Hi all 🙂
I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on a few of the new ultrafine tips for ProMakers (thank you Michelle at Letraset), and here’s my review!
Letraset Ultrafine Tip for ProMarker – review
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Park Life
This week over at Passion for Promarkers, the theme is ‘park life’ [Week #105]. It’s currently the hottest day this year here in sunny Leicester, so my view of park life must be wishful thinking for cooler days? It’s perhaps not quite the summery image that many would be conjuring up, but I remember the fun of sledging in the park and the stamped image was perfect.
Unique Giveaway #1 – the prize pics
Dear readers – as promised, here are teaser pics of my subscriber draw prize book in recognition of 10,000 views of my blog 🙂
The cover is hand-tangled with my own designs [it’s taken ages!] and will be personalised with the initial letter of the winner’s choosing before being sealed with a gloss varnish finish. It’s a hand-crafted book [which took ages too!], with hard cover and sewn and glued spine.
Inside are colour copies of all my tangle patterns from January to June 2011, and the eight tags will contain hand-drawn tangles, with tips on shading and may be even a unique and unpublished, exclusive tangle pattern.
Remember, to be entered in the draw, subscribe to my blog using the ‘Sign me up!’ button in the side bar on my blog home page by midnight on 30th June 2011. Subscribing to comments or any other page will not enter you into the draw. The winner will be drawn at random from my subscriber list and I’ll contact you by email if you are that lucky person. Good luck 🙂
10,000 blog views!
At some point in my slumber, someone was the 10,000th viewer of my blog. Thank you all! Keep you eyes peeled for the unique giveaway pics – I’m still working on it 🙂
Here Comes The Bride
This week’s theme at Passion for Promarkers is ‘here comes the bride’ [Week #104]. I dusted off a set of Woodware clear stamps [Wedding Bliss FRCL036], inked up and coloured away. The centre window is punched out of my normal cardstock with a Martha Stewart ‘all over the page’ scalloped edge square punch. Border round the window was drawn freehand. Peel offs are from my stash.
Unique Giveaway #1
Dear readers – in anticipation of my 10,000th view of this ‘ere blog, I’m in the middle of constructing a one-of-a-kind handcrafted book of my tangle patterns, complete with hand drawn tangles and tips. Pictures to follow, but I wanted to give you all the heads-up. This will be given away to one of my blog subscribers, drawn at random from my subscribers list as it stands at midnight on 30th June. So keep an eye out for the prize pics, and if you haven’t become an email subscriber, then click the ‘sign me up’ button at the top of the right hand sidebar. Good luck!
Ceramix – tangle pattern
Day Seven: it’s like ’24’ all over again… This time it’s a variation on the start point of ‘Nave’, but then goes off into curves rather than points and we find ourselves with victorian-esque shaped tiles.
There… I hope you’ve enjoyed the anticipation and guessing from the names what the patterns might be. Who knows, I might just do this again. In the meantime, I’ll be publishing all seven patterns to my Flickr site and the Freehand Doodle Patterns group.
Nave – tangle pattern
Day Six: Nave. This pattern seems to crop up in stone work all over the place. I’ve seen it on the bridge buttresses on the way into Leicester city centre going over the River Soar… I’ve seen it in the stonework of Church of the Martyrs on Westcotes Drive in Leicester. And I’m sure you’ve seen it in gothic architecture near you! Now you can include it in your tangles 🙂
And the final installment tomorrow is: ‘Ceramix’.
Juice Carton Card
I’m teaching my card project today in Leicester – and I think this may be another innovation… For the squares on this card, I’ve cut up a juice carton (the foiled type Tetrabrik) into 3.5cm squares before embossing using a Big Shot and Fiskars texture plates and then colouring with alcohol inks and mounting onto black cardstock. I took off the ink with a cut’n’dry nib soaked in blending solution, and outlined the areas with a black permanent fine tip marker. The ‘leading’ is Pewter Liquid Pearls from Ranger. Recycling at its best!
CB5 – tangle pattern
Day Five: the Revenge of the Reincarnated Returning Curly Braces. Yes, they’re back. Not content with the franchise reaching four patterns, the curly brackets have done it again bringing the world a fifth outing. They snuck into a doodle that started out in a completely different way, but then was gruesomely taken over by the curly braces barging their way into my consciousness… Invidious things, curly brackets. Beware 😉
Tomorrow’s penultimate daily dose of tangle goodness: ‘Nave’.