Knit and Stitch Club Launch

Just thought I'd share details of the new Knit and Stitch club coming soon to Hartlip Village Hall in Kent.

If you would like to come along please email me at ladiesthatcraft@live.co.uk  Its a bit of fun and if we get enough people attending it will take place every two weeks. Hope to see you there xx

Cheeky Monkey Layout

A hidden stamped background with a bright forground is a really easy way to make modern layouts for your album. This particular design jumped out at me from somewhere on a Pinterest hop and it just stayed with me so I had to play to make it my own.

Everything on the layout is made from paper including the flowers and the bows.

The stamping on the yellow was done using a yellow stazon ink pad and a small flower from the DoCraft Folk Floral stamp set.

I didn't get the name of the person who had the original idea for this layout but thank you whoever you are xx.

The Best Times Layout

Loving the stencilling at the moment but can't decide whether I prefer inking through them or using texture paste. Went with the ink this time using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

I have also started using my Dies again after many months playing on the Scan n Cut which can do sooo much, I realised I had forgotten some of my old favourites.

Think this layout is probably one of my favourites so far this year. If you have time leave a comment. Have a great day xxx

Bright Card for a man

Im so fed up with Birthday cards for men with golf clubs, footballs....you know what I mean. This year my aim is to produce four or five DIFFERENT card suitable for men.

This one is so simple. All you have to remember os to use bright colours, you can even use scraps.

The desoration of the card is all fixed to a 1 1/2" white strip of card along the middle of the card.

Got a few more planed for the near future so keep checking back xx

Happy Birthday Flower

This wonderful flower stamp by Hobby Art is so easy to use and can be stamped and coloured in so many ways.
The technique for this class was the background masking and also using a cut out flower as a stencil to stamp the script stamp through. 

Here's a close up so you can see what I mean 

The flower was stamped twice onto red paper and cut out, shaped and finished with a gem and dots of black stickles

Card three tomorrow xx