Autumn Leaves

Hello folks

Today's card is one I made for the new challenge at Fantasy Stampers. This fortnight the team would love to see your projects featuring Autumn Leaves.

This card features a lovely new stamp from LOTV called Calender fairies  - September which I have coloured with Spectrum Noir pens -

• leaves - GB6, GB7, DR5, DR7, DG3, DG4, OR1 and TN5
• wings - EB1 and EB2
• clothes - TN7, TN9, DR7, GB5, GB6 and GB7
• skin - FS2, FS8, FS9 and CR1
• hair - OR2, TN6, TN7, TN8 and TN9
• sky - IB1

The other ingredients used were - 

• Fairy calender - September stamp from LOTV
• sentiment tags stamp set 24 from LOTV
• Woodland folk paper pad from Docrafts
• Kraft card from Crafter's Companion (for the card base)
• Spellbinder's jewel flowers and flourishes die set (for the leaves)
• Spellbinder's circle and scalloped circle nesties
• Spellbinder's branching out die set
• buttons from my stash

You can enter the challenge upto 3 times but you projects must included a stamped image. The team look forward to seeing all your entries.

Thank you for stopping by today

Lesley

Anything but a square

Good morning folks

It's FRIDAY - yeah and as it is Friday there is a new challenge at Winter Wonderland. This week we would like to see your Christmas projects that are "Anything but a square". Here is my design team card - 

Ingredients - 

• white and silver centura pearl
• blue core'dinations
• white and silver glitter card
• Embossalicious embossing folder - Nordic Christmas Christmas time
• Woodware snowflake punches
• Tattered Lace Merry Christmas die
• silver pearls 
• Tonic layering circles

I cut the sentiment twice and then shadowed the white one on top of the grey one.

I used the snowflake as a stopper.

This week we are sponsored by 

who are offering 3 stamps to the lucky winner.

So why not get ahead with your Christmas makes and enter our challenge. You can enter 3 times if you wish but your projects must be Christmas ones.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Festive fairies

Good morning

Another Design Team sample made for Sheena's German shows. This one features Festive fairy stamp set and Little fairy die  - 

I stamped the fairies onto Neenah white card and coloured them with my Spectrum Noir pens and pencils - 

• hair - GB8, GB10, EB5 and 104
• skin - FS2, FS4, FS9 and 089
• wings and clothes - IG1, IG2, IG3, 117, GT1, GT2, GT3 and 052
• holly - DG3

The other ingredients used were - 

• white and silver centura pearl
• white glitter card
• teal core'dinations
• Sheena's ivy frame embossing folder
• Pebeo silver gilding wax
• pearl diamond spray and sparkle (for the fairy wings)
• Woodware snowflake punch

I stamped and cut the front and back images of the fairies and stuck them together so it looked as if they were hanging over the edge of the card.

I embossed the core'dinations, sanded it back and then rubbed a little gilding wax over the embossed areas.

Thank you so much for stopping by

Lesley

Perfect Poinsettia

Hello folks

Today's card features Sheena's Perfect ponsettia stamp set and poinsettia die set from the perfect partners Christmas stamp and die range. It was made as one of my Spectrum Noir TV design team makes for some German shows that Crafter's Companion were presenting.

I stamped the poinsettias onto Neenah desert storm card and coloured them with my Spectrum Noir pencils -

• flowers - 023, 032, 093, 025, 026 and 028
• bow - 018, 085 and 088
• background - EB2

The other ingredients used were - 

• matt black card (from Crafter's Companion)
• red core'dinations
• kraft card (for the card base)
• gold gems from my stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - lots of layers (the poinsettias)
http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.co.uk - September challenge - anything goes

Thank you for stopping by today.

Lesley

Christmas Foilage

Good evening folks

This is one of the samples that I made for some shows in Germany featuring Sheena's Christmas perfect partners Christmas stamp and die sets.

This card uses Yuletide greetings stamp set and Christmas foliage die set.

I began by making the background by scribbling kingfisher, jasmine and charcoal Spectrum Aquas onto a glass mat and spritzing with water. I then took a piece of watercolour card and "blotted" up then ink. The background piece on this card is the second "blotting".

I then stamped the evergreen boughs onto the background. I coloured directly onto the stamp with my Spectrum Aquas and then stamped them onto the background. I coloured the pine cones in a similar way but stamped them onto a separate piece of watercolour card and then using the dies cut and embossed them. I then pulled the colour out with a little water. To get the shading correct I removed some of the colour using water and a piece of kitchen paper. Using the same method I made the twigs.

The Spectrum Aquas I used were - 

• background - kingfisher, charcoal and jasmine
• pine cones - boulder, sepia, chestnut and chocolate
• twigs - chocolate and sepia
• evergreen boughs - moss and evergreen

The other ingredients used were - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• silver centura pearl
• teal core'dinations
• snowflake embossing folder (from Crafter's Companion)

Thank you for stopping by today

Lesley

21 years and counting

Hello folks and a very happy Friday evening to you all

Well that is my first week back at work completed, roll on the next 7!!! It has been lovely to see the children again and to meet all the new ones. I think it is going to be a fun year.

This week was also my wedding anniversary and this is the card I made for my hubby - 

Ingredients - 

• matt black card
• gold mirriboard
• heart inkognito stamp from Visible image
• set 65 Quotables - Love from LOTV
• gold embossing powder
• Spellbinder's hearts embossing folder
• Spellbinder's Marvellous squares dies
• Tonic layering squares
• Tattered Lace numbers die
• Pebeo gold gilding wax

Thank you for stopping by 

Lesley

Metal work

Good morning

Well after six lazy weeks holiday it is back to work for me today. A gentle easing into this working lark with a training day - must try and stay awake!! 

Today's card was made for a male friend's birthday and I cannot take the credit for the design - I found inspiration on the Pinterest website www.ihaveinkyfingers.blogspot.it.

Ingredients - 

• matt black card and kraft card from Crafter's Companion
• craft metal
• canvas embossing folder from Textures range from Crafter's Companion
• Spellbinder's creative cogs embossing folder
• black soot distress ink
• Spellbinder's sentiments 3 die

I sanded the craft metal a little and rubbed some inks over it to distress it slightly.

The sentiment

A close up of the embossing detail.

Thank you for stopping by 

Lesley

PS. I just realised that it is the 1st Spetember today - where is the year going?