Showing posts with label Crafters Companion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crafters Companion. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 September 2012

Sneek Peek! Pick of the week- Toread's


Well they are nearly here! The legendary Tiny Nymphs! 
The delightful little characters called 'Toreads'
On Friday 28th September 2012 on Create & Craft tv, Ideal World 
Crafter's Companion will be launching stamps and cds.
My sneek peek is slightly different, but shows just how versatile the characters are!
I used the image flora from decoupage section and imported into my software and made into a sheet of cupcakes toppers,quite easily,to print onto a sheet of edible icing,printed with edible inks .
So all you cake fanatics can make use of the cd's also! And what an eye catching display they would make for a celebration!
Keep checking back and popping over to Crafters companion blog  News & views and join in the competition.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Sheena Douglass sneek peek!

Sheena has always had a wicked sense of humour, im sure you will agree and her new stamps are indeed keeping that going!
Next week sees the launch of her
'A little bit different' stamps!

For this sample, i stamped the large stamp with black soot Tim Holtz Distress ink and heat embossed with Deep impression clear embossing powder, tinted up with tattered rose and vintage photo, then stamped another image, again heat embossing, but this time i cut the cows out and decoupaged them onto the first image. Finally for the main image i stamped the head of the cow onto the pink piece of coredinations and cut out the crown, added many layers of clear deep impressions embossing powder to make the crown look like glass! And added a gem, taken from the Beatrix potter elements range of gems,from Crafter's Companion and added to the decoupaged cow using collal glue gel.
For the newspaper effect on the backing paper i stamped, randomly with the print part of the stamp, edged with black soot and again clear heat embossed the edges.
Finally matting onto the matching pink coredinations card.and adding apiece of ribbon again from Beatrix potters elements range. 

Monday, 5 March 2012

Sneak Peek 1 – Paintbox Poppets Stamps and CD-ROM Pick of the week! And blog candy!


Are you ready for the new pick of the week, on Create & Craft tv on friday!
Being bought to you by Crafter's companion are
The Paintbox Poppets.
If you are familiar with the lovely Reddy decoupage, these are the stamps and cd, so you can colour then as you like!
Here is a peek at one of my sample, i made a money wallet, 
which could be used for an invitation or a gift card

I have used two of the lovely stamps and coloured them with Spectrum Noir pens, adding them to the folder, made using the Ultimate pro board and centura pearl snow white card,, with,on the front Collal glue gel to give a more 3d image and inside Collal all purpose for a flat image.
The sentiment is available too! All the necessary  items are available from Crafter's companion
Inside the folder i printed two sheets of backing paper from the cd and lined inside with it.
If you pop back to my blog and comment, each time you leave a comment you will be added into a draw for the cd, which will be randomly picked by me on friday!
More details to follow with tomorrow card!.x

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

SWALK PICK OF THE WEEK

Hope you've all been tuning in for the SWALK pick of the week on Create & Craft/Ideal World,by
Crafters Companion.
Here is one of the stamps using the backing paper and sentiment from the cd, i used Spectrum noir pens for the image, which i cut out and added to the card with Collall glue gel for dimension,.

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Post it note booklet Tutorial



What you need:-
Boxer board,which fits onto your Ulitmate pro
2 Sheena Douglass' mount boards ive used square for this example.
Crafter's Companion Tape Pen.
A section of post it notes.
A cut down pencil, sharpened and paint with chosen colour.


Using the pro board, with Boxer board attached, butting up to the handle, lay your piece of a4 card, narrowest edge to the handle(portrait) then lay your chosen mount board ontop and score the relevant line at its edge,making sure you score on the shiny side of the centura pearl card, so it doesnt crack when folding.

Fold and score the crease line and with side folded, re-butt up to the handle,place the post it notes,depth way, up to the handle edge and again score the closest line.
Fold and score again.


Butt the scored card up to the handle again, this will be a large area and a small spine, then again lay your chosen mount board up to the handle and folded card and again score, nearest line.

Turning card lengthways, widest part butted up to handle (landscape) lay your mount board up to the handle and score closest line all the way along the card.

With your Clevercut mini,or knife & ruler, cut the scored shape out and put spare pieces to one side.

With the tape pen, attach the post it notes,centrally inside the cover and stick down.

With the smaller spare piece of card and the shortened pencil.

Roll the strip tightly around the pencil and secure by applying a strip of tape pen before finally rolling round and trim the end off.

Using wet glue or the tape pen, attach to the inside of your booklet.

Stick the finished mount board on the front of your booklet and the plain 2nd piece of mount board on the back of your booklet, this would make and ideal give or fete item!
I have used Sheena Douglass' Sweet Pea set of stamps and paint and used gold embossing powder around the edge, before sticking to the booklet, i psrayed the finished picture with Spray & Shine.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Now and today on Create & Craft Jayne Nestorenko's Adorable Summer Collection

Keep watching on Create & Craft, now and during the day
Adorables Summer Collection.
Jayne shows her amazing talent and unique designs, with a cd and stamps!


Sunflower Heart box

Here is another one of my Paint fusion samples, this time i painted and distressed a large heart shape,papier mache box and used Sheena Douglass' Sunflower Paintfusion stamps and paint and then finished by spraying with the ever faithful Spray & Shine from Crafters Companion.

Friday, 29 July 2011

PANTS...DONT FORGET!!! #4 card...Humphrey and SWALK launch!!

Dont forget to watchout for the launch by Crafter's Companion of...
SWALK....
HUMPHREY......
and.......
Spectrum Noir pens!
 on Create & Craft/Ideal world!
Here is another SWALK card, using the Pants i forgot image, i made her look like a maid,using Spectrum noir pens, but obviously she could look like a house wife or granny or any one you choose.
Congratulations to Diana Day for being randomly picked to win the blog hop! Well done!
The phrase was 'Hugs for you'
Have fun watching the launch this weekend!!

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Another sneek peek!! Slugs & Snails!!

Here is another sneek peek of the new launch of SWALK and Humphrey stamps by Crafters Companion.
This time its one of the delightful SWALK images,
Snug & Snails...
...and puppy dog tails!
I have stamped this image onto Neenah card using black memento and used my fabulous new
Remember dont use Stazon, you need a water based dye, or you will ruin your lovely pens!
Keep checking back for more sneek peeks before the launch on Create & Craft this weekend!! And also pop over to
Crafter's companion New,Views and inspiration blog, here.
Thankyou for looking.x

Monday, 25 July 2011

SPECTRUM NOIR!!!


Well, i love them!!
Here is a card using a SWALK2 stamp just coloured with the one set of Warm Greys! All there is is the hint of red from the brads!
I coloured the image twice and decoupaged them with just one layer, so they really stand out from the page.
They are easy to hold, fantastic range of colours!!
And they suit all pockets, as the sets can be bought in packs of six or go for the full set of all 12 sets of 6 pens and get the multibuy discount! They are refilable and can buy spare nibs too!
Checkout the deals at

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Oh the joys of being on Crafters Companion Design Team!!! Spectrum Noir Pens are in da house!!

OH MY WOOLY WORD!!
YOU'VE JUST... GOT... GOTTA HAVE IT!!!
Lucky Lucky me!!
Have you heard the news!!
SPECTRUM NOIR are sooo close to launching by Crafter's Companion!
These are brand new alcohol based marker pens, chisel nib & fine bullet, spare nibs and refilleable!!
Keep checking the Crafter's Companion Website and their News & views Blog!
For more details and exciting sneek peeks coming up very very soon!!

And this weekend see's me Demoing at
Pickwell Farm ,
Netley.
Southampton.

Hope to see you there if you are local!


Sunday, 17 July 2011

Paint Fusion-House Name Plaque

Here is a Bamboo chopping board i made into a house plaque, as Bamboo is quite water resilient, it make an ideal material to make a house plaque on!
I distressed the board and added Tim Holtz distress ink Vintage photo and Antique linen to give even more dimension to the paint.
Then i painted the Berries and blossom using Sheena Douglass's Paint fusion stamp set and acrylic paints.
I used my eCraft to cut out the name in paper and added colour using Vintage Photo Tim Holtz ink pad again and then added to the board using Strong PVA glue, which i painted over the top of each letter to seal it onto the board.
I sprayed the whole finished board with Crafters Companion Spray & Shine, this give great preservation qualities to the finished item!

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Paint fusion Tissue Box

Here is another one of my Paint Fusion attempts, this time i  have painted a plywood rectangle tissue box

I firstly distressed the box with white paint in a crackle effect.

Then i used Sheena Douglass's Berries set of Paint fusion Stamps and painted with Pebeo Acrylic paints, sold in sets to match the stamps also available from Sheena Douglass


When dry i finished it off by spraying with Crafters Companion Spray & Shine, this gives a hardwearing high-gloss varnish which gives your work a protective coating similar to a layer of glass! It is also Acid free!!

Friday, 1 July 2011

Tim Holtz Pick of the Week

Oh i was in heaven!!
I was sent, by Crafters Companion, products to make samples for the Brand New Today
Tim Holtz Pick of the Week on Create & Craft Tv,
which included their new embossing folders and Core dination 12 x 12 papers, made epsecially to match all the colours of Tim Holtz Distressed ink pads!
The coredinations has a different colour running through the 'Core' of the papers, then you sand the top with the sand it gadget and show the 'Core' colour.
For this card i embossed using the Polka dot embossing folder, which i used twice, by roughly lining up the dots and re embossing, so i go a larger piece of embossed paper,then i sanded it to show the light colour.
I used 3 birds Clearly stamped by Crafters Companion for Sentiment and for the corner embelishment, which i stamps Stazon black ink onto the coloured Coredinations paper and cut the corners out. The image is
Sheena Douglass' Simply Sweet stamp set, which used her Paint Fusion Technique to paint the lavender.

Keep checking out the shows,all week, today is Claire(Do craft) Curd, as she has now joined Create & Craft tv!

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Diamond Wedding Card

I was asked to make a Diamond Wedding Card, this is what i made.
This is using the Bookatrix Board by The Glitter girls and I used Sheena Douglass' Paint Fusion stamp from Simply Sweet set of stamps and painted it with her paints and a touch of Tim Holtz Adirondack Mixative Gold Alcohol Ink for some of the foliage, i didnt paint in the flowers instead i quilled tiny white roses and attached using pva glue to the painted image. I scored and cout out the bookmark and side panel and sprayed with  Spray & Sparkle Multicolour spray,on Lilac Centura pearl card, all from Crafters Companion.

Thursday, 23 June 2011

sneek peek and an announcement!


Oh please, if you know whats good for you, makesure you are tuned in tomorrow 11am on Create & Craft Tv for the launch by Jayne Nestorenko the new
Adorables, stamps and cd.
This will be the pick of the week, so make sure you keep checking out all the shows, on Create & Craft Tv and Ideal World tv throughout the week,im sure it will be a sellout in no time!
My card has been made using the donkey stamp from one of the collection, i used derewent watercolour pencil for this and think, in gunmetal grey he looks quite lovely!
Checkout Crafters Companion Blog for competition and latest project ideas HERE
Now for my announcement
I am very pleased to be able to announce that .....
I am one of the new
Officially Approved Demonstrators for
After and extensive and amazing weekend with Sara,Leann,Claire, Michelle & Meg and a we had to be assessed!!! Arrrgghhh!! to see if we were good enough, i think we all went grey over night, not that we cant do it but we were doing it in front of Sara, Leann & Claire!!
We were personally invited to go for a weekend at Aston Hotel in Darlington, the food was amazing!! The room was wonderful!! It was a very packed weekend being taught the business end of the company rather than, being on the design team, the craft side of it.
Then on the Monday afternoon we had a workshop with the wonderfully talented
Sheena Douglass! Learning all the ropes with her products too!
Anyway I passed !!
And met some truly wonderful people that i felt like i had known for years and will never look at chocolate cake again with out think of Meg and a big jug of Custard!!
Please keep an eye out for where i will be demonstrating!! Could be near you, im the South East area.

Monday, 20 June 2011

This sneek peek is Adorable!!!

Oh the joys of being on Crafters Companion Design Team.
Here i am pleased to show you a card made using the
Brand new collection of
Adorables by Jayne Nestorenko!
These will be launching on Friday On Create & Craft/Ideal World TV
Keep checking back for more details.
Go over and join in the fun on Crafter Companion Blog News & Views

This card was made using my new Ecraft, which is Solely distributed in the UK by Crafters Companion, the card base, the tag, the flowers the sentiment all cut out on the New Ecraft. For the image i used Jayne Nestorenko's new stamp from her latest collection of Adorables and I added colour using Derwent watercolour pencils.
The Ecraft cuts up to 12x12 and doesnt need a cutting mat!Also can cut from 1-50 sheets from the tray, so it would be like a printer, no more loading each sheet onto a sticky mat!

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

The Snowman Launch-Throughout today,Pick of the Day

Keep watching today on Create & Craft tv and Ideal World
for more shows with
The Snowman
Being launched by Crafters companion.
A cd rom and sheet of stamps.
Nigel is on at 10am on Create & Craft and other shows are on Ideal world,right up to the last chance show, if it last that long!
This card is an  a5 card,which i have attached on of the iconic images on the cd, from the Frame card section, which has the image decoupaged in the centre of the frame and sprayed with Iredescent Spray & Sparkle.
xx

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

TONIGHTS THE LAUNCH OF 'THE SNOWMAN' SARA AND ...DAWN BIBBY!

Make sure you checkout
Ideal World tonight 9pm
for the launch of
The Snowman cd and stamps!
Being launched by Sara..
Andy Love and
DAWN BIBBY......



Saturday, 11 June 2011

SNEEK PEEK #2 THE SNOWMAN

Have you heard...
The Snowman- Pick of the Week on Ideal World
Tuesday 9pm,by Crafters Companion.
Here is another sneek peek of a card made, this time, using an image from the decoupage section of the cd and one of the wonderful backing papers..
Make sure you go over to Crafters Companion News & Views Blog and join in the competition to be in a chance of winning the complete set of The snowman launch, the stamps and the cd.


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