I have a new tutorial up on the Blitsy blog at the moment and this week I've been playing with some Prima Marketing products and making a textured art journal page with a neutrals colour scheme. Well I say art journal page but I can see this design lending itself well to cards or if you added a photograph then it would…
Welcome to the Susana's Custom Art & Card Design (SCACD) and Quixotic Paperie Blog Hop! I'm so excited to be part of this new release blog hop party to showcase the stunning new stamps and dies from SCACD. You guys know I love a bit of mixed media so playing with the Susana Loves Stamps new Mixed Media range of stamps was…
Hey Girlfriends and Boyfriends, you see a lot of La-La Land Crafts cute little Lukas and Marcis here on my blog for my La-La Land Crafts DT makes but did you realise there are the Girlfriend range as well? If you have seen my article in issue 75 of Papercraft Essentials that came out around December last year then you will have…
Hey all, how are you doing with your mid-week creating? Having fun? what have you been up to? I've been doing a lot of tearing and sticking, preparing some journal page backgrounds for painting. So thought I would continue the tearing theme with this little mixed media card. I've used the Prima Marketing Almanac papers for this card today, in fact every…
Hey Guys, have you played along with our first Sketch Challenge over at the Quixotic Paperie Blog yet? It's a great sketch from Mary and if you play along you could win a £15 gift token to spend in Quixotic Paperie or see your work on the blog. Well here is my take on the sketch, I've used paper from the Prima Marketing Alla…
Hi everyone, here is a step by step I recently put together as part of the month long celebrations for Kristy's Birthday over at her blog The Odd Girl. It is a special Christmas Tag using the Some Odd Girl Angel Kaylee. You will need:Stamps - Angel Kaylee, Alphabet stamps, Music stampPapers - Prima PrinteryColouring - Prismacolor pencilsInks - Versamark, BlackUsual Suspects - Scissors, Silicone glueEquipment -…
Ahh Saturday, which means it is my day on the Quixotic Paperie blog and I thought that for my DT piece this week I would get all a bit fabric-y with the fabulous Ocotopode Factory stamps, new into Quixotic Paperie, and some yummy Prima papers. I've used Octopode Factory Alice from the Alice in Wonderland range and made her a little quilted. I've used…
Hope you all had a good long weekend, did lots of fun relaxing and art making. I have my Make The Day Special project for this week and I went with a grungy, shabby chic tag using the Unity Itty Bitty and Authentique Co-branded stamp Go With Your Heart. Such a pretty stamp. I've used the ZIG Black Sparkle Embossing Powder to emboss the…
Hi Guys, hope you enjoyed the new Natural Beauty Stamps illustrated by Carmen Medlin for SCACD blog hop yesterday. If you are interested here is how I made the card from yesterday's post. Inspiration note: When I first saw this fabulous stamp the idea of making the image look a bit ethereal immediately jumped out at me. The layering of this delicate looking image onto a…
Well don't be - it is Cute Card Thursday! This week it is all about distressed and vintage cards and you can used any type of distressing - ink, tearing, scrunching, scrapping, sanding, the list is endless! Visit Cute Card Thursday to learn more about our sponsors this week. I've used all sorts of distressing for my card. I've distressed the gorgeous…
It's Saturday! Wahoo and I'm running just a touch late with my Quixotic Paperie post today. Usually I like to have my post all scheduled and ready to go in the morning but this little lady was still uncoloured and the layers unstuck this morning. But I'm here now and I've got a Little Cheeky Cherry for you today and she uses…