BRAND NEW Art Liner pens from Crafters Companion

woooooo i'm FINALLY blogging ha! its been far too long since my last post and i have a million things to blog!.... so i best start catching up! so much has happenned and i've made so much since my last post! luckily i have everything photographed ready..... i just need to BLOG IT! so first post of 2017...where are we at, well..... after being made redundant from my day job on the 31st of december last year i decided that all i really want to ever do is craft..... so i am damn sure trying my hardest to stay at home, work for myself,  and do just that! its loooooooong hours....very long lol but so far i'm loving it , so i hope i can make it last! right enough waffling onto my blog post! so, as a very proud Inkoid we had that exciting privilege to work with and create samples for Crafters Companions brand new launch using their exciting new spectrum Art Liners!! this brand new set of brush and fine line pens are totally amazing!! the collection comes with brush and fine pens in black, grey , brown and then multicolours too! there is a set of gorgeous alphabet and word stamps to help you practise the art of brush lettering and a dvd to help show you the way and explain the system to you too!

now you do need to practise- unless you have done this type of lettering before. our team only had these for about 2 weeks, so i just know with more practise i will get better and better!! i created all my backgrounds first, then i was very brave i didnt use the stamps i just went for it lol, i looked at the stamps to give me an idea... but you know heres the thing.... there are no set rules, there are sooooo many beautiful brush lettering styles out there find whichever you love the most, or create your own!!! the font style included in this set was designed by the very talented Jennifer Tryon from the US Crafters Companion, and its stunning! just beautiful, stamp out your words then brush letter over the top! or...go freehand like i did! nothing to lose remember what Sheena always tells us.... it's just a piece of paper.. so here are my samples, on 2 of them i have used the fine line pens to draw my own details too! the headphones on the skull and dream catcher too! now this is a long post so i hope your sitting comfortably!

 on the next skull card- i have used the fine liner pens to draw some headphones onto my skull

 and on my last sample, i have used the art liners to draw a dream catcher- the feathers are a Sheena stamp

so there you have it! i do hope you like my new samples, i would love to know what you think so please leave me a comment 

Lots of crafty hugs

Nix 

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Sheena Douglass Home Life Part 2

I'm back! with the rest of my samples from the Sheena Home life coleection.... hope you likes part one!! more bold colours again....welll you expect nothing less now surely lol, once again you can check them out on line just ...HERE!

and... here we go!

 once again all coloured up using distress inks Spectrum Aquatints and Spectrum Aquapens.

my favourite medium at the minute to work with!!

thank you for coming back!!!! hope you have enjoyed looking through them, would love it if you left a little message below!!

hugs

Nicole

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Sheena Douglass Home Life Part ONE

Hi guys!! Time to share some samples from Sheena's Perfect partners collection....Home Life, 

Stamps and coordinating dies you can check the range out just over ....HERE! 

on the Crafters Companion website. I love this set and it was hugely popular when it launched. I made a few samples for this one so I'm doing a part one and part 2 blog!, part 2 being tomorrow!

there were 7 stamp plates in this set, I was lucky to work with the gardening set, they OBVIOUSLY stamp and die cut perfectly,

so heres Part one....

coloured with distress inks and Spectrum aqua tints and Aquapens

 

this collection is brilliant!! the seed packet stamp and die is the cutest thing EVER, and I love all the bold bright colours of the aquatints on these, 

I made quite a few for this launch so part 2 is tomorrow!! I hope you will drop back to take a look

Crafty hugs

Nicole

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Sheena Douglass Torn Collection Part 1

Hey crafters!! well, I'm back with my Torn samples part ONE!! :) Oh my days... THIS launch was one of my favouirtes, it's the skull ...I just love the skull stamp and it teams very well with another fabulous launch of Sheenas ...."Day Of The Dead!" ( thats tomorrows post!) so if you want to check the stamps out on line you can find them on the Crafters Companion website right over...HERE!!

 6 stamp sets in the collection again, all amazing , I especially love the blank one, this gives you endless possiblilies using your own stamps!! but as you can see on my first sample below I used it to create an aperature in my card!! so heres my Design Teams samples for this launch!, all coloured with Spectrum Aquatints/ markers and Distress Inks.... 

 

I LOVE THIS SKULL!!!!!!!!

 so the big skull that I have used for the inside is from Sheenas, "Day Of The Dead " launch , more with that next post!

 all the torn edges I've made 3D wich give a fabulous effect!!

and there you go, Torn part ONE!

thanks millions guys for stoping by and checking these samples out!! please leave a little comment below, I would love to hear from you,

 hugs

Nicole

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Sheena Douglass Torn - Collection 2

Good evening crafters!! well I am back! in an attempt to get this little blog up to date and bang on track!! so....tonight I'm going to Share with you my Sheena design Team samples from the Torn range! I adore the concept of these stamps, they are just brilliant! so much you can do with them , the detail is just outstanding too! which after all when hand drawn by Sheena herself and then made by Crafters Companion...we would expect nothing less!! If you want to check the stamps out on line you can find them over on the crafters Companion website just HERE!!

 So this new range of Torn stamps Sheena brought out in 2 releases, these I'm sharing this evening are the second lauch that you may have not long seen on Hochanda, I'll share the first lot tomorrow ( I'm working backwards remember!! ;) ) AND I am extremely proud to say that for ALL the torn stamps I did the colouring for the packaging too! so I was well chuffed!!,

here we go, 6 fabulous designs, 5 with an image behind and then one stamp set with the edges and corners etc all the neccessary elements to create your backgrounds and complete the look!my favourite is the EYE!!! amazing I love it so much!, and I just HAD to change it up a little and make into an Alien type witchy type of card!! brillinat!!

 so all my images are coloured in with Spectrum Aqua pens and then my backgrounds are all Distress inks, photos show the cards as being quite flat but are actually 3D in parts.

To help create all the shading I used my favourite drawing gum over the stamped images first so I could add some dramatic blending and shading just in the right places on each one, absolutely love that stuff!! then simply rub away to colour in the main image.

thank you thank you THANK YOU for stopping by and checking out my cards and reading my ramblings. It really is very much appreciated!!

I shall be back tomorrow with the FIRST launch of Torn range.... the skull is totally fantastic!!!

hugs

Nicole 

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