Natalie and Amy's Challenge

Hello I hope you are all well. I have been busy with a few orders for christmas bits and pieces. I hope that you are all warm and dry this weather is really harsh this year.
I am sharing with you a card I made for the latest monthly challenge at Natalie and Amy's this week. Our theme is "Winter Wishes". So any card with a wintery or christmas feel will be perfect for the challenge.

The papers I used are First Edition - Stocking filler papers, I used a gorgeous  CC Designs Sugar Plum Angel Emma Stamp set .

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Delicious Doodles Challenge time!

Hello everyone it is so cold this week I am hoping the rain holds off as my sister is getting married tomorrow and we have to drive a long way to get there. I have been busy preparing for Christmas. I am making some felt stockings for several friends, a special advent calendar for the children and I am going to make a reef and some bunting. I am also trying to prepare for a school winter fayre and fit my own christmas cards in too!!

I am showing you my DT card for Delicious Doodles challenge this week. The theme "Something that flies" I chose to use three Delicious Doodle images for this card. Holly Fairy, Christmas Holly border and the Snowflake collection. You can find all the images in the store.

I use Craft Artist Professional to create my own backing paper using the Snowflake collection from Delicious Doodles. I then combined the Holly Fairy image and the Christmas Holly border to create one image. I coloured with alcohol pens and added some holly embellishments from My Paper Flower expert. I then added a sentiment.

I vintaged up my background on the fairy image with crackle accents which i added to the wings too.

Challenges I would like to enter are: 

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Girls only (all girlies love a fairy)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Lola with Pan Pastelled DP and Embellie

Hello I am hoping you are all well and enjoying your Monday. Today I have completed my second Digital stamp this one took ages to do as there are lots of lines but it was fun and I am just so happy to have started doing this. She is called Lola she is quite serene great for teenage girls I think xxx

Card Recipe

Alchol Pens - Spectrum Noirs

Image - LOLA

Card - DL card blanks

Design Papers - Paper Mania Bexley Black 

Pan Pastels

Iridicent spray, sentiment and card candy from stash

I had such fun making this card. I firstly made my design paper and floral embellishments. I took a design from the Papermania Bexley Black papers and gently rubbed on Permanent red shade pan pastel for my Design paper ( I fixed with a glitter iridescent spray) and Turquoise shade pan pastel for my flowers.

I coloured my image with Spectrum Noirs

Spectrum Noir Recipe

Skin -FS1,FS5, FS9

Cheeks - CR5

Hair - GB7, GB9, GB11

Clothes - GT1,GT2, GT3

            PL3,DR2,DR6

I then layered onto cardstock and embellished.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Pan Pastels - Make an embellishment (flowers made with DP tinted with Pan Pastel)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Colouring Tutorial - Creating Dinosaur Skin

Hi well finally I have taken  the plunge of drawring my own designs and turning them into digital stamps and kits. I have previously drawn images digitally but I was not happy with the results. So from now on I will be drawring them by hand and then digitally altering them.

I am just doing a tutorial on how to create Dinosaur skin using the very cute newest release at Twit Whoo Designs. He is called Santasaurus. He is inspired by my son who loves dinosaurs.

You could use this technique on all reptiles.

Tutorial Recipe

Image - Santasaurus 

Spectrum Noirs - DG1,LG1,LY2,LG3,DG1,|TN1

Crackle Accents

Tutorial

1) Colour in the image Santasaurus with LG1 in small circular motions all over to give a base for the rest of the colours.

2)Now using the chisel end of your LY2 Spectrum Noir place random strokes all over the top 2 thirds of the image.

3) Now take the TN1 and do the same as step 2 but try to put the marks in diffent places and in some places overlap the ones that you have already placed down.

4) Repeat step 3 with LG3 Spectrum Noir Can you see the layers building up in the photo above

 5) Repeat Step 3 with DG1.

 6) Add a layer of Crackle glaze over all the areas where you have coloured in depending on how thick your layer is it should take 1-2 hours to dry and it creates the effect of reptile skin. You could use in over grey elephant skin for a similar textural effect.

 7) This is an example of the finished technique.

8) Here is another example. 

I hope you like what I have done and please leave a comment if you use the technique so I can visit you and see what you have done.

The card I made with the image is a DL card. The papers and Holly are from Paper Flower Expert CD rom (My Craft Studio). The ribbon is from Natalie and Amy's. The sentiments are from Twit Whoo Designs. The punch is Martha Stewart and the twine and buttons are from my stash.

Challenges I am entering with this card are

Christmas Stampin All Year round - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - One for the Boys

ABC Christmas Challenge - Vibrant Colours

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Remembrance

Good Morning hope you are all warm and cosy and any of you at the NEC are having a great time. I am just stopping in to share with you a card made for our new Delicious Doodles Challenge. We have a theme of Remembrance this week and the DT have made some gorgeous creations to share with you so please pop over and take a look.

Card Recipe

Images - Remembrance and Sniffing Daisies  from Delicious Doodles

Alcohol pens - Spectrum Noirs

Cardstock - stash
Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - stash
Stickles

I combined the two images using my graphics program. I cut away the girl from sniffing daisies and created a poppy field. I really love the image Remembrance and it is perfect for all those In memory cards that it is sometimes hard to find an image for.

I hope you can join in the challenge we would love to see what you create.

Challenges I am entering are:

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Feeling Blue
Dutch Dare Challenge - Favourite things (Combining and altering images on graphics program, spectrum noirs and poppies)
Simon Says Stamp - Thinking of You or Sympathy

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Autumn Wedding

Hi everyone hope you are all keeping well in this very cold weather. I have been busy and one of the things I have been doing is making this card for my sisters wedding which is in a couple of weeks.

Card Recipe

Images - Whiff of Joy

Sentiment - Swalk Congratulations stamp set Crafters Companion

Card stock - white card and Coredinations (Crafters Companion)

Roses - stash

Leaves - From Paper Flower Expert CD rom

Glossy  Accents Crackle glaze 

Alcohol Pens

Stardust Stickles

I kept it very simple as I wanted the images to take centre stage.

Challenges I am entering are as follows:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge -  Favourite Colour Combo

Tuesday Throwdown - Autumn leaves

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Poppy and Remembrance

Hello there I am sharing two of my favourite Delicious Doodles images in this card. I joined them in my graphics package the girl is the gorgeous Poppy and the cross is the Magnificient Remembrance.

Card Recipe

6"  by 6" Cream card blank

Black card stock

Spectrum Noirs

Images as above Poppy and Remembrance - Delicious Doodles

Stickles

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

New Release and Sneak peek...

Hi all I hope you are all well. I have seen some really mind blowing pictures of the damage Sandy caused to the East Coast of America so really thinking of all those affected. I have been hard at it creating some Christmas cards this week. I am today sharing with you a card I made using Delicious Doodles images.

Card Recipe

Design Papers - designed using CraftArtist 2

Images - Christmas Scroll Border and yet to be named New Release hop over to the Delicious Doodles Facebook page to name her and a chance to win her.

Pens - Promarkers

Stickles

Seam binding

Snowflake - Crafty Embellies 

Gems -stash

Sentiment - Inkadinkadoo

Challenges I am entering are

Creative Card Challenge - Special occasion not birthday ( I choose Christmas)

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Fabulous Fibres ( Seam binding)

Simon Says Stamp - Get in shape (anything but square I choose DL card)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Geisha Girl xxx

Morning I hope that all my American and Canadian friends are safe the natural forces of nature are being very unkind at the moment. Please stay safe. I am sharing my DT card for the wonderful monthly challenge over at Natalie and Amy's Challenge. This months challenge is " Colour Me Happy" We want to see your favourite colours of the moment.

Card Recipe

Card Blank - 6 " by 6" square

Geisha Emma - by CC Designs Main Image

DP made using Permanant Red Shade Pan Pastel and Marianne Design Eline Huis Butterfly stamp set

Glossy Accents

Spectrum Noirs

Ribbon,Gems and Flower from stash

I love Red and Black together so I wanted to share this card with you for this challenge. I love the drama that Red and Black creates. I also think it is a great combination for Oriental cards.  I hope you can join our challenge this month and checkout the store lots of gorgeous goodies are arriving all the time xxx

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can - Countries (Japanese Geisha Girl)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Teabag Folding Christmas Cards

Hello with the winter nights now drawring in I have been starting Christmas card making. I thought this year I would try to make less cards with people on. Here are some of the teabag folding christmas cards I made last night.

Card Recipe

Card Blank 4" by 4" - Natalie and Amy's Store
Design Papers - From a selection at Natalie and Amy's store Christmas section
Buttons - From Stash
Sentiment - Inkadinkadoo stamps

A slightly different layout in the photo above.

I am entering the following challenges with these cards.

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Christmas
Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes
ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Fright Night

Hello I hope you are all having a nice week even if the weather is sad xxx I am sharing my Delicious Doodles Challenge DT card with you.

Our theme is "Fright Night" I have made a stepper card using Halloweenie Frankie. I coloured with alcohol pens and used some Paper Mania Capsule collection papers from Natalie and Amy's store.  I added some plastic spiders as I know lots of people who are frightened of them.

Challenges I am entering are:

Charisma Cardz - Don't be Square

Cute Card Thursday - Something Scary

Hope you all enjoy your Halloween weekend xxx
Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Twas the night before Christmas...

....and we all want it to snow. I have been making Christmas cards again with the gorgeous Snowflake Collection from Delicious Doodles. I have been truely inspired by these gorgeous images.

Card Recipe

Image - Delcious Doodles Snowflake Collection

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Spray and Sparkle

A5 Black card folded in half

Pan Pastel 

Versamark

Sentiment stamp Inkadinkadoo

I printed out the different snowflakes from the gorgeous Snowflake Collection. I then used different colours from my Pan Pastel collection to colourise the snowflakes. I then added stickles to the snowflakes and glossy accents. I let them dry overnight.

I folded a sheet of blank A5 black card in half. I then used my versamark to print my sentiment and gently dusted over some Pan Pastel. I sprayed the front of the card with Iridecent Spray and Sparkle. I added my snowflake to the card with foam pads. I have done two colourways to show you. I will be batch making more of these cards for Christmas so simple but so effective.

Challenges I am entering are:

Digi MakeOver Challenge - Weather

Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Combining Digital stamps with Traditional stamps

Hello I hope you are having a great Monday and that you are not too wet. I have been playing today with the beautiful Digital stamps released at Delicious Doodles called Snowflake Collection. I thought I would share with you how I combined them with Traditional stamps.

4" by 4" card

Card Recipe

Card blank - 4"by4" square and 6" by 6" square

Pan Pastel - Magenta

Versamark - Watermark Stampad

Spray and Sparkle Iridescent

Glossy Accents

Image - Delcious Doodles Snowflake Collection

Sentiment stamp and stamp  - Inkadinkadoo

6" by 6" Card

I printed out my digital image to the size that I wanted to fit my cards. I cut it out. I then inked up my desired stamp with Versamark. I stamped the image in various places to make a pattern. I then gently added some Pan Pastel using a make up sponge. I sprayed the snowflake with spray and Sparkle. On the 4 by 4 card I added glossy accents and gems and let it dry overnight. I added a sentiment using versamark and panpastels directly to my card and sprayed with spray and sparkle and added the snowflake with foam pads. With the 6 by 6 card I adhered the snowflake to the cards and then added the glossy accents and a card candy embellishment.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

One Stitch at A Time - Use a Digi

One Stop Craft Shop Challenge - Anything Goes

I hope you like my two very clean and simple cards made using digital and traditional card making techniques.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

New Release Snowflake Collection

Hello hope everyone is well with winter nights drawring nearer. Delicious Doodles have a great new release this week called Snowflake Collection you get three delicious snowflakes for £2.50 they are so versatile you will love them.

Card recipe

Image/DP -Delcious Doodles - Snowflake Collection

6 by 6 Card blank

Stardust Stickles - Natalie and Amy's store

Card Candy

Pan Pastel - Natalie and Amy's Store

Sentiment stamp - Inkadinkadoo

Nestibility

I have made two cards to show you using the collection. I adore making my own DP's using my graphics package and I used all three snowflakes in the collection. I then just printed off some snowflakes in different images to use as toppers and decoupage. I used some pan pastels over the snowflakes and some stardust stickles. I added a sentiment Noel to each card. On the green card I added card candy.

 Challenges I entered are:

Cute Card Thursday - Glitter (stickles)

Paper Craft Journey - Add some bling (lots of stickles for me)

ABC Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes (U Up to You)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Ceramic painting tutorial - Using a digi stamp

Hello I love painting ceramics at the moment. I have decided to make a dinner set for my family using ceramic plates and the digital image Remembrance from the  Delicious Doodles shop. I love my ceramic pens and using them with digital stamps so here is a little tutorial for you all.

Plate Recipe

Blank Ceramic Plate

Ceramic Paints

Carbon Copy Paper

Digital Image

Biro pen.

Step One

You will need a clean blank ceramic plate

Step Two

Print out your desired Digital Image to the size you want it to be on the plate. Cut out a piece of Carbon Copy paper to match the digital image. Place it under the image making sure you have it the correct way to transfer the image.

Step Three

Take the biro pen and trace over the image where you  want you design. You will need to press quite hard and you may need to shape the image to the plate.

Step Four

Your image on your plate should look something like this.

Step Five

Take your black ceramic pen and draw over the carbon copy design. Your plate should now look like this.

Step Six

Take your green ceramic pen and colour all the parts you wish to be green.

Step Seven

Keep building your colours up here I have used two contrasting shades of red. Add some gold to the centres of the poppies for a finishing touch.

You have now finished your plate. It should look like the picture at the top of this page.

Rub out any lines left from the carbon copy with a rubber and follow the cooking instructions on the pens or paints used.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Geisha Girl

Hi there I am sharing another crafty retreat card. I love this stamp set by CC Designs called Geisha Emma. I got mine from Natalie and Amy's Shop.

Card Recipe

Geisha Emma Stamp 

First Edition Bo Ho chic papers

Glossy Accents

Spectrum Noirs

The challenges I would like to enter are :

Anything Goes Challenge  -Make your own embellishment (paper flowers)

Craft Room Challenge - Oriental

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Pan Pastel Peacock

Hi everyone hope you are all having a great week mine is whizzing past. I came back from A Crafty Weekend Away yesterday and at the weekend I have my sisters hen night. I have made this card using a cock rather than a hen (sorry had to do it).

Card Recipe

Local Rubber King Stamp

Pan Pastels - Natalie and Amy's store

Scalloped Square card blank - Natalie and Amy's Store

Versamark - Natalie and Amy's store

Card Candy

Black card stock

Spray and Sparkle

It is an image by Local Rubber King Stamps you can find images at Natalie and Amy's shop.

It comes with feathers so I used these for the background. I used versamark to stamp the feathers and the image and I used a mixture of green and blue shades of pan pastels over the images. Once I had done this I sprayed with Spray and Sparkle to create a glitter effect. I layered up the card. I love the softness of the pastels on an image.

Challenges I entered are:

Creative card Crew - Birds

Loves Rubber Stamps - Out of the box technique (I made own background with Pan pastels and glitter spray, versamark and stamp)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

New addiction Pan Pastels....!!!

Hi everyone I am back from a fantastic four days at "A Crafty Weekend Away" organised by the lovely Amy (co - owner of Natalie and Amy's Store). It was so fun. I got to make a whopping 23 cards and do some other crafts such as resin jewellery and ceramic painting. We enjoyed a great girlie time. Chatting, giggling, drinking tea, coffee, wine, eating, hotub and more.

I became slightly addicted to Pan Pastels and the most fun I had with them was creating my own backgrounds.

Here is a card I have made for some challenges. 

Recipe  - Pan Pastels  from Natalie and Amy's shop

Inkadinkadoo stamps

Back to Basics Christmas Paper  from Natalie and Amy's shop

Glossy Accents from Natalie and Amy's shop

Scalloped Square 6 by 6 square Card

Crafters Companion Spray and Sparkle 

Versamark watermark pad available at Natalie and Amy's shop.

I created the backing papers by stamping the image with versamark I then used different shades of pan pastels over the images. I sprayed with Crafters companion Spray and Sparkle and then repeated with my second image. I then cut out some baubles from the Back to basic papers. I stuck on with a foam pad and then added glossy accents. I added some faux stitching to finish the card.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

2 sisters  - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Snowflakes

Totally Gorjuss Challenge - Traditional Christmas Colours

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Painting the tiles

Hello I should be on my way to Shropshire for my craft retreat so I am trusting that Mr Blogger publishes for me. Four days of crafting,giggling, chatting and much more hee hee. If you want to check out what I am doing click the tab at the top of my page.

This weeks challenge for the wonderful Delicious Doodles challenge is Monochrome. I decided to paint a tile with ceramic paints. Not sure if it is going to be a hot plate or a candle base yet. I used one of the butterflies from Butterflies to make this tile. I used blue tones as my colour.

This became a bit addictive so I now have quite a few tiles painted and awaiting cooking in my oven. I hope you can join in the challenge looking forward to seeing what you make.

Challenges I am entering are:

C.R.A.F.T - Monochromatic

My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps - Monochromatic

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Sneaky Peak time ....

Hello I have been packing and colouring in today. I wanted to share a sneaky preview with you of this beautiful image called Remembrance. It will be available in the Delicious Doodles Store very shortly.

I wanted to place the beautiful image in a field of poppies so I used the perfect image to create the field of popppies from the store called Sniffing Daisies. I cut away the girl from the image and resized and cut and pasted to give the illusion the cross was in a field of poppies.

I coloured the image with Spectrum Noirs. I then mounted onto a card and added faux stitching.

Challenges I am entering are: 

Diva's By Design - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale