Elegance - Victoria Case Image

Some images just scream elegance and this is one of them, it is by Victoria Case and it is one that she gave to her facebook friends, I truly wish that Victoria would reopen her digi shop because her art is stunning. Although you can still buy a few of her dig’s from here

I used a craft knife on the wings of this beauty and lifted them up off the page I placed a second image underneath where the wings are all coloured up so that you couldn’t see the gaps.

I used my airbrush for the background and covered over the image with a mask

Soft shades for colours for this Angel as I wanted is to be dreamy, I used the Spellbinders edgeabilities and the Memory Box flower wreath and made a wire net flower and butterfly.

Promarker Blog Candy Giveaway

Letraset have kindly given me an extra set of Limited edition pens to give away.

Each limited edition ProMarker set contains 6 brand new, strictly limited ProMarker colours based on the latest seasonal trends.
These new colours are exclusive and will not be repeated.
Letraset will be releasing limited edition sets throughout 2012 – make sure you’re the first in line to receive these hotly anticipated new colours.
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I love these shades as they oooze todays colour trends, muted but pretty, they have the suede colour effect that we see in so many of our clothes colour fashions

I took my set of pens and did a quick colour example for you to see just how pretty they are.

image from D’Arcy’s Diaries  

A set of 6 limited edition markers

Colours in the set

All you need to do is tell me in the comment why you like the shades in this set and spread the word to crafters, via blogs, facebook twitter or word of mouth then add your name to the Inlinkz link.

If you haven’t got a URL just leave it blank.

 

Call the Nurse

Before I start I wanted to thank you all for the wonderful Birthday Wishes both here and via email, isn’t the big WWW a wonderful tool, I have made so many online friends and appreciate each and every one of you.

I got my lie in this morning (Happy Dance) and had visits throughout the day from my family. loads of cards, chocolates and goodies. I got a beautiful writing set from my Mam as an extra as I already had had my Birthday present.

So on to my card this is another one that I’ve had coloured up for a long time awaiting to be added to a card.

Nurse by Mo Manning from Mo’s Digital Pencil, coloured with FlexMarkers by Letraset

I wanted a little extra in the embellishment form but just couldn’t find any so i made my own Bandages and Elastoplast's and of course i added some gorgeous pearls from Mei Flower 

I still needed something to finish the card and that's where the luscious ribbon from Ribbon Carousel came in to play

Going, Going, Gone

Fabulous crafting day, the hustle and bustle was immense at Create and Craft yesterday, I arrived at 9am bumping into Sara Davies at the reception desk and having a catch up later in the green room, I blinked and it was 11 am and time for the first show with Dave Bradford (lovely Man) we had great sales from all you wonderful crafters and by the time we were ready for the 2nd show the panic set in that we wouldn’t have enough so we pulled out all stops and secured more stock so that you wouldn’t miss out.

Here is a couple of shots of the second show with the lovely Ellis Ward

The first is meet and greet

It soon became obvious that the massive stock just wasn’t going to last as you went into a buying frenzy and yes we had a sell out.

This is Ellis and myself telling customers to check out their basket if they were on line.

well done to all those that managed to get both cd roms.

I got home just after 6:30 and had a well earned cuppa.

Today is my Birthday so as I am writing this in the early hours of the morning I’m figuring I should climb the stairs and have a lie in.

Nothing Finer

Sitting in hotel with my feet up on the bed with my favourite tipple full bodied tea with a threat of milk.
I will be on Create and Craft tomorrow at 11am and 2pm I created a new card pack and I know you are going to love them amongst lots of other goodies.

Pinks and Browns

You know when you have a colour layout in your head but you never can quite find the shade you are looking for? well this happened to me months ago so I laid the image to one side and every now and again i would pick it up and try to match it again and end up laying it right back down and using another image.

I picked up a paper pack at Harrogate on the The Hobby House stand and I knew instantly that it would be perfect for this image.

Winifred from Mo’s Digital Pencil 

 

I used pearls from Mei Flower to accent the card, their pearls are second to none and the range is amazing as well as their prices. the flowers are made from the brown paper and the larger one with my Tonic Studios pinking shears.

 

I used one of the spellbinders frame dies to cut out the image and finished with a pretty bow.

Show Dates & Blog Candy Winner

 

Create and Craft TV Dates for your Diary  Sky 671 | Freeview 36 | Freesat 813

Thursday 22nd March

11am and 2 pm hope to see you there….

I can see you all love your embellishments for your crafting, loads and loads of you entered for it.

The winner is

126. Eileen Coles

Well done Eileen, if you can send me an email with the heading Blog Candy I will get your prize posted out to you, my email is on my side bar.

Wonderful Day–Fixer Boy

We (Mam and I) had a wonderful day at Harrogate at the Papercraft Extravaganza, we set out around 10am and got there around 11.30, a little browse around then had a sandwich and a cup of tea, saw some welcome faces and old friends, big shout out to Jacqui Dennis love that girl got a cuddle and a long awaited chat.

We were greeted at the door with someone calling my mam famous for being on my blog yesterday, that made her day so thank you to the kind lady who recognised us.

I made a card when I got home using Fixer Boy from Mo’s Digital Pencil 

I used a pre shaped card from Craftwork Cards and added some pearls from Mei Flower as you can see I got loads while I was there but give them a visit as they had a fabulous selection to choose from.

Image coloured with Copics

Jack with my Mam

I told you all the other day about Jack loving to visit my Mam so that he can chase Jess the cat from one room to the next trying to chat with her and it’s hilarious, on our last visit he was saying to her “hello gorgeous” totally cracked me up.

But there is another reason he loves to visit and here it is.

Jack with Great Gran

As you can see it is all pretty special at Great Grans so many new adventures to be found.

Tomorrow I’m going to spend the day with my Mam, I’m taking her to GNPE at Harrogate which she will love as she loves her crafting and then we will come back to mine where that wonderful man of mine is making our Sunday Dinner.

Something for the Weekend–Blog Candy

I wanted to spoil all my followers but I just don’t have the pennies to do that so instead I have put together some blog candy from some of my favourite companies. I appreciate each and every one of you that pop by to say hello as well as those that just pop their head in for a peek, you are like my extended family and many of you I feel that I know so well after commenting for so long.

I put together things that would add the little extra to your card making, ribbon flowers, gems, bows & buttons etc.

I think this will keep you going all year, there’s tons.

I added 3 close up shots

As you can see it’s amazing but it’s not enough so………..

I figured you needed something to add all of the embellishment too.

So I will also pop in the CD Rom from La Pashe The big One

How do you enter? well I’d love everyone to be a follower but I can’t force you to do that as most people only follow while the candy is available, sad but true and to be honest that just annoys me so all I’m asking is that you tell your friends about it, link it to blogs if you have one or post it on facebook if you use that.

Then link your name in the Inlinkz button below, you do not need a URL to do this, just leave it blank if you haven’t got one.

Blog Hop of the Month–A bit of Verdigris

It’s that time again and this Months theme for the Blog Hop is A bit of Verdigris (the colour green)and Debby is the host and that is where the blog hop begins.

You should have landed on my blog from Pops if not hop back there.

I kept mostly to green with my card and I used Window Seat from Mo’s Digital pencil for my image, she’s perfect for teenage cards.

Coloured with Copic Markers and Prisma Pencils then matted and layered on top of a leafy embossed background done with the sizzix die on the Grande Calibur by spellbinders.

The flowers are from Orchid Crafts

Next up is lori and I know she will spoil you with something amazing.

Don’t forget to leave a comment as there will be 2 spot prizes for comments left on our blogs.

Mothering Sunday Free Background Papers and Verses

Mothering Sunday is nearly upon us and I guess most of us will be looking for that special verse to add to our cards, I can make cards all day but I hate searching for verses, luckily I have a lovely friend that came to me rescue and wrote some poems for Mothers Day. So I thought it would be fitting to share with you all and I also made some pretty papers in 6" x 6" sizes to go with them.

Pop over to Anita Poems and see for yourself

Background paper

Insert paper

Background paper

Insert Paper

I really hope these help you out, they would also make beautiful hand made cards for Sisters, Daughters, Aunts, Friends and Grandmothers

Scout Named Noah

We had a wonderful evening babysitting Jack and we took him over to see my Mam, he was in his Jimjams all ready for bed but he loves to visit her as not only is he the apple of her eye but he is totally intrigued with Jess her cat. We stayed for about an hour as that was as much as jess could put up with him as she is getting no younger and he has her scurrying from one room to another to hide from him.

I hurried back and got this card made, I think I have said before how much this character reminds me of Jack.

Scout Named Noah Digi Stamp from Sassy Cheryl 

The badge at the top is a real scout badge cut from my daughter scouting blanket Shhhhhhh don’t tell.

Lazy Daisy Mothers Day Card

This is such a sweet image that I thought it would be perfect for Mothering Sunday Cards and you could even colour theme is to your Mums Favourite colours.

Lazy Daisy Digi stamp from Just Inklined 

Coloured with Promarker pens and Prisma pencils, The borders are from Spellbinders Edgebilities, some pearls and blossoms and a pretty ribbon to finish.

I used backing papers from My Memories Suite Digital scrapbook software you can save a fortune doing this. If you go for the software remember to use my code to get your $10 discount and a $10 coupon for more papers and sets my coupon code is

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