Sneaking another peek

Good evening again, peeps and it's that time of day again - the time when I get a moment to sit down in front of the lappy and show you some more of the lovely designs from wor Sheena and it's the wonderful and new 'A Little Bit Magic' collection again.

The central image here is from the Enchanted Doorway plate and the thrush is from the Honesty plate.  I did step back in time a little and use the hawthorn branch from the Seasons Branches Set because it just seemed to fit so perfectly with the thrush on his hawthorn branch.

Just simple watercolours for this card onto Crafter's Companion Watercolour card, which is great to use.

I'll see you again tomorrow, peeps and thanks for looking today.

Hugs

A little more honesty

Good afternoon, peeps!  Actually, it's good crafternoon as Dean always says on C & C because that's what I'm doing today - pretty much like most days, come to think of it!

Anyhoo, here's one I made earlier - last week in fact:

This one features Honesty of a different kind, the flowers that were in the background of yesterday's card rather than Honesty, the lady being the main feature.  The background of the central diamond is created with H2Os painted over streaks of emulsion paint.  As you can see, when it's dry the emulsion paint acts as a resist and I really like the effect it produces.  After stamping the Honesty flowers with Dove Grey Stazon, I painted them, not in their entirety but leaving a little of the background showing through, with Pebeo white, heavy body acrylic paint.  The corners of the diamond are stamped with one of the stamps from wor Sheena's Ageing Beautifully Stamp Set and embossed with gold detail EP.  The addition of two Spellbinder squares cut in half from some gold card, a chocolate boxy bow and we're good to go.

I do hope you'll be tuned in to Create and Craft TV on Thursday 22nd to see the lovely Sheena demonstrating these wonderful new 'A Little Bit Magical' stamps.  I'll let you know the times as soon as I know them.

Thank you for looking at today's sneaky peek and I'll let you see another of the designs tomorrow.

Hugs

A Little Bit Magical

Good evening, peeps and what a lovely evening it is here in Yorkshire - I do hope you're enjoying a spot of the same.

So, what's magical you ask?  Well, it's wor Sheena's latest set of stamps and they truly are, I have to tell you!  They really do inspire and you can see them all on Sheena's shows on Create and Craft TV on Thursday 22 August - I don't know what the times are but I promise to keep you posted on that.  In the meantime, here is one of the cards I've made so far ready for the show:

This lovely lady is called Honesty and there is a lovely stamp of the flowers once they've gone to seed (we used to call them 'Moon Pennies' - do you remember that?).  Hopefully you can see an echo of the outline of this stamp over the Luminarte H20 background.  The rose corners all also on the same A5 sheet and, this time, I've stamped them onto heat resistant acetate with detail gold EP and painted the roses and leaves from the back with Luminarte Primary Elements.  The rose corners with their thorns made me think of the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty where the thorns grew up around the castle to protect her and that was the inspiration for this card.  Yes, I know it's sad and I should get out more but that's what it's like in Diane's World - I'm sure you understand really! Lol!!.

Anyhoo, I hopes you like it and I'll see you again tomorrow with another sneaky peek and thanks for looking at this one.

Hugs

The sun'll come out tomorrow!!

So sang Annie in that well known musical and isn't it wonderful to be able to say that with confidence?  YAY!! Summer is truly here and I'm looking forward to tomorrow not just to see the sun but also because wor Sheena is on the telly!

Yes peeps, she'll be here with lots of inspiring demonstrations and you'll be able to see all the wonderful samples that the new Inkoids have been creating as well as us older hands, of course!  The shows are on at 1.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m.  on Create and Craft TV.  I know that's slightly different from my last post but I've taken the times from the latest schedule posted on the C & C website.

Here is another sample I made using the Fantasy Fusion paints I'm now addicted to and this time applying them to a really cheap glass vase, again from that well known Swedish department store:

I painted the roses with colours from the Neutrals set of paints but dipped into the Cool set for the green leaves.  The photograph doesn't really do it justice (but then my photos never do!), it's so much better IRL.

Thank you for looking today and I do hope you enjoy the shows tomorrow, I know I will!

Hugs

It's a Fantasy

Good evening, peeps!

Wot's with the title of this post then?  Is it this weather?  the stuff we've all been fantasising about through the long, cold Winter.  No, it's the paints I've been using for the latest projects for wor Sheena's TV programmes next Tuesday 16 July at 1.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m. if the times aren't rescheduled.  The paints are by Pebeo and they're called Fantasy Prisme and Moon and I can tell you that I'm really in luurrve with these paints!  I just want to go on using them.  Here is one of the projects:

All you need is one of those cheap square mirrors from that well known Swedish Department store and a set of these paints to totally transform it.  I can tell you that the paints do all the work, all you have to do is drop them into the lines that you've traced over the stamp image - it couldn't be easier.  I've no doubt that wor Sheena will be demonstrating exactly how it works on Tuesday so don't forget to set the record button if you're outside enjoying the sunshine and I'll see you there!

Thank you for looking and I'll be back soon with another sneaky peek!

Hugs

 16 July at 

Blue Christmas

Good evening, peeps!

It's time to reveal another of the wonderful Christmas stamps that wor Sheena will be showing and demonstrating on IDEAL WORLD (not C & C as I said in my last post!) at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday.

This should make you feel a lot cooler:

Yes, peeps, only the wishes are warm on this card but I do like shades of blue and mauve for Christmas don't you?

I've used the dies a fair bit on this one - Spellbinders to cut the the aperture in the card and dies from Marianne and Cheery Lyn for the pine tree and the holly.  The image was painted with watercolours.

I can't wait t see what Sheena does with all of the fabulous images and I'll defo be poised with a cup of coffee on Wednesday.  Hope to see you there!

Thank you for looking today.

Hugs

If it was nae fer ma wellies.....

Good morning, peeps!

The way the Yorkshire weather is looking today, I could well be needing a pair of these!  But these are special Christmas wellies from wor Sheena who has already been busy drawing a whole new series of Christmas stamps that you'll see on her shows on Create and Craft TV on Wednesday at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.

Here's my first sample:

I used the paper piecing technique for this one and just added some shading to the paper with coloured pencils.

I hope you like it and thank you for looking today.

Hugs