beautiful service where my uncle Steve played on guitar and sang 'In the Arms of an Angel', it was so moving and everyone loved the service. Pete had so many wonderful friends and they all turned out for him and then we had a lovely reminiscing wake for him back at the house. Bless you Pete, we will miss you........

On to a lighter note, as you all know by now my new stamps are out there and thankfully have gone down very well with everyone and I have loved playing around with them. I have managed to make so many different things with them including home décor, cards clocks, coaster and so much more and will feature them over the next few weeks, When I designed them I did not want them to be one trick ponies as we all know that we buy stamps galore and use them a couple of times and then stash them away and buy more......

So with that in mind, when I began to design them I wanted them to do at least four or five different things and I will explain more now. Here is the first one that I designed which is the Floral Poppy Elements......

So the idea is:

1. Just say that you are a colourist and love colouring with Copics, Promarkers, Spectrum Noir, Spectrum Aqua's or any kind of colouring medium then you have a great main image that you can colour in.

2. If you love playing with stencils, then you can use a background stencil with inks or Stencil Paint and create a background image and then stamp on top with say VersaFine Black Onyx

your main image from the set. I have then given you the separate heads of the flowers and leaves so that you can stamp them separately and colour them to block out your background without having to stamp the whole image again.

3. If you hate colouring but love inks then I have given you a negative of the poppies and leaves so that you can ink the main focal and then ink up the heads of the flowers and leaves in separate colours and then stamp them in as a whole. I have also designed the poppy so that the layers can be cut away and decoupaged too, you will see this in the cat plaque that I have made below......

4. If you love watercolour flowers then another great way to use these stamps is to ink up the main image with say a green ink pad and spritz it lightly with water and then stamps it. Then use the negative stamps and ink up the poppy heads with say red ink and also spritz with water and then stamp to get a watercolour impression and repeat with the leaves in green.

5. Because I have given you the negative elements you can also use these to create tapestry like effects but on a larger scale and I will show you a sample in this post that I have made using Versacolor inks...... 

I am finding limitless ways to use these stamps each time I use them and would love to see what you all create with them. Here are just a few of the samples that I have made using the Botanical Poppy Elements Stamp set.......

This first one was a card that I taught in my class workshop last week and some of you may have seen the blog post from Kirsten HERE with the fantastic results from the class ladies. I used the hugely popular Honeycomb Stencil from Imagination Crafts and stencil paints Poppy Red and Lime Green for the background and then stamped the main image with Versafine Black Onyx ink and then embossed with Wow Clear Powder and then also used the  Stencil Paint to colour the image with.....

 This next card is 'Field of Poppies' and this was a mix of the positive and negative stamps of the set using Versacolours this time in Rose Red and Bamboo......

For the next make I wanted to create a clock and I used the Imagination Crafts large clock and gave it a primer of gesso before painting it with Lime Green Stencil paint and then a layer of Crackle and then a top coat of white acrylic paint to create a great crackle. I then played around with the Honeycomb and Poppy Elements Stamp until I was happy with the results......

The next make is another card but showing how you can use the negatives

in a tapestry stamp style way using Versacolor Inks and then embossing with Wow Sparkle Powder, I hope that you can see the sparkle.......

And lastly the gorgeous new MDF wall plaques designed by the lovely Tracey Dutton from Lavinia Stamps for Imagination Crafts. I adore these and love playing around with them, again for this one I used the Negative and positive stamps to decorate the wall plaque with using Versacolor inks. I have also decoupaged the poppy heads on this one.......

A little closer look......



Well that is all from me for now and I will be back soon with more inspiration for you all using my new stamps, have a great week......

Hugs Lisa B xx

    

     

         

Poppy Elements Clock

Good evening, I hope everyone has had a nice weekend. Apologies for the late appearance of this blog post. I decided to wait until Lisa's website had been updated following Friday's classes. My project today is the larger of the two MDF clocks from imagination Crafts, decorated with the

 Poppy Elements stamp set from the Floral Collage collection, designed by Lisa for Imagination Crafts......

 

 

I painted the clock with a few coats of white gesso & sanded it down slightly to give me a smooth surface to stamp on.

 

I stamped the images with Onyx Black Versafine & coloured them with Brusho Crystal colours - Turquoise, Yellow, Lime Green & Leaf Green. When the paint was dry I added

Diamond Sparkle Medium to the poppy heads.

 

The numbers were cut from red linen card using a Sizzix alphabet cutting die in my stash.

 

 

 

That's all from me for now. The May blog challenge started yesterday. The theme is the

Floral Collage stamps collection & all the details are on the challenge page.

 

Thanks for visiting the blog today & have a great week.

 

Kirsten

 

 

April Challenge Winner

 

Good morning, I hope you're all having a great weekend. The new challenge is now on

 the Challenge page.

Thank you to everyone who entered the April challenge, we loved seeing your fantastic Brusho projects.

 

The entrants were..........

Via Inlinkz:

 

Samantha Wade 1

Claire C 2

Karen P 3

Craftyfield 4

Samantha wade 5

Karen P 6

Joan W 7

Dawn Louise 8

Sue The Iron 9

Sue The Iron 10

 

Facebook/Email entries:

 

Sarah Clayton 11

Sarah Clayton 12

Julie Emmett 13

Julie Emmett 14

Caroline Williams 15

Yvonne Lambert 16

 

As always, random.org chose the winner..........

 

 

 

!!!!Caroline Williams!!!!

 

Congratulations Caroline!  Please contact Lisa - lisabaker1@btinternet.com - & she will send you your e-voucher code.

 

 Please note the £20 prize does not include P+P.

The items that were for sale at Friday's classes will be back on the website by tomorrow - Monday -  evening, if you want to wait until after that to make your choice.

Thanks again to everyone for supporting the challenge, we hope to see you enter the new challenge too & if you've got any crafting friends, please spread the word.

 

Kirsten

 

May Class Review

 

Good afternoon, happy Saturday. It seems only last week when we were in Maidstone for Lisa's April classes, but yesterday it was time for her May classes & the eagerly awaited Lisa B Designs launch of her brand new stamp sets for Imagination Crafts.

 

Here are two of Lisa's class samples that the ladies used as their inspiration................

 

 

The cases were based around the positive & the negative of the stamps, Imagination crafts stencil paint & stencils & Versacolor inks.

 

 

 

Lisa will be telling you about these samples & more in her upcoming blog posts.

 

 

There was plenty of time for shopping of course............

 

 

 

Brusho Crystal Colours & Brusho shimmer sprays were back in stock...........

 

 

Lisa's stamps set.............!!!

 

 

I'm delighted to say they were a big hit with everyone.

 

 

 

Lots of new stencils..........

 

 

 

Lots of new MDF products, including a selection from Candy Box Crafts..........

 

 

 

The Imagination Crafts wall plaques that were such a success on Create & Craft recently. There are a few of these left, but they won't be on the website until Monday, so if you want one, please email Lisa asap - lisabaker1@btinternet.com..............

 

 

 

Our trusty class photographer, Jan, wasn't able to be with us yesterday - we missed you Jan! - so we didn't get time to take photos of the ladies at work. I managed to get this of Trish with one of her lovely cards...........

 

 

 

 

Here's a small selection of the finished cards..........

 

 

 

 

They're all so pretty. Everyone used bright colours - must be the influence of Spring. :)

 

 

 

 

 

Fab sparkly embossing powder on these cards..............

 

 

 

 

 

 If you would like to see the rest, please visit the May Class albums on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page.

 

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday & a very warm welcome to the new ladies who joined us. The classes were very busy again, but we hope you enjoyed them & were happy with the new format of showing you the techniques. It seemed to work quite well, so I think we shall try to repeat it.

 

Thanks also must go to our lovely DT member, Karen Clare, who joined us yesterday, to Rosemary, Jo & Kate for their hard work all day & to Donna, who stayed to help us pack up everything.

 

June's class is all about Sweet Poppy stencils & dimensional pastes. Both classes are already heavily booked - one place left in the afternoon class, I think - so email Lisa if you're interested in attending.

 

July's Inka Gold workshop now has very limited places, see this blog post for information & again contact Lisa if you would like to join us.

 

As I said above, items left over from yesterday will be put on the website on Monday, but do email Lisa over the weekend if you've seen something that you want, as I'm not sure of stock numbers at the moment.

 

The current Brusho blog challenge ends at midnight tonight & I will be back in the morning to announce the winner & launch the May challenge. Until then, have a great Saturday.

 

Kirsten

 

 

Flown Alone

 

Good morning all.

I hope you're all well this morning and looking forward to the class today, very exciting to know that Lisa's stamps will be there.

 

So this is my last blog for this months theme of Butterflies and Brusho's and I've done something quite different to what I normally do.  I've done a bit of splashing about with the Brusho's but unfortunately the photos don't show the true colours, they are more intense in the flesh :o)

 

 

 

 

I used a 6 x 6 card and matted it with black card from my stash.  Taking a piece of watercolour card I dotted it with Purple and Yellow Brusho's before spritzing making sure I had a few splashes here and there.  I dried it all off with the heat gun then to highlight the splashes I drew around them with a fine marker pen, then daringly added some glossy accents in the centre of each splash to highlight them a little more.  I like the way Lisa adds little bubbles to her cards I think it gives them life.

 

 

Next was to cut a smaller piece of black card and matted it with more watercolour card before stamping with the Stampendous Butterflies embossing it with Wow clear powder.  I stuck this flat to the card.  I stamped a butterfly mask using Woodware Mask It and stamped across the whole card with the Stampendous Vintage Contact stamp.  (I think I should have embossed this too but in my haste I forgot). 

 

I decided at this point that the middle of the card was too stark white, so, keeping the butterfly masked, I distressed the card with Victorian Velvet and Antique Linen.  I then decided the butterfly looked too flat so I stamped the image again and cut it out to decoupage it and then felt happier with it.  I wanted to keep the butterfly white so the embossing was more effective.  Here's a close up.

 

 

I hope you like the quick and easy card today, have a wonderful time if you're going today

Take care, Love Jan -x-