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Cards and other stuff a polar bear in England can dream ofAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-82809121994530414812014-08-31T03:47:00.001-07:002014-08-31T03:48:08.647-07:00Hobby Art cards from Create and Craft on Friday<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello there,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scared you? Yes, it's really me! I won't promise I start blogging regularly again as I know it might not happen. But as I am posting on the <a href="http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/blog/" target="_blank">Hobby Art blog</a>, I might as well do it here too ;-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might have seen the lovely Jenny on Create and Craft on Friday showing you some of the fab new stamps and sets. If you have you will have seen some of my cards as well and as I thought it might interest some people how I did a few things I took some pics while creating them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly I made this little number with Otto, the Owl. He can be found <a href="http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/Otto-Owl.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stamped and coloured the image plus a holly sprig from <a href="http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/Berries-and-Birds.html" target="_blank">Berries and Birds</a> and coloured them with Copics. Then I looked for a paper that would give the impression of falling snow but when I couldn't find anything I liked I decided to make my own.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I randomly placed some small round labels I had lying around (I use them to mark my Ciao pens with their numbers on the end of the caps). Then I used a sponge applicator to rub Memento in Paris Dusk all over the sheet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Not perfect, but I liked it and the card came out nice, I think.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Next I had promised some people to show how nice the 'no-lines technique' would look on the robins from the <a href="http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/Berries-and-Birds.html" target="_blank">Berries and Birds</a> set, so I coloured this little fella and I LOVE him! Quite proud of how he turned out...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to put him on a card that would showcase him without distracting too much so I just stamped the little branch with berries under him and coloured (again in 'no-lines) and used a die to trace a circle around to frame him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then used a craft knife to cut that circle out. Bit of a job between his tiny legs but I managed it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I placed some coordinating coloured card (die cut this time!) around the cut out and finished the panel with some strips of the same card and pearls. Then I just popped the whole panel up on foam pads and stamped the sentiment through the circle onto the card blank. Voila!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were a couple of other cards I made, that are quite simple and straight forward so no blurb about them from me... ;-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thanks if you haven't deserted me after the long silence! My camera charger hasn't turned up yet but I got fed up of waiting and bought a replacement. Now I can finally use my beloved Canon EOS20D again! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to start off I took some pics of a couple of samples for the Crafts U Love birthday where I'll be running workshops! If you haven't booked your place yet, be quick, it's gonna be a fabulous crafty day!</span></div>
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<br /></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-446283908312864842012-06-06T13:59:00.003-07:002012-06-06T14:01:09.463-07:00Loving my iPhone...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello everyone, missed me? Sorry for not blogging for ages again, just so many other things vying for my attention... And to boot my camera is out of juice and I can't find my charger :-(</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have however managed to take pics of some stuff on my beloved iPhone but only for putting things onto eBay! I have only discovered the other day how easy it is to sell stuff via my phone rather than the computer and I can honestly say, I love my phone! *hehe*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll try to take some pics of my cards as well soon, but for now I'll have to leave you without project pics.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to get some crafty bargains however, you are most welcome to check out <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/maceisbaer/m.html?item=330743696419&sspagename=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649&_trksid=p4340.l2562" target="_blank">my stuff on ebay</a>. It's only a fraction of what I have for sale at the moment but I had to start somewhere ;-)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope to be posting soon again!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bye for now!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-76712192059003072812012-03-24T05:10:00.000-07:002012-03-24T05:10:40.627-07:00Some Demo Day cards<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello bloggers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today is such a beautiful day, I am going to go out soon to enjoy some of that sunshine! But not before I share some (hmm, a lot really) cards with you, that I made for the Demo Day in the Glitterpot on the 3rd of March.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was demoing Copic Markers again, which means all colouring on these cards are with Copics. I won't go into any details as there are so many and as always, you can ask any questions you might have in the comments section or send me an email. I'll do my best then to answer every question you have!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got to work with the sweet new Bella range from Wild Rose Studio and the new designs from Imagination Crafts and to showcase a Copic Background technique I used Floral Sketches set by Hobby Art. If you want to see more detail, you can always click on the pictures to enlarge them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bella first:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't she the cutest? And let me tell you, she is much easier/quicker to colour than those balloons! God, they take a long time to get right!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's a bit late tonight but I feel like I want to share some crafty makes with you before I hit the sheets.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't have the best start to the week with our car going into the garage for a weird noise only to find out it's gonna cost us mega bucks to fix and it's not really an option to keep going regardless. Broken bearings in the gearbox apparently, whatever that means, all I heard was "no holidays for us this year". To top it all off it had to happen now, when my hubs is away for the week and I am home alone with the boys, who got a stinking cold that they seem to be swapping...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So tonight I treated myself to some girly movie watching (The Ugly Truth with Katherine Heigl -love her!- and Gerard Butler) and a Coca Cola on the sofa to unwind. Guilt-free watching as well, as I doubt my husband would have wanted to watch that with me... but it was surprisingly good, even if it was predictable. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right, sorry for the diversion, I am back now to crafts *lol* I have quite a few cards I made lately that I haven't had a chance to share yet. I'll make a move on one now and hopefully get to share some more over the next few days.</span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gorgeous flowers are called "Scabious" and are by Ruth of <a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">A Passion for stamps</a>. I coloured them in Copics and fussy cut them dragging a black pen around the edges to make them pop more. I tied some cream seam binding around the stems into a pretty little bow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lattice I diecut from lilac card is from Papertrey ink and I think it's really pretty, my only gripe is that it's made for american card sizes and hard to fit to european ones. I simply glued the lattice to my card base and popped the flowers on with foam pads. The sentiment (PTI) is stamped onto a strip of white card that I cut into a double sided banner and stamped a gingham background (PTI) on the reverse that you can just about spot. Easy peasy card to get me started again. Hope you like it!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-19801856452285883232012-03-04T08:23:00.000-08:002012-03-04T08:23:19.092-08:00Craft room clear-out has started...<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello bloggers,</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">just a quick note from me today to let you know I have started to clear out my craft room and put a few things on ebay, just in case you want to check it out and grab a bargain or two. If you do bid on anything and win the item, let me know you are a reader of my blog so I can include a little thank you gift in your parcel!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My ebay name is maceisbaer and you can find my items <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/maceisbaer/m.html?_adv=1&_dmd=1&_in_kw=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There will be more -much more...- added as and when I get the time.</div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-31635630980843446032012-02-27T15:22:00.000-08:002012-02-27T15:22:03.326-08:00My cards on telly...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello there,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today had me quite excited as for the first time some of my cards for Hobby Art got shown on telly! Whoohoo! :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like them, night night!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-86210694013457028072012-02-22T04:24:00.000-08:002012-02-22T04:24:04.903-08:00And another<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, me again *lol* In case you missed it, scroll down to see my previous card from today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got another card for you that I made with one of Ruth's images from <a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Passion for Stamps</a>, "Cairn Terrier".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I printed this quite large and cut it in a circle before colouring with Copics. I used W5, 3, 1 for the fur with a hint of R30 in his ears and YR20 for the background.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Natural coloured seam binding was slid through slots I punched into the image and tied in a bow. The sentiment is from a Stampin up hostess set and I used several sizes of circle punches to add dots, some popped up onto foam pads. Easy peasy...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am entering this in the following challenges:</span><br />
<a href="http://trulyscrumptiouschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-74-all-creatures-great-small.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truly Scrumptious - No. 74 All creatures great and small</span></a><br />
<a href="http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/2012/02/totally-papercrafts-challenge-104.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Totally Papercrafts - No. 104 Ribbons &/or bows</span></a><br />
<a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/week-142-anything-goes.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allsorts Challenge - Week 142 Anything goes</span></a><br />
<a href="http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/cch-107-use-die-or-punch.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Crazy Challenge - No. 107 Use a die or punch</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like it!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-18375200538849730572012-02-22T04:06:00.000-08:002012-02-22T04:06:58.172-08:00A challenge card again<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello bloggers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been colouring up some of the lovely digis from <a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Passion for Stamps</a> and this little beauty, called "Acidanthera" really spoke to me, so I wanted to make it stand out on a card.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I coloured the image with Copics (YG67, 63, 61 for greens, N3, 1, 0 and BV000 for the "white", V99 Y23, 17 for centres) and cut it out with a scalpel. I cut and embossed a Labels Five in light purple and distressed it with Seedless Preserve while still in the die. Sentiment is by Papertrey ink and paper is My Mind's Eye, Lime twist "Happy go lucky together dotty".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am entering this into the following challenges:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/cch-107-use-die-or-punch.html" target="_blank">The Crazy Challenge - No. 107 Use a die or punch</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/week-142-anything-goes.html" target="_blank">Allsorts Challenge - Week 142 Anything goes</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-204-flower-power.html" target="_blank">Cute Card Thursday - No 204 Flower Power</a></span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-5901158415123241602012-02-20T09:32:00.000-08:002012-02-20T09:33:32.188-08:00Copic Class at the Glitterpot<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good afternoon everyone!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday I had a lovely day at the Glitterpot teaching a workshop on using Copics on "Girl" stamps. It was a great assortment of wonderful ladies and I believe I had three sets of mothers with daughters in it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had chosen to work with a Gorjuss Girl stamp and one of Mo Manning stamps that Penny Black have brought out recently, love her stuff! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here are the cards I created for the workshop, as usual when I teach colouring I kept the layout simple.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paper is Basic Grey "Kissing Booth - I do"and I used the following Copics:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R89, 85, 83, 81 (pinks)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E21, 00, 000, R02, 05 (skin)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E15, 13, Y21 (hair)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E74, 71, 70 (ground)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Y23, 17 (yellow on flowers)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">N3,1,0 (greys/shadows)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">G28, 24, 21(greenery)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the blender as always...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I made another card with her, slightly altering the colours and giving her red hair instead of blonde.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paper is by My Mind's Eye "Miss Caroline "Howdy Doody Baby Chantilly" and I used these Copics:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E19, 07, 15, 13 YR07, Y21(hair)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Y23, 21 and a colour I mixed myself from 2/3 colourless blender and 1/3 Y21 (socks and yellow on dress and flowers)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W5, 3, 1 (ground)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">N3, 1, 0 (grey/shadows)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YG17, 13, 11 (greenery)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R85, 83, 81 (heart pendant)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This miserable weather is not making me want to go out today. Bahh!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had a nice weekend with a demonstration on Saturday at Crafts U Love. I met lots of lovely crafters and got to play a bit as well. And when I got home my new laptop had been delivered - yay! I am writing this post on it and I can tell you, it is soooo nice not to have to wait five minutes for every action to actually happen on the screen! My old trusty MacBook was getting too slow for me after 6 years of service and I was wanting to scream every time I needed to do some work in Photoshop!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I had to get out of the way of my darling hubby as he was working on our kitchen redo and not in a good mood... which didn't help my mood either, so being apart was better for all involved *lol*.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right, back to the demo, I had prepared 10 cards that used the Hero Arts/Sizzix stamp and die combos (as well as a HA Art of the Card set together with Distress Inks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't get a chance to take pics at home so these were done in the shop and accordingly I couldn't do much about the lighting... I also only noticed at home I forgot to take a picture of one card (you might see a blue eiffel tour card peeking in on some of the pictures, that one I didn't take a photo of :-( A bit miffed with myself as I really liked that one. Might try to get one when I next go to the shop.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting with the Cupcake Set, this green card was a quick one where I coloured one die cut cupcake with Peeled Paint and Worn Lipstick DIs and sponged the frame as well as stamping the second cupcake directly onto the green mat. The stripe on the ribbon was done with the same DI with the help of good old sello tape.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the last cupcake one I stamped the sentiment repeatedly onto white card in Smokey Gray (Versafine) and Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick DI then placed the frame die in the middle, tracing the outside with a black pen and placed silver pearls in every scallop. Before taking the die off I lightly sponged pink ink around the outside, leaving the middle part white. Stamped and die cut cupcakes on foam pads inside the frame were coloured with Wild Honey and Worn Lipstick and the right one has some paper piecing done to the lower part.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tall lady in the set was what I wanted to feature in the next card. I stamped with Worn Lipstick DI and die cut her after dragging the colours out with a water brush. The beautiful DP was distressed a little on the edges with Worn Lipstick and I matted onto dark pink card. Sentiment and pink pearls were added and that's it, easy peasy :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the Art of the Card Paris, France set to make a panel first, stamping randomly in Peeled Paint and Broken China DI, then sponged the middle in Broken China (lightly!) and the edges in Peeled Paint before spritzing with a little pearlised water. It doesn't show much in the picture but it gives a subtle sheen as well as delicate splatter pattern, love the effect! Layered this over slate blue card stock and stamped sentiment on in Versafine Onyx Black. Then I stamped and die cut the handbags, coloured with DIs (colours as before) and added gems, the black bag in the middle is covered in glossy accents. The were adhered with foam pads for some pop.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next card was totally inspired by the gorgeous paper that I wanted to take centre stage. I matted it on dark pink card stock and went on to stamp the eiffel tower, handbag and the girl before cutting them out. The eiffel tower was then sponged with Weathered Wood DI, the girl and handbag were coloured with DI in Seedless Preserve and Tattered Rose. I made her a little corsage by punching a flower from my mat card stock and adding a sticky gem. I also added 3 little pink pearls to the paper and stamped the sentiment, sponging it lightly with Victorian Velvet DI.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was a little disappointed at first that I couldn't colour the girls dress, but then more of this fab Designer Paper inspired me to think of other solutions. I coloured the girl with Tattered Rose and a bit of Worn Lipstick (lips and headband) and then covered her dress and one of her bags in wet glue and sprinkled glitter on. The other bag was paper pieced. I didn't want to hide too much of the paper so only added the sentiment, matted onto dark pink card, and sponged it lightly with Vintage Photo DI.</span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made the backing paper with the Art of the Card Paris, France set again using all shades of pink that the DIs come in (Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Victorian Velvet and Tattered Rose) for stamping, then sponging it all with Spun Sugar. The girl was coloured with Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick with a tiny bit of peeled paint for eye shadow. For the mat I used a dusky pink card that I also used to mat the little sign for the sentiment. Raffia acts as string and I added Viva Pearl Pen in black to the corner for balance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phew... that was a lot! Thanks for staying here til the end and hope you liked todays offering!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-23107329134961987882012-02-10T07:19:00.000-08:002012-02-10T07:20:11.880-08:00It's a man's world...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello there,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just want to share some cards for the boys that were done for a Glitterpot class recently... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a Butterfly Kisses stamp set called "Old Crock" which has some lovely images in for lots of applications. Also used the Memory Box ticket die and the coordinating stamp.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next one is a large A5 card in browns, again with lots of distressing and faux stitching going on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And lastly another card using more or less the same ingredients with some blue, twill ribbon, twine and a button thrown in. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did mean it, when I said I'll be here more often now! *lol* It might not be every day but as often as I can.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said on my last post, I still have some cards left to share that I did recently and today it's some more Glitterpot class cards.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first card uses the Large Flower Background stamp from Hero Arts, which I absolutely love. I coloured it with Copics ( YG61, BG01, BG000, R81, R83, Blender 0) and cut out the middle part with Labels Four from Spellbinders. For the mat layer I cut scalloped borders from pink Bazzil card, put my image panel on top and put the label die in the aperture again. Then I traced the inside of the die onto the pink card and cut that out by hand to get that small border all around.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The large flower to the right was trimmed out from a second print of the stamp, again coloured with Copics (R81, R83, R85, YG61, YG63, YG67, Blender 0) and adhered with silicon glue for a bit of depth. Sentiment is from a Personal Impressions set called Big Sentiments, designed by Paula Pascual and stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said, I love this stamp so couldn't quite leave it alone. For the next card I stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with distress inks. Colours used are: Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Forrest Moss and Broken China. I matted onto sunshine yellow card and added a turquoise butterfly and banner with heat embossed white sentiment (PI - Big Sentiments).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I played around with watercolour paper and Distress Inks with this stamp some more but not made them into cards yet, this one is stamped in Versamark and heat embossed in white before colouring.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I distressed the brown with DI in Gathered Twigs and did the same to the Echo Park paper. The image was matted onto turquoise card and set at an angle over dark brown card, sandwiching some white twill ribbon I coloured with Copics to match the butterfly.</span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for today, hope you like my projects and thanks for stopping by. If you leave me a comment I'll try my best to return the favour and visit your blog as well!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-45287843870791009052012-02-08T11:59:00.000-08:002012-02-08T13:01:01.703-08:00Ribbon and Twine Workshop<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello bloggers!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been working in my little studio and then remembered that I still have quite a few things I hadn't shared yet. So here I am now with some cards I made for the ribbon and twine workshop I held at the Glitterpot recently. It was a fun class and I think we made some lovely cards. But judge for yourself:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A card with apertures that I "filled with ribbon and twine, great for scraps! This one turned out quite "manly" I think...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I particularly like the ricrac rose, but the organza flowers are lovely, too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like these projects, thanks for stopping by!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-48638443161449178602012-02-03T03:31:00.000-08:002012-02-03T03:31:42.370-08:00Birthday Candy on my friends blog<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello bloggers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just a quick note to let you know my dear friend </span><a href="http://grenouillegreetings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lesley from Grenouillegreetings</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has a gorgeous candy going to celebrate her birthday (it's a special one!). Head over now to enter and have a chance to win this beautiful loot:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leave her some love, she deserves it!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-86048279833615602652012-01-30T14:45:00.000-08:002012-01-30T23:53:29.069-08:00A challenged card...<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you believe this? Three posts in one day?? I think I should look out for flying pigs tonight *lol*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been a bit poorly and couldn't do a lot apart from sitting wrapped in blankets in my little room so I played some. First I changed my blog design which nearly made my hair fall out! It just didn't do what it was supposed to for quite some time until I figured the problem and then it was done in a few minutes. Hope you like the new look!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When this was done I looked for some challenges and I wanted to use an image from </span><a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruth at A passion for Stamps</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as I had missed doing that.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mojo Monday</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> provided a nice sketch:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I coloured the image with Copics Y17, Y15, Y11 and Y00 for the petals and G28, G24 and G21 for the leaves and stems. The blender pen was invaluable again for the highlights and I used BV000 for some blueish shadows. The background was sponged with Spun Sugar Distress Ink after die cutting but with the paper still in the nestie to give a white border. Matted onto pink scalloped oval and popped up on foam pads. Paper is My Minds Eye from the Lime Twist collection and I used some ribbon from my stash. Sentiment is from a Personal impressions set and punched before popping onto foam pads again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very simple card, but I am quite pleased how it turned out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also fits the following challenges nicely:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/cch-104-flowers.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Crazy Challenge - CCH # 104 Flowers</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-170.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday Challenge # 170 Ribbon</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-41-flowers.html" target="_blank">My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 41 - Flowers</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-147-anything-goes.html" target="_blank">Creative Inspirations Challenge 147 - Anything goes</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/simon-saysanything-goes.html" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything goes</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-44826140281831326632012-01-30T06:01:00.000-08:002012-01-30T06:01:15.485-08:00Samples from last Glitterpot Class<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I was here at my blog to give you the colours for the previous card, I thought I might as well share a few more cards...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the pleasure of teaching a class on "Blooming Copics" recently and I haven't shared the pics with you yet. I had a wonderful day with some equally lovely people and I think they enjoyed the day as much as I did.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went a bit overboard again with my samples (as in, making too many...) but that's me, hard to stop me when I started ;-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first one uses the Penny Black image "Pin-striped" and I used YR07,YR04, Y38, Y19, Y17, Y15, Y11 and Y00 as well as the blender pen on the petals. The stamen were done in Y17. Leaves and stems were coloured in YG67, YG63 and YG61 (plus blender).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gave the hint of a shadow with T2 on the right-hand side of the flowers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set called "Say it all". </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I matted my image on red card and punched two slits to thread the ribbon through. The bottom part of the background is green cardstock that was embossed with the CB script folder, the paper on the top part is by Echo Park and called Victoria Gardens - Botanical Ballad. It's a lovely double-sided paper with music score on the other side that I used on some of the other cards as well.</span><br />
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<div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this card I stamped "Cheerful" by Penny Black and coloured with V17, V15, V12 (petals), Y19, Y11 (center), YG63, YG61(leaves and stem) and the blender. I then cut out the flower and pop it up with silicon glue onto the aforementioned Echo Park paper that I swiped with a bit of Tea Dye distress ink. </span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut a frame from green cardstock that I embossed with a pretty damask CB folder swiped with white ink </span></span></b><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and added some spotty lilac ribbon</span></span></b><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> before adhering with foam pads. </span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sentiment from Hero Arts again.</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now on to some poppies cards... The images are from the Hero Arts set called "Delicate Blossoms" and for this yellow version I used Y17, Y15, Y11, Y00 and the blender for petals, G28, G24 and G21 for stems/leaves and RV000 for the background. Matting in yellow and a die cut Marianne design branch from the same card. Sentiment from Hero Arts again, stamped in pink rather than black this time.</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Backing paper (sorry, forgot the make!) was cut with the Nesting Doorplate die by X-cut. </span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time I coloured my poppies in blue with B28, B26, B24, B21 and blender, stems in G29, G28, G24 and G21 and the background was dotted in C4, B24 and G24, I used C1 to blend. Green card matt, paper and sentiment as before and some ribbon loops to complement the paper.</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now some red big poppies! I used R89, R37, R35, R32 and R30 for the petals, G28, G24 and G21 for stems and B000 for background and added a bit of faux stitching to the panel before adding it to the red card panel. I heat embossed the Tim Holtz sentiment with white embossing powder and added a couple of pieces of ribbon before glueing everything to the card blank.</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this (last!) one I decoupaged the two largest flower heads but it's hard to see in the picture. You can always click on any picture to see a larger version!</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The petals are coloured with R85, R83, R81 and blender, stems are YG65, YG63 and YG61 and background is Y21. Y21 is called buttercup yellow and I love this colour! I matted this panel on pink card and mounted with foam pads after first stamping the narrower image in pink ink in different heights from the top left and bottom right. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz one again.</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div><b class="CPprodDesc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; font-size: 8pt; height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like my cards, feel free to leave me a comment!</span></span></b></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-63047861308749495092012-01-30T04:30:00.000-08:002012-01-30T04:33:27.139-08:00Copic Numbers for my tulips jar...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello bloggers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I have seen some of you at least want to know what colours I used to do the tulip jar image in my last post, I thought I'll oblige and give you the details on it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right, let's get to it:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use the blender pen a lot as well as BV00 and BV000 for shadowing on all of it, so I won't mention those separately in every step.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the leaves I used YG67, YG63 and YG 61.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The yellow tulips were done with Y17, Y15, Y11 and Y00 plus a little Y38 for the darker sections.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the red tulip uses R59, R29, R27, R24, R22 and R20.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white/yellow one is done with Y21, Y00.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The light pink one in the bottom left corner uses R81 and a tiny bit of R83.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've done the lilac ones with V17, V15 and V12.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the jar screw-top and the shadow on the ground I used C5, C3, C1 and C0 and for the glass BG13, BG11 and BG10.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might not have noticed in the picture but I used B000 on the upper right background to give a hint of a backdrop as well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope this helps some of you and I'll try to write down colours when I post next times right away!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S. Just in case you didn't know, you can always click on any pictures in my posts to see a larger version!</span><br />
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</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-75940986178140251642012-01-19T07:00:00.000-08:002012-01-19T07:00:12.959-08:00Is it spring already? Is it, is it? Pleaaaase...?<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No? Sure? Oh dear... my card is a little early then.... :-) Hope you don't mind, though.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made this card for the meet-up earlier this month to showcase a little bit of Copic colouring. I used a couple of Stamp sets by Papertreyink and the coordinating Jar Label die for the sentiment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The border is also a PTI die. The image was matted onto turquoise and chocolate cardstock.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Background paper is by Prima, matted onto chocolate card and the Organza ribbon is from stash.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I really should get into the habbit of taking picture of the colours I use for colouring in my images... I see that done on several blogs. Is that something you, my readers want? Let me know and if you do I'll make an effort to do it!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a close-up of the focal image:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like my offering today and please leave me a comment if you do!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-39806714902872964472012-01-16T10:14:00.000-08:002012-01-16T10:14:54.367-08:00First cards for Hobby Art<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello there!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprised to see me blogging again only two days after my last post? Hehe, I intend to be better at this blog than I used to be. I know I said it before but I really am trying to be a good blogger now!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I had promised in my last post, I have some pictures for you of cards I made with the gorgeous </span><a href="http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hobby Art stamps</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The playday had its effect on me and I really enjoyed making these.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here we go, first up the cards I made with the artwork that I made on the Saturday at Hobby Art after the tutorial by </span><a href="http://kimreygate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kim</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvfOCKzhoUxkVOR5iFDIgXTGNFdHE9xMzbRmEYykXqhQZgjhvBYkusOjdqCmpnd1UWeXViNEqA5uoE1JgmDntZORGXfHkfjR9oRiPKYM9OxW_TmtFCY7fV43YSZxKmn31Bpwi194FLm9w/s1600/Purple+Poppies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvfOCKzhoUxkVOR5iFDIgXTGNFdHE9xMzbRmEYykXqhQZgjhvBYkusOjdqCmpnd1UWeXViNEqA5uoE1JgmDntZORGXfHkfjR9oRiPKYM9OxW_TmtFCY7fV43YSZxKmn31Bpwi194FLm9w/s320/Purple+Poppies.jpg" width="233" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvfOCKzhoUxkVOR5iFDIgXTGNFdHE9xMzbRmEYykXqhQZgjhvBYkusOjdqCmpnd1UWeXViNEqA5uoE1JgmDntZORGXfHkfjR9oRiPKYM9OxW_TmtFCY7fV43YSZxKmn31Bpwi194FLm9w/s1600/Purple+Poppies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>This was the first card I made with the faux mother of pearl technique. I used Seedless Preserves Distress ink and on top of acrylic pearly paint and stamped the script background in the same ink. I stamped the Bordered Poppies stamp in Versafine Black and coloured with several Distress Inks before glazing the flower heads with Glossy Accents.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the background I stamped the single poppy stem from the Poppies Scene-it set all over randomly (in Dusty Concord DI) and sponged some more on the edges and the flower heads.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My main panel was wrapped with ribbons and matted onto lilac pearlescent card before mounting the whole thing onto a purple card blank.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a close up of the poppies:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After lusting over the colours that </span><a href="http://janeelizabeth-flowergirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jane</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> had used I had a go myself with those same colours, here is the result:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really like the pop of the colours in contrast to the black card blank. I used Iced Spruce, Evergreen Bough and Scattered Straw on the image, mounted onto yellow-orange cardstock and tied some black embroidery floss around before mounting onto the card. Simple, but I love this one!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up was my attempt to use some Copics with the faux mother of pearl technique...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey and Mustard Seed on the background, stamped the poppies and leaves with Memento ink and coloured with Copics. I stamped the large flower heads again on some spare card and coloured them in with Copics before fussy cutting and glueing them in place. I am not quite sure if they just pop more that way or if it looks a little weird with the stark highlights on the soft backdrop...? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I matted onto red and copper metallic card before mounting onto a square cream card base that I had embossed with a square frame. The sentiment is from the Scene-it Sentiments set.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you like my offering for today, I'll be back with more cards soon, promise!</span></div>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-12190791774186148742012-01-14T10:55:00.000-08:002012-01-14T10:56:31.855-08:00Exciting news!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello everyone!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another quick post from me again, haven't got anything to show you today (but some cards are waiting to be photographed in better light so should be posting again soon!), but as the news are out elsewhere I thought I'd shout it out here as well ;-)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am very honoured to say I have been invited to be a part of the lovely <a href="http://www.jennymayes.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Mayes</a>' Design Team for <a href="http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Art</a>! I have met Jenny a few times in the <a href="http://www.theglitterpot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Glitterpot</a> and she is such a lovely lady! Last weekend she had arranged a little crafty play day and I was very happy to be invited. It turned out to be a very enjoyable and inspirational day and I got to meet some more extremely talented ladies as well as see Jenny and the wonderful <a href="http://janeelizabeth-flowergirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jane Gill</a> again.<a href="http://kimreygate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Kim Reygate</a> showed us a great technique to make faux mother of Pearl backgrounds, I probably put on two pounds just by looking at the food that Jenny had put on the table and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all that talent around me made my mojo just do somersaults as I couldn't stop creating afterwards *lol*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll try to get some pics done of my creations from the play day and my frantic creating time after as soon as my family gives me more than five minutes to catch up on my blogging.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANYWAY.... I am sooo pleased! I already own a few of the Hobby Arts sets and admired most of them before and now I can't wait to get to play with all the new sets as well! Woohoo :-)</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-9661181506995207142012-01-08T09:01:00.000-08:002012-01-08T09:01:16.326-08:00Give away!<div style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a quickie from me: Ruth on </span><a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/2012/01/promarker-and-digi-giveaway.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Passion for Stamps</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has a great giveaway going at the moment:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Saturday was my last class at the Glitterpot for this year (although if you want to attend one of my classes, the January and February ones are up on the website now and you can book now, some are already filling fast!) and I really enjoyed the day with some lovely ladies! I went a bit mad on the sample front but decided to just go with it and prepare the packs so everyone could do any (although not all) card out of the bits provided. It was quite interesting to see which ones people chose to do!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The class was a colouring with Copics one with a focus on nature and landscape. So without further palaver, here are my samples. For the "landscape" part of the session I made these cards:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other materials used: White and coloured/textured cardstock, Vellum, buttons from stash( I think they are Basic Grey) a Spellbinders Label die and of course Copics! I stamped onto Craftwork Cards Premium Digital Paper with Memento ink, Sentiments stamped in Versafine in black and sepia and I distressed the edges of the paper and labels with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, I went a bit overboard, just couldn't stop using these *lol*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apart from the stamp set which includes the sentiments and single crocus image as well as the large tile image I used white and coloured, glittered and textured cardstock, Echo Park "Yellow Damask" paper, some ribbon & ricrac, vellum, clear gemstones and again ink, paper and Copic pens as above. The decorative edge on the first card was achieved by using a label punch repeatedly on the edge of the paper to create the border.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for now, hope you like my cards and thanks if you decide to leave a comment!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-20550542683917842582011-10-26T11:00:00.000-07:002011-10-26T11:01:08.091-07:00A great give-away!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello bloggers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been soooo busy with my life in general and my crafting (for classes) in particular, that blogging has been on the back-burner for a while. Hope you haven't forgotten me and deserted?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I have a fab give-away to announce that the lovely and generous Ruth of </span><a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Passion for Stamps</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is doing. You have until the 5th November to enter to win 5 digis of your choice from Ruths great selection and the rules are very simple:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go here to enter: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/2011/10/digi-image-giveaway.html">Digi give-away</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have tons of cards and a couple of other projects to share. As I said I have been very busy... But for now, I'll leave you to this give-away and share with you later!</span>Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367068189338162027noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674864623759791605.post-21003243123131539232011-08-22T11:05:00.000-07:002011-08-22T11:05:42.028-07:00A quick birthday card<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday we were invited to the 40th birthday picnic for a friend/co-worker of his. I didn't have time to do a card before so had to do it yesterday morning before heading out which left me about an hour. I basically created with what was on my desk and am quite pleased with the outcome. Thankfully she liked it, too. Phew!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Papers, cardstock, ink, stamps and the single pearl are all SU, die for the panel on the side and the single flower and the grass (upper, fussy-cut) are by PTI, seam binding from stash.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for dropping in again and hope you like tonights offering. I am off to prepare tonights class.</span><br />
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