Joanna Sheen Autumn Blog Hop.......

Hello lovelies,

 

I wanted to share with you that the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog  is having a blog hop!

 

The blog hop is a hop with a twist as the design team have created projects with just one Joanna Sheen House Mouse  image

 

The image is House Mouse Juggling Leaves from the Joanna Sheen 'Tumble' rubber stamp sheet!

 

The papers used are from the SummerTime Designs Freebie Kit "Falling For Fall"

which you can download HERE

 

 

The *STAR* Prize for the blog hop is this fantastic set of all 4 Autumn House Mouse Stamps!

 

 

There is a twist.....and the twist is....

 

the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog is showcasing other crafter's cards using the same image and papers too. I was one of the lucky crafter's who had the fantastic opportunity to take part in this and play with this gorgeous image and the gorgeous papers.

 

Here is my creation.....

 

 

I love this image, it is so cute and playful, I love the way the little mouse is juggling the leaves!

 

Also the Joanna Sheen design team are each giving you the chance to win some gorgeous ribbons, hop over to the blog to see how you can be in with a chance of taking part.

 

JOANNA SHEEN BLOG HOP

 

I had fun making my card.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

have fun and happy crafting,

lots of love

NJ XXX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Magnolia Cards Coloured Five Ways...

Hello my lovelies,

I have been a busy little bee over the last week with my crafting. Some of it has been design team work and then the rest of my craftiness has been playing with my Magnolia stamps and pens and pencils!LOL

I coloured the images last week and I have finally managed to finish making the cards today. I decided I wanted to have a play around with all my pens and pencils, so I decided to use different makes for each image. After doing this I have finally decided which my definite favourite colouring mediums are...there are two! That's my indecisive streak hahaha!

Anyway, let's make a start of showing you my colouring experiment's....go make yourself a coffee, grab a bar of choccie and sit back and relax...here goes.............

CARD 1...

Colouring medium used...Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils and Daler Rowney Low Odour Thinners ...

Shades used: Raw Umber ~ Dark Naples Ochre ~ Dark Chrome Yellow ~ Cadmium Orange ~ Dark Cadmium Orange ~ Cadmium Yellow ~ Light Yellow Green ~ Cream ~ Light Green ~ Leaf Green ~ Earth Green Yellowish ~ Light Ultramarine ~ Warm Grey 2 ~ Dark Red ~ Rose Carmine ~ Burnt Ochre.

I stamped the images using the masking technique to make it look like she is sat on the flower. I absolutely love colouring with my polychromo pencils. It does seem to take a bit longer than normal, as I like to blend the pencils with paper stumps and the Low Odour Thinners. I think though that the results are defintely worth the time it takes. It is like therapy too...very relaxing!LOL

Here's a close up of the colouring...

Here is the finished card...

CARD 2

Colouring medium used...Letraset Flexmarker's

Shades used: Blush ~ Rose Peach ~ Tea Rose ~ Light Fawn ~ Nutmeg ~ Sandstone ~ Cappuccinno ~ Buttercup ~ Blue Grey 1 ~Glacier Blue ~ Dove Grey ~ Sea Mist ~ Honeydew ~ Duck Egg ~ Firebrick

I have been using Flexmarker's since I got bought them from my husband as a Christmas Present. I was a lucky girl...he bought me every colour that was out at the time! Bless him! These are lovely to work with, the colour just flows so smoothly and they are very easy to blend with. A pleasure to use, with I think great results. You can also use them with your Promarker's too.

Here is the close up...

Here is the finished card...

CARD 3

Colouring medium used...Kuretake Zig Brushables

Shades used: Cool Cucumber ~ Platinum ~ Apricot ~ Pure Red ~ Pure Yellow ~ Powder Blue ~ Pure Orange ~ Baby Pink ~ Fawn

I have had these for a while and swap between using these and the flexmarker's. I like using these two and again they flow nicely and blend very well.

Here's a close up...

Here is the finished card...

CARD 4

Colouring medium used...Letraset Promarker's

Shades used: Cyan ~ Indigo Blue ~ Pastel Blue ~ Pastel Green ~ Henna ~ Pastel Pink ~  Tan ~ Honeycomb ~ Pastel Beige ~ Denim Blue ~ Cool Grey 4 ~ Cocktail Pink ~ Rose Pink ~ Cardinal Red

I don't have all of the colour's in the Promarker's. So I had to work with the small amount that I have. Again these are good to work with and you can use them also with the Flexmarker's. I still think I could have blended better, but as they say...practice makes perfect!

Here's a close up...

Here is the finished card...

and finally...

CARD 5

Colouring medium used...Whispers Strokes Pens

I am not able to tell you the names of the colours used as they are not listed on the pens for some reason.

I found that I did'nt blend my colours as well with these as the others, but then I just think that is down to my colouring!LOL

Here's a close up...

Here is the finished card...

I by no means claim to be an expert on colouring at all, I just absolutely love doing it! I wanted to experiment and see which I liked doing the most...so I have to say that my favourite's are the Polychromo Pencil's and the Flexmarker's...but the Zig Brushables come very close to them too!

I think it is important to remember that colouring should be fun and enjoyable, and to use the different mediums that are right for you. I have also coloured with distress inks before now using fine paint brushes. It's a case of what you fancy using at the time!LOL

I hope you have enjoyed my little experiment, I certainly enjoyed colouring and making the cards!

Thank you for taking the time to read and I do really appreciate all your comments...

have fun and happy colouring,

lots of love

NJ XXX



Competition Cards

Hello my lovelies, well I hope your all having a good week so far. I'm having a very busy week at work and home!

I just thought I would show you three cards that I entered into the Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine competition just before Christmas. I didnt win, but it's worth a try!

Anyhoo, I hope that you like them.

Distressed card using Flower Girl Sugar Nellie Stamp

Masked stamping technique using Kanban Moulin Divas - Tres Chic stamp. I stamped it with Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire and coloured the image using a slightly damp paint brush to draw colour in from the stamp outline.

Fizzy Moon Twisted Easel card

Thanks for looking and happy crafting

lots of love

NJ XXX



Christmas Card for my Husband - entering into the Joanna Sheen Challenge

Hello my lovelies, this is the Christmas card I have just made tonight for my lovely husband. I am also entering it into the Joanna Sheen challenge

Christmas Card

http://joannasheenchallenge.blogspot.com/search/label/Joanna%20Sheen%20Challenge%201

I have made the card blank using Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Labels Eleven.

I matted and layered using the various sizes in the set. The decorative paper is Forever Friends Retro Collection A Christmas Tale. The stamped image is from Tatty Button Tattys Christmas Tree which I have coloured with whispers pens and sakura pens. I have embellished with hat pins, stick pins, ribbon and greetings.

Thanks for looking, I hope you like it,

love NJ XX

My Design Team Card for Crafty Bloggers Network

Over at the Crafty Blogger's Network Challenge the theme this week is

Shades of Winter

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.com/

We would love to see your creations.

Why not hop over and take a look at the Design Team work for inspiration and check out the other entries too, lots of stunning ideas.

Here is my DT card, the stamped image is from the Forever Friends Retro Collection A Christmas Tale. I have coloured using whispers pens.

Matted and layered with mirri card.

Thanks for looking and dont forget you still have time to enter,

lots of love NJ XX



PanPastel UK Challenge 11 - The Great Outdoors

I am entering this card into the

PanPastel UK Challenge 11 - The Great Outdoors

http://panpasteluk.blogspot.com/

The stamp I have used is Inkadinkado Gardenia. I have coloured it using PanPastels Diarylide Yellow and Permanent red.

These are from the trial kit that I won a couple of weeks back. I only have the two colours so I have tried to be a little inventive with how I used them. Using an applicator I put the yellow and red separately on my craft sheet, then on another area I mixed them both together to create orange.

I have used water to paint them onto the sunflowers, and I used a wash of PanPastel over the background.When dry I sprayed a fixative over the image.

I cut out the image and then inked the edges with Distress ink Rusty hinge.

I covered an A5 landscape card blank with decorative paper. Attached organza ribbon down the sides and seam binding along the top and bottom. I matted the image using foam pads. I have embellished with the quote and two buttons and a seam binding bow!

The reason I have chosen this stamp for this challenge is because to me..

The Great Outdoors reminds me of my Dad, bless him, he passed away last year...he worked as a gardener so this is why I like this stamp, it reminds me of when he used to tend all the flowers.

I hope you like the card, thanks for looking

love Nicola XXX



PanPastel UK Challenge 10 - Animals

I was delighted to be last week's winner of the PanPastel Challenge. I won a PanPastel trial kit. My kit contained two colours which were Diarylide Yellow and Permanent Red.

Now this weeks challenge theme is Animals, so I decided to use the DoCrafts Woodland Folk stamp set and some free papers to match that came with Papercraft essentials magazine.

I swiped the colours across Bristol Board and blended them with one of the sponges that came with the kit. I stamped the image using Memento ink on top of this. I sponged a little bit of each of the colours onto my craft mat, sprayed with a fine mist of water, and used a very fine paint brush to pick up the colour. I then added colour here and there to the stamped image. I used a fixative spray to finish. Matted onto card covered with decorative paper, stamped greetings onto PanPastel coloured card and embellished with raffia and a wooden button. Now, when you see the card....you will notice the animals are'nt of the traditional colour...lol....this is because I wanted it to be slightly different but also because I wanted to play with my new PanPastel goodies.

I hope you like it and I am entering it into the Challenge 10 - Animals

http://panpasteluk.blogspot.com/

I hope you like it and thanks for looking,

have fun and happy crafting,

lots of love NJ XX