Spectrum Collection

I have recently purchased the new Spectrum Aqua marker pens to add to my existing collection of Noirs and pencils and decided to try them out alongside the other two sets.

I used a poinsettia Penny Black stamp and greeting from the Wonder Collection. I coloured one on watercolour card with the Aqua Markers and two with the Spectrum Noirs (one on white Neena and one on Neena Desert storm) and two more using the Spectrum Pencils (again one on each of the cards).

Spectrum Aqua Pens:

Spectrum Pencils:

(white card left / desert card right)

Spectrum Noir Pens:

(white card left / desert card right)

I found them all great to use. The technique DVD's and demonstrations I have seen on Create and Craft helped to use them, which is good as you need to use different techniques for each medium.

Unfortunately the photos don't do the finished flowers justice. I think I need to invest in one of those photo booths.

I finished the cards with some flourishes die cut using the Marianne's flourish dies and Spellbinders Camelia leaf.

Also just to let you know I have put some craft kits and stamps I haven't used on eBay if anyone is interested. Ebay items.

xxx Mia xxx

Gorjuss - Puddles Of Love

This card is using one of my older Gorjuss girls stamps from Personal Impressions.

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Colours - Colour Q
• Sketch - Moving Along With The Times
• Music ("April Showers") - Try It On Tuesday
• Weather / Season - C.R.A.F.T Challenge

I coloured the stamped image using my Spectrum Noir pens and hand stamped the background using a variety of different ink pads. The card blank came from Hunkydory.

xxx Mia xxx

Gorjuss - The Fox

This card is one of my favourite stamps from my new Gorjuss collection from DoCrafts.

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Green - Spectrum Noir
• Dimension - Tuesday Throwdown
• Buttons - Simon Says Stamp
• Girly Card - Stampavie & More
• Buttons & Birthday - Seize The Birthday
• Sketch - Seize The Sketch
• Green plus 1 colour - Dynamic Duos

I made this card using the stamp, buttons, bows and ribbons from the Gorjuss collection. The image was coloured using Spectrum Noirs. The die cut frame was made using my Brother ScanNCut and another file from the wonderful Birds Cards site.

xxx Mia xxx

Magnolia April Showers

This card is using one of my new Magnolia stamps.

It's for the following challenges:

• Colours (Blue, Brown and White) - Magnolia Down Under
• Sketch - Tuesday Morning Sketches
• Anything Goes - 7 Kids Challenge Blog
• Flowers - Cute Card Thursday, Pile It On

I used a Magnolia stamp which was coloured with Spectrum Noirs. The papers and ribbon are all from the Gorjuss girls Docrafts range. The flowers, leaves and corner pieces are all cut with Marianne Creatables dies and the scalloped rectangle is cut using the Brother ScanNCut. The greeting is a Forever Friends stamp.

xxx Mia xxx

Forever Friends Easter Card

I had forgotten that I had bought this Forever Friends Spring Collection and it came in handy for these challenges:

• Spring Colours - Stampin' For The Weekend
• Easter / Spring - Fun With Shapes, Aud Sentiments, Scrap-Creations, 4 Crafty Chicks

I used the Forever Friends collection and coloured the stamp using Spectrum Noir pens, I also used the papers, ribbons and bows from the same collection. The greeting is also from this collection. I cut the circle and scalloped circle using the Brother ScanNCut. The flowers and card candy are from Craftwork Cards.

xxx Mia xxx

Mother's Day Me To You Card's & Gift Bag

This project was for Mother's Day for my mum from myself and my sister. It's tradition every Mother's Day to give her Me To You Bears as presents and I thought this year that we would have matching cards and gift bags to give them to her in.

I also made these for the following challenges:

• Flowers - The Crazy Challenge, Sentimental Sundays

• Sketch - Stampin' Royalty

I used the Me To You Docrafts CD Rom 'Spring Chic' and the flowers and brads are from the Papermania Capsule Collection.

xxx Mia xxx

BeBunni Big Sister Card

This card was a commission I had for a colleague at work who wanted a card to give to her daughter when her baby is born in a couple of weeks. Her request was pink and as girly as possible. Hopefully this card meets that description:

This card is also for the following challenges:

• Animals - The Crafty Calendar, Creative Card Crew, Delightful Challenges
• Favourite Colour Combo - The Pink Elephant, Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog

• Sketch - Everybody Art
• Anything Goes - Anything Goes
• It's A Girl Thing - Creative Inspirations
• Bling - Little Red Wagon

The papers and images are from the BeBunni love CD Rom and the bow is cut using my Brother ScanNCut. The jewels are from Papermania.

xxx Mia xxx