Free Flight

Here's the second card they made on Tuesday's workshop.This was an 8x8 white card,the front of which was folded back in half.The following two layers were die-cut with Grand labels one,one black,one white.Cover the white layer completely with Broken China distress ink then add Brushed Corduroy around the edge.Spray the birdcage stamp with a fine mist of water and stamp down on the bottom half of the card, leave for a couple of seconds then dab with kitchen roll,repeat this to cover the bottom half.The topper is made by inking a piece of white card with Broken China and Brushed Corduroy blended together.Stamp the birdcage over this using Jet Black archival and then tear around the piece to give a white edge.The leaves are from the Spellbinders Foliage set,and the rose was made using the flower from Sam Poole's Button Floral stamp plate.
By the way Free Flight is the stamp set we used to make both cards.



My next workshop will be on the 10th July,details are the same as last month.If you are interested please call,this time I don't think will be as inky.......



This card is similar to one of the cards that will be made during the workshop.Hope you like it.

Well where do I start......there are so many things to show and tell.I think I'll start with a show of some of the cards made for Sheena's latest shows.

This was one of our favourites for the embossing folder show, I embossed a piece of coredinations card stock and sanded it.This was then used on the front of the easel card. Using the flower stamp from Sheena's paint fusion Berries set I stamped in jet black archival onto white card and cut them out.The leaves were stamped then coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.



I love this technique,it's quick but very effective,first die-cut a shape, in this case a circle into a piece of copy paper.This is then used as a stencil through which to apply the distress ink,Wild Honey first,then Rusty Hinge around the bottom edge.Give the distress ink a quick blast of the heat gun,then ink up the chairs and table with archival and stamp on the edge of the circle.

I'll add some more samples in future posts.





My second workshop took place yesterday,and again everyone left with very inky fingers but with two lovely cards.Here is one of the cards they made


It was made using Penny Black stamp set called Free Flight which can be purchased from J & C Creations. The distress ink colours were Stormy Sky,Brushed Corduroy,Walnut stain and Black Soot.Using a mixture of techniques,blending the colours,spraying the stamp with a fine mist of water them stamping on the backgound to lift the colour.Then the burnt edge effect on the topper,the butterflies were stamped then colour added with a blending tool.
Then second card I'll post tomorrow.If you're interested in attending one of my workshops,details of the next one will be on my blog tomorrow.

Hope you like the cards that have been posted today, please check back tomorrow for more.

Lincoln Show

Kay and I had a lovely day at the Sincerely Yours Lincoln Show,the weather was great and so was the atmosphere.Great to catch up with some old crafting friends as well as meeting new ones. It certainly made up for missing the other weekend at Biggin Hill when Kay's van broke down.So many interesting crafting goodies, very easy to spend too much money.I'm happy I've now got the new distress ink colours and all the distress pens can't wait to play.
I will be busy putting together another workshop,to follow the one last week where everyone got very inky fingers.The details are as follows;
Date Tuesday 12th June 2012
Time 10-12noon & 7pm-9pm
At Costa Coffee
High Street
Rushden
Cost £12.00 per session
We will hopefully be making a couple of cards using some of the distress techniques,I've yet to choose the stamps,too many really lovely stamps to choose from.Have to make a choice soon.......
I'll finish the post with another card I made for Sheena's last show.

Sheena's New Stamps

Surprise to some I know, but I've been working on Sheena's DT.This week I've have been inking and colouring to produce some cards for the launch of two A5 stamp plates on Saturday.
These stamps are great to use individually but also to build scenes(reminds me of the old days).
Did manage to do some simpler ones,but you know me I don't do simple,I like my mats,layers and accessories.
See what you think!

Looking forward to next week when I teach my first workshop,kits and equipment are nearly ready and places are starting to fill.If you would like to come please ring me on 07533937706.

Before that I'll will be with Kay at the Sincerely Yours show on Sunday at Biggin Hill .If your at the show please come and say hello.

Workshop News

At long last I've booked a date to do my first workshop,(with alot of gentle persuasion from my friends.....). It has been a long time since I've taught a class but I'm really looking forward it.
Great venue for some of my friends who like their coffee mentioning no names..... As a lot of you know I only drink tea but that tastes good aswell,I've tried it.Cakes have yet to be tried,oh well plenty of opportunity.

The first one will be a chance to get inky,my favourite pastime,using of course Distress inks(Have you seen the new colours !).There are many techniques using these and I hope to show quite a few in the two hours,resulting in a tag book which will be decorative but also a reference to the techniques learnt.

Tools will be provided but please bring your favourite tools if prefered.
If you are interested or need more information please call or e-mail me karenlines@btopenworld.com.
I hope to post a picture of the tag book soon.

As to other news, my lovely hubby brought me a laptop,a lot easier to use than my netbook and I can now use my crafting CD's.Hopefully I can now keep my blog updated,for some reason blogger didn't make it easy for me to post on the netbook.

I'm still travelling to many of the craft shows with Kay Rutter and J & C creations.It's been lovely meeting many a lot of my blog followers and chatting to fellow crafters.I really enjoy this part of my job,setting up and breaking down well......that's another story lol.Kay and I will be at a show in Leicester on 13th May then Biggin Hill the following weekend,please come and say hello if you're there.

Had a lovely day yesterday with my friends Anne and Nat at Sir Stampalot in Peterborough,we attended a workshop taught by the talented Louise.We got to have a colouring day with copics,Janice couldn't believe how quiet we were, but isn't that the way when your concentrating.Made a gorgeous box card and a simpler rocker card. Promise I'll show pictures soon. If you want a relaxing, enjoyable day that gives you plenty of information on Copics then give it a try.

Bank holiday Monday tomorrow my husband and I were going to Skegness but it looks like it's going to rain most of the day so change of plan,stay at home and play with some new goodies I brought at one of the shows recently and some Bo Bunny papers I brought yesterday. Post results tomorrow .......maybe.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mums out there.Thanks to my daughters for their lovely preasents,earrings and a watch with changable straps. As to my Mum, I brought her earrings which will go very well with her present for her 70th birthday tomorrow. I hope she doesn't mind me putting her Mother's day card on here but I was really pleased with how it came out. Green's my Mum's favourite colour so that was the base for this card.

I now have the choice to mix my dies so there is Spellbinders,Marianne and Memorybox. Just a short post today as I've my Mum's birthday card to finish off.

Leigh & Glasgow

Three shows and a trade show since my last post,time flies when your having fun.Stitches was fun, great to meet everybody when they found me...... surprised quite a few people as I wasn't in my ususal spot.Think Linda could repeat my story word for word the amount of times I told it. lol. Then I was off to Farnborough with Kay,busy show,customers loved their decoupage,we loved the pig roast. Time to play with new Penny Black stamps at Leigh,I love London is the title for their new range.There is a mixture of cute and more graphic images, I like a mixture of both.

These are two of my favorites,the tower bridge was stamped in Black Soot distress ink and the colour pulled out from the image with a damp brush.The background was made scrunching up a piece of white card and swiping the ink pad across catching all the peaks.Then spray with water allowing the ink to spread,the following action I call my sizzle technique.You need a craft or travel iron for the next bit.Iron over the card drying and flattening at the same time.Don't worry about cleaning the iron,just iron a baby wipe,it works well. The mini was coloured with Spectrum Noirs.I used the flag mask from Stamps Away,which after embossing I inked with Weathered Wood distress ink.The apperture was cut using the pinking circles from Spellbinders. New Heartfelt Creations were launch at Glasgow,Lisa worked with the flowers stamps and dies,I had windows and scenes as well as crosses.

The cross was very popular,I stamped and embossing the image twice and cut out just the main part of the cross and use foam pads to attach to the full image.Repeat stamp the flower for the ones in the corner. The window is such a new die J & C Creations are taking pre-orders on it.I love window and door images, so many choices on what the view will be. Well I have a weekend off so I will be busy making samples for the NEC.For those at Harrogate and Olympia hope you have a very busy show.