Simple Sunday...

Happy Sunday,

Im busy prepping for the One Day Special starting Tomorrow ( Monday) night at 8pm on Hochanda.  I will also be introducing the New Creative Expressions demonstrator Lisa Horton who has fabulous skills and some brilliant demos using some Brand new Craft Consortium decoupage pares and MDF shapes!

Therefore todays Card is a simple offering made for the watercolour shows I did last week for the fabulous Mica Watercolour palettes.

This is just stamped using Clear embossing powder onto black card.  I then painted this using the autumn shades of mica watercolour palettes which show up beautifully on black card because of the high concentration of Mica in the paints.

I cut a border form a piece of chestnut card using one of the outline dies from the triplet collection of dies.  I embossed this piece and used this as a frame.  I punched a hole in the top and added a strip of black ribbon as a tie.

I thought this would make a really nice gift as a book mark.

Samples of the new MDF tomorrow!  Enjoy...

Linked...

Happy Saturday,

I love making buckle cards and I wanted to have a go at making a multi buckle card and this was the result.  This was planned as a demo on Hochanda however I didn't get chance ( that happened a lot as we always prep more demos than we need just in case!)

However this may look complex but it is just a buckle are made with 3 large and 3 small buckles all cut from the Sintra die set from Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions.

UI stared by using dies 1, 2 and 3 from the Sintra die from the Portuguese collection.  I taped them together and cut three of these from Chestnut card I then cut three backers for this using dies one and three ( so that the filigree section doesn't cut)  I stuck these together to make the buckles so that the black would show through.

Next I cut dies 3, 4 and 5 from Chestnut card I cut three of these and then again cut three backers again from black card using dies 3 and 5.  To make the central buckle I added back the centre black hexagon by taping it at the top and bottom so that you get 2 sides that the central piece can slip through ( I really hope this makes sense as this was planned as a demo)

Next I cut a strip of milk card and backed it with black card.  I then stamped Birthday Wishes in jet black archival ink over the strip.

I simply then wove the strip between each of the 'buckles' and simply mounted the whole piece onto a few layers of chestnut and black.

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft Dies by Sue Wilson
Sintra Die Set
Milk, Chestnut & Black foundation Card
Jet Black Archival ink 

Enjoy...

Christmas Friday...

Happy Friday,

Well its back to Christmas Friday as I try to get back on track from all the recent shows!

Today's card is again using stamps to die for I seem to have gone on a little bit of a stamping track this week!  I stared by stamping the Shaded poinsettia onto a clear velum with perfect medium.  I then heat embossed these with Silver Shine detail embossing powder from Cosmic Shimmer.  I cut these out with the matching Classic Poinsettia die and made up the flowers in three sizes by using 2 of each size to make a single poinsettia.  I added silver dazzlers in the centre of each flower just to make them more realistic.

To make the card to match the flowers I embossed a piece of coconut white card using the Holly Trellis A4 embossing folder.  I rubbed over the surface with pewter gilding and polished it up with a dry wet wipe ( this gets off the darker shade and leaves the shine behind)

Next I cut 2 of the snowflake borders in black foundation card and again added the gilding wax to highlight the embossed areas.  I stock these to a strip of card so that they faced away from each other.  I covered the card strip in the centre using seam binding which adds another texture.

I added a sentiment from my Christmas sentiments set onto an oval cut from the centre of the snowflake background and matted it in black cut from the same set.

This is a complex looking card but really is simple to do!

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft dies by Sue Wilson
Snowflake Border, corner & tag set
Snowflake background
Classic poinsettia
Shaded Poinsettia stamp to die for set
Coconut white & Black foundation Card and white velum
Silver shine embossing powder
Pewter Gilding wax

Enjoy...
P.s. The winner of this weeks card Giveaway is Culliesocks!  If you email me your address to Lockers@live.co.uk I will post this straight out to you x 

A Little light relief!...

Happy Thursday,

I thought you might need something softer after yesterdays ginger spice and the darker shades I have coming up this week!

This was the first demo card I made on the One Day Special shows on Hochanda last week I hope you were able to watch it!

I used the Brand New Filigree Peony stamp for the flowers on this one which perfectly matches the perfect peony complete petals die set designed by Sue Wilson. For this I simply stamped them in watering can archival ink onto primrose foundation card and cut them out using the matching die.

I have to admit to a sneaking admiration for these stamps as I simply love the way the filigree stamps look especially stamped on coloured card as I have here with the primrose.  For these flowers I simply stamped all the 6 different sized in the set and cut them out using the matching die set.  I used 2 cut per flower and grouped them in size from the largest to the smallest to make 3 individual flower hearts.

To finish I added a 5mm white pearl in the centre and added a couple of Sue Wilson's stick pin elements along with the foliage that again comes in the stamps and die set.

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft dies by Sue Wilson
Perfect peony complete petals
Portuguese collection background
Lisbon die set
Primrose and milk foundation card
Archival Watering can ink pad
Stick pin elements
Eternity A4 embossing folder

Enjoy...

Chocolate Anyone?...

Happy Wednesday,

Once again it should be my day for the Creative expressions design team however shows and designing some new stamps have eaten all my time!  However don't forget that the Design Team call for creative expressions finishes on Friday!  Click HERE if you want the details on how to enter and join the team.  There are some excellent benefits of being a member and it would be great to see everyone to give it a try you never know!


Today's card is the demo piece I made on Sunday on my Hochanda shows and just shows the simplicity of the Configurations dies.  For those of you who haven't seen this range before Sue Wilson has designed these to be totally flexible and they can be used in so many different way to make loads of different patterns.




For Today's card I have simply used 2 of the lattice Arched adornments on the front together to make the main shape.  I have then used 2 more on a different level to frame the card.  Sandra and Kieron from Crafty Company in fleetwood really took this card to heart when I made it at a demo there in gold that they have made it in a few different colours, click HERE to see what they made on Facebook

The flowers are simply stamped with the shaded peony in true white detail embossing powder onto chestnut foundation card heat set and grouped as with yesterdays card.

Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft dies by Sue Wilson
Lattice Arched adornment 
perfect peony complete petals
pierced flags
Stamp to die for shaded peony
chestnut & milk foundation card

Enjoy...

Watercolour Tuesday Giveaway...

Happy Tuesday,

I am back on Hochanda Today with another showing of the stunning watercolour stamps form Sam Poole.  I loved doing this show and sharing all the techniques and when I was given the chance to show more from this range I jumped at it!

To see how this was made you will need to tune in my shows are at 11am, 2pm and 6pm!

I will also be giving this card away today, simply leave a comment below to be in the draw!  The winner will be selected and announced on Friday!

Enjoy...

Ginger Spice...

Happy Monday,

Another card form my shows yesterday this time in one of my favourite colours the stunning Ginger Foundation card.  Ive always had a love of Autumn shades so there may be a few more of these popping up over the coming weeks.

I stated by cutting a long pierce of milk foundation card I then cut the centre filigree section of the Lattice and Lace triplet, designed by Sue Wilson, from this card starting at the left hand side.


Next I took a piece of ginger card and embossed the lattice and lace striplet only.  I then cut each of the flowers out of this embossed piece by hand to make the flowers that would fit exactly into the spaces in the cut section.  I glued these onto the back so that the flower was covered from the front.

The topper for this was made using all the layers in the Porto die cut alternately in ginger, milk and deep cocoa with the centre left open with the sentiment stamped in with jet black archival ink.

To make up the card I mounted the topper to the right hand side and added a few stick on pearls to highlight the centres of the flowers.  Next I from mounted the whole pic on deep cocoa foundation card so that you can really see the detail of the striplet die cut.






A layer of milk card, embossed with the eternity eA4 embossing folder and highlighted with pearl moon gilding wax finishes the final layer.

As I will be saying when I use these darker shades you could simply change the colours to make it match the occasion you want to make it for


Phill Martin is taking over the One Day Special spot tonight at 8pm with his stunning bracket stamps, don't forget to tune in!


Ingredients:
Creative Expressions Craft Dies by Sue Wilson
Lattice & Lace Striplet
Porto die set
Ginger, Deep Cocoa and Milk foundation card
Eternity embossing folder

Enjoy...