Spectrum Noir Sparkle

Wow.... Talk about give it the old razzle dazzle.

There's nothing old about these brushes.

I need to use some colour in next weeks shows on Create and Craft and got my eye on these fabulous Spectrum Noir Sparkle brushes from Crafters Companion.

I love that they come in a handy carry case and they even have a wrist strap attached.

 

I dived straight in and primed the brushes and laid down some colour to test them out. The result just blew my socks off, I wanted to show you the results right away so try to pretend that my colour is on top of a delicate flower, butterfly or some other wonderful imagery and not the sheet of notepad paper that I tested them out on.

I had to angle the pad to show you just how very sparkly they are. I can't wait to get to work with them.

Thank you Crafters Companion, total sparkle with ease of use and no clogging.

 

 

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All about Weddings

This weekend has been all about weddings, my Daughter had a dress fitting and sorted out the wedding car for the special day.

So much to do, invite cards to make, wedding favours to make. They are all planned and we know what we want, just need to knuckle down and collate numbers.

Chris came in from work asking me to make a Wedding card for one of their agents so I set too and made this for them all to sign.

Of course I used Hunkydory imagery and topper sets as I wanted a professional finish with the best card stock available.

 

Using foiled acetate as a designer feature to the front of the card. Using the background card to hide the sticking son the inside of the acetate.

And finishing the back with some pretty card to send good wishes and sign their names for the Happy Event.

 

 

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It Never Rains but it Pours

I thought it was about time I gave you an update on our home renovations.

Although we thought things were going fine, the room had lovely new plaster and it was drying beautifully.

We soon realised that all was not as it should be on the outer wall.

 

It just wouldn't dry out in parts and we soon came to realise that we had a problem on the outside wall.

Silly I know but for some reason in the back of my mind I was thinking porous bricks, the house is around 108 years old.

Sure enough when we got the builder to look at it he confirmed it was indeed porous bricks and pointing needed.

So although the fire and surround are being fitted today we are at a total stand still until the outside work can be done and unfortunately that is weather depending.

 

 

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Stenciled Woodland Card

After seeing a Poppy Stencil show it made me want to play, one problem though, my stencil paste was in the loft so I thought I would make do with some tester pots of emulsion paint.

Ok, ok it's not what I should be using but it kept me sane through the workmen noise.

I used an old stencil from Dreamweaver, it is one that I instantly fell in love with.

I matted and layered up with Hunkydory Adorable Scorable and foam pads to create lots of dimension.

Now the good thing about using the paint was it stayed wet long enough for me to add my glitter.

The bad thing however was that the paint seeped underneath the stencil a little on the top left corner, however I can live with that and call it unique ha ha!

The Work Has Started.

We new that updating our Living room would be a mammoth task but as you will see in the images the work has started.

So the above is our old fashioned living room, it was very tired looking and should have been done a couple of years ago but something always got in the way of it being started.

So out came the cupboards and the fire surround.

Then the room was bare ready for the workers.

The fireplace removed and the whole widened ready for the plasterer.

The arrived and everything got rather messy, electrics sorted and moved, chimney breast took back to brick and then boarded.

Skirting boards, Window surround, and windowsill removed, rendered ready for plastering tomorrow.

I'm hoping that this time tomorrow all of the muck and dust is gone.

If you are wondering why the carpet is back down, it's because we are buying a new one so this is being used as a good fitting dust sheet.

 

 

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