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

Leonie Pujol Launch Samples Part 2

Welcome to Part two of my samples for the Launch of Leonie Pujols' Brand New Stamp and Die collection on Hochanda. Last nights show was amazing and was extremely popular, I hope you were watching.

I hope you liked Part One of my previews. If you haven't seen it please take a look at the post, I really enjoyed using these stamps and I know you will too.

There are six sets of stamps and twelve sets of dies in the collection, the dies go together in sets of four. All of the stamps and dies compliment each other perfectly allowing you to get the most from the collection.

Thank you for taking the time to look through the samples that I have made with the collection. I hope you have enjoyed them as much as I did making them.

Please also take the time to visit the other wonderful crafters who make up Leonie Pujol's design team.

My fellow Design Team Members, They are:

Elaine - Cakecoffeecraft.blogspot.co.uk

Jane - Isleofcraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk &

Katrina - Cornishkat.blogspot.co.uk 

From tomorrow I will be adding more details and step by steps of them for people who want to know how they were made. Take care and bye for now. xx

Christmas in June with My Own Stamps

Morning, I just wanted to remind you all that tonight is the Brand New Launch of Leonie Pujol's Stamps and Die collections on Hochanda at 8pm. The collections are stunning and really not to be missed, I will be sharing some of my designs this evening on my blog. This is the card I am sharing today and there is a story behind it which I will explain.

Every year I say that I am going to make a few Christmas cards each month so when I get to December, I have a head start and every year I don't. This year was no exception until I spoke to Dawn a little while ago.

Dawn makes a few cards each month and has a nice little stash by the time it arrives.I answered her saying, well I will definitely do it next year. To which she replied why not now. Well it got me thinking and she was right why not now, so here we go.

Don't worry this is a one off Christmas post for now. I decided that I would make some Christmas stamps to help me get ahead. With the exception of the Sentiment on the tag I drew and made the stamps that made this card.

I designed and drew the topper which is one stamp and 4 different snowflakes and proceeded to make the stamps, with my stampmaker.

For the background I stamped my snowflakes with versamark ink and embossed them with white and 2 different blue fine detail embossing powders. I did each colour individually. Then taking Summer Sky Adirondack and Weathered Wood Distress ink I blended the colour onto the background keeping it darker around the edges.

I cut my tag from white card with a tag die and then cut the next size up in Dark Blue for my mat. I stamped the sentiment using Paris Dusk Memento ink. I then added my snowflakes and embossed them as before.

I stamped my main image stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento, then masked it off with some copier paper and Crafters Companions Stick n Spray (Temporary Adhesive) I then die cut this leaving a nice border around it and also cut the mat for this in Dark Blue card.I added the snowflakes around my masked image and embossed as for the background. The using the same inks I blended from the edges keeping it darker at the edge. I then coloured my image with a selection of alcohol markers and mounted my design onto the mat.

To finish off my design, I added some Metallic Gold Flowersoft for the tinsel on the Christmas Tree and some Glossy Accents on the baubles. I used 3D glue gel to attach the topper to my background card. I then punched a hole in my tag, threaded some red cord through it and secured it to the background using 3D glue gel.

Obviously this first one took a bit of time as I was making drawings and stamps for a lot of the afternoon. But now this stamp should help me get ahead with my simple Christmas cards at least.

I really hope you have enjoyed this post. Don't forget to come back later to see the samples I have made with Leonie's new collections.Take care and bye for now.xx