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.

Flower Flourishes

Some more catching up....  Each third Friday of every month we have pro-marker club.  The following example is one we made last month.  The stamps are made by Inkadinkado, clear unmounted stamps.  These images are really delicate and stamp beautifully.  The girls really enjoyed using these stamps.  The fine nibs for the pro-markers were needed to colour some of the image.

An insert was added to the inside of the card but first grey memento was used on one of the images and stamped at each corner.

Happy Crafting
Jeanette x

A lot to catch up on....

Sorry I have not made any posts over the last month or so.  My husband had been poorly (man flu) and subsequently passed his bugs onto me.  (My fault, I don't think I gave him enough sympathy).  On top of feeling unwell, I had placed my camera cable somewhere safe and was unable to find it any where.  This has stopped me taking photo's of all the cards that have been made during the workshops.  I had to place an order  for a new one.  I will find it one day proberly in the most stupid of places.  As you can image I have alot to catch up on....

At the begining of July we had a stand at the Art Stamp Exhibition, Newbury Racecourse selling our range of templates under the name of Eureka Craft Designs.  The weekend went very well and it was lovely to meet up with all the retailers we have got to know and my regular customers.  It was also encouraging and enjoyable to meet new customers. 

During the show we launched our new template '3D Reveal'.  This is a 3 dimentional card that can be folded flat and fits into an 8" x  8" envelope.  Can be made to be very detailed or to be put together very quickly.

From the above photographs, hopefully you will be able to see why it is called 3D Reveal.  The card is made up of several layers.  As the layers go backwards the apperture becomes smaller giving you the 3D effect.  This card was made using rubber stamps and watercolour pencils.  This card was not created in 5 minutes but hopefully you will agree was worth it.

The above example was made with patterned card and chip board shapes.  From start to finish, 3/4 of an hour to make. 

The above images show you how the card looks when it is closed.  Even with the chip board shapes the card will fit into an 8" x 8" envelope. 

I think you can safely say the recipent who receives a card like this would not have another one like it!

You can purchase the template from www.craftyneeds.com for only £6.99.  Comes will full instructions and photographs.  We are always on the other end of the line to give you help if you need it.

Jeanette x

Love Shopping

Another example from the pro-marker workshop.  Using the Flippin' Stamps, the front and back was stamped and coloured with pro-markers.  The image was stuck together with a piece of string inbetween so that it could be attached to the card to allow the image to swing around.  The card used was already an apperture card.

With Love

This card was made during a pro-marker workshop.  The butterfly was two peel-offs put together.  The bottom layer was coloured using pro-markers and the top layer the peel-off was stuck onto accetae and cut out.  The middle part of the butterfly was glittered.