Watercolour Card & Vintage Button & Blog Candy

Soft and beautiful, today's card is made with the Penny black dandelion stamp inked then spritzed with water to give the watercolour effect.

Check out the vintage button, very unique and very beautiful the maker of the button has her own shop and i have another card with her beautiful flowers planned for tomorrow.

AesaLina Compton from Pixel Petals is offering a $10 voucher to spend in her shop all you have to do is comment on my cards today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) and tell me what you like best from her shop and I will pick a winner on Thursday

Attention to detail...

A vintage button, this is a hand made button made by a very clever lady who has all sorts of clever hand made items in her shop, her name is AesaLina Compton and her shop is pixiepetals.etsy.com

A punched flower kissed with a bit of aqua ink.

Good luck everyone

School Girl Trinity

A digi image Trinity from Mo's Digital Pencil Too

Backing paper (stampin up) Promarkers to colour, Martha Stewart Border & Corner Punches and a bit of love to bring it all together.

hAnglar & stAnglar baby Stamp winner

Woop Woop, we have a winner..

Denise A

I have being trying to get a set of these for ages. I would love to win these because I think they are so cute.thanks for the chance to win them.Denise. A from craftyjak

Congratulations Denise I hope you have hours of fun using them.

If you could email me your details I will pop them in the post for you.

Jack 5th June

Jack just gets more cheeky each time he visits, daughter Natalie loves to get him giggling, he gives a proper little belly laugh too.

He's at that stage now where he pulls himself up on everything and he is as quick as a whippet when crawling.

Hard to believe that he will be 1 years old next month it has come round so quickly.

hAnglar stAnglar Baby *****NOW CLOSED*****

Blog Candy Alert!!!!!!

Now this is a candy you won't want to miss.

a Baby hAnglar & stAnglar stamp set

All you have to do to win this fabulous Candy is

Add a link to the candy on your blog & then leave me a comment to why you love the hAnglar & stAnglar stamp range.

I will choose a winner of the stamp set on Sunday 6th June at 10pm GMT

Whimsical House

A whimsical house on a hill, clean and frsh colours the stamp is from a set called Wonderfully Whimsical by Papertrey Ink

Attention to detail...

3 matching buttons and a border line drawn with a fine liner pen.

A pretty ribbon and a couple of background papers glittered and punched with the Martha Stewart loop punch.

50% off La Pashe products starting 12 June

La Pashe is flying the flag for crafters on all their products whilst England remain in the FIFA World Cup starting 12th June 2010.

Wow! stock up while you can crafters this is an amazing offer.

hAnglar Make a Wish

Make a wish with this cute little chap, a hAnglar stAnglar stamp coloured using Promarkers, the blue DL fold card was stamped with the Stampin Up roller with the large flourish wheel then a Stampin Up luxury paper punched with the Martha Stewart punch, A Nestabilities star with Make a Wish stamped in blue ink, some dew drops a ribbon and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

The Nestabilities star has been sponged around the edges with blue ink and the little dew drops were glued in place around one of the flourishes.

Oxford Starting School

Oxford is one of the new digi stamps my mo manning and can be bought here.

He's just gorgeous isn't he?

I made him into a 4 year olds card and made a Blackboard to go behind him, coloured with promarkers, some Papermania background papers, a button, handmade mini pencils and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

The attention to detail could have been my blackboard or even the button tied with the twill tape but I decided to feature my pencils as they are so darn cute. Made with cocktail sticks and coloured with Promarkers.

hAnglar stAnglar Boy with YoYo

Love this little boy by hAnglar stAnglar with his YoYo, stamped then coloured with Promarkers, Ribbon, Martha Stewart punch, Prima Flower some pearls and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

A matching Prima flower.

Green/blue iridescent pearls and the negative from a heart punch.

Pretty two tone dotted ribbon

Don't forget to enter the blog candy for 10 reel of ribbon. Click here to enter

Fantastic Ribbons - Blog Candy ends 12th June

I have some very exciting blog candy from Fantastic Ribbons but before I get to that I wanted to share a card made using some of the lush satin ribbon that they sell.

A pretty satin ribbon, a notebook punch some pretty papers, a sweet hAnglar stAnglar stamp , Promarkers to colour and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

See what I did here with the Fantastic Ribbon, a couple of folds and a pretty flower on top.

I added some sweet letters and raised a couple of them with dimensional dots to make them pop.

As most of you will know ribbon makes a fabulous finishing touch to your cards and scrapbooks and I for one just love the stuff.

Visit their web site and see why www.FantasticRibbons.co.uk are now the UKs leading craft and hobby ribbon supplier on a roll. Take a look at their summer sizzler colours, the fruity dotted sheers or the fabulous shaded roses on a cord. Remember the more you buy the more you save. Enjoy!

Now for a Fantastic Ribbon Prize, after you have visited their website Come back and tell me in a comment which colour and type of their ribbon you like best, then add the Blog Candy to your blog I will pick 1 winner who will receive 10 reels of their Fantastic Ribbon.

I will pick a winner on Saturday the 12th June

Blog Candy Winner

The winner of the Promarker Stamp set 1 Blog candy is......

Chris (Wellnifty) said...
Great tutorial Jak, I wondered how you used the blender pen, I've just got a few pens but haven't used them yet. Will have a play now. Thanks for the chance of getting the candy I'll post a link on my blog xx
29 May 2010 08:01

Congratulations Chris

Drop me an email with your address details and I'll post them out for you.

Afternoon Tea

Afternoon Tea is a new stamp set by Rubber Stamp Tapestry. Stamped with Stampin Up ink pads a background paper by Basic Grey, coloured card by Stampin Up and Ribbon by Fantastic Ribbons and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

The centre Teapot and cup have been cut out them mounted on top of foam pads to make them pop.

Finishing with a little tag made with the Labels 8 Nestabilities and stamped to match the main image then ties with a piece of linen thread.

Lighter Shades with a Blender pen - Now Closed

Blog Candy Now Closed

I have a new tutorial up on the Promarker Knowhow Page

It teaches how to get lighter shades from your Promarkers

Also some Promaker Blog Candy which ends Saturday 29th may

This will stay at the top until 28th May, please scroll down for the latest cards

Summer time card - Lacie with Ice- cream

The summer time card is a little ironic as yesterday we had bright sunshine then rain and later we even had hail stones here in the UK.

Lacie with Ice-cream is a new digi image by Mo Manning and can be purchased from Digital Pencil Too, I used Stampin Up background papers, Nestabilities Ovals, a Prima Flower some dew drops ribbon and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

I added the Prima Flower then with a stickles glitter glue I just touched the edges of the flower to add a little sparkle.

As a few people asked me to do a tutorial on how to use the nestabilities with an overhang of the image I have done one, it is over on the tutorial page.