Decades - 40's Fashion all in Pinks

Well, and a little Purple! lol

Hello there,

One of the great things about being on the Spectrum Noir Education Design Team (and there are many many many great things about being on the team!) is that we take time once per month to go back over our team mates tutorials and pick one to follow.  It's such an awesome thing to do, I love it, it really gives me a chance to breath, follow the advice and I always learn something about my own style and how I approach colour :D

This month I decided to follow an awesome tutorial by my colleague, the uber colourist Laine Webb which you can find on the Spectrum Noir Blog HERE and here's mine using Laine's colours and tutorial:

Phew...I'm not a pink kinda person, so this was a real challenge :D
Here's what I used:

Copy and Inspired by a Tutorial by Laine Webb:

http://www.spectrumnoir.com/color-purples-pinks/

Style: A6 Tent Card

Image: Saturated Canary – 40’s Fashion

Spectrum Noir Markers:

Skin: FS2, 4, 6, 9, TN2

Hair: BP1, 2. 3, 5, DR7

Clothes: PL1, 2, 3, 5

Materials:

Neenah Solar White card; Crafter’s Companion Matt Black card;

Collal All Purpose glue;

Other: White Versamark ink; Sentiment stamp – Little Darlings Rubber Stamps Vintage Words; Corner Punch.

Here's more pics, I mounted her simply as she's so colourful I thought you know what, let her speak for herself!

I hope you pop over to the Spectrum Noir blog and check out Laine's tutorial, and have a look around as there are many many more awesome tutorials there...I'm off to pick which one I'd like to try for next month!

Hugs,

Sandie xxx

Challenges:

http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/
http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk/ 13
http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/challenge-93-winners-91.html 93
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 41
http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/ 141 playing the twist, womens friendship day
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/bgc-71-cas-cards-or-layouts.html 71 CAS
http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Sept

Box It Up with Gorgeous Stamps

Hello again,

Another sample from me today from the gorgeous Downton Abbey collection from Crafter's Companion.... so exciting!  You will just love the Triple CDrom that has crafty collections for all the characters 'above' stairs and 'below', and then an amazing collection of rubber stamps, dies and embossing folders that whether you like and watch Downton Abbey or not will be just perfect in your crafty collection

I have stamped the gorgeous border stamp from set's 3&4 of the Rubber Stamp sets on Create and Craft today (4 day deal) and used a repeated pattern to make this easel card topper for my gift box:

After I had created the topper I decided to colour the stamps with a graduated fading effect going up the card.  It's a great technique to do, just a few pens in the same colour family and tone can be used to work your way down to very pale.

My Top Tip would be to do the top palest flower and the very last flower at the bottom first, that way you will know how much to fade out so you achieve the effect you are after

Here's what I used:

Style: Easel Card Box Topper

Image: Downton Abbey Stamp set 3&4

(repeated pattern)

Spectrum Noir markers used:

BGR4, HB1, 2, 3; coloured dark fading out upwards

Materials:

Crafter's Companion

Crafter’s Companion Black card

Neenah Solar White card

Downton Abbey CD coordinating papers & ribbons Disc 1

Collal All Purpose and Tacky glues

Ribbon, Bling and Pearl string from That Craft Place

And pics of the inside:

Top Tip for the shredded paper - I coloured up a white/ivory A4 sheet of handmade paper and coloured it roughly (didn't worry about gaps) using the chisel nib of one of my middle tone Spectrum Noir markers so it matched the colours on top.   I folded it up like a fan and then cut slither's (that's a fun word to say lol) to drop in the box

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you managed to catch the show's on Create and Craft to see the fabulous range demonstrated :D

hugs,


Sandie xxx

Challenges:
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.co.uk/ 18
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 78
http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 280
http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/AG-no-51.html
http://juliaspirichallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 2 girls girls girls
http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.co.uk/ sparkle
http://chocolatecoffeecards.blogspot.co.uk/ celebration, with a gift box
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 329 sparkle

Anything Goes....perfect time to join in at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog!

Hello again,

Isn't January a long month!  Always a bit of had Christmas, long time 'till summer feeling about so it's a perfect time to join us over at Aud Sentiment Challenge Blog for a fabulous Anything Goes challenge and let your creativity run a muck!

Our delicious sponsor this time is Sassy Studio Designs and the image I got to play with is the gorgeous Latte Momma Sassy and here's the design I came up with...

Purple is not one of my fav colours so I challenged myself with this one to use purple tones and come out of my comfort zone...not 100% sure on it now its finished but the children assure me it looks ace so here it is lol :D

Here's what I used:
Image: Latte Momma Sassy by Sassy Studio Designs
Colour and image backing: Coloured with Graph'it Marker pens: hair tones 2105, 2120, 2140, 2160, 3160; Clothes: 9400, 9402, 9404, 6110, 6120, 6140, 6180
300gsm super smooth card from That Craft Place
Backing: papers from my stash...can't remember where as I'm still trying to use up the pile I have of bits and bobs!  Cosmic shimmer mica spray was used around the image (from That Craft Place)
Embellies: purple burlap - a find in the Pound Shop!, lace from stash, Flowers, wooden owls and pearls are all from my stash but check out embellies at That Craft Place especially MDF pieces!
Sentiment: Create with TLC .... TOP TIP if you haven't checked this one out yet you really must!  Paulette is so generous with her free sentiments and has fab designs too xx

Here's how:
No special tricks this time...matting and layering of papers and burlap is how I created this piece, placing the image to the side gives room for a whole host of flowers and bits and pieces.  I love using old brads (oh TOP TIP!  see I have got one!  I use old brads that I don't use any more..they seem to have gone out of fashion, by cutting the prongs off the back and then hot glueing them just as you would any flat back embellishment!  a whole new set of embellies to play with now lol).  Around the image I used cosmic shimmer spray in a tonal colour and I applied it by spraying it on my glass mat and then dabbing it on the image with an almost dry scrunched up baby wipe!
The insert is matching paper and that's about that.

Here's the close ups:

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and I hope you liked my make for today :D  Please start to follow me so that I can share more of my makes with you all x

Don't forget to hop over to the main blog to see what the rest of the team are up to and join us in the challenge - link is HERE

Happy Crafting :D

Sandie xxx

Challenges:
Through the purple haze - #74 Spring
Penny's paper crafty challenge - #211 AG
Creative inspiration - #297 pretty pearls
Word Art Wednesday - #167 AG
Inspiration Destination - #17 AG
Creative knockout - #73 lots of embellies
Jo's scrap shack - #71 AG
Allsorts challenge - #274 Spring flowers
CCC digi creations - #17 digi and flowers
Sparkles forum challenge - January; raise a glass (or tea/coffee)