Spotlight on Debbi...

For all you crafters out there who will be fortunate enough to receive this amazing gift box in your Christmas stocking this year... (or for the winners in the blog candy competition - see side bar for details), I would like you to meet Debbi - the lady whom Letraset contacted to demonstrate the craft tutorial included in their kit... Debbi lives not too far from myself and has not been crafting for very long but has an amazing reputation on Blogger for her fantastic demos carried out using Promarker pens...

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To see some of Debbi's fab demos and amazing projects -

please click HERE...

You're not gonna want to miss these girls xx

Easel cards...

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I have been admiring the many easel cards which are on the Internet at the moment and was looking for instructions on how to make them... I came across this link on Photobucket which may be of help to anybody else who may be interested...

.Click HERE for instructions on how to make either a 4" x 4" or a 6" x 6" easel card... Also, Lexi provided this link to another fab step-by-step demo for easel cards...Click HERE

Paper piecing with digital stamps...

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Below is an example of a card made using one of my favourite paper crafting techniques, i.e. paper-piecing

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How to paper-piece using digital stamps...

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1 Print off your chosen digital stamp...
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2 Place your digital stamp on to a light box ready to trace around the chosen parts using a fine black ink pen...
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3 Using a light coloured paper of your choosing, cover the digital stamp and begin to trace around the desired area which you would like to paper piece... You could also use vellum and trace with this / or run vellum through your printer recreating another digital image (if you have an A4 sized sheet) and then cut out the chosen areas to paper piece from the vellum...
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4 Take your time to complete the project - if you rush - it may smudge or look unprofessional after you cut it out...
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5 Once you have traced around the desired areas, cut it out using a fine pair of cutting scissors.
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6 Once you've cut around all your chosen traced areas - colour your digital stamp in the non paper pieced areas first and then apply the cut out paper / vellum to complete your project... simples!

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