Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge #244 June 1, 2020

Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge #244 Anything Goes

June 1, 2020



Hello everyone! I am sharing my latest card for the Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge. The digital image is from All Dressed Up.

As I usually do I go to my Mom's place as she has all the treats and tools to make my cards. I have used Stamping Up Paper. The grass is from a Magnolia DooHickey Kit. ( I use to own the store in North America lol) The Congrats' words are from an old kit my mom had as well.

I hope you all like how it turned out. I did the card to see if anyone knows what famous baseball player wore number #42. Let me know if you think you might know who it is.

Have a great week everyone.

Shawn

Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge #242

Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge #242

May 15th, 2020

Hello everyone. I have completed an image from My Besties. The image is called Coffee Girl. 

I hope you like it. It was the first time for me to do an image from her. I tried to be creative by making the coffee cup look like it is from Tim Hortons. I am Canadian eh :)

I did a blend of copics and Faber Castels on this card. 

I hope you like it.

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog May 1, 2020

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog May 1, 2020
#241

Hello everyone. I am sorry for being late with my card but I have been extremely busy. This card is part of the Anything Goes challenge. I had some fun creating this card. I personally purchased this from Morgans Art World. It is called Fantasy Fae Digi Stamp 48. I really liked this image and I hope you do too.

I used my Faber Castel pencil crayons. I also used some gemstones to add a little touch to the centres of the flowers.

I also used a Stamping Up Embossing Folder to create the image on the turquoise paper I choose.

I hope you like it.

Cheers, Shawn

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog April 15, 2020

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog #240

Hello everyone. I finally got brave and tried Copic Markers for a real go at it. I kept my colours simple as I wanted to understand how to blend them correctly. I think I didn't too bad.

I also added some sparkle to the ribbon. I hope you can see it in the photo. I also added some very small orange beads to reflect the centre of each flower.

This image is from Sheepski. It is very simple and nice. I really liked the simplicity of this digital image.

I hope you find it nice as well.

Cheers, Shawn

Creative Uncles Presents: SteamPunk

Creative Uncles Presents: SteamPunk

 This card was made with only 12 Caran d' ache pencil crayons. I find these pencils to be very soft so you must be very gentle when using them. However, the colours are very vibrant and a lot of fun to use.

This is a very simple card but I wanted to really show off the beauty of this digital image. This image is from Power Poppy. I was able to use it from the Kit and Clowder (Taking Flight) class.

I think this would be a great image for a men's card for any occasion.

All the best, Shawn

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog April 1, 2020

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog April 1, 2020

Hello everyone. I hope that everyone is okay. I know that we are all being asked to keep our social distance. I hope that where you live things are starting to get better? I do believe it depends on what part of the world we are living in. 

Everyone please stay safe, and know that this will end soon.

I hope this card puts a smile on your face and lifts your spirits.

This digital image is from Bugaboo. His name is Clyde the Dragon. I have never made a shaker card before so I hope I did okay. It is a simple card but I think he turned out okay.

 Here is how he shakes !! LOL

 

Creative Uncles Presents: Birthday Celebration

Creative Uncles Presents: Birthday Celebration

I had a lot of fun colouring this Dr. Digi creation. His name is Biffo! I think he is a great Digital Image for any man's Birthday card. I hope you like him.

I used my Faber Castel Pencil crayons.

I also used a very simple birthday die to cut out this birthday present. I added some fun sparkles too!

Thank you for checking him out. 

Cheers, Shawn

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog March 1, 2020

Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog #237

Theme: Anything Goes

Hello everyone. Welcome to March. I hope for the winter people you are looking forward to the sun coming and for people who have had the heat.... too bad suckers :)

I have created a card form Dr. Digi using Slugger Sam. I did a slight tweak on him by making him a Boston Red Sox player. 

I used go to Faber Castell pencil crayons and used my colourless blender to blend the colours together. I think I better stop using  RED as it is my favourite colour!

I added clear dots of various sizes to emphasize the image. 

I did use 110 pound card stock for the card. I used Poppy Red from Stampin' Up.

I would love some feed back as I am trying to improve and need peoples opinions. Thank you for stopping by.

Cheers, Shawn 

Creative Uncles Theme: Sports

Creative Uncles Presents: Sports

I had a lot of fun colouring this one! I am a huge soccer fan and I think you can tell who I support!

I used a digital image from Dr. Digi

I got a huge kick out of this old fella. I hope you get inspired by him. I used Faber Castels to colour him. I found the paper online which I couldn't pass up.

Have an amazing day! Be sure to say hello too!

Cheers, Shawn

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog February 15th

Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog #236
Theme: Use Red or Pink

Hello everyone! This is my first project for Crafters Cafe. Super excited to be part of the team and I believe I might be the first male too... LOL

I have created a card from QKR Stampede using image Ballet Shoes Digital Stamp Q-digi 23903 

I used my Faber Castel Pencil Crayons.
I also used Paper, Dazzling Diamonds, and Tufted Embossing folder from Stamping Up.

I used my Big Shot to emboss the White Paper (80lb)

I hope you all like it. Please feel free to drop some love if you like. I would love the feedback.

Here is a link to the Blog:

Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog

Creative Uncles Theme: Cars

Creative Uncles Presents: Cars 

I am very excited to be asked to be part of the Creative Uncles Design Team. This is the first time for me being on a DT Team. 

This is our initial launch for January 2020.

The theme for January is Cars. What a great segway for a guy making a card right ... LOL 

I hope that this card will give all of you a wonderful idea to make a card for any male in your life.

I am still learning my colouring techniques but I hope that as time and experience come I will develop more skills and I work very hard at getting better. I do take classes at Kit and Clowder. Alyce is an amazing teacher and even a more beautiful soul. 

I coloured this digital image from one of the Kit and Clowder classes called Christmas Surprise. I put my own spin on it as you can see. I used a combination of Caran D' Ache pencils and Poly Chromos. I also used some items from the Creative Memories collection to add the saying and the gears etc. 

I hope you like my creation.

Cheers, Shawn

Dr Digi Dunderton Accademicals FC

Dr. Digi Dunderton Academicals FC

I keep forgetting to put up my finished pieces. 

So I have been looking for a sports-themed item I have to do for my DT. I came across this Dr. Digi football guy. I think he is hilarious! I had so much fun colouring him. I hope you like him too 😉😂

I hope he puts a smile on your face 😁
I used lots of techniques I have been learning from Alyce (Kit and Clowder) too. I used Prisma Pencils.
Have an amazing weekend everyone.

Cheers, Shawn

Christmas Bauble

Christmas Bauble

I had a lot of fun colouring this Christmas Bauble. I learned more wonderful techniques from Kit and Clowder. I hope you like it.

Cheers, Shawn

Merry Christmas everyone :)

The Angel

Something Special for my Mom

I have worked on something for my Mom. It is the first time I have done a greyscale piece. I used Caran d'ache pencil crayons and Poly chromos. It was interesting to do. I tried some techniques. I hope you like it.

Cheers, Shawn

To Have and To Hold 50 Years!!

I am sharing something today that I made special for my wife's parent's 50th Anniversary. I wanted to do something special for them. I remembered a stamp that Kit and Clowder used from Tiddly Inks. I believe it was called Love.

I dramatically changed it to reflect an anniversary and not a wedding. I am really happy with how it turned out. I hope you do too. Their Anniversary celebration was November 2nd. 

They absolutely loved it! I am so glad as it was my first item I made for a family member and something they will hopefully cherish forever.

Cheers, Shawn  

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Completion

Thank you so much for looking! If you like my colouring I hope you can follow me and encourage me along the way!

First serious Magnolia Creation!

Thank you Card 

Well this is my very fist serious attempt at Blogging.... LOL!!

I use to own Magnolia-licious and just recently sold it to Swedish House Crafts in the UK

I wanted to always try and learn how to colour and make cards. So here goes my journey into this world of crafting and colouring. 

I would like to thank all the people who have supported me in this new chapter in my life and I would like to start sharing my work as I take this new journey. 

I hope you all enjoy this first one.

Cheers, Shawn