A lightning make

Evening all!  Kids broke up today so I have them for a whole week, and I can UNSET my alarm for a whole week too yay!  I have to drag Ethan out of bed most mornings so I think he'll appreciate a lie in as well :) 

I've got a lightning make to show you tonight using brand new digi papers by Crafts & Me.  I absolutely love them as I love fantasy things, purples, blues and green so was thrilled with these and with new printer they're printing out a dream. 
I wanted to try a really quick make as I usually spend at least an hour on colouring an image alone so I used one of the new digi papers and dropped another digi on and printed out, OK not quite that straight forward but I'll try and explain further down lol!

These papers are called Forest Fairy and you can find them HERE.  There are 30 in the pack and are available for immediate download.

From printing to photographing this took me 32 minutes which must be a recond for me!  OK the arm needs a little more blending but I'll do that tommoz!  If you're familiar with photo editting software (I use paint shop pro) then I made a copy of the paper then then opened up my digi image, May by Sara Burrier Oh it needs to be the JPG format as the PNG is transparent and you DONT want that!

You might need to resize your stamp so do this then I used the magic wand and clicked outside the lines on the stamp then selected SELECTIONS -> INVERT then copied and went back to the background and pasted as NEW LAYER.

With Layer 2 selected in layers panel I clicked on any white bits I wanted removing with the magic wand then used the eraser tool.  This will erase just inside the area you selected with the magic wand and only affect the 2nd layer (the digi stamp) as thats selected.  Most should be OK and only need a touch up but remember you'll need the JPG version.  This then leaves your image filled in white on top of the background so you can colour as you like :)

For this I used flexmarkers on everything but the skin and added glamour dust to the wings and turquoise glitter to the stars then gave it a spray with dazzling diamonds glimmer mist. Really quick make for me and will be handy for last minute birthdays!

Thanks for stopping by and back tommoz x

I'd like to enter this into...

Crafty Bloggers Network - Pink & Blue

What's in a name?

Evening all!  I'm poorly ick ick tonight, got some kind of tummy bug and cant eat owt and I'm sooooo hungry!  I'm dreaming of that whole pizza I'm going to have tomorrow mmmmmm 
Should be alright tomorrow, better had be I had loads to do today which now has to be done tomorrow accch pffft! 

Anyway I have one to share with you tonight and the topic is "Whats in a name?"

Have you ever been influenced for or against buying a stamp simply by what its called?  I say this as I'm a sucker for a well named stamp, star usually does it for me lol!  I've always liked things called Star from when I was little, its just something I warm to immediately :)

Teresa from Crafts & Me sent me my DT digis yesterday and I couldnt contain my excitement on 2 of them.  One because its called JANESSA.  I have a cousin called Janessa which is an unusual name especially round these parts and I was aware Hannah Lynn had one of her drawings called this so imagine my excitement that its now a digi!!  Tell ya if I wasn't on the DT I would have knocked you flying in the rush haha!

Then I downloaded the other images I'd been sent as I'd already run off to print Janessa out and coloured her skin in :)  The next one to catch my eye was LADY OF THE STARS and I just KNEW I'd like it and I opened it and wasn't disappointed!  This one is by Sara Burrier and she's just a beaut!  I quite often trim the digis down if they're long ones but this I wanted to keep at her full length so I made a 7x5 card which I don't do to often nowadays.

I coloured with flexmarkers on the dress with a bit of azure promarker and have added loads of glamour dust to the star string and wings and finally added some itty bitty stars which are nail art ones and glued them on individually - its the aspergers in me I love finicky detail :)

Anyway I made this for a certain lady who hugely inspires me and has been a massive influence on me over the years so I'll pop that in post tommoz - watch all the stars fall off lol! 


Carrying on with the names thing, theres a lovely digi stamp by saturated canary which I do like the look of and love seeing everyones coloured versions *but* she has same name as ex husbands previous wife urrrrgh!  Funny how things like that can put you off!  Hey you cant please everyone and I've bought plenty more there lol!

So here's my Lady of the Stars which I thoroughly enjoyed colouring in :)

I'd like to enter into...

Papercrafting Journey - Fairies/Angels
Flutterby Wednesday - Open
Creative Card Crew - Fantasy
Fab n Funky - Use a digi
Rubys Rainbow - Sparkle
Divas by design - Anything goes

Girls just wanna have fun

Evening all!  Theres a new challenge this week over at Passion for Promarkers chosen by Gro and it is to Be inspired by a song.  For this I had a rummage through my images to see which one 'spoke' to me and this is the one that came out - she's SO Cyndi Lauper!
We have a fab prize up for grabs from Letraset too - one of their stamping kits!

The image is a rubber stamp by Hannah Lynn called Birthday Girl coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers with lots of added clear sakura stardust pen so its very sparkly.
I've used y new papermania papers, silver holographic card and blue paper from Bearly Mine with organza ribbon, a puffed heart charm and some sticky gems.

I'd lke to enter this into...

Crafty Emma - ANything goes
Card Crafters Circle - Make it colourful
Simply Create Too - More than 2 layers

Thanks at Passion for Promarkers

Morning all!  We're kicking off the New Year challenges at Passion for Promarkers with the theme 'Thanks' 

The prize on offer is from Letraset who are offering one of their stamping kits so get your thinking caps on!  As always you will need to use promarkers, aquamarkers, flexmarkers or tria to be eligible.

For this I used an image by Teddy Bo coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers.  The DP is by bearly mine designs. and I used a Martha stewart punch for the centre panel adding a length of holographic silver ribbon and a white organza bow.

I'd like to enter this into...

Teddy Bo challenges - Birthstone (December)
Incy Wincy - Anything goes
The Pink elephant - anything goes

Ultra Fine Promarkers and Flexmarkers Winners!

Evening all!  I have a couple of winners tonight :-)  Unfortunately the flexmarker prize wasn't claimed so I've redrawn it and the new winner picked by random.org is Number 20 which is Grenouille Greetings!  Well Done Lesley, please email me your address and I'll pop them in post x


Onto the winner of the Ultra Fine nib promarkers which have been kindly provided by the lovely peeps at Letraset and yes indeed I did use the Nature set!  I think I'm addicted to these lol!
The winner of a set of the nature ultra fine nibs picked by random.org is Number 1 - Clare Little Bear  Pop us an email with your details on and I'll pass it onto Letraset x

Well Done Ladies and thank you all for entering!

A Fistful of Flexmarkers Blog Candy

Evening all! Wanted to share this with you tonight and thats a new Blog Candy on offer from me to win a

Fistful of Flexmarkers!

I ordered my new Flexmarkers from Letraset and I think whoever picked my order must have eaten a packet of randoms that day as I received some of what I ordered and what appeared to be a fistful of randoms!  The lovely Paul at Letraset is of course sorting my missing ones out and the fistful of randoms are spare which Letraset have kindly said I can keep so I thought I'd offer them to you instead to share these awesome pens! 

There are 7 colours here which are:

Lemon Chiffon

Light Fawn

Watermelon

Pale Blossom

Blue Grey 1

Celestaial Blue

Honeydew

If you want some further info on Flexmarkers, including a colour chart, check out their website HERE

So what do you have to do?  Simply pop a link to your blog in the linky below (use any pic you like) and become a follower if you're not already.  Linky will close on 23rd Oct and winner drawn soon after.  Good Luck x

Crafty Cardmakers & holiday at Rhosydd Bach

Good Evening all!  Now back from a great holiday on the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales.  We decided on a last minute holiday as Molly had never had one except the odd camping weekend here and there and I was very lucky to get one as at place called Rhosydd Bach.  I've never been the peninsula before so thought it would be a nice change of scenery and Rhosydd Bach is a few miles away from Pwllheli in the countryside.  Me & OH are not the type to enjoy big caravan parks with the inbuilt entertainment and watching your neighbours have breakfast, in fact its something we both loathe and we looked at some farm sites but they were just that, farms so when I came across Rhosydd Bach which is a farm site with chickens and ducks *but* it is fully equipt for kids with its own playground, trampoline and toys and it was perfect for us as we wanted somewhere peaceful for us but also somewhere the kids wouldnt be ored stiff and we found just that, its also a short hop to get to anywhere around the peninsula where its based so we did a lot of exploring, went to 5 beaches, my favourite was Morfa Nefyn, the sea is sooooo blue, the kids seemed to enjoy Llanbedrog and Black Rock sands the most, Llanbedrog is a little bit more intimate and Black Rock Sands is perfect for a whole day at the beach as you can drive onto the beach so can go fully laden.  Some piccies - I highly recommend this area and particularly Rhosydd Bach to stay, its stunning, not too touristy (unless you go into Pwllheli or Porthmadog at a weekend!)

Morfa Nefyn - On North side on Peninsula, clean and sandy with facilities (toilets/ice cream/cafe) close by

 The kids mugged a lady for a ride in her boat, they're so cheeky!  This was at Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog which gets very busy at weekends and only has one narrow road down to it and is home to loads of camp sites so I would imagine its rammed on saturdays!  Has ice cream van and burger van on beach plus toilets nearby.  Drive straight onto the beach (£4 a day parking)

 We'd had the day at Llanbedrog beach which is a few miles down the peninsula from Pwllheli then decided to go for fish & chips - in Cricceth!  Was intending to stay there for tea but Ethan fell over and Mols needed a wee so we came back! 

Mols and Ethan saying hello to Matilda the Duck.  She wags her tail when you say hello to her and she apparently steals the farm dogs' food by pecking them lol!

 Beautiful sunset I saw from the decking on the caravan and indeed it was a gorgeous day the day after.

I'd bought a £1.99 kite and attempted to fly it that morning - unsuccessfully!  One of the gentleman in the cottages who came past for a stroll must have been amused to see me at 9am in my PJ's trying repeatedly to launch this thing.  Bit later on we went into Pwllheli and I bought a better version and met up with OH who'd been away on training and we finally got it into the air after restringing so this is Mols first flight of a kite!

We did so much that week, trains, fair, beaches, even found a play area when it was wet (Thats at the end of the prom in Cricceth in the cafe)  Loads more to go back for which we will, definately the perfect spot for us :)

Anyway you'd like to see a card?  Heres one I made for Crafty Cardmakers who's challenge this fortnight is "Summer Holiday Memories" so I've used a beach scene using the gorgeous Faye WHittaker stamp from Joanna Sheen.  I've coloured it with my new FLEXMARKERS - Oh yeah I'm loving these!  I used the antique white to blend and its given a really olde worlde look, love those pens!

I've used real shells I collected on holiday in South Africa in 2006 and some raffia ribbon I've had probably just as long!

Would like to enter into...

Crafty Boots - ANything goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Rik Rak, fabrc or lace
Paper Pretties - Primary colours
Squigglefly - Blue
Victorine Originals - Primary colours
Woodware USA - Anything goes
Aly's sunday challenge - Bows
Sentimental sundays - thinking of you

  

Have you met the new Letraset Flexmarkers yet?

Well well well what do we have here?  A brand new product from Letraset called Flexmarkers!  They differ from the promarkers in that they have a brush nib so can give really and I mean really fine detail and great ease of use.  They also contain the familiar chisel nib!

Paul from Letraset kindly gave the Passion for Promarkers team a sample pack each to try and boy were we blown away!  I think the whole team not just wants but NEEDS them ALL!

In my sample pack I received these new colours;

Antique White
Light Fawn
Pale Blossom
Watermelon
Celestial Blue
Cadet Blue

(NB: This is not one of the packs, this is a sample pack using half of set 1 and 3)

If you didn't manage to get hold of the sets from the recent C&C show then these will be available in sets of 6 and 12 from September and come in 72 colours with 12 brand new exclusive colours and 51 colours not available in promarkers.  I really REALLY want these!!  If you do too then Letraset are also offering a giveaway of the full set woo hoo!  Log into their facebook page and follow the instructions to take part.  If you really can't wait then they will be available very soon!

So what have I created?  Well I have just messed around just to try them out so ths is my first complete piece.  I'm loving the antique white to blend as its less harsh than the blender pen so gives a really good tone.  I used the celestial blue and cadet blue on the blouse with some french navy (promarker) and blended with the antique white.  The jeans I used the celestal blue and antique white again and the watermelon on the tiny flowers.  I've used the fawn as part of the hair to blend and add highlights, it also makes a nice skin tone too.  Image is by Make it Crafty called Zoe celebrates - quite apt as she looks how I felt when trying out the new lush pens lol!
Can't wait to start collecting these, they really are A+++++

Would like to enter into...

Make it colourful - Ground your subject
Corrosive - girlie
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Try something new
Stamps R Us - Anything goes
Sketchy Colours - Shades of blue
Designed to delight - Anything goes
One stop craft - Bold & Bright
Craft us crazy - anything goes
Papercrafting Journey - anything goes