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.
Read more: http://www.letraset.com/products/2179-Limited-Edition/#ixzz1q1w2Hx8s

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