Butterfly Frame...

Happy Saturday,

I travelled up last night to Blackpool for today's demo at Burnside strikes demo day pop in and say hi if you are in the area!

Today's card is one of the demo pieces I have made for today's demo.  Its made using the butterflies in flight mini triplet from Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions.  To make the frame i used a combination of the double pierced sure dies and the mini triplet.  I will be denying this technique on Hochanda on Wednesday or Thursday so if you can't make the demo you can tune in to catch this technique later next week.

The flowers are one of my new favourites the string flowers die set.  these are so easy to use as you get all the different layers from the die on one cut, you know how I love ease! lol

Ill be back at the NEC  tomorrow for the last day of the show and looking forward to meeting more of you there as well!

Enjoy...

NEC Day 2 Somewhere different...

Happy Friday,

Today I am back at the NEC but I am demoing the Christmas Die range from Creative Expressions along with some of my stamps.  I will be demoing the square background stamps that everyone loved when they were on Create and Craft.  These are now available to everyone so I thought it would be nice if i could play with them again!

Today's card is one of the pieces I have prepared to show off the products I will be demoing on the Art of Craft stand at the show with the lovely Jayne and Penny.

I used the mini Holly Striplet to create the three panel background using Sue Wilson's fire and Ice technique however I substituted diamond snow for the iced snow to give a gentler, silk like look.

I stamped the Christmas tree from my holly tree elements clear stamp set in gilding flakes to match. I used the golden Jewel gilding flakes from Cosmic Shimmer along with the fake and glitter glue (always remember to clean your stamps as soon as you have used the gilding flakes)  Next I covered a scarp of coconut white card with double sided adhesive and added more of the glitter flakes.  I then cut the Classic poinsettia die form this.  I made this into a flower and them changed this to a fire and Ice flower using scary glue and diamond snow.  This makes a version of the poinsettia that shines in the same way as the background.











Finally I arranged the elements onto a piece of embossed coconut white foundation card as shown.

I will be on stand F53 today as stated above it will be great to see all of you who can pop by!  I ha d a fab day yesterday and met so many old and new friends!

Enjoy...

Enjoy...

NEC Away!...

Happy Thursday,

I hope those of you that are planning to go are all ready for the NEC show that starts today!  I will be there Today, Tomorrow and Sunday with a short stopover in Blackpool on Saturday for Strikes at Burnside.  I thought I would show you today one of the cards I have made, using Sue's recent release of dies for Creative Expressions, for the show.  I will be concentrating on The Colour Cloud blending Inks form Cosmic Shimmer and how they work beautifully with Creative Expressions Craft dies.  I will be on the Daisy Jewels and Crafts stand so come and say Hi!

Today's card is made using just the Sue Wilson Butterflies in flight mini striplet.  I stared by shading colours of Colour cloud onto a piece of coconut white foundation card using Indigo Mist and Clear day.  I started at the top with Indigo Mist and clear day at the bottom.  I blended these together in the centre, using a smoothie, to give the faded look.

Next I cut one of the butterfly striplets from coconut white card without the outline die.  I added a strip of the shaded card behind this with from tape.  Next I cut the separate butterlfies from the same set using another piece of the shaded acrd.  This gave me the butterflies to place behind the apertures which i glued into place behind.  Next I cut 2 more butterflies from more of the shaded card.

I cut the aperture die from another piece of coconut white which I added to the front to make the card up.  I added a ribbon bow made using Indigo Mist colour cloud and white seam binding.  The ribbon has the really nice ombre look by dragging the ribbon between a smoothie and the top of the ink pad in the colour cloud.  The quicker you drag this across the lighter and more shades of the colour you get.

I attached the ribbon as a tie across the front and made a messy bow to accent the design.  Finally I added the other 2 butterflies on the bow and the right hand side of the card, shaping them to look like they are in flight.

I will be demonstrating this technique as well as other dies cutting and colour cloud techniques all day today.  there are also some brand new embellishments that I will be using from Craft Consortium that are just stunning!



Hopefully see you later!

Enjoy...

Creative Wednesday,,,It's christmas lol

Happy Wednesday,

It's a Christmas theme over at Creative Expressions blog this month as we show a selection of cards and projects made using some of the latest Christmas Die release from Sue Wilson.  How are you getting on with your christmas Cards?  I know a lot of crafters don't like to start too early so we thought a little inspiration was sue!

I used the Joy to the world mini background for todays DT offering as I think its a really great die for making your more complex cards as being brilliant for your batch cards.  As the die has no outside cutting edge then it make the most beautiful card if just cut into a card blank on its own with a contrasting colour behind.

For today's offering I cut the background in white then shaded through the die using can blue colour cloud blending ink.  I covered a piece of cobalt foundation card with double sided adhesive and added iced snow.  I then forum monueted the joy to the world over this.  Next I added a frame, again cut from cobalt, into which I had added a piece of acetate.  This allowed me to foam mount this over the die cut and add more iced snow so that I made a shaker card front as the iced snow catches on the die cut and the background giving random pools of snow.

Finally I added a few layers of coconut white and cobalt to the frame and background along with an embossed panel made using the snowflake lattice embossing folder with the snowflakes highlighted with more of the colour cloud.

I added  poinsettia stamped and embossed with the shaded poinsettia stamp to die for onto cobalt card.  I made up the flower as shown with some pearl swirls ( which I will have on Hochanda next week) and a dazzler centre.

Pop over the the Creative Expressions blog HERE to see what inspiration for your Christmas Cards the rest of the team have.  It would be great if you could leave a comment or two on there as well!?!

Enjoy...

Mondays card giveaway was Pat S Witney, please email your address to Lockers@live.co.uk Pat and I will post it out to you!

Background Star?

Happy Tuesday,

I thought i might allow one of my samples that didn't get demonstrated last week its day in the sun!

I started first by making the background using the Indigo Mist and Lilac whisper colour cloud blending inks and the wonderful smoothie tools .  I used the smoothies to create the book background with circles of the 2 colours , i then used the lilac whisper to blend the background to smooth it out.

Next I made a frame using the largest of the double pierced square dies and the third one.  I did the same technique to the space between the dies, once cut, to give a frame with the matching colours.  I then cut this into 4 corners to hold the centre panel.

I mounted this onto a large square of blue dusk foundation card hat I had embossed with the leafy montage A4 embossing folder.

Next I the heraldic square die using the outline and centre form blue dusk, and mounted this in the centre.  I then cut one of the centre dies with the outline die in white.  I cut into this to make the flower or windmill and added it in the centre with a dazzler as the centrepiece.

Finally I added a bow made form swam binding that I coloured using the indigo mist colour cloud blending ink.

Not the best pictures of this one but hopefully you will get the gist!

Enjoy...

Configured...a giveaway

Happy Monday,

I thought I would start a giveaway with some of the cars I made on my Hochanda shows last week Today's card I made using just one small die!  I love sues configurations dies but the new release with a separate outside cutting line just blew me away how much versatility can you get in one die?

I used just the inside die form the teardrop adornment around a square of coal card and cut this along the edge four times.  This gives this really detailed filigree square.








Next I cut four more however I used the outline die as well and mounted these on a piece of coconut white card rot make the larger accent background.  I then cut 2 more with both dies in cobalt and then 2 2 bases using just the outline in white. I mounted these together and stuck them to the front using foam tape opposite each other to make the shape on the front.

I used cosmic pearl PVA for the pearl dots and added a seam binding bow for a little relief.

If you want to win this card simply leave a comment t below and I will choose a winner on Wednesday.

Enjoy...

One More Day...

Happy Sunday,

I'm still in Northallerton as I'm doing a workshop for some of the lovely ladies here!  Today's card is another sample I made for this weeks shows using the new collection From Sue Wilson for Creative expressions.  This card was made using just the diagonal fold over flower die ( and of course my favourite pierced rectangle die)

The flowers and the tuck and fold section on the right are made using the largest die in the diagonal set.










I coloured the back of a piece of coconut white foundation card using indigo mist colour cloud.  I have tried a few times to describe how the tuck and fold is done but it never makes sense lol  I hope that you were able to catch the show!  I will try to take some pictures of the stages and blog a tutorial when I get little time!


I have stolen Junes expalnation form my comments on how to do this technique, I think I may have found a PA lol
1. Position the cut out strip with the 'V' points going downwards
2. Take the 3rd 'V' and fold up creasing the 2 sides
3. With your pokey tool just lift the 1st 'V' up slightly and poke in this folded 'V' underneath it.
4. Repeat this method all the way down
Hope you don't mind june!


Enjoy...