Weekend News
Good morning Crafters and I hope you are feeling great this Monday morning.
It was the Hobbycrafts exhibition in Glasgow this weekend and, although I was not an exhibitor myself, I popped along to see some of my friends.
I found the show quite quiet and there seemed to be a sameness in what was on offer but the retailers I spoke with were optimistic.
My main reason for going was to catch up with my friend Amanda Bateman. Many of you will know the name and the face if you watch the Craft Channel. Amanda and I have been friends for many years and although we don't see each other as often as we would like we had a good natter yesterday. Both she and Lorraine (another crafting friend of mine who demonstrates for Fiskars) have agreed to join my Design Team to bring you some great designs so watch this space.
Lorraine is a great blogger and we have a meeting set up so that she can help me get better with blogging...watch out!!
Have a great day
Love
Sheonagh x
Better Late than never
Hi crafters, hope you are all feeling great today!
What do they say about the best intentions - well time has just vanished here and I have not had a minute to update the blog - so apologies if you have been eagerly waiting the next installment!
So, what has been happening since I last spoke to you?
Well, we (as a family) went to Euro Disney for mid term. Struan enjoyed it greatly - as for Alasdair and myself - we found it fun but very expensive! What is it about a captive audience - but quite frankly £6 for a sandwich was just a little steep!
Struan had a birthday last week and had asked for a chicken house - which is to be built this weekend - weather permitting! Watch this space ....when the chickens arrive I will post a photo!
Back to work though.....the ladies have been busy in the classroom.
This week we were working with acetate and shrink plastic. The thing that the ladies noticed most of all was the different technique invovled in stamping on something which was slippy. You have to almost tease the stamp to stop it smudging.
The look on their faces when they used the shrink plastic for the first time was quite a picture and they had to chase their work all round the room! However, the result was really good.
Send my your attempts at shrink plastic and I will pick one and put something in the post to you!!
Happy crafting
See you soon
Sheonagh
Scrapbook - Obama's Day
Mark yesterday as a day in history by creating a scrapbook page. Our 'declaration' scrapbook sheet is ideal for this.
If anyone out there knows how to scan a complete scrapbook page - please get in touch!
Sheonagh
Coffee Time
Hi all, weekly slot again as to how the ladies got on today.
We continued the theme of punches from last week but this time using them as apertures.
Firstly, punch out a circle in the top corner of your card. Be careful here to leave enough space to put double sided tape between the opening and the edge of the card. Taking another piece of card trim it so that when the cards edges are equal the backing card does not reach the centre fold. (If you take it to the centre there is a chance that the card won't shut properly). Carefully trace the circle through to the backing card and then using the punch upside down you will see where to punch out. Suspend a charm to the front card. - we used the teacup from the Charm B pack - using thin guage wire. The easiest way we found to attach the wire was with sellotape.
Run double sided tape round the outside of the backing card and peel back just a little until you are sure that you have the circles identical.
Finish off by using the coffee time decoupage from the 'no scissors required' set.
Enjoy!
Card Making Classes
Good morning all, I thought you might be interested in what we are doing at the class today.
My 'Ladies' are all excited as today is the first day they are no longer in the beginners section but termed 'advanced' so goodness knows what will happen!
Today, we are looking at Punches and what we can do with them.
In this Size 4 Woodland card, I have used the large circle punch to create 3 cut out circles on the front of the card and then used the daisy punch to punch out three daisys in pink and fixed them to the inner card. It is best to do this when the card is closed! Taking one of the woodland circles and then cutting out two more in pink I have attached these to the side and punched out a woodland and pink daisy. The addition of some crystal gems and a peel off makes this a very quite attractive card.
Have fun!
Chinese New Year
How many of you know that it is Chinese New Year on 26th January - quite early this year - but we are now going into the year of the ox!
Did you know that in Chinese terms it is unlucky to buy a pair of shoes during the New Year celebrations! Don't worry it only lasts one day.
To help you on your way to celebrate the year of the ox why not send a simple card - red is seen to be very lucky and symbolises money - so any touch of red would be most welcome.
Here I have chosen a simple black large square card and the main card and then used versamark ink to bring out the rice bowl and teapot on a peice of red card. Using the same teapot stamp I have embossed this in gold to give a dramatic effect. Using a piece of black ribbon just breaks up the card.
Hope you enjoy!
New Year Resolution
My New Years Resolution is to try and get to grips with the blogging lark!
Hope you all had a great time over the festive period. Everyone here enjoyed the break and Santa was his usual generous self.
We started doing our annual stock take over New Year and it is really surprising what has been going off the shelf and what has not - it never ceases to amaze me - things that I like other people don't. Perhaps I should be saying nothing about the new products and that way you will make up your own minds.
Anyway, some new items came into the office today. I am not a huge fan of decoupage, but this new range is branded as 'no scissors required'. I have taken in 5 different sheets - from DIY through to floral. A couple of them are pearlised and this matches our pearl cards perfectly.
They make a quick, simple card which is sure to delight anyone.
Happy crafting
Sheonagh
