Hobby and Stitch International

What a surprise I got this morning when I opened the curtains, isn't it gorgeous?

A crisp fresh early morning start to the day.

A quick photograph before getting ready to head over to the NEC for the Hobby and Stitch Trade Show.

I met up with Kirsty Wiseman (bless you Kirsty) a lovely lady that I was thrilled to meet up with and I even managed a try of her precious lip balm.

Here I am taking to the animals, just call me Dr Doolittle ha ha, actually this is the Crafters Companion Stand, Beatrix potter no less.

A shot of the team at work on the Craftrak stand, I promise that Toni was not doing a strip, she was merely taking off her cardigan ready to set to work creating a Craftrak card.

Gary and Danielle are explaining how Craftrak works & it does work fabulously.

Laura is in the background talking through the experience of it all to another trader needing to be part of this exciting new concept to come into the crafting world.

Flippin' Men Stamps - Golfer

Another card made with the Flippin' Men stamps by La Pashe, soon to be in a craft shop near you.

This is the third sample made on Create and Craft.

I stamped onto patterned paper and pieced in the cap, tank top and trousers and then coloured the rest with watercolours, I used the same pattered paper at the bottom of the card wrapped a gold ribbon around the paper to finish.

Cheers - Flippin' Men Stamps by La Pashe

Another one of the new Flippin' Men Stamp sets by La Pashe, I love the many colouring techniques that can be used with stamps to personalise the images to your own taste.

Base card was scored using the ScorPal then a gold ribbon tied around the card into a bow.

The image was stamped in versafine then coloured with watercolour paint, the Cheers! was stamped then mounted onto black card stock as was the image then layered onto the card using foam pads.

I used the border stamp (pint glasses) and the Quote stamp on the insert of the card.

Flippin' Men Stamps

I just know you are going to love these stamps as much as I do, la Pashe has released the 8 most popular Flippin' Men in Clear Stamp Sets, That's front and back character stamps a border or background stamps and quotes sentiments or fun phrases in each set.

So plenty for you to create with and better still these will be at affordable prices.

You can view all of the sets now over at the La Pashe site.

The girls on the Design Team have done me so proud with fantastic samples of both the Framin' Cards and the Stamps sets so you must pop over to them to see what they have created.

Toni Poyser

Karen Jumeaux

Alison Watson

I'll have more to show you over the next few days and as it is the trade show this weekend I may even give you some sneak previews

Free Background Sheets - 2nd Striped Collection

I've added more free sheets to my Jak Heath Designs Page (link is below my header) 6 more for your collection.

Dates for your Diary

I have 3 shows on Create and Craft TV

Friday 19th February 11am (Create & Craft) 671- *ALL NEW* Framin' Cards!

Friday 19th February 2pm (Ideal World) 644 - *ALL NEW* Flippin' Men Rubber Stamps

Saturday 20th February 9am-10am (Create & Craft) 671 - A4 & A5 size Flippin' Men & Women with backgrounds!
I hope you can watch, the Design Team have created some fabulous cards for the shows.