Julie's Crafty Makes

 Hey Everyone!  Wow, where has the time gone, can not believe we are half way through May already.  So its that to remind you all of the challenger running over on the Color it - Create It - Show it off blog whereby as usual anything goes, for more details or to enter click  here. This is a card I made for a friends daughters 8th birthday whom loves lounging around in pj's.  Firstly I started off by downloading the digital image and then printing it out via my printer on paper of a reasonable weight and that is suitable for colouring with alcohol markers.  I printed her out so that 2 of the images fitted on a A4 piece of paper.  Once printed I coloured in the image using spectrum noir triblend brush pens and pro-markers.  As I printed off two images I decided to colour both so I could then choose which one I preferred.   On a 8 by 8 card blank I then using Time for Tea Designs Dandelion stencil, a blender brush and my distress oxide kitsch fl...

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 all! So today I am sharing my design team make for color it - create it - show it off! May Challenge, as always it’s anything goes for more details or to enter click  Here . So for my card I used Sherri Baldy’s my besties I love my copics doll 4, which can be purchased from  mybestiesshop.com Firstly I started by printing off the image and colouring it in using my crafters companion triblend brush pens before then cutting the image out using a small pair of scissors I have for cutting out detailed images. Then on a 8 by 8 white card blank using my beautiful blender brushes and distress oxide inks (I didn’t add any fresh ink to my brushes just used ink already on brushes) I added the splash details using a Time for Tea designs stencil. Finally then I adhered the digi stamp image to the card using foam tape to give the image a slight raise; along with stamping the sentiments on in black ink - the sentiments were from Woodware creative quotes stamp set. Thanks for taking the ...

Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a fab Easter weekend and not eaten too much chocolate.  I've decided to treat myself to crafty goodies rather than purchasing an Easter egg this year. Today I am sharing a card that I was asked to make - so the guidelines for the card was to make a 50th wedding anniversary card for a couple whom belong to local Lions club along with the information that one likes crafting and the other likes football.  I spent lots of time thinking how I could combine all four elements - wedding anniversary, lions, football and crafting; before coming to the conclusion that it would make the card too busy and a more simplistic sophistic card would be more suited to the occasion.  Firstly I used hunkydory for the love of stamps - hand in hand stamp and stamped it onto white card stock using versamark ink before then covering with gold heat embossing powder before heat setting it with a heat tool.  After allowing the embossed image to cool I then used...

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! So here we are half way through March already and just wanted to remind you to enter into the challenge where as usual it is anything goes, to enter and for more information  click here . Absolutely loving the images I've been able to play with this month on the design team, so much I've made another 2 cards.   So starting with the card on the left the more complex of the two I would say. Firstly I downloaded the digi stamps and printed four images onto a sheet of A4  Color copy 160gsm pape r, which I then cut up to individual toppers.  Using Spectrum Noir Triblend brush pens I coloured in the one of the images, deciding to give the fairy a tanned colour to her skin along with a orange dress and accessories.  I used a spectrum noir clear sparkle pen to go over the fairies wings to give them a sparkle and coloured the bug's wings with a spectrum noir sandstone sparkle pen.   I cut down an A4 piece of super smooth card suitable for alcohol markers to...