Welcome, welcome to Lindy's Birthday Blog Hop! Today's hop, is in honor of Lindy Plakinger, who founded Lindy's Stamp Gang along with her husband and her family. While the amazing lady herself may no longer be here with us to celebrate, we love to get together once a year to celebrate her birthday, honor her daughter Tracey (who kept the business going after her mum passed away) and make sparkly creations, as tribute to the uniquly fabulous products she created.... Read more →

This is the third flower technique in my Copic Coloured Flowers series, Flower #1 used 2 colours of Copic markers, Flower #2 used 3 colours from differing families and added in a little bling. This technique ramps up the sparkle power and when combined with some creative Copic combinations produces stunning results. Depending on your flower choice (flat or dimensional) will decide how many colours you can use to create the copic colour of your flower. For smaller flowers fewer... Read more →

This is the second flower in my Copic Coloured Flowers series, Flower #1 used 2 colours of Copic markers, this flower uses 3 colours from differing families and adds in a little bling to create a stunning fantasy flower. This technique really works well on flatter flowers like the gardenia I used here, and though I have used a mulberry paper flower you can use this same technique on fabric flowers also - it looks amazing on satin, though your... Read more →

Let me start this post by saying I take no responsibility for anyone ending up with a Copic flower colouring addiction. I'm warning you all these are fun, soooo easy and give fabulous results every time! This is flower #1 in my Copic Coloured Flower series there are 2 more gorgeous copic coloured flower techniques for you to try coming up next. Please note each technique builds on the one preceding it, so there is some repetition of instructions. Flower... Read more →

Welcome to Fan Friday, today's inspiration is from Liesbeth's Arts and Crafts Blog - created by Liesbeth Fidder. Liesbeth is an amazing artist living in the Netherlands, if it weren't for the Craft Stamper Magazine and the internet, I may never have seen her work. Happily part of the beauty of our currently shrinking world, is that technology allows us to 'get to know' artists living half a world away and Liesbeth is worth getting to know! Currently designing for... Read more →

I wish I had taken a before and after photo of this face, it was a heartbeat away from being covered in gesso when I picked up a watercolour pencil (sepia) and started to 'play' with the original - I erased the short bob hair, made the eyes larger and the rest is basically the same. I have to thank my Mum for this one, she liked the original face and it's the only reason I didn't start over -... Read more →

Welcome to Fan Friday, today's inspiration is a book! What you didn't think every Fan Friday would be a web site did you, and trust me this one is really worth mentioning :O) So before I begin, I must confess that I think Dina Wakley is amazing, I see Dina's work and find myself loving the play of bold colour, I use her stamps have fun, and she also teaches online classes (they are on my 'to-do-list') and I completely... Read more →