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The Village by Lisa Taggart

This video shows how adjusting the colour and composition and by choosing particular stamps you can change a picture from pretty to something a little more menacing for a theme such as Halloween. The Products Used Bayleaf CottageToad LodgeHoneysuckle CottageBarricChanseDrakeTree BranchTree of CourageTree of HopeStonesBat Colony

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Hope, Happiness and Faith by Lisa Taggart

Today’s video by design team member, Lisa, explores scene creation paying particular attention to colour and light through the use of product layering techniques. Click here to follow Lisa’s papercraft adventures.   The Products Used Distress Oxide- Picked RaspberryDistress Oxide- Abandoned CoralDistress Oxide- Twisted CitronDistress Oxide- Worn LipstickPan Pastel- Magenta Pan Pastel- Permanent Red Pan […]

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Free Your Inner Creativity by Lisa Taggart

Last week, design team member Lisa Taggart undertook an experimental session using the new Boblong Gel Press with stencils, the leaf mask and word stamps, exploring the fun of layering, textures, and colour. This is her second card from that session, this time using the intricately detailed “Indian Flourish” stamp Click here to follow Lisa’s […]

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Art from the Heart by Lisa Taggart

Following an experimental session using the new Boblong Gel Press with the posy stencil, leaf mask and word stamps, design team member Lisa Taggart explores the fun of layering, and creating pattern, texture, and colour. Next Wednesday, Lisa will create a totally different style of card using another background from the same Gel Press session. […]

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The Gathering by Lisa Taggart

This tutorial features some firm favourites from recent stamp releases and some brand-new stamps. Today we explore how to create a focal point for light and how to compose a scene around the light source. I show the versatility of the tree stamps and how with some simple masking you can group them. We also […]

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The Glory of Green by Lisa Taggart

The theme for this month’s Creative Challenge is “My Favourite Colour” and with just six days left to enter, design team member Lisa Taggart has produced this stunning card, “The Glory of Green” to inspire and encourage. You can follow Lisa’s papercraft adventures at https://inkybliss.com/ Enter the Creative Challenge here

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Dream by Lisa Taggart

This lovely card by design team member Lisa, incorporates our two latest stamps, Orchard Grass and Fairy Toadstool (launched on last week’s Craft Store TV show) together with the fine fairy Oona. The Products Used Fairy Toadstool Orchard Grass Oona Blue Orbs Pound Stamps Word Stamps Stencils

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Bloom by Lisa Taggart

Lisa Taggart is a mixed media artist from Northern Ireland. She is also a big fan of Lavinia Stamps and an active member of our design team. So, for today’s video demonstration, Lisa has created this lovely image to provide inspiration for anyone entering this month’s Creative Challenge, Spring Blooms. This exquisitely detailed and colourful […]

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