Pan pastels and Lavinia Stamps!

Good evening Lovelies! This post is really just a mid month reminder for the Lavinia Stamps challenge, the theme is "Add a flower" and they are offering a whopping £40 to spend at the Lavinia Stamps web shop for the prize! Wow, you'd be crazy to not want a chance to win!!!

I've used the new stamp set designed by the very talented Tracey Dutton that featured on QVC with Imagination Crafts! I used Pan Pastels on the background, the sun/moon I used the new metallic pan pastels to create a pretty shimmery effect, not sure my photography shows it very well? I used sparkle medium through the gorgeous Sweet a Poppy stencil also designed by Tracey, I'm always a little cautious with sparkle and shimmer as it can be a bit too much, but actually I like how it's turned out and after all, it wouldn't be a fairy without a little bit of fairy sparkle!

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Couple of projects TH stylie!

Good evening Lovelies! Well I'm guessing summer is over? :( it was fab while it lasted!

Anyway I've done a fab workshop over the weekend with the amazing Eileen Godwin, and her lovely group of ladies, always such a wonderful day, lots of fun, laughter, nibbles and oodles of inspirational projects!

Here is a picture of the projects from the workshop, plus some other Tim Holtz inspired projects, using some of his techniques!

 

 

 

 

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SplodgeAway sample!

Good morning lovelies! An early one for me today! Thought I do a quick blog whilst baby having her nap, she was awake at 5 am although didn't get up until 6.30, I wish those pesky teeth would pop through :(

So this week on the SplodgeAway blog they are featuring the StenSkapes! They are fab, so versatile, and so easy to create a scene or I very often just use one or two elements from them to combine with other products, so today my sample is the 'Twit Twoo" StenSkape, I've used Distress Inks for my background and combined it with Lavinia Stamps, another big favourite of mine :)

You can buy all your masking needs plus much more here!

I always appreciate the time you spend to visit and comment on my blog, thank you xxx have a great day xx

 

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Zoe - 15th challenge # "Steampunky"

Good morning Lovelies! I hope everyone is all back to normal now after the school holidays? Phew didn't it go quick?

So today is a new challenge day at Rhedd and Rosie's the theme is "Steampunky" and it is sponsored by Rick St Dennis!

We were very generously given a selection of digi's to choose from, now I'm not a Digi user, but I must say it was a pleasure to colour in, the detail is fab! So here she is!

 

I struggle with Steampunk, it's not my thing, so this is my take on it, I hope you like it?

I used a script stamp from Studio 490 heat embossed in white then inked over with old paper DI, the gorgeous shabby Flourish from Indigoblu had the same treatment, the little cogs stamp is from a Creative Expressions set, I used my fab Inktense coloured pencils to colour her in, I'm not great at colouring in, so I find pencils much easier and these pencils are fab!

I hope you are inspired enough to join in? I'd love to see your "Steampunky" creations, don't forget to pop along and check out what the rest of our very talented DT have created!

Thanks for visiting have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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Another Visible Image Snowflake card!

Good evening Lovelies! Very Autumnal feel this evening brrrrrrrr! Anyway as I said last night I was waiting for something to dry? So here it is!

I used the "Caught in Crystal" technique after I'd heat embossed with white EP the snowflakes! From Visible Image of course! I love em :) the sentiment is from a Creative Expressions set!

This second image is just a close up of the shimmery background!

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Visible Image stamps

Good evening Lovelies! Well I don't know about your weather? But it's teamed down with rain all blooming day :( grrrrrrr! I hate the rain, and it was chilly, not like at all!

Tonight I've made a Christmas card using the fab new Snowflake stamps from Visible Image! As soon as I saw them I knew I had to have them, even though I have loads of snowflake stamps lol! I wanted to try something with them, check tomorrow for that! It needs to dry over night! Hope it works?

Anyway this is a multilayer technique using a gloss card stock, I used VI music background with a very pale silver brilliance ink think its platinum? You have to heat set it, once dried I inked over with DI, dusty concord chipped sapphire, you have to go over several times to build up the colour as its gloss card, again I heat set it, then using cornflower Archival ink I stamped with the gorgeous flourish from Indigoblu, heat dried then dusted with a dust buddy stamped using perfect medium and dusted with white Stampendous detail EP the snowflakes and the Noel is from an Indigoblu set, heat set, wiped with a dry cloth and voila! Bit of matting and layering, few dew drops and Bobs ya uncle! Lol! I hope you like it? Thank you for visiting xx

 

 

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Zoe - September Challenge # "Colour inspiration"

Good morning Lovelies!

A short post as I have 3 going live today lol! This one is Cards Galore, the theme is Colour inspiration, the idea is to create anything you like to include at least 3 of these yummy colours!

The winner of this challenge gets the opportunity to be our guest designer next month!

 

Lovely ice creamy colours I think?

So here's my card, I used my Gelli plate with a Splodgeaway mask to create my background, the stamps are all Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 which were all coloured with Acrylic paints cut out a layered, I love these stamps, so bold and different!

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you like my card and it inspires you to join in? Have a great day xx

 

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