Louise Sims Papercrafter

It's a new challenge over at Love to Create and I thought I'd share a quick project with you using pan pastels ... Happy Birthday Today   Using the bricks stencil, run through your die cutting machine and emboss. Leave the stencil in place and colour starting with the darkest colour, raw umber pan pastel and place a the bottom of each brick. Next add yellow ochre and finally pearlescent orange pan pastel. Blend them together with colourless blender.   Using perfect medium stamp the roses, leaves and buds on to the same colour card. Colour roses with pearlescent yellow (in centre) and pearlescent orange on outer edges blending out with the colourless blender. Highlight petals using a rubber which takes away excess pan pastel. Cut out all flowers. Colour leaves with pearlescent green, bright yellow green and permanent green shade. Again blend with colourless blender and cut out. Use pearlescent orange pan pastel to colour buds and pearlescent gre

Had a good chuckle today as finally decided to clear out my spam folder on blogger. Several caught my eye one being about "dressing in style for your big day" and I thought it was targeting the celebrations market. As I am already married, don't need a wedding dress ... yep I know I have a significant numbered birthday coming up but not sure I would spend a small fortune on a posh frock for it, so was surprised to discover upon reading further, that it was about planning for your funeral. O ...k...a...y, different tag line I suppose but still a little creepy me thinks. Sadly this new tactic didn't tempt me. Right back on topic, my DT card for the new Polka Doodles Challenge which is "white and one other colour" and I have been dying (sorry not intending to keep harping on about the above) to prove to myself that I can use my stash for all year around projects and not just pigeon hole them for certain occasions etc. With that in mind I have used the "

"It's chasing my tail time" still but I think I have finally started to catch up with myself, although this could soon change if everyone keeps mentioning the "C" word ... not ready for that! I have ideas floating around in my head but that's about it at the moment but I think I can rest on my laurels a little longer as we're still in November ... please tell me I can ...! The recent challenge over at The Pencil Case was "G is for Green" and the challenge was sponsored by Digital Paper Craft . I have used image Lillyskite Fairy , of course coloured with my Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils ... Simple mat and layering as I wanted to turn her in to a Christmas fairy sitting (hopefully comfortably) on a holly branch. A few holly diecuts and glittered berries as my embellishments, with a stamped sentiment around the sides. I did have this card made over a month ago and have to apologise to my teamies for taking so long to share it ...

Slightly late posting my project for Love to Create Challenge but I do have an excuse ... distracted by another project which I couldn't leave unattended! It was at a crucial messy stage and I got lost in messy creativity. Anyhow, here is the part one of my project and I have done a little bit of upcycling .. from this .... to this ... I began by colouring up a piece of white heavy weight paper using my pan pastels. I then over stamped with small flower stamps in complimentary colours. Next, I used at PAB stencils and Glassy Gel to add some dotty texture. When this was dry, I used white pan pastel to add a subtle shading. Finally, I sanded everything back and added more white fine pearl pan pastel.  Now I'm stuck .... don't know how to decorate my box ... any suggestions greatly appreciated. I have bought a little door knocker for the drawer part but what about the rest? ..... stuck dot com! However am pleased I have upcycled one of the boxes I have s

In a desperate bid to be more organised, I started work on this project last Sunday and had a wonderful idea in my head. I knew what I wanted to do, the colours I wanted to use and how it should look. However in reality, my hands and head did not co-ordinate themselves and for some bizarre reason, refused to talk to each other too! Let's just say the final project is no where near my original idea and this is the 3rd attempt at trying to recreate my idea ..... The first two were ... uuummmm ... shall we say .... truly awful as my background looked at if I had dipped the image in to a muddy puddle. As a last result, (plus this was the 3rd time I had coloured the image), I cut the image out of the background and make something no where near my planned idea. So, here is my project for this weeks new challenge over at The Pencil Case ... I have used a Nikky Burnett image, " Esmeralda " coloured with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils and enhanced with white gel pen and