All my Christmas Sheena Makes!!

well the weather is just awful looking out my craft room window...but then it is only January 3rd and we are in the winter months! so i suppose its to be expected, Autumn and winter are my favourite months i must admit, i love the colours of Autumn when the leaves start to change i love the winter months and listening to the rain against the windows and SNOW i LOVE Snow!...not too much of course, but its so crisp and clean..probably the only time my back garden looks beautiful and neat :) covered in a beautiful blanket of snow! ha ha I'm no gardener, no time ... craft is my obsession so last year we set to covering half the garden in decking which is very almost done! i want something nice to look onto out my Craft room window so I'm hoping I'll be good at Pots!! so back to blogging new year new crafty start and all that.... i have so much I've done the past few months but not had chance to blog so today i want to share some Sheena makes with you, now these are the Christmas Launch i worked on new perfect partners they were so gorgeous to work with and you may have seen a few on my face book! we had 3 Christmas launches on the Sheena team, dies and stamps,  stamps and the embossing folders!! so this is going to be a BIG post as I'll get all my photos uploaded in one go

first off the perfect partners stamps and matching dies! adore these sets!!

this one ive used the pine Christmas foliage die set, there is cordinating stamps but i didnt use them on this one, ive added Americana triple thick glaze to the pine cones too they look so lovely!

 this one is one of my favourites! again only the dies here i've used cut simply in white and then in colour on top, i've used the christmas foliage set and also the holly and ivy die, coloured up with my luminarte silk paints and a touch of gold gilding wax

 white on white! love it, so clean and elegant looking, using Sheenas poinsettia die set

 another favouirte! here i've used one of Sheenas embossing folders, this one is called "Stars over the city" i,ve painted the embossed detail with luminarte silk paints used distress inks for the sky and centre star, then rubbed over the embossed detail with gold gilding wax, then used Sheenas poinsettia die that i've inked up with the same inks and rubbed gilding wax over too, i really loved this card and made 5 more for a riend that were sent over to Aiustralia and America!

 this one i've used one of my favouite christmas embossing folders by Sheena that also launched this year, a really lovely font on this one, then using the poinsettia die i've cut and embossed  red card stock then sprayed with spray and sparkle

 same folder again, simple red card embossed then gold gilding wax, then created a poinsettia same as the above card, looks beautiful against the white don't you think ?

 oooooh another favouite here!! i adored this card, so simple to make, background is simply distress inks blended in, a couple of hills made using a torn piece of card, then the christmas foliage die set cut in white and black layered up with a tiny bit of silver gilding wax, i also sprayed the background with pearl diamond spray and sparkle before popping my die cuts into place to make my snow glisten!

 another card using the christmas foliage die set this time to decorate one of the new Sheena christmas embossing folders

 holy die set here, stamped in white for the back ground , painted with luminarte silk paints

 this one i just chopped up the holly die cut and created a holly decorated bauble!...something a little different

 simple striking red black and gold here, poinsettia and holly die sets

then how about using the holly leaves to create a christmas tree?!

 another favourite i wanted to remake but never found the time! a little mdf hanging plaque with more muted pastel tones

 strange idea i had here but tried to go with it!, stamped the background and coloured then die cut the top piece inked and layed over the top with 3D glue gel, wasnt convinced i liked it at first...but i liked the idea of it!!!

 ivy set up next quite grungy this one!

 

NOW....the new stamps that were launched, first up the NOEL set, i went a bit wacky colour with these but i loved them! totally none traditional colours 

 

Then the PEACE stamp set

are you still with me.....or is my post so long i've lost you lol

here we have the BELLS stamp set...

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS stamp set next up loved these!!

 

CHRISTMAS CANDLES... i'm almost done promise!

these next two are very simple using the largest font stamp, lovely sentiment here

phew we've nearly made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! theses last few pics are made using the new christmas embossing folders that launched, you will notice i used them in quite alot of my samples above too!! i mainly hand painted the embossed areas on these ones

 

and we made it woooooo! i hope you stayed for the marathon of my post!!! and i really hope you liked all of my Christmas Sheena makes!!

i'm off now to cause chaos in my craft room with Aquatints!! but i will be back again very soon!!

hugs

Nicole

xx

New Year New Crafty start!

Happy New Year!!

And what a year it's been!! amazing!! its been such a great jam packed full crazy busy wonderful year! I've been that full on i cant remember the last time i had chance to blog!! which is just awful BUT it does mean i have lots of photos waiting to be edited and get on here....EVENTUALLY! so....new year new crafty start! and whats in store..well, quite frankly LOTS ha ha lots and lots of crafty fabulousness, I'm still proudly designing cards for Sheena Douglass and crafters Companion and i hope to continue for as long as they will have me! so lots of projects i feel are brewing there! working on something just quite fabulous at the moment that i will be sharing soon!....new years resolutions? well, not so much a resolution as plans for 2016!, BLOG MORE must be top of the list , i love to blog...i love to talk and anyone who knows me would know this! SO 2016 I'm going to set me a dedicated day that's my blog day, a sort of bit of me time really as i love it, and as much as i have absolutely no idea if anyone actually reads my posts.... i enjoy writing them!, so for my first blog of 2016 I'm going to share a little card i made for Crafters Companion back in 2015! using one of their texture folders, i can't tell you how much i adore these folders! if i could only ever play with one embossing folder EVER EVER again it would be these ( all of them you understand!) and if you are reading this and don't have any of them you can pop along and check them out just .....HERE.

and here it is! simple and pretty, 

and here's how i made it

first off...i cut 2 pieces of Sheena stamping card to the size i

 wanted, and 2 bunting / flag shapes then using one of the crafters Companion texture stamps, i added a couple of circles, just stamped in black

then i embossed all pieces using the basket weave embossing folder

then for some bright colours!!! i used Rose Bud and Dandelion momento ink pads

and blended the colours with a round Tim Holtz blending tool

the pink and yellow blend lovely giving a fabulous bright orange too!

then simply start to assemble, i used Collall 3D glue for my bunting laying one over the other,

then finally....i stamped a sentiment, again using the crafters companion texture stamps, i chose the word CREATE ....blended some ink around the edges, curled and glued in place, then printed the words "with friends" these i inked then sprayed with spray and sparkle...final touch a few Hobby House roses and a simple green Cheery Lynn swirl die cut....ooh and 2 teeny tiny diamantes..i LOVE these!

and there you go, quick and simple, i have a few of these made with the texture folders i'll be posting,

so...thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read my little blog!

hugs

Nicole 

xx

Crafters Companion 4Day Deal NEW DIES Prestige Only Words and Create A Card Words!!

Hey crafters!!  phew what a busy week!...who am I kidding its been a busy year!! these Design Teams do know how to keep me busy!!....well it's all these FABULOUS new launches they keep coming up with, and ...yep here we are AGAIN with yet another corker from Crafters Companion!!!!!   tomorrow 22nd June on Create and Craft see's another 4 Day Deal from the amazing Crafters Companion

So you know how they have the most amazing selection of dies...well they are adding to them with the BRAND NEW Prestige dies, they are so gorgeous!!! they cut beautiful, have the most sincere lovely sentiments that you are going to go to time after time, and guess what, they are in the most exquisite GOLD!! well posh :)

 but...that's not all.....no no no,.... you are being totally spoilt because we ALSO have 6 NEW Create A Card Word dies too!, it just gets better doesn't it!! also on the show is the totally MUST have new alphabet dies, and some of the Aperature Create a card dies..., right so I'd best stop my waffling and share with you my Design Team Makes this time around, I do hope you like them!!

wowser quite a lot to post!! and while I could break it down into little posts I thought I would just hit you with the lot!!

so here are the show dates and times, if you are at work hit that record button!! and if not, put your feet up with a nice big cuppa and ENJOY!!

I have LOADS of exciting design team work on the go right now so will share more with you ....TOMORROW!  ...who wants to see our Sheena ....oh yes crafters, something else exciting is coming your way!

Bye for now

love

Nicole

xxxx