Forever Treasured by Pam B

Monday, August 8, 2011

I have been published woohoo!!

I decided to submit a card I had made while playing around with the

Mami Doodles Ligia images to Crafting Ireland & I got an email this

weekend to let me know that my card had been chosen to be published!!

I am very honoured to have my card in Crafting Ireland as Jackie Mooney who runs the workshop I have not missed since April 2009 had a stunning card published in the first ever issue & Jess Meyer who's workshops I have also attended was published in the second issue! Also this in this issue (the third) the Spotlight On feature is on Elisa Nishimura who is the designer behind Mami Doodles.

Here is the card I submitted!

Pam x

Some more ProMarker colour combo's.

Here are a few more colour combos for ProMarkers!

Most of the recent cards I made had images I had already coloured in so

I couldn't remember the ProMarkers I had used so I am going to start writing

the colours onto the back of the image in future so I don't forget!!

I find the best way to blend the colours is to start with the darkest then add the middle colour going over the darkest colour once but going along the line where the darkest meets the middle colour til the colours have blended, then go over the whole area with the lightest colour really quickly once & again over the line from the middle colour til its all blended!!

Hope I haven't made that sound complicated because it really isn't lol!!

Pam x

My new craft room!

The bank holiday just gone I decided to do up my craft room

instead of waiting on Steff to do it up!

I was so sore the day after but at least my craft room is a colour I like instead of the icky brown that Steff painted it just because we had brown paint!!!

I also got a new desk & some very inexpensive mesh drawer units (€9.99 each!!!) from Ikea so my craft room finally is how I want it!

This is my main sitting area.

All my stamping, embossing, punching & general supplies are inthe drawer units!

Some eye candy too ;)

My die cutting station!!

Even the ceiling is my fave colour!!!

My ribbon & general storage.

I have bought some sigh vinyl & the plan is to make some kind of arty wording on the wall but I'm still trying to come up with something!!

Pam x

ProMarker fine nib's.

After Yaz gave me a pack of these & I tried them out I was convinced I wouldn't need them for every marker! I ordered a few packs from Joanna Sheen as they only cost £1.49 here as opposed to £1.99 from Letraset them selves plus there is NO postage when you buy from the Joanna Sheen website & that is not just for UK orders, that is worldwide free postage!!

Anyhow I got the packs I ordered & put them on to my markers & also picked up a few more from Jackie at her July workshop & i put them on to the markers I would use most & the darkest colours as when I am colouring the smallest areas are where the darkest colours would normally be but I noticed the difference in using the fine nib to the normal thin end of the marker plus my box looked messy with some higher than others

so I ordered another 34 packets of the nib's

& after a few minutes my box was all neat again & I feel better just knowing that I wont need to colour in a teeny tiny part using a colour which doesn't have the fine nib!!