Castles and flowers and washi and samples!

At my demo at Hobbycraft on Saturday I made a few samples whilst I was showing customers how to mask and stamp. I thought I'd show a few.

This one is made with a Lindsay Mason castle set and a fab sleeping dragon from Personal Impressions.

The background paper is from American Crafts and is such a gorgeous raspberry colour, plus it matched the ribbon I picked up in the store :)

This next card was a washi tape demo. Soooooo simple, but really effective.

The red pearl gems really set it off.

Washi washi flower flower

Another demo sample to show you today. This is a really simple way of using Washi tape.

The image is stamped twice with one ink application, giving a lovely shadow effect.

I'm liking the black gems too, they give it a bit of bling appeal! 

I'm entering this into the Papertake weekly challenge- anything goes.

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.....

.......which is the Hogwarts school motto*, and kinda fits this sample made for my Hobbycraft demo session.

This is a 6x6" easel card, made up of 2 basic card blanks stuck together. The dragon and castle are stamped using a masking technique.

The demo was fun, I saw some smashing people, was ably supported by my bezzie mate and family popping in to see me, and I sold a few bits. Will I do it again? Well yes, probably, if I'm asked......

*translation- Never tickle a sleeping dragon

Samples, samples, samples

Well tomorrow is an exciting day for me..... I'll be demoing at the local Hobbycraft store on their Artisans demo programme. The store have been really flexible, and other than agreeing that it would be a papercrafting demo, the ideas have been down to me. So...... this week has been a busy week for making samples using the right products.

I'm really pleased with this one- made using a Lindsay Mason Personal Impressions clear stamp set, coloured with watercolour pencils (when do I ever use anything else?), and set in a Stickled starry sky.

I'm hoping it'll go down well, I've got a few more ideas up my sleeve, and I'll share some more samples with you in future posts.

I'm entering this into the Playdate cafe challenge- Raspberry, pink and lilac

and also into the Crafts and Me anything goes challenge.