Spring Poppet

Hi Everyone!
Not sure where these weeks are going to, but they are definitely flying by fast! So here is a quick post to share another Faerie Poppets card using images and papers from the Faerie Poppets CD by Crafter's Companion.

I decided to go with a Spring-like colour scheme of yellows and greens. I embossed one of the papers with the Darice Honeycomb folder, and created my own flower embellishments using the Die'sire 'Bliss' quilling flower die and leaves - the centres of the flowers were made with micro beads. The Ribbon border was printed from the CD and I added a little flourish of green ribbon and square cut gems to finish.

Hope you like my card. I'd like to enter it into the Crafty Creations Challenge which this week is 'All About S - my choice is Spring.
Thanks for popping by!
Best wishes
Karen x

Products used:

Faerie Poppets CD Toppers Design 2

Design Sets – Design 5 Background Paper Colour 2

Design Sets – Design 12 Paper Colour 2

Embellishments – Design 5

Co’ordinations Cardstock for matting and layering

Die’sire Blissful Flower

Die’sire Leaf 2

Darice Honeycomb Embossing Folder

Micro-beads, Ribbon, Gems, Stickles

Collall All Purpose and Glue Gel

You're in for a Treat - Halcyon Days!

Are you ready for the Weekender Deal on Create and Craft? Launching on Saturday morning, Sara Davies from Crafter's Companion will be introducing their latest CD and papercrafting kit called Halcyon Days.
Packed with pretty toppers, papers and embellishments in pastel colours with a slightly shabby chic feel, there are images that can be used for all occasions.

Here is my sneak peek of a little basket I made, decorated with one of the topper images which features a chocolate shop, along with matching papers from the CD. I then created a handle cut with one of the Die'sire border dies, before adding ribbon, flowers and a sentiment... all ready to fill with chocolates for a little birthday treat!


Don't forget to tune in on Saturday to Create and Craft TV to find out more!
Best wishes
Karen x

Products required:

Halcyon Days CD

Centura Pearl Card

Silver Mirror Card

Die’sire Lace Border 4

Darice Honeycomb Embossing Folder

Two Brads

Corner Rounder Punch

Ribbon, Flowers, Pearls

Collall All Purpose Glue and Glue Gel

I'd like to enter this project in the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Birthdays

Creative Card Crew - Shabby Chic/Vintage

A Faerie Poppet

Afternoon All!
Back today with a card I made for one of  the lovely Dawn Wheeler's German Shopping Channel shows using the Faerie Poppets CD from Crafter's Companion. I love this particular fairy and decided to pull out some of the red in the image when choosing my backing paper from the CD.

I matted her up onto red, white and black card, embellishing the card with PVA glue dots to create a border before adding home-made die cut flowers, red satin ribbon and Stickles.

Hope you like my latest card - I'm hoping to enter it into the following challenges:
ABC Challenge - Lots of Layers
Crafty Creations - Recipe Challenge Use at least two of the following - Flowers, DieCut, Ribbon or Purple
Crafty Little Fairies - In the Garden
Cute Card Thursday - Handmade Embellishments (my flowers)

Thanks for looking!
Best wishes
Karen x

The products I used were:

Toppers Design 2

Design Sets – Design 4 altered colour with Colouriser.

Black and Red Cardstock for matting

Centura Pearl Card

Flower and leaf die cut from Design Set papers.

Red satin ribbon.

Collall All Purpose and Glue Gel

Burgundy and Gold Stickles

Black Cosmic Shimmer Pearl PVA

Barkley Twisted Easel

Morning All!
Just back with a little post to share a twisted easel card I made. I needed a quick, non-fussy card for a male birthday...so this is what I came up with.

I chose a topper from the Barkley papercrafting kit from Crafter's Companion of Barkley the dog relaxing in a wheelbarrow, and teamed it with the pastel green inserts to use as backing papers, cutting the triangular corner elements to add interest to the card. I layered all my papers onto an embossed matt silver card stock before adding a sentiment and Card Candi to finish.

Hope you like this quick and easy twisted easel card. I hope to enter it into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Pastels
Moving Along with the Times - Heard it on the Radio - Easy Like Sunday Morning by Lionel Ritchie

Thanks for popping by!
Best wishes
Karen x

Fab News!

Hi All!
Just a quick post to say that I was so chuffed to have my Blue Butterfly card featured on the Spectrum Noir blog!
Many thanks to them for showcasing my work - you can see the details here. I hope it encourages you to give the new Spectrum Noir blendable pencils a go!

Glorious Gladioli

Hi Everyone!
Back today with another card I made using one of the digi stamps from the Spectrum Noir Intermediate DVD from Crafter's Companion.

This time I used the gladioli and coloured them with my Spectrum Noir pencils. As well as trying to colour the flowers realistically, I wanted to show that with a detailed coloured image, you don't always need to add lots of embellishments to show off your work - it is just a matter of choosing backing papers that help to push your image forward and help make it pop off the page. Hopefully, I have done this with these Bo Bunny papers from the older 'Vicky B' range, teamed with brown cardstock and a small piece of mirror card!

I then decorated the inside to match, cutting the front of the card slightly shorter than the back so that the border sticker/paper can be seen slightly and add a little more detail and dimension, before finishing off with a sentiment sticker and gems.

Hope you like this latest card. I  loved colouring it with the pencils. I have included the colours I used below:

013, 005, 033, 025, 026, 027, 044, 057, 059

I'd like to include this card in the following challenges:
Crafty Little Fairies - In the Garden
A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power
Tuesday Throwdown - Spring Blossoms
Charisma Cardz - May Flowers

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x

Camden Town Criss Cross Card

Hi All!
Back today with a card featuring the fab images and papers from the Crafter's Companion Camden Town Male CD.

This time I made a criss cross card with an attached belly band which allows to you to add in a gift card to the back.

The card which slots inside has one of the inserts from the CD printed on the back and for the image on the front I used one of the Card Companions, layering up the bottle and covering it with Glossy Accents. Before I added the final bottle layer I bent the dried Glossy Accents to give the bottle a crazed glass effect to look a bit vintage - that was the idea anyway lol!

To decorate the front of the criss cross part I used elements from the decoupage, embellishment and sentiment sections.
This CD is perfect for male card inspiration so why not create one of you own and join in with this month's Crafter Companion Masculine Challenge!

I also hope to enter this card in the Allsorts - Fancy Folds Challenge.

Anyway, back soon.
Best wishes and bye for now
Karen x

Blue Butterfly

Evening Everyone!
Just thought I'd pop by and share a card I made using one of the fab images on the latest Spectrum Noir DVD of a butterfly. The original image also features on the 'Essentials' tin of Spectrum Noir pencils in an orange and yellow colour scheme, but for my version I decided on blue tones.

The Spectrum pencils from Crafter's Companion are fantastic and I cannot recommend them enough. For this card I used the following colours:

 1, 064, 065, 066, 067, 068, 069, 071, 086, 089, 094, 096,

 045, 047, 056, 075, 076, 077, 078, 112, 116, 120

I went for a simple card layout to show off the image, layering it up on black card, then silver mirror card before embossing some turquoise card with the Darice Honeycomb Embossing Folder. I added a border created with the Die'sire Lace Border 9 and finished it with gingham ribbon, turquoise gems and a little bit of Crystal Stickles and a sentiment.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafty Little Fairies - In the Garden

Anyhoo...hope you like it and that you give the pencils a go - you will not be disappointed!

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x

Peacock Masquerade

Well, it has to be said that I'm loving the new Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils from Crafter's Companion! So whilst I wait for my other sets to arrive I've had a play with the Essentials set along with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.

I have a few favourite colour combos, but I love peacock colours so this image, Peacock Masquerade from the fantastic Aurora Wings is just up my street. I coloured my mats and layers with my markers to ensure that the colours matched and teamed the image up with some peacock patterned paper from one of the older Graphic 45 collections - Olde Curiosity Shoppe, along with some gold mirror card.

In my stash I also had some peacock patterned ribbon, and added a feather and turquoise coloured gems to complete the look! The border on the back fold of the card was created using a Martha Stewart punch.

If you love colouring then you'll love these pencils. tune in to Create and Craft tomorrow from midday to see Leann Chivers demonstrate the pencils along with the new Scruffy Little Cat papercrafting collection.

Anyway, hope you like this card. I'd like to enter it into the following challenges:

Polka Doodles - Something Old, Something New ( Old - Graphic 45 paper and punch. New - Image and pencils)
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Favourite Colour Combo - (Blues and Greens)
As You Like It - Fur or Feathers (Feathers for me - as I love the elegance of feathers - and the ability to fly!)
Crafting For All Seasons - Lots of Layers
Tuesday Throwdown - Special lady

Best wishes and bye for now
Karen x

Spectrum Noir Pens - FS7, FS5, FS8, FS3, FS2, TN2, BT7, BT4, BT2, CG1, CG2, CG4

Spectrum Noir Pencils - 04, 09, 047, 056, 067

Scruffy Little Cat Pop Up Card

Morning Crafters!
Well, its nearly here...tomorrow sees the release of the fantastic new Scruffy Little Cat collection from Crafter's Companion on Create and Craft!

This has been such a great range to work with so today I'd like to share a pop up box card I made (the tutorial will be coming soon on the Crafter's Companion Inspire website).
For this fun little project I used the 6x6 papers from the collection along with some of the fab toppers from the topper sheet as well as a sentiment from the stamp sheet.

Products Used:

A4 Die Cut Toppers Sheet

6x6 Pastels Paper Pad

Sentiment from Stamp sheet

Acetate

Die’sire Ornamental Oval Die

Centura Pearl Card

Silver Mirri Card

Ribbon, Gems, Flowers, Lace, Glitter Glue

Collall All Purpose Glue and Glue Gel, Glue Runner

Hope you like this card! remember to tune in to Create and Craft on Friday at noon!
Best wishes and bye for now
Karen x
I'd like to enter this card in the Cards Galore Encore Challenge which this month is Anything Goes.

Scruffy Little Cat featuring 'Holly'

Afternoon All!
Here we go with another sneak peek at the Scruffy Little Cat range from Crafter's Companion, launching on Create and Craft this Friday!

This latest card was made using 'Holly'  - a fab image to colour with your Spectrum pens and pencils.
This time I create an easel card with one of my Go Kreate dies in a favourite colour combo of aqua and pink. I also used the fabulous new Bubbles embossing folder from this range to create a textured background and to complement the paper from the 6x6 pad.

Spectrum Noirs – FS8, FS7, FS5, FS3, TN2 (Skin)

Hair GB1, GB2, EB1, EB2

Clothes BT1, BT2, TB2, BP2, PP5, PP3

Shadow BGR1

Pencils – 117, 112, 04, 09, 89, 015

Scruffy Little Cat Bubbles Embossing Folder

Scruffy Little Cat 6x6 Paper Pad

Centura Pearl Cardstock

Dies, flowers, gems, Stickles Glitter Glue, Glossy Accents.

Don't forget to tune in to Create and Craft this Friday at midday to get your 'Scruffy Little Cat' fix!
Hope you like this latest card!
Back soon
Karen x
I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Charisma Cardz - Mothers Day
Cards Galore Encore - May All Your Crafting Be Merry - Anything Goes
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Favourite Colour Combo -  Aqua and Pink
Moving Along with the Times - Pretty Pastels

Her Name was Lola...

Hi All!
Just popping by with another sneaky peek of the new Scruffy Little Cat collection by Crafter's Companion due for release on Friday 9th May on Create and Craft.

This card features 'Lola' - a fab image to colour in with your Spectrum pens and pencils. I made this into an 8x8 inch card with a secret pocket where I popped a tag where you can add in a gift voucher or money.

Anyway, hope you like this latest make.
Back soon with more samples!
Karen x

I am hoping to enter this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Wed Challenge - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Use that Ribbon - To pull the tag out of my secret pocket
Penny Black and More Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes

Spectrum Noirs - FS8, FS7, FS5, FS3, TN2 (Skin)

Hair GB1, GB2, GB8, GB9, TN8, EB1, EB2

Clothes – PP5, PP3, PP1, TN1

Shadow BGR1, IG1, IG2

Pencils – 04, 09, 89, 117, 112, 037, 042

Scruffy Little Cat Stamp Sentiment

Insert from CD

Centura Pearl Cardstock

Bubbles Embossing Folder

Pink and blue coordinating cardstock

Border Punch

Flowers, Ribbon, Gems, Stickles

Collall All Purpose Glue and Glue Gel

Scruffy Little 'Princess' Louise

Morning All!
Hope you are having a great Bank Holiday weekend!
Today I'd like to share another sneek peek of the fab Scruffy Little Cat images from Crafter's Companion, due for release on Create and Craft on Friday 9th May.

This is an 8x8 card created from Centura Pearl cardstock. The main image is called Louise - coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and pencils, the flowery paper is from the 6x6 pastel pad and I embellished it with flowers and leaves using the Die'sire Quilling dies. If you love your colouring, these images are perfect and allow you to create cards in any colour scheme you fancy to suit the recipient.
Don't forget to tune in to Create and Craft on Friday 9th May at midday to find out more!

Products used:

Spectrum Noirs - FS8, FS7, FS5, FS3, TN2 (Skin)

Hair GB1, GB2, GB8, EB1, EB2

Clothes – DR3, CR11, CR10,

Shadow BGR1, IG1, IG2

Pencils – 04, 09, 89, 117, 112

Scruffy Little Cat 6x6 Paper Pad

Stamp Sentiment

Insert from CD

Centura Pearl Cardstock

Die’sire Small Sunflower Die

Die’sire Leaf 2 Die

Ribbon, Gems, Stickles

Collall All Purpose Glue and Glue Gel

I'm hoping to enter this card into the following challenges:

A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power (Quilled Flowers and background)

Creative Card Crew - Girly

Thanks for popping by!

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x

Sneek Peek Scruffy Little Cat

Hi All!
Today I'm back with a sneek peek of the fabulous Scruffy Little Cat range from Crafter's Companion that the lovely Leann Chivers will be launching on Create and Craft on Friday 9th May!

I made this card using the stamp called Niamh, coloured her in with my Spectrum Noir Pens and Pencils and layered her up onto some of the fab papers from the 6x6 pastel paper pad. The fantastic embossed background was created using one of the two new embossing folders in the range - this one is called Bubbles.

In the new collection expect to find:
- Two 6x6" paper pads
- Two 5x7" embossing folders
- One die-cut topper sheet
- Eight 4" acrylic stamps
- One papercrafting CD-ROM
- Six A6 rubber stamp sets (plus two exclusive Ideal World ones - AMY & HOLLY)


The images are perfect for using with your Spectrum Noir Pens and Pencils and you can really go to town enhancing your backgrounds with embossing folders and embellishing with gems, glitter and ribbon!

So why not pop over to the Crafter's Companion site where you can read an interview with the artist and discover her inspiration behind the fantastic Scruffy Little Cat range:http://bit.ly/1rS82YE, then simply remember to tune in to Create and Craft on Friday 9th May for the first show at 3pm!

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x
PS - I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Cards Galore Encore - Anything Goes