Sneak Peek

I have something coming on Monday which will blow your socks off so many artists have come together for this but you'll have to wait until Monday to see everything.

I have 3 sneak peeks for you today and possibly another 3 tomorrow for you.

Sprout

Digi Stamp Designed by Mo Manning

Katie Shoe

Digi Stamp Designed By Jak Heath (me)

Whale Wishes

Stamp Set Designed by Shawne Arnold

I'm hoping to give you another 3 sneak peeks tomorow, this is only a drop in the ocean of the bargain on offer on Monday.

Not Dropped off the Planet

Well I bet you all thought I'd dropped off the planet, well not quite, I've had the dreaded cold/flu that everyone has had and thought the nose dripping onto my cards would not be a good thing for the receiver of them.

I haven't been doing nothing though.

I have been working hard on something for Monday so don't forget to pop back that day or you will miss out.

Prizes and a big bargain not to be missed all to help my dear friend Katie who I hope you are still keeping in your thoughts.

If you haven't yet read Katie's story then pop over and send her some love by leaving her a comment. I know she reads them all and they seem to lift her spirits.

"Surprise"

You know that feeling, the first day back at work after a lengthy Holiday? well that was pretty much how I was feeling until this landed on my doorstep.

Just look what I found inside the box

Luxury Mince pies, Christmas Biscuits, Crumbly Butter fudge, Butlers Pudding Truffles but wait there's more underneath....

But still I had no idea who it was from, on the outside of the packaging box was printed John Lewis and a citylink sticker.

On the bottom layer is luxury Christmas Pud, a bottle of Brut and special chutney.

All together

But who had sent this to me??

I think I'm a very lucky girl the beautiful gift hamper I eventually found the gift tag which said Merry Christmas and Happy new Year from Letraset it had been sent as a thank you for working with them on their Promarkers.

I lurrrve Letraset.

Purrfect

Talk about the Cats Whiskers, I was like the cat that got the cream colouring this one, she is all but popping off the card.

I used Cheshire by Spesch Stamps i first saw this image done by Mina my DT mate link on my side bar and I fell in love with her, I used Basic Grey designer paper some pearls a pretty polka dot ribbon by craftfairy

I have to say that I am really pleased how this one coloured up.

Copic colours Body R59, R29, R24, W7,W5,W3 face E00, E95

Two tu-tus

I hope you have all recovered from the New Year celebrations, we had a very quiet one as Chris was at work on New Years Day and even though a drink didn't pass my lips I had the fuzziest head, a walk along the sea front soon sorted that out for me.

So on to my card for today

Sweet little Ballerina's called Two Tu-Tus by Mo Manning and can be purchased here

Round Nestabilities dies to cut out the image which I coloured with Copic markers, I used the airbrush behind the image for shading and teamed the image with DCWV cotton designer papers, 3 buttons a bit of glitter to the fairy wings, a bowed ribbon and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Two darling little Ballerina's

Happy New Year, review of 2010

Happy New Year Everyone.

I thought it would be nice to feature some of my favourite projects from the past year so here they, are I hope you enjoy reflecting back over 2010.

January - Wedding Projects

Febuary - garden of Bee Balm

March - Roses in Bloom

April - Sea Shore Scene

May - Vintage Shoe

June - Oxford

July - Waterfall Scene

August - At the Altar

September - Viola Floral Punch Craft

October - The Nativity

November - Time Out

December - Christmas Rose

So thats it a projectfrom each month of 2010.

Thank you for staying with me and leaving me such wonderful comments, I'm hoping you will stay with me through 2011.

New Year New Baby

So that is the end of 2010 and I thought I would say goodbye to the Year with a New baby Girl Card, something to make you all smile. I can't say that I'm sad to see the back of this year having had my fair share of health issues many of them still ongoing but I'm looking ahead into 2011 hoping to resolve some of them with new meds.

I have however met some wonderful new friends here and had the support of ongoing friends here too so the year wasn't all bad.

I'm still saying prayers for my wonderful friend Katie and I'll be doing some fundraising to help her in 2011 to which I hope you will lend your support.
Happy New Year everyone, I'm wishing you all good health for 2011

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So onto my Baby girl/ Christening Card

Baby Girl is by the talented Mo Manning and can be purchased here

Coloured with Copic Markers, the cross was made with a Martha stewart border punch I punched both sides of 2 strips of paper then used the airbrush to add a lemon tint to the edges of the cross I also cut slits in the cross to thread in the lemon ribbon and added a lemon rose to the center.

A close up image of the Baby Girl pretty in lemon with glittered petticoat and boddice.

Copic Airbrush Tutorial

I thought it would be fun to show you a little tutorial with the Copic Airbrush you can get pretty much the same effect through sponging as the scene I have created but to be honest this takes a lot less effort and it is a great way of experimenting with it.

I will show another tutorial later of how to mask an image and add some shading around it to make your image pop but this one is more to talk you around the airbrush and to show you how easy it is to use.

Part 2

Teacup Fairy

Teacup Fairy is buy Mo Manning and can be purchased here, coloured with copic markers and teamed with a backing paper that I've had in my stash what seams like forever, I think it may be a K & Co paper, a prima flower and there is some embossing work done on the Nestabilities Label die cut but it just isn't showing in the photo for some reason.

Just the cutest teacup I've ever seen, dotted with a couple of pearls to set it off.

Chris Heath Choo Choo Makings

THIS IS CHRIS HEATH TAKING OVER JAK'S BLOG FOR THE DAY

Here it is then (after a lot of ribbing from Jak) my nearly finnished Country Fire Station for my model train set I have in the loft.

As you can see it is a very busy drill session, or it will be once I get all the figures glued into position.

The scale of the scene (if anyone is interested) is 1/76th, and stands a grand 6 1/2'' high.

Oh by the way, I will not be starting my own blog!!

The paving stone surround is formed from individual paving stones, not appreciated by jak when I had to use her eyebrow tweezers to lay them in place. Where the wall meets the paving I added grass as if it was growing in the damp of the wall. A couple of bushes were added to the entrance of the station and a red telephone box on the outside of the wall.

Front view of the station, you can just about see the airbrushing around the wall buttress's.

All of the perimiter walls were made seperate out of a sheet of acrylic, then wrapped in brickwork that I downloaded onto a A4 label sheet and stuck it to the acrylic.

The fireman is adjusting the wheeled escape (big ladder) from the AEC Regent Mark3 engine.

You can see the grass around the base of the wall I built.

Phase 2

Now to show you all my crafting space, it is now a HIS & HERS zone, this was took while I was in the process of making a Railway Siding Shed.

I found a nifty little site called ScaleScenes it has some free downloads so that you can make your own models.

Work in progress, I have all the tools, glue, cocktail stick, knife, steel ruler, cutting mat, I just know you will be green with envy at my craft tools.

Side view of the railway siding shed

Front view of the railway siding shed, the door is a working sliding door.

For a man with hands like shovels and fingers the size of pork sausages I don't think I did too badly, what do you think?