It’s my first post for Creative Expressions since I joined their Design Team earlier in October. I’ll be posting a new project each week on a Wednesday. This month the projects will be featuring the Creative Expressions Winter Garden unmounted stamp set, with this card featuring the wonderful cyclamen stamp.
To download a step-by-step worksheet, click here: Cyclamen Card Worksheet [PDF]
It’s still ‘anything goes’ month over at The Crafting Cafe sponsored by the fabulous Stamping Dragon Designs – I’ve chosen the Rupert’s Car digistamp for my card.
Since my ProMarkers are currently on loan to my young tutee, I’ve used my Fashion Design set of Tria Markers to colour in the digistamp. This has the benefit of a preselected palette of colours that work well together. I’ve added extra colour-on-colour to add the tartan stripes to the hat and the shading. I felt Rupert really needed scarf and goggles, but only the scarf made it 🙂
For more making details, pop across to my design team blogpost.
I spent the day yesterday in the company of most of the new Creative Expressions Design Team, and what a day it was 🙂
Aside from the personal introductions, I also had a sound introduction to the product line – and I have been sooooo missing out on some of these goodies. Of course the credit card is now getting battered as I build up my stock of Creative Expressions/Cosmic Shimmer goodies ready for creating my design team projects, but play time ahead! I hope to be adding a quick product review to each of my posts as well as I learn the dos and don’ts of each medium. Watch this space for CEDT projects each Wednesday: I’m busy working on a top secret project for them as well, ready for a future TV airing – fingers crossed 🙂
This latest edition to my still expanding tangle pattern collection is based on a fabric swatch I came across this morning. The lines connecting the stars are a little random, but are based on the point connecting with two others and the dip between. Varying the star size and position will also give you a different outcome. Have a go at colouring all the stars one colour and all the triangles in light to dark tones of another…
At the risk of being completely cheesy – here’s a great big thank you using my favourite technique from Creative Chemistry 102 taught by Professor Tim Holtz with his more than able assistant BTS Mario. Unfortunately I don’t have the time at the moment to do all the other technique tags given I’m taking my studio apart for repairs on Tuesday, but I had to fit this one in 🙂
Well done to you all – at some time during the night (GMT+1) my little blog counter tipped over the 250,000 views mark. Next major giveaway will be at 500,000 views and if the current rate of views is maintained, that’ll be in around 6 months!
And the winner of the giveaway was…. Robin Pich – who pipped Meret to the post by just a couple of hours. Congratulations to my ‘newest follower’ and check your email inbox!
Some how, in between packing boxes in the studio, completing Day 1 of CC102 and catching up with various admin jobs, I’ve managed to snatch some moments to work on December’s workshop project – a hand made Christmas Art Journal. For more details and to book your place, go to my Workshops Page.
The longer-term followers of this ‘ere blog will probably vaguely remember that I did Tim Holtz’s Creative Chemistry 101 online class last year. He’s only gone and started CC102 today – there’s thirty more techniques he’s sharing – and of course I had to sign up. So here’s Day 1: six things to do with Distress Paints. I’m not allowed to share the techniques, but you won’t need to look far elsewhere on my blog to see where I have used them with conventional acrylics. That is, all but the first – the marbling effect is unique to Distress Paints because of their make up.
It’s not long to wait before my little corner of the blogosphere captures it’s 250,000th view. I gave you a sneak preview of my giveaway a couple of weeks ago… and here’s the whole thing! I’m giving away an A3 quilt featuring 100% cotton fabric onto which I have hand drawn and shaded tangle patterns that I’ve published on this blog, quilted with cotton/polyester wadding and then hand bound with a black fabric binding. It’s labelled on the back with my name and the fact it’s my seventh quilt.
As mentioned before – all you have to do to win this giveaway is to be the person closest to the 250,000th view that leaves a meaningful comment somewhere on this blog (spam doesn’t count!). All you have to do then (Sandy F. take note – that’s twice now) is respond to the email from me asking for your postage details!
Just a little thank you from me for supporting me over the months and years 🙂
It’s stars and stripes theme over at the WOW! Embossing Powders blog, and for my design team post this month, I was inspired to create a Happy Diwali card. For more details, follow this link.
