Category: Design team posts

Yesterday I went to stamporama in Stevenage, my first  ever craft show. I was so excited especially as I was meeting up with some PATwits (Paper Artsy Twitter followers) namely, Hazel, Julie Ann, Helen, Kirsten, Lin, Alison  and Jo. I also got to meet Darcy and Leandre who were busy most of the day demoing… Continue reading The day after

I love drawing and painting faces as many of you know. However, what really challenges me is to create small faces. I usually make large faces as I like to work on the details and find this hard on small ones. So, when Clare shared her technique over at Paper Artsy when she was their… Continue reading Clare's Face

I love Joanne's clean and simple style but I find it very difficult to create myself as the ideas do not flow. So when Joanne was a guest disighner this week over at Paper Artsy I was interested to see what she created... And of course I wasn't disappointed. Here is Joanne's card and how… Continue reading CAS inspired by Joanne Wardle

Hello everyone I hope you are well. Can you believe how quick this year is going we are one week gone of February already. Today I'm bringing you a design from Deena over on A Creative Need and it can be purchased from here.First I coloured the birds using spectrum noir pen. I then designed my background.… Continue reading Wild Thing -you make my heart sing!

Over at craft challenge the theme is get well, sorry or sympathy you can see the details hereI distressed the tag with weathered wood and scattered straw. I then added some burlap onto which I placed the coloured flowers which is snowdrop from hope yacare which you can see here.I added some ribbon and a… Continue reading Get well soon

I have been playing with this idea for a while. I haven't got it right yet but thought I would share where I have got to. I sketched this face this afternoon and then manipulated the colours with an app on my ipad. The original sketch hasn't been altered just added some colour.  Your thoughts would… Continue reading It's all butterflies to me

Evening! I have struggled today with getting inky and messy. The flow would not happen so I went blog hopping looking for inspiration, when I came across Sam's tags. Sam is a twitter mate; we get to share our creations with lots of other twitter mates which is great. You can see Sam's creations here.Ah… Continue reading Tag time

Good evening everyone. I have been playing most of the day and this is my last piece.I decided to make a tag to enter in a challenge at fashionable Stamping Challenges ( I was in their Saturday Spotlight this week)I was sent two sample tags with an order I recieved from the funky junky (thank you… Continue reading Sunday Tag

I wasn't going to do any more PA projects this week but caught the bug of the cube. Especially as my pals Sam and Lesley made one without the die.So I cut mine out of mount board which I learnt was a mistake but I completed it anyway.All materials are from Paper Artsy this is… Continue reading Very quick box

If you read last week's blog you will know that I am joining in with the documented life project. This week I have managed to catch up with week 3&4 so tomorrow I can start the week on the current week and not feel I have to rush. Week three's prompt was to upcycle an envelope… Continue reading DLP wk 3 and 4