Brand New Wonder Crystals.

Happy May Day. Today, I am sharing a project I have made using the exciting new Wonder Crystals that Justin & Gordon launched recently on Hochanda. To create the design, I used Leonie's Mixed Media Die Collection 'Mosaic'.

The addition of the mica flakes has brought a whole new look to the already amazing Wonder Crystals, giving them even more texture and depth. Here I have made my project into a wall hanging, but by using other materials, it would make a stunning statement necklace.

I started by cutting a rectangle measuring 3 1/2'' x 7''. I covered the card with a Wonder Sheet before shaping one end using a basic circle die.

I positioned the Mixed Media dies onto the card to create the design I had in mind.

Next I drew a larger triangle to compliment the design, then drew lines to divide the area into panels to use the area to best advantage.

I cut the remaining areas, applied my chosen crystals and heated with the heat tool.

I secured my design onto a backing with Cosmic Shimmer glue. Once dry I positioned four small holes using a Cropodile.

To finish, I threaded a length of black cord. It would make a lovely wine bottle tag or a smaller version on leather or faux leather would make a wonderful key ring and as I mentioned before it would make a statement necklace or even a card topper.

Thank you so much for visiting today, I really hope you enjoy your May Day bank holiday. Hopefully you have enjoyed the step by step today and the finished piece.Take care and Happy Crafting.xxx

Leonie's One Day Special Samples

I'm very happy to be able to share a post with you today at last. I know it's been a long time but most of you will know why. Well, I hope you got to see The One Day Special on Hochanda last night with Leonie. There are some amazing deals to be had, there has already been a sell out so dont leave it too long. There are more shows today at 9 am, 12 pm, 4 pm and Final Call at 7 pm Tonight.

I'd forgotten a lot of the samples I had made with these wonderful products, there are step by steps for all of them in my previous posts from April on wards, please take a look, if there are any that you would like me to re post please leave a message.

I am sharing some of the cards, but there are no step by steps for these on the blog. I will try and get some descriptions down for you.

The blog will be up and running as normal from the Start of March, until then I will add posts as and when I am able to.

Take care all and thank you for all of your messages of support and your patience. Happy Crafting.

Home

It was such great fun designing with this collection from Leonie. This particular collection was launched on Hochanda on 5th October, so if you missed any of the shows they might just be still available on the Catch Up facility on their website, they are well worth watching but I would be quick.

For this card I used the houses and build a tree stamps along with the 'Dotty Days' and 'It's Snowing' embossing folders. I started by stamping the main elements onto some Neenah Desert Storm card from Crafters Companion, this is extremely smooth card and takes colour beautifully, while still giving that Kraft feel and look. I added a couple of different roofs by stamping a section of the 'Build a Tree' stamp and masking before stamping the houses.

Using my alcohol markers I coloured my images.

I cut an A4 sheet of red Centura Pearl from the Brights collection from Crafters Companion to 8'' square.

Next I took a sheet of 8'' square parchment and embossed it using the 'It's Snowing' Folder. This was passed through twice to emboss the whole piece, it's very easy to extend the pattern without any marks.

Taking two A4 strips of Neenah Desert Storm. Just wide enough to take the swirl emboss from the Dotty Days folder, I ran through my machine. This was also easy to match up, I needed the extra length to cover the top and bottom of the finished card.

I then cut out all of the elements and set aside ready to assemble.

I secured the parchment to my card using Wonder Tape at the top and bottom leaving the two sides free of adhesive. I positioned the embossed card with foam tape to give more depth. These were both placed so it was part of the tail emboss that would be trimmed off to size (see photo).

To secure all of the elements to the card I used Collall 3D glue gel to stagger them at different levels, I did the same with the Home. Lastly I took my white Pebeo 4Artist Marker and highlighted the dots, this finished my card.

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you have enjoyed the step by step I have shared and the finished card. Hope to see you again tomorrow, Take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Samples for Leonie's Launch Show Part 1

Hi Everyone. Great that you have come to have a peek at the samples I have made for the launch of Leonie's New Collection. She has just launched the brand new selection on Hochanda as a One Day Special. They are really beautiful, so dont miss out.

It's a wonderful collection of Entwining Dies, They are Christmas themed, but saying that they are definitely not just for Christmas. They can be easily used to create looks for the whole year. Later in the month I will try and show some other ways of using them.

There are 3 collections of dies in this collection: Entwined Christmas Tree, consisting of Base, Baubles and Frost. Entwined Snowflake which consists of Snowflake Base, Winter and Snow. Last but not least is Entwined Cross, this collection consists of Cross Base, Circle Heart and Swirls.

There are also 6 sets of beautiful coordinating stamps, wonderful sentiment, background and embellishments etc. Really lovely and so useful to use on any project or to use independently.

Thank you for popping by to see part one of my launch samples, as always I will be sharing more tomorrow morning, hope to see you then. In the meantime please take the time to visit the other members of the design team, they also have some great samples to share with you.

Elaine - Cakecoffeecraft.blogspot.co.uk

Jane - Isleofcraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk 

Katrina - Cornishkat.blogspot.co.uk  &
Natalie - natsplat86.wix.com/splatsplog

Flower Vase

Morning, Only a couple more days to go until Leonie will be launching some brand new crafty goodies. Her One Day Special will be on Hochanda at 8pm on Thursday evening, I hope you will be able to tune in. It's going to be very exciting as always. I will be sharing some previews on the night so I hope you will take a look. Today I am sharing a card with the lovely stamps Leonie brought us earlier in the month.

To start with, I cut out a vase shape in copier paper to act as a mask and stencil and inked through it using Faded Jeans Distress Ink. I concentrated the colour at the edges to give a rounded look.

Then I took one of the strip stamps from the collection and curved it on my block before stamping it onto the vase with black Archival ink. This gave a more realistic look and made the vase look even more 3D.

I removed the stencil to reveal the vase.

Next I used the flowers with stems from the collection to build up and fill the vase. I also added ore leaves and the flourish stamp to extend the flowers to other areas of the design.

Next I added some of the larger blooms from Leonie's collection using a mask so they appeared from behind the other flowers. I then added some of the larger leaves. Then I added my chosen sentiment, here I used one from Bee Crafty along with some butterflies from HOTP 'Dancing Wildflowers'

I then coloured my design with a selection of alcohol markers.

Finally to finish the card I backed the piece onto some light blue 'Centura Pearl' from the brights selection from Crafters Companion with some Cosmic Shimmer Glue.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today. I have to apologise for not replying to the comments, It has been extremely busy. I do appreciate you leaving the comments and I do take the time to read them all.