I colored up the unicorn by Lawn Fawn just for fun the other night and decided to use him for a card. I built a shaker card in the shape of a jar with clouds that he could play in and used a lot of pretty gold glitter papers. I think he's super cute. My original idea was to put him into a snow globe, but I didn't have a snow globe die.
I made this post for Design in Paper this week, I hope you liked it. I'll be back tomorrow with the winner of the $30 gift card to the Winnie & Walter shop. If you haven't done this yet there is still time to comment on any (or all five) of my October Leading Lady posts here at the blog.
Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at Spectrum Noir. This month theme is anything goes, but if you use the bonus theme that is Christmas/Winter then you are in the drawing for $30/£30 in Spectrum Noir or Spectrum Aqua products.
I made this shaker card with Lawn Fawns Faery Christmas. I have been playing a lot with the ColourBlend pencils lately and I have discovered that I really enjoy putting down a simple layer of Spectrum Noir markers and then do shading with the ColourBlend pencils. For this card I gave no line coloring a new try, I really like the look but I've had such a hard time to get it to look good. With this technique it was so much easier!
I really loved Jennifer Macguires trick on how to suspend some things in a shaker card and still let them move around a bit, by using thread behind the image. I didn't have any clear thread so I used a gold thread. I don't mind the thread being a bit visible. I had to do some card surgery because after putting it all together one of the fairies looked like she was about to crash land, but I managed to save it using a tweezer and some curses. ;)
I would love it if you joined the fun for this month! Have fun and see you soon again. Remember there is still time to comment on any of my five Leading Lady posts for Winnie & Walter to be in the drawing for a gift card in the Winnie & Walter webshop. A winner will be picked on Saturday. I can't give an exact time for the announcement because I'm at an event and will do it when i have a moment but as long as you don't see the announcement post you can still leave comments and have the chance to win. Good luck!
Today is the day we celebrate christmas in Sweden so I wanted to wish you all a very merry christmas! I do it by posting all my left over christmas projects that haven't made it to the blog before. I hope you find something you like and I'm so glad you stopped by.
These are tea bag dispensers, I learned to make them by my very nice table neighbours on the crop I went to a few weeks ago. I did a tutorial on them for the Crafters Companion UK advent calendar so If you are interested you should check out their blog.
I made this with stuff I had out on the desk one day.
This one is kinda cute, I love the bird by Winnie & Walter <3
This is not a christmas card but I made it on the crop and thought I'd share it anyways.
I could not let the negatives go to waste when making the other card so this is a bonus one.
For a sketch challenge at the crop, I even used some patterned papers for this!
And lastly a gold embossed little thing, pretty fun with the cute pine cones!
I hope you have a wonderful holiday and get some spare time to enjoy some crafting too.
I was browsing the Spectrum Noir blog for old tutorials and found one on coloring on vellum by my friend Mary Dawn, using the Spectrum Noir pencils. I have done this before but got an idea to try to emboss vellum and color the backside for a soft effect. It didn't turn out just as I wanted to so I did go over the front too with my pencils. The embossed lines on the mistletoe was pretty wide and I wanted the green to show a bit more.
I also made a background by stamping and embossing a background stamp and using the eBrush to airbrush on top of it, giving it an embossed feel.
Colors used: Pencils: 053, 054 Markers: DR5, DR6, DR7 Stamps:Under the mistletoe and Snowflake borders background by Hero Arts
I hope you are enjoying the holiday preparations, I'm starting to bake all the cookies today. I'm as usual a bit behind but I'll be fine. I'm not stressed out about anything at the moment and that's a nice feeling. It'll be christmas weather or not the cookies are done, right? ;)
I got inspired by and old tutorial from the Spectrum Noir blog on coloring on kraft cardstock. I have used the Spectrum Noir pencils on kraft cardstock but never the markers so I had to give it a try. I used some of the new Winnie & Walter stamps that I won, they are so pretty! I stamped the bird on a branch and gave it a shot. I picked pretty dark colors to make them really show up and I might have gone a bit to dark with them but I was really happy with the look so I'll definitely give this a try again. I added some snow with a white gel pen because it lightens up the card a bit. And I did cover the bird with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen. Because I can't stop reaching for them.
I angled the card to make the sparkle show.... It's hard to capture on pictures :)
I'm up at WOW! today with this card where I used one of my new diecuts by Winnie & Walter and covered it with the new Mistletoe Magic embossing powder. It's super glittery and pretty. Hop on over to the WOW! blog to see all of the card and read about how I made it.
I hope you are having a great weekend! I'll be back again soon with a new project. Hope to see you back then :)
Today one year ago I started my Etsy shop Pretty Crafty Stuff. Since then I started the Facebook page (that you really should check out if you haven't) and I've got an amazing DT that posts equally amazing projects once a week there. I've also seen some of my designs turned into stamps thanks to the great people at WOW Embossing powders. I really couldn't imagine all that when I was starting out making a few cut files a year ago. I hope I can continue making files, even if it is mostly for fun PCS is my baby and I'm really enjoying the creative outlet that it is.
This card was made using one of the files on top of a watercolored background. You can't tell by the photo but the cutout is covered in clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen so it's shimmery and pretty.
I'm so happy I've got so many supporting friends that lifts me up and makes me believe I can do stuff like this. I could not have done it with out help from all of you, I'm not even going to try to list names because you are many and I don't want to forget anyone. But a special thanks to Mary Dawn, Petra and Christin in the DT that keeps posting so many pretty projects using the files and coming up with ideas for new files. You guys are the best <3
I totally adore my Spectrum Aquas. There are so many pretty colors and I love how they blend. When I was doing my tutorial for Spectrum Noir this month I revisited an old technique that works with basically all kinds of water based markers but I never really tried it with my Aquas before starting to experiment with it for my tutorial. It worked amazingly well, as I expected :) Klick here to get to the tutorial, if you haven't tried it before I highly recommend playing around because it is very easy, fun and gives a very pretty result.
I started out with these pretty butterflies. I made them really colorful and made a CAS card out of the panel.
Then I reached for this pretty holly stamp and made a very quick Christmas card. Great for mass producing. And the embossed sentiment makes it look special even though it doesn't take many minutes to make after you have planned it out.
I also made this card using my Flights of Fancy stamps, I love how they turned out. I splattered some ink ovet it to make it a bit more interesting and added glitter on one side. Because glitter always makes everything prettier.
I hope you got some inspiration! Thank you for stopping by, see you soon again :)
Today I'm a guest at the Hero Arts blog, yay! I got to play with the very cute Scandinavian Holiday set by Lia with some really fun traditional Swedish images that was perfect for Christmas cards. I really loved those stamps and couldn't stop. I made five (!) cards in two different styles for my post. This is one of my favourites. Hop on over to the Hero Arts blog to see the rest :) I hope you like them as much as I do.
This month we all got to pick our favourite of all the A Blog Named Hero posts from this year. Let me tell you it was not easy, those girls are so good! I ended up picking a post by Michelle and made my own card inspired by that one. I wanted it to be a christmas card because here we are one hour away from the 24th when we celebrate Christmas here in Sweden. So you should pop on over to ABNH and check out Michelles three pretty cards. I hope you like my vesion of her cards, I love love love this christmas set from Hero Arts. So pretty!
I'll be back in a few hours with a new post. Until then, take care!
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