Thursday 31 May 2012

Facebook in its wisdom has decided all blogspot addresses are spam and marked them as abusive! We can thus no longer post links to our blogs to our fellow crafters on FB! Kind of defeats the whole "social networking" aspect eh?!

Friday 18 May 2012

Starting to get my head around cyber world and especially Blog Candy. This is basically where someone is giving away craft stash on their blog. Just entered my second one at the talented site of Wiccababe (Debbi Glennie) @ blogspot who is giving away metallic Pro markers, as she has been creating with them recently to wonderful effect. Check out her work on the Letraset Blog.

Monday 7 May 2012

Whoops!

I really am a bit rubbish at this blogging malarkey! I remember being the same with diaries as a youngster - started with good intentions and by March the diary pages were consistently blank.......... Anyhow, I did eventually recover from the bug and get some acetate so was able to finish the card for a Male 40th but have realised I forgot to take a picture of it! My client fortunately took some pictures of the cards displayed but it is a bit blurry. The footballer has a front and back and is mounted on acetate so as you open the card, you get his rear view.  The card you can just see on the left was also made by me for his little girl to give him - the magnolia Tilda was perfect as they both have curly long hair; coloured blonde everyone commented on how much the image looked like his daughter (as I had hoped!).

Stencils galore

 I have been having great fun with stencils, experimenting with different techniques, mediums etc. Some are mylar but the majority are the...