Painted Harvest Home Decor item

This time next week I will be opening up for the Painted Harvest workshop.  Thats the name of the stamp set we will be using in the workshop, its in the new seasonal catalogue. If you haven't got a copy and would like one email me here .
You can book on the workshop via my website, you will need to click the workshop tab and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Using these plaques has spread through our team like wildfire but they are just so useable. Great size. easy to use and stamp on.
This is my take......

To start with I mixed water and gesso and painted the wood, which was a bit plasticy in appearance! I left that to dry for about 1/2 an hour then got my daubers out.... well I couldn't have a project without daubing could I. Using crumb cake I daubed the edges of each plank lightly, slowly I built the colour up to give the wood an aged look.

I had two sentiments and pondered a while about which one to use. Love this one. from the Beautiful You stamp set.

 I stamped directly onto the surface with the stamps, but also stamped some onto card which I then fussy cut. I created a seperaet centre for this one then coated it in fine tip glue to make it shiny.
The leaves are 2 step stamping as well then I have used the matching punch.

Shopping

Painted Harvest Bundle  Stamp set and punch   146021

Burlap ribbon                                                      141487

Beautiful You stamp set                                      143637

Shopping online is easy. Click on the number next to the item you are interested in and you will go directly to that item in the online shop. Use the hostess number below then in October I will send you some Christmas Stampin'Up goodies.

Pop of Paradise 2

Quick post this morning - the second card for Card and a Cuppa today, uses other stamps from the set with the flamingo and two of the new in-colours. The two shades of green, tranquil tide and lemon lime twist. They look brilliant together. Another staright forward stamping card, just the addition of some of those glitzy gems to finish it off.

When is a box not just a box.......?

Its time for the Tuesday afternoon group to create something other than cards. They had been asking to make boxes. I had been reluctant as this is not one of my strengths but I needed to give it a go.
But I haven't just come with any box I have created a box within a box, actually a box within an exploding box. A first for me and I am so pleased with it as its just what I was asked for.

Firstly I had to make the little box for the inside, this was my starting point as this was the box a customer had seen and liked. then I created the design around it and lastly the exploding box around the outside. I haven't finished yet I still need to decorate the lid of the box, and create the tags/notes for the inside pockets, but I am so pleased with the bare bones of how it has turned out.

The little house that was the start of the project. I have added little flowers to the side window in a window box, around the the other two sides I have stamped with green leaves and some flowers, then added a die cut tree and a fence to the base card/central square.  It all folds up flat inside the lid. Happy dance in the den when I finished this yesterday. I just hope the ladies on Tuesday afternoon like it. 

A work in progress but nearly finished!

Pop of Paradise

Last week in my Tuesday morning Cards and a Cuppa session at The Secret Cafe we made two very specific cards, one with 'get well soon' sentiments and the other a sympathy card. Both very necessary but not the easiest to make when needed.
This week I have decided to start with a pop of pink and the Pop of Paradise stamp set. I would be interested to know  how many of my readers who are Stampin' Up demonstrators or users of Stampin'Up ink can recognise the colours I have used. Its a bit of a fun card.

I regularly use this layout for a card, 4 squares to the top right hand corner, ribbon and sentiment in the lower half of the card.

So what colours are these flamingo's?

Good simple stamping, card and ink. - Fancy making one then join me between 9.30  - 11.00am on Tuesday morning in The Secret Cafe, Tenterfields Business Park, Burnley Rd, Halifax. 

Shopping

Pop of paradise stamp set 141581

Shopping online is easy. Click on the number next to the item you are interested in and you will go directly to that item in the online shop. Use the hostess number below then in October I will send you some Christmas Stampin'Up goodies.

Oh So Eclectic

This card is made with the same stamp set as yesterdays poppies. How different can you get? 

This card showcases the use of the dies that match the stamp set. I started with die cutting the lattice pattern from the very vanilla cardstock. The flowers and leaves are stamped  using the two step stamping technique on spare very vanilla card then die cut. Putting the card together I have threaded the leaves and flowers through the lattice die cut  and layered up on tempting turquoise

 The ribbon is from  my stash. The sentiment 'Happy Birthday' is from the Fairy Celebration stamp set. The two step stamping really gives the leaves and flowers some texture. Such a pretty card.

Shopping

Oh so Eclectic bundle  145356

Shopping online is easy. Click on the number next to the item you are interested in and you will go directly to that item in the online shop. Use the hostess number below then in October I will send you some Christmas Stampin'Up goodies.

Poppies

I wonder how many of you who read this and use Stampin'Up products know which stamp set I have used here.

I always love poppies and I also love water-colouring.

This is the large flower background in the 'Oh So Eclectic' stamp set. I have stamped it on really good quality heavyweight watercolour paper. I watered the paper first using an aqua painter. Then stamped with real red. I again wet the paper in the centre of the flower and using the aqua painter added more colour. This gives it a real intensity. Then I left the paper to dry. The black centre of the flower is stamped with momento using one of the flower centre stamps. Don't you just love the way the ink has fuzzed at the edges of the petals. To add the leaves I covered the flowers with a mask then used stamped off ink to add the stems and leaves

Unfortunately I didn't have any current red ribbon so I had to use some out of my stash. Then a little sentiment. I actually thought twice about adding a sentiment. I think I am going to do another one of these but 5" square then put it into a frame. I love it that much. What do you think.

Shopping

Oh So Eclectic stamp set       143940

Real Red ink                          126949

Real Red A4 card                  106578

Black card                             121688

Shopping online is easy. Click on the number next to the item you are interested in and you will go directly to that item in the online shop. Use the hostess number below then in October I will send you some Christmas Stampin'Up goodies.

Painted Harvest

I can't believe its a week since I last posted. Last weekend I did a craft fair at the top of the calder valley in Todmorden. It was a brilliant day. Lots of lovely people made a card at the 'make and take' table. Plus all my large square cards sold out.
Yesterday I used the painted harvest stamp set for the first time in class. There was some influence from pinterest for my makes but it was an amalgamation of lots of ideas.
My ladies who come to Tuesday class love Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant..... they are purple girls!  So the first card is just about two step stamping, it did take us longer than I expected but we had many laughs along the way and everyone was really happy about with the card they had made.

The ribbon is the retired seam binding and yes I have quite a stock of it as I love this colour. 

Over the next few months I can see me trying this with lots of different colour combinations. I know its really a sunflower but it doesn't have to be yellows!
This stamp set comes in a bundle with a punch, the punch matches the leaves in this set.

Shopping
Painted Harvest bundle (Stamp set and Punch)  146021
Painted Harvest Stamp set                                   144783
Wisteria Wonder A4 card                                    124389     
Wisteria Wonder Ink                                           126985
Elegant eggplant A4 card                                    108614
Elegant Eggplant ink                                           126969
Vanilla card                                                         106550

Shopping online is easy. Click on the number next to the item you are interested in and you will go directly to that item in the online shop. Use the hostess number below then in October I will send you some Christmas Stampin'Up goodies.