Colourific is going to Hochanda

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and welcome to my blog.

A very exciting post for me to share today.
COLOURIFIC IS GOING TO HOCHANDA
Im so excited to see Annelies and my teamie Alice demoing, and sharing with you all, the amazing stamps from Colourific.
They will be on Hochanda on Sunday 26th of January at 12 noon. 

Dont miss it :-)

(The new stamps wont be in the Colourific store till after the show, but do pop over and check out all the other amazing stams)

But let me share with you one of the samples Ive made for the show.
The stamps are amazing.

This one is a journal page and I used a couple of the new stamps sets for it. 

I used:

• A5 Zen Ladies B
• A6 Whispering Hearts
  
  I also used 
• Jornal page
• Distress inks
• Distress Sprays
• Distress Crayons
• Tim holtz Stencils
• Clear paste
• Mister with water
• Diecut Sentiment
• Gilding wax
• Archival black ink pad & stamping blocks

I started by making my background. There isnt much rhyme or reason to it really. A few sprays here, a bit of crayon through a stancil there. A bit of water here and there..
Its why I love making journal pages. I really just have fun with the colours.

I added the clear paste through a stencil to get the measuring tapes done and left that to dry. Once dry I stamped my Zen lady and added my hearts.

My hearts are from the Whispering Hearts stamp set. I simply stamped them onto scrap pieces of card, coloured with distress ink and cut them out.

I finished the project with a diecut greeting from my stash and a bit of guilding wax here and there.

And that is all from me for today.

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Hochanda Samples for BeeCrafty.

Hey bloggers and welcome

Todays post is the samples I made for yesterdays BeeCrafty show on Hochanda.
Sam was on the telly box twice sharing some brand new stamps.

Here are the samples I made:

 Distress ink with stamping.

 MDF tag with heat embossed words and distresss crayons

 Distress Oxide and clear heat embossing

 Distress ink and stazon stamping

 Distress Oxide stamping.

 Distress oxide with clear heat embossing and more oxide.

 Paint markers background on 2x ATC's. Distress ink stamping.

And last but not least, Lustre Luxe and stazon stamping.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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BeeCrafty - Hochanda Samples

Hey Bloggers..

Just a quick post today to share my samples from the recent BeeCrafty show on Hochanda. 

All of us on the Design Team have such different styles and I love how we all make such different bits even though we have the same goodies. The other girls are so talented and after watching the shows, I now have so many ideas I want to try out..

Anyway here are all my samples. 

 These 2 cards are some of my favorite in my bunch. I struggle making CAS (clean and simple) cards, but I think I pulled it off this time. They are 1 layer on craft card. Owl stamped and masked off. Then a bit of distress oxide and music stamp stamped over before a few water splashes. I finished with my sentiment up in the corner.

This one is actualy a postcard. I signed a wee greeting on the back.
Its just stamping and smothered in distress ink. And finished with a bit of crackle glossy accent

 

I LOOOVE this card, if you will forgive me to say so about my own creation. Its simply just a lot of masking and stamping, A few paint splashes but the whole project has a spray of silver shimmer over it. Its sooo class, if i do say so myself lol

I love this one too. But its more the colours I think and the fact I love making backgrounds with sentiment stamps. Its oxides but only just stamped. My owl is stamped and coloured and fuzzy cut and stuck on top.

This one was another quick make. Its the brick stencil with distress ink and then the scull stamped over and then the splash stamps in the same red colour (I think it was fired brick).

 This one, forgive me I dont even remeber what I used for the background coouring. I think it was distress crayons but could have been oxides.. Either way, I stamped the scull background repeatedly over it. I love the scull background stamp but I must admit I struggled to come up with ideas for it. Anyway, i stamped my tophat scull and the little poison sentiments, fuzzy cut and layered up.

 This one is once again distress ink and my scull stamped over and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I did the same with my sentiment. The details on this one is water stamping. I simply sprayed a bit of water on my mat and tapped my stamp into the water and stamped on to the card.

 These 2 was mearly a play trying to use the background scull in the best way to show it off. I wasnt sure if I was even gonna show them off, but i thought, someone else might love the stamp like me but find it hard to use. So I guess this is a very simple idea.

 This one was also just me playing. Its just oxides on the blending foam and then stamping over. the swirlies are from the scull background stamp.

And thats all I made for the show. Hope I managed to give you some inspiration in how to use these amazing stamps. You can find them all in the STORE.

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BeeCrafty Inspiration - MDF Tags

Hey Bloggers..

Well I am officially on holiday all of July as my children are all off school and its time for some quality time, meaning I dont make any projects for my design teams in this month. But but but... I decided to schedule a few posts with a few projects I had lying..

So for this weeks post for BeeCrafty I wanna share a couple of MDF tags.
Both tags was made for past Hochanda shows, but neither was dry and ready to send by my deadline so was left behind..

 This one was made with poly filler. Its a grit one that I got in the £shop and I love using it. I added a thick layer strait to the tag and then took my stencil and pressed into it. Once dry I added lots of guilding wax and distress inks. My girl is also a BeeCrafty stamp and she was stamped, coloured with water colours and fuzzy cut before added to my tag.

 This one here is using the same stencil as above. I used texture paste through the stencil and once dry I added lots of Distress crayon. I love how this one turned out, but honestly would know what to do with it lol

Anyway, here are the goodies Ive used:

Stencil
Beryl stamp
MDF

Distress Crayons
Distress ink
Lustre Luxe

And that is all from me today. Thanks for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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Bee Crafty Inspiration and this weeks Youtube.

Hey Bloggers

 

  I've made a little youtube for BeeCrafty for this weeks DT post.

I recreated one of the samples I made for Bev's show on Hochanda.

 

This is the one is the original one I made for the show. The ones in the youtube are copies I made.
 

 Below is all the other samples I made for the show:

 

Lustre Luxe background. Birds in gold embossing powder. Lustre Luxe and white paint splatters on top.

 Coloured strips are Lustre Luxe. Sentiment stamp I cut up and used here.

Journal page. Lustre Luxe circles, Distress crayons and sentiments in white embossing powder.

 MDF tags with Lustre Luxe background. Butterflies stamped and fuzzy cut and Lustre Luxe added on top.

 

 Once again MDF with lustre Luxe and butterflies stamped. This one I just added crackle glaze on top and once dry rubbed a bit of gold Lustre Luxe over the whole piece. Finished with a couple of the sentiments.

 

 Distress Oxides with water splashes. Butterflies with white embossing powder.

 Background made with Memento inks and a spray of Lustre Luxe.

Distress Oxide circles sprayed with water. 

 

And last but not least. Lustre Luxe background and Lustre Luxe through a dinkable.

Lustre Luxe and all the stamps can be found in the BeeCrafty STORE.

 Thanks for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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BeeCrafty Inspiration..

Hey Bloggers.

Thank you for popping by..

Todays projects is for BeeCrafty.

I had a right good play making this card. Its one of those that came together quite fast. It just kind a flowed..

For this card I used the following goodies:

Inkable template, Easy frame 4" circle

BEAUtanical - Large Branch

Winged things - Butterflies Set 2

WORDage - Friendship

 I also used Distress crayons and my Wink of Stella shimmer brush

Find everything and many more goodies in the STORE

 This card is made by laying down lots of different colours of Distress Crayons. I just smudged the colours with my fingers to get the blended look. I then took my inkable circle and and lay in the middle. I took a babywipe and ran it around inside the circle to remove some of the crayon. 

I left the card to dry and once dry I stamped my sentiment and my branches. I used black Archival ink. I also stamped my butterflies on some scrap card, coloured them with crayons and cut them out.

 To finish it was a simple black mat and gluing on my butterflies.

A very simple yet dramatic card.

  And that's all from me for today.

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BeeCrafty samples on Hochanda - November

Hey bloggers..

Well?? Did you all catch Bev on Hochanda this past saturday? (19/11-2016)

Was'nt she just amazing as always??

Well today is my inspiration day for BeeCrafty, so although you may already have seen my projects made for the show, I decided to share them here on my blog today with details on how I've made them.

All the goodies I've used you can find in the BeeCrafty STORE and on the Hochanda shop.

 Tag: Mdf tags, Medium.
 Unprimed.

For this one I went strait to the tag with my distress ink. Not priming your mdf will leave your colours a bit more muted (and it may take a bit more ink to get coverage) but I really love the autumn feel this tag got. I used the "Set of backdrops textures" stamp set and stamped in a brown strait over my colours.

Now the tricky bit here is.. drying time!! It takes forever to dry.. ok ok maybe half an hour or so lol, but im a very impatient.. As I used embossing powder over my inking it HAD to be fully dry or else the embossing powder would stick to the whole tag. In the end I had it lying over night just to be sure.

I stamped with versamark and heat set with white embossing powder
I stamped with the "style wire borders" stamps and the "Any Road"greeting stamp.
I finished with a bit of white embossing powder aound the edges of the tag.

 This one took me about 10mins to make. This one is made with the "Victorian Small" tag.
Primed with white acrylic paint.

All I did was taking my guilding wax strait to the primed tag. I just rubbed and blended the wax with my finger till I got the cover I wanted. I then stamped my "Faith" stamp and one of the "style wire borders" stamps with versamark and heat set with black embossing powder.

This tag is mahooosiiive... I'ts the "Victorian XXL" mdf tags.
Unprimed.
For this big tag I went strait in with distress paints. Mine are the dabbers so they are very quick and easy to paint with. (any paint will do may I add).
Once my tag was coated, I left it to dry. Once dry I spred a tiny amount of the paint on to my BeeCraft Blending mat and spread it out. I then tapped my background stamps into the paint and stamped, just like normal stamping, strit onto the tag.
I stamped using a selection from the style wire borders" stamps set and the "Set of backdrops textures" stamp set.

 (All the word stamping on this piece is made with BeeCrafty WORDage stamps.. Its made from many different sets but lets just say it involved cutting up several of my greeting stamps.
I often cut up my stamps to do this and the best thing is, the BeeCrafty stamps are such good quality it matters not. I simply assemble the stamps again on my acrylic block when I want to use the full sentiment again.)

I then went on to make my little notebook. Its a cheap lined pad and I simply cut a piece of card the same size and decorated that. I cover my piece of card with distress paint also and used the same stamps as on the tag to decorate. I then carried on stamping all my words from the different sets to make my greeting. I stamped in versmark and heatset it with back embossing powder.
I added the cardstock to the front of the note book.

Once the note was finished I went on to stamp my greeting onto the tag. I simply just lay down the notebook where I wanted it, lined up my stamp and removed the book while  stamped, again with versamark but with goldembossing powder. I also added gold embossing powder around all the edges of the tag.

To finish the whole project I used an old pencil and rolled it with a piece of cardstock from the "Steampunk Backgrounds" paperpack.
I attached the pencil with some stick on velcro I found in my (never used) sewing kit.

Right the last one for this time.. 
I used 2 tags for this one.
Artboards Portrait Victorian Tag
MDF Tags : Victorian Medium
Primed with white acrylic paint.

This one was actually the first one I made for this show.. Those of you who pops by here will know that Im new to MDF and I find it hard to work with, but as with anything else here in life, the more you do it, the easier it becomes.
I still learning how all the different mediums work on the wood instead of card but its a lot of fun.

I started on the big tag. I stamped the word "beautiful" from the "beautiful things" stamp (once again I cut my stamps apart) repeatedly and heat set with clear embossing powder. I also stamped a selection from the style wire borders" stamps set and the "Set of backdrops textures" stamp set and also heat set with clear embossing powder.

I then had a play with my Distress Crayons. I simply lay down colour and rubbed it around with my finger to blend the colours. I did the same to my smaller tag and on the base for the big tag. (no background embossing, just crayons). I then left them for a bit to dry..

Once my backgrounds was done I stamped my greetings. the full "beautiful things" stamp and the "Dream" stamp with versamark and heat set with white embossing powder. I outlined the base and both tags with gold embossing powder and finished the whole piece by sticking the tags together..

 And that is it from me for today. Sorry for the long post.

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Hochanda Samples 1

Hello Bloggers..

Today I want to share the samples I made for the Bee Crafty show on Hochanda last friday.
Our Bev was showing the brand new stamps (hand drawn by Sam) and inkables and had teamed them with some of the older stamps from the STORE. A perfect blend that we all loved playing with.

Not all of the samples we make, makes it on to the screeen. There are 5 of us on the team as well as the 3 boss ladies, so you can imagine how many samples it would add up to.
Ive added all my samples, bar 2 - my scrapbooking pages -to this post. I will share my scrappages next week.

 Distress crayon on an embossed background. I stamped strait onto the background with the sentiment. The tree is heatembossed with black powder and a bit of distress ink added to the middle.

 This one is far more bright then what shows up here. Its made with the inkables and distress ink.
This one is a good exsample of how fantastic the inkables are. When you buy a set you get both the inny and the outy.. So you can cover an area yes still do the outline. I just love that..

 More distress ink. I also stamped with distress ink.

 Even more distress ink. Stamped with Archival.

Distress ink, water splashes and white embossing powder.
All the words are from the set shown on Hochanda, I just covered up the words I didnt want with a post it note, inked up, removed the post it note and stamped.

 Distress crayons all the way.. I used the inkables to make my leaf.

 A distress ink background with watersplashes. Stamped with versamark and heat embossed with white powder.

 This one is made on a distress ink background. Leaves stamped with distress ink and "coloured" by just using a wet paint brush "swirling" the colour around inside the leaves. The topper is made with the inkable and distress ink.

This one is made using the inkables  and distress inks.
 

And that is all from me for today.

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