Giraffe

I love giraffes.  When we went to Spain in July I got to feed and stroke a giraffe! It was SO cool!!

This little giraffe is from Kirsty Wiseman's 'Call of the Wild' CD.  I found some papers in the bottom of a drawer that I thought went well with it and then added sentiment and candis.  The orange candis are upside down with yellow gems in them.

Hang in there...

 

How cute is this little bunny?!!!! 

I think he is very cute anyway but I do have a bit of a soft spot for any bunnies!!

I coloured the image with promarkers and then mounted it on a piece of navy blue card.

I then cut some squares of the same navy card and used letter stickers to spell out the words 'hang in there'.

Finally I added some candis and gems on the points of the shaped card.

Cupcakes

Hope everyone is enjoying the bank holiday weekend and the extra day off!!!  I'm hoping I'll be allowed to do some crafting today!

In the meantime I still have lots of cards I made for the craft fair so here is another.  For this card I used an image from Tiddly Inks.  I coloured it with Kuretake's Art and Graphic, and Wink of Stella pens.  I then mounted it on a piece of glitter card with three pieces of ribbon and then added some candis in the corners.

Thanks for popping in! :) xxx

Bunny with a balloon!

This is another of the many cards I churned out in a rush for a craft fair!

I used another Lili of the Valley image, this time coloured with Kuretake Art & Graphic pens.  I

I added elastic to the centiments to make balloons!  Quite a happy celebration card I think! :) 

Thanks for stopping by to look! xxx

Lili of the Valley fairy

I made this card a while ago but hadn't got round to blogging it yet!! 

The image is from Lili of the Valley.  I coloured it with Promarers and used Kuretake's Wink of Stella to add glitter.  The wings are particularly sparkly but you can;t see it very well.

Kuretake-fest!

I'm going to have to get Keiron to go out more often!!  Having an evening to myself gave me the chance to play with my Kuretake Zig pens!!

I have been playing a lot recently.  Since I got my calligraphy pens I have been trying to practice with them but couldn't get the hang of 'S' - which with my name, was not ideal.  Thanks to some fab help from the folks at Kuretake I have now practiced lots and made myself a sign for my main craft room (I'm sure I shall do one for the other room shortly! )

I wrote my name on white card (I dropped the '-Emma' as I ran out of room!!), mounted it onto some yellow card and then added lace around the edges.  I finished it with a yellow polka dot ribbon and I attached it to the door with a pin with a white heart for a pin head.  LOVE IT! :-D

I also made some notebooks last week.  I coloured some stamped images with Zig's Art & Graphic pens - some direct to paper and some with a waterbrush.  I then dipped all the images in UTEE to make them all shiny and "plasticky" (technical term I think!!).

I also used Kuretake's Wink of Stella pens on this boys iPod and shoes.  Here's a close up of the glittery sparkle you get from these pens!  

The next two I added ribbons to the side but forgot to photograph them and sold them at a craft fair on Sunday so  please they imagine they have ribbons tied down the binding!!

On this owl I also used a silver metallic marker for the flowers on his front.

Next a card that I coloured almost entirely with Wink of Stella pens other than her face.

Managed to take a picture showing how much these pens sparkle!!

And another:

The image was coloured entirely with Wink of Stellas except the hair, hat and wings which I coloured with Promarkers and then used the clear Wink of Stella over the top of them.  The clear one is really good as is like having a Wink of Stella in any colour you have in any other pen (although the set of 12 include most colours you could need!)

Here are two cards I made for the craft fair, intended to be exam success cards, which I coloured with Kuretake's Art & Graphic pens.

Finally - I stamped this castle image and sentiment - both from Hero Arts - using one of the Art & Graphic pens.  I then used a waterbrush to pull out the colour from the castle and colour the image.  I also used the same pen to colour some 'icing sugar' candi so that it matched the rest of the card.

A few people have asked me about the Art & Graphic pens recently.  I love working with these pens.  They are so easy to use.  I have tried watercolouring with Aquamarkers but as well as the ease to use the Art & Graphics what I love the most is the colours.  You can get really vibrant colours or with the use of water much softer tones.  They are also easy to use direct to paper.

Here are some cards I have previously blogged using Kuretake pens:

Using Art & Graphics - watercoloured

Using Art & Graphics - Part watercoloured, part direct to paper

Gift Tag - Art & Graphics - Watercoloured

Gift tag - Art & Graphics - watercoloured

Art & Graphics - direct to paper

Art & Graphics - part watercoloured, part direct to paper

Art & Graphics - direct to paper

Art & Graphics - watercoloured

Art & Graphics - direct to paper

Art & Graphics - watercoloured

Art & Graphics - watercoloured, and Wink of Stella

Wink of Stella, and Art & Graphics direct to paper

Using Art & Graphics watercoloured, Wink of Stella and Calligraphy pens

Calligraphy pens - 2 colours blended

Art & Graphics and Wink of Stella

Art & Graphics, watercoloured

Wedding card

I had so much fun making this card.  I stamped the Lili of the Valley image onto watercolour card (it definitely makes a difference!) and then coloured with Kuretake's amazing Zig Art & Graphic watercolour pens and Wink of Stellas.

I then wrote the word 'Love' with Kuretake's Zig Calligraphy pens which I blended to get the two colours on one pen.  I used a metallic calligraphy pen to add a thin border around the image and text.

I added some ribbon and flat backed pearls to a sheet of purple card and mounted the image and text on this.

This is for our friends who are getting married on Friday, hope they like it I love this card even though it's quite simple, have hardly been able to put my Calligraphy pens down since I got them!! Still need more practice though!  (They also are easier to use on paper that is not watercolour paper, but I wanted it to match!!)

Hope you like! :)

Stephanie-Emma xxx