Gamsol & Colouring Pencils

Today was such fun! I went to the StampScrapArt Tour in the Southfield Pavillion ... whilst there, I came across Jackie from Inky Antics ~ what fun stamps they have! Jackie was demonstrating Gamsol and Colouring Pencils which is another fun way of colouring your stamped images. Luckily, she was selling little bottles of the Gamsol and a small packet of the blending stumps ... so of course I had to get them! I also bought this adorable pig stamp ... anyone that knows me well, knows that I LOVE pigs (ask my mum!). So here's my very first attempt at colouring with Gamsol ~ I think this could be very addictive!

I popped the image up by cutting out the head and layering it, then cutting out his ears and snout and layering them. Quite a good effect on such a plain card.

Recipe
Stamps : Pig & Sentiment, Inky Antics
Cardstock : Whisper White, Riding Hood Red
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories : Riding Hood Red Ribbon, Square Scallop Nestabilities, Gamsol & Pencils

A Techniques Class

It's time for another class at my house! June's techniques #5 Class is to make the 3 cards shown below. From the left:- A Spotlight Card, A Spinner Card, A Buckle Card. I had fun coming up with these designs and they're relatively simple to recreate. There are 2 classes, one at 7pm on Friday June 12th, and another at 10.30am on Saturday June 13th. You make 2 of each design for just $15 so let me know if you'd like to join us!

New Home

My cousin and her husband are moving into a new house next Monday so I used my new PTI set, Bird Watching, to make them a diamond-fold card. The sentiment is from another PTI set called 'Boards and Beams'. I need to post it today, it takes a week for post to reach England!

Recipe
Stamps : PTI ~ Bird Watching, Boards & Beams
Cardstock : Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories : Copic Markers

Hinged Cards

Happy Memorial Day! Today over on Splitcoast, Lynn has set us a wonderful 'hinged card' challenge. You can find all the details here. A few weeks ago, I designed a round hinged card for one of my techniques classes so I thought I'd show my round variation here!

This is the card closed. It's made using the large scallop circle Sizzix Die as the base, and then layers of circles made with the Circle Scissor Plus. Make two of the top white circle and cut one in half, this makes the half circle for the hinged top ... and just attach it to the layers with a brad. Easy Peasy!

I cut out the little bird from 'Cheep Talk' and used his tail as the handle for opening the hinged top half ... it works really well and is a little bit different! Hope you like the idea and have a go yourself.

Recipe
Stamps : Cheep Talk
Cardstock : Whisper White, Pacific Point
Ink : Creamy Caramel, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point
Accessories : Big Shot, Sizzix Scallop Circle, Circle Scissor Plus, Trio Flower Punch, Rhinestone Brad, Paper Piercer

A Wishy Washy Sketch

Just a quick post, here's this week's sketch ... this card is rather wishy-washy ... but it was fun to use my new Kind Thoughts Flourish stencil! Thanks Debra for showing this to me!



Recipe
Stamps : Friends 24-7
Cardstock : Whisper White, Shimmer White, Parisian Breeze DSP, Going Gray
Ink : Pink Pirouette
Accessories : Kind Thoughts Flourish Stencil, Pink Taffeta Ribbon, SU Markers

Another folding technique

I've been teaching folding techniques in my classes recently ... and this one turned up on Splitcoast as their Monday TLC221 Challenge. It's taken me 2 days to get it finished! So maybe this isn't a good one for a class ~ I thought I'd share it with you though :)

Recipe

Stamps : Sweet Stems, Soft Summer (sentiment)
Cardstock : Kiwi Kiss Textured, Raspberry Tart DP, Shimmer White, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette
Ink : Close to Cocoa
Accessories : Blender Pen and Reinkers (watercolouring), Scallop Circle Punch, Kiwi Kiss Corduroy Button

Tuesday's Colours

Well, Tuesday is colour challenge today on SCS and I'm not even going to show you the crappy card I made. The colours are just awful (well for me, that is) and so my card is too. I did upload it to my SCS gallery but it's horrible so I might yank it before too long! Tee Hee.

So as my day hasn't started well, I thought I'd share some photos that make me smile :)

On Saturday, a gang of Splitcoast MI 'Minglers' came to my house for a stamping day. I've been chatting to these girls on the MI Mingle chat thread for about a year and a half now and we've become very good friends. Here we are crammed into my basement!

From the left : Okiechic (Laura); vz5dzh (Lorien); nenimlasj (Jill); moebuck (Maureen); Cathy_S (Cathy); CMUgrad (Michelle); Debra (and that's Debra's daughter Jaclyn playing a game on the sofa); Plaid Pony (Michele); kelicat (Kelly); Glitterboo (Maria); DawnMarieS (Dawn Marie) ... and I was taking the photo! If you click on the photo you'll see everyone much more clearly ~ What a fun day we had!

Another thing I wanted to share was a 'New Home' card for Jennifer who moved into a new house a few weeks ago. Hope the move went well Jennifer :)

Recipe
Stamps : There She Goes 'Welcome Home'
Cardstock : PTI White, Old Olive, Ripe Avocado
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories : Copic Markers