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Adorables frame card

Here is one of my samples for Jayne Nestorenko's Adorables Cd and stamps.

This is a large a4 card and made using the frame card and decoupage from the cd and also I printed the alphabet out for 'for you', then added the backing paper and boarder, all from the cd and covered with a generous helping of silver Spray & Sparkle!

Quilled Choir Boy

Here is a Quilled Choir Boy i made, by adapting the Bride and groom i posted last week.
He also stands approx 2.5 ins high, i think these would look great as table decorations or hung on the tree, but also on a cake!

finding pics not shown on here

Here is a clock i made using Jayne Nestorenko's Christmas cd,Winters Tale,from last year, the actually clock house,is the nativity in the cd and i adapted it into the clock, this also was before i ever had a craft robo so was lovingly all cutout by hand.
I stamp the Cute companion image and attached her to a piece of acetate to make her appear to stand freely. The ivy is made using Crafter Companion embossing board and cutting out and colouring with watercolour pencils,then spraying with Spray & Shine.

The stars were punched out using 'Creative Memories' punch,which are a party plan company.

Flower Lady-Sheena Douglass

Here is another card sample for Sheena Douglass new range of stamps.

This is from Wouldn' it be lovely, i used heavy weight water colour paper and derwent water colour pencils.

Inside the aperture i used backing paper from Jayne Nestorenko's Adorable cd.

Christmas Candle

Here is a technique i've been meaning to try for ages and Christmas is perfect for Candles!

This is made with the free gift in the new November Issue 80 of Quick Cards Made Easy.

The free gift is a sheet of cute Christmas stamps by Alys Paterson.

Heres how i decorated the candle:-

You will need:-

Tissue paper,

A sponge & water,

Scissors,

Heatgun,

Ink pad, Stazon if using pencils or Memento if using alcohol based pens like,Promarkers or Copics

Colouring medium, I used Promarkers and Sakura gel pens.

How to:-

I Stamped my images onto Tissue paper and cut around the images to remove excess tissue paper,you can just use a strip.

On the reverse of the tissue paper i dampened with a sponge & water, make sure you dont saturate the tissue paper or it will break up.

I added it to the candle,carefully smoothing to make sure it was clinging to the candle, then with the heat gun,not too close,I heated the tissue,it will start to dry,then seem to dissapear into the candle,leaving the image,thats when its done, dont hold heat on constantly or the candle will drip,work your way across the tissue image until the tissue had adhered to the candle.

Leave to cool and you'll have a uniquely decorated candle.

Quilled Bride and Groom

Well.. i have been having a play,not for any other reason than I wanted to, i like to do something completely different and stretch my brain.

This couple is made souly from Quilling, they stand approx 2.5 ins high.

The Bride Groom has a dickie bow

The Bride has barrell curls and holds her bouquet.

And she has her veil at the back

The design is shown in PAPER QUILLING FOR THE FIRST TIME by Alli Bartkowski

Wouldn' it be lovely -Marvelous!

Here is another samples for Sheena Douglass' new range of stamps,

I used a frame from Jayne Nestorenko's cd and coloured the lady to compliment it, i decoupaged her, by stamping 5 or 6 images and cutting them accordingly,to give he a 3d appearance.

Christmas plate and box

Here is the latest download from

Tina Fitch-Forever Memories For You

She asked me to make it up for her, using her GSD file for the Craft Robo, it comes with the stand and box, i sprayed with Spray & Sparkle to give a frosty,twinkly effect.

Oh Christmas Tree. Oh Christmas Tree, how lovely are thou branches....

Well... I have finally had time to make this little beauty!

I fell in love with this as soon as i saw it, this is my first attempt at the design so needs a bit of fine tuning!

It has been made by using my Craft Robo and the files from the wonderful

Tina Fitch of

Forever-Memories-For-You

You can buy the file in GSD or other formats, i sprayed with Spray & Sparkle to give the lovely sparkle.

Watchout for the latest Christmas tree from Tina, i'll be having a play with that shortly!!

65th Birthday card-Joanna Sheen-Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

I was asked by my mum to make a 65th Birthday card 'The Big One' for one of the nurses at the hospital she attends.

And i reached straight away for my stash of Joanna Sheen discs! My mum wanted a lovely bright,flowery and cheerful card and i just love this image from the decoupage section of Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady, i picked a different backing paper from the cd,to match the light green and yellow and using my new 'Marianne Creatables' die, i cut out the ribbon boarder and ran silver rbbon through the holes, my mum wanted 'The Big One' on the card, but i didnt want to detract from the beautiful decoupage, so i decided to add it in a tag, which i printed on MS Word and then cutout using SpellBinders Nestabilities 'Large Deckled Rectangles'

This is a large 8x8 sqaure card, so,as it was being hand delivered i made a nice box to put it in with a matching tag for the lid.

Mmmm...

Here is another card to give you a peek at Sheena's new collection launching tomorrow on Create & Craft 8am and 10am.

This is an a5 card using the stamp plate 'Bah Humbug 1'

I brayered the background with Tim Holtz faded jeans distrees in and Adirondack Purple Twilight,then i spritzed with silver Cosmic shimmer
I then stamped the roof top stamp and used Tim Holtz 'Antique Linen' to add shadow and depth!

TODAY'S Pick of the Week-Morehead Decoupage

Make sure you tune in today at 12 noon on Ideal World for the new

Pick of the Week-

Which is being bought to you by Crafters Companion,its the lovely

Morehead Diecut decoupage by Reddy.

Christmas and Everyday.

Here are a few of my many samples, you might notice the addition of Sizzix flourishes and Spellbinder snowflakes, but also, foil embossing, these were my purchases from Alexandra Palace,I finally bought myself a proper Hot foil Wizard, as I have foil coming out of my ears, i could resist no longer!!

Anyway here are the samples

This is a large a4 gatefold card, using the Carousel decoupage and the backpaper is from the 'SWALK ' CD

available from Crafters Companion.

This is an 8x8 sqaure card, using the Christmas Morehard decoupage, i used Sizzix-sizzlits flourishes, Spellbinder snowflakes and floil embossing, the backing paper is from Jayne Nestorenko's 'Adorables' wonderful cd!

 And here is an a5 card, made using Christmas Morehead decoupage, Specllbinders framabilities and snowflakes, Sizzix Sizzlits flourished and backing paper from Jayne Netorenko's 'Adorables' cd.

Something different,with Sheena Douglass new stamps collections

This Holly Wreath has been made by stamping & heat embossing lots of Holly images from

The new collection by Sheena Douglass-set Bah Humbug 1

I cut a ring out of cork, wrapped ribbon all the way around the cork and i tied a loop of ribbon to hang the wreath, then after using promarkers on the individual stamped holly pieces, i sprayed with spray & shine and then stuck to bound ring with collall glue gel.

Not long now for the Launch of Sheena's stamp range,Saturday 2nd October, 8am and 10 am!!

Distressed or what!!- Another peek of Sheena Douglass new collection

I really got my teeth into distressing on this a5 card.

Using stamps from 'Wouldn' it be lovely 2 '

by Sheena Douglass,which will be launching on Saturday morning 2nd October 2010.

I firstly cut a rectangle of watercolour heavy weight paper and spent a good hour,having fun and going with the flow, distressing it withTim Holtz ink,scraping with scissors and smudging with a wet & dry piece of foam. For the backing paper i used the small stamp of horse racing, which i randomly stamped, 2 or 3 times before inking,to give different intensity,using Centurra pearl ivory card.I then ripped across the card to give a rough edge.

Then i stamped the lady, usinf stazon, lots of time and using a brush and water used 'Vintage photo' Distress ink,again and added the colour and shading to each image, then i cut it into decoupage, so she is 4 or 5 layers in depth.

Classic Sheena, i added the shadow on the tag,that i had cutout using a Spellbinder die,first stamping with stazon and quickly rubbing out,to leave only a shadow of words,then i stamped sligtly above again,to give a stronger words.

The flowers i used Spellbinder die and cutout tissue paper,which i then stained with 'vintage photo' ink,scrunched the layers together and added a brad to hold them in place.

Check back again for more info and inspiration!

Oh the Joys of being a Designer! Sneak Peek at Sheena Douglass new stamps-launching Saturday

Well... how lucky am i to have been sent the new set of stamps by the Ultra mega talented

Sheena Douglass!

She will be launching her new set of stamps on saturday,2nd October 2010 on Create & Craft

Here is a sneaky peek at one of the stamps plates.

This card is made using images from the 'Bah Humbug 1' set.

I brayered the background,using Tim Holtz Distress inks,then stamped the image,using stazon and with a brush and plain water i washed the colour out to give the reflection/glo of the moon, which i had masked up before i brayered the background. Then,using Faded Jeans and Black Soot distress inks i simple used them like a paint pot and added shade to the buildings.

Stamped the greeting with stazon and heat embossed with clear gloss embossing powder,as with the holly,which i sprayed with multicolour spray & sparkle from Crafters Companion. These are also on the stamp sheet. The backing paper is taken from Jayne Nestorenko's Adorable Cd.

Keep checking back for more peeks!

More magazine cards

Well its finally arrived! The eve of Ally Pally!! Cant wait, i'll be there,so say hello, if you recognise me lol!

Here are some more of my cards from the new Card Making and papercraft magazine-Make Christmas cards.

These are all made using the download available.



And here are some more samples from the launch of Winters tale on Ideal world.

This is a large 8x 8 card using one of the Accordian images-one way

Then the other.

A large dl card using Spellbinders Blossoms



Card Making & Papercraft Special Magazine-Make Christmas Cards

Heres a taster of some of my cards in the magazine,bought to you by Origin Publishing,which is bursting with Crafters Companion goodies!

Lots of inspiration and tutorials, see how to make my frame card and slider card, downloads papers,to use again and again ,aswell as a huge pack of a4 papers and an a5 double sided embossing board!

Make this slider card

Also see how to make this frame card, using the download.

This is an A5 acetate card, again using the download, i printed the base frame onto printable acetate.



Beatrix Potter Winters Tale-Pick of the Day Launch

Have you seen the shows, by Crafters Companion for the pick of the day launch of Beatrix Potter -Winters Tale, wow arnt the presentation boxes amazing!!

Here are a few pics of the samples to give you a closer look, for when you get your kits!!

Here is an A5 card made using on of the frames, from the cd.

And this is also an A5 card using the lovely framed decoupage of Peter Rabbit, i printed it twice and also decoupaged the frame.

Here is a large A4 card, made using on of the large Slder card images and sentiment, i used Spellbinder dies to make the flower.

And this is the same slider card, with the image out to see!