Check out my web site, prize winners have been pulled from the cup. I have photos which I'll share, but at the mo we are walking to the NEC. We've taken a few different routes, none of them right. Think we're on the right route now! However, if your going and we're not there, we're lost :) xx
- Leonie
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Crafting evening
Well, just a quick post to say hello. Had a fun day bathing all 3 dogs as Dylan had found something gross in the garden to adorn himself with. They were all smelling lovely, and looking glossy, when dylan nips out to spice himself up with scent a la dead thing! Urgh. Dogs!! So now I still have a stinking dog, with hairy walls (how do they do that, hair everywhere!!).
Had a lovely crafty evening with dee and andrea. We ate, had a little wine and made atc's. It's been far too long since I did any - but as we are working on getting the club up and running again, thought I'd better get cracking. Okay, didn't churn out tonns....
...but it's a start! These will be going in the parcels of orders that are sent out (we always pop in a little card of some sort).
Anyhow, had a lovely evening. Whoops, just remembered forgot to give Andrea the box of new goodies for the website! That's includes stamps and spellbinders as well. Fool. We'll get them sorted and popped on.
If you don't get the newsletter for the web then you may not know we have now run out of stock on the brand new distress autumn colours. If they release any more for order I'll let everyone know, otherwise we now just have the winter tones in stock. Better make sure I get my pack of those (how did I not get any autumn ones!! Fool).
Righto, bed time. Sleep well one and all and a happy day tomoz xx
Had a lovely crafty evening with dee and andrea. We ate, had a little wine and made atc's. It's been far too long since I did any - but as we are working on getting the club up and running again, thought I'd better get cracking. Okay, didn't churn out tonns....
...but it's a start! These will be going in the parcels of orders that are sent out (we always pop in a little card of some sort).
Anyhow, had a lovely evening. Whoops, just remembered forgot to give Andrea the box of new goodies for the website! That's includes stamps and spellbinders as well. Fool. We'll get them sorted and popped on.
If you don't get the newsletter for the web then you may not know we have now run out of stock on the brand new distress autumn colours. If they release any more for order I'll let everyone know, otherwise we now just have the winter tones in stock. Better make sure I get my pack of those (how did I not get any autumn ones!! Fool).
Righto, bed time. Sleep well one and all and a happy day tomoz xx
Sunday, 16 October 2011
The final flag
The final flag, here we use colour tinted spackle with a stencil:
Again we started with a blank black flag, this time we used a glittery one though. We then used a plain cream card and colour tinted it with our Eco paints. We then used a stencil which we layed onto the cream card. Using spackle we added texture to our card. Before we did this we colour tinted the spackle. Spackle is a white paste, and you can colour it with paint, ink, re-inkers, mica powder etc. We took some of our eco paint and added it to our spackle. Mix it well and your paste will be the precise colour you need it. Using a spatula spread the spackle over the stencil. Take the stencil off gently and make sure you clean it with warm soapy water, along with the spatula so the spackle doesn't harden.
Allow the spackle to dry. It doesn't take long at all, especially when it isn't applied thickly.
Again, our papers are double sided, so we used the borders from one scrap to edge the top and bottom. We used a pair of those wonderful red shoes from another to add to the bottom and added glaze to make them shine:
As usual our frill was created using that fantastic spellbinders die.
To finish our final bunting flag we used one of the images from our 12x12 paper. This sheet is full of all these images, but a good variety so you have to pick the one you want. Simply cut it out and pop it on with glue gel.
And our wonderful dyed ribbon is again looped through with a nice crumpled ribbon to finish! And of course....the last bit has to be those black enamel accents (check those out on the web site:
www.leoniepujol.co.uk
Another project awaits!....
Again we started with a blank black flag, this time we used a glittery one though. We then used a plain cream card and colour tinted it with our Eco paints. We then used a stencil which we layed onto the cream card. Using spackle we added texture to our card. Before we did this we colour tinted the spackle. Spackle is a white paste, and you can colour it with paint, ink, re-inkers, mica powder etc. We took some of our eco paint and added it to our spackle. Mix it well and your paste will be the precise colour you need it. Using a spatula spread the spackle over the stencil. Take the stencil off gently and make sure you clean it with warm soapy water, along with the spatula so the spackle doesn't harden.
Allow the spackle to dry. It doesn't take long at all, especially when it isn't applied thickly.
Again, our papers are double sided, so we used the borders from one scrap to edge the top and bottom. We used a pair of those wonderful red shoes from another to add to the bottom and added glaze to make them shine:
As usual our frill was created using that fantastic spellbinders die.
To finish our final bunting flag we used one of the images from our 12x12 paper. This sheet is full of all these images, but a good variety so you have to pick the one you want. Simply cut it out and pop it on with glue gel.
And our wonderful dyed ribbon is again looped through with a nice crumpled ribbon to finish! And of course....the last bit has to be those black enamel accents (check those out on the web site:
www.leoniepujol.co.uk
Another project awaits!....
Friday, 14 October 2011
SWALK - it's the POW!
Cute. Really really cute. That's the SWALK images. I had a definite favourite in this little lot, look:
Aww, isn't that brilliant. Im a stamper, so love this collection, but with the cd as well....unmissable. Here's a few more cards the ladies have made for us:
I've picked some from the POW and some from the extra stamp kit. Lovely, just right lovely. And of course, the day wouldn't be the same without our Leanne:
The later shows are Leanne and dean, so if you want more dancing you know what you have to do!! (email studio@createandcraft) :)
Aww, isn't that brilliant. Im a stamper, so love this collection, but with the cd as well....unmissable. Here's a few more cards the ladies have made for us:
I've picked some from the POW and some from the extra stamp kit. Lovely, just right lovely. And of course, the day wouldn't be the same without our Leanne:
The later shows are Leanne and dean, so if you want more dancing you know what you have to do!! (email studio@createandcraft) :)
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Bunting flag number.... Where am I up to?
Hold on....that's it, number 4.
I love these papers! Now for this one we had to look at our papers differently. This was taken from a piece of paper that has 4 main images on in separate quarters, so we worked with different pictures, making this flag different for everyone.
The base flag is pearlescent red, then we cut the printed paper slightly smaller. However, don't just cut the paper, work out what part of the image you want to keep and allow for part of that image to flow over your flag - this will give movement and interest. For instance, with mine I had part of the scarecrows hat and the Tin mans scarf:
It's easy, just use a piece of plain bunting as your template. Put this over your paper, on top of the part of image you wish to keep. Now, see what overspills. When your happy cut around your template, being careful not to chop off the parts you wish to have popping out. You may find it easier to draw round the template first.
The edge of the bunting was again made using the scraps from our fantastic spellbinders die. This time however, I took it one step further - look closely. Can you see the tiny triangles and the mini spades?
These are the bits from the die when we have cut our decorative edges! A little patience and a tiny amount of glue, makes these the perfect embellishment!
To finish we used the white enamel glaze on each of our mini spade, and glossy accents on the tin man.
Last one tomorrow :)
I love these papers! Now for this one we had to look at our papers differently. This was taken from a piece of paper that has 4 main images on in separate quarters, so we worked with different pictures, making this flag different for everyone.
The base flag is pearlescent red, then we cut the printed paper slightly smaller. However, don't just cut the paper, work out what part of the image you want to keep and allow for part of that image to flow over your flag - this will give movement and interest. For instance, with mine I had part of the scarecrows hat and the Tin mans scarf:
It's easy, just use a piece of plain bunting as your template. Put this over your paper, on top of the part of image you wish to keep. Now, see what overspills. When your happy cut around your template, being careful not to chop off the parts you wish to have popping out. You may find it easier to draw round the template first.
The edge of the bunting was again made using the scraps from our fantastic spellbinders die. This time however, I took it one step further - look closely. Can you see the tiny triangles and the mini spades?
These are the bits from the die when we have cut our decorative edges! A little patience and a tiny amount of glue, makes these the perfect embellishment!
To finish we used the white enamel glaze on each of our mini spade, and glossy accents on the tin man.
Last one tomorrow :)
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Bunting flag 3
This one was everyone's favourite, including my mum:
And it's easy! Hooray.
Okay so the base card is black plain cardstock cut to size. We then cut a piece of acetate, just slightly smaller than the flag, and a piece of plain White cardstock, the same size as the acetate.
Using a wonderful Tim Holtz stamp, we stamped on the acetate with Sfax on, as this dries quickly and permanent.
Turn the acetate over and use liberal dollops of the Eco acrylic paint. You can be specific where you place your colours, or you can just go for it and slap them on. Just make sure you don't apply the paint to thin a layer, as it is going to act as an adhesive as well so you need substantial quantities.
Before the paint dries turn the acetate over and place on top of the plain White card, squidge it down and it will stick to the card. We worked on kitchen paper to absorb the excess paint which will work from the sides of the flag. It's great to see how the colours merge, and you will get a different effect each time.
Using strong double sided tape, stick the flag onto the black flag.
The edge is again done using the spellbinders die, this time we have cut it from a black glitter card. Round off the edges and take a small element from the strip to complete the bottom of the trim:
To finish the flag add the ribbon in the corners (punch through all layers with a crop a dile), then using enamel accents put little dots of paint up both sides of the flag.
We're almost there!!
And it's easy! Hooray.
Okay so the base card is black plain cardstock cut to size. We then cut a piece of acetate, just slightly smaller than the flag, and a piece of plain White cardstock, the same size as the acetate.
Using a wonderful Tim Holtz stamp, we stamped on the acetate with Sfax on, as this dries quickly and permanent.
Turn the acetate over and use liberal dollops of the Eco acrylic paint. You can be specific where you place your colours, or you can just go for it and slap them on. Just make sure you don't apply the paint to thin a layer, as it is going to act as an adhesive as well so you need substantial quantities.
Before the paint dries turn the acetate over and place on top of the plain White card, squidge it down and it will stick to the card. We worked on kitchen paper to absorb the excess paint which will work from the sides of the flag. It's great to see how the colours merge, and you will get a different effect each time.
Using strong double sided tape, stick the flag onto the black flag.
The edge is again done using the spellbinders die, this time we have cut it from a black glitter card. Round off the edges and take a small element from the strip to complete the bottom of the trim:
To finish the flag add the ribbon in the corners (punch through all layers with a crop a dile), then using enamel accents put little dots of paint up both sides of the flag.
We're almost there!!
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Bunting - the second flag
On to the second flag:
The base of the flag is plain black card. The trim has been made using a spellbinders die, love this die as you can trim it to give so many different looks. Finish the bottom of the flag with pieces of the die so you get a better finished effect.
We are still using the wonderful double sided wizard of oz papers. Now this time we cut one of the papers into the flag shape, and run it through the cuttlebug in an embossing folder, the one we used was a Tim holtz die. Before we embossed the paper we tapped one side of the die with a versamark pad, do this gently as you only want the ink on the top of the die, don't squish it in as you'll over ink your die. We then embossed the paper. Remove it from the die and cover the full paper with gold embossing powder, melt with the heat gun. This gives a fantastic effect, with the embossing powder dipping in.
One of the other papers has these fantastic stamp images on it. We cut a couple of stamps out and backed them onto black cardstock. These were attached to our beautiful embossed paper.
The top of the flag was finished with the scrap bits from our spellbinders die. We used a small piece of card for the bottom of the flag, and a piece of the lovely paper to trim the top and bottom.
The top of the flag was finished with enamel accents, these give a lovely glossy finish.
We used the ribbon we coloured for the first flag to attach it to the rest of the bunting.
Viola, two flags.
The base of the flag is plain black card. The trim has been made using a spellbinders die, love this die as you can trim it to give so many different looks. Finish the bottom of the flag with pieces of the die so you get a better finished effect.
We are still using the wonderful double sided wizard of oz papers. Now this time we cut one of the papers into the flag shape, and run it through the cuttlebug in an embossing folder, the one we used was a Tim holtz die. Before we embossed the paper we tapped one side of the die with a versamark pad, do this gently as you only want the ink on the top of the die, don't squish it in as you'll over ink your die. We then embossed the paper. Remove it from the die and cover the full paper with gold embossing powder, melt with the heat gun. This gives a fantastic effect, with the embossing powder dipping in.
One of the other papers has these fantastic stamp images on it. We cut a couple of stamps out and backed them onto black cardstock. These were attached to our beautiful embossed paper.
The top of the flag was finished with the scrap bits from our spellbinders die. We used a small piece of card for the bottom of the flag, and a piece of the lovely paper to trim the top and bottom.
The top of the flag was finished with enamel accents, these give a lovely glossy finish.
We used the ribbon we coloured for the first flag to attach it to the rest of the bunting.
Viola, two flags.
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