Watercolouring

One of  my most favourite days in a week is Friday  just because I know I am heading home after work, looking forward to spending a quiet night chatting to my other half,  reading or crafting...

The treat of the night tonight is watercolouring which is my favourite colouring technique, but which, unfortunally, I don't apply very often to my crafting. 

For playing tonight I have chosen these two lovey STRAWBERRY KISSES stamps and and I must stay that I am quite surprised with the final results.

Hope that I have done well.

Playing with My Spectrum Noirs

My Spectrum Noirs have been a great joy to use in creating these two cards.

The first one is from the Humphrey's Corner range -Occasions created for my colleague who's just got a baby boy.

The second one is from the Strawberry Kisses range. I simply called it  'Dream'. The colours are of a holiday dream when one relaxes with a glass of something sparkly and nice.

Strawberry Kisses for the New Year

I've started this new year with making calendars for my friends which are a joy to do.

This one was so easy to make. The lovely image from the new range from Crafter's Companion - Strawberry Kisses  just excelled me.

The materials used:

• Strawberry Kisses - Crafter's Companion
• Sprectrum Noir markers - Crafter's Companion
• Mini Calendar from DO crafts, and paper as well
• Some ribbon with a die cut finding
• Blank white square card.

NEW YEAR – NEW CALENDAR

The start of a new year comes always with a new calendar. And this year is not any different from the previous two when I made different calendars for my friends and myself.

But, unlike the previous two years when I tended to complicate things and make my little calendars 3D challenging ( from decorating twelve different pages to making easel card calendars), this time I  went completely simple by using a  sheet of A4 and simple scoring and folding on my embossing boards and Ultimate Pro.

 

For magic ingredients I used:

• Brown cardstock
• Ultimate Pro from CC
• Urban stamps from DO crafts
• Mirri card- gold
• Some old inkpads for distressing
• Cuttlebug
• Darice embossing folder
• Gold gems
• Collal silicone glue.

Mince Pies

There is a lesson that I have learnt this year and it is not to make Christmas cards too early.  It cost me my mojo that disappeared in the late October.
 
To make anything turned into a struggle. Finally, after having felt guilty and uninspired, I managed to find my mojo.

It came back in a big style and I made this card for my 'other half' with lots of love.

The magical ingridients are:

• Ultimatepro - Crafter's Companion
• Spectrum Noir pens - Crafter's Companion
• SWALK Winter Cheer stamp - I love mince pies
• Some organza ribbon 
• Centura Pearl card - Crafter's Companion
• Papermaina Christmas paper 2010 from DO Crafts, and 
• Lots of love and magic.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

My First Attempt

It has been long since I thought I would try and make a piece of jewellery. The last attempt was unsuccessful four years ago. I tried to make a pair of earings but it did not end well with all the material - excluding beads themselves, everything was squeezed and deformed too much.

I tried again yesterday, after some weeks of thingking intensely. The drive was there....just the right moment that was missing. And it did happen. Out of blue.

These earings were easy to make and
will be followed by more.....

Something Different

  Teacandle Card - The inspiration for this project came from lovely Sara Davis and Crafter's  Companion.

Tools and materials used:

• The Boxer scoring board from Crafter's Companion
• Core'dinations of various sorts
• Christmas board from Crafter's Companion
• Grunge letter - clear stamp, Additions, Lily of the Valley
• Distress Ink - Peeled Paint - Tim Holtz