Thursday 6 October 2016

Thoughts of the day


Some past and present scene brooches I have done. I did my first sheep brooch like these about 4 weeks after I started felting. The reason was I've always liked to be outdoors although through my teenage years there was a time when I thought high heeled sandals were sensible forward (ask a certain friend of mine about long grass and cows and when she finishes laughing she'll explain how we went out for the day and I wore said 2 inch sandals and I was convinced a cow or snake was going to bite my toes off and I literally jumped Everytime grass touched my feet the cows were probably scarred for life.) now I'm slightly more sensible, having backpacked in the Lake District and visited the Scottish highlands I live in southwest Scotland and do a fair bit of walking when I can I have plenty of ideas and memories of places to keep me felting scenes for quite some time 

Monday 7 March 2016

Exciting times more felting classes

Well after lots of hard work the studio is finally decorated and mostly filled so soon we will be able to offer a wide range of craft classes and workshops if you would like to be added to our mailing list of which classes are available and times and locations send us a wee message to fairyhollowcreations@gmail.com

Here is some of my latest work which we will be giving a class on how to achieve a similar look the techniques involved. We will be running a class on felt pictures at Mad notions in Annan in April as well as class at Drumlanrig castle stable yard studios covering the same topic. The class is roughly 11/2 hours long all equipment is provided and you will take away a completed picture plus a felting needle so you can complete other projects Classes are £10 per person. Suitable for adults or older children with supervision as needles used are very sharp. There will be some 3D classes, painting with wool workshop a Nuno felting and  wet felting classes along with other craft  classes through out May and June. Locations and times to be confirmed.

Monday 11 January 2016

Fairy Liliana - cute as a button Rubber stamp release

First off a big Whoop whoop for Francessca at cute as a button having a fab week this week lots to celebrate. Her first stamps that have been made into rubber stamps are now available to buy. To help celebrate I made this card 
To make this card I coloured in the image using my spectrum noir pencils water colour pens and alcohol markers. 
I then fussy cut her out. I raised my paper stash and found some lovely paper with flowers on which I also fussy cut out I then mounted this onto some green paper doing the same in the bottom of my easel card I also mounted the sentiment on the same paper and cut out I then added 3 peach flowers and a gem to her lamp. Hope she inspires you :) 

Sunday 10 January 2016

January new release day at Cute as a Button

I can believe we are already at the 10th of January times flying by. 
Here is my new release card for January
And here's the how I did her :-
First off I printed out the digi and got out my spectrum noir pencils an water colour pens. 
Here she is all coloured for her skin I used 1,4,7, for her dress 31,33,35,36 same for her shoes and I used brown for her eyes and hair I then went along several outlines with my watercolour pens I then dipped my brush in water and blended in. Next I fussy cut her out . 
I laid out some papers from my stash including one from the faded florals collection I added some lace and then some gems and a sentiment on the easel part of the card.  And I die cut a present using my big shot and the bebunni present die from crafters companion
(Please excuse the mess on my desk) the with love sentiment and tag die I got with a craft magazine last week I cut it from the same backing paper as the card and some white card stock I had I then cut a frame for it to sit on. I hope you feel inspired by this card I had great fun making it. 
There is a discount code on all the new release images for te next couple of days so be quick and snap up a bargain. 

Friday 1 January 2016

January Challenge cute as a button blog

It's that time of the month again time for a new challenge in the cute as a button blog here's the link http://cuteasabuttonchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/welcome-to-challenge-18-love-and-winner.html?spref=fb&m=1
This months theme is love 
Here is my card I used my trusty spectrum noir pencils. Some papers from my stash from a flower and romance pack and some lace and some paper flowers. My other half and me went on our first date on the 11th of Feb we had such a good time we had our second third a fourth date within a week. This year it's 4 years and we will hopefully be getting married later this year. When I looked at this stamp it reminded me of our first date (to think I almost never went!) at the time of our first date I was blonde so this is what I went with when colouring this stamp. I'm so glad I went and I hope you like the card.