This page does not alter - but visit my other sections (which do!) and you will find all my latest works and experiments.
Arty stuff runs in my family – my aunt was the most amazing needlewoman I have ever seen and used to knit lace wedding ring shawls. I started crafting when I was very young; my primary school had proper sewing classes for the girls while the boys did woodwork. We did not have a telly when I was growing up so I was always creating something or other.
The thing that makes my work different is the use of colour and texture; you could never call me a minimalist! I love all the patterned paper that is about, both the printed and the Indian. I love ribbons, buttons, brads, shapes and layers.
A lot of my work ideas over lap and are not as organized as the loads of information in
advantage one and other similar websites. I make books in which I calligraphy poems, my cards use calligraphy in their design and my scrapbook pages usually make use of calligraphy in the journaling. I also make books that become scrap books or albums. I prefer the more American style of scrap booking that makes much more use of journaling than the English style.
I have the tiniest craft office in the whole world. It's what was left over when the builders put in the loft staircase for hubby, and it's about 6ftx4ft. The wall space is lined with CD size bookcases (because they are not as deep as normal book cases) - and one wall has my tiny clerk's desk and full size bookcases for
extra stuff.
I prefer to craft by hand, from scratch, so I usually make my cards from sheets of card stock rather than the ready made blanks. I do not own one of those cutting machines that do all the work for you (amazing though they are!). Again I prefer to cut my shapes myself (although I do sometimes buy a mixed pack of die cuts from ebay for the challenge of what to do with them). This does mean that sometimes the knife/scissor cuts show, but I think that is part of my work – real hands on stuff not pressed buttons. That's what crafting is all about. The most modern gadgets I own are the Fiskar’s shape cutter (which I love – but is still very hands on) and the x cut border system that my hubby treated me to recently.
These days I go to craft class twice a month - there is so much out there . . . and I WANT to know how to do it. I take my craft and design seriously - study hard (I do have an art's degree) - talk to everyone, go to craft classes twice a month and surf the web to try to keep up. I always weclome feed back - positive is wonderful (of course!), negative, back it up and tell me why and it's equally welcome!
My long-term goal is to be able to make my own paper and use it to cover books and for layering on cards/scrapbook pages and for accents. Then the circle will be complete.
I do do a little stamping, but you usually find it used as another layer, texture or background rather that the point of the piece in it’s own right.
Well, visit my shop, and a have rummage around my tiny little workshop and see what you think.
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