For my final workshop of the week I visited Jobo Crafts in Weston-Super-Mare yesterday for a great workshop with Clare Rowlands who is the mastermind behind the Molly Blooms range of stamps.
Her new Winter Woodland stamps literally came in to the shop on Friday too - not sure if that was good or bad really!!
Anyway, we made 2 cards on the day. This is the first one:
The image 'Berry Nice Molly' has been stamped, coloured and cut out. Clare uses Copics to colour her images so it was great to use some of her colour combinations to achieve the effects like the pictures on the front of the stamp packets.
Molly is sitting on 'Pinecone Perch' which was also stamped, coloured and cut into a circle with a few bits of the image having a slight overhang on to the matt behind it.
All the card layers were distressed with Tim Holtz ink and you can see we then used some more frantage on the background picture and die cut tree to create a snow effect.
Finished with a stamped and distressed tag & some buttons etc - and that was just the morning!
For the afternoon card we used the image 'Hattie'.
Coloured in copics again and both cards have a spot of glossy accents here and there for effect.
Similar to the first card the layers were distressed and built up with ribbon, buttons and die cuts - and some great felt snowflakes for this one.
Another sentiment was made in to a tag and then more frantage snow - very much 'thing' of the moment and I love it.
A great day out thanks to the ladies from Jobo Crafts, fellow crafters and Clare who came down from Lancashire in the morning (not a wise decision in hindsight!).
A couple of weeks off from workshops now but a few more to come this year! Best put all these new ideas to good use in the meantime.
Thanks for popping by. Jill
To carry on from my previous post the next workshop was with Julia Budd, the lovely lady behind the 'what's on your workdesk' blog. She was very amusing and very worryingly a very clever judge of character - within 5 minutes she had me down as a bit of an 'OCD' crafter - I do like things to be right!!
We made a book with Julia that is currently somewhat UFO/WIP so I will feature this at another date (and be sharing with Crafty Bunch who I think might be interested).
My final workshop was with Jenny Mayes and it was rather frantic as she packed loads in but brilliant.
This first card features the new Bertie the Snowman stamp from Hobbyart.
The background has been stamped and some die cut snowflakes stuck to the back of the card layer.
The stamped image layer has been inked and stamped and Bertie was stamped again on another piece of card, coloured (except for his buttons I notice!) and added with 3D foam pads.
The picture probably doesn't do justice to the fact that we used the new 'Wink of Stella' pens for the glitter on his hat and scarf - they are soooo fab.
If you haven't seen them they are like a waterbrush but full of glitter and come in a vast amount of yummy colours.
As if this wasn't enough to be going on with we then made a second card.
This stamp is called Follow Me and we watercoloured it with Tombow pens.
Some of my colour ran a little and I possibly didn't finish the ground brilliantly because I wanted to look at the boxes and boxes of Jenny's samples before we went home - they were very inspirational.
The fantastic element on this card is the snow - I love it!!
It is another spot of frantage in the form of chunky white embossing enamel. This will very much be featuring on more Christmas cards this year I think.
A great day and no rest for the wicked as tomorrow I am off for a Molly Blooms Day!
