I missed this one...

Happy Wednesday,

I can't believe I missed posting this card as it was one of the first cards I made with the Sue Wilson November release of dies.  I think because I made it first I thought I had posted it!

Its in my favourite colours of periwinkle and coconut white, with a bit of pearl added of course!

I stared by cutting the trellis edger die by fitting it back in at 90 degrees to make a squareof trellis.  Sue Wilson has filmed a whole you tube video on this on the Creative Expressions youtube channel where she explains this technique.

I backed the trellis with periwinkle and used cosmic white dimensional PVA at every junction.

I then cut a larger mat using the edger from the same set and offset all of these panels onto a panel of card embossed with the Provencal lace A4 embossing folder and coloured with pearl lustre metallic gilding polish.

The central panel is cut using the Tahiti die set in periwinkle and adhered to a piece of double sided adhesive covered in diamond sprinkles.  I layered up the other dies in the set finishing with a l;are pearl centre and studded with PVA.



I made up a set of the starflowers cutting each size flower twice each in the 2 colours.  I mounted these along with the matching swirls that come with the set.

Enjoy...

How to Decoupage...

Happy Monday,

After last weeks shows on Hochanda with the beautiful new Decoupage papers from Craft Consortium I thought It might prove useful to show you the other video I didi for Creative Expressions.  I also promised a couple of people ate Samuel Taylors in Leeds on saturday ( Julia and I had a brilliant time than to Sue and team and all the crafters who came to say hi!) that I would feature this video.

The video goes through al, the basic steps of using these papers to upcycle old furniture as well as a couple of starter projects to get you going.  I hope you enjoy this outing!

Here is a close up of the table I feature ion this video.  I really hope this helps those of you who want to get into this fun hobby!

Enjoy...

You asked for it!...

Happy Friday,

Do't forget Sue Wilson has shows on Hochanda Today at 8pm then tomorrow at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm with the second part of her Festive Die release!

I had lots of comments about Wednesday design team card and the technique I used for the colouring and lots of my blog friends asked if I could do a video of the technique well you asked for it so its here.  Luckily a few weeks ago Phill Martin and I were invited in to shoot a couple of videos whilst Sue Wilson was shooting her wonderful you tube shows.  A couple of you spotted that they had been uploaded onto the Creative Expressions You Tube channel and have viewed it!

The video is on the new watercolour plates and different techniques you can do using them.  The cards opposite are the first examples from this video where I used the daffodil burst striplet stamp on black card.  To find the details of how these were made and a few other watercolour tips then you will need to watch the video!


  So here is the first video showing how to use the watercolour paints, a later instalment shows the colour cloud and masking technique.  One of the pieces i made in the video is shown above if you want to see the original card with the colour clouds then click HERE ( The Link Works today! lol)


I have added a few shots of the different cards above so that you can get a better view of the colour options!

I hope you have time to watch the video and let me know what you think this is the first video I have shot for you tube without my Magic Hands Wendy in Spain!

Enjoy...

No Christmas Bling...

Happy Monday,

I thought it would be nice, as everyone is showing Christmas at the minute, to show some bling that isn't festive!  Todays card was made at at demo day a few weeks ago as everyone always asks to see Sue's Fire and Ice technique and I thought the ornate pierced noble square was perfect for it!

I started by making the card blank using the largest die in the set ( fold a piece of A4 coconut white card in half then place the die up to the edge of the fold making sure that the cutting edge is above the fold so that you get a hinge)  Next I used the filigree die and the next frame size down (using my system dies 2 and three and cut the filigree and apart in the centre.






I then cut the centre die in the middle of a piece of coconut white card stock.  next I cut the outline and word from another scarp of card using the Expressions Thank You die set.

Next I used Sue Wilson's fire and Ice technique to decorate each of the three separate pieces.  I was going to write a description of this however I remembered that Sue had done a you tube video on this so I thought it would be best to just insert her video and save you form having to work it out form my badly typed instructions!

If the video isn't showing you can view it by Clicking HERE

I then layered the card together and added some antique white double sided satin ribbon and a bow to give some relief from the bling!

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft Dies from Sue Wilson
Ornate Pierced Noble square
Expressions Thank you
Mulled Wine gilding Flakes
Iced Snow

Enjoy...