Craft Roulette Big Animals! + Video

Posted: January 30, 2024 | Author: Heather | Filed under: African Trees, craft roulette, Darkroom Door | Tags: craft roulette, Darkroom Door stamps, video | 6 Comments

I was Mary Gunn’s guest on Craft Roulette last Friday night. If you haven’t heard of Craft Roulette it is a crafting game show that is live on YouTube every Friday evening. There is plenty of card making inspiration and discussion along with some live card making from Mary and her guest as they make a card which includes four different parameters chosen by the spin of a wheel. No-one knows the parameters ahead of time so you hope inspiration strikes as the right time!

I have been on the show four times now so I knew what to expect even though I didn’t know what the wheel would give us that night. As it turns out the wheel was pretty kind and so were the lovely people in the chat. Thank you to everyone who left encouraging messages in the chat; as you know I only see a few glimpses during the show but I went back through the chat the next day and read everything! The parameters for our cards on Friday night were:

project: a card with a bookmark, colour: bakery, element: large animal, random: horizontal lines

If you would like to watch the replay it is right here for you:

I don’t do that many animal cards so I knew as soon as ‘large animal’ came up that I would use the lovely Darkroom Door set, ‘African Trees‘. I cut post-it notes to make masks and blended yellow, orange and green distress inks to create an African savanna. I had hoped to make the bookmark line up with the front of the card so I could attach it in a way which didn’t change the scene but I didn’t get that right so it is a ‘card with bookmark’ just as the parameter stated. The trees, giraffes and sentiment are stamped with Gina K obsidian amalgam ink. And speaking of Gina K, she just happens to be the next guest so tune in on Friday, Feb 2 to see her face the wheel!

The conversation during the show covered plenty of craft related topics but we also discussed large and small spiky animals, ankle fractures, high level cake decorating, Australianisms, mould and much much more. You really should watch if you haven’t already.

Robots? What? No!

Posted: February 13, 2023 | Author: Heather | Filed under: cog wheels, craft roulette, Dies, Penny Black | Tags: craft roulette, Penny Black creative dies | 7 Comments

I mentioned last week that I was scheduled as a guest on Craft Roulette live youtube show on Friday. Thank you to those who dropped in to watch; I saw a few familiar names in the chat. The show is an improv crafting show hosted by the energetic and enthusiastic Mary Gunn. During the show a wheel is spun to choose four parameters then Mary and I each make a card live on youtube which follows all four parameters.

On Friday night before the wheel was spun Mary asked me if I would like to veto one of the parameters and I mentioned it was hard to choose between ‘robot’ and ‘gnome’ because I would be at a loss with either of those elements. Well, wouldn’t you know it, I vetoed gnomes and the wheel stopped on robots!