new cards

New cards

Hi All
I thought I would share the cards we made this week at my class at Papermill Direct, using Jane Gill's Woodware stamps, copics and distress inks.

Summer Poppy Card

Blue Butterfly card using the beautiful card from Papermill Direct's new Pick n Mix range, Polka Doodles stamps and the gorgeous Pixie Powders from Creative Expressions.

This was our man's card this week - but you could always change the colours and make if for any car mad friend.  Using card from Papermill Direct Pick n Mix, Joy Stamps and Woodware Birthday Messages

Star Penguin ornament come along and see him and lots of others at our free Annual Craft Day, where we will show you lots of tips and techniques and a fantastic opportunity to shop for all kinds of crafty goodies.

Don’t forget to save the date
If you are in the Kendal area or fancy a trip to the lakes - Papermilldirect will be holding its Annual Craft Day on Saturday 19th August 2017.
Come along and enjoy a great day of demos from many leading designers and crafters including myself, the fun starts mid-morning - hope to see you there.


Meanwhile here is a list of my next card making classes I will be holding with papermilldirect.
Saturday 30th September, 11am to 3pm
Saturday 14th October Lesley Blamire, 11am to 3pm
Saturday 11th November Lesley Blamire,  11am to 3pm
Saturday 9th December Lesley Blamire,  11am to 3pm

If you are interested why come along and see what we do.

For more information on each of the workshops and how to book please use this link
https://www.papermilldirect.co.uk/events/card-making-with-lesley-4

(P.S. papermilldirect is the new name for paperwarehouse)

Lesley

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With Sympathy Card

Poppy Sympathy

Hi All

I just thought I would share this card with you, my Uncle Keith died recently and this is the card I made for his partner Margaret.  I really loved the finished result and just thought I would share it with you.

With Sympathy Card made with stamps from Indigo Blu

There will be more coming soon - cards this time - if you joined us at the PaperWarehouse in Kendal for any of my classes this year or for Craft Day in August you will be able to see more of what we have made recently.

My next class will be on the 21st January 2017 at The Paper Warehouse in Kendal, if you would like to join in please contact the ladies in the shop to book on 01539 726161.  We will be using stamps and dies from Crafters Companion and stamps from Woodware, and a stencil from Clarity this time, something for the guys and the girls, it should be fun, I hope you can join us.

See you soon,
Lesley

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Xmas 2016

Happy Christmas

Hi All

I hope you have had a fantastic Christmas.   I want to thank everyone who sent me some fab Christmas cards (handmade of course), I loved seeing your work.  I have put some crafty inspiration on the blog for you today, just a few cards and a tag made for you to have a look at, I hope you like them.  The tag is from the Snowmen set in the Francoise Collection by Woodware from last year but I just love it.

So true! - I hope you all had your helping of sprouts this year!
I have decided I am making my tags next year - I bought them this year and they were rubbish - so I am starting early.

I made a version of this card for our Christmas cards this year - just love him!  All from the Snowman Post collection and associated postal elements from this year's Woodware collection.

We made this one in class at The Paper Warehouse - takes a while to cut out and colour but he's worth it. 

This must be the quickest Christmas card to make ever! White card blank, strip of co-ordinating card from my Papermill Direct stash,  available at The Paper Warehouse. The tree stamps and sentiments from the same set from Woodware as below, Kaledacolour ink in Caribbean Sea and a pearl string from Woodware, honestly 5 mins and its finished, where as the one below - using the same ingredients plus a bit of ribbon and embellishment takes soooo much longer - nice though, I hope you agree.

This tree set of stamps is so versatile you get everything in the set, both sentiments, all manner of trees and they are so versatile.

I really love this snowman family card, the original stamp has the six snowmen on the front of the card, then I stamped them again and cut out the three who can be free standing and placed them in the background steps of the stepper card.  with the brayered and embossed background.  The heavy acetate cover has been sprinkled with Stampendous Chunky White embossing powder and heated from below. The sentiments this time are from Jane Gill's collection for Woodware - I just love the combination - this card takes a while (the arms are a bit fiddly to cut out, but they stick back on well if they fall off) but is good fun to do and its worth it for special people.
All ingredients from The Paper Warehouse  

I hope you have all had a peaceful and happy Christmas, and are having some time to craft too.

Keep watching - see you soon
Lesley

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Woodware Mixed Media Birthday Book

Woodware Mixed Media Birthday Message Book

Hi All

This year Francoise Read created some lovely messages for Woodware, so I thought I would put them all together in a little book - just because it keeps them all together. There was no acetate in this book just fixed pages, which were a little more difficult to work with as some of the papers creased when I closed the book, (my fault, because I didn't leave it to dry long enough between pages.) I made each double spread different styles depending on the papers (from little tag books) and punched out the flowers on the front from card I had been experimenting with blending distress inks.  I also used the bubble stencil again with distress inks - ok obsession over - moving on.

Cover of birthday book

Birthday Book pages

Birthday Book pages

Birthday book pages

Birthday Book pages

Birthday Book pages

The complete Birthday Book

There will be more coming soon - cards this time - if you joined us at the PaperWarehouse in Kendal for any of my classes this year or for Craft Day in August you will be able to see more of what we have made recently.

Keep watching - see you soon
Lesley

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More Woodware Christmas Mixed Media Book

Woodware Mixed Media Christmas Book

Hi All

Lots of you liked my mixed media book all about Alice in Wonderland - so I thought I would make another for Christmas - the book was supplied by Woodware and using Francoise Read's lovely Christmas Stamp designs, the papers are from Craftwork Cards.  The front page is a clear acetate so Stazon was needed, and positioned so the elf was peeping through.

Front Cover

Christmas Fat Book 

Christmas the black postage stamp elements are on the acetate layer between the pages, and those trees on the facing page are sooooooo versatile - I'll show you in another installment

Santa in his Christmas Jumper doing a jig

Christmas Fat Book

Reverse of Christmas MDF Book
I  really enjoyed having a go with this, the neutral papers and the denim blue made the colours in the images pop, and having the acetate layers enabled me to add the postage elements on top of the coloured images to make Santa speak and add some fun elements to the Gingerbread Men.

I put this little book together all about Francoise's quilting stamps.

Quilting fat book using a little sample book, I mainly used paints for the backgrounds this time - I also found out that some glues react with paints and unfortunately the paint does not set - oops had to do it again - I also found out that Stazon Cleaner works on sturdy acetate covers - when it  doesn't go quite to plan.

Quilting Fat book using Francoise Read stamps and Woodware products

I really enjoyed this stamp set - all cross stitch elements, the flowers, the hoop, the heart and the words together with buttons made a lovely set which was very versatile and has been used throughout this book.

Quilting book with black paint on the background and then white embossing powder on top, don't forget the anti static pad!!!!

Quilting fat book using Woodware products - I love the colours on the background of this page.

On this page I had a play with the Dutch Doobido stencils, using them with a range of distress inks, I hope you like the background effects.

Quilting fat book from the front

Quilting book Francoise Read's stamps, and some lovely little clips as page markers each solid page had an acetate page in front to put the messages and accents on.

Reverse of Quilting book thank you for looking 

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See you soon folks - take care.

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Its time for Christmas!!!

Woodware Christmas Samples

Hi All

The Christmas Card season is here again.  These are the new 2016 Christmas stamp samples that I created using Francoise Read's designs and Woodware Stamps, I have used Papermill Direct card with them and they looked great on the mantlepiece test (all my cards have to have a mantlepiece test) to make sure they stand up and look fabulous - I hope you like them.  None of these samples are overly complicated and can be made in batches - I hope you find inspiration here for your own Christmas Cards.

There will be other versions of the same stamps coming soon ........ and a few others too.

Also using Stampendous tinsel embossing powder, copic pens, and a bit of shrink plastic.

Ho Ho Ho Santa Xmas Card

Gingerbread Men Card

Close-up of Gingerbread men card

Jolly Holly Elf Card 

Twas the night before christmas card

Three Wise Gingerbread Men Card

Close-up of the Gingerbread Men card

Ho Ho Ho Christmas Card

Happy Christmas using Woodware stamps and shrink plastic decal

Shrink plastic santa decal

Snowman Postage stamp card

Snowman stamp detail - look a the shine on that nose!!!!

Time for Glossy Accents and sparkly glitter - Oh just what Christmas is made for.

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See you soon folks - take care.

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