Colouring Saturday...

Happy Saturday,

As Lisa Horton mentioned on her recent Graphmaster show on Hochanda I attended a workshop with her at CE Towers and ended up buying the whole set of pens as I loved them so much.  This has meant that I have been trying more colouring and thought I would share a coloured image or card every Saturday.

I stared with the garden song stamp to die for that matches the Bora Bora die.  I stamped the image using
black ink and coloured it using the following Graphmaster pens
Flowers yellow 45 & 47 and warm grey 4.  leaves green 48 & 59.  Outline Warm Grey 4 cream 36 & yellow ochre 101.

I used the warm grey for the centre with a little of the cream 36 around the edges .

I made up the card as shown using panels of Kraft card embossed and set with black and white mats and layers.

A simple image to start as there isn't a great deal of space for shading but Im pleased with this as a first attempt!

More colouring next week,

Enjoy...

Revisit Friday...

Happy Friday,

New Year means a new structure on the blog and I thought I would do something I lawyers mean to start but don't quite get around to and that is revisiting some of the older collection designed by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions.  Therefore every Friday I will make and post ( Hochanda shows permitting!) a new card made using some of the older collections of dies.

Starting this week with this card made using the Sentra die form the portugese collection in shades of Lilac,
Amethyst and Heather.  I stared by cutting the inner die from the lotus striplet across a piece of icicle pearl foundations card and placed squares of the lilac shades behind this.


Next I cut dies 1, 2 and 3 from the syntra die in heather card and backed it with rich plum.  I foam mounted this over the centre square.  I cut the family tree die in icicle pearl and cut this up to make the foliage which I added along with a lilac bow and some flowers from my stash.

I then cut dies 1, 2 and 4 from the syntra die in heather and cut this in half adhering a panel at the top and bottom of a larger mat of the rich plum.


I finished with a few layers of the colours and finished.

I hope you all like the idea of the revisit posts it would be great to hear which die / range you would like to
see something new from next week!

Another new regular feature tomorrow Saturday Colouring!

Enjoy...

In the pink...

Happy Thursday,

Another sample from this weeks shows with Couture Creations today and something lighter than yesterday and in pink!

I stared by cutting the wedding rose die three times in coconut white foundation card I shaded through the die with basil leaf colour cloud blending ink then coloured the rose using scarlet woman colour cloud.  I adde d a little more of the green and grouped the three together with a satin bow too make a bouquet.

I cut the scallop edge die four times using 2 placed together and adhered to velum for the backing of the
roses.  I shaded the reveres on this with more of the scarlet woman colour cloud and added this over a panel of embossed card.  I used the remaining 2 die cuts as closures over the edges of the card.

A few layers of raspberry and coconut white foundation card and a  couple of 8mm white pearls and finished.

Again a little different for me but I like the effect.

Enjoy...

Monochromatic...

Happy Wednesday,

I prepped far too many demos for my Hochanda shows earlier this week as i always do!  I just seem to get so caught up in the crafting I end up playing rather than using the demos I have prepped.  Today's card is another demo that I didn't manage to get to however it still deserves its day on the blog especially as I have a real fondness for monochromatic!

I do love a kinetic card so this die just sang to me with all the options for making folds.

I stared by scoring apiece of card with 2 gate folds to which I adhered one of the Couture creations die cut to.  I then cut around the edge to make the scalloped doors to this card.

I used a piece of 12 x12 paper form the damask pad by couture creations in the centre and added a piece of
bright white card in the centre with the stamped sentiment from my Winters child clear stamp set.  I used the snowflake stamps that come in the set around the edges which seem just right for this wintry weather!

I added a piece of dotty ribbon from my stash across the back of this folded card and added layers of white and black allowing me to fold the gates back in and tied these in a bow at the centre finishing with a Craft Consortium pearl embellishment.

Enjoy...

Blue Butterflies...

Happy Tuesday,

I hope you all enjoyed the shows yesterday as much as I didi it was nice too do some construction and some scrapbooking something I really enjoyed and intend to do more off.

I decided to share this card today made using a collection of Couture Creations dis form the boxing day and new years day shows but featuring the beautiful stained glass butterfly.

I stared by making the background using the elegant square die into a piece of coconut white card twice.  I
then cut the die out of periwinkle foundation card twice and mounted the die cuts in opposite corners to make the square background.  I also placed the squares from the centre in opposing corner to give the finished background.

I cut the mirror die and the doily die from yesterdays shows in blue and white and foam mounted these in the centre.

I simply then cut the butterfly three times from periwinkle and placed these, with an 8mm pearl, flying across the page.

Enjoy...

Sewing Shows?...

Happy Monday,

I hope some of you caught the launch of the one Day Special on Hochanda last night Im back today at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and last chance at 7.  Heres a couple more of the samples from the show using the Sew Jo bundle Ive loved working with the papers and dies and made here a sewing book and scrapbook page ( or very large card!)

enjoy...

New Year New Shows...

Happy 2017!

Im back on Hochanda tonight at 8pm for the launch of the One Day Special with the Couture Creations Big Save show.  I have 2 fantastic bundles with Big Savings as well as a host of Dies one set I really Love!

















Today's card is made using the contents of one of the bundles and has a matching box.  I will also be doing

some scrapbooking and making some albums and sewing books/ gifts as well!

 Tune in at 8pm tonight or tomorrow at 9am, 12pm, 4pm or Last Chance at 7pm to see how this was done!

Enjoy...