tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845869460388761882024-03-13T19:02:48.426+00:00VixykinsVixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.comBlogger620125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-68338976867833389642017-04-01T22:59:00.002+01:002017-04-01T23:05:24.314+01:00Crafts & Me - Things with Wings and a catch upGood Evening! Haven't been here for a while have I? So much has happened since I last blogged, I've just had to take some time out for my own sanity.<br />
Back in September, I learnt my father was terminally ill. He was kind of aware but in denial. My mother was also admitted to hospital last August having stubbed her toe and being diabetic on dialysis that was not good. She ended up losing her leg then fell out of the chair in hospital afterwards, breaking her "good" ankle. I had both parents set up to move to a nursing home not too far from myself and other family but unfortunately before she could get there I got that dreaded 2am call to say to get to the hospital immediately and we were too late. My mum passed away at 2:40am on 6th Nov. Needless to say my Dad went downhill pretty rapidly after that and I was with him holding his hand as he deteriorated over a weekend and passed away exactly 2 weeks later on 20th Nov. Both were only 69 so it was quite a shock.<br />
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Adding to that I also have damaged the radial nerve in my right shoulder, I slept funny on it and its been sore since December. I've had some physio so just need to persevere. This sometimes also travels down my arm causing carpal tunnel which can be anything from mild discomfort to scale 9 pain. I'm not 100% sure but that may be linked with my thyroid which I'm on meds for.<br />
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So I've had some time out as I still have a family to look after, work to go to, myself to look after. Feeling a bit brighter after last weekend as the clocks went forward, much more light and I planted a couple of conference pears trees for my folks as they had 2 in their garden. <br />
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So onwards to summer and of course the things with wings come out. Thats the bit I like least about summer is the buzzy stingy bitey things! The theme this month over at <a href="https://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/april-challenge-things-with-wings.html" target="_blank">Crafts & Me is Things with Wings</a> but we're all going for a nicer winged thing such as fairies and butterflies. You can of course use anything with wings!<br />
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For the challenge I have used <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2268" target="_blank">Heart Pixie by Sara Burrier</a>. I do love this particular range of hers, they are so lovely to colour and look great in any colours you choose.<br />
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I've coloured this with coloursoft pencil on Kraft card, adding copious mounts of stickles glitter glue. The base card is made with starburst stains, not sure you can get them anymore, they're a mica spray so its all sparkly. Most of the flowers are also hand dyed in starburst stains and moonglow ink so again super sparkly :)</div>
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-77758334622302882082016-10-01T12:55:00.001+01:002016-10-01T13:10:49.798+01:00Crafts and Me challenge - World cardmaking dayHellooooo! We have a new challenge starting on <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts and Me</a> and to celebrate World Card Making Day today its simply to make a card, any card!<br />
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For this I'm using a stamp by Sara Burrier called <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2449" target="_blank">Praying Puppy</a> which is in the <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a> store. I've coloured with pencils, added distress ink to the sides and gold paint dabber. I'm using new toys with this one, I got glow in the dark paints and been having a bit of fun! There are also tons of new <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/index.php?cPath=218_239" target="_blank">Hannah Lynn</a> digi's in the store, many halloween themed so I'm off to go play with them and my paint!<br />
Paints are from <a href="http://glowinthedarkshop.co.uk/" target="_blank">Killabitzzz</a> who do a really good quality paint unlike some of the other brands which have poor results or damage your work.<br />
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I've also been having more of a play recently as when we go away to the boat its difficult to take pens so I've opted lately for pencils and have got a thing for Kraft card. This is another new Sara Burrier rubber stamp called <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2453" target="_blank">Country Bumpkin</a>, was really pleased how the skin tones turned out.</div>
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-79840610985625108222016-09-20T22:43:00.000+01:002016-09-20T23:06:51.627+01:00Fantasy Crafters #3I don't know, late to the party again! I've been away for a couple of weeks, haven't had a 2 week break in over 3 years! Back into work full steam and a few other issues going on so I'm a tad disorganised but think I've got a handle on things now phew!<br />
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Anyway, we have a brand new challenge over at <a href="http://fantasycrafters.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fantasy Crafters</a> and this month I opted again to challenge myself a little bit and learn how to use my pencils a bit better! Image is done in a mix of derwent coloursoft and polychromos. Have to say I much prefer the coloursoft which are much nicer to use. The image I chose this month is <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2257" target="_blank">Adrianna</a> by my favourite Hannah Lynn and the card is sprayed with mica sprays and I laid a piece of kitchen towel over it when wet to give it some little subtle swirls.<br />
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I hope you can join us over at <a href="http://fantasycrafters.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fantasy Crafters</a> this month, anything fantasy goes!<br />
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Also want to show this which I did for <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a> challenge back on 1st but unfortunately didn't get time to put on my blog until now. Again I was experimenting with pencils, this time on blue card. <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2431" target="_blank">Image is Ainia by Charmaine Flannery</a> coloured in coloursoft and polychromos. Background is mica sprays and I've overstamped some swirls in stazon white. The corners are stamped and embossed.</div>
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-54497257287324905502016-08-15T22:37:00.001+01:002016-08-15T22:41:29.904+01:00Fantasy Crafters #2 - Anything (Fantasy) Goes sponsored by Crafts & MeEvening all, still playing catch up! I had a good day today, in my new job I can can work from home from time to time, its funny how much you actually get through without office distractions. Last week they gave us Skype and it is absolutely fantastic to work from home with. If I want my boss for a quick question I just IM him, make a call easy peasy and no messing with the teeny council issue nokia, I can copy and paste a number and dial, its absolutely great! I've started Bling Wars with my headset though. Of course I had to custom design it hehe! I'm a crafter, its what we do!<br />
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Anyway onto my next card of the evening and that is for <a href="http://fantasycrafters.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fantasy Crafters</a>. We're a new blog just finding our feet and its for anyone who loves fantasy themed cards and creations. We're also sponsored by <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a> who have kindly given us a £10 digi voucher to spend in their store. <br />
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I absolutely love anything fantasy related so this gives me a good kick to get creating. I also made a promise to myself to try and use different techniques and products that I have knocking about so for this one I got out my Inktense pencils which I've had for maybe 7 years or so and scribble a little and put away again. I saw a card coloured on Kraft and I don't have any Kraft I can print on so had a rummage and pulled out some card that would go through the printer and just played. I couldn't quite get the skin tones right so persevered and used a mix of the white, poppy red, willow and a dark brown scribbled on a piece of card and just mixed them and played and I think I've done alright! Its on sparkly gold card so has a lovely shimmer to it.<br />
I had a further rummage and found some shimmer sprays by Carol's Crafts I probably picked up at a show sometime years ago. They have held their colours beautifully. I even embossed too so really rolling the boat out!<br />
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The image I used is Autumn by Hannah Lynn, I love colouring her as she suits any colours really not just autumnal. <br />
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Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-54848715422696379012016-08-15T21:49:00.000+01:002016-08-15T21:49:55.117+01:00Crafts & Me August - Anything goesOMG I'm such a numpty! I write the challenge post over at Crafts and Me which I did on the 1st, added my card to there and completely forgot about posting on my blog! Well I have had a busy couple of weeks, well hectic so mind has been focussed elsewhere!<br />
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Nevermind I'm here now and want to share with you what I've made. I made it for somebody leaving work who loves her cats, and purple so thought she might enjoy this image which is <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1625" target="_blank">Kitty's Kard by Hannah Lynn</a>. I've coloured with promarkers and added a touch of distress ink around the edges.<br />
There's touches of gold glitter on the image using a sakura glue pen which are fab and I added a really blingy AB clear heart embellishment.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-8044715446077629652016-07-15T09:00:00.000+01:002016-07-16T07:41:27.976+01:00Fantasy Crafters Challenge #1Morning all! Are you all still around or have you all gone out to "Catch em all?" Yep I've joined those ranks myself haha! I've never played pokemon before so a lot to learn but it will get me and my boy out in the great outdoors!<br />
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Anyway I have some exciting news! Its the FIRST challenge of the new <a href="http://fantasycrafters.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fantasy Crafters Challenge </a>Blog starting today where almost anything goes - so long as its fantasy related! Ooooh!<br />
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For our starting challenge I have used <a href="http://www.aurorawings.com/digistamps---sprites-2.html" target="_blank">Snapdragon Sprite by Aurora Wings</a> coloured with promarkers. I couldn't decide what colour to do her so used the rainbow!<br />
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As she is sooooo loud I wanted to keep papers to a minimum and just chose a striped rainbow one and left it at that. She was a real pleasure to colour too :)<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-56860399523573366822016-07-02T07:14:00.002+01:002016-07-02T07:14:47.177+01:00Anything Goes with Optional Summer memories at Crafts and MeMorning all! Had a really busy couple of weeks, OH been unwell, work busy busy and been rescuing bats! We heard a funny noise all day in the lounge and couldn't quite pin down what or where it was so went hunting round and realised it was coming from the uplighters and noticed a shadow in there. OH looked and it was two teeny pipistrelle bats! No idea how they got in, little top window had been open but it also has blinds there. They were safely released after taking some advice from a bat rescue. Next day Delilah brought another one in, as I walked towards it, it looked at me and squeaked! Rescued that and gently cleaned off the cobwebs and took it to the local vets who've passed onto to bat rehabilitation.<br />
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I have a card to share today as it is an <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/july-challenge-anything-goes-with.html" target="_blank">ANYTHING GOES WITH OPTIONAL SUMMER MEMORIES</a> at Crafts & Me challenge this month. I've used<a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2426" target="_blank"> Nature Sprite portrait 2 by Sara Burrier</a> for this and coloured with promarkers. I then went over with coloursoft pencil, blending around the edges to make it pop. I've stamped the word bloom which was a freebie from a mag and added distress ink to the corners and overstamped them with the flowers stamp from the same freebie.<br />
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Morning all, hope you're all having a nice day. I'll be in the office slaving away!<br />
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I want to tell you about a new monthly challenge blog starting in July for all things Fantasy. You know how much I just love fairies, mermaids and all the fantasy images? Well I thought there are lots more like me out there who just love this kind of thing so I'm starting up a new challenge blog specifically for it.<br />
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I wanted to do it sponsored sometimes, but not every time so that team members have the chance to fully express themselves without limitation and just enjoy the creativity and other times using selected sponsors that I know the team will fully enjoy.<br />
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Pop over to the DT Call at <a href="http://fantasycrafters.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fantasy Crafters Challenge</a> and find out more!Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-72757219795101041672016-06-02T21:42:00.002+01:002016-06-02T21:42:43.672+01:00Calendar Girls Crafty Challenge LaunchGood Evening, hope you're enjoying the sun! Been lovely since last week here in sunny Wales, really it doesn't rain as much as you'd think!<br />
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I'm back with my launch card for the new blog - <a href="http://calendargirlscraftychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Calendar Girls Crafty Challenge</a> who've launched today with the theme of Father's Day. For this I've used a sponsor image by <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SheepSkiDesigns?ref=search_shop_redirect" target="_blank">Sheepski Designs</a> called <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/267565008/seraphinas-heart-image-no-14?ref=shop_home_active_9" target="_blank">Seraphina's Heart.</a></b><br />
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I've coloured with promarkers and distressed with vintage photo distress ink. The embellishment at the bottom is stampboard with layers of red and gold moonglow embossing powders then whilst hot I've pressed in a swirl stamp (Add versamark and let it cool before removing, they must also be rubber not acrylic!) I've then added gold peel off lettering and some nail head dots.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-74381850773304676892016-06-01T23:31:00.000+01:002016-06-01T23:31:48.711+01:00Anything Goes with Optional Shabby Chic/VintageIts challenge time again at <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/june-challenge-anything-goes-with.html" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a> and this month it is an Anything Goes with optional shabby chic / vintage. For this I've gone for a favourite image that looks fab in any colour combo despite being called <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2375" target="_blank">"Violet Pixie"</a> which is by Sara Burrier. I thought I'd go for an afro caribbean fairy this time and played around with a few shades of copics, heres the list below<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-49143379545571620642016-05-27T23:32:00.002+01:002016-05-27T23:32:35.903+01:00A Beautiful MessGood Evening! I have some good news, I've joined the Design Team for "<a href="http://craftinginabeautifulmess.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">A Beautiful Mess</a>" Blog which is a new monthly challenge and always anything goes!<br />
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So how is it made? Piece of cake! I used some printer card I'd made during a session with our Molly. This was the shaving foam technique. Basically you get some cheap shaving foam onto a tray, add drops and splodges of inks; reinkers, starburst stains, anything like that. You can make patters or swirl randomly. Then you place your card on top, squish it down until the surface is covered, pick up and wipe off the excess foam (I washed it briefly under the tap) Set to dry and you have some nice coloured backgrounds.<br />
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I then just opened word and added the digi 3 times and printed out direct to the sheet. I've cut out and stuck one to the card base then 2 back to back then used glue dots to attach the body bit so the wings are 3d.<br />
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Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-26718819943180094562016-05-07T13:15:00.000+01:002016-05-07T13:24:33.062+01:00Feeling GreenAfternoon all! I'm feeling a little green fingered lately and have been reorganising the back garden to make it nice for the kids. I've found some broken pots so have been mooching round for inspiration to do a mini fairy garden for Molly's play house and I've been collecting glass jars to make little light up fairy jars. Just need some battery tealights for them. Hoping to get down to the beach tomorrow between the thunderstorms to look for sea glass as I'm sure fairies would love that :)<br />
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I've made this card which is <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2015" target="_blank">Lady Leprechaun by Hannah Lynn</a> available at <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts and Me</a> and coloured with promarkers, tria and flex. Its mounted on a pearly green card that I've dabbed roughly with gold metallic paint. The sentiment was a cover gift from Craft Stamper. <br />
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Anyway I'd best crack on and get this house in some order, Miss Moo has seen the fairy gardens on Pinterest so now its "When are we doing it?"<br />
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Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-85997452140536985872016-05-03T22:46:00.001+01:002016-05-03T23:22:23.944+01:00Faces at Crafts & MeEvening all! I'm settling in well to my new post, being kept busy and the scenery is very nice indeed!<br />
Been splashing about on the boat and have discovered a new past time for our Ethan - collecting sea glass. He is absolutely fascinated with it! We'll make something out of the pieces of glass and pottery we find when we have enough! Also been sorting out the back garden, Molly wants to make a den so have been assessing the area and trying to figure out how we're going to do it but she's determined to have her den lol! <br />
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Over at<a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/1st-may-faces.html" target="_blank"> <b>Crafts & Me Challenge</b></a> this month the theme is Faces. That is the face is the main focus of the card, doesn't have to be human either! For this I chose <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1670" target="_blank">Easter Lily by Hannah Lynn</a> digi stamp and went for pastels in pink, blue and yellow to draw more attention to the face and hair. I matted it on plain card coloured with matching promarkers then couldn't decide what backing paper to use so spent some time shuffling these around as you do then decided to keep her plain and simple with a couple of embellishments; a yellow sparkly butterfly and iridescent gems and I felt that was enough for this one.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-28947126195676056302016-04-02T22:45:00.000+01:002016-05-03T23:04:51.289+01:00Fairies and Magic at Crafts and MeHellooooo! I'm back again! Settling down into a new job which is in my hometown, not 60 miles away! Really miss the teamies over at Liverpool, we'd have such a laugh but family has to come first and the travelling was pretty bad so have got at least a temporary contract nearby so it means I can do the school run nearly every day. Its also leaving me with a bit of time to actually make something and I've been busy colouring away so have a few ready to make into something now :)<br />
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This one is for the April challenge at <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/april-challenge-fairies-and-magic.html" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a> which is Fairies and Magic. If you've never been to the <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts & Me Store</a> and love all things fairies, magic and fantasy then its the perfect place for you. There are loads of awesome artists in the stable like Hannah Lynn, Sarah Burrier and Jeremiah Ketner to name a few so go check them out!<br />
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This image is a new one by Hannah Lynn called Autumn. I think she'd look gorgeous in any colour combo. I've coloured with Chameleon pens, I find these really handy if we're away on the boat as I can't carry too much so bring them for a range of tones. I used the sky blue and purple violet and a green and pretty much that was it! The skin I did with copics and added distress ink round the image and also dyed the doily with distress ink and matching distress paint. I added a bit of sparkle to the edge of the wings with sakura glue pen and glamour dust and dropped some onto the doily whilst it was drying too.<br />
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Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-52479415285989483042016-01-10T17:11:00.001+00:002016-01-10T17:11:57.653+00:00Just for Fun and New Chameleon PensHiya all! Thought I'd make this one just for fun! I got some NEW PENS :D I'm always happy to have new pens! I got some money for my birthday from my colleagues so decided to get some <a href="http://www.chameleonpens.com/" target="_blank">Chameleon pens</a>. These are a pretty long and chunky alcohol based marker with 2 nibs and a chamber that contains a 3rd nib filled with a blender. You put either nib of the pen into the chamber and it transfers blender so you can then colour in a lighter shade which goes increasingly darker back to its original colour. They're about 5 quid a pen, bit less the more you buy, are they worth it? Hmmmm. They're not excessively priced when compared to Copic Ciao for example and they give you a good quality of colour as a solid alcohol ink pen but with the added touch of the blending chamber so yes not bad really. There is no excessive bleed such as you get with Flexmarkers and I love the fine nib on the end. I think this sets it apart. The downside is they're heavy but you can pull them all apart to make them smaller and lighter whist in use. I haven't had them long enough to judge how economical they are with the ink yet. I tried to achieve the same results by touching the nib of a promarker onto a blender pen, it works (ish) but you don't quite get quite the same result as Chameleon which is much more consistent.<br />
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Our Molly had a play also and it actually made her colouring look really good like she had added shadows and highlights only she used just one pen to achieve it.<br />
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So how did they perform? Pretty dandy actually! The hair, clothes and wing are just ONE pen! I haven't got the skin tones yet so still using promarkers for that but hey not bad at all for one pen! The background was the aquamarine but I did help it along a little with the chisel end of a promarker blender because of the size of the surface it was to cover. There's a little bit of the blue violet at the bottom.<br />
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Onto the actual card now! The image I totally fell in love with and its <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2375" target="_blank">Violet Pixie by Sara Burrier</a> available from <b><a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a></b>. I found a purple paper stack I forgot I had over xmas so said I'd use that so the papers are "New Bloom" by First Edition which have all been distressed with scissors then ink. I've added flowers and sitressed the little blue ones, glitter around the wing and mask with a glue pen and crystal glitter and curled some organza ribbon around the die cut.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-55249290994835971622016-01-02T14:44:00.000+00:002016-01-02T21:21:41.615+00:00Happy New Year & Anything Goes at Crafts & MeMorning all and Happy New Year! I trust you're all recovered from Christmas/New Year. I've had my birthday and some surgery in the middle of them too, don't do things by halves!<br />
I got a breadmaker for Xmas off my OH, have wanted one for years so have been playing around making various loaves and dough. Had a go at spinning the pizza dough, I wasn't very good at it lol!<br />
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I also got some XPress It copic card and OMG it is soooo nice to work on! So very expensive though so will be saved for best!<br />
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I'm on the move in jobs again next week having just got a weeks notice. Staying in same place but different team, for now. Good job I got over my fear of meeting new people lol!<br />
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Anyway to unwind over Xmas I've done a bit of colouring. This one is called <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2358" target="_blank">"Wandering" by Jeremiah Ketner available at Crafts & Me.</a> Our new challenge is an Anything Goes so please do pop over the the <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/happy-new-year-and-anything-goes.html" target="_blank">Crafts & Me blog</a> to enter your own.<br />
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Right I've just had more co-codamol so I should be asleep in half an hour so catch you on the bright side :)<br />
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Thanks for stopping by xVixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-90100332257301852802015-11-01T18:00:00.000+00:002015-11-01T18:00:24.533+00:00Autumn/Fall colours at Crafts and MeEvening all. Fog is rolling in thick and fast here. I've finally put the heating on and going to be snuggling down with the family to watch Hotel Transylvania for the evening. We watched Hotel Transylvania 2 in the cinema the other day and it was brilliant, really funny.<br />
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Its my favourite time of year for card making, autumn. I love using autumn colours and love seeing all the creations around with the rich browns, greens, oranges, reds, yellows and golds, love it!<br />
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The challenge this month at <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts and Me </a>is to use Autumn/Fall Colours. For this I made a Thank You card using the new <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2398" target="_blank">"Ravenora" by Hannah Lynn</a>. She's an absolute dream to colour. I used promarkers and copics, added ink around the edges. The papers are mostly handmade using autumn leaves starburst stains and moonshadow ink for the extra sparkle. The larger flowers have also been dyed with moonshadow ink and starburst stains.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-90007850100405015822015-10-04T13:33:00.000+01:002015-10-04T13:36:57.199+01:00Halloween at Crafts and MeHello!!! I'm back again with a new creation for<a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Crafts & Me Halloween Challenge</a>. For this I went with monochrome and chose <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1508" target="_blank">Elainia by Hannah Lynn</a> who is a cute little Vampire. I thought I had some black flowers but a rummage through my stash and I have everything but black! I did find these Cala Lilies though which I thought went well with the theme (I think it could also be used as a gothy birthday card)<br />
I've coloured with promarkers in cool greys. For the hair which you might find a bit scary from the stamp I just flicked lines ending in black (use a fine nib or a tria marker for the extra fine lines)<br />
The face and skin I used the blender, cool grey 1, 2 and 3.<br />
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The background papers are <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1516" target="_blank">Crafts and Me Floral Fantasy Monotone</a>. I mounted on a shimmer white card and some black/violet core'denations card which is a black card stock you scratch the top layer off to reveal the colour "core" in this case a violet. I've added some white pearls and mirror squares.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-4366376826259335912015-08-31T12:09:00.000+01:002015-08-31T12:09:04.880+01:00Vintage at Crafts & MeAfternoon all! Long time no blog! Been busy, job changes and just life in general. I've been colouring here and there and finally getting round to making some cards up. <br />
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Just a reminder you can enter the <a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/august-challenge-vintage.html" target="_blank">Vintage challenge over at Crafts and Me</a> up until 3rd Sept before we have a brand new challenge on Friday.<br />
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For this challenge I used a <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/index.php?cPath=218_239" target="_blank">Hannah Lynn</a> called <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2324" target="_blank">Punch of Color girls 7</a>. This one reminded me of Katy Perry :)<br />
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I've used promarkers then added distress ink to the edges and distressed the background paper with scissors and ink. Most of the flowers have been dyed with moonshadow ink and starburst stains.<br />
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Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon as just finishing off a few more :)<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-56681545986886493872015-05-17T08:49:00.000+01:002015-05-17T08:49:50.387+01:00Hannah Lynn quick makeMorning all! I'm on the move again, start another new job on Tuesday which will hopefully lead to where I want to go ultimately. I'm actually looking forward to it and have got over the "meeting new people" nerves as everyone in Denbighshire was lovely so moving around isn't so traumatic afterall :)<br />
Off to sunny Wirral this time to do safeguarding and DoLS so I'm happy with that.<br />
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Today I have a really quick make for you. I know some of you see other people's colouring and think I could never do that or are afraid to show your creations then this is a really quick and easy one that looks good and you don't have to be the best colourist on the block to do it.<br />
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The image I used is by my favourite Hannah Lynn and is called Punch of colour girls 8 available along with loads of other fab designs from Hannah at <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/newpunch-colour-girls-digital-stamp-p-2325.html" target="_blank">Crafts and Me</a><br />
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For the hair I used light and a mid colour promarkers in pink, blue, purple, yellow and green. Dot around randomly with your lighter colours to fill in the hair area and then use the darker shades on top but add less than the lighter ones. Fill it in until you're happy with it and colour the face in as normal. I would normally be a lot more detailled on the face but this is a quick make so only has a couple of layers. I used purple, pink and yellow on the fan then distress ink around the edges and a gold dauber quite roughly to finish.<br />
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The background is also Crafts and Me, its from the<a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/floral-fantasy-digital-papers-p-1487.html" target="_blank"> Floral Fantasy 6x6 set</a> and I used a program to turn it greyscale. Try something free online if you don't have one like Pixlr Editor which you can use online and don't have to download anything.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-83812050596610926662015-05-09T14:22:00.003+01:002015-05-11T00:35:00.596+01:00Circes at Crafts & MeMorning all! Where has this last month gone? As usual been a busy bee, spending time on the boatervan and having adventures and wooooooork!<br />
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Consequently I'm running a little late to the party and have a new card for the<a href="http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Crafts and Me challenge</a> which this month is Circles. Pop on over for some lovely inspiration from my teamies too, they've really stepped up to the plate on this one.<br />
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I've used <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/newwillow-digital-stamp-p-2327.html" target="_blank">Willow digi by Hannah Lynn </a> coloured with promarkers. The background is handmade, if you scroll down I'll walk you through it. The clock die has been altered with Viva croco cracking paint in silver, just slap it on nice and thick and let it dry for about a day. I put mine on my fishtank hood to dry it from underneath.<br />
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Background walk through. First take a piece of card stock (250gsm and above) and paint on some walnut ink. I've used Moonshadow Ink which is a walnut stain tinted with colour which is gorgeous. Next, whilst it's wet, drop on some ROCK SALT. Yep rock salt. They make the pitted dots you can see on the pic. Set it aside to dry and then brush the salt right off.<br />
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Next have a rummage around the house for something circular. I used the lid off a roll on deodorant I'd just finished. Have another rummage for anything "painty" - Acrylic paint, liquid pearls, distress dabbers, what you fancy. I used pink liquid pearls and dabbed around my circle lid and stamped straight on. I'm throwing it out anyhow but if you needed to clean set some baby wipes aside. I then used some green distress pain dauber and did the same and finally my gold distress dauber and just splatted that right on as its circular afterall.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-17149355629015771032015-04-05T00:29:00.002+01:002015-04-07T11:56:58.379+01:00Photo Inspiration at Crafts & MeEvening all! I have a great challenge for you tonight from Crafts & Me. The winner for April will receive the full set of the first release of Art by MiRan stamps so as they say you have to be innit to winnit!<br />
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For this challenge we are using a photo inspiration which was kindly supplied by Karen Marshall and is a view from Anglesey, isn't it just a beautiful pic.<br />
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I've coloured up <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/newaurora-digital-stamp-p-2277.html" target="_blank">Aurora 11 by The East Wind</a> digi stamp from Crafts & Me. There's some stunning stamps in stock in digi and rubber there and also 20% off at the minute. <br />
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I interpreted the image as a Spring sunrise so picked out the sun in the centre and coloured the centre flower in the red/orage/yellow from the pic with promarkers.<br />
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I originally coloured her blonde but felt she disappeared somewhat when I added the yellow around the edge so went with brown to represent the trees in the pic.<br />
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I stamped the word Spirit and added some glittery flowers. Image coloured with promarkers and a little coloursoft pencil to the hair.<br />
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<br />Vixykinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711503850883838421noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1284586946038876188.post-66513514260615517702015-04-04T00:15:00.002+01:002015-04-04T00:15:31.779+01:00A pair of BluesEvening all, I'm back again, bit like a bus me really hey? Hope you're enjoying a few extra days off, thats if you're lucky enough to and thinking of those in the 24/7 services.<br />
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Well what's new? I'm learning knitting! I'm actually doing ok! Several have tried to teach me but it just didn't click. The ladies at a dementia day centre tried and laughed lots that I just couldn't get it, my Nan has attempted a few times without success but Miss Mookins started knitting club at home and she could do it I thought I'd better learn so I can actually help her. Had a mooch round you tube and what I found is that there are lots of different ways and I had too search around until I found one I could follow, I think its very much each to their own and you'll find one that suits you. I'm currently making a headband/ear warmers, only a couple of holes so far so I'm getting better!<br />
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Anyway I have 2 cards for you tonight. Yes I'm joined again by Miss Moo who loves colouring in all my images, stash raider!<br />
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The first one is a new image called <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/newmornings-digital-stamp-p-2293.html" target="_blank">Mornings by Jeremiah Ketner </a>available as a digi from <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts & Me</a>. I LOVED colouring this one in, I could see her as a monotone but she looks awesome in any colour combo, have fun with this one as she is a pleasure to colour. I did this one with promarkers.<br />
I asked on the Facebook group how I should put the card together, lots of bitty bobs or keep it simple and the latter was the consensus. The white card I just doodled on with an acrylic pen. The stars I filled in with a sakura glue pen and added glamour dust crystal glitter, I also added to the flowers. I went round the edges with distress inks as this makes the image pop out. I use the distress ink tool and pads and pull from the outside in starting with the lightest colour (broken china) and ending with black, I don't have a black distress so just use the brilliance ink.<br />
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As you may or may not know both my son Ethan and I have Aspergers which now falls under the autism umbrella however as far as I'm concerned we're still Aspies :p<br />
Being a female with Aspergers isn't as rare as was previously thought, the studies were just of boys so there are still tons and tons of us female aspies out there who probably haven't been diagnosed yet, I didn't get mine until 3 years ago! Here's a site with a list of <a href="http://www.help4aspergers.com/pb/wp_a58d4f6a/wp_a58d4f6a.html" target="_blank">female aspie traits</a> - interesting read :)<br />
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Anyway, I have created this card for <a href="http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Lacy Sunshine</a> called <a href="http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/ethereal-enchantresses.html" target="_blank">Peyton's Puzzle Enchantress</a> in hommage to World Autism Day, whats more its off in the post for a surprise for another aspie girl who is celebrating her birthday next week and her mom has arranged for a few of us to send her a card however that number has now grown considerably and I think she'll be blown away by the response she's getting :)<br />
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A bit about the card. The image was coloured with promarkers, I use the promarker fine nibs for the tiny flicks. I used a glue pen on the jigsaw wings and added glamour dust. The jigsaw pieces are from a blank jigsaw which I bought from the craft shop in Llandudno - Yes its still there (I get asked sometimes!) They have really good sets of 6 of them in a pack which will be brilliant for mixed media. They're also coloured with promarkers and I edged with a gold acrylic dabber.<br />
The wording around the image was a simple text box in MS Word as you can change the direction of the wording and hide the box :)<br />
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Evening all. Hope all the mummies out there have had a nice relaxing day. We spent last night on Boo's new boat Amanzi (Zulu for Water) and first time the kids have slept over on a boat. T'was very comfy indeed, you could not tell we were on a boat at all, we call it the Boatervan!<br />
Can't wait for some summer adventures now :)<br />
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I have one to share tonight then off to do more scribbling and CV writing. This one is <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/hearts-bench-digital-stamp-p-2245.html" target="_blank">Hearts on Bench by Robin Pushay</a> which I've actually done in pencils! Not like me I know but thought I'd have a go! I did feel that doing her dress in orange made her look a bit naked from a distance so I added some spots with the molotow pen and job done ;)<br />
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I had a rummage through my peel offs (another shock horror from me!) and found this one I must have had for about 10 years lol! See never throw anything away you never know when it will come in useful!<br />
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Hope you like and please do pop by <a href="http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts and Me</a> as there are some fantastic new artists there including Robin Pushay, Hannah Lynn, Jeremiah Ketner, The East Wind and Sara Burrier or the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/122623797834470/" target="_blank">Crafts and Me Facebook group</a> as there's a freebie to be had there at the mo!<br />
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This is our Molly and I on Amanzi with our new friend Timmy the Swan. Molly must have called him a goose 20 times! He introduced himself yesterday when I was loading the boat and trying to step off the dock to the boat by hissing at me! He's chilled out a bit now :)</div>
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<a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Allsorts - Flowers & Pearls</a><br />
<a href="http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crazy for challenges - Bring on the bling</a><br />
<a href="http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fairy Tale - Flower Power</a><br />
<a href="http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Fab n Funky - Focus on image</a><br />
<a href="http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Penny's Paper Crafty - Ribbon & Bows</a><br />
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