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Well done Waist

June 11, 2012 By 9 Comments

Here’s a journal page created with PanPastels, Crafter’s Workshop Templates, polychromos pencils and acrylic paints.  The little poem is a reference to the fact that my hips are lagging a dress size behind my waist at the moment which makes trouser buying an interesting exercise.  (You can click on the image for a larger view.)  I used the pointy circles template in the background (I actually stencilled a little gel medium through it then rubbed pastel over when it was dry) and when I was doodling on the page, I used the spacing of the design to create the hourglass figure.  I wasn’t intending to draw a person, so her head is a little squashed onto the body to fit on the page.

It’s very clear to me that my journal pages are getting brighter and more lighthearted.  I wouldn’t say journaling has saved my life, but it certainly helped me cope with “stuff” and the pages dealing with it are literally as well as figuratively dark and messy.  OK, so they’re still messy, but so is life.  At least I’m viewing it through multi-coloured glasses these days (rose-tinted is so last year dah-ling!).

Tomorrow I have a Steampunkery sample and a review of the Ranger Inkssentials Speciality Stamping Paper, plus news of a giveaway …

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Zingy yellow and pink

January 31, 2012 By 9 Comments

This stamp is from the Fragrant Honeysuckle stamp set and it’s a lovely image to colour in.  I used Derwent watercolour pencils and just went for bright bold colours.  I didn’t quite intend the background to be such a vibrant gold, but I like the way it turned out.  I picked out the bright pink and gold in the layering and with so much colour, kept the rest of the card very simple.

It’s teasy time now – I just got the next few months worth of new stamp plates in and we’re starting to make the boards and test the rubber … There’s one coming out in February that goes really well with Artistic Affirmations and I’m LOVING it already.

Thanks for all the comments about lighting.  I am going to look into getting a decent light for the table, maybe an OTT light.  We swapped over our uplighters, so I now have the two from downstairs with the extra spotlights.  I’m actually pointing the spotlights straight up as I can’t really get them positioned to light up the workspace without them either getting in the way, or blinding me when I look up.  But the extra two bulbs bouncing light off the ceiling does help a lot.  I’ve also managed to keep one of the original uplighters as it is plugged in behind a unit that I really don’t want to move, so I’ve actually gone from two bulbs to five and yes, it’s definitely brighter in there.

So with lots of light and lots of new rubber, I’m one happy stamper!

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Sunburst Video

July 28, 2011 By 13 Comments

We have just launched our latest stamp set – Home Sweet Home – a set of sweet cottage stamps in a vintage Clarice Cliff kind of style.

I was so inspired by all the sunbursts that the girls came up with that I’ve recorded a video of the card above, showing how to create a sunburst sky with masking.  It’s a ‘reductive’ masking technique, which basically means that you mask off part of the design, then after colouring, you cut the mask to reveal a bit more.  The mask is effectively destroyed in the process of using it (though if you are careful, you can keep the bits you cut off and re-use them) which is why I’ve called it a ‘reductive’ process as that term is used in lino printing.

There’s actually two videos – the first shows the masking technique and the second shows me colouring the bottom half at warp speed (it took about 20 minutes in real life).

If you can’t see the embedded video below, please visit my YouTube channel and you will find them there.  I’m known as glendawww on YouTube (yes, that’s three Ws).

There is an introductory price on this stamp set until the end of August – just £12.50 instead of £14.99 and it is actually the current Offer of the Month for Baroque Guild members at £9.99 – just one of the many benefits of being a Guild member!

So, enjoy the videos and watch out for more samples and a giveaway on the Design Team Blog.

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Fluttering by

June 15, 2011 By 12 Comments

I may be quiet, but I am being very creative at the moment and getting my head into Christmas while dealing with sunburn (yes, I’m glowing like Sellafield on a dark night) is a bit weird.  But it’s gotta be done, Christmas stamps will be released to trade next month!

Anyhow, this card has been a work in progress for a long time.  I created the stamped panel for a workshop last year using one of my all time favourite stamp sets, Breath of Spring which really is a beautiful set.  The background is the leafy flourish from the set, stamped with Adirondack dye inks and misted with lots of water.  The image is stamped with Versafine and coloured with Inktense pencils (not water blended, just dry). I then covered the butterfly with glossy accents and stamped the sentiment with Versafine.  The paper is from the Essence of Nature CD.

It has been sat in my ‘bits box’ for ages and finally got made into a card.  The twiddly bit at the bottom is from one of the Nestability pendant die borders and the pearls on it have been coloured to match the paper with Copic markers.  Click on the image for a closer view.

Right, back to those Christmas designs …

 

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What’s the story Morning Glory?

May 18, 2011 By 12 Comments

I’ve been teaching Colouring 101 online for the last five weeks and while making the videos for the class, I put one of them up on YouTube.  It’s a fast forwarded video of me colouring and it’s quite long – you might even find it a bit tedious to watch, but whenever I have demonstrated colouring, I have a handful of people who watch in fascinated contentment and when I stop, they always say, “oh, I could watch that all day”.  So this is for those of you who find it therapeutic to watch someone else colour in.  There’s a few squeaky bits which is me sharpening pencils.  (I edited it in a bit of a rush, so I think some of the squeaks could actually be me saying something, but it will just have to stay as it is for now.)

The colouring class will be running again this summer, so I shall tell you more about it when I have dates.

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Colour Theory again

October 5, 2010 By 7 Comments

My online class Rubber Stamping: Back to Basics started last week and I’m really enjoying getting to know all my new students.  This week I’m covering backgrounds and thought it might be useful to give them a link to my colour theory article that I wrote a back in 2009.  Then I thought, I bet I have new blog readers who won’t have seen that first time round, so I thought why not put a link to it here on the new blog for all of you.  I’m all in favour of making the world a more colourful place.

So here you go click here to download the Colour Theory document.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this document.

 

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