Tuesday 23 September 2008

News Flash....

Imag-e-nation (Home of 44p Peel-Offs) & La Pashe(Creators of Remember When...Decoupage) have a new craft shop!


We are located at Unit 11 Phoenix Road on Crowther Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne & Wear, NE38 0AD just behind Dainty Supplies.


Join us on our grand opening day this Saturday 27th September for some incredible opening offers,such as...
Buy ANY 30 regular peel-offs for £10That is just 33p per peel-off sticker, a saving of 25% on our usual low price of 44p
Buy ANY 60 regular peel-offs for £20AND get a FREE peel-off box
Buy ANY 20 glitter peel-offs for £10 That is just 50p per glitter peel-off, a saving of 25% on our usual low price of 66p
Choose ANY 20 decoupage sheets for £10 That is just 50p per decoupage sheet,a saving of 33% on our usual low price of 75p
Choose ANY 100 sheets of Mix & MatchPaper & Card for just £10 and get aFREE A4 box worth £2.99


As well as these amazing offers on our huge selection of peel-off stickers, decoupage, paper & card,we also have loads of other great value items, such as... card blanks, envelopes, poly bags, adhesives, double-sided tape, foam pads, storage boxes, craft pens, embellishments and terrific low price Christmas stock So please join us this Saturday 27th September for our big opening day and take advantage of these incredible opening offers while they last.


And if you still aren't sure that it is worth a visit on Saturday, try this final incentive...

Print off the voucher below and bring it with you on Saturday to receive a FREE set of Remember When...Decoupage (of your choice)worth £4.99 when you spend £20 or more!!
You can redeem the voucher in ADDITION to taking advantage of all the other offers available. Tell your friends about our new craft shop & special offers.
Print off a voucher for them too (photocopies accepted)and bring them with you on Saturday!


And if you really can't make it on Saturday,we'll extend these offers, including the voucher,until 5pm on Tuesday 30th September, so that you don't miss out!


P.S. Make sure you bring plenty of CASH with you,as we are not 100% sure that we will have our newdebit/credit card terminal in time for Saturday.

Monday 22 September 2008

Floral Punch Craft - Hourglass Flowers

Lots of parts to each one of these flowers starting with 6 petals all to be water coloured and shaded, 1 base to attach the petals to after shaping them, 1 calyx cut and shaped and a stem which I have to say was a tricky little beggar.
The instructions for the flower can be found in Floral Punch Craft VI by Leone Em.
I used a white 15 x 15cm base card and stamped the leaves using Papertrey Ink Beautiful Blooms stamp set I used the oval Nestabilities to cut out the plaque to site the flowers onto and I embossed the top oval with the Swiss Dots folder, I made up the flower arrangement and tied it secure with a thin white ribbon then tied the Spring Moss satin ribbon around the base of the card.

A closer view at the flowers


Sunday 21 September 2008

Christmas Owls - Winkin, Blinkin & Nod

Winkin ,Blinkin and Nod

My base card is strong acetate scored and folded then edged with a permanemt gold marker the scalloped brown square was made with the fiskers border punch I threaded a piece of ribbon through the centre holes and again edged with the gold marker.
I layered a piece of red card stock over this that matched the little Santa hats and added a few irridescent snowflakes top and bottom.
on a pieceof cream card stock I stamped the owls in coffee bean brilliance ink(sorry no name of stamp or maker printed on the stamp, it was bought at a craft fair).
I made the little hats and addedstickles glitter glue to the image & added this ontop of the red and brown card with foam pads.
I added the image to the acetate with glue dots then hid this on the inside of the acetate card with more snowflakes.


A close up view of the Owls.

You can see the little pom poms are made from fringing a length of paper and rolling it up tight and then splaying the fringe. the little hats are just pices of card cut in a triangle and the white trim is again card cut to shape and glittered with stickles.


Saying Hi

Whilst I was viewing my stats for my blog it got me thinking to how marvelous the World Wide Web is, being from the UK I was amazed at all the different countries that were showing on my stats places like United States, Austrailia, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia,Iceland and many many more.
Pretty amazing that someone from all these countries have visited my humble blog.
The one visable country that I hadn't had a visit from today was Japan so if any of you know a crafter in Japan feel free to send them my way, I'd be thrilled.

So I want to thank you all for visiting and let everyone know that your visits are very much appreciated.

Friday 19 September 2008

Floral Punch Craft - Moth Orchid

Well I set myself a challenge with this one and that was to make the Moth Orchid, I took the instructions from Floral Punch Craft VI by Leone Em and sat down with a coffee and set to work.
The Punch used on this flower is the Moth Orchid theme punch by Punch Bunch and coloured this with water colours.
I used a fiskers border bunch I think it was called running water to add the scallop effect to the pink card and then added a couple of score lines with the Scor-Pal, the top part of the card was embossed with the cuttlebug Stylised Flowers folder.
I cut out a couple of rectangles from the nestabilities and stamped the sentiment by Papertrey Ink Garden of Life set
Then used this as a plaque for the orchid to sit on, I added a few pearls and a ribbon to finish.


Bubbled Stampbord - Christmas Card

The Stampbord was sprayed with water before colouring with inks and then the bird stamp by Inkadinkado stamped on the middle then I used the heat gun on the edges of the stampbord this bubbles as the clay is damp where the water is added once this had cooled I used versamark and gold embossing powder on the top of the bubbles and again applied the heat gun to melt the embossing powder.
I added stickles glitter glue and a few gems for extra effect.


Tapestry Stamps - Joy

Well I could hardly make Noel without making Joy could I?
made in exactly the same way as the Noel card except I used the Oval Nestabilities in place of the long rectangles.


Thursday 18 September 2008

Tapestry Stamps - Noel

A Quick 10 minute card with no fuss.
An A6 card tent fold embossed on the front with one of the long rectangle nestabilities then cut out the next sizes down in red and gold then one more in white which I samped the word Noel and then used the tapestry peg stamps to decorate the O in the word, layered them all together with foam pads and added a pretty ribbon to the top.