Morning to you all. 

Just thought I would share with you some of the things I have been playing with over the last few days.

I have started a colouring course with a very clever lady called Alyce Keegan from 

http://kitandclowder.ning.com.

Check her out on kit and clowder's Facebook page. 

Her work is fabulous.

I have started with her Skin and Hair class 

and although I am not that good at it I have learnt so much and am improving  my colouring skills.

I had a little play with an old stamp by Sugar Nellie called Daydream Cassie and I have turned her into the two cards below.

She is coloured using Pro markers on smooth card. 

The butterfly dies are from Memory box and the heart edging is a Martha Stewart round the page punch.

This one is the same just using different colours.

The sentiment is a stamp from Fiskars Laugh with Me Quotes

The third card is a digi image from Saturated Canary called Tilly.

I think she is so beautiful.

Her wings and skirt are coloured with clear Wink of Stella.

Although you can't see this in the photo it really sparkles in real life.

Good Morning folks.

Today I thought I would share a tag I made for a dear crafty friend of mine.

The theme was 

"I do like to be beside the seaside".  

I feel it puts us in the mood for the lovely summer months

to come and lifts the 'winter blues' 

The stamp I used is Faye Whittaker's "All Our Yesterdays:

The beach is made from fine sandpaper.

The waves were liquid appliqué.

The sea and sky are coloured with Pan Pastels,

everything else is coloured with Promarkers.

Hope you like it.

It's a New Year and my New Year resolution is to blog more. 

Let's hope I can keep it up.

As a Christmas pressie for myself I decided to take an on line colouring class and improve my colouring skills.

I was recommended by a friend to give Kit & Clowder online craft and colouring classes a go so I signed up to their Skin and Hair class. 

I have started and been practicing and feel I have improved already. 

Thought I would share my first finished project.

It is a digi stamp from Sugar Nellie and she is called Bebe.

I just thought she was so beautiful. 

I have made the card for my friends new grand daughter that is due next month.

I hope you like her.

Happy Friday

Thought you might like to see a couple of things I made with "Men" in mind.

The first was a card for a 50th birthday card for a guy who loves motorbikes. 

The bike is a Clarity stamp embossed with gold powder. Distress inks used around the edge. The background I got from the internet and I glazed the route 66 badges with Diamond glaze.

Bakers twine used around the corrugated card.

The tag was something I made for a friend of mine. 

Using the same stamp I embossed in silver this time

 and coloured with Pro markers.

Distress ink around the edges. 

Words were typed on computer and cut out, 

 tag finished with string.

Hope you like what I have made.

Hope you will drop by again soon.

Hi to everyone who has taken the time to drop by.

Today I thought I would show you some cards that I made at Eileen Godwin's June Rochester workshop. We all had a fab day as usual and made some amazing projects

This first card we made using Spellbinders M-bossibilities 3D Embossing Folder  'Creative Cogs' from Oyster Stamps, Art Foil Board, along with Treasure Gold Waxes in various colours and some die cut Cog Shapes.

Its quite strange that in the photo the cogs look as if they are

de-bossed but they are in-fact attached to the front with Pinflair Glue.

I sent this to my friends husband for his birthday. I attached his name in the large cog die with letters cut from black card. 

The second card  was created using a set of Jumbo Stamps from Stampendous and distress inks, along with various stencils from Memory Box. 

I then used the same stamp and coloured it using Promarkers. Quite a different effect.

At first I was a little unsure with this stamp, but I now love it and have achieved some really funky cards with it.

Would you believe it, I don't blog for a such a long time and now twice in one day!!!

Just thought I would share with you

the projects we made at Eileen Godwin's  workshop yesterday. What a fabulous day we had making a flip book and card. You could hear a pin drop we were so engrossed. 

Eileen is using hers to store her embossing folder samples. 

Not sure what I am going to use mine for yet. 

Thank you Eileen for a brilliant day.

Two Chipboard Covers, both sides 

We used 2 Chipboard Covers, both sides of each one we painted using Emulsion Paints.

When totally dry, we stenciled an image over the paint using Distress Inks, then stamped with JOFY and Dylusion Stamps using Momento Ink. The images were coloured with pro markers. 

Some Treasure Gold gilding wax around the edges, a couple of jump rings and a quick spray with 'Spray and Shine'.

This card was made using reverse side Centura Pearl card. Distress inks splodged on and heat dried. 

Stamped with JOFY stamps with Memento ink and coloured with Pro markers.

Clear Wink of Stella used to highlight.

Morning All.

Just thought I would share this card with you that I made for a 60th wedding anniversary.

I got the idea from a card made by Hellen Pearce. 

I made this using Heartfelt Creation Time stamps 

adding the 60 over the clock face.

The die is a Spellbinder die and the words are computer generated. 

For the insert I wrote "How time flies".

The recipient was well impressed.

Eileen's Allhallows Workshop

Hi everyone.

This is the first opportunity I have had to tell you about the fantastic workshop I had with Eileen Godwin at Allhallows.

We had a fabulous day, with great inspiration from Eileen.

Card 1

Using the white side of Centura Pearl card stock,

I used distress inks to blend the background.

I removed the roller from a brayer and wound torn strips of cheap masking tape around the roller before snapping back into place.

I misted the brayer heavily with water and rolled it rapidly over my distress ink background a few times, and dried it with a heat gun.

I added some more ink through a stencil.

Finally I  stamped the images, Studio 490 stamps from Wendy Vecchi.

Such fun to do.

Card 2

Distress inks blended background on the card.

Flick water over the background and dry with a heat gun.

Draw an oval shape on to the background in pencil as a guide, and stamp with small foliage or flower stamp around to make the wreath using various colours of distress inks.

The Love was cut from Quickutz dies. 

 The butterflies are punched.

Card 3

I used three colours from the Citrus inks range.

I added small amounts of ink straight onto my craft mat and swiped the card through the inks to get a beautiful effect.

The leaf images were stamped in various colours of Archival inks.

The Clarity Dream stamp was also stamped in Archival ink.