September Newsletter

Hello everyone, how are you? I hope you had a great August.

It's hard to believe that there are only three workshops left before the end of the year and the next one is this coming Sunday; September 9 between 10am and 3pm at Grove Green Community Hall, ME14 5BT.

The topic is learning to colour, blend and shade with Clean Colour water colour pens on new Hobby Art images. The workshop fee includes a Hobby Art stamp set to use during the workshop and to take home afterwards. 

There are just two places left so if you would to join us you can find more information and booking HERE.

Workshops must be booked and paid for in advance.

For those of you attending the workshop, here is a list of what we are going to be using, but PLEASE don't worry if you don't have any of them as there will be some of each to use. If you do have any of them and want to bring them with you, it may save you having to wait for items:

Heat Gun

Anti Static Bag/WOW! white embossing powder

Onyx Black Versafine Ink

Distress Oxides

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Clean Colour Pens

Blending tool and blending foams

Fine detail paintbrushes

Stamping platform/assorted acrylic blocks

Glossy Accents

White/Clear Stickles glitter glue

Diamond Sparkle Medium

Black fine liner pen

Spritz bottle 

The mobile shop will be open during the workshop, please feel free to drop in if you're in the area. 

*If you'd like to order from the website in advance I will bring your goods with me for you to collect.*

The MEGA SALE is continuing on the website and there are plenty of bargains to be had, thank you to everyone who has ordered so far.

The next workshop will be on Saturday October 27 and you can find details and booking HERE.

In other news, I will be demoing for Hobby Art at the Crafting at Ally Pally show on Saturday and Sunday, September 15 and 16, it would be lovely to see you if you are attending the show. 

That's all for now, have a great month.

Hugs, Lisa B xx

JoFY Snowman

Good morning, Kirsten here, happy chilly Monday. I hope you had a nice weekend. I've got two quick Christmas cards to show you today, both made with the very cute snowman from stamp set JOFY58 from PaperArtsy...................

This one has a background of Victorian Velvet Distress ink, with Picked Raspberry DI sponged lightly through a snowflake stencil and splatters of Silver Starlights Metallic Paint.

I stamped the snowman on to the background with Jet Black Archival and again onto white card with Onyx Black Versafine, heat setting with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder. I coloured his hat and the baubles with pens before cutting him out and fixing him to the background with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue.

I finished the card with a little bit of scribbling with black pen and matting and layering onto a 6x6 card blank..............

Card no. 2 was another very quick background. This time Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade Distress inks on white card, with Royal Blood Infusions from PaperArtsy sprinkled on top and spritzed with water. When that was dry I added splatters of Rich Gold Starlights. 

I made sure the background was thoroughly dry before applying Imagination Craft's Structure Paste through the same snowflake stencil as above, otherwise the inks would have tinted the paste. I added glitter to the wet paste, but it's not showing up in the photo. 

I repeated the steps with the snowman as above, placing him at the bottom of the card this time and adding the sentiment from JOFY56....................

On Friday and Saturday of this week the Lisa B Designs Christmas Party Classes take place - SO much to do beforehand!! :-) There will be a newsletter going out in the next few days, but please note the time of the AFTERNOON class............

Saturday, December 2 at Grove Green Community Hall, Maidstone ME14 5BT
between
***1.30pm and 4.30pm***

The evening class will take place at the usual time of 6.30pm to 9.30pm on Friday, December 1 in Fant Hall, Maidstone ME16 8NN

The shop will be open during both classes if you want to drop in.

***Look out for a sneak peek of one of the class projects on the Lisa B Designs Facebook page later on this morning.............***

                    

         

Gift Vouchers Available 

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That's it from me for now, have a great week.

Kirsten

November Newsletter

Morning, happy Wednesday! I'm really looking forward to Friday's Christmas card classes in Fant Hall Maidstone on Friday, it's been ages since I saw everyone! The projects are two cards with a snowman theme and lots of glitter...............

   

     

If you're attending one of the classes, we'll be stamping with Distress inks and colouring in the images, so if you want to bring colouring pencils or pens with you for your personal use, please feel free to do so.

There are a couple of places left, so if you would like to join us please contact me by lunchtime on Thursday, October 26; 01622675078. Class times are 2.30 - 5.30 and 6.30 - 9.30. The fee is £16, which includes the projects, tools and items for use during the class, and tea/coffee and a slice of cake.

In other news, have you seen the gorgeous, new, PaperArtsy Christmas stamps?? I've added a selection to the website and I can't wait to have a play with them............

         

I'll have them at Fant Hall, along with the November issue of Craft Stamper magazine on Friday.

You can order items in advance from the website and I will bring them with me on Friday. Again, please do so by lunchtime on Thursday. 

The shop will be open to everyone from 2.30pm to 9.30pm on Friday, do drop in if in you're in the area. Remember to bring your loyalty card and a camera if you want to take photos of samples.

The next workshop at Grove Green will be the Christmas one on Sunday, November 12.

The fee is £40, which includes a kit worth £20. Places are already limited, so please contact me as soon as possible if you'd like to attend. More information about the workshop can be found HERE.

That's all for now, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday - and don't forget, clocks go back by one hour on Sunday morning!

Until next time, happy crafting.

Lisa xx

October Newsletter

  Hi everyone, long time no see!! Welcome to the October newsletter. Apologies for not blogging for a while. I had great intentions, but every week Wednesday seemed to come and go before I'd even realised!

 I hope you've had an enjoyable September. I spent a few days with Sue and Harvey of Imagination Crafts two weeks ago. Sue and I demoed at the Exter Hobbycrafts show and as always, we had a great time. We met lots of lovely crafters and had a lot of fun.  The next time I'll see Sue and Harvey will be at the Hobbycrafts Christmas show at the NEC in Birmingham, I'm already looking forward to it.

The most important thing to tell you right at the start is that there are NO classes in Fant Hall, Maidstone, next Friday October 6. The hall is not available, unfortunately, so I have decided to take myself off to Spain for a little holiday. I leave tomorrow morning and I can't wait! As a result, if you order from the website between now and October 11, it won't be dispatched until October 12. However, if you're attending my Grove Green workshop on October 15 select 'Store Pick-up' when you check out and I'll bring your order to the workshop.

Speaking of the workshop; there are still places available if you'd like to learn how to get the best out of Imagination Crafts' fantastic Rusty Patina. 

There will be two projects; a working clock and an 8x8 canvas panel.................

 

   

We'll be using various colours of Rusty Patina as well as Alchemy Waxes and Starlight Metallic Paints.

Included in the £30 workshop fee will be the projects, a bag of embellishments to use on your projects - any you don't use will be yours to take home - and a FREE 6x6 stencil.

The venue is Grove Green Community Hall, Penhurst Close, ME14 5BT.

You can book online, or email me; lisabaker1@btinternet.com, before Saturday, October 14.

Please bring your lunch, (there is a Tesco beside the hall), an apron, paint and stencil brushes - my go-to stencil brushes are the domed stencil brushes and they are available on the website.

The workshop after the Rusty Patina one will be the Christmas workshop on November 12.

A kit to the value of £20 is included in the £40 workshop fee and more information can be found HERE.

The next classes at Fant Hall, Maidstone ME16 8NN will be on Friday, October 27. The projects will be two cards with a snowman theme..............

We will be using Distress and Versa Color inks, colouring pens and lots of loose glitter!

     

If you would like to join us on Friday October 27, there a couple of places left in both classes; 2.30 - 5.30pm and 6.30 - 9.30pm. The class fee is £16 and this includes your projects, a tool kit to use during the class and tea/coffee and a slice of cake.

Places must be booked in advance; a deposit of £6, or full payment, will secure your place. Please contact me by lunchtime on Thursday October 26; lisabaker1@btinternet.com/01622 675078

I've added some very cute snowmen stamps to the website and restocked items that sold out at the September class, as always, you'll find all the new products in the

 What's New section.

I have scheduled a few blog posts for the next few weeks, so you'll see me here soon......

I hope you have a great weekend. Until next time, happy crafting.

Lisa B xx

Frosty the Snowman

Hello crafters, Julie here, hope you're well. Where has the time gone?? I can't believe it's the 1st of November!! The Argos catalogue is out and my son has started his Christmas wish list ready to write to Santa......

Today I'm going to share with you a card I had great fun making and one that can be done in stages whenever you have some time to spare, I used the Imagination Crafts Snowman Art Stamp, it's a  very cute image.

Firstly, I stamped the Snowman Art Stamp with Onyx Black Versafine ink on to Super Smooth card and heat embossed with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder. I then chose my Starlights colours: Pearl, Mint, Zinober Gold and Green to paint in my stamped image. I dispensed a small amount of paint on to my tile, mixed with a little water and started painting - I mixed the Pearl with a bit of Diamond Sparkle Medium for good measure to add to the sparkle!

I put the image aside to dry and set about doing my background, for which I used the
Christmas Words Art stamp on a kraft card blank, with Versamark ink and WOW! Bright White embossing powder, which I heat set. Repeat stamping until I covered the card.

Then the fun bit.... I mixed a bit more Zinober Gold Starlights with some water and used a wide brush to paint over (wiping the embossed text slightly with a paper towel). I was really impressed with the background as it's got the really good shimmer of a posh Christmas card!

I die cut some holly from some scraps of super smooth and painted these in the same way with Green Starlights and while this was drying I square cut my snowman and matted this onto a piece of silver Mirri card.

With all the components made for my card I put them all together. Mounting the matted snowman on double sided sticky pads and using Cosmic Shimmer to glue on the holly, with the finishing touch of a few red gems to pick out the holly berries.

I was pleased with this card and the shimmer the Starlights gave it, which I think make it extra special but very easy to achieve. I'm really getting into Christmas cards now the weather is a little chillier!

       

            

      

Well, that's me for today, hope you have a good day and see you next week.

**Remember the Lisa B Designs November class has been postponed to November 11. Lisa will be demoing on The Imagination Crafts stand at the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC this weekend, if you're visiting the show stop by and say hello.**

Love, Julie x