Previous Makes

Morning All

Sitting at my desk with my morning cuppa looking at photos of some previous projects and thought I would share them with you.  Maybe some of you have seen them already but it will bring my blog a bit more up to date.   New makes will be posted more regularly as they are made or worked on which will be so much easier for me.

Here goes:-

I'm not brilliant at knitting but like to have a go, this was my first little hat made for Innocent Smoothie.  They put them on the bottles of smoothies which raises money for Age UK.  Some of the hats that are made look amazing and so detailed, somehow I think mine will stay quite plain but hopefully they will still help the cause.



Let me introduce Oscar the Owl, he was made for my craft room chair but now resides on my shelf so he can supervise what I do, he also has a green brother which I made for my youngest daughter.   Oscar was made using a Corinne Lapierre kit and his brother using the same pattern and some green felt bought from Corinne.  I have my eye on a few other kits from Corinne, they are so easy to make up and the felt is so soft.



This one is a wedding cracker made from parchment, the cracker groovi plate, lace and paper from a Simply Vintage pack and a few added embellishments from my stash.  I loved making this one, it was made for a Glue Dots show I demonstrated on Hochanda late last year.



These are a few images of Zauberperle 3D beaded ornaments I made for the relevant shows on Hochanda, these are so much fun to make and look stunning.  There was so many other designs and colourways but will leave those for another day.
     

This was one of my favourite makes from about 3 years ago, the ladies that came to the workshops I run for this loved them.   As you can see I did mine, which was their finished sample to look at on the day, in traditional colours but a few ladies painted theirs in blue, silver and purple which was lovely.  The kit is from Tando and started out as plain greyboard.



A page from one of my art journals using Dylusions sprays and stamps along with a few freebie stamps from magazines that worked well with the theme I wanted.



The last photo for today is a candle painted with Pebeo Deco acrylic using one of the Sheena Douglass paintfusion stamps.




Well I hope you liked them and I apologise now that there was so many but felt I needed to get them blogged.   The photos are not brilliant, I really do need to up my photography skills, but at least they show what I have been up to.

It must be time for another cuppa now so until next time...............

Happy crafting xx

Ring O' Roses

Morning all.

Its time for challenge 38 at the Moving Along With The Time Blog and the theme for Team A, chosen by Wendy, is Ring O' Roses - you don't have to use roses as any flowers will be ok.

This is the card I made

I wanted something ready for Mothers Day (it's ok, my Mum doesn't use a computer so won't see it), she likes cards that are pretty but not fussy so hoping this one will fit the bill.  

This design was coloured with promarkers, edged with gilding wax and a few pearls added, the sentiment was stamped using one from my crafty stash, edged with gilding wax and a few small gems as you have to have a bit of sparkle! 

Please take a minute to pop over to MAWTT and check out what the other Design Team Members have made for this challenge and while you are there why not join in, you never know you might win a surprise 😉 

Well, I hope you liked my card and thank you for reading my blog.

Kettle is now going on for a cuppa (doesn't matter what time you are reading this as I am always drinking tea!) so until next time.....

Happy crafting xx

Hochanda Koh I Noor Shows

Hi everyone

This post is a long awaited update from me demonstrating on the Koh I Noor shows on Hochanda, it was a fantastic day and the shows went really well.

I was demonstrating Magic Paint, drawing inks and Magic Pencils, all products are amazing and easy to use.  So many techniques can be used and different effects obtained with all of the products.

The Magic Paint is a multi-coloured paint that keeps the individual colours when being used or mixed.

They are fantastic on canvas for backgrounds.

The letter H was from the word Home, I will finish the other three letters and display on a window sill. They can also be used as backgrounds in journals.

Mixed with texture paste they do lose the some of their marbel effect but work great with stencils.

The drawing inks and pencils are great fun to use but I will leave samples etc for these until another time.

Feet up time with a crafty mag is calling so until next time.....

Happy crafting xx

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES

Good morning everyone and Happy New Year.

Welcome to my first blog post of the new year and my first post for the "Moving Along With The Times Challenge" Design Team - I am so excited.

The theme set by Zoe for this fortnight is

 Something in the Air - something that you see in the sky

This could be an aircraft, birds, bees etc - I chose butterflies and hope you like my card.

Why not get that mojo flowing, pop over to see the other DT members have made and enter the challenge yourself here - there is a prize up for grabs but you have to be in to win! 

Well, it's time for tea and a rather large craft room clear up after the Christmas holiday so until next time.....

Happy crafting x

Craft Room Update

Wow, what a manic few weeks!

The craft room is now all nicely fitted out, just needs to be made to feel like home and then I will post pictures for you all to see.  It needs some finished crafty projects on shelves along with crafty stash in the cupboards and drawers.  Note to self - Must be strict and only put back what I really want / need to keep!

Follow up from the Glue Dots shows on Hochanda on 12th November 2016, here are a few pictures on projects I made for the shows:-

 

I hope you liked some of the projects, they were such fun to make.

If you missed the shows you can catch up with the 8am show when I was with Leonie Pujol by clicking here

Well its getting late now so will finish this post here but promise to be blog again in a day or so.

Jack
xx

Craft Room Refit

When is a kitchen not a kitchen?  Good question I can hear you asking (or maybe not!)

Over the last week I have boxed up most of my craft room (sob) so it can be fitted out with new cupboards and shelves, it was such a mess and I am hoping when it's finished it will help me to be more organised.

Here is a pic of just one wall, I can't show you the rest as it is stacked with boxes and bags and I am so embarrassed by it.

As you can see a couple of the new units have been built, the top one is waiting to be put up on the wall, a few more to be made up, work surface to be added and job should be a good one.

Hoping it won't take long as I am back on Hochanda Saturday 12th November with Glue Dots, Sunday 13th November with Zauberperle and then again at the end of November with something else (can't mention what yet - ssshhhhh!!!) all sorts of playing do be done, I mean .......so lots of samples and prep for demos to make.

Off to stroke paper and look at boxes of inks while having a well earned cuppa.

Jack xx