I'm Back again!

Hello all, am I a bit late to say Happy New Year??? Life has run away with me a bit just recently and  in general has just been a bit taxing, but its a new year so I am determined to get a wriggle on and blog more frequently.

As I'm sure most of you will, by now, be aware that Flutterby Crafts is no longer, and I now work for the lovely Cate at The Mulberry Bush, the location is still the same but the shop looks stunning, and there are lots of plans for the coming year.

Anyway, I thought I would do a quick picture tutorial of how I made the lovely paper flowers that the girls in class have been using over the last couple of weeks, I can't stop myself from making them at the moment, and enjoy sitting on the sofa with the family making them instead of tucking myself away in my craft studio!

I started off by die cutting some of the lovely Madame Payraud's papers

from Papermania using a Marianne flower die.

I used distress inks to colour the backs and front edges.

I then spritzed them all with a gold ink also from DoCrafts, I should mention it is one of the best spritzing inks I have ever used and doesn't seem to clog.

Just a word of caution though, cover up your area very well, as you can see even though I was very careful and sprayed into a box lid, some spray still found its way onto the paper underneath, creating a nice effect, but it wouldn't have looked quite so good on my white tablecloth that was underneath!!!

When all the papers are dry, start rolling them up with a pair of tweezers.

Then when there is enough to grip in your fingers, continue rolling until you reach the end, and secure onto the disk at the end with a dollop of pva and hold until stuck, or hot glue for an instant grip, but be careful as this can burn your fingers! 

I then put a bit of pva into the centre and wedged in a pearl

I left all of my flowers overnight to fully dry before using them on my project.

And here's the finished piece.

Your comments are always welcome,  Happy Crafting

Nicky

Here are some of the products used:

hello, remember me?

Hello, I don't know if you remember me but I am the nutjob who decided it would be s a great idea to start a blog!!!
So let me start by apologising for being so naughty and leaving it this long between posts, it got to the point where it was a bit like that bill, you know it needs paying but you'll just put it off a wee bit longer!
Everytime I thought about sitting down and blogging there was something else more important to focus on, you know family life and all the stress and strain that surrounds it!

Enough of this digression, lets get on to business, I have done quite a bit of crafting over the last few months, but to save boring you all to tears with it the longhand way, I shall add a few photos into the gallery.

So, onto my latest project, we recently took delivery of the Lucy Cromwell, Home to Nest papers and stamps from DoCrafts, and as stunning as they are, the little bird stamps were tiny, and not great for showing off my colouring, so I dusted off my drawing pad and pencils and had a go at drawing a little Blue Tit,
And if I do say so myself I didn't do that bad a job.

I then coloured him with Flexmarkers from Letraset, trying to get as much texture into him as I could.

The colours I have used are:
Dove Grey
Dolphin Blue
Navy Blue
Pale Citrus
Aniseed
Pear Green
And a tiny bit of Yellow, just under his chin.
I also used a white gel pen to add the highlights.

The branch is:
Champagne
Blue grey 2& 4
And a tiny bit of Cocoa.

 I then made him into a fathers day card, using the Ultimate Die-cut pack of the Home to nest range.
I cant tell you how much I love all the Lucy Cromwell ranges from DoCrafts, and it won't be too much longer for you to wait to see  the new CHRISTMAS stuff coming out, there I said it that dreaded C word, I have seen the full range and had a stroke and a sniff and believe me you will  LOVE it!! I even have a couple of bits to play with already so as they say, Watch this space!
Happy crafting you lot
Nicky xx

Team Edward ?

I am so excited that Twilight Breaking Dawn part 2 is nearly here, So excited I felt like I needed to make something in honour!

So what to make???

A little goody bag to sneek into the cinema of course!

And where did I get my image? Saturated Canary, I know what you are thinking... but I just love them.

I used my Craftwork Cards ticket strips and stamped them with my Whimsey ticket stamps.

The Paper is from the shop I don't know what its called ( I will check tomorrow and update this bit)

I had a hard time deciding what Promarker colours to choose, but my new best friend, Pastel Beige, had to come out and play again!

And what did I fill my bag with???

popcorn !

If anyone is going to see it Enjoy, my hubby is going to take me on Friday, and I just can't wait! But in the meantime...

Happy Colouring x

Studio12blog candy

Hi all, happy Monday, just a real quicky for today,  I promise I will share something before the end of the week.
I have just been doing doing a bit of  blog following and ended up at Studio12 at Polkadoodles, they have a fantastic blog candy up for grabs this month so thought I would share, I have put a link below

Happy colouring x

http://studio12creative.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/november-giveaway.html