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May Recap - Lots of Inspiration

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Hi everyone! It's time for our monthly recap! May is already over and we have to share a big bunch of inspirations today! Let's start with our tutorial/ technique projects we had every Tuesday and Thursday. Asia created this lovely art journal page:  Debs made this wonderful spread: Dot shared a video for a marbled background: Sue made this awesome greeting card:  Donna made this bright and happy wall hanger  Melina created this amazing art journal spread Susanne shared how to stamp with water soluble crayons: Click here for the Tuesday Tutorials. Click here to see Thursday's Technique Posts . We also had some great clean and simple creations and also projects for beginners this month Asia made these simple and super pretty ATC trio Bibi created a lovely clean and simple card with the hydrangea flower stamp It will be part of the new stamps released on June 2nd! So stay t

Tutorial Tuesday - Your charming smile - A piece of hanging art by Donna Gray

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Hi everyone, It's Donna here today with my current obsession which is to create a piece of art you can hang on your wall ;) For my creation I used the middle sized That's Crafty!  MDF Round  which is 6 inches in circumference (yes, sorry I still work in inches as I'm very old)  Here is the MDF Round already to be painted with a selection of  That's Crafty! Multi Surface paints  which cover absolutely everything so there's no need for a coat of Gesso first. The blue was used for the background and the green and orange combined for the grassy hill. I pulled out 4 sheets of Gelli printed paper from my stash and four tree stamps from  Carved Whimsy Wood ,  Whimsical Summer  and  Whimsical Winter . I stamped these onto a mixture of the papers with black Archival ink, fussy cut them out and put them to one side for later. I wanted some writing in the background so I used the  Old Book Page  stamp and a lighter shade of Archival ink to sta

Simplicity Sunday A Simple Card by Sue

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Good afternoon and happy Sunday, it's Sue here with a really quick and easy card for you. The background has been made by dabbing Mustard Seed Distress Ink on my craft sheet then spritzing with water. I dipped a small circles stencil into the puddle of ink and laid down onto my card. Then I gently pressed the stencil down and rubbed over with some kitchen roll. After lifting the stencil I blotted the card with the roll to remove some of the colour. Once this was dry (give it a quick blast with a heat tool) I repeated the process with some Faded Lipstick Distress Ink and a different stencil. You don't need to ink the whole of the stencil, and you can just press down where you want the colour. Then just stamp your image(s) I used Summer Love . This is a lovely vintage stamp and really easy to use To finish I used a small circle punch to chop the notches to wind my butchers twine around. All of the wonderful stamps can be found here so grab a cup of coffee and g