Sentimentally Yours Everyday Tabbed Collection Stamps

Good Morning Everyone

People have been asking me how to use my Sentimentally Yours Everyday (and Christmas) Tabbed Collection Stamps... 

If you look at my cards on my Facebook Page or back here on my Blog, you'll notice I have lots of cards with sentiments that have been tucked under the edge of toppers, either at the top or one of the sides... you will probably have seen me to this on cards I have made on Create & Craft too.

When I do this, usually I have to stamp a sentiment and then cut around it, leaving an extra centimeter or so at the bottom of the sentiment to tuck under my topper... hence, the idea for my own stamps with their own 'tab' for tucking under toppers was borne :) It's so much easier when you have the tab to cut out and, as it's a smaller tab, it looks so much neater (which I love!)

I have made this 8x8 card and used one of the A5 Everyday 'Tabbed' Collection Stamps to show you how they look on a finished card...

I absolutely love using my Sentiments in this way, makes the cards interesting and very unique!

I hope you like them as much as I do!

PS - You can actually create your own Sentiment sign posts too by just cutting the tab longer... looks amazing on the Christmas ones with a bit of glitter or snow on the top!!

Here's a link to take you to my stamps - Sentimentally Yours Stamps

And here's the card I made :)

Happy Crafting!

Sentimentally Yours Launch - Thankyou!

Good Morning Everyone

Firstly, I'd like to thank all of you who came to my Sentimentally Yours stamp launch last Sunday at the shop and for those of you that have ordered from my website since Monday....

It seems you love the stamps as much as I do! so much so that I have sold out of some of the sets already and I had a very big stock!

For those that haven't seen them yet, here's a quick link that takes you straight to them on my website..

Sentimentally Yours Stamps 

I thought I'd pop a couple of cards on here that I made using my stamps, for those that won't have seen them on Facebook.

The first one was made using my Fizzy Moon Digikits and my Sentimentally Yours Pom Pom Snowflakes stamps.

As you'd expect, I used distress inks to create the two tone background and then stamped my snowflakes using the same two distress inks... 

I love snowflakes and particularly love these funky ones!

The second card was made using my Sentimentally Yours Words Of Inspiration stamps (A5), I love nice words on a card and designed this set particularly for that reason... the words are enough to make the card special, elegant and personal... the set has different shapes and sentiments in it too... 

I will continue to pop cards on my Facebook and Blog of projects created using my stamps and remember, from next week, you may even see my Sentimentally Yours Stamps in your local craft shop!!

Happy Crafting!

The Countdown To My Sentimentally Yours Stamps Launch is on!

My New Range of Stamps, Sentimentally Yours - Update

Good Morning Everyone

OK, It's time to let you all know what I've been up to over the last few months...!

I'm really excited to tell you that I will be launching my very own range of polymer (clear) stamps!

I have designed everything myself, from the logo, to the stamps right down to the packaging style!

These first collection will be a range of 16 sets, 8 in A5 size and 8 in A6 size and I have designed them as a crafter, with crafters in mind, making sure that we 'need' them and more importantly would use them in our day to day crafting projects!

I will be having a special launch day in my shop, 

Honeypot Crafts 

on

Sunday 8th September 2013

11am til 2pm

You are more than welcome to come along and see me and my stamps :)

My stamps will be exclusive to my shop for 1 week and after that you will be able to find then in some craft shops around the country :)

(If you are a bricks & mortar craft shop and would like to sell my stamps in your store, please email me here)

You only have just over 2 weeks to wait and I cannot wait!!!

In the meantime, here's my new logo again, the clue is in the name :)

Happy Crafting!

Coming Soon......

Coming Sooooon!

Details to follow very soon....

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)