Fairy Faith in Neutrals

This is the other card that I made of Fairy Faith from Mo's Digital Pencil but using neutral tones as opposed to the pastel coloured version I shared last week here.

I also enjoyed some rustic-themed dies from Marianne Designs  including the log slices, details below.

Marianne Products Used

Log Frame and Tree Stump set - LR0630

Log Slices - LR0684 - NEW!

Log- LR0680 - NEW!

Robin - LR0548

Banner Tag - CS1058

Sentiment -MM1630

Sack - CR1487

The papers are Gilded Winter from First Edition.

I'm doing my shift in my daughter's refill shop today  and sure it will be busy!!  

Have a great day whatever you're doing.

Hugs, Juliexx

Wintery Christmas Cards

Here are a couple of wintery Christmas cards - quick and easy with Distress Oxides and Twilight Versa Clair.  Watched a Lavinia Video using the trees just behind the hills like this!  

Hugs, Juliexx

Tracy Easson Angels - Believe

I have recently discovered the fabulous artwork of Tracy Easson thanks to a crafty friend posting on FB.  I just love these angels and the packaging they came in - wow!  So full of love and kindness and thankfulness!

Any way, I decided to stamp them on to some watercolour backgrounds that I'd prepared ages ago and then added some more shade and colour with watercolour brush paints.

The sets also come with the fabulous words which you can use individually or compile to make sayings - so in love with these stamps.

Also, I hadn't intended to make Christmas cards with them, but once I'd started to assemble them I just thought they'd make beautiful Christmas cards.  With this image you can choose to add the wings or not, so they don't even have to be angels!!

Check out Tracy's Etsy store here - she also has some gorgeous whimsical mouse stamps!!

Hugs,  Juliexx

Fairy Faith in Pastels

I've gone with pastel hues for this card which uses one of Mo's Digital Pencil's fabulous fairies - Fairy Faith. I've also coloured her up in more neutral tones so I'll share that in a day or so - always great to see the versatility of Mo's images!

The papers are Peppermint Frost from Craftwork cards which I think has closed down but still love the papers.  And aren't the new little bauble sets from Marianne Designs gorgeous - all details below!

Marianne Products Used

Frame - LR0627

Baubles - LR0682 - NEW!

Word -  KJ1719

Spar Tree - LR0378

Small Tree - LR0136

Hugs, Juliexx

PFP Make It Festive

I've been playing with my gnomies again!  Or should I say Mo's gnomies!  Love the flexibility of these new images from Mo's Digital Pencil and today I've mixed Folke from the Bjarni and Folke set here and Egli from the Tini and Egli set here.  And the tree is from Gnome Tree Set here.  My card is for the Make it Festive challenge starting today at Passion for Promarkers.

I coloured the background with my promarkers too - love this blue sky!! The Promarker combo was Indigo Blue and Royal Blue.  I did use some China blue too as a third colour but it wasn't really needed.

 I then added some big blobs of snow with Chunky White Frantage Embossing Powder.

The background papers are Frozen Winter from Marianne Designs as is the sentiment and book tag die.  Details below.  The little lantern is a Memory Box die.

Marianne Products Used

Papers - Frozen Winter - PK9172

Book Tag - CR1510

Sentiment - Happy Holidays - CS1009

Our generous sponsor this week is JMC Designs and Julia is offering one lucky winner 1 digital collection of their choice from her online store.

The sun is shining here - hope it is where you are too!  Oh and don't forget to check out the makes of my fab teamies at PFP HQ here,

Hugs, Juliexx

Lavinia scenes

A while ago, I purchased a large square gel plate by Marianne Designs thinking that I could cut it to size to suit me.  However, it was very difficult to cut and I got rather jagged edges on the little rectangle piece that I'd cut!  However, I rather like the result I've got here with the uneven edges - it suits the mixed media style of these.

Once I'd  finished the rectangle topper, I then stamped the image again onto the card blank and fixed the topper in line with the stems.  

That's all for today -off to my craft room now for some more making!!

Hugs, Juliexx

Marianne New Snowflake Mixed Media Stamp

Marianne Designs have some fabulous new Mixed Media stamps coming out this month.  I am in love with this snowflake stamp - it's also quite a big stamp (my cards are C6 in size).  I stamped it onto some Distress Oxides backgrounds that I'd prepared a while ago just waiting for the right project and this was it!  I've also added a little Blue Glass embossing in some spots but it's not really picked up on the photo,  The Christmas comes with a Sentiment set released last month, details below.

I've also done some embossed in White onto blue and red backgrounds - equally love these!!  And the sentiments for these are printed onto the smallest bookmark/tag die that comes in the set, again details  below.

Snowflake Stamp - MM1636 - NEW!

Christmas Sentiment from Set - MM1630 (Sept release)

Bookmark/Tag dies - CR1510

Already got some more on the go as I love the stamp so much!!

Hugs, Juliexx

More Autumnal feels with Lavinia Stamps

I started off making this card with just the oval coloured and clear white border but as you can see it didn't work - my ink leaked into the white border and so I ended up inking it all.  Having said that, I quite like the foggy , misty feel of it so decided to post anyway.  The pods are from Lavinia stamps and the Autumn tag  and tiny script stamp are from Marianne designs - MM1630 - a lovely mixed media set.

Have a great week,

Juliexx

Autumn Vibes

It's not very often that I make autumn cards but I love this image from Mo's Digital Pencil and I seem to be in an orange phase at the minute!!  I also love this new mixed media stamp set from Marianne Designs.  The image is called Pick of the Patch - click here to take you to the image in Mo's store

Details of the Marianne Products I used below.

Mixed Media Art Stamps - Autumn/Christmas Words - MM1633

Birds - Tiny's Sandpipers - LR0596

Sign Post - LR0535

Anything But a Christmas Card

Now I am in full Christmas card making mode at the minute, so it was nice to take a little break and celebrate the last hurrah of Summer for our new challenge at Passion for Promarkers this week.  Our lovely Lisa has chosen the  theme of Anything But  Christmas- a great open-ended theme as long as you use your Promarkers, Flexmarkers etc.

I've decided to use this super newish image (from August funnily enough), called August from Mo's Digital Pencil - love this little friendly duo! The sequins on the image were originally to hide a tiny dirty smudge ( I am not a clean worker!!), but actually like the way they look like little bubbles of air!  There's also a list of Marianne Products used, below.

Marianne Products Used

Web Frame - LR0430

Papers - Birds and Flowers - PK9085

Bulrushes Die - LR0409

Water Lilies Die set - LR0459

Mini Labels Tag/Sentiment set - CS1029

Our sponsors for this week's challenge,  are Uniko and they're offering the lucky winner  a stamp set of  choice from their online store so do come and play along!!

Also, don't forget to check out the fabulous makes of my teamies here- lots of loveliness to inspire you!

That's all from me for now, 

Hugs, Juliexx

Marianne Wildflower Envelope

I absolutely love this Envelope stencil from Marianne Designs!  And together with the Wildflower Die sets, I think they make such a special card for someone!  I've also used the new American style Mailbox Die which  is also the focal point of the Spotlight Post on the Marianne blog here.  So many lovely and varied ways to use it!

Marianne Designs Products Used

Envelope Stencil – PS8071- NEW!

Autumn Whispers Papers – PB7059 - NEW!

Marlene’s Mailbox – CR1510 - NEW!

Wildflowers Dies – CR1516/CR1517

Mini Labels Tag set – CS1029

Bow Die – LR0447

Round Die - CR1474

Mini Envelopes – LR0275

Have a great week!!

Hugs, Juliexx

More Mo Gnomes!

Can you tell I love Mo's  New Gnomes!  This is Oddvar who comes as part of a duo with Nils here.  I've made a little snow scene with Oddvar - I do love these windows from Marianne Designs - they fit so many of their dies perfectly, especially the range in  this lacy edge design.  The papers are also from Marianne Designs - Swedish Winter - full details below.

Marianne Products Use

Round Doiley die -  CR1474

Papers - Swedish Winter - PK9159

Acetate Shaker Window - LR0032

Snow - LR0028

Start of the weekend - have a good one!

Juliexx

Mo Manning Three Penguin Chicks

I love these cute little Penguin Chicks from Mo's Digital Pencil - such fun to colour up.  You get three in the set too - great value and can just as easily be made into cards on their own - although they do look so sweet together!

They didn't really need a whole lot else either - I just matched them with these gorgeous My Mind's Eye Christmas papers.

Happy Saturday people!

Juliexx

PFP Leaves Foliage

It's Tuesday and it's my choose day over on the  Passion for Promarkers Challenge blog here. I've gone for  Leaves/Foliage theme so just use leaves etc somewhere on your make - die cuts, image, papers, lots of choice!

And as we're being sponsored by  Colour of Love Digi Images, we also got to play with some of their gorgeous stamps - I've used Rory's 'autumn is in the air here.

 Just don't forget to use your Promarkers -or Flexmarkers or Aquamarkers.  I've listed the colour blends I've used  below.

Promarker Blends Used

Skin - Cinnamon/Coral/Sunkissed Pink/Blush/Ivory

Hair - Chestnut/Walnut/Cocoa/Raw Sienna

Oranges - Henna/Burnt Orange/Orange/Mandarin

Yellows- Raw Sienna/Sleigh Bell/Gold

Reds - Burgundy/Crimson/Ruby

Red Browns - Walnut/Burnt Umber/Firebrick

Berries - Berry Red/Heatwave/Red

Greens - Yellow Khaki/Herb Green

Of course, there's lots of fabulous Marianne products used too - listed below.  I think I've managed to tick off the foliage theme!!!

Marianne Products Used

Frame - LR0630

Trees - LR0375

Acorns  and Leaves - LR0373

Leaves- LR0621/LR0512

Tag and Sentiment - Mini Labels set - CS1029

As I  said, Colour of Love are sponsoring us this week and the lucky winner will be able to pick 3 images of their choice from the store.

Don't forget to check out the makes of my fabulous teamies here - they are beautiful! Then, pleeeeeassse come and play along with us - I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you've created!.

Hugs, Juliexx

Marianne Autumn Vibes

Thought I'd do a little bit of mix media work with new goodies from Marianne Designs.  I started off by inking through the Cobble Stones stencil with  a variety of  Distress Oxides, then splatted some water and dried off.  I then used this gorgeous new mixed media stamp of sunflowers and leaves.  I then added a bit of extra colour on the flowers.  Next I used the new mixed media sentiment set which gives you Autumn, Winter and Christmas, a small text stamp and some seasonal sentiments.  I then cut out some wildflower die-cuts from both of the sets that Marianne have recently brought out, layered them into a bouquet and finished off with the Autumn Sentiment over the top.  A list of products used is below.

Autumn foliage and flowers stamp - MM1633 - NEW!

Autumn/Winter Text set - MM1630 - NEW!

Wildflowers sets CR1516 and CR1517

Cobble Stones  Stencil - PS8001

Hugs, Juliexx

Marianne Designs Hamster Treehouse with new September products

Today I'm sharing my card featured on the Marianne Inspirations blog here. I've used some of the new September release items and a few older dies and papers to show how you can mix and match!  I do rather like using the Zebra Mask Stencil for the tree bark detail .   Anyway, you can see the card on the blog and also a walk-through of how I assembled the card.

Hamster Die Set - COL1489 - NEW!

Tree House Stencil - PS8073- NEW!

Autumn Whispers Papers - PB7059 -NEW! 

I Love Holland Papers - PK9168

Fern Leaves - LR0403

Grass - LR0650

Zebra Mask Stencil - PS8070

Have a great dayxx

Juliexx

Mo Gnomes Hedda and Frode

More Mo Gnomes from me today- this couple are Frode and Hedda who come as a couple here.

I took my colour choices from this fab paper from the Marianne Designs paper pad Brocante Winter - it's a beautiful set of blues, greys and purples - a little bit icy, a little bit nordic!

The snowflakes are from an older set of heart dies from Marianne - it has this snowflake die as a central die which was just as well because I couldn't find my main set of Marianne snowflake dies in  my Christmas stash!! The little tree lanterns are also from a much bigger set - CR1374 which makes a shadow box - sometimes just the thing you need is a small die from a bigger set!  Full list of Marianne products used below.

Marianne Products Used

Papers - Brocante Winter - PK9165
Tree Die - LR0678 - NEW!
Leaf Frame - CR1378
Snowflakes - CR1225
Lanterns - CR1374
Deer - CR1289
Tag - Mini Labels - CS1029
Sentiment - Happy Holidays - CS1009

 

Happy weekend everyone!  

Juliexx

Lavinia Twilight Trees

I fell in love with a card tutorial  that Tracey Dutton of Lavinia Stamps posted a few weeks ago on Youtube here.  I've also discovered that I can get Youtube in my craft room with the Firestick I have in there!  So I decided to follow along with the tutorial stopping and starting as I went.  I didn't have quite the stamps or products that Tracy used apart from the Fern branches so I made use of what I do  have and I was so pleased,  I went on to make  made ten cards to add to my Christmas stock.!!  Given me a lot of confidence with the techniques that Tracy showed too, so expect to see more!!

Hugs, Juliexx