Vixykins: my crafty heart

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Sunglasses warning - Here's Vicky!

Evening all! I have to give you a sunglasses warning for this one as its so LOUD and bright!! This is one of the new range of digi stamps designed by the very talented designer and cardmaker Teresa over at My Crafty Heart and this one is Fairy Vicky named after my old mucker Vicky on the DT. The description says "Fairy Vicky likes to sing and dance and entertain the other fairies across the land." She certainly does!So as an Ode to Vicky who brightens up everyones day I had to do this loud, like her haha!

The papers are also digi by Bearly Mine, I have a folder of papers I printed off when I was on the DT and saw these and thought YES! Totally in the mood for orange today and I love the boldness of the designs too. I know some people worry about the cost of printing but I can assure you its not that bad. I got a £15 cartridge from Tesco which lasted me 12 months and I have printed stacks and stacks of the papers off so considering how much you pay for a printed paper stack and these can be adjusted in size and you wont get the eeek moment when you need 3 pieces the same size to do inside and out as you just print another off :)

I've coloured with promarkers and coloursoft pencils adding distress ink in yellow and orange around the edge (sorry mustard seed and spiced marmalade tsk!) The sentiment I got off ebay yonks ago, flowers are Wild orchid and swirly thing is sizzix.

Oooh sparkly wings!

Hope this has brightened your day as much as it did mine!

I'd like to enter this into...

Craft your days away - Distressing
Papercrafting Journey - Floral
Flutterby Wednesday - Open week
I love Promarkers - Anything goes

Monday, 16 January 2012

Its all black & white (and a hint of pink)

Evening all! Gosh I'm struggling tonight! My mouse has broke and I'm having to use the touchpad aaargh hate hate hate it! So not used to using it, driving me dilly lol!

Anyway have a new one to share tonight, will try and post up another tutorial tomorrow and start on some Teddy Bo and Magnolias in the week :)

This one is a new image I *had* to have because its got my name (kinda!) all over it! This one is called FAIRY VIXX haha seriously! OK not me, t'is the other Vixx! Its a new company just started called My Crafty Heart and they've named their first set of digis after their design team, sweet!

I wasn't sure what colours to use for this one, I think we all have those days where you rummage through papers and nothing seems to gel until I found the new paper pad I bought over xmas which is just black and white so I went with that theme and decided to keep the colouring light and airy, it also shows you how the tutorial on light clothes transfers, I just added a light pink and rose pink for the shadow bits and used the blender to keep it light.

I know a lot of people struggle with blonde hair, as I've recommended its a case of try it and write down the ones you like. I can say use this and that or you could go elsewhere and get different colours so write them all down, try them out and tick the ones you like the best :)

This blonde hair combo was satin, pastel yellow and cinnamon so there's another one for your books!