Hope Jacare Blog Candy

I've been dying to tell you all a secret!
But I couldn't as I was sworn to secrecy but I can tell you now!
My friend and team-mate from C.R.A.F.T Hope Jacare (Claire) has been asked for a selection of her doodles .....




.........to be made into RED RUBBER REAL stamps by Polka Doodles! And they're going to be on air! How's about that then, for a scoop?!

Not that I'm in the least surprised - someone somewhere just HAD to pick up on Claire's fab talent at some point - it was just a case of when.

So, Claire's a little bit pleased...(!!!)...and is GIVING AWAY one of her new stamps, so if you pop over there to Claire's blog and leave a comment saying which of these fab stamps you would like and spread Claire's news on your blog.......well, someone's got to win, and it might just be YOU!

I'm chuffed to bits for her and know she (and Polka Doodles too) will do well!

Thank goodness....I can relax again now......
Hugs
Ei
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CraftyCardmakers - Spotlight on Easel Cards

Over at Crafty Cardmakers, we like to put the accent on techniques every other week and this week it's Easel Cards.

Here's my Easel Card. As with last week's effort, I've used the love-hearts colours but cut out a butterfly shape from an A3 card folded in 3. The lovely blue paper is, I think, DCWV. Inside is lined with teal glitter paper and the iridescent material is Fantasy Film.


I enjoyed this project and will use it again!
Hugs,
Ei
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C.R.A.F.T 59 - Babies/Children

For C.R.A.F.T this week, I've made another digicard for the simple reason, our lovely sponsor, Toucan Crafts, have provided us with these beautiful digipapers! They can also be printed out but I decided to do it this way!




Just look at that cheeky dinosaur - isn't he cute? Angela from Toucan designs these papers herself and she has a lovely collection of collections on her site - why not pop over and have a look?

My New Digistore!

I've been asked loads of times where peeps can buy my digis from and up to now, they couldn't because I didn't sell them! LOL!
However, being a pushover and being, not a little, flattered by these requests, I've turned my test-blog Eiglassing, into a sort of showroom!

I've uploaded a few of my sketches and have more on my hard-drive (....thank you Matthew for rescuing it for me....!) in need of attention, plus a couple of the said requests in the pipe-line.

At the present, it's only in the way of a 'testing of the water' to see how it goes. I ain't a natural businesswoman and wil probably give more away than sell!

I don't yet have a 'PayPal' button or a 'shopping basket' so if there are any you are interested in, just e-mail me and I'll send your image as an attachment.

I also have digital papers but will probably have to enlist '4shared' or something for those as they're too big for most e-mails.

I hope you will like my images and if you want to see anything in particular I can try to help!
Hugs,
Ei
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My First Demo Card for Crafty Cardmakers...!

.....and it's a photo inspiration one! Here it is.


Apparently we're to blame Judie as it's her suggestion - well, I happen to like it! Nothing at all to do with the fact that there are Love Hearts all over it of course.....well, if you look, just the duck-egg and white ones......not sure where the other colours went......


....nothing to do with me - they were there....then they were gone..... it's a mystery.


I love the colours for this challenge and think I'm gonna like working with the crazies over at Crafty Cardmakers (should be Crazy Cardmakers if you ask me...) - well, let's say I won't stick out so much.....! LOL!

The sponsor for this week is the fab Joanna Sheen who is offering a £10.00 voucher for her shop!
Lovely!

Hugs,
Ei
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C.R.A.F.T 58 - Cakes/Ice Cream

Cup-cakes and Ice-Creams seem to be right 'on trend' at the moment, so we at C.R.A.F.T have decided to bring a little summer to the proceedings this week! Shame we can't affect the weather!



So here's my offering. I have only one image of a cup-cake in my stamp collection (...not being a 'cutesy' girl....) and here it is! The marvellous Phindy O'Neill's 'It's All Yours!' which I have coloured digitally (...a first for me!) and added to my digital card.

The lovely Debz from The Crafty Pad is offering a lovely prize of a clear stamp set so feel free to pop over to C.R.A.F.T and have a butcher's!
Hugs,
Ei
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C.R.A.F.T 57 - Inspirational Photo - Purple & Green

At C.R.A.F.T this week, we have an 'inspirational photo' for you to use as your muse!
Aren't those delicious colours?

I had a major problem this week! Despite the fact I chose this pic in the first place, I couldn't find my mojo! I was beginning to panic a little because this has NEVER happened to me before!

We've just come back from a break in a beautiful area of Scotland - Dumfries and Galloway - and I thought perhaps I'd forgotten to pack it or Nic had put it somewhere daft, so i emptied the suitcases and did all the washing but no, it wasn't there.

So I put a small post up with my news about my new DT place and my friend and fellow C.R.A.F.T DT mate Claire contacted me to say I'd left it at her house when we visited her!

Phew! What a relief!
Claire posted it back to me just in time for me to use it for today's project and I'll leave it to you to decide whether my mojo has suffered for its adventure! LOL!




The dragon is one of Phee McFaddell's wonderful images coloured with my trusty Copics. If you care to visit her site, she has some fab 'freebies' (legal ones!)!

I used papers from DCWV's 'Once Upon a Time' set and altered the colours with my dye inkpads (Adirondack and Archival were the only ones with strong enough colours to make a dent!) and encrusted with 'gems' for the dragon to feast on!

That's pretty much it really - those papers do all the work!
Hugs,
Ei
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