Have you heard......about the bird?

Good morning, peeps!

I thought I'd show you a couple of the images from the other A5 stamp sheet from wor Sheena today and here he is, the UK's most colourful bird:

and he's generally in a rather colourful background!  The other images come from 'A New Leaf' and 'Always Floral'.  There's plenty of bling in evidence on this one, courtesy of the Luminarte Silks and H2Os.  The latter I sponged over Distress Inks in various shades of green to create the main background.

The kingfisher himself was coloured with Spectrum Noir Pens and I coloured him before I had the pencils.  I love colouring and both of these products are excellent but I am so enjoying the pencils - expect to see them featured in future posts!

Here's a quick peek at another kingfisher but this time he's dressed up!

I've been wanting to make a shaped gatefold card with a window like this for ages and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.  Here's the card open:

If you want to know how the card was made, please watch Sheena's shows at 11.00 am, 4.00 and 7.00 pm tomorrow, Friday 6 June on Create and Craft TV and you may just see the lady herself demoing this card!

Thanks for looking today.

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The early bird catches the worm

Good morning, peeps!

Wor Sheena is launching some new stamps on Friday 6 June on Create and Craft TV and here's a canvas I created using one of them:

I made this birdie a chaffinch (I was so pleased when my friend Fiona recognised him) and he's just one of the images on the two brand new A5 sheets of designs.  I've also used other stamps that will be featured on the show along with some wonderful Pebeo and Luminarte products.  It's a shame you can't see the iridescence in this picture.

Do tune in on Friday - there are shows at 11.00 am, 4.00 and 7.00 pm and there are sure to be wonderful demos.

See you there!

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More with the Embossing Folders

Good afternoon, peeps!

There's only one more sleep before wor Sheena is back on C & C TV so I hope you're all looking forward to learning some new techniques!  Here is one I made for the show and that defo looks better IRL than it does in the photograph - for one thing, you can't see the bling from the Luminarte Silks on the Mandalas in the photograph.  Anyhoo, here it is:

There are actually three embossing folders used in this card, the Indian Lattice, Mandala and Ornamental.  The latter one is embossed into one of the backing papers printed from Sheena's CD ROM then blinged up with some Silver Sparkle EP.  I did sneak in one stamp - the sentiment from the Tiger stamp plate.

My fellow Inkoids have also been making some wonderful cards for the shows so go here to find links to all their blogs.

The shows are on at 9.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. tomorrow, Monday 12 May so do press the record button if you can't be around to watch them live.

Thanks for looking today.

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They're coming back!

Good afternoon, peeps!

I hope you're enjoying your weekend so far and that the rest of it is looking promising.  I just thought I'd pop by and show you one of the cards I've made using just wor Sheena's Taste of India Embossing Folders (no stamps were used in the creation of this card!!).

There are two in evidence on this card - Henna Mango (5" x 7") and Indian Lattice (A4).  I also brought the Distress Inks, Luminarte Silks and Pebeo Gilding Wax out to play!

So, if you thought you'd missed the Taste of India Collection and were regretting it, you have a second chance to buy some goodies on Monday 12 May on Create and Craft TV at 9.00 a.m. and 3 p.m.  There'll be some great techniques demo'd by Sheena as well.

I'll see you there!

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A Tiger Reflection Tutorial (at Sheena's request!)

Good afternoon, peeps!  Are you saying 'what's this?  Two posts in one day....will wonders never cease?'

If you watched wor Sheena's show at 4.00 p.m. today, you'll have heard her ask me to write a tutorial for the tiger reflection card - this one:

...that I blogged a few days ago.  I thought I'd more or less said how it was made but, when I checked back, the description was fairly incomplete, so here goes:

I produced the tiger reflection by using a 6" brayer to pick up the image from the stamp and then roll it off again on to some Neenah Card.   Once I'd rolled the reflection off the brayer, I  cut the A4 card to size (19 cm square) because it was easier to make sure that the reflection was in exactly the right position doing things in this order.  It's also possible to produce a reflection by stamping the image on to acetate and then, whilst the ink is still wet, burnishing the acetate on the reverse to transfer the image.  The result is not quite so clear but the, it is a reflection!

I coloured both images with Spectrum Noir Pens but made the reflected image paler to enhance the realism.   I tore the edge of the card underneath the main tiger so that it would look like an area of earth next to the pond.

The jungle background is made with various shades of green and cinnamon coloured Twinkling H2Os (just use what you have) splodged on to the matte side of Centura Pearl and dried.  Then I stamped the leaf images from the same tiger plate with the same paints I'd used for the base layer but this time using only the greens.  The last stage for this section was to emboss the card with the Jungle Leaves A4 embossing folder.  It's a good idea when you're creating this piece of card to make it larger that needed, then you have some embossed green card from which you can cut out some of the embossed leaves to use as embellishments.

I embossed a piece of acetate that I'd first painted with a slightly watery solution of Bolivian Blue Luminarte Silk using the Water Ripples embossing folder when the paint was dry.  Another option would be to leave the acetate flat if you don't have a suitable embossing folder.

Finally, I edged the acetate with the Pebeo Silver Gilding Wax and glued on some leafy die cuts in various shades of green.  The ones I used are available here but anything that could be a variety of water weed would do the job.  Mount the resulting piece on to a dark green piece of 19.5 cm square card and then mount this on to a 20cm square base card.

I do hope this is all clear and that you'll have a crack at making the card for yourself.

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An elephant walks on flower petals....

Good morning, peeps!

Have you been watching then?   There have been some wonderful shows on Create and Craft TV with wor Sheena demonstrating the fabulous Taste of India Collection and there's still more to come this afternoon at 4.00 p.m. and three shows tomorrow.

This morning, I spotted this card on the display so I though I'd just give you more of a peek at the detail.

I really love this Floral Confetti embossing folder and all of Sheena's embossing folders are so deeply etched and provide such a deep emboss that it's easy to cut out the elements, as I have here, to use as embellishments.  The green leaves are from the Jungle Leaves embossing folder and I've use the Marching Elephants as the overall background.

BTW, the coloured panel isn't mounted crookedly IRL, it's the way I've held the camera then cropped the picture!

Thanks for looking at my elephant with bling!

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It's getting closer ....

Good morning, peeps!

Yes, wor Sheena will be on the telly tomorrow morning at 8.00 a.m. and the whole of the Taste of India Collection will be revealed in all of its fabulousness!  Only one more sleep to go but, in the meantime, here are some more of the stamp designs on this card:

This time the mango shape that was on yesterday's card with the elephant has grown a bit and it's coupled with the Indian Arches image that was stamped on to the base card with Luminarte Silks Ice.  It's a really useful white paint that acts as a resist to the Distress Inks that are splodged over the card on top of the Silks.  It's all finished off with heat embossed Mangoes and flowers painted with H2Os and that's it .....simples!

On the morrow, peeps - see you then!  Thanks again for looking.

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