Anniversary Cards

Hi all i popped on today to show you 

a couple of anniversary cards i have made recently.

 This first one is for my Mum and Dad.

Mum loves Orchids and this digi stamp was perfect.

I've coloured it with Spectrum Noir pencils and blended with

Sansador and paper stumps.

the sentiment is from woodware and I've stamped it so it looks

all joined up.

I've also been having a play with the art of 

ZENTANGLE.

It's so so so addictive.

I made a little panel for the edge of the card.

I've also got another card to show soon were I've gone

zentangle mad.

 The second is for hubby.

this is also coloured with the Spectrum noir pencils.

and I've frantaged round the edge.

The papers are DCWV Nana's Nursery.

La La Land Bunting Die and hand wrote LOVE.

Lace from Dunelm Mill.

Thanks for stopping by, I'm off outside now, 

the sun is shining so i'm making the most

of it while its here.

XXXXX

Spectrum Noir Pencils

Happy Friday all

What could be better, It's Friday, the sun is shinning

and i have just  received my complete set of 

Spectrum Noir pencils from C&C.

I love blendable pencils, i have the Polychromos ones

as you will probably know already.

But after seeing the fab pencils from Spectrum Noir on 

TV last week i had to give in and order them.

Well they were a very good price.

 You can download a colour chart from the 

website here

I did the A4 blank colour chart so i could colour

it in myself, then i would have a true colour copy for matching.

I did have one little problem i discovered that i had

two of the same colour in my essentials tin. That meant i was

missing one colour so i emailed  Crafters Companion and they said

they would mail me the missing pencil.

It hasn't arrived yet, but they couldn't have been more helpful.

Watch this space.

The first thing i wanted to do was to colour on Kraft card

they had some samples on kraft which looked great

so i wanted to give it a go.

Here's the result of a bit of playing last night.

Wow

I'm impressed

The colour goes on and blends beautifully.

I do feel i need a bit more practise on the 

skin to make it stand out more, but no I'm 

really happy with the results.

I used Crafters Companion Kraft card

and inked it up with vintage photo distress ink.

Handmade Coffee filter paper flowers. 

( I so need to make more).

Leaves are from a Crealies die.

Stamp i have used is Tilda with cherries in basket

 it's an older stamp but I'm going to make a point of using them more,

I keep buying new ones and the old ones seem to get forgotten about.

I can't tell you where the papers are from, i found this in my bits draw

and thought i would go perfectly.

Tim Holtz sentiment tag.

Lace from stash.

Well would you believe it the postie has just been

and my missing pencil has arrived.

You can't beat that for good customer service.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fab

weekend 

I'm off for another play with my pencils.

xxxxx

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I've had a little play

 The Postie also brought this little
beauty.
xxx