Beautiful Peacock panel

I made this lovely card using the Joanna Sheen Pretty Peacock panel Signature die

I layered this die up several times to add dimension. the various colour gems add the sparkle.

The lace panel to the left is Tim Holtz's new intricate lace panel cut from blue card.The paper in the background is from Clarity Stamps - Shenandoah paper pad.

I used coloured pencils to add more colour to the feathers.

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Sample Cards for May TV show

Here are the sample cards I made for the TV show that aired earlier in May.

 This card features the new Signature Lille Corner die

 This

The card below features the new Signature Lille Corner plus Versailles Corner die

The topper on the card is the new Signature Orchid Trio Die set

The card below features the new Signature Bordeaux Corner Die

The Topper is the new Signature Vase of Flowers die

The card below features the Signature Vase of flowers die

The background is made up from the same die  using 2 colours.

The topper and on the side of the card below is the new Signature Orchid Trio Die set

This card features the new Signature Tied bunch of Roses die

I die cut all the Roses and the background behind the roses from

the Hunkydory watercolour paper kit, I coloured the stems

and leaves with Promarker pens.

This is another card using the new Signature Tied bunch of Roses die

I cut the roses from matt card and coloured the leaves and stems with

Promarker pens.  The pretty corners are Signature Toulouse Corner die

All the cards below feature  sheets from the new 

Joanna Sheen Thomas Kinkade Pads 7 and 8

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Joanna Sheen's 15th Anniversary TV Show Samples

Joanna Sheen has been with Create and Craft for 15 years this week! Time does fly by I remember watching her very first show on Ideal World selling beautiful Pressed Flowers.!

To celebrate the occasion Joanna had some wonderful bargains throughout the 4 shows which resulted in almost total sell outs! Congratulations! Joanna.

I made some of the samples that were shown over both of the days shows. I will be adding the samples over the weekend. To start with below are the samples I made using the new Signature Dies Fairy Door dies.

I designed these 3 fairy doors for Joanna

 All the little flowers were cut from printed pages from the Holly Pond Hill CD Rom

 I made 3 little toadstall shapes, added the doors and then a piece of

folded card lifts each of them like an easel along the path which was cut

out pieces of card stuck down to look like paving (with a little glitter Lol)

 The plastic bubble here is a recycled piece of packaging left over from 

Christmas tree chocolatehanging decorations! 

I used circle dies to make the portal shape adding gems. I die cut the fairy door a few times colouring one brown for the wood and one from black card and paper pieced them together.

The door has a view beyond (a picture printed form the Holly Pond Hill CD) and I made the little sign and wrote Secret Garden using white gel pen.  I used Moss around the edges.

I coloured a piece of A4 card using Distress Oxide ink pads. 

 I smudged  the ink onto the craft mat

then spritzed it with water and dragged the white card through it - quite a few times - drying it off before each layer of ink.  Once it was dry I die cut each of the doors twice out of the sheen and swapped the doors of each over to create the rainbow looking doors.. I did have to add a bit more ink using dry foam to add a deeper colour on the surrounds.  I used some Rainbow ribbon from my stash along the top of the landscape A5 card.

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Art Nouveau card

I made this card using the latest dies that I designed for Joanna Sheen.

I folded and cut the centre step card adding the black panels each side and the border.  I used a Green and Pink patterned A4 card sheets then I die cut the Signature die - Hydrangea Frame twice, cutting out the pink Hydrangeas to place over the top of the green ones.  The Signature Dancing lady die  was cut out of the White, Pink and Green card and then paper pieced together as you can see on the card. The lovely Signature  Art Nouveau Mirrored corners  were cut from the green card as well as the Happy Birthday 

I had to add some bling to the card so there are pearls in the middle of each Hydrangea and tiny ones for the necklace on the Cameo lady and lots of very pretty tiny AB rhinestones that really do twinkle!

I can't wait to play with the other new dies that Joanna released just before Christmas!

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Willow Pattern Tea Set

Hello,

I designed some dies that were totally inspired by the Willow pattern.  I used them to decorate this paper tea set.

I also made a card using the Willow pattern dies along with the Ginko leaves and pretty lantern dies

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Country Garden dies

I tried to get back over the weekend to show the other set of dies that Joanna launched on Create and Craft on the 13th October just gone.. but life got in the way.

Anyway.. here I am with the samples I made for the show:

Here are 3 samples I made with the free gifts with the new Thomas Kinkade Joanna Sheen Magazine special. the first card uses one of the lovely images and the other 3 are using the Stamps.

The next 2 were made using the new Barbara Anderson cardmaking pad

 The next four cards I made using the new Evgeny Lushpin Cardmaking pads 1 & 2

 Finally, these last 3 cards I made using the lovely Jane Shasky Perfect Poppies card making pad along with the new Joanna Sheen Poppy dies

 

 

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Tea in the Garden

Last weekend Joanna launched some new dies on the Weekender over on C&C.. I made lots of samples for the shows, I will be showing the card samples I made over the next few days.

The first lot are featuring the new 'Tea in the Garden' Signature Dies from Joanna Sheen.

This shows the 'Flowers for containers' Signature die in the hanging basket along with the Tea for two Signature Die and the Cake Stand die.    

I die cut the tea for two 3 times so that I could layer the colours up, with the tea pot and cups cut out from pretty paper.

The table cloth shows the Tessa Lace edger die  

The background is the second 'blot' or print taken from a very bright Distress Oxide background I made.  I placed another piece of card over it to take off the excess which wasn't enough so I blotted it again and actually liked that better than the original . 

The beautiful image is from the new Jane Shasky Garden Delights Card making Pad from Joanna Sheen 
and the lovely Wheelbarrow and Watering can are new dies from Joanna Sheen 

I Matt and layered image onto Acetate. I created the matching background using a  sponge applicator with Distress Oxide inks (Peeled paint and Twisted Citron) with a few water splots to take some colour away. The Watering and Wheelbarrow die cut out of craft card and inked with Antique Linen Distress oxide and sprayed to bring out the colour.. adding pencils when dry.

The image on this card is from the other new Jane Shasky card making pad called Birds in the Garden.  The Garden corner Signature die was coloured to match the image using Distress Oxide inks. I cut the Morning Glory Signature die multiple times from cream card and arranged around the outside of the image, I think it created a faux embossed look. I added a little piece of tulle to the top left corner behind the image.. I wanted some ribbon somewhere on this card but new it would be too much.. so went for the almost invisible look of tulle.. I think it has added a softness to the card.

 If you look closely you will see that the Trellis Arch Signature die has been repeated each side of the cream coloured one but with Kraft card, I cut off the top part to create the fence panels also using some of the waste to make the stepping stones. The Swing Seat Signature die has been cut 3 times to give a more 3D look once layered up.

I created the  background for this image using Oxide inks

I inked with a sponge roughly where I wanted an impression of colours and then lightly sprayed it leaving it to dry.. the inks have a wonderful reaction when water is applied.

All the flowers for container flowers were die cut and dipped into the inks after adding some sprayed water.. leaving them to dry.

The background for the image has been done in the same way as the card above it. I love how the inks give such a soft and yet vibrant look all in one!  The Swing seat looks like it's in mid swing Lol.. (happy accident Lol)

 I really loved making this card. The wonderful Hanging Basket is such a useful die on any card and the new Flowers for container Signature Dies are perfect to fill the basket up!

 The pretty blue flowers are the Morning Glory vine die that I have coloured in and cut up to add the the basket.  If you are interested.. to create a mossy basket I stuck the die onto double sided tape and added green flowersoft.

Thanks for visiting today.. come back very soon for the next lot of samples.

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