I have a scrap-crush on someone {and i’m blushing!}.
You might have heard of her, i mean, she is only one of the most awesome crafty girls in the industry (or at least i think so) – it’s Nichol Magouirk.
Her website has been in my bookmarks for ages, and now that i have jumped onto the Google Reader bandwagon, i will never miss a post again! I love her style, it’s so fresh, colourful and clean cut, which is a style which i am definitely leaning towards these days.
I always find her work so very inspiring, and i love that i can watch her ‘from start to finish’ videos which gives us viewers a fly on the craft room wall type of look into her creative scrap journey.
Not only was I feeling inspired by her style when making this layout, I thought that i would pay tribute to Nichol by playing with my video camera so that i too could share my creative scrap journey with you guys.
Enjoy the video, and please be sure to jump over to Nichol’s website so that you too can get a share of the oodles of inspiration.
Oh, and i meant to say, the photo grid is made using an awesome template from Kerri Bradford. That angel makes it so easy to do multi-photo pages. Bless her!
It’s been a long week for us chicks, with something on the agenda everyday, but I have to say that the busy-ness has kept me out of mischief, and has tired out bambino so much that she has been sleeping like sleeping beauty herself.
As i’ve managed to post a video for the last two weekends, I thought I would keep up this trend and share another vid with you today. You never know, it may even become a tradition!
Today’s card is a sympathy card. I don’t make a lot of these because there is something about sympathy cards that just doesn’t feel pleasant. I guess its only natural to not get excited about making such a card.
I like this technique of building a background to the card using ink and stamps, as you can make the card subtle and demure. I hope you enjoy the video.
I usually post a picture or two as well, but it seems that I forgot to take one before sending off the card. Sorry about that.
Have a great weekend, i’m off to find ribbon for my new typewriter!
Products Used
Penny Black flowers Distress Ink Blending tool Cuttlebug Nestabilities Linen thread Hero Arts Friend definition cling stamp Whispers Pigment marker Heartfelt Wishes stamp- from Personal Impressions Clean stamp set Foam pads Adhesive pearls – from meiflower
Today i’ve got a video for you, walking you through a little inking fun. I like to use white embossing powder to emboss a stamped image and then colour over it, as the white always pops out so vividly. I picked up this really yummy Penny Black stamp a little while ago and it is perfect for this technique.
I had fun making the video, I hope you enjoy watching it.
As for us, we are going to two summer fayres today. They promise me bouncy castles, BBQs, craft stalls, beer tents and car boot sales. I’ll let you take one guess at which one of those interests me the most! (and one guess to which interests Craig the most! ) LOL.
