Watercolour Workshops

 

Another stunning Bank Holiday weekend on the weather front, so with all the water falling from the skies I thought we could continue the watery theme with a little catch up on my recent workshops! Here is another take on my fetish with the Petite Petals stamp set and matching punch.

 

Stamp sets: Petite Petals, Simple Stems, Express Yourself

Card stock: Strawberry Slush, Watercolour card

Ink: Strawberry Slush and Staz On

Accessories: Petite Petals Punch, Aqua Painter, Pearl Jewel for flower centre

 

I'm a big fan of background printing and the watercolour paper allows you to build up the intensity of the colour with an Aqua Painter, and with my love of printing off to achieve a paler image the greeting mirrors the grading in the opposite direction, strongest at the top, palest at the bottom.

 

 

 I continued with my In Colour theme using Pistachio Pudding and Strawberry Slush.

 

Stamp sets: Peaceful Petals

Card stock: Pistachio Pudding and Watercolour card

Ink: Staz On, Pistachio Pudding, Strawberry Slush

Accessories: Aqua Painters

 

I love a bit of colouring in and the Aqua Painters make the Arty look really achievable, and as you can see here, less is sometimes more ;-)

 

Keep on Crafting - makes wet weekends worthwhile! Gen x

 

 

Happy Easter!

Here's the little card I sent to my family down under :-) Hope they're having an Egg-cellent Easter!

 

 

This is this years Easter Wreath - cheating hugely this year as I simply constructed the Burlap Blooms kit from the SU Summer Catalogue - I like it so much it might stay up for a while after Easter ;-)

 

 



And finally the Easter card done at last weeks workshop with Llandrindod Card Club - thanks for asking me along :-)

 

Both Easter cards use the Eggstra Spectacular Stamp set in Staz On ink so that watercolour, stampin' write markers and pencils can be used for a little therapeutic colouring in.

 

Have an Egg-cellent Easter all - just the time to catch up with a little craft in between Egg hunts ;-) Gen xxxx

Weekly Deal Wednesdays!

 

Stampin' Up! are offering weekly deals on selected products and this weeks deals can be found here

 

This will continue till the 23rd April 2014 so take a look and make the most of these short promotions ;-)

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxxx

 

Happy Birthday!

 

Just a quick post to say Happy Birthday DWJ!

 

Birthday are SO in need of Bunting ;-) even for boys!

 

Here I've simply used Chocolate Chip card stock and Woodgrain embossing folder for the background and a little 7/16" Natural Trim on the right hand side. Then the Label Love stamp set and matching Artisan Label Punch in the bottom right corner and then the bunting is made from Sale-A-Bration promotion Banner Blast stamp set and matching Banner punch in Neutrals inks, strung on Linen thread.

 

Keep on crafting ;-) Gen xxxx

Petite Petals - Perfect!

 

Somehow we're nearly at the end of March and I don't seem to have been updating my blog enough this month - uh oh! So, to try and make up for it I'm beginning gently with a simple 3x3" cream card stamped with the gorgeous Petite Petals stamp set with the sentiment from Blooming with Kindness and just stamped in Rich Razzleberry ink.

 

 

Of course where would we be without a matching punch? As always, my stamp hoarding pays off so that I can have a fabulous backgrounds printed in Smoky Slate - hee hee hee!

 

 

The detail of this stamp set and matching punch are exquisite just lends itself to a little embellishment with a rhinestone ;-)

 

 

As a finale, and to show of some of the other stamps in the Petite Petals stamp set, with a background from the Everything Eleanor in Costal Cabana ink. The greeting is from My Mother Stamp set and printed in the In colour Strawberry Slush, and the large flower is from the Flower Shop, with of course the matching Pansy Punch. The final finish here is of course pearls, just the thing for Mother's Day - have a good one :-)

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxxx

 

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant!

Happy St. David's Day - the patron Saint of Wales :-)

 

May you have your fill of Welsh cakes and Leek soup to celebrate in your way!

 

It's a bit too cold for our daffodils to be flowering so here's one I made earlier to celebrate our national day - Cymru am Byth!

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxxx

What a star!

 

One of my fabulous friends has reached the end of his cancer treatment and to celebrate I sent along this card as he is really a star :-)

 

Even better, this is a card made from the Good as Gold card kit set that we can all get for FREE during the Sale-a-Bration period - whoo hoo!

 

I am also trying to make cards to sell to promote the workshop possibilities (and use up retired supplies), thanks to all who have been suggesting this for years - I got the message eventually ;-) So here is a selection of Valentine's cards that I made

 

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxxx