Just too cute Tuesday

Says it all really …

Michelle

Just too cute Tuesday

What have you tried to sell on eBay that you shouldn’t have?

Michelle

Back on Fifth Avenue

I love this set.. it just loves to be watercoloured!  Fifth Avenue Floral is so my favourite.

I’ve white embossed the outline and then really flooded the image with water.  Then all I did was pick up some colour from the crayons & plop it into the flower and let it finds it’s own way. I did  a few more of these in different colours and I love ‘em all. This card was for a christening – I hope when she’s old enough to look through her cards, she like it!  I think that the message is apt for a little girl with her whole life in front of her. Happy days Hannah! Big hugs!

Michelle

Bowl o’ blooms

Yes, there’s more watercolouring, more flowers – did I mention that I love using the crayons for this? Perhaps I did…

I’ve stamped the Bloomin’ with Beauty image using Staz-on Black – -that ink just stays on (gettit?) and is wonderful when you’re watercolouring – it just stays and stays. More crayons and a little bit of yo-yo yellow marker in the centre of the pansies – you may need to look really really closely to see it.  And my most favourite background stamp (En Francais) in Really Rust on Kraft. I was going for a rustic feel, so added the hemp twine.  Off to water colour some more – back soon with show and tell!

Byeeeeeeeee (skipping off)!!!

Michelle

Blooming beautiful blooms

I love water colouring with the Stampin Up! crayons – they are sooo silky smooth & just quietly, I have gone a little mad lately (yeah, I know, what do I mean lately? pfft!)

This is a close up of a card I made for my dear Aunty Jill’s birthday last weekend using Fifth Avenue Floral, embossed in white detail powder then I used my watercolour crayons to colour it in (I used my markers for the stamens) and the crimpalicious crimper to make the leaves – I’ve adapted the side step card that I did last week, and just not put in the ‘uppy’ bit.  Here’s another view..

..in all it’s glory.  I bought a bag of wooden lady bugs yonks ago and they have been in a ’safe’ place (admit it, you have one too ~you just don’t know where it is! Just like me).  When I was looking for something else (probably some dimensionals) for this card, these little bugs popped out.  I knew that I had to put one on the card.  Today was their day! Can you believe that they have scurried back to their safe place and I have no idea where they have gone.  I shall have to keep looking for something else!

More flowers tomorrow to show you (eek! -it’s 5 minutes until tomorrow!) ‘night!

Michelle

Just too cute Tuesday

Baby care….

Michelle

To the right, to the right, to the right ~ To the left, to the left, to the left ….

What’s this all about I hear you say?? If you were in Canberra in May you would know that I am talking about the Cupid Shuffle.  It was something that we were all asked to get up and do as part of one of the sessions at the Stampin’ Up Convention. I’d never heard the song before then, and now I can’t get it out of my head.  I have Elmo and Cookie monster here to demonstrate the Cupid Shuffle for you (of course no where near as graceful as the SU girls in Canberra!)

 

But that’s not why I have you here.. (It’s okay, you can stop watching now.. It’s quite hypnotic, I know…Oh okay – go back for one more look )

Right, so what’s all this left and right caper… Well, I was inspired by Andrea’s blog where she made a side step card (gettit – to the right, to the right, to the right, to the left, to the left..) and kindly put up a tutorial.  Well! I was so inspired, I used the design in my class at Chelsea Heights Community Centre ~ here’s the samples I made for the class.

Side Step Cards using Polished Stone

 Everyone had a great time and everyone went away with a card that was an original.  I love polished stone ~ no two pieces of card look the same.  We mixed and matched colours and made each piece our ‘own’.  I set myself a challenge when making the polished stone by just using black ink (rather then the usual 3-4 colours)  – -I did use a bit of silver to make it metallic-y but that’s not really cheating, is it? 

Always

 This is another one of those cards that I think that I have to make a squillion of before I’ve made enough - have you made one yet? Quick! What’s stopping you?

Till next time,

Michelle

(PS- I have been assured that no Muppets were harmed in the making of this video – or embarrassed, but that’s debatable! )

Just too cute Tuesday

We all need a helper like this!  How does your hound help you?

Michelle

Wicked!

I’m off to see Wicked today and thought that a few lolly bags were in order (when are they ever not?) All I did was download a ‘Wicked’  image (google images is great for this sort of thing!), printed it onto Whisper White, then popped it on some Basic Black cardstock  and topped a lolly bag ~ Easy peasy (the hard part was not eating all the lollies!) 

I hope you’re having a great weekend ~ I certainly am. I’ll be back later to show off what we did in our class yesterday ~ a hint “to the left, to the left, to the right, to the right…”

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Michelle

I’ve been inspired by Zindorf (who wouldn’t be?)

Have you heard of Michelle Zindorf? If you haven’t ~ prepare to be amazed and move your gob to the ’smacked’ position.  She is a goddess with a brayer and a sponge.  Her technique combines masking, sponging and embossing and you can see the phantasmagorical (that’s a word, right?) results.  She spends a lot of her time touring around the United States teaching her techniques and sharing her knowledge.  I wonder if she will come out here to ’share’? I’d be there in a heartbeat!  As you can see by the signature, that’s one of her creations above and it’s one of her more ‘basic’ designs (if you could say that of ANY of her designs).  She uses her brayer and sponges  ~ roll, roll, roll and then dab, dab, dab, a bit of stamping and voila! there they are, entire landscapes ~ like this one below

click on the picture to go to her website to see just how she does this

Sooooooo, while I was meant to be cleaning up my stamping stuff, and there were still a few spare scraps around from my hot chocolate challenge, I thought I’d attempt a little of what Michelle does.  I really enjoyed it, but to get anywhere near her level of expertise I will need to practice! (does that mean the clearing up can wait a little longer??)  This is my first attempt at mutli colour brayer-ing with masking ~ 

It looks a little bland in comparison to Michelle Z’s creations, but when I get the hang of it, there will be more to show off (so the clearing up will have to wait while I practice).  I was quite amazed how ‘wet’ the paper was when I’d finished, but then again I had just been pushing a whole load of ink into it, so what should I expect?   I really enjoyed this technique and would like to use it more often.  I can see that this would be great for creating scrap book backgrounds too. Hmmmm That’s got me thinking – - – Oh dear, it’s bed time though  so maybe tomorrow  
till next time – have fun!

Michelle

PS- I’ve used the Upsy Daisy stamp set and ink colours used here were Bashful Blue,  Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Elegant Eggplant & Perfect Plum, mounted on Perfect Plum and Baja Breeze card stock.