What another Sneak Peak?...

Happy Sunday,

Today's project is, again, a sea peak of next Monday / Tuesdays One Day Special on Hochanda!  This is part of a winter decoupage special so there will be more paint. stamping and embellishing workshops headed your way (if i can think of nay more lol)

Today's piece is a storm lantern, that looks to me at least, as if its been made of wrought iron rather than MDF.  If you want to see how I did this you will need to tune in at 8pm tomorrow (Monday) Freeview 39, sky 663 and freesat 822 or online at www.hochnada.com.

I used the range of shimmer paints and other cosmic items I have on the show to get this effect and this is one part of the One Day Special hopefully (if I get an samples finished today) I will sneak peak the other special offer item tomorrow.

Enjoy...

Demo Time...Christmas...

Happy Saturday,

Once again thanx to everyone who emailed in and watched yesterdays shows if you caught them I hope you had a s much fun as I did! Getting Charlie to stamp was so much fun! lol  Today I am demoing at Coleman's Warehouse in Rushed, If you are around it would be great to see you.  Today's card is one of the samples that I will be taking with me and demoing.

To see how this card was made, or at least the techniques used to make it you will have to pop in! (spoilsport aren't it?)  I love the soft blue and white of this non traditional card which I thought would make a perfect Christmas or winter birthday card as its not, overtly, Christmas.

I really like the winter rose I made using the peony complete petals die from Sue Wilson against the snowflake background.

There will be more MDF form the show tomorrow as well as news o More MDF shows with a couple of new special items coming along!

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...

Winners!!!

Happy Wednesday Afternoon,

Here is the winners list from my recent draws!  I asked the ladies in the office to pick numbers from the lists so that it was fair and random!

Colour Cloud Facebook giveaway - Sam Oakes
Colour Cloud Blog Giveaway - Melody

Monday 31st Card Giveaway -
June Smith

Please email me your addresses to Lockers@live.co.uk so that I can post these out, I haven't forgotten the giveaways from last week, now the shows are over these will all be posted out this week!

'till tomorrow,

Enjoy...

Its CE Design Team time!

Happy Wednesday,

Thanx for all the lovely comments yesterday I didn't have a rest as I booked to run a couple of workshops at Keep On Crafting in Bury St Edmonds!  I had a fab day with a wonderful bunch of ladies which is a good as a rest!?! lol

Today is the design team spot for Creative Expressions and although we have started a new month and the theme has changed I really haven't had time to create anything with the new goodies (sorry)( however I didn't think you would mind i I went with last months die cutting team stash as I had so much fun with it!  Once again I have used the snowflake background which is my go to die for all Christmas cards this year I think.  Today I have teamed it with Vintage gold and coconut white as well as a little velum for the flowers.

I cut the background in coconut white and left a large border around it, one of the benefits of this die is that there is no outside cutting line so you can make the border any size you want, great for making boxes!  I cut the background with the largest central oval in place to make an aperture.  Next I cut the next size of oval in vintage gold card and foam mounted the background over this.  This gives the beautiful old gold card just poking through the filigree and snowflakes.

The next layer I cut just using the central, filigree, section from the die in white and foam mounted the whole piece over this.  Next I made a frame in gold and one in white slightly (2cm) larger and foam mounted these above.

To make the flowers I stamped the shaded poinsettia stamp to die for onto white velum using perfect medium and heat embossed these using cosmic shimmer bright gold detail embossing powder.  I stamped each size of flower three times and cut the out with the matching die.  next I simply pinched the leaves (or petals) and made 2 flowers from the varying sizes of the stamped dies cuts adding a gold circle dazzler in the centre.

Finally I added some Olympic gold PVA pearl dots to highlight the detail on the background and finished.

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions craft dies by Sue Wilson
Snowflake background
Classic poinsettia
Stamp to die for - shaded poinsettia
Vintage gold and coconut white foundation card
white velum
cosmic shimmer bright gold detail embossing powder
Gold mixed dazzler pack
Olympic gold PVA pearl

It would be great if you pop over and see what the rest of the team have created and, if you have time, leave a comment!

Enjoy...

A little brighter...

Happy Tuesday,

Can you believe its the first of September?!?  Ive had a manic few days and thank you all for the wonderful support for my shows and demos!  As I left the studios last night I was told how many of you had emailed in and sent wishes so thank you all so much!

Today's post is a quick one as I have kinda run short on time at the moment! This is one of the Christmas cards, made using Sues wonderful Festive dies, that I made for my Demos I thought that the red colour was just right for such a grey day (its tipping it down here as I am writing this at 05:30 this morning!)

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions craft dies by Sue Wilson
Deboss snowflake
deer family
CE A4 embossing folder snowflake lattice
White Ice

Enjoy...