Reading Beauty

Good morning all, well it's the start of another week, are you all ready for it? I don't think I am, I'd much rather be getting set up in the craft room than going to work lol. 

Anyway, today's card is a little bit different for me. I decided to colour an image using the one pencil technique that I learned at our last dabble day. 

I used Reading Beauty from Saturated Canary, and I'm really pleased with how she came out. 

I used an 8b graphite pencil and a paper stump to blend, and kept a new eraser handy to clean it up a bit as I do tend to get very messy hands lol. 

I used paper from the Midnight Blush collection from Docrafts/Papermania, and used some black lace across the card. Then I added some tiny pearl beads. 

The sentiment is cut using an Impression Obsession die and the flower is a gel sticker that I've had forever. 

I finished her off by just adding a few tiny pearls to her headband. 

Hope you like her too. See you soon, take care.

xxx

Happy Anniversary K and Ian

Good morning all, today is my daughter and son in laws 3rd wedding anniversary.  Hope you have a lovely day K and Ian xx

This is the card I made for them. 

The image is from Tiddly Inks called You and Me, and I coloured it with Copics and Spectrums. 

I cut it out and then chopped the corners with a scalloped circle punch. 

The papers are from the Papermania Midnight Blush Collection, as is the flower rosette. 

I added a Happy Anniversary sentiment and then finished the card off with some black and clear gems, and then some tiny little gems around her dress and in her hair. 

Hope you like it. 

Take care, see you soon.

xxx

New desk tidy

Good morning all and welcome to the weekend. Hope you are all enjoying some nice weather wherever you are. We've had a couple of bad thunderstorms lately so I am hoping the weekend will be nice.

Today's post is a little project that I've had sat on my desk for a while now, and never got around to doing. So this week I made myself get it finished ;o)) 

It started with this holder from an empty hand wash and hand lotion set. I thought It might come in handy for something. 

Then I found these two empty pots fitted into the holes perfectly lol. 

So after a bit of sprucing up, this is what I have now. 

I covered the base and tubs with papers from the Docrafts Midnight Blush Capsule Collection.

I used Ranger Glue N Seal in Matte to stick everything down and to give it a seal.

Then I added some lace around the base. 

I decided to chop the small lip off the very top of the pots so that they sat better in the holder, so I covered the rims with some more lace. 

Now it is sat on my desk holding all my little tools and pens etc. 

Hope you like it, take care.

See you soon.

xxx

No image cards

Hello again.  Thursday already and what a busy week it has been back at work.

I've been so tired when I get home I haven't wanted to do much crafting.  I've stuck to quite simple makes and this is another.

I used papers from my scrap box again.  These two are Bo Bunny Serenity and Docrafts Midnight Blush.

I like these word stamps.  They can be used for so many occasions.

The flower is two layers of Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die layered with a paper flower.  I then added a black pearl to the centre.

I'm liking these no image cards, hope you are too.

TTFN Jude xx

Colour me.........

...........wonderful!

That's the name of this fabulous SC digi we purchased recently.  Yes, we have spent rather a lot on digi stamps of late and we really need to calm down a bit, BUT I can't see it happening :-) Lol!

Her hair didn't turn out as nicely as I wanted but I was happy with the rest so she's ended up on a little card.  There is no sentiment as then it can be used for any occasion.

The papers are more of the midnight blush collection I used last week for Mum's birthday.  I never throw the scraps away as you never know when they may be useful ;)

Hope you like her.  TTFN Jude xx