Little surprises....

I've had a lovely weekend away, relaxing instead of working 😊 

My good friend Julie Clark ran my crafty Saturday with the help of my eldest daughter Robyn....as it all ran nice and smoothly I'll certainly let do it again. 

Today I had to go into work (thought normally closed on Mondays) to pack up some orders. 

The girls had cleaned up, and all was nice and tidy. Robyn had also been playing with my gilding polishes, she liked the new technique we can up with for creating a mixed background....so here's my card I completed using her background. 

 

I really love this set of dies, and you know it's one set I've not taken note of the name....oops

Here's the background and colours used in polish.

   

The sponge used is like a natural sponge, bought for all of 39p from home bargains (£1+ in other shops) and it's just been cut up into small chunks. 

Dip the sponge into your polish but don't add too much, dad your sponge around the page and mix with your chosen colours. (Can be done with paints and ink also) 

I cut out 4 borders & 4 corners with the backgrounds in white, layered them up on my card. 

 

For my center I used the matching background die, cut out the largest one, cut this in half then glued together to create something near a square 😕 

  

I layered up with a pierced square firstly in white, then changed my mind and used it in the coloured card. Added some pretty ribbon and large stamped tag...

 

 Hope you like my card, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me... 

 

Retailers Day with Creative Expressions

On the 4th April, I went all the way down to Kettering, to visit the Creative Expressions Head Quarters.
I met up with Johnathon Lockwood, Sue Wilson, Julia Watts, Lisa Horton and Phil Martin. They had all prepared some lovely projects for us to have a play with the new up and coming products, like dies, embossing folders, pixie powders and gilding polish ( I think the 2 latter were my favourites)
 I'm sure all the retailers had a lovely day and made fab items.
Here's a look at mine;

This one we used gilded polish, and the project designed by Johnathon Lockwood.

These are samples we made using the pixie powders, water stamps and masks :-)

 We worked with Julia Watts for these.

We made this MDF tag with Lisa Horton, using the metallic distress paints, her designed stamps and the scrabble stamps, I luv the scrabble stamps 

This card we used Phil Martins timeless paper pad and stamps

And last but certainly not least, this card we made with Sue Wilson. Using her glue and pixie powder technique, and I'm almost certain she has a little video on her blog with instructions.