Wine down and relax

I snuck back down to Exmouth recently for another workshop with Debbie at Liberty Craft.

This is the card we made in the morning:

It all seemed rather daunting before we started!
The stamp is a Woodware one called Time to Wine Down, the sentiments are also in the same pack.

We've stamped it and coloured it with distress inks.  The background is also inked and stencilled.

The wood effect on the front was done with wax paper and an embossing folder, a great technique.

We had a well deserved lunch break after this but it was a great project.

More workshops pt2!

So, after making 2 fab cards at Exmouth we still had 2 workshops to go on our day out.

The second workshop (after coffee of course) was with the fabulous Francoise Read.  I am already a huge fan of Francoise and her brilliant Woodware stamps and crazily thought we were bound to use some stamps I already have - but of course we didn't!!

We made these 2 cards in our session:

I'm not a very 'pink' person but thought I'd try something different.

These stamps are Curly Birthday and Curly Thanks.  The base cards are made from half a piece of A4 which makes them quite a large card to find an envelope for!

The other great thing with these cards is that they were coloured with Sakura Glaze pens.  I did one card colour co-ordinated and the other somewhat brighter.

Some of the parts of letters were coloured with the pens and left to dry for a minute or two - then we coloured the rest of the letters and added glitter to the top which sticks to the ink.

This was very therapeutic and we could of sat there for hours colouring.  Lucy ended up with a pack of 10 glaze pens - it did help when we were told there was only one left - you have to then don't you?!

After a lovely lunch we then moved on to round 3 which was with Janet the owner of Japonica.
These cards also had a colouring theme but with an emphasis on stencils and colour matching.

These chaps are Percy and Sludge, a Gruffies stamp.

The objective with this card was to stencil the background and tie the green colouring in with the ink used which was a good process to think about.

The bears are then coloured in pencils - something I must do more of, it was very relaxing and enjoyable.

Finally we then did some more colour matching with a Happy Hoppers stamp called Knit Chick Purl 2 - how cute!

With this card we added strips of card to the base card and, again, picked out these colours in the coloured image - again coloured with pencils.

A very cute stamp and a good way to use a few scraps for the background that we all have a pile of!

A great day out, followed by a spot of retail therapy in Japonica itself obviously just in case we needed more stamps.

Next time a bit of a quilling-stamping combo!!

1st Birthday

It is my niece Gemma's Birthday tomorrow. This sweet rabbit is a Marianne Design stencil called eline's cuddly animals, you get two in a pack - one to emboss and one to stitch. I have the giraffe, I borrowed this rabbit from a friend.

Stitched with white thread on pink card, good for using some thread bits and bobs, little pink ribbon added. Some Anita's crystals in the corners and layers of pink card for a girly theme.

Letters cut using stencils and Impress machine.