Corsage of Flight of the Butterflies

Today 9am and 3pm on Create and Craft TV 2 hours of inspiration and fun with Mr Nigel May and myself.

 

So easy to make beautiful pieces like this from beautiful Hunkydory images.

 

Don't forget there is capped P&P and double discount for club members.

 

 

 

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Flight of the Butterflies

Be still my beating heart, that is the exact words that I said when I received this kit for my Shows on Create and Craft Saturday today at 3pm and Sunday 9am and 3pm.

I started to prep my demos for the shows and just couldn't stop, the more I used it the more I loved it. This set is quite different our usual Hunkydory sets, it craves to be used and explored.

 

I hope you can join me for some inspiration.

 

 

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ChalkOla Marker Winner

Sorry this is late, Jack is over for tea and i got him to pick a name and he has chosen….

White Cat

as the winner of the markers from the comments left.

Thank you to everyone that entered.

White Cat can you contact me and I will get your prize posted out to you.

Poppy Garden Luxury Card Collection

Those that know me will also know that I adore Poppies, I love to see fields that a a carpet of reds with the bloom of wild Poppies dancing in the breeze.

That is exactly the feeling that I get with the new Poppy Garden Luxury card collection from Hunkydory.

This collection will launch on Create and Craft on Friday 25th September at 12pm with Annemarie and I will step in on Sunday 10am.

Due to family commitments at the moment, I will only be doing the Sunday Shows for this collection so I hope you will be able to join me.

I have been grabbing a little me time where I could and managed to have some fun with the stamps, card blanks and some of the luxury collection before my shows.

I love that you can get creative with this set.

This was made using one of the Fold Me card blanks, I've had great fun using these and have more to show you in my shows on Sunday.

Again using one of the card blanks and a stamp set, Forever Poppies, this set has seam to seam designs so you can get really creative using them.

I think this is one collection that you just don’t want to miss.

ChalkOla Pens Blog Candy

I found some pens, OK chalk pens or chalk markers, I was so impressed I got 2 sets one for me and one…… as a give away for my blog.

My first thought was a wipe clean memo for on my fridge as these are the perfect wet wipe marker.

Of course it worked beautifully, knowing that there would be much more that could be done with them for instance they could even be used as a Chalkboard marker by teachers even children could use them as they are child safe and non toxic I would however suggest parents supervision for children as I know how carried away I got with the fun of trying them out..

but then I had a light bulb moment

I thought it would be pretty cool to write on mirrors, also started looking around as other stuff in my home that I could decorate and got my eye on this.

As these are bright coloured and in fact neon markers they would spruce up photo frames just by adding a caption.

For the record…. he loves it.

Whether you intend using these for home decor, in the classroom, or even DIY projects you are sure to love the outcome.

Personally I think they are pretty neat for all us crafters.

If you fancy a set of these pens

they can be bought here http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00VVOWCSC 

or leave me a comment and I will draw a winner next Sunday.

At The Altar Stampendous Rubber Stamp ( discontinued stamp )

I know so many of you have asked me where to get this stamp and after such a long thought process I have decided to sell mine. I've listed it on EBay here is the link UK only. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171935004062?ssPageName=STRK:MESCX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1554.l2649

Jak x

Adorable Scorable with Alcohol Inks

After using the Brusho Art Paints, I suddenly realised that I could get a stunning vibrant effect using the Hunkydory Adorable Scorable and Alcohol Inks. well I wasn’t wrong, I decided to use colours that I would normally shy away from and used yellows and orange and I’m thrilled with the effect.

After such a stressful few weeks it was good to get in the craft room and experiment, I truly champion Adorable Scorable by Hunkydory, if you haven’t yet tried it then you are missing out, quality smooth coated 350gsm card stock with flexible ink that is amazing.

 

I used cotton white Adorable Scorable to stamp and ink onto and cut some small slithers from the mellow sage colour to make spiral foliage.

I’m back at Create and Craft from Monday with a fabulous deal of new Hunkydory sets at 9am and 6pm Sky Chanel 674.

Brusho Art Flowers

Time to take it a little step further and introduce some stamps into the equation.

 

Choosing the colours was the first job, flowers - crimson, scarlet, vermillion, gamboge. Leaves – leaf green and lemon.

I used a stamp set from Papertrey Ink to stamp out the flowers, leaves and the swirls on the background in stampendous Frantage Shabby white embossing enamel.

This time I wet the porous card and sprinkled the powder in the places that I wanted the colour, i felt that I had more control of where it was going.

I cut out the leaves and flowers and laid them how I wanted them then added them with pinflair glue gel to give dimension.

Brusho Art

I took the plunge and opened my pots of Brusho paint which had been sitting on a shelf for around 5 years, mostly because I never had the time to explore them.

I took a pokey tool and made a hole in the top of each pot and then started to play, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do with my pieces of background art but here it is, my first Brusho art.

I have to be honest, it felt good to get my hands dirty and my fingers are now stained with blue, turquoise and black paint but I’m sure it won’t take long to get them cleaned up.

I used the La La Land tree die on one piece of the background and die cut a couple of trees layering them up on another background and then used some snowtex paste to add some texture, finished with lots of distressing and matting and layering and a couple of gems on the trees.

I think the packaging may have changed since I purchased mine but you get the information on it.

Show Cards

A couple of cards from the Launch shows for Hunkydory, Festive Windows of the Heart I think is the most beautiful set, I love good poetry cards and seemly so does the recipients, when I receive a card it is the first thing I look at.

The imagery on this set is also very beautiful some contemporary some traditional and some classic.

The above card started off as a concept card but I cut it up to make this one a little different.

The above card was made from one of the topper sheets and one of the background sheets.

 

 

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