Not long now until Canada Day (July 1st)! Have you made any cards or decorations?? Have a scrapbook layout in mind? I made this card today using the O, Canada Collection by Photo Play which you can find HERE
Happy Saturday!
Canadian, Eh?!
Category: Blog
Huge Sale on MFT and Craftin’ Desert Divas!
Don’t worry My Favorite Things aren’t going anywhere, we just love them so much it was time for a Sale 🙂
You can check out the awesome prices HERE, not all are on Sale but a good chance of them are….let’s call this a rainy day sale!
Craftin’ Desert Divas is also on Clearance, and once they are done they are gone, so it is the perfect time to grab some of these cute bargains! You can find these HERE
**NEW** Product Line – DecoArt Media Line!!
Super Exciting, the WHOLE DecoArt Media Line will be here TODAY!
There are so many Options and projects you can do with this line and coming up over the next few weeks I will be posting project links etc. In addition to these products being awesome, they are very reasonably priced!
Here are Some Product photos to give you an idea and they can all be found HERE
Day 1 – 10 of the #thedailymarker30day Colouring Challenge
Are you joining in #thedailymarker30day challenge hosted by Kathy Rac on Instagram?? I am, all you need to do is a pic on Instagram everyday during the month of your colouring and use the hashtag above (I missed one day so far) but here are the posts I have done so far and the supply list for each.
Day 1
Stamp Set: Beach Bums by The Greeting Farm
Background: Nuvo Shimmer Powder
Markers: Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
Day 2
Stamp Sets:
- Beach Bums The Greeting Farm
- Beach Background – Stamping Bella
Markers:
- Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
- Spectrum Noir Aqua Tints
- Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen – Clear Overlay
DAY 3
Stamp Set: Rockstar Anya 2
Markers: Spectrum Noir
Day 4
Stamp Sets:
- Eat, Sleep Create by Catherine Pooler
- Inks: Catherine Pooler
Day 5 and 6
Stamp Set: Viking by MFT
Markers: Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
Day 7 – oops, missed this day
Day 8
Stamp Set: Puddle Jumper by MFT
Markers: Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
Day 9
Stamp Set: Town Bear by MFT
Dies: Our Town & Open Road by MFT
Markers: Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
Day 10
Stamp Set: Wheek, Wheek, Wheek by Gerda Steiner Designs
Markers: Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
Hope you enjoyed! 🙂
Santoro Gorjuss Girls are ON SALE!
Just wanting to send out a quick post letting you all know that the Santoro Gorjuss Girl Stamps are on SALE! These little girls are so fun to colour, and depending on how you colour them changes the whole mood of your card! The samples below have all been coloured by me with the exception of the first one which I recently saw by Crystal Schneider, at www.crystaljustus.blogspot.com and it is stunning!
She has coloured it using Spectrum Noir markers and Spectrum Noir Aqua Tints (which are incredible).
I hope you find some inspiration from these photos and enjoy the great prices!!
#maplesyrupmonday with Catherine Pooler Designs
Have you tried Catherine Pooler inks yet??? If the answer to that question is a no, then you need to grab yourself a few and give them a try!!
I brought this line into the shop a few months back and it has since become a favorite for many people, including myself! The inks lend themselves so well to a variety of techniques but for this card I chose to simply go with straight up Stamping!
For the Stamp Set I chose the “Eat, Sleep, Create” Set and the new ink colours that were just released: Grape Crush, Be Mine, Limoncello and All That Jazz along with the awesome Midnight Black Ink which is also great to use with alcohol markers as well as watercolouring, talk about versatile eh!?
I matted the card front onto a piece of Black Tie Gala paper (also by Catherine Pooler).
In case you are unfamiliar with the #maplesyrupmonday posts, Laurie from It’s All Cut and Die and myself have teamed up to show you projects biweekly featuring companies we love all just tonhave a bit of fun, and we like to give things away on occasion too 😉
Please follow our Instagram accounts and post your makes with #maplesyrupmonday to be in to win!
SUPPLIES:
Eat, Sleep, Create Stamp Set – Catherine Pooler
Catherine Pooler Inks in: Be Mine, Grape Crush, Limoncello, All That Jazz and Midnight
Black Tie Gala Paper – Catherine Pooler
Please follow our Instagram accounts and post your makes with #maplesyrupmonday to be in to win!
HUGE Nuvo Embellishment Mousse SALE!!!!
This is the perfect time to stock up on every colour of the AMAZING Nuvo Embellishment Mousse as it is on a SUPER SALE!! They won’t last long at this price!
Beach Bums!
I personally LOVE doing the 30 day Daily Marker Colouring Challenge on Instagram…I don’t normally manage to get the full 30 days….ok, so I haven’t actually yet, but this time I am going to try VERY hard!
For this card I have used NEW products to my shop, I have JUST brought in The Greeting Farm stamps, which are pictured below, and Nuvo have just released their Shimmer Powders which are SO MUCH FUN!
I made the background a few days ago playing with the Nuvo Shimmer powders for the first time and had a card in mind using the New Greeting Farm “Beach Bums” stamp set.
The background I made by spritzing some water colour card stock well and then adding Nuvo Shimmer Powder in “Atlantis Burst” and “Blue Blitz”. Once the shimmer powder dries (I used a heat gun) it is set and the mica does not rub off, which is great!
I cut the fringe that was on the towel in the stamp set to make to look a little more like an air mattress as I wanted both of these little cuties in the water.
All of the colouring is done using Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers 🙂
SUPPLIES:
- Beach Bums Stamp Set – The Greeting Farm
- Nuvo Shimmer Powder – Atlantis Burst and Blue Blitz
- Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
***** Make sure you check out and follow my Instagram to see my 30 day progress, you can find the link HERE! ***
Catherine Pooler Ink Review
If you haven’t tried Catherine Pooler’s Inks yet, you really must! I have tried and tested out MANY brands of inks and have liked some, disliked some and loved some….these however have soared above them all!
Here are some of my favourite things about them:
- the variety of colours is not only large (and still growing) but they are fun and colour the range from soft, bright, subtle, vibrant and rich!
- the foam pads are a dream to stamp with, the coverage on to your stamp is pretty perfect! You can also ink your project taking the pad direct to paper.
- these inks blend beautifully sung a mini ink blending tool and are awesome to use in stencils!
- they layer VERY well (as you can see in the photo below)
- the ink pad is juicy but doesn’t need to be reined constantly!
Catherine Pooler has a whole range of products in addition to the inks including: Stamps, Dies, Stencils, Acrylic Blocks, Cardstock and Paper (all found in my shop).
I highly recommend you trying not only the inks but the other products in the range also, you won’t be disappointed! To that end I want to also mention that The Company as a whole is one of the best I have had the opportunity to work with!
Anyway, this is just a quick little ink review, all opinions are my own and I am happy to answer any questions you may have!
Click on the photo below to be taken directly to the Catherine Pooler section in my shop.
More #maplesyrupmonday with Stamping Bella
So the last #maplesyrupmonday post was a little light spa here is another 🙂
For This card I have chosen the Stamping Bella “Uptown Zodiac Girl Virgo”. I am totally not. into the zodiac at all, but some of these stamps lend themselves very well to other purposes.
Here is a quick tutorial for this card:
- Cut a piece of Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth cardstock and stamp your image.
- Colour Using Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers in AP3, AP2 and AP1.
- To make the folds in the dress a made some dark “crease” areas with the AP3 and gradually blended out with AP2 and then AP1.
- Deepen the dark areas with AP3 and the blend all over with AP2 leaving slight highlights of the lightest AP1.
- Using a ColourBlend pencil in “geranium” deepen the shadows on the dress.
- Now don’t look to close at the hair as it was messed up, but I liked the rest of the card, so I went with it, it is also coloured with ColourBlend Pencils.
- In order to protect the image before distressing the background I used masking fluid on her hair as it was super think to cut out on masking paper.
- Stamp out the image in masking paper, don’t worry about the hair as you have the masking fluid, stick on top of your coloured image.
- Using a mini blending tool and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Ink apply ink onto the background.
- Apply a little Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide ink to the edges and then some Vintage Photo Distress ink along the edge as well.
- Peel off the masking paper and then use your finger to rub off the masking fluid.
- I used the “Heartfelt Sentiments” stamp set buy Altenew paired with “icing on the Cake” Ink by Catherine Pooler.
- Using a small flower stamp from the “Birds of a Feather” Stamp set by Catherine Pooler stamp randomly around the background using Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Ink.
Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!
SUPPLIES:
- Uptown Zodiac Girl Virgo – Stamping Bella
- Heartfelt Sentiments Stamp Set – Altenew
- Birds Of A Feather Stamp Set – Catherine Pooler
- Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
- Spectrum Noir ColourBlend Pencils
- Distress Oxide Inks in Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick
- Distress Ink in Vintage Photo
- Mini Blending Tool
- Masking Fluid Pen
- Masking Paper
- Icing On The Cake – Catherine Pooler
- Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Cardstock
