Saturday, 28 February 2009

An end to a great night

Well it seems the party is over now, boo hoo :(, i had tons of fun blog hopping to my fellow Design Team members blogs and oodling their creations, Clare has officially reveled the sneak peek cards which were designed by the wonderful DT , hope on over to there now and see for yourself the wonderful creations these ladies have designed, before you do though i thought i would show you mine and give you the run down on the products used :)



How cute is that butterfly, this gorgeous stamp is from the Doodles stamp set :)
I have coloured the butterfly with whispers stroke markers, i must admit i am not used to these pens and therefore am not happy with my colouring, but hey practice makes perfect and i will be getting lots of practice with them (not that mine will be perfect though ,but i can dream right hehe), i didn't take the pen straight to the image though, i coloured the pens onto my acrylic stamp block and used a koi water brush to "try" being the word and create a water coloured effect, not sure i achieved that though, i may have over done it a tiny bit, ok allot hehe, but again i will make sure to get lots of practice with this technique as i am dying to get it right, i refuse to be beaten hehe.
The papers used on the card are from Clare's Signature Range and the pack is called "The Big One", this pack is sooooo scrummy and can be used in both male and female cards, as the colours are turqoise, brown, black, redy pinky colour hehe (lets go with magenta on this one lol), and white, this MASSIVE pack contains 200 sheets of 12x12 papers in 10 designs and 5 colour ways , and whats better is that it's at the bargain price of £14.99, heck if i wasn't on Clare's DT i would sooo be buying this myself :) :), oh who am i trying to kid, i probably will buy it myself just so i have spares hehe


Lastly i used some of papermania's pink glitter brads, wow these are wonderful, you can get them in a range of colours (which i will probably end up getting lol), the packs have pearl, glitter glaze, glitter, diamante , velvet and plain brads in them and every one of them is gorgeous :)


wow ok i just noticed that i sounded like i was giving a sales pitch hehe, hmm maybe a job in advertising is my calling lol, well i said i would give a run down of the products etc used and that's what i did (although there was maybe a bit more ranting in there than you wanted hehe)


Right i think that's my rant over :), be sure to stop by the CCSR blog and my fellow Design team members blogs for inspiration and a description on their creations (although i doubt they will waffle on as much as i did hehe)


Night all



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4 Kind comments:

Lorraine A said...

Beautiful card Martine :-) the butterfly and the papers are just gorgeous and you made a stunning card using them :-)
Lorraine

Clare said...

Thanks for all your hard work this week martine, not only on the Dt cards, but on the CCSR blog and the sketch challenge graphics! You really are a star! Hope you enjoyed the party, sorry for giving you a heart attack a the beginning, love, Clare x

dawnmarieg said...

Hi Martine, gorgeous card, I just love these stamps, when are they getting released? Love the papers too, fab price for such a large paper pack. I think your colouring looks great, I know what you mean though, I have copics which I bought a while ago and I just cannot seem to get them to work for me lol, when I look at some of the blogs and see what can be done with them I'm agog cos I just ain't getting it lol, think I'll just stick with my prismacolors and sansodor. Really enjoy reading your blog. DawnM.x

torpenhow07 said...

This is a lovely card Martine I love anything with butterflies

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