Monday, 23 May 2022

Some Recent Projects from Tricia

 

A card for a colleague who's leaving. I started with a pattern from Stitching Cards . I used Sulky varigated threads in shades of lilac and green. For the background, I cut a panel from a Tonic die set in grey, purple, and green and silver metallic card. I used the grey grid, then paper-pieced the other colours as you can see. It took ages, I must admit - the paper piecing, rather than the stitching, to be honest!


A card I made for a design team challenge. I started with an inky background and added some further shading with Pan Pastel. Stamps are Lavinia, and I completed the image with Posca and glitter pens. The background has been both dry- and heat-embossed.


And a framed flower arrangement that I want to use as a 'place holder' for some blackwork that I haven't even started yet. (It will be paired with another blackwork project which has been completed.) The flowers are freesia made with Susan's Garden die and card coloured with Promarkers and Pan Pastel, and the background was created using a mix of Distress Oxide inks.


Thursday, 12 May 2022

Foil Embossing Meeting

 We had a lovely, chilled couple of hours this afternoon, having a go at foil embossing under Adrienne's guidance. These are some examples of what we came up with:

Beryl

Shilpa

Tricia



Nadi






Saturday, 30 April 2022

Adrienne's Foil Embossing

 


Adrienne made these cards by embossing heavy foil, and that's going to be our group project at our next meeting.

Saturday, 2 April 2022

Decoupage

 Adrienne recently introduced us to decoupage - the art of decorating various objects with cut paper.

Adrienne had already completed a couple of projects which she showed for inspiration.



Nadi decorated a plant pot and a metal box.




Tricia decorated a couple of wooden boxes from The Works





We used a gesso base followed by some layers of acrylic paint before adding the paper. Tricia added some gilding polish later to give an 'antiqued' look to the end result.


A 60th Birthday Card from Nadi

 


Nadi made a card for a friend's 60th birthday - all hand-drawn!

Monday, 14 March 2022

A Card by Nadi

 

A card for her dentist daughter!

A Couple of Cards

 Tricia made a couple of cards:


Lots of die cutting






A coloured digi-stamp from Phindy with an inky stencilled background and a traditionally stamped sentiment