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I am starting to teach Live Tutorials.
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Christmas Greeting Cards:
$5 to cover supply costs
2nd Dec 2009
9:30am – 11:30am
Grace Vineyard Church
Ferry Road, Christchurch, NZ

Minute watch and make (MWM) intro

Thinking of doing Minute Make videos….
Why?

My digital cam only films in 60sec increments.

Here is the intro…

This one of course was edited alot…. took me 30min of constant crashing on the computer to do this short video. Might have to do it on my husbands laptop.

But I’ll try to make a video soon for you….. cross fingers!

Card making session next week!

Readying my card-making session/lessons for next Wednesday…..

Having fun already!

Only have 60 sec to film anything on my digital Camera…. still no video camera as of yet….

Where? Grace Vineyard Church – Christchurch City, New Zealand (Ferry Road)

When? 2nd December 2009 Wednesday

Time? 9:30am till about lunch time

No tools or supplies needed. All supplied. Just come and play!

Hope to see you there if you can come.

Tutorial – pop up stars Christmas

Here’s a simple pop up stars card for you to make…

 

PDF downloadable instructions click here: Christmas Card – popupstars

 

Enjoy!

Stop the press!

Ok big Warning!!!!
If you purposely decide not to create anything for a week….. YOUR MOJO COMES BACK!!!!

So here goes…..

I had a brilliant idea…. spun off from a you-tube video of the same designed card…..

I used Versamark white stamp pad and stamped onto packing plastic (as at the time i didn’t have adheasive)… knowing it wouldn’t dry without help, I decided to dry the ink with my heat gun. Before I did though I added some embossing powder in parts….. as you seen the embossing powder worked but the plastic didn’t hold up….. bummer! lol Oh well great experiment. And I have some more ideas from it anyway.

Above is my new purchases….
Cuttlebug embossing folders 2 pack for $19!!! (bargain here in NZ considering one is $14!)
T-shirt transfer paper.
3 sheets of acetate – non heat resistant as the heat resistant wasn’t thick enough for cards.
Summer reindeer stamp (as Christmas in NZ is in SUMMER!!!)
White polymerclay
and my fave found!…..

Rangers new embossing tinsel!!!!!

the one I got is silver. Ok normal embossing powder looks dull next to this stuff! It SPARKLES!!!

using my two new stamps from Montarga stamps: flax weave and summer Rudolph

Fiskars: XL scallop squeeze punch circle, XL Squeeze punch circle, Fiskars brown ink pad, XL squeeze tag punch (for end of banner – dovetail) and Fiskars 12″ trimmer.

above card using my new embossing folder from cuttlebug and my new summer Rudolph stamp.

Another card using the heat embossing/white versamark pad onto plastic packaging (day before I bought the acetate sheets)
This one didn’t buckle. and worked out perfectly.
The clear packaging is down the bottom of the card.

 

For about 6 months now i’ve been watching a few Stampin’ UP! demonstrators on You-tube and I finally had a chance to play with some stamps, rollers, inkpads, cardstock, punches etc at a stamping up night!

and this is what I made!

Box: it is stamped with a lovely scroll roller stamp, punched with a circle scallop punch, top embellishment made using: Joy stamp, circle punch and scallop circle punch.

Flower mini card and envelope made with: ripped cardstock, flower stamped image (sentiment masked off) I wrote my own. coloured in with stampin up markers.

Purple/green christmas card: scissors, dimensionals, stamps, ribbon, cardstock. with matching envelope of course.

I also made the above…
Scroll stamp used (red on red card), boarder punch, A very merry christmas stamp and the scallop square punch.

Now with the above i masked off the sentiment in the middle of the original stamp and stamped it then put another stamp in another colour on it in the middle instead. EXCELLENT!!! Thanks Trina so much for helping me out! it was a blast of a night.

 

Just this moment finished!

I’ve had several paintings hanging around for ages that I had painted. Some oil paintings some are acrylic….

What was I going to do with them?
They were just sitting around – not in frames. Just something I wanted to paint at the time and now not even gracing a wall. How sad….

But one day I was talking to a friend on the net via chat and I mentioned canvas and gesso and a sewing machine…. but nothing came of it because I didn’t have any canvas – so nothing happened for ages….. until just the other day, I was thinking about it again and though – dugh! I have got canvas! It was painted on…. and oooh I had something I could line it with too!

So I got to work.
First the idea – make a hand bag out of canvas paintings.
Second – how was it going to look. What shape?
Third – how was it going to latch together at the flap?
Forth – how was I going to put it together?

Well with all that thinking it took about 2 days of solid thinking about it.
Then there was the pattern drafting from paper.
Then the actual cutting and putting together.

I ended up with this….

here are some more views of it….

and a found button…. the finishing touch….

I’m thrilled to have this bag…..
I’m happy that it looks so modern and groovy!

Oh the painting on the flap, front and back are of India. I went there in 1993 and still love the place. So this bag holds very very special memories for me in both experience, craft and art. Everything that I am.

Thanks so much for looking.

9:47pm now…. must go to bed – 6:30am wake up tomorrow.

Finally finished!

I have finally finished a project that lasted a long time…
graduation outfits for 12″ teddy bears…

I have also done a scrapbook page of my daughter…

Hand painted background paper with hand painted chipboard letters and Kindy glitz glitter glue dotted places and some fibers to complete it.

Had heaps of fun making that page. All my own work too! yeee ha!

 

thanks for looking!

Just can’t stop it….

I found this great card tutorial from Jennifer McGuire – for Hero arts….
on you-tube….. whats so cool about it?
I hand carved my tree stamp myself out of rubber.
Get plain clear gems and colour them in with your sharpie pens! (or other markers)
I’m so going to save money now that I don’t have to buy every colour. I already have every colour and just didn’t know it until now!
Thats one for the fugal page I think!

Thank you to Lesa from Fiskateers!
In the mail I recieved these goodies this week. Soooo much appreciated!

ohhh and I managed to go shopping too! (Thanks Mary)

bought a versamark pen and a flax mat design stamp from Montarga stamps.

And I revamped an old doll pram of my daughters….

original post over at Fiskars Craft.

See I just can’t stop crafting!

Tutorial: Polymer Clay – thumb tacks

My daughter loves her pin board.
But the fancies tacks/pins I can find are those plastic coloured handeled ones.

so i bought some polymer clay and got to work….

as you see you can go simple to complex as you want.

This tutorial shows how to make the “My little Pony” pin board pin….

You will need:

flat head pins (thumb tacks), different colours of polymer clay.
Red and white make pink – blue and white make like blue. I also used a little black.

1. Mix your colours. I used a little more white than blue.

twist, twist then roll between your hands. Fold up and roll between your hands. This both “conditions” the clay and mixes the colours. do the same with the white and red.

2. shape the head of the pony (kind of looks like a pig at this stage but don’t panic) lol

3. shape the body (a golf club shape without the handle)

put the pin in the back by placing the pin on top then get a blob of more white. flatten the blob then push it over the pin and blend to the back. Leaving the shaft of the pin showing.

4. put the head onto the body and fashion the eyes and indent the mouth and nostrils

5. Put on legs

Now to attach the legs and head etc
put the shape on the other shape – get a tool similar to an embossing tool and roll out the clay into the bigger shape.

6.shape some wings out of plain straight blue and add to body.

7. now we have a good base for our pony so lets give it a tail and a mane

roll out strips of your colours. Put them side by side.

8. attach some to the head and some to the bottom.

I also put on another pin in the wing. It was getting a bit big for just one pin at this stage. lol

9. Put decorations on the rump and legs. Now bake according to packet instructions and you have your very fancy pin for a pinboard!

Here are closeups of the others I made a the same time.

happy crafting!

updated tutorial page

I’ve updated my tutorial page to make it easier to find Christmas projects.

doing something big….

I’m doing something big….

I got out my easel, paints and canvas again….

remember this?

 

well I’ve lightened it. With gesso so I can work on it again.

So yes I’m painting again. Its big for me.

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Other projects I’ve been doing….

Above outside of card
below inside of card

Right – all the above cards except for the right bottom card is from the 25days of Christmas Cards shown on you-tube by starofmay

The right bottom card is another you-tube lesson from Dawn (even though she used a punch for the snowflakes I used a Fiskars scallop squeeze punch and scissors.)

The flowers are a new style from Donna also seen on you-tube. (with the same Fiskars scallop squeeze punch)

So yes I’ve been spending some time on you tube having fun and learning some new skills.

Right better go kiddos/hubby needz attention.