25 May 2012 – Prisme Heart Peach Makeover

The heart I posted on the 15 May 2012 went for a spin in Photo fx Ultra and came out looking peachy! You may be wondering why I use the same image more than once in my posts, so I thought I would explain. I did a lot of print making when I was younger [...]

15 May 2012 – Prisme Heart

  I was playing around with the Pebeo Fantasy Prisme paint that I was using in my workshops at the NEC in March and came up with this little heart. I was using a piece of canvas and Pebeo Cerne Relief in gold. I drew and squiggled with the outliner paint and whilst it was [...]

3 May 2012 – Kreaxions Butterfly and Flowers

Whilst in Liverpool demonstrating for Craft Habitat I made quite a few samples. Some I gave away, some I made to be displayed on the design boards which are displayed at shows. This is one of my samples. The lovely Spike gave me Peeled Paint distress ink and I used it for all three days of [...]

9 April 2012 – Mushroom Coral Sketch

I visited the lovely Linda this weekend as she was visiting her dad in Yorkshire, which is much nearer than Somerset. Whilst there we had a walk to Salt’s Mill in Saltaire and bought some great art and photography books. I combined a sketch of a Mushroom Coral and a shot of some Pebeo Fantasy [...]

3 April 2012 – Orange Sparkle Card

I made this card whilst demonstrating at the weekend. I used a couple of Marianne dies, a Kreaxions die and an       M-Bossabilities folder. I coloured it with distress inks and finished it off with Stickles glitter glue. I think the colours work really well together and had fun pinching and folding the [...]

31 March 2012 – Butterfly Card

For the last 3 days I have been demonstrating for a company called Craft Habitat at the Pins and Needles Show at Gosforth Park race course near Newcastle Upon Tyne. Craft Habitat specialise in die cutting machines and dies, as well as inks, punches and beautiful papers. This is one of the cards that I [...]

29 March 2012 – Golden Wedding Card

Last weekend my lovely sister Marion and her husband Roger who is equally lovely celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Whilst still at the NEC show and rather late at night I made this card for them. The printed elements are made by Kanban and I found the other bits and bobs whilst shopping after my [...]

26 March 2012 – I’m Back From The Hobbycrafts Show

This is a shot of one of the 20 workshops that I taught over the last four days at the Hobbycrafts Show at the NEC . Everyone had a fantastic time and really enjoyed getting to know about Pebeo products.  John Wright from Pebeo UK provided all the wonderful materials for free and the stand [...]

24 March 2012 – My Abstract

Whilst Kristy was creating her masterpiece I created this one. I used Pebeo Studio Acrylic and printed with my home made stamps with Pebeo Deco Touch. I painted my design with Gilding Paste and applied the Silver Leaves when it had gone clear ( it’s white when you apply it). I finished it by decortating [...]

23 March 2012 – Kristy’s Abstract

My daughter Kristy came to help me last weekend. She was my guinea pig for the time available for a workshop. It’s always best to try it out beforehand I think. She created this lovely background with Pebeo Studio Acrylic, painted on Gilding Paste and applied the Gold Leaves. We also printed with the acrylic [...]

22 March 2012 – Embossing Folder Fantasy Prisme

I was trying to think of ways to use the Pebeo Fantasy paints which are quite like nail varnish but have a crackle effect with the Prisme and a cloudy pearlised swirly effect with the Moon. Here I have used Fantasy Prisme. If you click on the picture you can see in more detail of [...]

21 March 2012- Pre-Show Chaos

Not a very attractive picture but my reality as I prepare to go to the Hobbycrafts show! I was once accused of being a messy crafter, I prefer to think of it as creative chaos. You never know when 2 disparate things laying next to or near each other spark off the next few ideas. [...]

20 March 2012- Stencilled Butterflies

Another sample, this time I mixed Pebeo Modelling Medium with 3 colours of Pebeo Studio Acrylic Paint. I stuck the stencil to the background with masking tape and scraped the coloured medium over the stencil until there were no gaps. I removed the stencil and washed it straight away to remove the excess paint. I [...]

FREE Pebeo Workshops @ NEC Birmingham

Hi everyone. This week I will be teaching 5 FREE workshops a day at NEC (National Exhibition Centre) Birmingham for Pebeo UK. I’m busy making samples at the moment and here are a few pictures to show you how I’m doing. I have painted these buttons with Pebeo Fantasy Prisme and Moon paint The lovely [...]

16 March 2012 – Sunrise Serenade Brayered Landscape

If you have already seen my post on 20 February 2012 you will know what a wonderful picture you can create with some dye ink, a brayer and some rubber stamps. By using different coloured inks and stamps you can produce a masterpiece every time. I tried to make the foreground look like water. I [...]