Is it Christmas already??!

Quick post today. (Well it was going to be)

Before my little craft world fell apart I stamped out a few images.

One was this

tree 

The image is a Stampendous Christmas Tree It is an older stamp, sorry about that!

I stamped it out in Momento Tuxedo Black and the Flourish was stamped with Couture Creation Art Deco Pearl Inks,  Olive Green. I masked parts of the tree roughly.

I tried out some different combinations. I’m quite happy with my experiment.

Copics Used:

Red baubles R35, R46, R59

Purple Baubles V22, V25, V28

Red Bauble tree G82, G94, G99

Purple Bauble tree G40, G43, G46

Craft room Reno

It’s done, oh my gosh! It’s finished

Dramas with floors, Australian Fires which made us leave for a holiday slightly early (long story and 2 people that had no idea what on earth they were doing!! Lol

First old

Curtains and carpet about to change. First big job was the clear of course! Carpet is about 17 years old! It had done its time. It is currently in the garage waiting  another diy,

The room got another coat of paint. The colour was pretty much the same but now we have no dents from the boys!! I didn’t realise how filthy the curtains were until we took them down! Ugh

Dramas with the floors was that the company failed to supply Bunnings (which I have since heard that it is common) then fires broke out across NSW and VIC. Then they lost the truck, they knew it was in Vic but couldn’t tell us where.  Bit by bit we got some wood. My husband and father took half of their floor stock then the rest. The woman at Bunnings knew we needed more so she went to another store and brought it back with her!! Can’t be upset at that! The colour is New Walnut.

The new floor.

These were taken as things started coming back in. My map drawer was the hardest to judge where it had to go and we pretty much got it spot on!

 Ready to be sorted n decluttered. It’s early in the morning in this photo but I’m very happy.

Today it looks like this! It is usually clean as it is right at my front door, so first thing you see! It does become the topic of conversation when people come by! 

I bought a floor protector but I wasn’t happy with it so it went on my desk to protect it lovely and clear, works a treat, the old small one went to the video table and I got a good floor protector from Costco!

So get ready, I’m now finished off little jobs and I’m all set up and ready to go.

Thanks for stopping by.

MIAI know

Hello Everyone,

I know I've been missing in action. I have good reason, apart from Christmas and busy with all of that fun.

This is the current state of my craftroom...

Before....

It is going to look amazeballs.

Painting is all done and tomorrow the wood will arrive. Big delay because hubby didn't think there would be a delay with Christmas. :D

But it doesn't matter we have been super busy getting things organised and just other holiday things. We also painted a few areas in the house that had been damaged (with 3 boys.. it happens) and a leaking shower.

Curtains are gone and blinds will be going up.

I have stamped out a few images before the hubby and father removed it all.

Just know now... they are christmas images. Don't judge me! lol

Take care and stay safe.

30 Day colouring Challenge

Hello and welcome back to my blog.

Today I just have a few photos from the 30 day colouring challenge. I picked a couple and thought I would add more detail to the photos.

I used an older Penny Black set called Wonder Collection. I hate to say it I hadn't used it!!

Now, my watercolour (yes we spell it like that here in Australia) isn't wonderful but you need to practise these things to get better.

I used Altenew's watercolour set I borrowed it from a friend to have a play. The colours aren't labeled but I used 2 types of red and a little bit of brown in the centre of the flowers. I layered up the colours letting them dry in between coats. Honestly I think I lost some leaves after looking back at the stamp. Nevermind!

 

I also used some Nuvo Sugared Almond Crystal Drops. I have let some dry and applied more so they wouldn't blend all together.

 Bonus card using Penny Black's Mimi's Christmas and Stampin Up watercolour pencils.

I hope you enjoyed. See you next time.

Black and White with a Pop of Colour

My friend Michelle Lupton from Handmade by Michelle invited me to join her in a challenge she runs each year. It is called "Challenge me a Christmas Card". Really it is a brillant way to get some Christmas cards done and have some fun doing it!!
 

Today's card...

I set the challenge of Black and White with a Pop of Colour. First thought is to go red.... Christmas. I also thought others might do flowers or Chrissy hats.

Then I came across a stamp I hadn't played with yet. It's called Little Elf Ava by Penny Black. She is super cute. The star really stood out to me.

Did the card go to plan... no!! had a problem of the Copic vomiting, so to speak, onto the image. To make matters worse, I didn't learn the first time and I allowed it to happen again! Grr! It was a new Copic and one I hadn't had a play with yet but I will show you how I got around that. I had spent way too much time on it and I am definitely no quitter!

I stamped both the image and sentiment in Momento Tuxedo Black, however I do go back in later and go over the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black.

Copics Used were:

YR23,Y17 and Y13

100

C7, C5, C3, C1, C00

I will be posting a video once I have sorted out some sound issue. First camera and now sound! Just when I thought I was getting on top of all of this! So I will post a video hopefully soon and you can  see how I coloured it.
The little girl I used all of the C's listed but I used the darker version for the clothes and lighter for skin to add the definition. I also added some of the yellow on the bells on her shoes to so the star wasn't completely alone.

So I came to the "fluff" on the hat and I was happily colouring and suddenly a big drop of ink fell onto my image. I found my old C1 was always going dry so I invested in a new C1 sketch marker. I have never had the problem of overfilled marker before...

It is an easy fix, where you can just remove the lid on the other end of the marker and it seems to equalise the pressure and stop it leaking. 

To fix this problem was simple, THANK GOODNESS! The drop fell on the fluffy part of the hat and this gave me an easy out. I recently bought some Cadence Icy Snow from a shop in Nowra. ( The link is to an online shop, not the one I got it from)

It is very thick stuff and dryish, you can apply it in a few ways. Apply it with a brush and this will give you a thin layer and you can also apply it with a palette knife. I chose option 2 but this isn't easy on such a small area. The second drop was easy as well as I could include it in the shadow for the background. Thankfully it wasn't a super dark colour!

I decide my sentiment wasn't dark enough. I still had the stamp in my MISTI so I stamped it again and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Do be careful with your Copics around embossing powder.

I cut some strips of gold glitter card stock, so it would match (sort of) to the star and used it to frame the image.

That is it, I decided it didn't need anything extra.

Check out the video here.

Do pop over to Michelle's blog here to see her card.

Thanks for stopping by. Take Care

Camera Problems

Hi all,

Quick drop in to say I have had issues with getting videos off my phone then another issue with my sons' phone and finding cables while my husband is away.Story goes on!...

I used a phone of my husbands for the first 2 videos but if he goes away, I have a problem.
I'll get it sorted and then you will have regular videos in no time!

In the mean time if you know of how to make the quality of videos smaller on phones and therefore enabling a computer program to read it! Let me know down below!

I do have one video coming that is off hubbies phone coming soon.

Thankyou for your patience

Bug's Birthday

If you don't know me or read the about me on the side you won't know I have 3 sons. My young I call "Bug" I don't really know why I started to call him that but I did. I think it was from when he was very little and he wouldn't go to anyone else except me and my husband and unfortunately for my husband he would quickly come back to me once his hellos had been said!

It was super sweet and maybe because he wouldn't leave me be, in a nice way, I started to call him bug!

Last weekend my "Bug" became my "Big bug" and turned 13! Where have those years gone!

My card today was for his Birthday. I wanted to fairly plain and simple and I hope you enjoy it.

Stamps I used were Avery Elle Balloons and I used the dies to Avery Elle Numbered Balloons.

The 2 balloons were stamped in Couture Creations Card Deco Inks of Pearlescent Bronze and Olive Green. I had to heat set it and still then it was wet, I did stamp it a few times as the stamp is a very solid image. I cut it out using the coordinating dies but it slipped (me being lazy with the tape) so I trimmed them up by hand. I do prefer no white edge.

I die cut the '13' with just white cardstock and coloured that with my Copics B18, B16 and B12.

The background needed something, using the Halftone stencil from Paperrose and Salty Ocean distress ink I added a little bit of colour to the background.

I had some black and white twine in my stash and wrapped it around the ends of the balloons and added more to make a tails. Once these had foam mount to add dimension to all of the balloons I used multi matt medium to the tails so I could make them curve around down my card. Added a couple of black sequins so the black in the twine wasn't alone and that is my card.

No video today due to the fact I filmed in on my phone and I can get it off the phone but nothing can read it to edit it!!!

So as soon as we work out how to do it I will edit it here.

Thank you for stopping by.

Haul

A quick post today.

I have been trying to work out YouTube playing with lights and don't get me started on editing. Adding text over the video and title page and thumbnails. I have told my 15yr old to go nuts and he made my title page and now he's working on music. I will probably change my title page to something better but its a start. I really hope this gets easier lol.

Sandown Picture 2 Page happened last weekend.

Such a great day, I worked 2 of the days and came back completely exhausted. I love it as you get to see people you may not have seen since the last show. I have 2 guys that come in every show, 1 of them tells me a joke every time I see him!

This is what I bought. I'm also trying to work out how to add the video here and not just as a link. So if you have any idea comment below!

First up was actually The Lolly Man. We named him that his real business name is "Just Sweets". There is no photos of the purchase... well cos it didn't last very long at all!!

Scrap2relax in Melbourne outer closed recently but they come to the show to sell off product. I can't remember how much I paid for all of this but got it all at 50% so I was pretty happy with that!

Hoping to add these to a canvas or something for texture. Frankly I will decide what on earth I will do with them later!

Next purchase again was from a business closing down! Its sad in a number of ways!
BellBirds in Blackburn Melbourne has been around for a while but have announced that they will close.  I bought 3 stamps from them as they have lots of similar stuff that my shop has. I bought these stamps 3 for $20. Great deal the cheapest stamp had a usual price of $20 alone.
When my phone holder arrives I will be playing with these. 

Next purchase was from Hobby Hoppers.
I bought some pens that are super fine, some 6x6 paper pads and a book binding template. For a closing look check out the video. I hope to have a play with the template soon.

Last up was Papermaze, they aren't closing. I'm going to use these for an album that will be look an camera so there is abit to collect for it.

 

Please check my video below.