Easter Gift Bag Workshops.

Hi everyone!. As it's the last day of the month today I thought I'd share with you the project we made at both of our March workshops for Out Of The Blue.

As Easter is almost upon us we thought it would be a nice idea to decorate a gift bag & fill it with some chocolate eggs for our ladies to take home.

First we created a background by inking several colours of distress inks through a spotty mask onto custard coloured card & then inking around the edges. 

The image is a House Mouse stamp from Stampendous featuring Monica mouse asleep on top of a brightly coloured Easter Egg.

Such a cute image & perfect for this project.

Monica was stamped in back archival & coloured using distress inks as watercolours.

The image was die cut using a spellbinder & whilst still in the die I blended peacock feathers for the sky & shabby shutters for the grass.

The flowers were die cut, embossed & inked through the dies using Carnation Creations Spellbinder & the leaves using foliage die.

A double layer of ribbon was attached & a banner tag was made using the Easter Greetings sentiment stamp from Woodware.

The final touch was to add pearl beads to the centres of the flowers & fill the gift bag with tissue & chocolate eggs!.

Here's how my group got on with theirs: 

Some really pretty designs & gorgeous colour combinations chosen!.

Everyone really enjoyed making their Easter Gift Bags & I'm sure whoever they give them to will love them, especially the eggs inside!

Thanks for visiting & for your comments.

I'll be back again soon with another Easter project to share.

Amy x 

Twit Twoo, Love You!

Welcome back friends & followers.

Well, my week has been as hectic as ever & we are still trying to get over this cough & cold virus that is doing the rounds at the moment.

All of us have been suffering with it for over 3 weeks & just when you think its on its way out you start to feel rubbish again.

My 3 days up at the NEC didn't help as it was very tiring, but it was great to see lots of lovely new things to order for the shop & we're looking forward to everything we ordered arriving soon.

My post today is the first of a few Love/Valentines themed projects.

I've been playing around with some ideas for this theme whilst coming up with the project design for our next workshops for February.

For this card I used a mixture of Sam Poole stamps & a leaf stencil from Creative Expressions.

I stamped & heat embossed the Owls several times before colouring them with Promarkers & decoupaging them to add dimension.

The leaves were die cut using spellbinders & the hearts were punched & edged with Distress inks.

The finishing touch was altering the owls eyes by changing their pupils to heart shapes!.

I'll be back soon with more 'Love' inspired projects!.

Thanks for looking & commenting 

Amy x 

July workshop project

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Today I am sharing the project my half of our crafty group will be making at our first July workshop tonight.

After our demo day with Julia Watts last month lots of people said how much they had enjoyed the day but that they would really have loved to get hands on & have a go at some of the techniques she had shown us & use some of the products she was demonstrating.

So we decided to base our July workshops around the products  & techniques from that day.

I created my background by dabbing green aqua Cosmic Shimmer shimmer paint through one of the decorative corners from the Decorative Elements That Special Touch mask in the four corners of a piece of coconut white card.
Once dry, I then spritzed the background with mango blush & Egyptian blue shimmer mists & dried with my heat tool.
I then used the A4 heart lattice embossing folder to emboss the piece of card & blended some peacock feathers distress ink lightly over the top to make the embossing a bit more prominent.
This was then layered onto a piece of white card that I painted the edge of with gold shimmer paint & then onto aqua card onto my card blank.

I stamped the inner & outer frames from the Creative Expressions Garden Frame stamp & the sentiment in the centre with black ink & heat embossed with clear embossing powder. 

I then painted the flowers etc with green aqua & gold shimmer paints.

I die cut some frames with Lacy Squares Spellbinders from white card & painted the scalloped edges with the gold shimmer paint & stuck my floral designs on top layering with more aqua card & 3d foam for dimension.

I added a double bow in orange organza & teal silky crush to the bottom right of the card with a flat backed pearl embellishment from Hobby House that I had also painted with the shimmer paints to match.

A few touches of stickles glitter glue & some gold pearl pva glue to the flowers added the final touches to my card.

Hope you like it & that you'll pop back soon.

Amy x