Something New

 Good morning

At the weekend I went into my craft room to make my sons birthday card. I couldn’t decide where to start, so I decided to catalogue my spray inks/mists. I had bought some 4x4” books from Pink Pig for just this project. This lead to me getting some stencils out, and then pixie powders and shimmer shakers. 

As you can see, this shows the true colour I will get, as this is not always the same as on the bottle.

For this page, I laid the stencil onto the page.

Then I sprinkled pixie powders onto the page, through the stencil, trying to keep the colours separate.

Then I sprayed with water, to make the powders burst.

As there is some powders left on the stencil, I then turned this over onto a black page.

This gives a different effect.

I then respirated the stencil with water and took another ‘print’.

Well there is no point wasting all that lovely colour! 

# Cosmicshimmer

#craftynotions

Thank you for stopping by. 

I appreciate any comments you have on my creations.

Gill x

Card Candy

Hi there

How many people out there have bought the Craftwork Cards, Card Candy? ? ? Does anyone else find that as fast as you use it, more appears in your stash??? I love this product and have it in farr too many colours. So as well as using in the traditional way, I have been looking at different ways to put it on my cards, and possibly scrapbook pages.

As my supply seems never ending I have been playing. My inspiration for these came from a feature in a magazine, sorry I don't recall which magazine, or even how long ago.
I have turned my card candy into flowers.

First of all I punched a circle of white card, I used a 1 1/2" circle as this was all I had to hand. Then I used a tacky glue, I used a one from Crafty Notions, and put a 10p size circle of glue down. Then, using tweezers, I put a candy upside down in the glue. Then I arranged more candy around it just tucking the candy under the centre one and into the glue. I then carried on all the way around. You can either leave them quite spread out or stand then more upright.

This is how it will look with one layer of 'petals'.

This is how it will look with two layers of 'petals'.

You can then play until you get you chosen effect. Try using just one colour for a very dramatic flower.

Or use different colours to pull your card or project together. 

I found my reverse tweezers from EKSuccess to be invaluable doing these.

I hope this has inspired you to use you card candy in more ways now. One this I will say is that it doesn't work with the metallic candy as they are white underneath :(

Happy Crafting

Birthday Card

Hello

I have decided to blog a birthday card which I made a few weeks ago for a special birthday.

I used an 8x8" square card. The pink paper was from a pack by Blonde Moments. The Nestie used was Labels 10 inked with Victorian Velvet distress Ink. The leaves were cut from green bazzill cardstock using a Marianne die. The cream Prima flower and the Petaloo flowers were inked with Victorian Velvet and then sprayed with Pink Lustre and Fireburst Violet Crafty Notions Colour sprays.
The name and words were cut out on my CraftRobo/Silhouette to enable me to co-ordinate the colours.

Happy Crafting