Newsletter

Hi Everyone.  I have finally got round to adding my latest newsletter updating everyone with what I and the ladies who attend my workshops have been up to.  The newsletter below is the shorter version. If you would like to see the complete newsletter, click on the newsletter link. This will take you to my website. The newsletter is on the news page.

NEWSLETTER

I will start with what we have been doing in the Rubber stamping Workshops,
held on the 2nd Friday and Saturday of each month.
We have covered many different mediums and techniques. Below are some
 examples from the last few workshops.

These cards were made by some of the girls using Indigo Blu Rubber Stamps
and distress inks to make the background. 
Watercolour pencils were used to colour the image.

 

This card was again using Indigo Blu Rubber Stamps. The mediums
used were clear embossing powder, distress inks and alcohol inks.
The die cut shapes were using spellbinder dies.
This image is not particularly clear but hope you can see
enough for the overall design.

Using Cosmic Shimmer Fibres and film we created this butterfly card. 
We first cut two pieces of film and placed some fibre in-between. 
This was then ironed together and put though the die cutting machine
using a large butterfly die.  The body was covered in Stix 2 Seed Bee'ds. 
The background was coloured using Pan Pastels and embossing powders
in the bottom corners.  The flowers (Chocolate Baroque)  was stamped
using brown memento.  Before all these techniques were used the
background was embossed using a plastic template.

  

Back in the year I put together this project for the girls using the,
yes you guessed it Indigo Blu stamps.  This beautiful stamp was perfect
on this exploding box and made a lovely gift.  A candle was decorated
to go into the middle of the box.  This workshop was a little more work
than usual therefore was run over the rubber stamping and
pro-marker workshop.  The images were coloured using pro-markers.

 

Our most recent workshop, we made a card with a slight difference. 

 

The front of the card we stamped the latest Indigo Blu stamp twice
 and a butterfly from Chocolate Baroque twice.

We used prisma pencils to colour the images in. The background was
again an Indigo Blu Stamp but you knew I was going to say that :)
 Inside the card a box was made so a gift can be placed inside.
The card was tied together with ribbon.



Every couple of months I hold all day workshop to cover the more
involved projects.  The last 3 workshops we have used
Jo Sonia paints and crackle mediums to decorate a mirror,
tissue box cover and a clock. The Jo Sonia Acrylic Paints are second to none.
They give wonderful results and the pigment in these paints are far
superior to most other makes.   The price for the individual paints
are inline with most other paints on the market. I am confident
you will not be disappointed if you decide to purchase this make of
acrylic paints.  I will have these paints listed on my website for you to
purchase but in the mean time if you are interested in finding out
more or to purchase you can email me via my website www.craftyneeds.com.

 

Below are the photographs of the last 3 workshops.

 

 





The clock and tissue box cover were made from 6mm MDF.
These are available to purchase from my website www.craftyneeds.com.

 

I have also had some time recently playing with the Jo Sonia Paints
myself using the various different mediums and texture paste. 
I totally lost myself and before I knew it my Husband was walking
back though the door after being at work all day.
I hope you like what I achieved.

 

 

 



As well as the above we also enjoyed making an A4 book to house
information on different mediums and room for notes etc.
The front image was a digital image and was coloured
using pro-markers. The book was put together with the bind it all
and the papers used to decorate were Bo Bunny papers.

 



 

I hope you have enjoyed reading the above. I
f you would like to see all of the newsletter you can access this
though my website www.craftyneeds.com. 

 

Happy Crafting Jeanette :)

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Tissue Box Cover Workshop

My regular group of ladies recently asked me to run a workshop decorating a tissue box cover.  So I put my thinking cap on and the following photo's is what I came up with.

My Wonderful Husband Alex made the tissue covers from MDF so the girls could decorate them using the Jo Sonia paints and Indigo Blu stamps. It was a full days workshop but it seemed to go no where.  It is true what they say, Time goes quickly when you are having fun. The girls were thrilled with their project and the extra paint they were wearing on their hands.  The photo below shows the girls finished boxes.

The Jo Sonia paints are a high quality pigment paint and can be purchased  from Flutterby Crafts in Thatcham.  Lynn the owner of Flutterby's has recently asked me to run this workshop again at her shop on the 15th June for her regular ladies.  If any one is interested please give Lynn a call to reserve your place.  You will not be disappointed.  All the materials are provided including the tissue boxes.  All you need to bring along is your lunch.  The poster below gives you all the details you need.

 

If you good to see you if you can make it. Jeanette x

Design Team

I have really neglected my blog lately, so I have to get my act together and start telling you what I have been up to. Well since my last post in April I have run several workshops and joined Craft Creations Plus design team.  I start with the samples I have made using the CD's.

The first CD - Flowers in Bloom

A beautiful collection of watercolour floral artwork from the British artist Jan Harbon.  It was a pleasure to make some of the samples as shown on Create and Craft  back in May.  It was very exiting to see my work shown on TV even though no one knew who made them. Silly I know but it made me smile.  I hope you like what I made.

The most recent CD I have enjoyed making samples for is 'The Great Outdoors'. A humorous and colourful CD Rom for all the family.  Mark Bardsley is the artist that has created the collection of humans and life like creatures that inhabit the great outdoors.  Again I hope you like the samples I made using this CD.

 

Three of the cards I used the templates to make them.  The top left I used the Deco, the top right I used the Magic template and the bottom right I used the Pop Up template.

Fusable Butterfly!

One of the workshops recently was of the butterfly card shown below.  The inspiration came when I ordered the wrong size butterfly die (not good with measurements. lol) and remembering some of the ladies had asked to use shimmer film and fibre.  So I put them together and came up with the 'Fusable Butterfly'.

The background of the card wa created by first taking a piece of cream card 14 cm x 14 cm. It was embossed using a square embossing folder and then shaded using pan pastels.  On the bottom left hand corner a word stamped image was used using brown momento ink. Before this was stamped it was first stamped onto a piece of scrap paper so the wording did not stamp too dark on the card.  In the same corner a floral stamp from Chocolate Baroque was used, again in brown momento ink.  White embossing powder was used in the corners and then gold guilding cream was used to go around the edges.  This was then layered onto a piece of dark pink card and then stuck onto the main cream card.

The Butterfly was made using fusable film and fibre.  Two layers of the film were used, slightly larger than the butterfly. Fibre was loosely spread out inbetween the two layers of film.  These layers were then placed inbetween parchment or baking paper and with a warm/hot dry iron, ironed over the top.  This fuses the layers together.  The butterfly die was then placed ontop and put though the die cutting machine.  The wings of the butterfly was then curled slightly and stuck down onto the background leaving the gaps underneath the butterfly.

To finish off, dries clear glue was used on the body of the butterfly and some of the flowers on the background and seed beads from Stix 2 was used.  Glitter glue was also added to the bottom of the wings.

I hope you like the card.  The girls really enjoyed making it.