Graciellie Design Inspiration Blog Hop

Hey Bloggers

Its time for the 2nd "New Release" Blog Hop over on
Graciellie Design.

Pop over to the BLOG to start the hop

This month we are using the new release of  digital stamps and papers called Magnolia Dreams. Pop over in the STORE to see all the amazing designs from Graciellie. Gracielle has also teamed with Paper Temptress and released a matching paper pack.

Here is what I have made for this hop.

For this card I started by printing my background sheet. That way had it ready to colour matching for the next step. I then transferred my magnolia flower in to "WORD". (I simply copy and paste). I resized it and copied and pasted that flower 10 times, then printed. I printed onto water colour card stock (140g) as I used my ZIG markers to colour.

As I said, I printed the flower 10 times. This was because I cut out the middle section on 5 of them and used them to decoupage the remaining 5. It gives the flowers so much more dimention on the card.
Once I finished colouring I went over all the flowers with a wink of stella shimmer pen.

Once my flowers was done it was time to print my sentiment. I had the size of my card measured out on a piece of copy paper so when I printed I could see the size of the sentiment versus the card. It took me a few tries to get the size just how I wanted but it was worth it.

And then it was just a matter of popping it all together. A bit of distress ink around the edges of the sentiment and a bit of faux stitching.

The Magnolia Dreams Collection

 If you are taking part in the blog hop, you now have to pop over to Milagros

If you only just popped on to my blog but want to join the hop, pop back to Graciellie Design.

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

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 Happy Crafting

 

Graciellie Design - New release Bloghop and Exciting news..

Hello Blogger friends..

Well will you know... Remember that guest spot I did for Graciellie Design in June?? Well a DT call came up at the end of June and I decided to apply.. And I got Lucky and GOT IT...

So today I'm sharing my first post as part of the Design Team..
As always we are sharing the new releases in a blog hop and by god they are amazing.

I have used the new "Magnolia Dreams" digital stampset and the "Magnolia Dreams" digital papers. You can find them and all the other amazing artwork in the Graciellie Design Etzy STORE.

 

Here is what I have made for this bloghop:

 

 I just love these papers and this image. I started by printing my papers, my flower and my sentiment. I use word for all my printing and I just copy and paste images and papers strait into word and I can re-size all I want.
I printed my flower onto water colour card stock but my papers and sentiment onto smooth white card stock.

Once printed, its best to leave your prints to dry for a bit, especially when colouring in. I tend to print in the evening and work with the prints the next day.

My flower is decoupaged and coloured with Zig clean Colour Real water colour markers and I added a bit of sparkle with a shimmer marker. I used a little bit of distress ink around the edges of the papers but other then that nothing.. Nothing at all.. These designs are so beautiful, they can carry themselves.

Right BLOGHOP..
Pop over to Graciellie Design where everything will be explained but simply hop from blog to blog, remebering to leave a comment on each blog.
Im the last in line so if you have landed her you should already have visited everyone else..
If you visited "only" to see my project, thank you, but DO jump back to Graciellie Design as this blog hop is very special, but as I said, all is revealed over on the Graciellie Design blog..

Here is the list for the blog hop

Bonnie Garby
Gracie Chavez
Gayatri Viswanathan
Karen Seifert
Lynne Mizera
María Pilar
Milagros Asensio Perez
Shylaa

Marleen Michaelis Gallagher

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

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 Happy Crafting

Graciellie Design - Inspiration (Coffee Loving Cardmakers bloghop)

Hey Guys..

If you have followed my blog this month, you will know I have been invited to be on the June guest DT for
Graciellie Design.

I have already posted my 3 project, but the team was asked if we would like to create an extra project this month using the amazing image called "Cup of Tea" and being me.. ohh I DO so love my tea, so I couldnt say no lol..

Graciellie Design is taking part in a blog hop this month over on Coffee Loving Cardmakers. We, the Graciellie DT is not part of the hop but Graciellie Design is and have massive prizes up on offer so us DT was asked if we wanted to make some supporting projects and help spread the word of the hop.

FIND THE COFFEE LOVING CARDMAKERS BLOG HOP HERE..

Here is what I have made:

 

 

I printed the tea cup image (twice) using word so I could resize it. I printed, coloured (I used Zig clean color real brushes) and cut out.

I then used my coloured image as a template and made another tea cup from white card stock and cut it out. I now have 2 teacups the same size, but one is white, the other my coloured image. See images below on how I stuck the 2 sides together.

Now my second image I printed.. I coloured the rose head and fuzzy cut it. I then added it on top of the rose head on my card and finished with a bit of shimmer pen over.

My sentiment I also printed but desided to add it more as a price tag to the handle of the cup, that way it wont cover the rose.

I made a little tab out of white card stock to add the 2 cups together.

 In order to open the card, I had to cut a wee bit of the white cup. This way the coloured cup will just pop around the back of the white cup when you open.

 Now this project.. Well long story short.. Printing in the wrong size = too many printouts for 1 card.

As I had them printed after making my original card above, I thought I might as well play with this as well. I coloured with Zig Clean colour real brush markers and all I added was shimmer over the rose.

The background is made by simply copy and pasting my sentiment MANY times till I had a full sheet covered. I printed and cut to size, added a bit of distress ink and Voila... Very simple card.

 

 Now I HAD to share this creation.. No its not mine lol.. This is my test print I did on copy paper.. My 6 year old Abbie, asked if she could have it and colour it in. I couldnt say no. And she was so proud of it I had to promise to show it off. I think she did a great job.

 

Now last pic.. This was really a mistake..Well I coloured the whole image in but I went to add glossy accent over the whole image and it screwed up the tea cup itself.. The rose came out well, so I cut the rose out and now have it for another project.

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

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 Happy Crafting

Graciellie Design Inspiration

Hey Bloggers..

I have been chosen to be part of the guest DT for June for 

Graciellie Design.

So today Im sharing my second project for the month.

This time I have used the digital image called "Thinking of you". Find it in the Etsy shop. 

 

 
I printed my iage twice. One I cut to fit as a background on my card, the other to use for decoupage.
Once my background piece was cut, I simply added distress ink around the egdes to give it a more vintage feel.

 
My second flower, I simply cut the flower head out and coloured with Zig Clean Colour real brush watercolours. Im still learning to use these but I love how this flower came out. I finished the flower with a coat of a shimmer pen.

 
 My greeting is also from this digital stamp set. I love these sentiments that comes with the images. Al I did was print, cut it into a strip, distress ink and a jaunty angle on my card.
I finished this creation with a gold marker to make the dots around the edges.

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

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Paper strip background using BeeCrafty stamps - YOUTUBE

Hey Bloggers

For todays DT project for BeeCrafty, I have made a little youtube..
Hope you enjoy.

All the stamps can be gotten in the BeeCrafty STORE.

 Thanks for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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Bee Crafty Inspiration .. Hochanda Samples

Hey bloggers and welcome to my my little slice of the www..

Once again wednesday and my turn to share some inspiration

for BeeCrafty.

I realised that I havent shared my Hochanda samples here on my blog after the last show. I just made the little video and shared but I want to talk you through how I made the projects, so that is what I will do today..

First of all, find the BRAND NEW STAMPS HERE.. 
They were released at the Ally Pally show, live on Hochanda and they sold out in record time. But the Bee Ladies have been working hard and have them back in stock in their shop..

 This one is made on one of the MDF tags. I primed it with white acrylic paint and used my distress ink to colour. I used the Heart Inkables to make the heart and I stamped also with distress ink, the border sentiment down the side. My Tulip,  I coloured with my Zig real brush water colour markers. I stamped the flower head 3 times and cut some of the details out to decoupage it. To make the stem shorter, I simply bent it and glued it. Finished with a bit of sparkle made with my wink of stella sparkle brush.

 

This one is made on one of the MDF Art Board Tags. I love these ad they can be made into free standing home decor. Ideal to make a wee pressie..
For this one I went strait on to the raw MDF with some sparkel sprays. Dont ask me where they are from as they were given to me by a friend and are so well used that you cant read the lable anymore lol... (Make your own sparkle sprays with rubbing alcohol and old eyeshadows.. I have you YOUTUBE HERE, that show you how)
Anyway, once my background was dry I went strait with my border sentiment stamp and stamped it repeatedly covering the whole board. I then took my Art journal border stamp and stamped each side of both the board and the stand. I used a black sharpie to colour in some of the design.
My Tulip I stamped onto black card and heat embossed with silver, cut it out and added on my board.

 

Oh I must say, I love this project myself... It took quite a long time to make but it was worth it.. 

Its made to be A5 in size.
For this I started by stamping my Tulip (that would be the front flower) I then made a mask of the tulip and lay that over my first flower, before stamping it again.. Once mask was removed, my back flower was revealed. I coloured them (I think it was with water colours) and stamped my sentiment.

I used chalk to create the shading of colour around the flowers.

 I then took some clear embossing powder and heat set it ALL over my image. It needed 2 coats to become totally smooth and now looks a bit like glass.
I then made my frame. I cut my card stock also to be A5, so same sice as my "glass pic". I then used a ruler and a craft knife (and quite a bit of measuring) to cut out the window.
Once cut I used the new dinkables and texture paste to make the design on my frame. Once paste was dry I used distress sprays to colour my frame.
Once dry, I added my frame over my image using foam squares.

 

 I wanted this to look just like a picture in a frame, so to be able to hang it up, I used a frame die to cut this "hook". I just cut of the end of the die cut and glues this bit on to the back of my picture.

 

 Another MDF tag, this one is the XL. This time with red acrylic paint background and orange acrylic paint through my swirl dinkable. I used the Journey stamp, stamped in black, but before the black ink dried completely I added some gold embossing powder. As the ink wasnt completly wet, the embossing powder didnt stick in all places so once I melted the powder, I got a very distressed look. I love how it came out. My Iris flower is stamped on white card stock, heat set also with gold embossing powder, coloured with water colours and cut out. I finshed the project with a bit of gold embossing powder around the edges and a black sharpie to outline my letters.

 Another Iris flower. this time on a card. Water colour back ground, plain stamping heatset with black embossing powder and the same with my border sentiment stamp. I made some black water splashes with a paint brush and black distress ink to finish the distressed look.

 

 This one was great fun. I did the maksing tecnique as I discribed earlier, and just repeat stamped my Tulip. I coloured them all in with water colour pencils and stamped my sentiment. I finished with some brown distress ink around the edges and a coat of glossy accent over the flower heads.

 This one was one of those projects we start but dont know how to finish.. I stamped my Iris

and coloured it in..I on purposely only wanted to use a piece of the flower to show that although its a big stamp, it could still be used on a smaller card.. But I was stuck.. In the end I HAD to get finished so I simply layered my stamp on to black and added it strait on to the card with foam. I took my  

Art journal border stamp and made the sides and finished with distress ink water splashes. I do love how it came out and a sentiment could easily be added.

 And that is it from me for today.

 Thanks for popping by and for any comments left behind. I hope you enjoyed these projects.

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BeeCrafty Inspiration - A quick card

Happy New Year dear bloggers..

I hope you made it in to the new year safely and happy.

Its once again wednesday and my turn to share a bit of inspiration for 

BeeCrafty.

I have to admit, I didnt think I would get my post up for today as hubby surprised me with a night away with no babies but I got my days mixed up, thinking today (tuesday) was wednesday and I wouldnt be home to get a project made and posted ol..

Never mind, I made it, although its only a quick make..

For today I pulled out my "old" Faboules Flowers" stamp to play. I havent used it in a while and wanted to use it to have a play with my christmas pressie.
Link to the STORE if you fancy a browse of all the amazing STAMPS.

 

For this project I took my flower stamp, stamped it onto watercolour card stock with versamark. I heatset it with black embossing powder.
I then took my new "Zig clean colour real brush" and scribbled 3 different colours over my stamping.

I then took my waterbrush and blended out the colours.

(this could be done with distress markers or water colour pencils as well and a paint brush with water could be used as well)

I finished this card with a diecut greeting, a black mat and a coat of a sparkle pen. 

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

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 Happy Crafting