Springtime Creations!

With our first craft fairs of the year fast approaching - the first two are this weekend (eek!!) - we have been mega busy getting all our new craft kits ready, creating interactive greetings cards and gifts as well as updating the Bizzyboocrafts website. Phew!

This week I took some time to sit down and do some relaxing stamping and colouring for future cards I have planned.  I enjoy doing this and get really caught up in the process of blending colours for the images - flowers are my favourite subjects for this. Look out for new cards featuring these images at our forthcoming fairs.

As Easter is on the horizon I have created some easter cards with an edible twist! These cards contain a shaker bubble of Mini Smarties. Alan has already offered to help me out with any cards that we do not sell!

Finally all the dates for fairs we are attending so far are listed on the Bizzyboocrafts website.

Take care everyone!

Sue x

Busy Days!

It's been a while since I last posted as I've been busy creating lots of fabulous items for the home and business and sorting out craft fairs for this year.  I also managed to fit in a little trip to the Stitching and Hobbycraft show at Event City in Manchester ("kid in a candy shop" comes to mind!), while having a few days in Skipton in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

One of the projects I have been working on recently with  husband Alan is a piece of artwork for our hallway. This has been great fun as we have both incorporated our specific art types in each of the frames around a central panel of mirrors.

Wall Art

Close up from a quirky angle! 

Only one space remains and we are both wondering what we should choose! We've already covered my cardmaking, paper patchwork,  mixed media,  zentangle, wooden birdhouse, encaustic art and a mini decorated mdf heart. Perhaps something stitchy to finish it off...?

Spring Ornament

I've also made a Spring ornament to stand on the hall table as it looked a bit empty and forlorn once the Christmas decorations had been put away!  It's made from mdf, papercraft supplies, wooden butterflies and a mini terracotta pot! Hope you like it!

Have a great day!

Sue x

Autumn Leaves

Just a short post today to showcase the Autumn themed cards I recently made.  Supplies used are the square Leaf Frame stamp from Woodware - coloured with alcohol inks, mini leaf dies from X-Cut, patterned papers from Echo Park and stamped bark pattern (bottom right) from Lawn Fawn using Memento ink in Rich Cocoa on beige card.

I've been working on some art for my hallway - both freestanding and wall art, which is currently a work in progress - photos to follow in the next few days!  

Sue x 

Floral Frenzy!

The dark days of January are moving on and it's great to get stuck into a project or two that involve lots of colour and gorgeousness! This weekend I have been focusing on flowers as I love colouring in these lovely designs with my promarkers.

First up are these clean and simple Woodware stamped flower panel cards which feature a simple embossed border and accent.

Next up I had a lot of fun with a stamp set that was given away with a popular papercraft magazine.  The roses are in the style of Mackintosh and although the stamps aren't the best quality,  I think they worked out okay.

My final project of the day was to use the Striped Flowers stamps from Altenew. For these I decided to take a different approach by inking circles on the front of the card using Distress Inks through a stencil. I then stamped the flowers randomly using Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black. I added a large stamped greeting banner to finish.

I hope you enjoyed seeing todays creations. Other news is that the Bizzyboocrafts website (www.bizzyboocrafts.co.uk) has been updated with the latest fair dates and will soon have full payment functionality for orders. Watch this space and our Facebook page for details!

Sue x

Thoughts of Summer

More snow today so thought I'd cheer things up with some dainty floral cards in dreamy summer colours. These were stamped using memento inks and Cardio Majestic stamps.  I had great fun adding borders and accents to the main designs - once you start with these stamps the possibilities are endless!

As a complete contrast I also started working on cards featuring leaves in autumnal colours - these are always popular as mens cards - I'll feature these on a future blog post.

Finally we at Bizzyboo Towers (!) have started booking fair dates for 2018 and will be updating the website with our confirmed dates in the next few days. New kits, interactive cards and unique gifts are planned for this year - watch this space for sneak peeks of all the new items.

Bye for now!

Sue x

Home Sweet Home!

Here in the North East of England we have had a fair amount of snow so what better to do than stay warm indoors and continue making cards.

I found these stamped houses which had been coloured in by my better half (!) and thought they would make excellent 'new home' cards.  Items used: Woodware stamp - Tall House and alcohol inks. I added a die cut house key and Hunkydory sentiment 'keyfob' as an extra embellishment.

Hope you like them! 

Sue x 

Bee Happy!

I finally got into the craftroom today and made a start on the many cards I have planned for 2018.  I have been waiting for a chance to play with these Bee stamps from Hobby Art for quite some time and with Christmas out of the way it's nice to start thinking about nature and florals.

The two cards I made also use papers from Dovecraft, appropriately titled "Bee Happy" and their foiled frames from the same range.  The stamped images were coloured in using  my favourite ProMarkers Alcohol Pens. The honeycomb die is from Paper Smooches.

All in all I was pleased with my first two cards of the year!

Sue x