Our New Shop in Wirksworth

Hello everybody long time no blog. 

So sorry but as you may already know we have moved from Wales to the super town of Wirksworth in Derbyshire and we have opened a shop at Newbridge Works down Coldwell Street.
We are situated next to the Ecclesbourne Railway, which some of the Gentlemen callers have found interesting, while leaving the ladies to shop at their leisure. There are some beautiful walks close by and some very nice shops in the town as well and I must mention the bakers just up the road, the pies are to die for.

Here are a few Photo's the shop needs some more signs outside and inside needs more samples but it is early days.

The New Julie Nutting Dolls Stamps.

Paper Artsy Paints, Distress Inks, Dylusion Sprays, Alcohol Inks, Distress Markers, Perfect Pearl Mist and the list goes on.

 Canvases and plenty of Tim Holtz Idea-ology.

 Darkroom Door Stamps, Route 52 charms and Studio 490 Art Parts.

 Jamie wondering what I am doing.

 Paper Artsy Chalk Acrylics including the new colours and glazes.

 All of the colours of the Distress paints.

 There are three sides to this stand and all are full of The Crafters Workshop Stencils. Yummy....

 Front of the shop. Crying out for a Colourful Sign.

Prima Junkyard findings and Sunset Sunrise Trinkets.

So if you are in the area please come along to see us and don't forget to check out the workshops we are running. 

We have already had one workshop, a Steampunk Book a couple of weeks ago, and our  next workshop is an Altered Photo Canvas on Saturday 18th May, there are some places left so it's not to late to book.

Love to see you soon

Sharon

Here's to the new year ahead

Happy New Year to you all and I hope you had a most enjoyable Christmas. Jamie and I spent Christmas at home with the boys (Jack and Bru) they enjoyed opening their pressy's, chew sticks and footballs for both.

So after one day of watching too much television the boredom set in, the best cure for that is crafting,  especially when I had some new stash to play with. Oh the luxury of new paint brushes, but the next projects I'm going to share with you I didn't use a brush.
I decided to have a go with cut and dry foam after watching Leandra's Video's on you tube, if you need some inspiration pop over and have a look they certainly got me tapping.

I have used a combination of Paper Artsy, Indigo Blu and Stampers Anonymous stamps.

The flowers and leaves are from Indigo Blu's stamp Bloomin Great using Archival Ink Colbolt.

I have also stamped with Paper Artsy's Acrylic paint onto a Paper Artsy mini no 71.
I also tried with a different acrylic paint that wasn't chalk based but I was unable to blend them as well.

The watch face in the background is a Ink and the dog stamp Clocks Plate 1 and the car is from Tim Holtz Mini Muse CMS063.

This really is a fun technique Leandra calls it Corner Corner Side. The next thing on the agenda is to work on building up my layers, I don't like covering up a nice background but I always admire other peoples work.

I have also signed up for the Lifebook 2013 online course by the beautiful and very talented Tam of Willowing Arts, so far I have done the warmup page and stage 1 of the course and I am loving it. I have been using paints and pens that I had forgot I even had and never used because I didn't know how to. So here's to a new year of learning and exploring.

I would like to say a special thank you to all our customers and friends of the blog and Facebook for all the orders you make and the kind comments you give.

See you soon Sharon xx

Cut N Dry technique

What have we done to deserve this awful weather, oh well we can always get crafting.

I have been having a little play with cut and dry felt. I added the picture just in case you have forgot what it looks like and you know you have some somewhere.

Firstly stamp onto the cut & dry felt using Archival Ink or Versafine. The stamp is Lynne Perrella 012.

Then colour in using Distress Reinkers.....

It does not matter that it blends into the other colours....

Hope you can see the effect you can get...

I also used a different smaller stamp to get a variety of colour on the same cut & dry felt.

Then pop it in a ziploc or similar bag for a rainy day. If it does dry slightly you can use Ink Refresher to  moisten it again.

Next I painted a tag and sponged more paint through a stencil.

Then added the cut out picture I had stamped.

This idea works really nice with flowers and butterflies as well, where you want lots of colour.

Hope you enjoyed this and maybe have a go yourself.

Well it's just about time for our walkies before the rain starts again, so by for now and I shall be back soon.

Sharon