My first DT card of 2017

Hi folks...my first DT card of 2017!!

Today is my last day before going back to work tomorrow s I made a point of spending most of the day crafting!

I bought this stamp just before Christmas as I thought it was quite versatile and I could do lots with it...I haven't used all of the stamps in the set only the main one, still practising with the others.

The stamp is from Concorde and 9th and is called Hello Lovely.  I stamped onto watercolour card and white embossed.  I coloured the image using my Spectrum Noir Aquablend pencils, I started with the lighter shades and then gradually added until I got the shade I wanted...I wanted it to look quite soft.

I stamped some splodges and the sentiment which are from the same set and then added a few sequins to finish.

Pop over to the Spectrum Noir Blog for more inspiration.

Challenges:
Happy Little Stampers - watercolour challenge
Penny Black and More - anything goes
Allsorts - something new (new stamp)
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Brown sugar - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Wordart Wednesday - anything goes

Fi

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Spectrum Noir January Challenge

Hi everybody...have you seen the challenge the first challenge of 2017 over on the Spectrum Noir Facebook page??

This month's theme is "use a colouring book or page".  All you have to do is use some of the Spectrum Noir products.

I have used a page from the Colorista Exquisite Florals book and coloured the page with Colorista pens.

You can also pop over to the Spectrum Noir blog to find out loads of tips and techniques on using all your Spectrum Noir products.

Fi
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Spectrum Noir Tutorial

Edited:Just noticed, my tutorial ever posted so here it is.

First cut a piece of watercolor card to size.

Then scribble the Spectrum Noir Aqua markers onto a stamping mat or acrylic block. This card uses Moss and Navy.

Stamp the tree stamp in to the ink and on to the card.

Using a waterbrush, blend the color so that it is not quite as blotchy.

Add some shading around the trees using Slate.

Optional: go around the outline with a fineliner just to give it a bit more detail.

Cut the image down to size and layer it onto black card.

Layer the image onto the card and add a die cut sentiment. Finish it off by adding some snow and glitter

Pop over to the Spectrum Noir Blog for more inspiration.


Fi
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When Santa got Stuck up the Chimney...

Hi folks...

today I am sharing my late DT card for My mum's Craft Shop.  I just gota little buy on Friday and forgot to post this.

I have used Santa is Stuck from Stamping Bella...he is such a cute little Santa to colour and is available now from the My Mum's Craft Shop store.  I have used my brand new Spectrum Noir Illustrator pens to colour this one...oh man they are sooooo juicy I love them!

The papers I have used are from Echo Park....which are cute too!

challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Christmas
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - anything goes

Fi

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It's another Beautiful Day...

Hi folks, today I am sharing my DT tutorial for My Mum's Craft Shop...

When I last made a card using this stamp, I did receive lots of comments so as it is bacck in stock now over on the My Mum's Craft Shop store, I thought I would show you what I did.

First I cut a piece of watercolour card to size.

Using the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set, I stamped up the flower and leaf using a veramark pad and then embossed the images with white embossing powder...I love white embossing with watercolouring.

Using my Zig clean Color Brush pens I first started colouring the leaves, just started with some colour at the stem ends and worked the colour out with a waterbrush.

Next I started in the centre of one of the flowers and not really being too precise, I coloured some yellow in the centre of the flower.

I then added some pink around the outside edges, this makes it easy to pull the colour from the edges and to blend with the yellow.

Using my waterbrush, I blended the yellow and pink together and then did the came on the next flower.

I just kept using the same process until all the flowers had been coloured.

I then went over all flowers and leaves added more colour util I got the shade I wanted....these pens are so vibrant you don't actually need that much colour.

I like to add shading around the images but instead of a normal greyish shadow I pulled the colour out from the flowers.... I think this is quite effective and it's a great way to cover up colour that has gone over the outside of the images.

I then loaded my waterbrush with colour and slashed some little splodges of colour...and then once dry I added some black splodges.

Here's the finished card.

products used:

Altenew Beautiful Day

Altenew Label Love

MFT Distressed Patterns

challenges:

Less is More - one layer

Fi

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Hope you perk up soon...

Morning folks, today I am sharing my DT card for My Mum's Craft Shop.

I have gone for the clean and simple look this time...not sure if it's just too plain for me as it's not my usual.....but I really loved the stamps and wanted to use them.

So the stamp I have used is from the Altenew Coffee Talk stamp set.  I stamped the wording onto kraft card, then added some splodges....these splodges are one of the stamps in the set.  I found a cup to use and coloured it with my Spectrum Noir Pens and then added some sequins to finish.

Fi

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