Patchwork Polly

I made these 2 cards several months ago for the release of Jayne Nesterenko's Patchwork Polly set. I loved the set as soon as i saw them, they are just so adorable, think these 2 are my favourite. I met Jayne at Ally Pally (which shows how long ago they were done!) and told her then how much i loved the stamps, as she was demoing them before the launch, so it was really lovely to see her using them too. I didnt get to send them off for the launch as i was really poorly and hence, they didnt get sent off! not sure if ive posted them before, but as they were on my camera and ive been uploading them all to the PC, i thought i better post them! Apologies if they have been on before!

Thanks for stopping by, and hopefully see you again soon?

Take care

Taken with Teal and Orange

Im absolutely loving Taken with Teal and Orange at the moment, its just such a gorgeous colour combo. Stamped these images and coloured using my promarkers in matching colours, did a bit of distressing and hey presto!

Hope you like them? See you soon

At last it's here....

Well after 3 months of incredibly hard work with the Crafter's Companion Design Team, The Popcorn Bear Triple CD is due to be launched on Ideal World at 9pm on Wednesday, this week! Ive had so much fun in designing these CD's, i absolutely love the images on this, they are just adorable! so without further adoooo here they are....

Stamped bear
... another stamped bear, outside and inside...

Love this one, the bear is adorable!

Double tag card,

another double tag card, this is such a cute bear too!

stamped Sunflower bear, who i think is totally adorable!

Birthday bear - this is one of the toppers off of the CD set

giftbag i made with a topper from the CD's

Promarker Challenge

Well, i've finally done it, im entering my first challenge on the Promarkers Challenge site.
There are some fab prizes up for grabs, so pop over there and have a look.
The colours ive used, if i can remember them all are....
Terracotta, spice, sky blue, meadow green, cool grey, black, pumpkin and grass, oh and sandstone! (had to rematch all the colours to get the colours i had used!)
I also used Tim Holtz distress inks, some ribbon, cuttlebug swiss dots and cuttlebug alphabet. Glitter glue and glaze for the windows.
Wish me luck!!! kinda nervous as ive never entered a challenge, but as they say, there's a first time for everything!
Nicki
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Covered Tin tutorial

Take a tin with a resealable lid (yep im addicted to cappuccino! its fab!)

Choose a paper to cover you tin.... i used scrapbook paper (big pad, cant remmeber the name of it again! oops!)
Measure the height of your tin....

Cut paper to size (12 x 12 paper is a good fit, although A4 landscape also fits!)
i used double sided tape to stick the paper to the tin...

i chose to use 2 co-ordinating papers, so attached the second one to the tin, but then you get an 'ugly' line!

I used border punch to cut a strip to run around the middle...

Using double sided tape (again!) i attached it around the middle of the tin...
still got some ugly lines tho!!!

Using some co-ordinating Pink border peel offs (or some ribbon... whatever you want to use, i attached around the top and bottom where the paper meets the top (you sometimes get a gap!) and the a strip around the middle to hide where the scalloped bit meets the paper...
I then attached images i stamped with Stampin Up stamp 'Playful Petals' (my fav at the minute!)

Et... Voila! the finished tin! hubby still thinks im really sad and need to get out more! lol

Get off your soap box!

Well... here it is at last! my soap box Tutorial
To start with you will need a soap box (yes i have been on a bit of a collection! lol)

Next cover the box with the paper of your choice, i used a scrapbook paper, cvant remember which pad it was now? one of those huge thick ones with loads of papers in different shades!

I attached a velcro sticky dot to the tab part so that the box can be shut...

I used my new Stampin Up stamps 'Playful Petals', bought these as i think they are soooo pretty!
I added some co-ordinating ribbon around the box and added a knot to the front to snazz it up a bit...

This is a view of the top flower which was stamped, used Letraset Promarkers to colour it and some glitter glue around the edge of the flower and centre flower.

... next one to do is the tins!!!

My 1st tutorial

Well thought i would post a tutorial (my first one!)
Start off with 3 dishwasher tablet boxes and some sticky dots! (... all will be revealed!)
Cut off the tops to the length of the Promarker pens....

Stick the boxes together with double sided tape and add tape around the sides....

Next... with your chosen scrapbook paper (or paper/decoration of your choice) wrap around the sides of your boxes, to tuck into the box, its easier to snip 'Vs' where the boxes join, the when you stick them down into the boxes you get a lovely clean edge...

To cover the joining boxes, cut a strip the width of the box, attach double sided tape and fold over the joins of the boxes.

To line the insides of the box, cut your paper to almost the depth of the box and attach double sided tape to the sides and the top, i found it easy to put the length of paper into the 'slot' and it was then easier to attach the first edge and then start to gradually peel away the top tape...

Once you get into a corner, for a nice crisp, neat edge, use a bone folder to crease down the groove, then continue to peel away the tape as you go around the edge...

Once you have lined all the insides, your then ready for......

... your markers!!!
this is where all your sticky dots come in handy! (yes sad i know and as hubby said i need to get out more! LOL)
stick a dot to the end of each pen and colour with the pen colour, and as you can see they are all at hand and easy to find your chosen colour!

Hope you like it?
Will hopefully be posting some more tutorials, next thing im doing is some altered items!
take care
Nicki
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First of 3 scrapbook pages

I just love this image of my daughter and my husband. She was only about 3 years old, but she was just so angelic but cheeky! I love the fact that the images are black and white too, so designed the scrapbook page around that.
I used black scrapbook paper and stamped the images onto that, and coloured the leaves and flowers in with silver letraset marker and then added touch of glitter glue to the centres, used nestabilities flower die for the 2 larger flowers and added text i made from Word, then stamped all over that and cut it all out, added a few diamondy embellishments and thought it looked fab!
The stamps i used were build a swirl by Prima marketing, and they are massive! but gorgeous!

Another stamped card...

This card i made using completey stamped images too, the one on the right is the inside! I used various stamps, Personal impressions clear stamps, Kaiser scrapbook stamps, papermania clear stamps and clear stamps by Sugar and spice. Tim Holtz inks and stamping up inks for the colours as well as letraset markers to colour.

Gorjuss card

Outside of card ... and inside of card.

This is a Gorjuss card i made using papers downloaded greatfully from Summertime Designs and i must admit they are absolutely beautiful, so i would like to say thankyou for designing them and letting us download them!
I also used my cuttlebug to cut out the swirly die, which is a sizzix border die, and my new frame die, which i think was nestability one? very pretty frame and set. Alchohol inks and letraset permanent markers to colour and of course the Gorjuss Girl stamp from Funky Kits and to finish it off some flowers!