Showgirl!

Hi everyone and I hope you're all enjoying a sunny Tuesday afternoon...

At the moment, things are a bit slow here at the house of craft...can't seem to find my va-va-voom but that doesn't mean to say that I've not been productive. I'm just...snails pace, slow!!

Saying that, there is something to give me an incentive and get me crafting because last week I was lucky enough to receive this stash of goodies from Kuretake, who I hope to be working with a lot more in the coming months!

But for now, my first project for Kuretake, was to make a couple of cards using the Zig Art and Graphic Pens and what can I say...I was absolutely blown away by the quality of these pens! In the past I've used a LOT of pens in my work including Marvy Le Plume and also, some cheaper watercolour pens which are now relegated to the back of my cupboard somewhere but I really did enjoy working with these...these pens were juicy and so very rich in colour and what I found so amazing about them was the way they blended really well for watercolour washes, which I then applied to my stamped images and of which, you can see on the first card I'm sharing with you, below...

I hope you like it and I thought the image would show off what you can do with these pens, perfectly!! As finishing touches, I added a few flourishes, a handmade paper rose and some fibres from Kuretake.

The other wonderful thing about these fabulous pens is that you can stamp directly to paper with them and that's what I will show you in my next post... Colouring directly onto the stamp and then using this to create colour to an image!

So, I'm now going to have a further play with all the goodies from my stash and also a little pressie that I treated myself to from Lili of the Valley.

Hope you all have a wonderful day

Love Emma

xxx