A Man Among Boys

Helen Chilton has created this card using the ew Artisitc Oupost plate Steampunk available here.

She has also created an online class to make a card and mathcing fob charm which you can find here

Happy Easter

To celebrate Easter Ruth Phillips has created this gorgeous layout using Prima Pastiche papers and lots of Prima flowers.

All of us at Happy Daze wish you all a fabulous Easter and glorious Spring.

Angel

The new release stamps from Stampotique Originals have arrived in stock and can be seen here and to celebrate Jo Capper-Sandon has created this beauty for us to enjoy. Don't forget also to pop over to the Stampotique Designer's Challenge site here for a fortnightly challenge and some fabulous samples of work using these amazing stamps.

Paris Exposition

The wonderfully talented Helen Chilton has been busy making some fabulous pieces with the new Artistic Outpost stamp plate Paris Exposition. She has created an online class to make this hinged cnavas here and you can see more of her work in the new additons section of our Gallery here.

Pencil Pot

My DH asked me to make him a pencil pot. So I immediately popped over to Linda Elbourne's blog, she who is the Queen of the altered baked bean tin.

This is made using Grungepaper, Distress Inkpads, Tim Holtz Ideology and a few Prima flowers. I have popped the full details of how to make this there is a class on the shop website here.

Tim Holtz launched some amazing new products at the CHA show in America last week including 12 new colours in Distress Inkpads, some gorgeous ideology items, Paper Stacks and a Book called a Compendium of Curiosities all of which we have available to pre-order at the shop here.

Happy Christmas Everyone

Wishing you all a merry and peaceful Christmas and a fabulous, shiny, happy and creative New Year

from all the Happy Daze Team

Craft Stamper Feature

The January issue of Craft Stamper, due in shops on 4 December features the Keeper stamp plate by Artistic Outpost in the regular Stamping Contrasts article. The article shows how four different stamping artists use the stamps. Two of the artists, Paula Whittaker and Helen Chilton, are from the Happy Daze Design Team. Both Paula and Helen have made additional pieces using the plate for us to enjoy.


By Paula Whittaker

Materials used...

Black card blank

Versafine Black inkpad

Distress Ink: Brushed Corduroy

BasicGrey Lemonade papers: Splash; Sunshine; Tee Time; Sunkissed

Making Memories Tiny Alpha

Cut a panel of blue paper smaller than the card, tear off the bottom edge and ink the edges with the Brushed Corduroy, stamp the grass stamp along that edge and adhere to card. Cut a panel of the pattern paper and tear off the bottom edge, ink the edges and adhere to card. Stamp the boy on to the Sunkissed paper, trim out, ink the edges and layer onto a blue panel. Cut out a circle from the yellow paper, ink the edges add to card then overlay with stamped panel. Stamp house on to blue paper, cut out house, cut the two side panels from the veranda, use foam pads to adhere to card. Finally add the wording.

ATC by Helen Chilton

Papers for pastels: light blue; beige

Coloured pencils

StazOn: Jet Black

Card by Helen Chilton

Papers for pastels: beige

Coloured pencils

StazOn: Jet Black

7 Gypsies papers: Notting Hill Collection