A little bird told me ........

Happy Friday folks

Wow where did that week go. Our DIY is nearly finished so we are off to the cinema this afternoon to see Hotel Transylvina 2. Our local cinema has been recently refurbished so we are going to check it out.

I made today's card to really showcase the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

I created the scene using stamps from the Twit Twoo stamp set (from Crafter's Companion), stamping and heat embossing onto Neenah card and colouring directly onto the paper.

I used the following colours - 

• birds - blue topaz, cosmos and moonlight
• birdhouse - moonlight and soft jade
• sky - moonstone
• grass - holly leaf and olive jade

The other ingredients were - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• blue and green core'dinations
• sentiment from the stamp set

Thank you so much for stopping by today

Lesley

Chaos

Good morning folks and how are we all this fab Thursday?

I have crept away from the chaos in the rest of the house and found a little corner of my craft room where I can actually craft. It is my youngest son's birthday on Sunday and I need to make his card. More of that on Sunday.

Today I thought I'd share another Sparkle launch card. The pens didn't last very long did they! Congratulations to you if you were able to get hold of a set.

This cute little owl is from Twit Twoo stamp set and the branch and leaves are from Forest Friends stamp set both from Crafter's Companion. I stamped and heat embossed the images onto Neenah card (naughty I know but I was playing and wanted to see what would happen. It worked perfectly well but I think if I were to do it again I would do it on watercolour card.) and then mixed smoked quartz and harvest moon on my glass craft mat and applied to the image with a damp brush. For all the other areas I applied the colours direct to the paper.

The colours I used were - 

• owl - smoked quartz and harvest moon (mixed on a glass mat)
• branch - holly leaf and smoked quartz (applied directly to the paper)
• sky - moonstone (applied directly to the paper)
• leaves holly leaf and olive jade (applied directly to the paper)

The other ingredients used were - 

• kraft card
• green and brown core'dinations
• Die'sire create-a-card Decadence
• Pebeo gold gilding wax
• sentiment from the Twit Twoo stamp set
• ribbon from the Ribbon Girl

Leaves from the Forest Friends stamp set.

Well back to the DIY chaos. It is nearly finished now just have to put everything back before work on Monday!

Enjoy your day and thanks you for stopping by

Lesley

Floral delights

Hello folks

Wednesday already. My weeks holiday is racing by. We are DIYed out so today we are off to visit my eldest son at University.
More Sparkle cards today - 

I have used Crafter's Companion's Floral delight stamp set which I stamped onto watercolour card with Stazon ink. I scribbled the colour onto a glass mat, mixed pink garnet and inspired violet to make my own colour  and then applied the colour using a damp brush. Once the image was dry I added a coat of sparkle using the Crystal clear pen. The colours used were - 

• pink garnet, inspired violet, olive jade, moonlight, moonstone and crystal clear

Other ingredients used were - 

• purple core'dinations
• white centura pearl
• Tattered Lace stepper card die set
• Crafter's Companion's script embossing folder
• gems from my stash

To finish I added a sentiment from the stamp set - 

Thank you for stopping by today

Lesley

Spread your wings

Morning everyone

This is another of my design team cards for the launch of the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I do hope you were able to get a set. They sold out so quickly. NEWS FLASH - they have some left. Leann is on Create and Craft at 9 am this morning.

This is another new stamp set from Crafter's Companion called Flights of Fantasy which I stamped onto Neenah card. To colour the stamps I scribbled each colour onto my glass mat and applied it to the images with a damp brush. For added sparkle I went over the images (once dry) with the Crystal Clear pen. The colours used were - 

• rose quartz, pink champagne, aquamarine and moonstone

The other ingredients used were - 

• peach core'dinations
• Butterfly lullaby stamp set - just for you (from Sara's signature collection)
• watercolour card
• tumbled glass distress ink

To make the background I scribbled rose quartz, pink champagne, aquamarine and moonstone onto my glass craft mat, spritzed it with water and then blotted up the colour with watercolour card. I dried it with my heat gun and then using the small butterflies from the Just for you stamp set, applying the Sparkle pens directly to the stamps and stamping randomly over the background.

Thank you for stopping by today

Lesley

Foxy sparkle

Good Monday morning to you all

This morning sees the launch of the new Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens from Crafter's Companion. You can see the shows at 8 am this morning. This is a tag I made for the launch - 

I stamped the fox and leaves from Forest Friends stamp set (also on the show this morning) onto Neenah desert storm and coloured him with the Sparkle pens - 

• harvest moon, pink champagne, rose quartz, solar red, aquamarine and olive green

The other ingredients used were - 

• peach and rust core'dinations
• leaf vein and wood grain embossing folders (from Crafter's Companion's Textures range
• plain white satin ribbon from my stash which I coloured with Harvest Moon Sparkle pen

Funny thing to photograph I know but I wanted to show you how sparkly the ribbon became once I had coloured it.

I hope you can tune in for the launch show, the design team have made some fabulous projects to showcase the pens and hopefully inspire you.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Sparkle, sparkle and more sparkle

Hello

Yes it is a second post from me. I know I am spoiling you but I just wanted to let you about the new pens from Spectrum Noir which are launching tomorrow at 8 am on Create and Craft. They are the most gorgeous Sparkle pens. Here is one of the cards I made for the launch - 

I hope you can see the sparkle, these cards were particularly difficult to photograph and do the pens justice. The stamp is from a new stamp set especially designed for the launch called Forest Friends (from Crafter's Companion). I stamped the image onto Neenah desert storm card with Versafine ink and coloured it with the following pens - 

• moonstone, olive jade, pink champagne, smoked quartz and crystal clear.

The other ingredients used were - 

• Kraft card
• green and brown core'dinations
• Die'sire essentials squares
• Die'sire Nouveau stamping frame
• Sheena's tumbling leaves embossing folder
• Pebeo gold gilding wax

I made the background by scribbling smoked quartz, pink champagne and olive jade onto my glass craft mat, spritzed with water and then pressed a piece of Neenah desert storm into the ink. I then dried it with my heat gun and embossed it with Sheena's tumbling leaves embossing folder.

I do hope you are able to catch one of the shows tomorrow and see the exciting demos that Leann has planned.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

It's only cricket

Good Sunday morning

Well my half term break has started and I have not stopped. We are decorating our bedroom so yesterday I began to tidy my craftroom and sort out my wardrobe. So much stuff accumulated both in my wardrobe and my craftroom. I have several bags for the charity shop and several for the tip (none of which is from my craftroom!!). I will now have to go shopping for some new clothes! I'd rather be craft shopping!!

Today's card is one I made for my son's friend and features a lovely cute stamp from LOTV called Cricket - 

I stamped the image onto Neenah card and coloured it with the following Spectrum Noir pens - 

• skin - FS2, FS4 and FS9
• hair - GB8, GB10 and EB5
• bat - EB3, EB5 and EB7
• wicket - GB9 and GB10
• clothes - IG1, IG2 and IG3
• grass - DG3 and JG6
• sky - IB1

Other ingredients - 

• papers from Tim Holtz Collage paper pad
• Toni layering squares
• Spellbinder's sentiments 3
• tumbled glass distress ink

Thank you so much for stopping by today

Lesley