Dragon time!

I meant to put these photos up for Chinese New Year but I'm a bit late! These cards both use the Elusive Images Here Be Dragons plate which is great fun to use:
I've added colour with Prisma coloured pencils which give a really intense colour and the background uses Glimmer Mists.
This next project is a dancing dragon:which uses coloured pencils and glitter glue. The two end pieces are Stampbord:So, although I'm late, Happy New Year!

Helen

Colourful Collage

As Glenda said in her comment, the show is called Glenda's Colourful Collage Stamping and it's first showing is on Feb 10th at 1.00pm on Create and Craft TV.
I can't show you any of the other stamps that are used , but I have found photos of another 2 samples that use the Harlequin Rose plate.
The first is a card on glossy white cardstock:
And the second is an altered glass jar that I got from Ikea: I saw this idea ages ago in a Somerset Studios book called 'Transparent Art'.This particular project was by Cynthia Shaffer - I have to say it was quite fiddly, but it was great fun all the same!


Cheers!

Helen

I've gone green!

Well, sort of! Here's another card made with the Harlequin Rose set of stamps from Elusive Images:
This one uses Pastel colours from the Ecoline ink range which I just blobbed onto some watercolour paper for a background. I then stamped over the top and stamped the flower head again and added detail with coloured pencil and a white pen:
I layered it up onto some more of the K and Co Classic boxed set paper. The border stamp really comes into its own here as it makes a fantastic frame and you can even mitre the corners.
I'm not sure what the show's going to be called on C & C yet, but I know Glenda's got some great products going on (among them some more lovely stamps) and she promises it's going to be colourful!

Enjoy!

Helen

Harlequin Rose

As Glenda has now released a picture of this latest themeplate, I thought I'd post a picture of one of the samples I've been working on:I've sponged colour on from various inkpads, added a strip of patterned paper down the side (from the fantastic K&Co Classic Boxed set)and stamped the border over this. Then I cut away around the diamond shapes and put the exact same image on the inside of the card, just colouring the rose slightly differently. I added some different paper down the side and used one of the fabulous quotes.When opening it looks like this:I can see I'm going to use this plate a lot, not just for the fabulous collages, but I also love those swirly fonts and that long border stamp, which reminds me of wrought iron fencing. It doesn't matter if you use the whole design or just part of it, it always seems to work!
I have to say you're lucky to see any photos at all as I'd parcelled the samples up all ready to go in tomorrow's post when I realised I'd forgotten to take any pics! The air turned a decided shade of blue - you'd understand if you could see how I do my parcels - I keep Wilkos in brown parcel tape! Also I never have a box to fit, so make them from various ones put together and if you try to undo them they just fall apart! However I braved it and managed to salvage the box without too much bad language!

Enjoy!

Helen

I'm back!

Well, I'm back! The computer had to go away for a week to be cleaned up by the end of which the hard drive started clunking and had to be replaced - mad panic this end to see if we still had all the discs to reinstall everything! No MSN for a week - my daughter nearly lost the plot! At least now it actually works - no more swearing at it because it was so slow! (Do you think I hurt its feelings?!!)
I've been busy working on some stuff for Craft Stamper so can't show you that, so I'll just wish you all a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR!
Helen

Computer down!

I've got no computer at the mo as it's in the shop being cleaned! It had been on a go slow for ages and then decided enough was enough and gave up altogether. Definitely a case of the winter virus bug - or in our case millions of bugs!
Am at the library typing this and have only 2 mins. left so better go.
Hopefully back soon!
Helen

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...

I seem to have had a very busy few days this week, lots of designing, projects etc. but also needed to make two special thankyou cards.
The first one uses the Basic Grey Bird of Paradise again:/> The border is from the Elusive Images Damask Backgrounds set and the rough line border is from Prima Build a Frame set. It's layered up onto K&Co papers.
The second card I thought I was going to have trouble with and actually I like it the best!
The main image is from PaperArtsy - I wanted something with a link to Wales - and then the border is Prima again. The patterned background paper was pink and white originally, but I just sponged on some yellow ink to tone in with the main image. (It was one of those papers that I bought because I liked it then have never used because it didn't 'go' with anything! It only just occurred to me that I could add colour to it myself!!!)
On the subject of thankyous, I thought I'd just say thankyou to all of you who read my blog and to those who are kind enough to leave a comment. Also, thankyou to those who have given me an award. They are much appreciated - I just haven't worked out how to put them up yet!!

Enjoy!

Helen