Small Craft Haul

Hello there, yet again I've been treating myself... oopsy daisy!!! well a girl needs a treat and why not I say? well I visited Make the day special store a few weeks back and always seem to see something I like or really want. Really think these lovely American brands are my weakest at the moment, as they so adorable and that bit different.  

Stamps are - Waffle flower Willy and friends and Lawn Fawn Monster mash 

My next item is two Wow embossing powders that was purchased from Chloe's creative cards Ltd  here in the UK. Both colours are so beautiful with such sparkle,

I've never used Wow before and have been wanting these for while so decided to take the plunge. Just can't wait to get playing with them now..Yay!!

Do pop over to Chloe's site as she as some gorgeous items and Wow powders she has personally design herself.

A short one today I am afraid but I will be back soon with another post shortly, in the meantime please be aware you can be kept up to date with my latest posts by clicking on the follow button on the right hand side of this blog post, or follow by email and through Bloglovin. Feel free to leave me comment so I know you have been by.

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Waffle Flower Monkeys

Hello there, hope your having relaxing Sunday wherever you are the world, I've spent this weekend cutting out with Ciaran the cameo (my nickname for my Silhouette cameo machine) I know to some it may sound a bit sad, but I have always called my machine Ciaran, since I purchased him. I just couldn't be without him either. 

Plus I had to use my brand NEW waffle flower photopolymer stamps that I recently purchased and thought it would be perfect for this card I've made especially for little boy who's birthday is not that long off. 

First I folded piece of card measuring 27.3cm x 10cm in half at the top, next took a strip of the PC monkey washi tape and applied this to the left hand side. Using the Silhouette Cameo I created rectangle and type the name Jenson using Arial font (bold) and place just slightly higher than the bottom of the rectangle, opened Craft Artist software and type in Happy 4th Birthday using Mister Sirloin BTN rare bold font in purple colour. Exported this as PNG and open this in SC software and place it just above the name Jenson.

Now using the print and cut system I cut it out , placed a small piece of lime green card on the card blank just to the bottom right of the card. Adhere EVA foam with double sided tape to the back of matt I have already cut out on the SC. Now adhere the back of that same foam with double sided tape and adhere it to the card blank. Adhering the leftovers of the e and the o with Zig fine glue pen.

Stamped WF willy and friends monkey stamp with memento tuxedo black ink and acrylic block, on to piece of Neenah solar white card then coloured the little monkey in with Spectrum noir pens then cut him out with no white edge and adhere him pinflair glue gel. Finally added some clear droplets that I made using dried Anita's gloss glue and adhere to the card using Zig glue pen.

Supplies 

( As always I leave you the links to where you can buy the same products)

• Monkey washi tape available from Paperchase
• Silhouette Cameo machine available from Amazon UK
• Memento tuxedo black ink pad available from Amazon UK
• Kuretake Zig fine glue pen available at Amazon UK
• EVA foam available from The Works
• Pinflair glue gel available from Amazon UK
• Double sided tape 
• Portofino card (currently unavailable to buy)
• Anita's gloss 3D glue available from Cutting edge crafts
• Waffle flower Willy and friends stamps available at Make the day special 
• Lime green card available from The Works
• Neenah solar white card available at Crafters Companion   
• Acrylic block available at Amazon UK
• Baby wipes available at Wilko UK

(Spectrum noir colours used - PL2 PL4 PL5 IG1 IG2 IG4 DG4 CG1 CG2)


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This will be enter into the following challenges -
Polkadoodles something new challenge


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Craft Haul

Hello there, I thought i'd bring you craft haul today as I've recently made a purchase at create and craft, so decided to show you what i've purchased. Well Dreamees had wonderful one day wonder last week and of course I just had to have it, as I didn't have any Dreamee's items in my crafty stash so this offer was the ideal opportunity to try them out. 

In the bundle you get 11 MDF shapes, raffia, lace, two CD ROM's with 10 templates and over 900 backing papers and elements on each disc. Floral and foliage stamps with sentiments, This is such a beautiful arrangement of products, that I just can't wait to get playing them. The offer is currently still available at Create and Craft if you fancy purchasing the same bundle and they do offer international postage.

Hayley and Carol Bignall are behind this wonderful company, Hayley creates the wonderful stamps and CD ROM's and she is so super talented and comes up with such lovely ideas, they have they own website at Dreamees. Please do take a look as they have lots of choice and sell such pretty things and offer fabulous value.

I hope you have enjoyed my craft haul and hope you visit my blog again soon, be aware you can be kept up to date with my latest posts if you click the follow blog button on the right side of this post, or you can follow by email and Bloglovin. Feel free to leave me comment so I know you have been by.

Until next time, keep crafting and smiling

Discount Craft Haul

Hello there, I am bring you a little craft haul today for a few items I've purchased recently and all are available from discount stores in UK. I do love getting a bargain and get more for my money, as the purse does get a little stretched at times. Do keep your eye out for bargains in the discount stores as most of the company's I'll be mentioning do get new stock in quite regularly. 

First item I am going to show you is something that was brought to my attention by fabulous Facebook friend!! (thanks Rachael) she told me about this Crelando card sometime ago and wanted some ever since, but as it was from Lidl I had to wait until it was available, as Lidl bring out sorts of items every week apart of their special buys. So last week Rachael kindly reminded me that it was available from last Monday...yippee!! so I picked up three packs of the cardstock which is 270gsm and two packs of the paper 135gsm (almost like the lighter version of card really) If you can do pop down and get some as its excellent quality and lovely colours too. Retails at £1.99 each,

Other best buy I had to mention was this Colvin and Co Artist and hobby brushes that I'd picked up in Home Bargains for only £3.49 for 25 brushes including the special foam brushes. They are really good for the money and stand up really well and I found them just perfect for me, especially for when I'm watercolouring.

Well the next few items to show you are for my planner / organiser, (yes I can't believe it myself) it all started when I was watching YouTube videos and seen so many planner videos, it just made me want to get organised. The fancy planners that are out there right now, are very lovely and so pretty but are totally and utterly out of my league, so set about creating my own. Checking out the local discount stores I found tons of items just perfect for my planner and suits my budget.

I will be decorating and getting it all created shortly and will do blog post to show you how I get on and give you some inspiration on creating your very own planner.

Supplies

As always I do leave you the links to where you can purchase the same items, just click on the highlighted links below and you will be taken straight there.

• Kraft file binder available in store at Home Bargains £1.79
• Lined ruled A4 note pad available in store at Home bargains 99p
• 7 index dividers available in store at Home bargains  89p
• Crafty creations peel and stick A4 metallic paper available in store at Poundworld £1 (will be using these to make my own stickers, that I will be design and cut on my silhouette)
• Washi tape available at The works £1 for three rolls
• Hole punch available at Wilko  £1.50

Thank you so much for passing by today and I do hope you call again, please be aware that you can be kept up to date with my latest posts by using the follow button on the right hand side of the blog post, or by email and bloglovin. Feel free to leave me comment so I know you have been by.

Until next time keep crafting and smiling.

 

Your inner Rock Chick

Hello there, well I have been busy playing with my spectrum noir marker pens and decided to use the image I've been colouring in for the latest Make it crafty DT call, I absolutely adore this company and Zoe (the owner) is so super talented and she draws these hip and trendy characters. I would love to be MIC girl as this would be dream come true (wish me luck guys!!) I knew I had to up my game for this DT call as the current team is amazingly talented and come up with such original designs.

First of all create a card blank from 29.4 x 9.7cm Portofino white card folded at the top, using Serif Craft Artist firstly create heart and used the Tres Joyful digi stamp and cropped the image to fit the heart shape.

Saved that image and open the Silhouette cameo software and trace the outer section of the heart then draw a rectangle around it to fit this card and cut wave effect across the bottom half of the card.

Then I used the print and cut system on SC and printed it out and cut it on SC, time for the colouring (my favourite bit) always willing to practice my colouring.

Once the colouring is finish, cut stripe of the zentangle backing paper and adhere with double sided tape. Then adhered wave matt using double sided foam tape, cut birthday on SC three times and glued them together and adhered this with Kuretake zig fine glue pen. Stamped happy with W&W stamps on portofino white card and cut rectangle and adhere this with double sided foam stamp above the birthday. Added some rock chick inspire white dots with white pen on the birthday cut out. Added with three adhesive gems that was coloured with SN true black marker pens, to finish I used uni posca pen to add highlights to the hair.

This card was inspired by finding your inner rock chick, I do love U2 and thought why not bring that into my cardmaking. Tres Joyful suits the Rock Chick style so well.

Supplies

(As always I leave you the links where you can purchase the same products used to make this card)

• Tress Joyful digi stamp available at  MIC
• The big, the bold and the happy stamps available at make the day special
• Three adhesive gems available from Poundland
• MC130815 Zentangle paper from Free Making Cards Magazine
• Memento ink pad available from Amazon UK  
• Neenah solar white card Crafters Companion
• Kuretake Zig fine glue pen
• Double sided foam tape available from Poundland
• Birthday, wave matt and the print and cut was done using the SC software
• Uni posca white gel
• Cropped the image using Serif craft artist

Spectrum noir pens using - FS2 FS3 TN2, BP6 BP2 PL1, True black IG6 IG10

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This will be entered into these challenges -
inthepink - anything goes
Spectrum noir - anything goes
Make it Crafty - cropped image
CAS-ual fridays pretty pattern challenge

Until next time keep crafting and smiling 

  

Colouring with watercolour

Hello there, well I am back again with another creation that I managed to do yesterday. My inspiration for this card started when I recently picked up some lovely watercolour card from The Works, it gave me the excuse to get my watercolour pencils out and start playing.   

Started with 29.2cm x 9.9cm folded at the top, next is to create blue card matt slightly smaller than the blank card and adhere it with double sided tape. I then cut a piece of the watercolour card down to make it slightly smaller than the blue card, making sure it had equal frame all the way round.

Stamped the Bebunni rubber stamp using versafine onyx black ink pad on the watercolour card, then stamped the same image again on some scrap copy paper and cut that image out, sprayed CC stick and spray on the back and masked the bebunni image. Using TH tumbled glass distress ink and latex smoothie, I blended gently around the image using the technique of tapping the first ink onto scrap piece of paper. Taken the mask off to show the image underneath.

Now I coloured the image in using Faber Castell colour grip watercolour pencils and Kuretake water pen to blend the colour out. Once finished colouring the image, I did use my heat tool to dry it quickly instead of leaving it to dry.

Using some glitter pens, I gently went over parts of the image to highlight the image. Finished off by using some portofino card and stamping the sentiment from CB stamps mini messages with memento tuxedo black ink pad. Cut the sentiment down in rectangle and adhere it with pinflair glue gel. Added three adhesive pearls to accent the card.

Supplies

As always I do leave you the links when you can purchase the items, just click on the highlighted link and you will be taken straight there.

• Crawford and black watercolour card 230gsm available at The Works
• Faber Castell colour grip 24 watercolour pencils available at WH Smith
• Mini messages stamps available from Clearly Besotted
• TH distress ink Tumbled glass available from Cutting edge crafts
• Blue card available from The Works 
• Glitter pens available from grocery / discount stores
• Latex smoothie blenders available from  Home bargains
• Pinflair glue gel
• Three adhesive pearls 
• Portofino card 
• Double sided tape from local market
• Memento tuxedo ink pad available from Amazon
• Versa fine onyx black ink pad available from Amazon
• Masking tape by Stix2
• Stick and spray available at Crafters Companion
• Copy paper 
• Kuretake water pen 
• Bebunni rubber stamp available at Crafters Companion

Will be entered into these challenges -

Simon says stamp anything goes challenge

Less in more WOW challenge
Addicted to stamps challenge

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Thanks..Inspired by

Hello there, well I thought you would like to see my latest creation that I'd made earlier this week, yes you are right it includes Lawn Fawn stamps again!! Since purchasing these stamps last month I've not be able to put them down. You may know Michelle Short already, well I love her style and she gives me so much inspiration, so that is the basis of this design..inspired by Michelle.

First take 29.5cm x 10.2cm card and fold at the top. Printed the pink stripe card and cut down the card to 4.6cm x 14.6cm and adhere to the blank card. Cut piece of portofino white card to 14.8cm x 8.5cm, next I cut the tag using portofino white card and cut it out using the Silhouette Cameo then ran it through the Cuttlebug using CC textures embossing folder. 

Using the CB die, I cut out the thanks sentiment then ink it with perfect medium, pour on silver embossing powder and heat set with heat gun. Did the same for the three Lawn Fawn flowers but this time using dotty pattern paper.

Adhered the white matt on the card blank using Fun Foam to give some dimension. Next I attached the tag with pinflair glue gel and arranged the flowers in set of three slightly overlapping. Using Kuretake Zig fine glue pen on the back of the thanks sentiment, so I could adhere to the tag. Finally adding three sequins, glued down with pinflair glue gel. 

Supplies 

As always I do leave you the links where I purchased the items used in this creation, all you have to do is click on the highlighted link to be taken straight there.

• Clearly besotted  - Mini messages stamps
• Clearly Besotted  - Thanks die cut 
• The works  - Fun foam EVA
• Portofino white card 
• Silhouette Cameo - Tag 
• My Craft Studio - Two backing papers printed on 250gsm smooth card using Quintessential garden CD ROM 
• Debbi Moore Crafts  - Triple pack of embossing powder, I used the silver for this project.
• Three iridescent sequins 
•  Crafters Companion - Textures woodgrain embossing folder
• Make the day special - Lawn Fawn flutter by clear stamps
• Perfect Medium 
• Double sided tape
• Pinflair glue gel

This will be entered in the following challenges -

Simon says stamp challenge -- Anything goes

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