Memories Box Workshop

Good morning everyone, I thought it would be fun to share some of the photos from the Memories Box workshop that we held on Thursday in Flitwick, Bedfordshire. You might like to have your Sunday morning cuppa in hand to view them.

Chris had designed this fabulous book box that will hold special photos or memorabilia.

It opens to reveal the box (covered with flaps) and a tag pocket.

Under the flaps is the hidey hole in which you can keep your little treasures.

This has been cleverly designed to stand and to close ….

…. and is fully constructed from scratch using card, mountboard and papers

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The venue we use is beautifully light and airy, perfect for crafting…

… and we take along lots of materials and tools for you to use.

There’s lots of space to sit and work at tables ..

…. and plenty of refreshments during the day.

Here’s Jane getting on making up her take on the project.

Susan (CVC owner) comes along as well and Chris popped in to see how we were doing too.

Lots of enjoyment ….

…. concentration …..

… thinking and working out ……

…. chatting and making ….

…..construction and finished or near finished projects.

It always amazes me how a group of crafters all using the same products and design can finish with something so different. They were all so beautifully made, unique and personal to each individual. Well done ladies you did a magnificent job.

Thank you Sandra Lyn, Sue, Henrietta, Catherine, Diane, Jane, Lynda, Nikki and Chris for a fabulous day.

Our next workshop will be at the same venue on the 27th November. We will be making a Winter Wonderland Shadow Box. All the details can be found HERE on the shop website.

We look forward to seeing you if you can make it.

hugs Brenda xxxx

Using the new Distress Spray Stains

Hello everyone, it's Brenda here and I thought I would have a little play with the new distress stain sprays and see if they worked using the same techniques I use with the Dylusions sprays. Because these are distress inks in another guise they will react with water and work beautifully to create some backgrounds for projects.

I began by spritzing water onto card and then spraying on fired brick and vintage photo spray stains. They create gorgeous vivid colours and blend perfectly.

Next I laid a clean piece of card over this and smooched them around so that I got two backgrounds from the one spraying. A great economical way to eek the sprays out further. I then heat dried them both.

Using the Tim Holtz Holiday Knit stencil I sprayed in different places with barn door stain to create my patterned background.

I didn’t waste the spray that was on the mask, I turned it over and laid it on the other coloured background creating mottle effects that can be used for another project, i.e. a journal page.

I took some more card and did the wrinkle free technique with some green distress inks then stamped the holly on it and twice more on plain card.

With a water brush I painted in the different parts of the holly …..

….. then cut out the leaves and the berries and layered them up.

I stamped the sentiment on a spare piece of the mottled green card and added some gold embossing powder to both pieces and the edge of the background.

I finished by dyeing some ribbon with distress inks and adding a skate adornment.

Thanks for looking today and I hope you found something to inspire you.

hugs Brenda xx

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Happy (JOFY) hollyhocks…

Jo Firth-Young is a fabulous designer and her latest stamp sets certainly live up to her reputation. This effective birthday card is simple to make using her Collection 26 stamps…

I recently attended a PaperArtsy workshop which has completely renewed my love of brayering. Creating a background using these Fresco paints was easy:

This is the brayered background from which I cut a section to mount on a DL card blank:

I used a fine nail art brush to paint in the 'happy' sentiment:

Having stamped the hollyhocks I used a marker to colour the stem and then painted the colour and shading of the flowers with Fresco paints:

The 'birthday' was stamped in after the flowers because of gauging placement:

As the hollyhocks stem finishes as it is, I simply drew in the 'ground' with a fine line marker:

All done:

A quick and simple card which has been given already. >:o)

Thanks for stopping by today, have a happy Monday!

Chris xxx

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