Imagination...

Todays card is a very simple make just using two stamps and two inks. The girl with the balloon is a Jenni Bowlin stamp and the other is an Alice in Wonderland quote that I love "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"  it's a quote that has always stuck in my head, because if you don't believe in the "impossible" if you don't imagine that maybe you can then you will never try and therefore never achieve it (if that makes sense!)

For me, a lot of my work is about imagination, what will happen 'if' I try that, or draw that, or put those papers / colours together. It's the part of my job I love the most. I imagine all the time, I see the pictures in my head, where someone who draws a still life will look at the objects in front of them, I look at the pictures in my head. I could of course draw a still life or a landscape but for me there is no fun in that, you can see what I can see, or I can take a picture of it and show you, but unless I draw or make the things in my head noone will ever see them :o)


Sarah x

New Letraset Flexmarkers

I finally got some time to have a play with the new Letraset Flexmarkers the other night, I've been dying to try these out!

 

I used them on my 'Alice in Wonderland' digi stamp (printed onto bleedproof paper)I've used a slightly different colour scheme as I have mostly light and bright colours so this is like a candy coated Alice in Wonderland scene!

I definitely need some more practice with these as the whole feel of them is very different to Promarkers, you have to have quite a light touch with them as the ink flows a lot more freely through the brush nib and you can quickly find yourself with a lot of ink to move around on the paper. I still need some more practice on this as it was bleeding slightly on some edges despite being bleedproof paper (which is usually fine with Promarkers) you can also get much finer details (although the Promarker fine nibs have helped with this a LOT!)

One of the great things about them was that I noticed the effect of building up shading with just one pen was much easier to achieve, I don't know if thats just the increased flow of ink, but I only had to go over the areas one additional time to get good results, but the thing I loved most about these are the new very pale colours, they are just gorgeous!

One thing I will mention about the pale colours, don't get disheartened with them when you first use them, I started colouring Alice's face and it went grey and I thought 'oh, great, I've got zombie Alice!' and I got very frustrated and put it to one side thinking it had messed it up, but given a few minutes the colour develops into what it should look like - it's just where the alcohol wetting the paper is darker than the colour, once the alcohol evaporates the colour is gorgeous.

This weekend I'll definitely be doing some more practiscing with these (and making a card from this image I've coloured!), if you're used to using Promarkers as I am, it will take a few times to get perfect results but the new colours alone make it worth persevering!

Have a lovely weekend!
Sarah x

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Illustrating with Promarkers

This weekend I locked myself away and spoke to noone, a big bout of the Blues had hit and I'm best on my own when that happens! So apologies for my lack of tweets, emails etc... thank you to those that sent messages, normal service is now resumed :o)

Another illustration from me today, this time with Promarkers! This is an Alice in Wonderland picture that I done for the Book Fairs.

You can see the rest of the illustrations shown at the Book Fairs on my Facebook Page.

I'll endeavour to post something crafty tomorrow as I've mostly been posting illustrations the last few days!

Sarah x

A *New* Release - By Popular Demand!

As I've mentioned before I'm having real trouble keeping my Wonderland CD in stock, despite me increasing the order each time!! (I actually do have a few in stock atthe moment - wooo!) of course I'm super pleased it's proved so popular but I have been asked by people when they have been out of stock if I could do some digi stamps so there was an instant download option.

So by popular demand, there are now 10 Digi Stamps available of Alice, The Mad Hatter, The White Rabbit, The Queen of Hearts and a group of them all together, each stamp is available in black and white and colour.

Of course, the original CD is also available along with the matching ink sprays and all can be purchased through my shop!

And in other news.... I'm still working on new designs - yay! and I'm off to Durham on Sunday night to see my parents and sisters. One of my sisters just got engaged (the other two are too young yet! LOL) and I can't wait to check out her engagement ring in real life, the pictures are gorgeous. She went for a pink stone and mine is yellow - I guess we have a thing for coloured stones in my family!

Have lovely weekends!

Sarah x

Free Download

I completely forgot to mention in yesterdays post that the picture of Alice is a free download! If you click on her you can download the larger file by right clicking and saving!

Of course if you want the rest of the characters and the digi stamp versions you can get hold of the 'Wonderland' CD in my shop!

I hope you will play along with the Alice in Wonderland Challenge over on the Challenge Blog :o)

Sarah x

New Challenge!

Just a very very quick post today as I have a banging headache! Please pop over and check out the challenge blog - it was my turn this week and I chose a theme of 'Alice in Wonderland'

I hope you will come and join us!!

Sarah x