Friday, 14 May 2010

Popcorn Kids- Launch today 11am Create & Craft



Heres another card for the launch of Popcorn kids on Create & Craft , pick of the week today starting at 11am.

This Easel card is made using one of the decoupage images and backing paper from the new cd!
Make sure you tune in for the shows . And keep poppng back if you need some inspiration!

Thursday, 13 May 2010

Popcorn Kids-Pick of the Week launch tomorrow!


Here is a taster of whats to come, this is one of the set of stamps, in tomorrows launch on Create & Craft/Ideal World by Crafters Companion.
The new stamps are smaller than the last lot of Popcorn stamps so they fit perfectly in to nestabillities!!
I stamped the pram image and coloured with Derwent watercolour pencils,the backing paper is from the cd and the baby blocks are from the same set of stamps.

Here are the times for the week long shows.

We're really pleased to announce the launch of the range tomorrow at 11am as Pick of the Week on Ideal World & Create and Craft.







Sara will be showcasing the new Popcorn range live at 11am tomorrow - Friday 14th May - on Create and Craft (Sky 671, Freeview 36) and there will also be live shows with Leann on Sunday 16th at 9am on Create and Craft and 2pm on Ideal World, as well as on Monday 17th at 8am on Create and Craft. Sara will round off the week with a live show on Wednesday 19th at 9am on Create and Craft. These shows will also be repeated throughout the week.


Keep checking back for more cards and inspiration!

Saturday, 8 May 2010

PatchWork Polly and Friends-Julie

Here is Julie- from Patchwork Polly & Friends set of Stamps launched by Jayne Nestorenko

Again i have used Copics on card and Derwent watercolour pencils.
This one is with Watercolour pencils, using all the little embelishment stamps for the flowers and her little doggy and sachel. Made into an a5 card, using Centura pearl card and a Martha Stewart Punch along the bottom



This one is done with Copics, the patchwork sqaure comes with the set along with the greeting.
This is a 6x6 square card using centura pearl card.

Friday, 7 May 2010

More Beatrix Potter 2-Jemima and Mr Fox


Here is a large 8x8 sqaure card, all the images are stamped using the Jemima PuddleDuck set of Stamps and watercoloured with Derwent watercolour pencils.
I stamped the main Jemima and Mr fox image several times and decoupaged them using Collal Glue gel.

I cut an aperture out of the card and edged with a gold pen. Stamped the foxgloves and again coloured with Watercolour pencils and curved slightly and mounted to the card with Glue gel.


Also cutting a matching oval I mounted the images and again, edged with a gold marker pen

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Live Beatrix Potter 2 show tomorrow with Leann


Make sure you tune in tomorrow on Create & Craft, for Leann Chivers live show at 10am,she will be showing Beatrix Potter 2, Jemima Puddleduck and Two Bad Mice and ofcourse be doing her fabulous demos!
 Fingers crossed Sara hasnt got stuck at an airport waiting to come home, today she was at Paris airport waiting for a connection!

The card i have shown is using printable acetate from Crafters Companion Printing paper pack, using one of the backing papers from the new cd, then i attached the Jemima Puddleduck topper and Sentiment using Collall glue gel, adding button embellishments in the corners, also adding a touch of gel glue to the centre of the flowers i added pinflair glitter to give a lovely bit of sparkle.

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Is very pleased to announce...

I am delighted to announce that I am a Designer for Katy Sue Designs/Flowersoft!
So watch out for lots of inspiration and ideas using their fantastic range of Flower Soft, stamps, cd's, toppers etc, I find a use for flower soft everywhere in my crafting and their stamps are just gorgeous!!You can get lost colouring them with watercolours or copics.
I am sure if you've been to any shows you've seen Doreen or Noreen on their stand or also they are well known on Create & Craft TV
Checkout their Website

Sunday, 2 May 2010

PatchWork Polly & Friends-Helene

Here are two cards made for the launch last week by Jayne Nestorenko on Create & Craft/Ideal World.
These are made using Helene from the set of PatchWork Polly & Friends
The first card is made using Derwent water colour pencils and all the little embelishment stamps in the 'Helene' set.


The next card is made using Helene stamps multiple times and decoupaged, using Pinflair glue.
This card was coloured using Copic pens



This again shows how versatile these stamps are, using any medium you wish.

Friday, 30 April 2010

30th Birthday Shoe

Here is a Shoe i made using the wonderful template from
I used a punch and a string of pearl flowers cut individually for the flowers

Saturday, 24 April 2010

PatchWork Polly and Friends-Olivia


Here is Olivia, who is from the Brand new set of stamps -PatchWork Polly and Friends-
by Jayne Nestorenko, lainched on Create & Craft/Ideal World all this week with one more show on Monday.
I stamped Olivia several times and decoupaged her, even down to her little teddy in her pocket.
I used Derwent Watercolour Pencils to colour her and the floral border round the aperture, which is one of the embelishment stamps in the Olivia Set

Friday, 23 April 2010

Joanna Sheen-Ivory Cats

Here is another card using the brand spanking new cd from Joanna Sheen-Ivory Cats, this is a very simple card, its all there for you a beautiful side step card that fits into an A5 envelope.

This prints off on two A4 cards and some of the cats, flowers & butterflies  are decoupaged.



Thursday, 22 April 2010

Ivory Cats

Here is a card made with the Brand new Joanna Sheen CD Ivory Cats, which was launched on Create & Craft/Ideal World over the weekend.
This image is soo like my neightbours cat!
I printed the image onto photo paper and mat and layered with matching card, using the blue to punch out some flowers and the white to punch out the centre of the flowers.The backing paper is with this image on the cd.
This is a large 8x8 square card


Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Beatrix potter launch Create & Craft/Ideal World today

Today saw the launch of Beatrix potter two, Jemima Puddle Duck and Two Bad Mice, on Create & Craft/Ideal World, busy busy week one show after the other, Jayne Nestorenko yesterday and Friday and Crafters Companion today! This was bought forward a month, so had a phonecall thursday last week needing samples to be sent monday, good job its so easy to use as looks like we all made enogh for the show.
Here is one of the cards, using the image and backing paper from the Jemima cd.
Spraying the wonderful Spray and sparkle on the backing paper and with a glue pen adding Pinflair glitter to the Foxglove leaves on the main image.


Lion Card

This is the new GSD file available from Tina Fitch at Forever memories for you
She has hundreds of beautiful downloads!
For this card, i cut all out on the craft Robo and using cream for the lions i then used promarkers to add colour and dimension to their bodies.

Loopi Loom

For all you lovely people asking about the Loopi Loom, i have contacted Hayley and she says its ok, so will try and post a pictorial/ instruction on here as soon as i have time. As would send a ten page email and still not get to the point.xx

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

PatchWork Polly's friend Chloe'- Jayne Nestorenko Launch today

Here is Chloe' one of the friends of Polly, the new collection launching today on Create & Craft by the lovely Jayne Nestorenko.
Here I thought i'd show ho easy they are to completely change by the colours and the medium you use.

Here is Chloe' using lots of the stamps from her set and Derwent watercolour pencil and Pinflair gel to attach to the card. This is a large 8x8 sq card


For complete contrast, this is Chloe' ag
ain, but this time i used Copic pens, this makes her more ' manga' looking and a very bright and vibrant card.


An here again Chloe' is coloured with watercolour pencils but using the blue and lemon yellow gives a whole different feel to the card.

Monday, 19 April 2010

NEW!!! Jayne Nestorenko launch..PatchWork Polly & Firends


One of the delights of being a Designer is you get the joys of working with some very talented people and one of those is Jayne Nestorenko, she is a lovely lovely lady and pure talent!!
This is her new collection, i had the pleasure to work with,
PatchWork Polly & Friends
These are a collection of beautiful designs by Jayne Nestorenko and PatchWork Polly and her friends and tomorrow it launches on Create & Craft/Ideal World.
This card is of Polly herself, I stamped the lovely image and used Copics to colour her, giving her the statatory grubby feet as any little girl up a tree would have them!
Check back for more inspiration and views of my sample cards for the launch.
The times are below for the shows


 


Beatrix Potter ..Jemima Puddle duck


Here is a notebook and pencil set i made using the decoupage image from the New Jemima Puddle Duck Cd by Crafters Companion, which will now be shown on Wednesday on Create & Craft/Ideal World.
I made the base using th Ultimate pro board also from Crafters Companion.



For the pencil i printed some backing paper and used the Jemima Puddle Duck stamps from the set, on shrink plastic and attaced using jewellary findings.

Saturday, 17 April 2010

Rock a bye baby...

Here is another card for the launch of Beatrix Potter 2 at Crafters Companion .
The new launch consists of a triple cd pack, Jemima Puddle Duck, Two Bad Mice and an inspirational DVD with projects and techniques, this card is on the dvd, in the tea bag section .

Also the image is from the two bad mice cd, using on of the decoupage images and choosing a co-ordinating backing paper and tea bag papers

Friday, 16 April 2010

Todays the launch of Beatrix Potter 2.....

At Crafters Companion today is the launch of Beatrix Potter 2....
Jemima Puddle Duck and To Bad Mice

This card was made using one of the stamps from the Jemima Puddle Duck set of of 15 un-mounted stanps.
This is Jemima and Kep and inside the leaflet that comes with the stamps you'll find instructions on how to make this card.






Thursday, 15 April 2010

Beatrix Potter 2 launch pre-view

Here is a nother peek at the Jemima Puddle duck
and Two Bad Mice Beatrix Potter 2 launch.
Here i have made Jemima Puddle Duck earrings, using on of the JPD stamps on Shrink plastic, then attached to the earring findings.
This is a Easel Card, so makes a good stand to display your gift.




go over and take a look at the launch on Crafters Companion tomorrow!

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Jemima Puddle Duck and Two Bad mice Launch

Friday the 16th April sees the launch on Crafters Companion of Beatrix potter 2.... Which is Jemima Puddle Duck and Two Bad Mice .
Here is a peek at one of my samples, made using the 3d builder Lean to templates, as the launch also has a dvd showing different teqhniques and projects.


I used the ever faithful flowersoft for the flowers growing over the lean to and on the picket fence.
The bakcing paper is on the Beatrix Potter 3d builder cd


for the floor i used Tim Holtz distressed ink pads, flowesoft again and clay pots which i broke slightly to give a used effect!




I made beans,tomatos,cabbage, pumpkin and carrots out of Fimo clay




The whole model is mounted onto an A4 card

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Congratulations......



This a5 card, can easily be used as a Wedding,Engagement,Anniversary,Birthday card, by simply changing the sentiment and the colour of the cake, this is using my Celebration Cake image from the Celebration and Wedding Collection available over at Enjays Craft Store as a Download.
I used Copics to add colour and hand wrote the sentiment.

Friday, 9 April 2010

Just for you....

Here is a Circle card made using my 'Maisie....Just for you' image and Weeds & Wildflowers 'lifes good' digi downloads.
I opened Maisie in to word to resize her to the size i required, cut her out and coloured using Promarkers, then made up the background on photoshop with the digi images from the weeds & wildflowers .
This card is for the Passion for Promarkers challenge 'The Young Ones'

To a Special Little Girl.......Marigold Fairie

Here is another sample for the Crafters Companion Launch of Fairies of the Garden.using the individual Marigold flower shrunk down on Shrink plastic for the four flowers on the corners, Marigold fairie is herself coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils, the backing paper is from the accompanying cd, which i stamped the sentiment three times along the card, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder &  then sprayed with Spray & Sparkle, gold and silver,
I used the Marigold set of stamps for this card, this is an a5 card, a4 folded into half.

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Fairies at the bottom of your garden...


Here is the window i made for the Fairies of the Garden Launch for Crafters Companion on Ideal World/Create & Craft, using the model from the 3d builder, which comes with printable templates or GSD i used the GSD file on my Craft Robo for this model.
Using Stick and Stay to attach the acetate to the window frames and Spray and Sparkle on the different layers for the tunnel card inside the window.
I used backing papers from the Cd cut into different levels,attached to the acetate sections, then used 'Sweet Pea' decoupage image for the front of the tunnel layer.


This is the front of the model, which could be adapted to any occason,simply by adding greeting or a name and would lovely in any little girls bedroom or a new baby gift!

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Magical Maisie


Here is Maisie, she's now available as a download on my store, Enjays Craft Store.
She is available as a download, which you can import into a photo/graphic program or even 'word' which you can resize to the size you want to fit your project,
Go and check her out at

Dancing with Shadows 80th Birthday

This is an 80th Birthday card i was asked to make, so i used the ever faithful 'Dancing with Shadows' cd from Joanna Sheen, this has to be one of my most fvourite cd's from Joanna, ofcourse it will be, as it was a card i made using the cd which i won the Joanna Sheen Card making and Papercraft of the year in 2008,which started me off on her Design team.


I printed all the papers on parchment.

Monday, 5 April 2010

Canterbury Bell


Here is a4 centura pearl card made into a gatefold sample card for the Fairies of the Garden launch for IdealWorld/Crafters Companion.

I used all the stamped images from the Canterbury Bell set of stamps, using Derwent Watercolour Pencils, distressing the edge of the oval, the Border corners and butterfly, I used Copics as they were stamped directly onto Centura Pearl Card.
The trellis edging is made using a Martha Stewart punch.
The backing paper inside the card is from the Canterbury Bell cd.

Friday, 2 April 2010

Horse Doors

Happy Easter Everyone!
Here is my first card to show from forevermemoriesforyou.co.uk
This is made using a Craft Robo, I cut the relevant pieces on different colours of card.








This is a new release from Tina Fitch, available on her website


Monday, 29 March 2010

Make a Wish....


This 8x8 card,made for the fairies of the Garden Launch on Ideal World, is using the Willow Herb/Rose Bay stamp set from the collection.
I watercoloured her with Derwent pencils, used Fiskars decal edge scissors to make the strips/mock ribbon, also the backing paper is from the same section on the cd, sprayed with spray & sparkle and  used the tea bag papers to make the teabag rosette.

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Thankyou Fairy Much



Here is another one of my samples for the Fairies of the Garden Launch on Ideal World, by Crafters Companion.
This is an 8x8 square card, i used the large stamp of the Candy Tuft set of stamps, watercoloured with derwent watercolour pencils,masked the body and just sprayed spray and sparkle,gold & silver onto her wings,then mounted the cutout image on to an oval, then printed a sheet of backing paper from the Candy Tuft cd, spraying with Spray and Sparkle, with stazon,I then stamped directly onto the backing paper with the sentiment 'Thankyou Fairy Much' stamp from the same set. Then i stamped,coloured and cutout the border corners and butterfly,using again the stamps in the Candy Tuft set, raising them using pinflair glue gel.

....Im very pleased to announce....

That I have been asked by Tina Fitch to be on her Creative Team, ofcourse Tina is well known for her GSD files for the Craft Robo, lately she has been on Create & Craft/Ideal World,showing her expert knowledge of the Robo. As i've only had a Robo for 3 month I am very honoured to be asked!! Go and checkout her gorgeous Designs on her blog:-
Forever Memories For You
Or website:- www.forevermemoriesforyou.co.uk/Shop/ 

Thursday, 25 March 2010

'Take Time To Smell The Flowers'

This is another samples for the fairies of the garden launch.
This card is is a5, i used the Heliotrope stamp image, watercoloured with derwent pencils and masked off to just spray Spray and Sparkle on her wings,also the corner detail is from the Heliotrope set also, i used shrink plastic and stamped the sentiment 'Take Time to Smell the Flowers' then shrunk with a heatgun. The trellis oval is made using the Craft Robo, using a GSD File from Crafty Club. 




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