Flippin' Artist

This is Jim Harker our artist for La Pashe he is busy in this photograph working on the new images for Flippin' Men, we have a brain storming session when starting a new project and lots of laughing and enthusiasm thinking up new images and ideas often changing them along the way until we are completely happy.

I love to watch Jim work and to be honest it is rather magical thinking of images and watching them come to fully blown art work, Jim has a style which I love.

He once told me never to wash the paint palette as you may make a new colour from colours you have already blended I'm a bit hopeless on this front as I don't like to get my trays dirty and tend to wipe them clean as I'm going but when I see Jim painting and blending an array of colours I understand fully that I'm doing it wrong.

Below is a few palettes that Jim has been using whilst working on the Flippin' Men. You can see just how many colours he works with.

Flippin' Men

La Pashe has a new baby.
Flippin' Men
A new decoupage concept
Artist Jim Harker and myself (Designer) have been working really hard on an idea that we are sure will sweep you all of your feet.

Flippin' Men has been designed so that you can achieve perfect front and back decoupage to make spinner cards or fabulous aperture window cards.
The front and back images line up perfectly and the images are all fun and quirky men.
The first in this line is Flippin' Santa with a pint in one hand and a sack of toys in the other I think you'll see this is a typical man dressed in a Santa suite and bringing home the Christmas cheer along with the pillow stuffed under his Santa Suit.

Below is an aperture card with an acetate window I've took shots of both the front of the card and the inside to show you how it works.
The sheet is on sale now at http://www.imag-e-nation.com/

Anemones - Floral Craft

Seeing this flower made by a friend was probably my first love of this craft so I thought I'd give it an airing and make a card. The base card finished size is A6.

I used the Remember stamp set from Papertrey Ink to create a background pattern on the base card and stamped in black versafine ink, I cut a couple of long rectangles from the Nestabilities Dies and mounted one on top of the other using foam pads and attached then to the base card.

I made up the Anemones and glued them along with stems on the top of the rectangles and tied it all together using the Pure Poppy Top Notch Twill by Papertrey Ink.

Now for the good bit the friend (Peejay) who made the first ones I saw has an easy to follow tutorial on her blog to make the Anemones so why not nip over there for a lesson be sure to leave feedback for her.

Pine Cones - Floral Craft

I always start something thinking it is a good idea and this was one of those projects, the pine cones are made using the small pear punch 20 pears to be precise moulding and shaping each pear then a large blob of silicone or glue gel and then building up the pear shapes in layers until you have a pine cone.

So the first cone was born then the reality set in that I had another 2 to make and also I needed something to represent the needles.

The needles were made with a fern punch and I cut off all if the little leaves until I was left with spikes.

For a closer look at the Pine cones click on the image below.

Swirl Christmas Tree

I love this clear stamp set Leigh Hannan Snowflakes and the stamped Holiday wishes by Papertrey ink The base card is cream 14 x 15 cm and the holiday wishes is stamped directly onto that, the tree and matching border were stamped onto black card stock then carefully cut out a few pearls added to the tree and a ribbon around the base of the card then layered it all together and it was finished.