A little bit funky!

Good Morning Everybody,

I hope that you are all refreshed and have enjoyed a lovely long weekend. We had a couple of fabulous days with great friends Caroline and John and a super family day with our lovely 2, and close family having a lovely Easter roast lunch, good time had by all.

I have something a little funky today and it is a project that we made in class last week.

we used 2 really great sets of stamps from Woodware the shoes are from the Sneakers set and the words from Graffiti. Excellent cards for teenagers - girls and boys depending on the colours that you use.  I used promarkers to colours all the stamped images and added a little graffiti of my own onto the letters. 

The background paper is from Kaiser and it goes so well with the whole project.  I stamped the background with a spolge stamp from my stash - I think it is one of Sheena's.

I was pleased with the finished result and really enjoyed getting it all put together.

Hope you like what I have done with the stamps - please leave a comment and let me know.

The stamps are available from the website if you fancy having a go.

Enjoy your day - we have sunshine so hope you do too.

Please pop back on Thursday for another post.

Thankyou, as always for taking the time to pop in,

Bye for now,

Jo xx

Day 16 - Christmas Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone,

Wow! where did that weekend go??

As I mentioned we were at Inspirations in Preston all weekend demonstrating and teaching and it has been a fabulous weekend meeting lots of lovely people - some that we see on each visit and lots of lovely new crafters who we hope to see when we visit next time.

It was also great to see Nicky Hall, Ruth from Hunkydory and Sarah McCrosson who were demonstrating some goreous crafty goodies.  

Thankyou to Inspirations and looking forward to our next visit.

Well back to Christmas!

Todays little offering is a 6" x 6" card and I have used a lovely set of Woodware stamps that I really love, they have been designed perfectly for them to be used with paper piecing. Similar to the Reindeer a couple of days ago you stamp onto various papers and then cut up and mix and match together.  If you use the same papers for the backing also it looks a really clean image.

the message is also a stamp on this collection, a ribbon bow, faux stitching around the edge and strings of pearls finish the design off.

A neat and quiet contemporary little card which is one of my favourites.

I hope that you like it too and perhaps have a go at the idea.

Thankyou for popping in and I hope that you will leave a comment - dont forget the blog candy that is on offer at the end of the 30 days - we are half way through now!

See you tomorrow,

Bye for now

Jo xx

DAY 14 - Christmas Inspiration

Hello Again! 

Well 2 posts in one day ! I hope that you stuck with me for Day 14 of Christmas projects and inspiration.

Thankyou to everyone who is taking the time to comment and keep popping in daily.

Now isn't he a cutie! and looking very proud of himself I must say!

This is a Woodware stamp and I have stamped it on the white card and onto several different patterned papers and then cut the pieces up to then adhere to the stamped image (like a paper jigsaw puzzle) this is paper piecing for those who haven't tried this technique before.  This stamp and several other Woodware stamps are perfect for doing this and they have been designed by Francoise Read.

I have added a Christmas greeting, added some faux stitching around the edge and used pearl drops to look like snow and on the ends of his antlers!

This is a great card to make with the Children too - younger ones will need the image stamping and perhaps cutting out but they will love to piece it back together themselves.

I hope that I am still inspiring you with all of Christmas ideas and please pop in tomorrow to have a look at Day 15!

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Thankyou to everyone for popping in,

Bye for now

Jo xx