I LOVE my job, part two!

Why do I love my job?
Because I get to make things like this...

 

This is what I made with the Sheena Douglass perfect partners stamps and dies, after my masterclass at the trade show. (see I LOVE my job part one!)

 

The stamp sets are Fields of Gold and Brambles, and the dies were Brambles and Country Fence.

 

I coloured it with the Spectrum Aqua pens in these colours:

Floral set

Begonia

Bud Green

Leaf Green

Orchid

Wildflower

Jasmine

 

Landscape set

Terracotta

Chocolate

Sepia

 

 

The sky is coloured with Teal from the Primary set, I also added just a little of the begonia

 

 

I was so pleased with the finished card, I knew that I had to teach my regular Tuesday class, and here are their finished cards,

 

Mary, feeling very pleased with her card, and so she should.

This beauty belongs to Charlie

This is Kirsty's masterpiece

And finally Gill, also feeling extremely pleased with her finished work of art,

 

Sadly Chris was feeling a little shy, but her card was beautiful  too, and Sylvia and Pat were on holiday and didn't get to play.

 

And that ladies and gents is the biggest reason why I love my job so much, the satisfaction I get from helping people achieve the results that they want, and turning a few bits of plain card into a work of art.

 

Thanks for joining me today.

 

Happy colouring

Nicky x

 

 

 

I LOVE my job! part one!

Hello everybody, I have split this post in two as there is so much to share! 

 

 

Last Sunday, Cate and I went to the trade show, I'm very fortunate that I have been going to this annual trade only event for the last 9 years, and have met many wonderfully talented people and seen a lot of different craft products.

But first things first we had to have a cup of tea, love tea!!

 

Cate enjoying finally getting there! (long story!)

 

This year I was fortunate enough to get onto a couple of workshops run by the fabulous team at crafters companion,  my first with the wonderful Sheena Douglass, and we had a master class in using her new perfect partners dies and stamps, and guess what? LOVE them all!

 

The lovely Sheena!

 

And then in the afternoon I was in gorgeous Leann Chivers master class using the fabulous new Spectrum Aqua pens, I learnt quite a few new techniques...how much do I LOVE these pens!

 

 

Gorgeous Leann and Louisa!

 

And talking of  things I love, well not so much love, but I was filled with pride when I saw all my cards on display alongside all my design team buddies cards, Cate felt the need to document this!

 

(safe to say I wasn't looking my best!)

 

I won't bore you the rest of the photos as something went very wrong with my camera and they all came out a bit weird! (it was probably in shock at being taken out of its box!).

 

Its safe to say that we came away buzzing with ideas for new products for the shop and lots of inspiration for cards, scrapbook pages and workshops, so much so, Monday I got straight to it and created a lovely card with the products I had used!!

I LOVE my job!!

 

Tune in tomorrow for part two, when I will reveal what I made and the other reasons I love my job!

 

Happy colouring!

Nicky x

 

 

 

 

Ferbuary challenge - using Reds!

Half way through February already?

That means its a different challenge theme at Spectrum Noir!

This months theme is use Red!

I have had a sneaky peak at all the design team's photos and they are all fabulous,

 here's mine:

 

 

I figured most people would think Valentine, so I decided to change things up a bit! 

and so I have used an image from Aurora Wings you can view her here.

I created the red background with my Spectrum Noir Aquatints Bright and Beautiful and essentials collections

 

 

I created the blue background by masking off the image with masking fluid, then used blue from the Landscape set of Aquatints, I then peeled away the masking fluid.

 

Yukionna is coloured with my SN Blendable pencils in the following colours:

 

Skin: 003, 004, 008 Eyes: 057, 108

Dress: 014, 023, 026, 032, 105, 083 & blending fluid
Flower: 023, 026, 083
Leaves: 044, 057, 060
Hair: 120 & blending fluid.

 

I hope you will join in this months challenge, don't forget there is a prize.

You will find the challenge here!

 

Happy colouring

Nicky x

 

 

 

Woohoo...todays the day!!!

I am so excited, today is the day I can share this lovely Thelwell card with you!

 

 

Crafters companion have done it again, they are launching the CD-Rom and paper kit today

and you can see the gorgeous Sara Davies on TV now!!

 

I'm off to watch so here is the list of pencils I have used:

 

Trophies: OR1, GB6
Pony: Pencils, 091, 093, 095, 098, 120
Saddle: 085, 088, 091
Rosettes: 012, 025, 026
Jacket:058, 059, 108
Jodhpurs: 004, 089
Skin: 005, 009

 

I hope you will love them all as much as I do, and thanks for coming

 

Happy Colouring

Nicky x