A {Sneaky} heads up....

Shhhhh....Don't mind me...... (Leandra here) just popping in to say Hi while Gillian isn't looking, and in between Carol's fabulous posts...BTW...totally loving all the techniques she squeezing into her posts this week, I hope you get a chance to try a few of them....anyway.....back to my secret mission.....I'm Hoping they won't notice my quickie post, and I won't get told off too much!!!

I've been out and about a fair bit the last few weeks, so thought I should show you what I've been up to!. Of course there was the amazing Craft Barn Extravaganza weekend where as well as the Fresco Paints that you all love so much, we showed the utterly brilliant Grunge Paste (that you lot are taking to like ducks to water)...and Treasure Gold. We also had some special Tando chipboard shapes that match Lin Brown's Eclectica³ stamps. These look fabuolous stamped with Lynne Perella stamps to make the coolest flower heads that are quite quirky.....as you can see from a couple of my samples knocked up while demoing there (above).

I wasn't the only one demoing PA stuff, of course Jo Firth-Young was there too doing here thing......just look at her desk...blimey!!! You can see her interior design skills give her far too much panache! LOL

Anyway, I very much enjoyed working with Lin and Jo's stamps for most of the weekend, and a few examples are below. I think some of these also came from one of my other trips to Doncaster's Stamp Magic Show. 

We had a fantastic day catching up with many faces, and Michelle Webb came and did a superb guest demo with me on the stand, she had beautiful tags featuring all kinds of stamps and products. I wish I had taken some pictures, but as ever, I forgot!

So just wanted to pass on some important info to you all The lovely Jo Firth-Young is doing a class at The Artistic Stamper Craft Store and Art Bar in Faversham, Kent, it's a gorgeous canvas class! Don't miss it!!! If you want to book then contact them here to book your place.
Here's a sneaky peeky! Shhhhh

Right...I'm going to quietly slink off now, and hope I don't get busted! Thought that was quite cunning to post after our usual time...tee heee 

By the way, if you want to catch up with PaperArtsy on tour....our next gig is at the Stamperama Show at Stevenage on August 11th. See you there!

Shhh

Leandra

Coming to {Stevenage} this Sunday

Lin Brown stamps with fresco on black card

It's been such an exciting week, kicked off at the annual Trade Show on Sunday where we released loads of new products.

Close up of Frescos over stamped with script

Then we have had the amazing Linda Cain's stunning blog posts, she's really enjoying those Fresco Chalk Acrylic Paints isn't she! And of course she is a master with inks, and certainly got us thinking along those lines too.

But the week doesn't end just yet! You may have spied on Lin Browns blog, that she will be demoing with me at Stevenage this Sunday. And we are both very excited. not only do we have lots of new stamps from Lin, Jo and Sarah (as featured late last week on the blog), but of course we also will have 7 of the new 15 years. Stamperama is a fantastic stamp-specific show. All the exhibitors have different stamp-related stock to sell, so it's perfect for thos of you who enjoy stampingin particular! Stevenage is not too far up the A1 from the M25. It only takes us just under an hour from Brentwood, so we love doing a show so close to home.

Lin's stamps layered onto a corrugated card BG

Lin has used lace between stamped layers of the flower head

Lin has come up with a funky new technique to show you, and she has gorgeous samples with her new stamps of course.
So we look forward to seeing you this Sunday at the Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre this Sunday!

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Amazing Stamperama Stampers

 

Where to start! Exciting. That's what the stamperama show was. Exciting for me to be there exhibiting for the first time since 2005, exciting to have Lin demoing on the booth, exciting for Mr PaperArtsy who got his last minute lights to work, exciting for all the customers who turned up not expecting to see Lin at all and who were thrilled to see us both, and exciting for those who knew we would be there and dropped by to say hi, and of course so exciting for you all to catch up with each other, shop chat, conceive new ideas, and have a great day out.

Yes it was a lovely show, with a really fantastic vibe, and a real pleasure to be there. My favourite type of show are those with a specific stamping focus because all the customers and exhibitors have the same specific interest in common. When you get a bunch of people all on the same page it works!

So I'd just like to say a big thank you to those of you who came, it was fabulous to see you all,  and if you couldn't make it, put Sunday August 12th in your diary for the summer Stamperama. It will be the day after the London olympic opening ceremony, but I hope that won't stop you from coming along!

 

Have a wonderful week! Stamp your socks off!

Leandra

Stamperama here we come...

Today we are packing up the van ready for the Saturday build up at Stevenage for Stamperama.

The show opens on Sunday, Feb 12th 10am-4pm (9.30am for advanced ticket holders & wheelchair users). You will find the hall just in front of the large Tesco's on Lytton Way. The Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre.

We have lots of new items on the stand for the show, plenty of wooden bits and bobs (and the bugs - called willeez) to decorate, or use as embellishments

We have the full range of Fresco Finish chalk acrylic paint with loads of amazing stencils,including those just released at CHA in January.

We have the 6 brand new Ink and the Dog re-formatted plates, they are A5 size, and all the images are much larger than the originals - we are working through cherry picking our favourite designs.

And today we are expecting a delivery of Portfolio Pastels, and some new tags (the type Timmy likes to use).

As if that wasn't enough we also have Wendy Vecchi art parts, clearly for art, Tim's ideaology line, Ranger consumables like cut and dry, glossy accents etc. Plus Ten Seconds Studio tools, moulds, mixed metal packs, humungo adhesive.

All PaperArtsy A5 size stamps (Hot Picks, Lynne Perella, and Vintage) will be available EZ mounted, and we will have an unmounted selection from Squiggly Ink,  Ink and the Dog and Urban Snapshots collections.

And of course, we will have a wonderful, very talented guest demonstrator at the show, the lovely Lin Brown who will be on the stand from 10am-2pm demoing with  Leandra and lots of these lovely goodies. And Mr PaperArtsy will have a nice show special organised for you too!

So the snow has all gone, its cold, but it's all good, we'll see you on Sunday at Stevenage!

If you can't make it to the show, a lot of the new goodies have been put online in the PaperArtsy shop this week.

Take care

Leandra