» Listings for 2013

1. Create and Craft TV show 18th April

   Posted on 1:31pm Friday 19th Apr 2013

   A huge thank you for all your lovely comments about yesterday's shows and the orders that have resulted from them. It means so much to me that you are enjoying the shows and the stamps. Its not easy to keep coming up with ideas for demos and new stamp designs so I'm very grateful that you're still with me and still offering your support. I will try and continue to do my bit and get all the samples photographed and loaded onto the website over the weekend, hopefully I might get time to do some more videos too. All the orders placed on my website yesterday and up until lunchtime today have now been dispatched, and I will try and get any that come in this afternoon out today as well. Once again a huge thank you to you all! xxx

2. New home card and gift set

   Posted on 7:50pm Sunday 17th Mar 2013

   I just had to share these delightful cards made by Katina Killey, a very talented member of the design team.  She has used the Home Tweet Home and Dandelion Dreams stamp sets to great effect in these two examples.  What a great little gift to give someone moving into a new home, a gorgeous keyring with a card to match!  The keyrings are made by stamping onto shrink plastic and then heating with a heat gun, I think they look fabulous!

   Thank you so much for sharing your brilliant ideas Katina!

3. Shrink Earrings

   Posted on 9:00pm Saturday 16th Mar 2013

   I thought I'd share these with you today.  I was feeling bored and wanted something different to do, so I had a rummage amongst my stash and found some black shrink plastic.  I stamped the design (the largest paisley one from the Perfect Paisley set) using a metallic silver inkpad. I then cut them out carefully, leaving enough to hang on to while the ink was wet, and punched a hole in the top using my cropodile.  I then heated,  using a pokey tool in the punched hole to stop them flying away, until they had stopped shrinking and then pressed them down with an acrylic block.  The ink did not dry fully as I'd expected it to, so I added some crystal embossing powder and heating again.  It's not easy to see in the picture but it does look like tiny encrusted jewels.  Please excuse my wonky loops, I don't have proper round nosed jewellery pliers and its not easy to do with regular pliers!!

   	These paisley shapes lend themselves really well to jewellery and little charms I think.   Tomorrow I might have a go with some of the other designs, I'm thinking Flutterby and Fun Flowers in particular might make good jewellery too.