Father's Day 2017

Just a brief blog post to share what I made for my Dad for Father's Day yesterday
                           

       

MATERIALS
         
A3 Centura Pearl - Downton Abbey "Below Stairs"
The Big Score A3 Score Board
Diamond Press Dies - Block Alphabet
Die'sire Essentials - Circles
Sara Davies - English Country Garden - Flutter Away
                                      

Links you need to know 

            

                                              

Crafter's Companion - SHOP

                 

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Thank you as always for popping by.
          

xxSAMxx

   

NEW COLORISTA PAD - Colouring Page to Card #3 - Red Easel Card

No matter how many I make, I still love the elegant simplicity of a CAS Easel Card!
          
This card using the new Enchanted Forest Marker Pad from Colorista is no exception!
                           

               

The Enchanted Forest Marker Pad is just one of the colouring pads being launched on Hochanda in just 1 hours time! Check below for the show times.
              

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MATERIALS

       

Colorista A4 Marker Pad - Enchanted Forest
Colorista Markers - Sets 1, 4 & 5 (full colour list below)
A4 Centura Pearl Cardstock - Trends
Sheena Douglass - White Stamping Card
Matt Black Cardstock
Sara Davies - Birthday Party - Birthday Wish
          
Black Gems
                   

           

 COLORISTA MARKER - COLOUR LIST:

BUY YOUR MARKERS HERE
             

Umber
Burgundy
Rose Red
Lipstick
Magenta
         

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Links you need to know 

            

                                      

Crafter's Companion - SHOP

Spectrum Noir - Website & Blog

                 

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Thank you as always for popping by.
          

xxSAMxx

   

A Dog's Life - Spectrum Aqua

Today I'd like to share a card featuring the Aqua markers by Spectrum Noir.
                            

                                       
I used just 3 markers for the background, stamping and colouring, making it an easy, frugle and fun card to make!

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Materials
            

Sheena Douglass White Stamping Card
Spectrum Aqua Markers (Olive, Moss & Boulder)
Sheena Douglass "It's A Dogs Life" Stamp

Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz "Graph & Croc" Stamps (Graph) *
              

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Links you need to know 

                           

                                       
Crafter's Companion - SHOP

                

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Thank you as always for popping by
              
xxSAMxx

Father's Day Card - Petal Lu

It is time for a new challenge over at the

    

Petal Lu challenge blog

This fortnight (as always) the theme is

ANYTHING GOES

    

The prize is 30% off your order from the Petal Lu store!

  

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I used the following materials:

PETAL LU FLOWERS

Teddybear Bloom
Single Pearl Blooms
Original Rainbow Blooms

OTHER PRODUCTS USED

Cardstock
Mixed media paper
Ranger tag
Distress Ink
MDF bird
Embossing Powder
Darice embossing folder
Bird table die by Crafter's Companion
Brown twine
Posca Paint Marker

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Links you need to know 

  
PETAL LU - SHOP!

Petal Lu - Challenge Blog

Petal Lu - Facebook Page

Facebook group for sharing your Petal Lu creations!
     

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Thank you as always for popping by, myself and the other Petal Lu DT very much look forward to seeing your creations!

     

xxSAMxx

   

Fantastically Spiffing!

Well hello folks! Thankyou once again for stopping by. Today's post was written a couple of weeks ago and scheduled to post on the recipients birthday.

This fantastically spiffing topper is from the Chronology range by Docrafts and was gifted to me in a swap just after Christmas. I combined the topper with papers from my stash and gently distressed the edges of both papers and topper with distress ink.

Both the book hinge flourish and cog greyboard lasercuts are by That Craft Place and I firstly painted these with black gesso and dried. I then did the PVA glue crackle technique using DecoArt Silver metallic paint as my final coat. This was my first time trying this technique using just regular PVA and I love it!

I've linked to Kelly Donovan's video below:

As you can see, this technique gives wonderful results!

Thanks again and hope to see you back soon!

xxSAMxx

I would like to please enter this card into the following challenges:

Pile It On - #61 Sentiment as focal point (Sun 29 Mar)
Scribble & Scrap - #40 Anything Goes (Sat 28 Mar)
Stamping Sensations - One for the guys (Wed 1 Apr)
Brown Sugar Challenge Blog - #138 Anything Goes (Thu 26 Mar)
Sister Act Card Challenge (Fri 27 Mar)
Crafting With An Attitude - #1 Anything Goes (Wed 1 Apr)
Southern Girls Challenge - Boys Boys Boys (not sure what end date!)