Showing posts with label Pan Pastels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pan Pastels. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Art Nouveau

I love the whole art nouveau style and when I saw Karen Middleton's gorgeous new digi stamps, Art Nouveau One and Art Nouveau Two, I just had to have them. I couldn't wait to colour them in and I started with Art Nouveau One:
 
 
I love this stamp. It perfectly captures the art nouveau style and she's just so glamorous and striking. I used my Promarkers and coloured her in vibrant shades of blue and gold and gave her vibrant red hair.
 
 
I made a background using Pan Pastels and a Donna Downey stencil and used gold mirri card for matting. I added layered ribbons and lots of flowers and added detail with a gold Perlen Pen and some blue Stickles.
 
 
This gorgeous digi stamp is available from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.
 

Saturday, 22 June 2013

A Quick Card

I found out on Friday that one of the mums I regularly chat to on the school run has been really quite poorly recently. I wanted to make her a little card with our best wishes but I didn't have a lot of time to do it in before I had to head back to school for pick-up time.
 
So I grabbed a Stampin' Up! stamp set and my Pan Pastels, and this was the result:
 
 
I looove Pan Pastels. They are so easy to use and to blend and you can easily cover a panel with a smooth coat of colour in literally seconds.
 
So I just blended Pan Pastels onto a card panel and then stamped the flowers and bird branch from the Silhouette Sentiments set over it in black ink and added a greeting (from a Kanban sentiment set).
 
 
I also stamped a few of the flowers onto the envelope so that it coordinated with the card. :)
 
Super quick, super easy but really pretty.
 

Sunday, 26 May 2013

Make It Stitchy

This week we have a special challenge at One Stitch at a Time.
 
It's called Make It Stitchy and it's rather different from our usual weekly challenges because this week, unlike our usual challenges where you can enter using any stamp/product, you must use a Stitchy Bear product to enter.
 
We have got some awesome prizes on offer, however, as this week our sponsor is non other than the  OSAAT DT - Stitchy's Angel's - ourselves and we have all contributed prizes for the lucky winner! Check out the OSAAT blog for details. :)
 
If you don't have a Stitchy Bear image/product to use for the challenge, then now is the perfect time to pick one up - not only is *everything* in store currently 35% off but there is also a weekly freebie dig stamp, which is yours when you spend just $3 in store. And don't forget, there's also a whole bunch of brand new digi stamps from me now in-store. :)
 
For my DT card for this epic challenge, I've worked with Ike's Art gorgeous Angel 2 image:
 
 
I coloured the image with my Promarkers and fussy cut it out and added some sparkle to her wings with some Stickles:
 
 
I decided to have a play with my Pan Pastels for the background - I blended 3 different colours onto white card for a kind of sunset effect and then pressed Versamark ink through a circle stencil (made by simply punching a circle out of a scrap of card) and heat embossed it using Stampendous Frantage embossing powders:
 
 
I stamped a sentiment in black ink using a Tim Holtz stamp and then stamped some flourishes around the edges of the panel and heat embossed with a sparkly gold embossing powder:
 
 
To finish things off, I matted the completed panel onto sparkly blue card, attached it to a white card blank and attached the cut-out image using foam tape.
 
The challenge runs for a week and don't forget, for this week only, you must use a Stitchy Bear product to enter and to be in with a chance of winning our bumper bundle of prizes.
 
Good luck - I can't wait to see what you create! :)
 
I'm going to enter this card into a couple of challenges:
 
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