Demo Day & Craftathon

Good Afternoon Everyone

Well, I can't believe it's just after 4pm already... where did today go?! Come to think of it, where has this week gone?!

Anyway, two bits of important information...

Demo Day
I should have been having a demo day in the shop tomorrow, but I have had to reschedule it for next Sunday (28th) The times are the same (10:30 til 4pm) and I will give you more details when I get back from Create & Craft next Tuesday evening :-)

Craftathon
This also means I have had to reschedule my Craftathon that should have been next Sunday, this will now be on August 18th (I'm really sorry I can't do it any sooner, but I'm away for the weekend at the beginning of August and as soon as I get back from that, I'm at The Great British Craft Festival for the weekend!)
If you are booked onto this Craftathon, I will automatically move you to the new date, if you can't make that, please let me know asap either by phoning the shop or drop me an email.. link here --- email

That's all for now, as I said, I will update you on the demo day next Tuesday evening :-)

Happy Crafting!

Create & Craft Shows

Good Morning All

It's another beautiful, sunshiny day!

Just a quick post, as I'm busy prepping for my new Hunkydory Pick of the Week shows!

I have updated my sidebar with my show times so you don't miss any ;-) -----}

I have to say, as far as Hunkydory Kits go (and they are all fabulous!) this one is particularly brilliant for me as it has lots of shaped, designer cards in it... You know I love my fancy shaped cards! :-)

Anyhoo, back to prepping and have a brilliant day!

Happy Crafting!

ps - are you getting excited for the Great British Craft Festival yet??

We are!!

Meet my New Serif Design Team :-)

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Hope you are enjoying the lovely weather we are having!

Firstly, I just want to thank each and every one of the 400+ people that expressed an interest in joining my design team and sent me photos of their work... I can genuinely say, you are all amazingly talented, which just made my job of choosing more difficult! You should all be proud of your skills!

My choices were made based on the use of the tools and facilities provided by the Craft Artist Pro 2 software and the contents of the Digikits, both in physical (end product) samples and in digital.

There will be lot's of versatility and personal style from each of my Design Team and I can't wait to see what they come up with for their first Serif samples! :-)

Anyway, I'm soooo excited to, finally, be able to reveal who the three members of my Brand New Serif Design Team are!

Here they are :- Please say hello to...

Cheryl Baker

 Andrew Smith

 Tracy Willoughby

You will be seeing lot's of their work on all my Serif Shows on Create & Craft!

I can't wait to work with you all!

Happy Crafting!

Distress Inking & Mask Stamping

Good Evening Everyone

I've been playing with my distress inks and my IndigoBlu stamps (no surprise there then!) and thought you may like to see what I did.... and, more importantly, how I did it...

I've used

Stormy Sky Distress Ink Pad

Faded Jeans Distress Ink Pad

Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink Pad

IndigoBlu Stylised Flowers Stamp

Woodware Huge Circle Punch

Woodware Butterfly Punch

Wee Stamps Digi Image

This is what I did

1. Printed the digi image onto my super smooth white card
2. Trimmed the card to 14cm square
3. Punched a circle from thick cardstock
4. Using a removable tape pen, masked over the image
5. Inked the card (lightly) with Stormy Sky, all the way up to the circle.
6. Inked from the circle outwards with the Brushed Corduroy, to create a soft brown shadow.
7. Inked the outer edges again, this time with Faded Jeans, heavier on the corners and edges.
8. Stamped the Stylised flowers using the Brushed Corduroy, blotting once onto scrap paper to soften the colour.
9. Punched the butterfly from thick  cardstock.
10. Inked through the negative of the butterfly punch with Faded Jeans, effectively using it as a stencil.
11. Removed the punched circle and voila! A lovely clean image surrounded by even more lovely inkyness! :o)

And here are three little photos to show you :o)

Hope you find this useful... I love this technique!

All I have to do now is take a photo of the image, coloured in!

Happy Crafting!

Would You Like To Be On My Design Team? :o)

Good Afternoon Everyone

Exciting news...!

I am looking to create my own Design Team for when I do Serif shows..

I will choose 3 people to help make samples for my Create & Craft TV shows, (when I am doing Serif shows only...for now)

I will be looking for 3 people who have a good (or better!) working knowledge of Craft Artist Pro 2, the tools within it and what you can achieve with them when working with the Digikits...

I will be looking for creative, inspirational people with a variety of skills, who can create projects other than cards and scrapbook pages eg: gifty type stuff like printed t-shirts, note books, binders, boxes, calenders and of course finished cards and scrapbook layouts etc

I will be able to provide the Digikits for the shows in advance (free) to enable you sufficient time to work with them before hand. I won't be able to provide you with the other items you will need for your samples.

The good side is, you will be named as one of my Design Team (very exclusive!), have your samples on my shows and Blog, have your projects on the tele and who knows....... 

You will, of course, get the Digikits before the general public too! (what a bonus!!)

There will be a few terms and conditions and a confidentiality agreement to sign, we'll discuss these once I have chosen my full team.

Let me know if it's something you are interested in... I'd love you to come on board :o)

Please email me to register your interest and include at least 3 recent photos of examples of your work created using some aspect of Serif Craft Artist Pro 2 (please tell me which bits) :o)

The closing date to apply will be Wednesday 3rd July and I will make my selection by Wednesday 10th July

Many Thanks

I look forward to working with you.... whoever you are! :o)

Hunkydory Show Cards

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Well, what a busy week it's been!

Kicked off with the amazing Hunkydory Christmas Blockbuster (hope you got yours), then two days of Serif with the equally fabulous Fizzy Moon Digikits (I loooove them!.. so many images to work with!) and then back yesterday with the Hunkydory Christmas Blockbuster and then in my shop this morning doing a Serif workshop!!

I'm pretty sure I need to sleep at some point! lol

Anyhoo, I find I'm in a state of shock as I have a couple of hours free! 

So I thought I'd pop some photos on here of some of the cards I made on air with the Christmas Blockbuster.... 

Hopefully they will give you some ideas and inspiration :o)

I haven't taken photos of all the cards I made on air (I forgot my phone!) lol, but there are 7 to keep you going...

Happy Crafting!

Here you go....

A4 Easel Card

8x8 Tent Fold 

8x8 Aperture Tent Fold 

C5 Tent Fold 

8x8 Side Fold 

A5 Cut Away Side Fold 

A4 Tent Fold 

Create & Craft/Ideal World Shows for next week...

Good Evening Everyone

Well, it will be a busy week at Create & Craft and Ideal World next week.... with two amazing new launches!

First up is the Hunkydory Christmas Blockbuster (Anne-Marie is launching on Tuesday night at 9pm - don't miss it!) 

I will be there on Wednesday and Saturday .... This Blockbuster (as you'd expect) is amazing! 

Beautiful designs, stunning quality and so much of it! 

It's always a pleasure working with such great quality products! I always spend an hour just looking at the kits, before I can decide what to use as they are all fab! lol

Times and dates of my shows are on the sidebar to your right -----}

Then, on Thursday night it's a brand new launch of some uber cute Serif Digikits, Fizzy Moon (you've probably seen Fizzy in the shops before, well, now you can create your own masterpieces with the lovely character!)

This show is even more exciting for me as I'll be sharing the slots with my mate, Sarah Hurley!! :o)

We are mixing & matching for this special POD and you'll see us both on most of the hours and just myself for some... excited much! :o)

Times and dates of these shows are also on my sidebar to your right -----}

Anyhoo - I've got my Demo Day in my shop (Honeypot Crafts) this Sunday (16th) before all that, there will be melt potting, enamelling, metal magicking, gleaming and moulding (in a crafty sense!) lol

I'm starting at 10:30 and finishing at 4pm so hope you can pop along for an hour or so... 

Details are on my shops' Facebook Page - link on the sidebar to (you guessed it! lol) your right -----}

Have a great weekend everyone.... I know I will!

Happy Crafting!

More Card Layouts :o)

Good Evening Everyone...

Well, it's been a busy week!

Workshops in the shop, then create & craft on Friday, back in the shop Saturday and at Lincoln for the Sincerely Yours Craft Show today!

Just how I like it! :o)

Anyhoo, it seems that everyone is liking the card layouts I designed for you the other day, I've had lots of messages via my Facebook Page asking for more, so I have just designed a couple more for you... 

They are open to your own interpretation of course, I'm just giving you them to give you ideas of how to plan a card out :o)

Obviously, the square could be any size square (8x8, 6x6 etc) and the C5 Landscape one could be an A4, 5x7 etc)

So, here are two more for you ... remember to distress those edges! 

Square Layout

C5 Landscape Layout

Hope you find these useful

Happy Crafting!

Serif Craft Artist Workshop..

Good Morning Everyone!

Ok, I've been asked so many times over the last few months to do a Serif Craft Artist workshop, so, I've finally found a date!!

Sunday, June 23rd, 9am til 11am (probably wont be finished on time! lol)

The cost will be £20 pp

There will be a maximum of 12 people.

You must have your own laptop with either craft artist professional 1 or 2 installed (you'll also need to have a few Digikits already installed to work with)

I'll be taking you through working with Digikits, creating your own Digikits, as many features of craft artist as I can, working with punches, brushes, styles, stencils etc

I've already had bookings so please be quick if you want a place, either let me know here or give myself or Carol a ring at the shop (01158403510)

Happy crafting!

Card Layouts....

Good Evening Everyone

OK, I've had lots of people over the last few months ask me if I can give ideas on card layouts, so, I have done you a couple to get you started...

I will do some more every couple of weeks and add them to the blog and to my Honeypot Crafts Facebook Page (I'll put them in a folder on there so you can refer back to them as and when you need them)

The first one I've done for you is a square card layout, this can be interpreted in whichever size square you want.. 8x8, 6x6, 5x5 etc and you can embellish how you wish, it's just to give you an idea of how to set a card out before adding your embellishments :o)

The second one I've done for you is a DL layout and again, this can also be interpreted into C5, 5x7 or an A4 card.

I hope you find these useful :o)

Happy Crafting!

Square Layout

DL Layout