Oh Christmas Tree... Oh Christmas Tree...

Heya all!

Quick post before i go to work, i've discovered how to make a few cards without my wrist hurting! yay! tis very sore still can't wait till i have the steriod injection i tell ya i feel sorry for anyone who has CT i know how much it hurts!.

Anyways... so yeah block stamping i can do with my right hand yay!!! and i've even used my new toy from stampin' Up! the stamp-a-ma-jig, what a fab tool to have! so very easy to use too!

I've made a little set of three christmas tree mini cards (im busy preparing for a craft stall i'm doing first weekend of december) as always i've left everything to the last min!!!

Here they are:

Really like it in green (i forgot to clean my stamp before putting green on it but i actually like the effect it left)
Really loving the duck eggy turqoisey blue atm...

Now i can't understand why it looks orange it's actually red lol!

*Recipe*
*Medium - Promarkers/momento ink
*Stamp - A holly jolly christmas (stampin' Up!)

*Ribbon - From stash
*Gems - Papercellar

I'd like to enter these into the following challenges:

Pollycraft challenge - Christmas Time
Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Christmas

Have a lovely evening all!

Hugs Carlyann xXx

First Easel Card...

Heya all!

I'm back with a card that's taken me nearly two days to make as my wrist is very very painful at the moment, i'm glad i'm going to have the injection on wednesday i really hope it helps!

I've had ago at my first easel card, not made on like this before and tho it hurt i really enjoyed making it! Apologies for the photos really must get some lighting sorted in my house!!!

I'd like to enter it for these challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Winter Wonderland

One Stop Craft Challenge: Snowflakes

Allsorts Challenge: Christmas Song (As my sentiment reads - 'Have yourself a merry little christmas')

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Celebrate

ABC Challenge - H is for Hidden (When you open the easel card underneather there is 'merry christmas' which shows.

Here's My Card:

Really happy how it turned out! and i really have fallen in love with my penny blacks all over again!!!

Inside (shows hidden merry christmas) I borrowed a friends cricut not long ago which is how i made the merry christmas!

*Recipe*
*DSP - DCWV Christmas mattstack
*C/stock - Stampin' Up! Lovely Lilac
*Stamps - Penny Black
*Medium - Promarkers (Lilac, Lavendar, cool grey 1 & Blush)
*Others - Martha Stewart Punch, Gems and die cuts from slice, Circuit words. 3D Crystal Laq.

Have a lovely evening all!

Hugs Carlyann xXx

Have a Mice Day...

Hiya!

ooo what a lazy day i've had got work in abit which i'm not really looking forward to as my hand is very painful at the moment, i did however manage to sqeeze in a card this morning whilst the pain eased a little, tho after the distressing ouch!!! i tell ya... it's my second entry to this week's challenge at Simon Says challenge animal antics!

I really love this mouse from penny black he's such a cutie!

*Recipe*
*DSP - Fancypants
*Image - Penny Black
*Medium - Prismacolor Premier Pencils
*Sentiment - Daisy&Dandi collection
*Diecuts - MMSlice Basic Design Card1
*Flowers from stash
*Gems and brad from stash

Have a lovely evening all!
Carlyann xXx

A New Craze!!!!

Heya!!

I can feel a new craze coming on, thanks to the lovely Jan and Chris yesterday at Jan's SU Class they told me how to make earings, so i thought i'd digg out my beads and bits that i've had for like forever and have a go!

Here's what i came up with! hehe

And it was back to hobbycraft again today to stock up on more!! haha!
Think they were quite good for a first attempt???? not sure.... lol will be hunting around for more ideas now!
Carlyann xXx

Simple Christmas.... & Peeks...

Hey all!

Hope everyone's ok!

Wrist is still same today! :-(, had a lovely time this morning at craft class with Jan! yummy cappachino's and choccie muffins oooh she does spoil us! A huge get well soon to Avril! and big waves to marleene we certainly missed you both today!! I shall upload my card and tags we made later, just wanted to show you a very simple card i've made for an order placed with me last week!

***Recipe***
**DSP - English Paper Company
**C/Stock - Stampin' Up
**Image Whiff Of Joy
*Medium - Prismacolor Premier pencils
*Ribbon From stash

And!!! I told you i was working on something the other day well it's nearly finished just need to add my final bits and bobs to it.... but it's not there yet so here's a sneak peek.... Can you guess what it is yet??? hehe

Have a fab day!

Carlyann xXx

Prismacolor Pencils Tutorial 2 - Blending Colours

Hiya!

I have some exciting news to share!

After my last Tutorial i was contacted by Prismacolor to demo some of there new pens which came tuesday! woo hoo!!! and do some write ups/tutorials for them! But with my wrist the way it is that will be on hold but will be about very shortly!!! can't wait!!!

Anyways... today's tutorial is just to show you the versatility of these Premier Pencils, and how easy 1 colour can be blended into another and even 2 or 3 colours!

Basically I tend to start with my lightest colour frist and blend that into the paper with OMS (Odourless mineral spirit) with a paper stump, then use my next colour and keep going remembering where my light direction is coming from....

So i have very slowly coloured a few piccys in to show you the results you can achieve by doing this....

Tilda is an example of colouring with three colours and blending them all into one, (her head scarf and arpon)

Tilda's head scarf and middle apron has been coloured with PC912, PC909, PC910. Her dress with PC929, PC925. Broom And hair with PC945 and PC937.

With Images that have lights on them such as Whiff of Joy Willow Prismcolor premier pecils are fab for creating a faded light that comes from its main beem, if you look closly you will see from her laten there is a glimmer of yellow around creating a glow, this is acheived by using a single colour in the centering and using your OMS and paper stump using small strokes outwards....

Willows colors - PC909, PC939, PC945, PC924, PC912 & PC916

Blending two colours is very simple espechially if you have the full set (which i don't but the 24 set is very easy to work with the nearest colour) So in my image of Penny Black's mouse, the daisys are coloured with the darkest colour first (PC918) and then the light colour around the edge of the dark colour (PC916) and with OMS and paper stump blended in middle in small circles bringing the color down into the daisys
Also I've found when you are colouring an animal image as above, to give it a more textured look for fur, if you use small quiff strokes when blending into the cardstock it gives a fluffy kind of look.
PB Colors - (PC937, PC916, PC918, PC908)

Hope this helps with some of you Prismacolor Premier Blending Q's!
Keep coming back regular for more tutorials!
Hugs Carlyann xXx