Lace and Pink-ness

Another weekend project to share.

This last weekend I don't know what happened...... sure I make cards (a fairly girlie pursuit I agree), however, those that know me realize that there is not much girlie in me. The word Cherish makes me cringe and in the past I avoided the colour pink like the plague.

This weekend though, I ended up in girlie land and fully embraced my girlie side, making cards with both pink card AND lace (ok so I couldn't quite manage it on the same card though).

Firstly our little card group has decided to participate in a "bring & make". Sort of like a "make & take" but different :) Each of us takes a turn to make a card and bring it along for the others to make. We can of course make it differently if we like and although the original (expertly made by Val) was a beautiful soft blue, I for some reason decided that the brightest pink I could find was a good option.

Val made her gorgeous card using Marianne Dies both the Anja's Leaves and the Flower Fantasy Set. And finished it with diamenties and pearls. The sentiments were from Just Rite Stamps. I colour matched my diamenties using Copic markers.

After getting all pink I decided to continue the girlie theme and make a card using some gorgeous Green Tara Lace that had just come into the store. This lace is so beautiful and petite at only around 1.5cm width and is just perfect for cards, invitations and scrapbook pages.

I had also been hoarding an piece of card on which I had embossed a beautiful leaf border pattern from Stampers Anonymous. You know those items that you make, but don't use immediately, hanging onto it because it is so pretty and you just KNOW that you'll use it somewhere someday?..... One of those pieces, yeah! It's really hard to see the embossed pattern in the photo unfortunately but it really looks spectacular. I've taken a close up so you can get more of an idea of what it looks like

I liked the way a Cheery Lyn Doily Diecut looked underneath it and then mounted a Spellbinder Elegant Rectangle Diecut with my sentiment stamped on top. The sentiment was from an A5 set by Stamp-It.

I love how it turned out all girlie but still quite sophisticated!

Cheery Santa & Spellbinders

My weekend project was to colour the super cute "Cheery Santa" image from Make it Crafty.

I cheated just a little and used the sentiment from "Cheeky Santa" again from Make it Crafty.

Then I cut the finished image using Spellbinders circle dies and mounted them onto gold paper also cut using Spellbinder circle dies and then onto patterned paper.

Yes I seem to have reverted to a clean a simple style for the moment. It seemed to suit this card!

We have a great range of Make it Crafty stamps in stock and can give help and guidance on choosing your Copic markers for great colour blending.

Fairy Dahlia Card

How can you not love Make it Crafty's range of stamps. And we have just expanded our range of these gorgeous stamps! Just in time for Christmas we have the Aussie Santa, Cheeky Santa and Cheery Santa stamps as well as the Aussie Christmas Tree and Snow Elf stamps.

And some very good news (as I know there are a few people waiting for these dies) is that we will have a new supply of the Marianne Craftables Dies arriving next week. So if you have been waiting for the circle or oval craftables come in a get yours while they are still here.

While we are talking about some of my favourite things, I had the opportunity of a little play recently. Make it Crafty Stamps, Copic Markers, Marianne Dies and Memory Box Dies - these are a few of my favourite things! So what better than to be able to combine them on a card!

I coloured the Make it Crafty "Fairy Dahlia" stamp with Copic Markers - YR31, Y15, Y28 for hair; RV000, RV10, RV21 for her dress and flower; E000, E00, E11 and R20 for her skin. I also used C0 for grey highlight around the image and gold gel pen for her anklet and bracelet. Her wings are B0 and white gel pen to add veins. The I fussy cut and mounted the image of a piece of Pink Gelato Kaiser Craft Paper from their paper pad. I mounted that to a burgundy card and then onto a white A6 card.

 As she is Fairy Dahlia I decided to adorn the card with a hand made paper dahlia in white. I made this using the Marianne Craftable Die CR1201 (medium and small flower die) combined with a small Carl Craft petal die.

Then using this beautiful "Delicate Fern" Memory Box Die and the leaves from the Marianne Die "Bird on a Branch", I added some soft little leaves.

 

I think she turned out just right!

 

Copic Marker Blending Packs Now In Store!

OK having gotten well into using my Copic Markers lately, mainly thanks to the wonderful Make it Crafty stamp range we have in now, I realized that it's often hard when you are starting out, to choose the colours you need to blend together.

Skin tones for me were a real mystery. As were the beautiful highlighted hair colours that others were getting in their colouring projects.

So if, like I was, you are still puzzling over which colours you should get to start off or build on your Copic Marker range, Stampers Den has now packed together Copic Marker Colour Families to make it easy to get those colours that will blend well together.

In store now we have packs for Light Skin Tones, Mid Brown, Red Brown, Red, Blue, Black, Straw Blonde and Grey Greens. More colours will be added in the near future.