Julie's Crafty Makes

 Wow! July is here already and in just over 2 weeks time kids break for summer holidays, here in the UK.  Today on my blog I'm sharing my latest make for Color it - Create it - Show it off! design team which we provide inspiration to others and encouragement for people to join the challenge; whereby as usual anything goes for more information or to join in the challenge,  click here. For this card I used Sherri Baldy's My Besties Storybook Fairy Tale Fairy Princess Doll 3, which can be purchased from  here , so firstly I printed this image off before colouring in the image using Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens and Spectrum Noir sparkle pens. On a 6 by 6 inch square white card blank and to create the background detail using my Time for Tea Designs Diamond Burst stencil, Time for Tea blender brushes along with Distress oxide in abandoned coral.  Using a black fine-liner pen I then added a stitched detail around the edge of the card blank along with around the ed...

Hey all! Hope you are all well.  So today I wanted to share two cards I've made using a new company to me (TLC Designs), which I happened to stumble across; the cards are using the company's digital products while I await arrival of my stamps and dies. As with the majority of my blog posts you can find a list of the products used along with a link to them at the end of this post. Pumpkin Gnome Card So firstly for the first card I printed the digital image of the gnome out and then coloured the image using Crafters Companion Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens, before cutting the image out. I also printed the leaf patterned paper and sentiments which came from the Jack O'Gnome digital stamp set.   On a 7 by 7 inch white card blank I then stuck down the bronze embossed card using red liner tape, which I had cut down to 6 1/2 inches by 6 1/2 inches, before then sticking the leaf patterned paper on top of the bronze card (the leaf paper was 6 inches by 6 inches). I then cut out t...

Hey everyone, Wow the start of another month already so that can only mean one thing the start of another challenge for Color it - Create it - Show it off! As always it is anything goes, for more information  click here.  So here is my inspiration for the start of this new challenge month, using Sherri Baldy's My Besties Gigglebox Gardening Time Doll 3, which can be purchased from   here. Absolutely loving all the my besties images I am getting to play with the images are super cute and so enjoyable to colour. Firstly I started by printing of my image on too A4 paper I tend to print 4 of the each of the images onto a sheet of A4 to give me an ideal size image to then put onto an A6 sized card.  Once I had printed the images I then cut the paper into four giving me four separate toppers, which I then coloured one using Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens.   Following that I was unsure what to do next so I took the time to look around my craft area at products ...

 Hey all, Wow the start of another month already so that can only mean one thing the start of another challenge for Color it - Create it - Show it off! As always it is anything goes, for more information  click here.  So here is my inspiration for the start of this new challenge month, using Sherri Baldy's My Besties Forest Fairy Doll 2 , which can be purchased from  here. I have enjoyed colouring this image so much that I have been able to produce two cards. I would say the smaller card is the most simplistic with only involving matting and layering paper/ card along with stamping for the sentiment and colouring the image.  The other card the larger one involved colouring and stamping like the first but also involved using stencils and paste. So for this first card I downloaded my digi image and printed four of the same images on to a sheet of A4 paper, suitable for using alcohol markers on; once printed I then cut the paper up into four so had four individual ...

Hi all! So today I thought I'd share with you another card I've made using Sherri Baldy's My Besties Gnome 3.  In this card I collaborated the digi image with a Pink Ink Designs stencil along with Time For Tea Designs sentiment stamps and a die.   I started off by reaching for a 7 by 7 white card blank, I then chose that I would use distress oxides inks in the following colours for the background: wilted violet, seedless preserve and abandoned coral.  In order to keep my stencil in place I used a small strip of masking tape to hold the stencil to my glass mat where the stencil over hanged the card blank.  Firstly using the abandoned coral before moving onto seedless preserve and finally wilted violet I blended the inks over the stencil using my Time for Tea Designs medium blender brushes - with these I have a separate brush for nearly each colour oxide however you can just have one brush per colour family: red, blue, green, purple, yellow, orange, pink and black alon...

 Hey there! So another month is here, which means a new challenge over on the Color it, Create it, Show it off blog; details of how to enter can be found  here .  As always the challenge is anything goes therefore any image, project, techniques are welcome. So this is my second design team entry and I have thoroughly enjoyed making this card. I started firstly by choosing this gorgeous Sherri Baldy's My Besties digi gnome image and printed it off onto Color copy 160gsm paper.  Following that I coloured the image using my Spectrum Noir Tri-blend brush pens - starting with the face and hands, before moving onto the gnomes beard/hair (for this i used silver lining promarker).  For the gnomes clothing I decided to do rainbow colours using the light and mid shade of the tri-blend brush pens, finally then adding colour to the rest of the image. Next it was onto creating the background so I took a 7" by 7" white card blank along with a time for tea designs medium blend...

Hey All.   So this is my first post as a newly appointed design team member for 'Colour It Create It Show It Off' challenge for My Besties using Sherri Baldy's digital stamps.  I am super excited for this opportunity and hope you all enjoy my posts and like my creations. Firstly I started by printing the digi stamp on to Color copy 160gsm paper, which I find works well when colouring images in with alcohol markers. Then I started by colouring the skin, then the hair followed by her top and then trousers before finally giving her eyes colour and adding colour to the mug.  To colour in the image I used Spectrum Noir Tri-blend brush markers, which are new pens to me however I loved the result I got on this image. The colour combinations used are: For the skin - Fair skin blend For the hair - Gold brown blend The top and bow on trousers - dark red blend The trousers - brown grey blend The patch - ice grey blend The heart on the cup and bow - the lightest shade of the dar...