Wow! A new role…

I’m pleased to announce that I have a new role as one of the design and demonstrator team for Wow Embossing Powders Ltd. I’ll be doing a project a week featuring their huge range of reduced static embossing powders and embossing glitters. I’ll be posting projects here with full instructions, but they will published first on their blog once it’s up and running. Watch out for the new posts and, as always, comments more than welcome šŸ™‚

Twelve Tags of 2012 – January

I’ve been inspired by Tim Holtz’s Twelve Tags of Christmas, and decided I’d give some creative thought towards my own ‘Twelve Tags for 2012’. This has the added bonus of giving me some projects for this year at The Manic Stamper Craft Club! The muse developed to a design, and the design has developed into a prototype and that then developed into my final version of the tag for January. Please let me know what you think šŸ™‚

I’m chuffed with the snowdrops, since I didn’t have any inspiration other than a photo of a real one – and it all starts as a daisy! If you want to know how to do your own, the instructions are over at the Manic Stamper blog.

Art Impressions Stamps and ProMarkers

I’ve not posted much ProMarker stuff recently, so thought I’d pop this pic up: it’s using the Art Impressions landscape stamps which I would routinely colour with Marvy water based pens. I thought I’d try it with ProMarkers this time, and was really pleased with the results.

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Free Motion Machine Quilting – more squares

Four more squares from my ‘practice’ free motion machine quilting, using fabulous continuous line patterns as mentioned in my first bit of blogging about this.

Clockwise from top left are: Daisy Chain, Starshine, Do-Si-Do and Colorado Springs. I’m getting a bit quicker now that I’m getting the practice, and do recommend the daily practice – I did have over New Year off though šŸ™‚