Monday 30 November 2009

Coexist - Fur Fear

I have to say this is one of the scariest projects I have done the digi image is by Mo Manning and is called Coexist and doesn't it just make you say "awe"?
Well I have been dying to give this one a go but I have a fur fear, no not really, just the thought of how to tackle colouring it sent me in a spin. I wasn't going to let it beat me so here is my result.
Teamed with 2 pretty papers a ribbon and a button to finish.

Attention to detail...

So I thought I would give the attention to detail to the fur.

I did colour with Promarkers but I just wasn't getting the effect that i was after so I remembered what Jim Harker (artist for La Pashe) told me.

He said "there is no law against mixing mediums" so that is exactly what I did, I used watercolour pencils on top of the Promarkers and I have to say that I am quite chuffed with the result



I'd love to hear your comments on this one, I love reading them



Sunday 29 November 2009

Jordan Multitasking - Joint Effort

Can you remember Lauren? "eldest daughter, Mother of Jack" well from being old enough to pick stuff up she has always had to have a try of everything she saw, as she got older I was always threatening to chop her fingers off if she touched my craft stash and I thought she would grow out of it "but"no!
This time she asked if she could colour in one of my digi stamps from Digital Pencil too as Jack lay sleeping on Friday afternoon I asked what she was going to colour it in with and she pointed gingerly to my Promarker stash, I said she could but only if she returned each one to when she got the from as I have them all in order.
I was so impressed that I thought it warranted a card being made.


Now I think the girl did good, first try of Promarkers too, it just goes to show that you don't need to be an expert when teamed with a good image by Mo and a set of Promarkers.





Last Chance - Gingerbread Man Stamps

It is the last chance today to enter the draw to win the Gingerbread Man stamps from Waltzing Mouse stamps, Claire Brennan donated 4 of the stamps for a very worthy cause. click here for details on how to enter.

Saturday 28 November 2009

Friend to Friend

A chocolate card base and pretty paper and some cream card embossed using the Victoria A2 Cuttlebug folder.


Attention to detail...

A fancy paper fold with a double sided paper, a diagonal concertina fold.


The flower was a mishap, I cut off the stem and the centre bud dropped out so I used a bead and a gold finding to replace it.


Paper- Bella Bleu (Stampin Up), Card - Papermill Shop

Embossing - Victoria A2 Folder (Cuttlebug), Stamp - Stampin Up

Nestabilities Tags, Ribbon, Flower and findings - My stash

Thursday 26 November 2009

Christmas Reindeer

This card was made for work, well sort of, I was trying to explain the uses of Versamark ink to a work collegue, explaining that you can use it as a watermark or use embossing powder with it and said I was do a couple of samples, so I did the samples of each then got carried away in making this one into a card.
After cutting the layers of patterned paper I distressed the edges with a red distress ink and a sponge.


Attention to detail...

The ribbon is a two toned ribbon in red and green from a local Craft shop.



You can see on the image below how I picked out the dotted swirl from the patterned paper and used stickles glitter glue to make it pop, you can aslo see the green nailhead at the edge of the punched out point.


Stamp - Papermania


Patterned Paper- Graphic 45


Border Punch -Martha Stewart


embelishments - Stickles Glitter glue and nail head gems from my stash


Card - Papermill shop


Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Red Brick