Rochester July Workshop Results - Group 2 Ladies and the Art Journal Class.

Hi ho Bloggers... Feast yer eyes on this little lot ... Happy, happy days!
Thank you for being there everybody.

 

Roll on August!

Eileen x

Memory Box Large Circle Burst Die and a Memory Box Stencil.

Morning all you little Bloggers... I'm hosting another workshop in Rochester this weekend and I'm planning to show my crafty 'students' how to create this.... so easy, they probably won't need me anyway, so I'll just give 'em all the necessary materials, then just loll around eating cake and slurping fruit teas..... Good plan!
A Memory Box Die 'Large Circle Burst', Memory Box Stencil 'Garden' and a few Distress inks, plus a small 'Grass' stamp from a set by Inkylicious
That's it ... back soon !
Thanks for looking today.
Eileen xx

JOFY and Tim Holtz Stencils = Art Journal Page

 

This page, for my Art Journal, was quite quick to do.
A Distress Inks blended background. A small amount of water 'puddled' into my cupped hand, then it's 'happy clappy' so the water is sloshed placed precisely where I want it to go over the page.

Dry with a heat gun . Stencil, using a dark shade of Distress Ink, through the Tim Holtz 'Shattered' Stencil. 

Position the JOFY stencils and colour the images using PaperArtsy Fresco Paints... I love 'em, as you know by now!  

Scribble, highlight and dab here and there with a white pigment ink pen and a black fine line pen. Job done! 
Thank you for looking at my Blog again today.
Have good week ... more inky stuff tomorrow... its a hard life..... ! 
Eileen xx

Rochester Workshop July 2014 The Results From Group 1 ..... Fantastic!

"Where did Eileen say I had to stick this?"

Morning Bloggers and friends. I'm sharing all the pictures of the fantastic work, that my Group1 ladies created at my July Workshop. I usually wait to post until after my Group 2 Workshop has taken place, but there are so many super pictures to see I just wanted to show them off! .. So get a cuppa and look at this little lot.. I'm so proud of them ..Happy days! 

 

Super Chipboard Covers for a Small Booklet.
Thank you for popping over to look today. I'll be doing all this again on Saturday with my next group of lovely crafters. I cannot wait. Eileen x

Sweet Poppy Stencils on Create and Craft TV, Tuesday 8th July

Morning everyone... Sweet Poppy Stencils, with the lovely Lucy Ellis will be on Create and Craft TV tomorrow, 8th July at 11am in the morning. 
Sweet Poppy Stencil Shows are always fantastic to watch, with lots of stencilling techniques using inks, paints, dimensional pastes and much more.
I've made a few samples and had so much fun! I'll be watching... will you?  

Thank you for looking today and for ALL the most amazing, kind comments you left about my card yesterday X ..  ... back soon with a journal page! 
Eileen x

Tim Holtz Umbrella Man and Word-Play Dies ... Plus a few stamps.

Yo everyone, I've enjoyed completing this card this afternoon, whilst watching a very exciting British F1, Grand Prix on the television.
A Distress Inks blended background. More Distress Inks used to stamp with the Hero Arts Stamp 'Painted Canvas' then I switched to Ranger Archival Black Ink for the 'Bubbles' Stamp by Indigoblu.

The chipboard letters were cut using the Tim Holtz Word Play Die and covered with two coats of white Gesso, before being painted, splashed, and splattered with various transparent Fresco Chalk Paints from PaperArtsy. I ADORE these paints.... Oh yes!

Another Tim Holtz Die, 'The Umbrella Man' and a bit more sloshing around with Distress Inks before I stamped over the top with the  famous, the ONE and ONLY 'WATER DROPLET STAMP' from Designs by Ryn.
A few blobs and spots of Rangers White Enamel, along with some white Gesso circles and a few highlights on the letters made with a White Pigment ink pen.
I was very happy with the end result and also delighted that Lewis Hamilton WON the F1 Race ... Rock'n Roll!
Thank you for looking at my Blog today xxx
Eileen xx

Rochester July 2014 Workshop - Sample 1

Morning everyone.The project I'm sharing today, that was inspired by my friend Val White, is a small Chipboard booklet that my Workshop Class ladies will be creating, on Saturday 5th July, (Group One) and Saturday 12th July ( Group Two).
The booklet is filled with embossed pages from all the Embossing Folders that I own.....well, a few of them! I can flick through my booklet quickly to see the EF I have in my stash. Or, you could fill it with pages of stamped images, as a record of the stamps you own!

Two Chipboard Covers, both sides of each one painted with pretty colours, using Emulsion Paints ( Wilko £1' taster 'Pots).
When totally dry, I stenciled an image over the paint then stamped with JOFY Stamps using Archival Ink. The images were painted with Distress Inks.
Some Treasure Gold gilding wax around the edges ( hides the mess I made with the paint going where it shouldn't!) a couple of jump rings, a quick spray with 'Spray and Shine' ... Bish, bash, bosh.... job done!

Workshop Sample 2 soon... not sure it will be needed 'cos this should keep them busy!
Thank you for looking at my Blog today.
Eileen xx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge # 7 ... Summer Colours.

Morning Bloggers. 

A new challenge from Lavinia Stamps starts today.I've made two samples to share with you.

You could win a WHOPPING £40 voucher to spend in the Lavinia Stamps Web shop. 

Pop over and see the super inspiration from our Design Team and get crafting!

The theme this month is......' Summer Colours'

Card one, was created using a Brayer and various colours of Adirondack Inks, both for the background and for stamping the main image, which is the lovely, beautiful Thistle.
Card two is a new Zen image from Lavinia, called Zen Tree
I'v blended Aged Mahogany,Worn Lipstick and Scattered Straw Distress inks for the background.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to enter the Challenge you could win the super prize! 

Eileen x

Crealies Template, Tattered Poinsettia Die and Wendy Vecchi Archival inks.

Hello, its me again... something different to share with you today.
Lots to do, so a short post as I'm off to watch the tennis from Wimbledon on TV.
A Crealies Template for the card base, discontinued now I afraid.
Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia and Tattered Pine Cone, some Clearly For Art Modelling Film, along with Frosted Film also from Tim Holtz. See a tutorial on how to use these materials from Tim HERE.
I coloured the Poinsettia flower and Tattered Pine Cone leaf with Wendy Vecchi's gorgeous Archival inks, Fern Green, Orange Blossom and Watering Can.
A rub on word 'wedding' job done.
back soon... New balls please! 
Eileen xx