Helping hand...........

Recently I popped over to Scrapbook Stamp Society, and treated myself to some new digi's , yum yum!
I bought a large Digi, called Fairy Dust collection by Morgan Fitz-simons, and used 1 part of the digi, to create this card for you to look at.

A5 piece of card, scored to form an A6 card base.
Mbossibilities folder by Spellbinders
3 Cool Grey promarkers. 2,3,4
Tonic Flower Punch.
Lace
Black gems
E-craft,
Digi image by Morgan Fitz-simons.

The E-craft doesnt come with an optical eye, but it is possible to get it to cut around a shape that you have printed out, I need to play a bit more before I do a video on it, lol.
But I got the e-craft to cut around the hand for me! Woo-hoo!!
Target for the day achieved, okay its not perfect, but trying to figure out the correlation between where my printer prints, and where the E-craft cuts is difficult! And then the brain got itself all confused, and I couldn't think any more!

I carefully trimmed around the hand I wanted to use in My Craft Studio Elite, (Keep an eye on the end of this post!) and printed it out from the Digi by Morgan Fitzsimons. Then cut it out with the E-craft.
Coloured it with the Promarkers, and added the black gems, Lace and Flower.
Then I used the e-craft to draw and cut the tag sentiment. The E-craft does this differently to the Silhouette, as the Pen and Blade are in the trolley part of the machine together, so you dont have to swap one out to use the other.
I embossed the base card with the folder, then assembled it.


Right for those of you who have paid attention: I am giving away 3 CD's and a reference sheet. I received them in the Goody Bag at the Doncaster Workshop, as I already have them.
Now I am NOT giving you my copy! As I wouldn't part with it! But I am giving away the spare set.

The Quintessential Country Garden Double CD set is heaving with Fabulous Floral Images, I have used it for some Custom cards, which I dont photo, once you have one of my cards made for you, that's it, I never replicate them, wether I am proud of them or not, they never get made again.
But back to the disk's, one of my Favourite collections by MCS, some vintage themes, pretty themes, men's theme's, you name it it's all here, fab butterflies, and birds, and obviously Flowers. As the new program Elite was released in April, and this tied in with the move to QVC UK, for new users they sent it out with the quick reference sheet, and a video on how to use it, so you have the complete package, and are able to play with the program in the same way I do.

So to enter just leave a comment at the end of this post saying you would like the disks, this will run for 2 weeks, then I will get Youngest to draw a name out the hat, and sent out. (mainly coz I have no idea how that Random Org thingy works, oops!)

hugs to all

Lou

SSS card,

Firstly, I had finally get round to posting one of last months cards that never made it to the screen with the hard drive failure! Ooops!

Admittedly, there's a lot in SSS and most of what you see is fairy, or Goth based, BUT there's a lot more to SSS than it first appears, so I would suggest a good rummage through the store,  to see what you can find.
This one is a real Gem. It did take me a while to figure out that the bit running through the middle of the car windscreen was a Keyboard, okay, okay, yes I know you can see it now, but in plain black and white, when you're not expecting it, its a bit confusing!
Anyway I didnt want this in black and white, I wanted sepia, once I had figured out the keyboard bit, so I adjusted the digi image to a sepia tone in MCS, better, now to colour.
Well I am somewhat old fashioned, I admit it, so for me a Keyboard is the Ebony and Ivory of a Piano, (please dont break into song here! Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder have a lot to answer for, and I am finding it hard enough to shift the song from my mind as it is! I wouldn't mind, but I didnt particularly like it at the time!)
The car is done in brown tones of promarkers, keeping on the sepia theme, the clouds are a yellowy colour, if you have looked at clouds in a Sepia photo, they aren't white, the greens are from the yellowy side of the spectrum as well, and the tarmac is a browny grey. So that all came together nicely, in real life the keyboard has been highlighted with some crystal Accents, but its hard to see on a photo.
So I raided the stash for the base, a couple of sheets of small, sepia yellow card, I have no idea who its by, but its a lovely assorted pack, some vellum, pre-embossed from MCS, and some paper that was just lying around, again I have no idea who its by, as this was a use some stash day! You know, the bits that are years old, have been there seemingly forever, and as to where they came from, or what you bought them for, well that's buried in the mists of time, sort of stash!
A bit of Tan Satin ribbon, and a stamp, Flittered with a greeting, some gems, and the jobs a good 'un!
So the digi is By Morgan Fitzsimons, Car 1 and I think its perfect for any man, old or young, just change the colours!
hope you like it, I do its different!

Hugs,

Lou

Well thats a bit different! I am entering this in the http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/ Challenge 67, for the boys, first time I have been told to link, BEFORE I have posted my link!!!
http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Challenge 104

Wedding Card DT project

Well its getting to the time of year when those who are lucky enough to have romance in their lives (No Darling, playing Heavy Metal music to me doesn't really make the grade!), are starting to think about Flowers, Choccies, and all the nice things.


So the Challenge for this month over at Scrapbook Stamp Society is "Hearts and Flowers."  I found this wonderful Digi-stamp by Morgan Fitzsimons. A really Beautiful digi, of a Human and an Elf, being romantic.

 A friend of mine said to me the other day, that if she ever got married, she wouldn't want a picture of some other married couple, who looks nothing like her, on a card, which is what sent me down this track for this image, instead of the usual Valentine's card.


This isnt a complicated card, as its just a case of layering up, much easier when you have a large A4 Die-cutting machine, mines a Happy Cut, and some fabulous Spellbinders dies and embossing sheets.




I used some Water Colour paper, through my printer, to print the digi out, and then went at it with some Whispers pens, Mica Inks, and a Water Brush. I didnt want too many colours, as I wanted this quite serene, and calm, so left the clothing as the white paper, and just added touches of colour to the clothes, which makes the couple stand out from the background, instead of being lost in a riot of colour.
Yellow Roses instead of Red went round the heart wreath design, and lots of shades of green for the leaves. so done and dusted. 
Next I cut it out, then traced round the back of it onto a piece of Centura Pearl card, and cut the aperture. The remaining card, I ran through the Happy Cut using the Spellbinders Parisian Accents die. Then I took the main piece and ran it through on top of the Fancy Flourish Grand Impressibilities die. I then layered the main sheet onto another sheet of Centura Pearl, using Foam Tape, and dropped the Water Coloured card through the aperture, so it was central. I threaded a yellow ribbon through the Accent die cuts, and placed one on either side of the card with some Pinflair Glue Gel.
Then to emphasize the Heart aperture I added some Cosmic Shimmer Gold Pearlised PVA in drops, and used the Happy Cut, and Spellbinders Spiral Blossom One die on some handmade papers, to create the yellow roses. I added a few green leaves, and some wired beads to the flower arrangement for a bit of pizzazz, as I didn't want to glitter any of it, due to the Mica, in the water colouring, and the Pearlescent sheen of the Centura Cardstock.
I added a pair of rings, from a Stamp, and embossed them, and mounted them on the front of the card, as a sentiment, so now we have a Wedding Card.
The inside is a sheet of Centura pearl insert paper, I imported the digi stamp into My Craft Studio, my graphics program of choice, and faded the digi into the background, then added a verse from, Free Verses 4 Cards here,

So there's my Wedding card, and DT entry for this month at Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog, do pop over and have a look at all the fabulous stamps they have and enter your self, as there are 5 prizes on offer, xxx


Have fun, 


This is entered in the Following Challenges:
Love is in the air at Simply Create Too
Love and Romance Paper Creations Ink
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges anything goes
Desmet Designs, love (no red or pink)

Totally Paper Crafts Flower Challenge



Lou