Pink 30th Card

Evening all!
Isn't it typical, the day I planned to spend uploading the rest of my samples for this loop of demonstrations is the day that we get 3 1/2" of snow and also our broadband goes down! The latter lasted over a week until a technician came and fitted a new modem & router which is why I haven't posted any new makes for a while.

However this may have been a good thing as it meant that I stayed in the house whilst the snow was bad over the weekend and got a few personal cards made and some extra samples instead of going out or getting lost wandering the internet for hours!
Here is one of my makes, a pretty pink card for a friend.

This card is based on a wordbook style, the front ends at the '3' and the back is the longer panel with the '0'.
I have actually used all Docrafts products on this card but there is a mix of old and new ranges.

The digits are the new more curvy style of typography stamps which I stamped onto hot pink card, cut out and smothered in glitter! Also new is the hot pink glitter satin ribbon and the paper and sentiment from the Hot Diggity Dog collection.
The older products are the pink paper flowers, silver gems, dimensional butterflies and the Tulip layered 'Cake' die.
As you may know if you have read some of my older posts, I love this style of die, you make all the layers of the image and piece it together so you can choose colours to suit your project. If you look at the labels on my sidebar you will see my 'Layered Dies' tag where you can see how I used a die in this same style from the Tatty Ted range.

Right that's it for now, i'm off to upload a few more samples to Docrafts before bed. Night. :) Ni. x

Get Funky! Challenge - January Blues

Morning everyone!
I know my life has changed quite a lot since I became a DoCrafts demonstrator as there is a lot of prep work to do, admin after the demos, packing and unpacking and tidying my kit in between, as well as remaking some samples I leave in behind each time and of course the travelling to different stores; (now don't get me wrong here, I'm LOVING every minute of it and enjoy being busy!) but because of this I know I have not had much time to wander blog land or enter challenges. I didn't realise just how busy I'd been though until I noticed that I hadn't taken part in a Get Funky challenge since July!
So my post today is changing that and hopefully I'll be forgiven for going awol for a few months! :)

I needed to make a card for a new male colleague who turned 21 yesterday and the theme of January Blues  just seemed the perfect colour choice so here is my card (sorry the pic quality is not great!).

I have used two wordbook pages from the Blue Magic section on the Dreams Come True cd to make myself a simple base card. They were joined together with DST and the back page was then scored 1cm from the edge so that the front of the card is not marked by a fold line.

I love spots and dots on papers and the fact that this pattern was in reversed colour ways was brilliant for creating contrast between my pages but keeping the theme together, clever planning during the cd design me thinks!

The sentiment is a DoCrafts one stamped with a versafine ink, coloured with Promarkers and Zig Kurecolor pens. The name is white pearlescent card candy that I coloured to match the sentiment and the letters were drawn on with a fine liner pen. I used labels 8 to cut the sentiment shape and the same fine liner pen to edge the shape and faux stitch the numbers.

So that's it, a very simple card but hopefully it was well received, we'll see after he comes back to work!

I'm off to browse the DT cards now and the other entries for the challenge. Ni. xx

Sweet / Candle Gift Box Card - Tutorial.

Good afternoon!

Yes, that's right I am actually back for my second post of this week, ok ok, don't fall off your chair in shock lol! ;)

I have been busily uploading some of my DoCrafts demonstration samples and as I am about to upload some examples of the currently popular Gift Box Card I wanted to upload my own set of instructions and a diagram for making them.

You can also see my finished samples further down the post.

So as you can see it really is a very simple process, just 6 simple score lines and then a couple of cuts and there you have it!

If anyone is in the Ipswich area then I will be demoing these cards on Sat 28th at The Range and Sat Feb 11th at Bypass Nurseries if you would like to see a practical tutorial too. :)

Ok so on to my samples, this first one is my original attempt at this technique and has been made into a Thank You card with chocolates inside and features the Hot Diggity Dog range of products.

My second sample uses the adapted instructions for tea light candles and uses the Moments of Faith range...

... and this last picture shows that you do not have to add an aperture and uses one of my favourite products, the Tatty Ted layered die.

I hope this tutorial is of use to anyone who stops by and sees it, I would love to see any cards made using the instructions. Don't forget to check both of my DoCrafts galleries for updates using the new products all this month and in February too. Ni. :) x

2012 Calendar Series - Cover & January.

Ok so I've failed already at wanting to post at least once a week but hopefully that will change soon as I am looking to get a new smartphone so I can blog direct from that, much more convenient! :)

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Today I'm sharing a project that will be the first in a series of posts all coming together to make a complete desk calendar for 2012.

I'm hoping that making the page at the start of each month will get me thinking about which cards I need to get made in that month so I can get them ready on time and wont forget anyone, well that's the plan anyway!

Each page/month will be showcasing some of the newest DoCrafts products available as I am incorporating this idea into a sample project for taking along to my demonstrations.

Ok so onto the calendar itself, here is the front cover:

This is again using products from the London themed Portobello Road collection.

Here I've used the gorgeous deep blue crown print paper for my background, the flag embossing folder as a mount for the typography stamp numbers stamped onto Portobello Road papers, a stamp featuring the queens head as well as ribbons, a bow and buttons.

...and this is the page for January:


This is using a backing paper and topper from the new Hot Diggity Dog collection. The ribbons are from the Tatty Ted Winter Wonderland range and I had to include them because the print is perfect for those new year fireworks!

All I've done is take apart one of the very inexpensive DC calendar books and then used a spreadsheet programme to make the dated information box ready to fill in with my demo dates and birthdays, simple!

Thanks for stopping by, Ni. :) x

Happy New Year!

... well I'm only a few days late! :)

Now for those who are observant you will have seen (on my sidebar) that Saturday is my first Docrafts demo of 2012, hurrah! So for the past few days I have been busily prepping projects using all the new collections.

I have also made one new years resolution, I plan to do at least one blog post per week. I want to keep up to date with sharing my demo cards and the mini tutorials I'm taking to the demo's with me too.

For my first share of 2012 I have produced a scrapbook page using the GORGEOUS new Portobello Road products and the xcut scalloped bunting dies..

The mini photos are a first for me, they came from one of those in-store instant photo printers where I selected 4 images to be on one 6"x4" print. This was a nice way to include some of the photos we took at midnight as well as one of ourselves in the hotel we were staying in.

Right, I'm off to start making some Hot Diggity Dog cards now with the lovely new stamps. Back with more uploads soon! Ni. :) x