Sunday, 16 August 2009

Ollyfants Autumn

This stamp is from the Ollyfant range and is called Autumn 2 I love the wind swept little girl and the umberella in this set.
Coloured with Copic and Promarkers.


Attention to detail...

The ribbon was slotted through the button then tied into a bow.

The top patterned paper was punched to give it a fancy edge and the diecut Nestabilities label was sponged with ink around the edges.



Saturday, 15 August 2009

Christmas Daisy

The Docrafts Magazine is giving away a free Daisy & Dandelion stamp this month (Daisy in a Santa Hat) so I thought I would give it a whirl, Stamped in Momento ink and coloured in a combination of Copic and Promarkers, a couple of background papers, base card, Nestabilities, Flowersoft and ribbon were used to put the card together.


Attention to detail...

White Flower Soft added to the hat




Stickles glitter glue added to the holly paper.




Friday, 14 August 2009

I used the In Bloom PTI stamp Set to make this card.
The base card was such a pretty Aqua colour that I used the left over pieces to stamp the sentiment, flowers and leaves onto and didn't need to colour them at all.
I took a square of white card slightly smaller than the base card and stamped the largest flower all over the card in black ink, tied a matching ribbon around this then stuck it onto the base card leaving the aqua border showing.
I cut out the sentiment, flowers and leaves and attached them to the card with foam pads then a couple of pearls and a little bit of stickles and I was done.


Attention to detail...

A dot of stickles glitter glue was added to the centre of each flower and the the veins of the leaves to make them pop.





Thursday, 13 August 2009

Transfer T-Shirt Paper - Review

This is a transfer paper by Photo Paper Direct and is so clever, all you do is simply print out the image you want then iron it onto T-Shirts, Bags, Baby growers(Onesies), table clothes, napkins, pillowcases Oh my word the possibilities are endless.
I made my printout onto the paper for work hence the La Pashe logo, but I also had all of the crafting Cd's in my head when printing this, Oh my! imagine a bag made with Joanna Sheen's Hollywood CD or personalised bedding, matching sheets and pillowcases from floral Cd's heavens the possibilities are endless.
All in all a great product simple to use and they also do a glitter transfer sheets to add a bit of bling.
I nearly forgot to add my plain cotton shoulder bags cost less than £1 and the transfer sheets are priced at less than 50p a sheet so I great present or even a fund raiser for less than £1.50


I did the back of the bag with a smaller design

I love this idea of taking a low priced cotton bag and personalising it as a Gift for friends and family (Ohhh Christmas is coming).



I even managed to get my daughter Natalie to model.




Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Our Talented Team at La Pashe

Meet Craig Pearson, he is our sales manager for La Pashe, he ensures that the stock get out to the shops that you buy from. he is pictured below with his 2 cats, Alfie and Max.


This card was made by Craig, he asked if he could help to get the samples together and of course being a cat lover this one was his first pick.

This is Craig's first time making up one of our cards and somehow I don't think it will be his last as you can see he did a marvelous job with this.

Tips for making up the new decoupage with the background sheets.

1. Cut out the background and add it to the inside of the card

2. Add acetate to the aperture oval

3. Close the card so that you can see the background through the aperture.

4 add the front image aligning it up so that it sits in the correct place for the background sheet ( in the case of the card below you can see that the cat is sitting on the window ledge).

5. Build up the decoupage on the front then add the back image on the inside of the card.




A view of the inside of the card