Be Still My Heart - A very Studio 490 week!

 

Oh the excitement when this little delivery arrived on Thursday at Snazzys! Mostly all the new Studio 490 goodness from the wonderful Wendy Vecchi, with the new Art for You stamps and

co-ordinating Bugs & Butterflies Art parts at the top of my shopping list!

 

 

For those of you who are not quite sure what to do with all her lovely goodies Wendy has designed the three different Kits for Art you see in the (bad) photo above. Each include all the Art Parts you need to make the illustrated project, and the Be at Home kit (centre) even has her Blossom Bucket embellishments too. 

 

All of the Studio 490 product range, except for the Blossom Bucket embellishments are in the online store now, just click 'online store' to pop over for a peek, and I am working on some samples for the store which I will share next week.

 

The Headmaster has spent two days shuffling all the stamp ranges around the store to make the new bits fit so I thought you might like a peek, and maybe a drool too - no, not at the Headmaster just at the lovely new stamps etc from....

 

 

 

Studio 490 and...

 

 

Tim Holtz - including all the Classic and Blueprint ranges - looking very depleted already, but no worries as more stocks of these are due in next week, .....

 

 

......the new Christmas stamps from Dylusions - we have the stencils and restocks of the ink sprays too plus .....

 

 

 

Hampton Art, which I will try to get into the online store later this week, after the Blossom Bucket embellies, and after the new Christmas Hero Arts, and after the new Chocolate Baroque stamps, and ........ you get the picture lol!

 

I will pop back tomorrow with the new Design Team kit, which the DT will be using from Monday, and which will be available from the online store early next week if you want to play along with the team.

 

I will leave you with the new (re-arranged) view from the front door of the store.

 

 

 

Thanks for dropping by xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sew Much to Do Part 2

Hello again Snazzy stampers.

As promised, here is the lowdown on how I made the embellishments for the workshop projects in yesterday's post.

 

The dress form is cut from Grungeboard or heavy cardstock using the Tim Holtz Alterations Sewing Room die and painted black. You then need to cut just the dress part of the form in metal and emboss it using his Flourish Texture Fade or similar. This then gets a swipe or two of Eco Green Crafts Black, and either Orchid or Lake acrylic paint, left until partially dry, and wiped away again with a soft cloth to reveal some of the metal base - I left the blue version a little longer than I intended lol! 

 

 

I painted the scissors Studio 490 Art Part with Ranger's Silver Acrylic Paint Dabber and when dry, stamped it with the scissors from Studio 490's Art by Hand LCS068 plate with Ranger's Black Archival Ink, heat setting it to avoid smudges. It is one of these occasions when it is easier to ink the stamp,  leave it face up on the desk and then carefully press the Art Part onto the stamp. 

 

The cotton reels are a mix of the Sewing room and Mini Sewing Room dies cut in Grungeboard or heavy cardstock and covered in scraps of the paper with some threads and trimmings from my stash wound on.

 

 

The buttons were again die cut and covered in the same way with cotton tied through the holes - I hate to see buttons without threads in the centre, silly really lol!

 

Trimmings from my stash were added to the top edge of each frame, and finally here is another peek at both finished projects.

 

 

These were popular workshop projects at Snazzy's, very different to last week's, which is typical of the variety we offer on our regular Tuesday evening dip into mixed media. I hope if this inspires you to give it a go you will share the results with us - I love to see what eveyone else is making! 

 

We are off to Manchester Central for the Creative Crafts Show this week so if you are going, do pop along to Stand C12 to say hello, and see these projects and many others IRL.

 

Take care xx