Mondays child differently...

Happy Saturday,

Well I do like to mix things up a bit so this weeks something different is an MDF tag.  I did this piece for a workshop with Gloria and the lovely ladies of Diss.  I started by covering one of the CE MDF Tags in white crackle decoupage paper from Craft Consortium using Cosmic Shimmer Matt glue and seal.  I didn't seal over the top as with these papers you don't need to, if using other brands of Decoupage paper you may need to add a seal over the top so that the stamping and embossing has a surface to cling to.

Next I stamped the Mondays Child poem form my clear stamp set of the same name, onto the tag using perfect medium and heat set it using CS detail white embossing powder.  I then stamped the snowflakes and stars from my snowdrops set in black archival around the left hand side.  I added dots of cosmic white dimensional PVA on some of the snowflakes and stars to add texture.














Finally, I stamped the shaded camellia stamps and cut them out with the matching Sue Wilson dies.  I added these around the bottom right and rubbed pewter gilding wax over the sides and edges before adding a tie of white seam binding.

A little dark but in real life there is a soft white and silver shine, honest!

Ingredients:
Card Size: Tag
Colours: White, Black & Silver
Stamps: JL Mondays child & Snowdrop elements
Embossing:Detail white embossing powder
Inks: Perfect Medium, CS True White detail embossing powder
Embellishments: None


Enjoy...


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How to Decoupage...

Happy Monday,

After last weeks shows on Hochanda with the beautiful new Decoupage papers from Craft Consortium I thought It might prove useful to show you the other video I didi for Creative Expressions.  I also promised a couple of people ate Samuel Taylors in Leeds on saturday ( Julia and I had a brilliant time than to Sue and team and all the crafters who came to say hi!) that I would feature this video.

The video goes through al, the basic steps of using these papers to upcycle old furniture as well as a couple of starter projects to get you going.  I hope you enjoy this outing!

Here is a close up of the table I feature ion this video.  I really hope this helps those of you who want to get into this fun hobby!

Enjoy...

Heather Hearts...

Happy Wednesday,

Im glad you all enjoyed the MDF shows yesterday with Lisa and I I really learnt some new techniques from her!  I thought you might like to see that Heart Wreath that I did as a sample to go with the stunning demo Lisa did with this MDF Heart.

I used the stunning Bird papers along with the matching florals form the set to cover the hearts.

 I Covered the base of the wreath using the Cosmic Shimmer Crackle paint in Heather and covered the frames on the hearts in the same.  I then, once dry and cracked, rubbed vintage plum gilding wax all over the heart frames to bring out the cracks and make them shine.

I simply added all the hearts on the the wreath alternating with those with frames and those without.  To finish I added a bow and ribbon hanger and a tail at the end.

Enjoy...

Day 2 more MDF...

Happy Tuesday,

I hope you all enjoyed the launch of the One Day Special last night I have to say I had a real laugh with Lisa and doesn't she have some fab techniques?

Don't forget the double trouble crafting continues today at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and finally the last chance at 7pm!

Today's project is this wonderful MDF box which gives so many opportunities to decorate either with the stunning new Craft Consortium papers or any of the paint techniques.

I stared by covering the base and lid using a selection of the Craft Consortium Decoupage papers form the Antique whites set,  I then added the white crackle paper to a sheet of coconut white foundation card and die cut the perfect peonies complete petals from this.  I cut 4 full flowers and made them up, one for the front and three for the lid.  Next I cut the Splendid swirls form Kraft card and used the foliage as a base.  I added the swirls so that they twirl out with the peonies on top.

I will be demoing this box and technique today in one of the shows so for more details you may need to tune in!

Enjoy...

Stationery...

Happy Monday,

I hope you can join me and Lisa Horton for the launch of the One Day Special on Hochanda tonight at 8pm.  For those who may have missed Hochanda it is on Channel 39 on Freeview, 663 on Sky and online (in HD) at www.hochanda.com! Lisa and I will be introducing the Brand New range of papers from Craft Consortium as well as some Brand New MDF pieces from Creative Expressions.  I thought I would start the reveal with this fab Staionery set which comes flat packed for you to decorate.

This large piece is the first one I will be demoing on the launch show, so you will have to tune in to see how this is put together and covered! lol

This comes as part of a 2 piece set with a smaller holder that is perfect for your pens and pads etc as well as making a really useful remote control holder.  I believe that Lisa has decorated one of these as a remote holder, I'm hoping its in the right colours as I could do with one for my lounge!

I really hope you can Join me and lisa as she has some brilliant demo's planned!  I have added a few more pictures of both units in case you want some inspiration.

We will be on all day Tomorrow at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm !

Enjoy...

Decoupage MDF Pics...

Happy Saturday,

Today I am at Strikes Wilmslow garden centre, pop down if you are in the area!

I thought I would share some of the samples I made for yesterdays One Day Special on Hochanda using the decoupage papers and the beautiful MDF.







This is the sample of the Nativity scene that I had, it takes a while to make so I wasn't able to demo this whole piece on air however I hope you liked the quick demo and explanation I did in the simpler colours.  I personally like the one I demoed with the simpler Graphite and gold gilding wax.  I did think however you might like to see the close ups of the different pieces in the set.  I coloured these using the Christmas Mica Watercolour palette.

I really hope you enjoyed the shows and the demos / samples I will give awaken of the demo pieces from the shows On Tomorrow post!

Enjoy...

More Shows...

Happy Thursday,

I hope you all enjoyed a look into my wardrobe yesterday with my first demo card on Hochanda!  I'm back tonight with the second One Day Special on Christmas Decoupage and MDF!

This is one of the techniques I will be demoing tonight gilding MDF items.  I'm not sure if this piece will be demoed however I will be showing how to gild the Christmas MDF.  There should be some pictures of the pieces I am demoing however I can't seem to get them to appear!
I thought you all wouldn't mind seeing his piece instead.










i will be demoing at Sharon's Card Craft in Swanley until 3pm today, pop along and sat i if you are in the area!

The winner of Mondays card was Josephine, please email me your address to Lockers @live.co.uk and I will send it out to you.  All other cards and prizes have been sent out please if you haven't received your card by Friday email me to make sure everyone gets what they have been promised!

The Design Team call for Creative Expressions has gone out!  If you would like to join our exciting team then click HERE for more details!

Enjoy...

Covered in Glue...

Happy Friday,

Well i'm now covered in glue and shimmer paint having made a load of demos for Todays shows, if you can it would be great if you tune in (if only to see if i get my hand clean) at 10am and so one lol

I thought you might like a look at some of the bits I have been prepping!  I will also be taking a christmas tree with me so you should be able to see loads of these in situ as it was!  These are two of the demos that I will be doing through the day.  The first is what I came up with the decorate and display the beautiful MDF Christmas Grab bag.  I used a section of Cosmic Shimmer products, shimmer paints, gilding wax, PVA pearl and Twinkles to make these cute card or 3D projects decorations.

The second shot is of a sweet jar and tag decoupaged in one of the Craft Consortium Decoupage papers, perfect if you make your own christmas sweets (scan to Christmas 2013 for my take on home made chocolates with recipe!)

Hopefully see you all later!

Enjoy...

Sneak Peak!

Happy Thursday,

I thought you might like a sneak peak of some of the items I have on the shows for Hochanda tomorrow!  for those of you who are new to my blog family this may seam like a bit of a departure as its not  card but it's still paper crafting, honest!

I will be presenting the new range of Craft Consortium pares and Creative Exoressions MDF for Christmas tomorrow on Hochanda at 10am, 2pm and 6pm it would be great if you can tune in on freeview 39 and Sky 663.

 I will be demoing the techniques I used to make all of these MDF shapes as well as a long demo on how to cover the sleigh with paper and then decorate it.  Honestly the show has some really simple techniques using Special Decoupage papers, paint, gilding wax to make christmas shine!

Enjoy...

Shows Today!...

Happy Wednesday,

I will be back on your telly screens Today with a fab new selection of MDF and the Craft Consortium decoupage papers.  Here I have shown a selection of the samples I have made using the papers and the other products on the show.  I have also managed to add back the Tags, bunting and Hearts set that sold out last time so if you missed out on these then here's your chance.

The shows will be on at 10am and 1pm meaning I didn't have to leave the house at 05:30 again like last week so I might be a little more awake (although as I may have mentioned I am a morning person).

Hope you can tune in!

Enjoy...

Demoing Today!

Happy Saturday,

Greeting from Ali Pali!  I thought you might like to see the 2 MDF projects I am demoing over the next couple of days using the beautiful papers from Craft Consortium!  I am also demoing die cut projects and techniques in both the exhibition area as well as on the Creative Expressions stand.  pop by with any orphan Jelly babies and say hi! lol

I have used a collection of the papers, my stamps as well as Sue's dies and cosmic shimmer products on both of these which will hopefully give you some ideas for MDF pieces if you are into that or ideas for cards and scrapbooking if thats more your craft!

Enjoy...

Something Different Sunday...

Happy Sunday,

I had a lovely time with the lakes from Brykley Garden Centre yesterday and once again ended demoing far after the time I was supposed to finish!  The ladies asked to see some interesting techniques and demos so there should be a few new bits popping up along with some different colour combinations!

Back to today (not Toady I hope) and something different, as you all know I have been playing with MDF and the stunning new papers from Craft Consortium and this is a scrapbook cover or page I made using some of our MDF pieces mixed with the papers and as much Cosmic Shimmer as I could throw at it.  Now I am not a messy crafter and would like my style to be seen as quite classic however I did really enjoy getting messy and covering a whole page!





I covered the main piece in a couple of torn strips of the Bird Treetop Large paper and stamped around the edges with my Daisy Striplet stamp.  I then added dots of Gold PVA Pearls in the centres of the flowers.  I aged the edges using a smoothie and Dusty Concord distress ink.

Next I covered an MDF heart with golf drop pare, stamped the edge and gilded the whole piece with enchanted gold gilding wax.  I then added a piece of cream crochet ribbon and sealed the whole piece with the new Cosmic Shimmer glue and seal.  This allowed me, when dry, to gild the crochet ribbon and make it match.

I added the MDF cut words Think Craft piping think with Gold PVA and rubbing the gilding wax over the craft.  This gives a similar shade but different textures.

Finally I added some ties of ribbon with teardrop beads from Sue's new stick open elements set on the ends of the ribbon.  A couple of rolled roses cut with Spellbinders set 4 and a coup,e of pearl stick pins.

Hopefully this isn't too bright for a Sunday morning and you will all enjoy this little trip into MDF.  Back tomorrow with a demo card giveaway and instructions on yesterdays card!

Enjoy...

What more decoupage?...

Happy Wednesday,

Well its more samples from todays shows featuring some lovely papers from Craft Consortium, storage items and MDF bits!

I thought it might be fun today to show you our kitchen table!  Now this may be strange but the reason is that the other Sunday Mr ND decided that wouldn't the table look nice if he decoupaged it with  the Blue Dots decoupage paper from Craft consortium.  I decided it was a great idea as long as I didn't have to do it!  Therefore MR ND did it all by himself!

I thought It would be fun to show the techniques used especially as for once I was able total the pics but not do the work!

The table was a round high gloss table to start with.  The psheets of the Craft Consortium blue dots paper was torn into random sized pieces.

Next Mr ND painted an area of the table with Cosmic Shimmer glossy Glue, Seal and glaze.  Then he added the torn pieces to the glued area and coated them in a layer of the glaze.  To make the random pattern the pieces were simply added randomly sealing over each pice as added.

Ays can see form this pic the table was covered rather quickly with this method, in fact it was all finished in just under an hour!


Finally he added pieces around the edges and simply sanded off the excess which ives a really south finish on the edges.

Wallowed it to dry for an hour then added another layer of the glue, seal and glaze.  This has meant that we have wiped and polished it and no marks!!!

I did say last time I did a show with these papers that it is very addictive, the table was not enough and soon a tray was covered to match.  I gave up when he started asking for vases and anything else he could cover!

Hopefully some of you can tine in today at either 10am or 1pm on Create and craft and I will demo the techniques used as well as show you a whole range of these papers there are some amazing designs perfect for covering any items.

Enjoy...

Sneak Peak...

Happy Tuesday,

As I have shows on Create and Craft tomorrow I thought I would give you a sneak peak of some of the samples I have made for the show.  This is a decoupage show featuring the Craft Consortium pares, MDF storage units, some stunning MDF frames that are brand new as well as a couple of my stamp sets that are prefect for stamping on the papers and the units making them truly individual.  I have, as usual, made far too many samples but I love playing with these papers and find so many different ways to use them!

IN the top 2 I have used a couple of new papers from Craft consortium to cover a big boy unit (as named by Martyn) in postcards and a ribbon units in the matching chevrons design.

The ribbon unit featured here is simply painted using mat chalk paint as well as the brand new matching crackle paint.  I have then stamps on this using some of the elements from the Fen frames and sentiments clear stamp set form Creative expressions.  These small flowers have a solid centre stamp as well as a detailed outline making colouring and stamping so easy.  I added a few of the ferns as well then distressed the unit by adding pewter gilding wax.  I hope you agree but to me this has a really nice soft feel to it.

Finally there is this MDF ornate from which I have made look like an old gilt mirror frame.  To see how tune in as this will be a demo tomorrow!


The shows are on tomorrow at 10am and 2pm so tune in or record if it takes your fancy!

Enjoy...

Friday shows and News!

Happy Friday,

Well the first range of sneak peaks come to fruition today with m Decoupage shows on Create and Craft.  I have added a few more pictures of these stunning papers.  I hope you can all tune in and see what else I do with them!









The shows are at 10am and 4pm today.

The other news is that I have a workshop and Demo day at Daisies Jewels and Crafts in Bedworth (near Coventry) click here for more details.  The cards below are two of the options for the workshop I have used some of Sues new dies and a range of Phil Martin's cosmic shimmer products in a choice of colours.

Don't forget that Sue Wilson has a weekender starting tomorrow on Create and Craft debuting more of her beautiful die collection's and finishing touches.

Back tomorrow with Saturday stamping!

Enjoy...