Sheena Douglass "Day Of The Dead"

Hey guys! I'm BACK, with a bit more catch up!! ......DAY OF THE DEAD!! what an absolutely FANTASTIC collection!! Totally missing I thought from the craft world and I just love it all!! Collection of Stamps and coordinating dies from our Sheena for this launch, if you want to check them out you can over on the Crafters Companion website just ....HERE!!

So we have 8 fabulous stamps and 6 die collections...where to start!! The Inkoids had so much fun with this launch, I checked out on line the "Day of the Dead" festival to get a feel and some inspiration!!...my favourite just HAS GOT to be the Skull, its fantastic , great size too, would work brilliantly in mixed media, infact our DT Coordinator Donna made a fantastic canvas, you need to go check it out!! 

So here you go....... it's a loooooooong post!

 

here is THE SKULL!! isnt it fabulous!! I had so many ideas with this I just didnt know how to clolour in first...so I made 9 on a baord haha, Now the skull comes plain its not decorated as you see here, I've used some of the stamps that come in the collection and also used a fine line black pen to draw some of my own! so...endless combinations here!! this is also the Skull I teamed up with the skull on Sheenas new Torn collection I posted a couple of days ago!

 little close up shot!! Do you like my eyes on the centre one!! love it, so simple just used the waste from the die cut and drew them myself very easy

 and here's the beautiful lady! Adore this stamp, she doesnt
 come with her face painted, I added that myself!!here is
 the stamp so you can see how she comes..

...beautiful yes?! but I added the iconic makeup that is so well known with this festival, then her hat, is a stamp and die also in this collection that goes with another set!! worked perfectly I thought

 

Next up the skull again, this time as a floating skull, I made a diarama card with a piece of acetate in the centre that i stuck my skull to, gives the appearance it is floating!! These flowers are in the collection too!!

..... More skulls... and how amazing is that music stamp!!! also in the collection!

The couple... went bold and colourful on this one....unusual for me right??? hahahahha

next.....i LOVED MAKING THIS!! I didnt see it on tv which was a shame though lol but it was so much fun to make, and I am sooooo making a few to decorate the house when I have an halloween party!!

even the cat and dog are in on the act!!

...last but by no means least the card I was asked so much about was my tunnel floating skull card with the eyes that FOLLOW you!! I will be doing a step out for this card with much better lighted photos that this one shows!! because of the tunnel the eyes that are only on the base layer give the illusion of following you its so cool!!, will get the step out for this one done asap ...and I also need to make one for my shelf lol
right folks thats it!! Check out the rest of the Inkoids for some more inspiration and our Pinterest board too
thanks for stopping by! would love to know what you think so please do leave a comment!!
Hugs
Nicole

Heartfelt Creations - Sunrise Lilly

Good afternoon crafters!!

So a little break from catching up on this years posts to share a couple of new makes with you all. a lovely friend of mine Cheryl asked if I could make her 2 cards for her Mum for her 50th Birthday, of course !! and straight away I thought it just has to be Heartfelt Creations! I am so in love with this companies collections I can't even tell you! I only discovered them last year!! and now I need everything...if only lol

I chose to work with the Sunrise Lilly collection for these 2 cards, the paper pad is simply divine, such beautiful colours and the quality of it ALL is seriously outstanding! 

I chose 2 different colours ways as one needed to have Mum on and the other Wife 

 so for this first card I chose some papers from the pad that had beautiful warm orangey tones that I teamed with green, distressed the edges added a little distress ink, then I used the images from the paper pad- Vase, Lilles and the corner lillie.. and die cut them with the matching dies, the frame they are on is also HFC but from the shoe collection, I then printed a sentiment, added more distress inks and some stickles so simple but beautiful!!

then for the next card , using the same paper pad I chose more pinky tones, added a little distress ink to the edges and this time run a line of stickles around, same frame die as before, printed my sentiment, and then used the main Lilly stamp and die combination to create these gorgeous Lillies!! very simply coloured with distress inks, 

added glitter, some cosmic shimmer pearls and done!

2 pretty cards 2 different colours same kit!

I also made one in gorgeous yellow tones but I can't share that one yet as it's not being given till monday!!

thanks so much for stopping by!!!

hugs

Nicole

xxx

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 

xxx

Sheenas BACK With A Gorgeous Christmas stamp collection !!

Good evening crafters!! well what can i say .... i have totally failed this year in keeping my blog up to date hahahah and after my big new year speech too! all i can say in my defence is...... its been a very busy crafty year!! but my little good ole blog is still here patiently waiting for me to UPDATE it! so..... here i am but with so much to blog where should i start!! i suppose it makes sense to blog my most recent makes, and then i'll work backwards! which would be Sheenas fabulous new exciting Christmas launch that has recently aired on Hochanda!! totally in love with these stamps!! gorgeous gorgeous designs all hand drawn by the sheer fabulousness that is our Sheena, Victorian feel to these too simply beautiful!! the inkoids had so much fun working on these and my fellow teamies made some corkers so please do check out their blogs to see what they have been up to, or.....if your a Sheena fan ( and of course you are ) check out the Sheena Inkettes page just  HERE!!

its full of all things Sheena!! not only do us Inkoids hang out here.... Sheena is always popping in and all the fabulous Inkettes ( thats what you will be when you join!!!) share all their fabulous creations using Sheenas products! just fab!! so pop on over and request to join!!

where was i....YES Sheena Christmas stamps! so....6 fabulous designs and what makes these so fabulous is there usability..... they are not only for Christmas how brilliant is that! so i'll stop waffling and share my design team cards with you for this launch! oooh and i've coloured all these with distress inks and the utterly gorgeous Spectrum sparkle pens!

yay i did it!!! i'm finally back blogging...i will try to blog each day this week whilst im off work to get my blog smack bang up to date so i do hope you will stop by and check it out!!

Crafty hugs

Nicole 

xxxx