Melody's Beads - A little tutorial

Good Morning! I've been asked a couple of times how I did the beads on Melody's Dress so thought I'd show you how I created some tones and the bead effect.
For this I've used promarkers, the purples I chose were ORCHID, PURPLE & AUBERGINE. For the beads you will need an opaque white pen, preferably ball point such as Inkssentials.

The image is Flapper Girl Melody by Lemon Shortbread which you'll find HERE.

STEP 1 - Colour your face tones in (previous tutorial here) then use the ORCHID promarker and colour most of the dress and hat in. Next take the PURPLE promarker and add some shading as shown below leaving part of the Orchid showing.

Step 2 - Use your Orchid promarker and colour over all of the hat and dress to blend it with the purple then take the AUBERGINE promarker and add darker shading as below. Colour rings of Aubergine underneath the beads to give a shadow effect. Again use your Orchid and blend all the colours together.

Step 3 - Continue to add Aubergine and blend in with the Orchid, you may need to do this a couple of time until you're happy with the tones achieved. I've added a dark patch on the left hand part of the dress now and under her left hand for a deep shadow.

Adding the beads - For the beads I used a ball point type pen rather than my usual sakura souffle whch has a fatter nib. I used a white opaque pen by Inkssentials and if you press hard it leaves a dint rather than a solid white dot on some of them which gives a good effect :) If you press softly you will get a solid white dot.

Detail of the beads.

Finished Card

Hope you like :)

This weeks celebration specials in the store are: 20% off Decoupage and Scrapbook albums & pages lovely as a christmas present, pop over and have a look.

Vix

It's Crafts and Me 1st Birthday and fun time!!!

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Today is Crafts and Me first Birthday the time has really flown by I can't believe it.
To celebrate and thank all my loyal customers over the year for supporting my store with orders kind messages etc. I am going to be having different offers going on in the store HERE, and different things going on on the blog to win stamps etc. for one month.
I will be running the offers for varied amounts of time, then there will be different offers going on, I won't keep bothering you with newsletters as you will probably get fed up of hearing from me.
The offers are only available while stocks last sorry!!!
So keep popping back to see whats on offer and if you want to join in the fun over on the blog too there is a link at the top of the store homepage.
I can tell you todays special offers are 15% off heat guns ,10% off Elaine Cox unmounted stamps from Sweetpeas and 10% off all wooden stamps for 3 days only, so get in your prezzy's or treat yourself now.
On to new goodies there will be new Hannah Lynn stamps in stock tomorrow with 10% off for one week only and as usual there are some beauties there!!
I also have other goodies on order that will be arriving shortly!!!
So there is plenty going on for the next month for you to pop in and take a look.
The first fun prize to kick off the celebration for the store will be on the blog later today.
To kick off the celebration I have this lovely
Christmas 2010 release A Moosing from the W.O.J TO GIVE AWAY
all you have to do is display my store badge on your blog until the 3rd January when the celebration ends, and leave a link here on my blog using your name THE LAST DATE FOR ENTRIES will be the 5th Dec. THE PRIZE WINNER WILL BE PICKED AND DISPLAYED HERE ON MONDAY.

Thankyou girls for entering the first prize giveaway of many to come.

The WINNER IS NO.4 Josephine picked by Random.Org. if you could email me your addy Josephine I will get your prize sent to you.
Teresa x

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Be careful in this snow everyone,
And I would like to wish you all a Very Happy Christmas.
Love Teresa xx

Vera Fairy

Good afternoon folks its Gina here i hope your having a fab weekend, the snow is melting fast here in Essex, any how i'm here to share a card with you today its and its the last of the new Hannah Lynn she's called Vera Fairy the only place you can only get it from is Crafts and Me and don't forget if you are registered for the news letter you will get 10% off i hope you've enjoyed seeing the DT cards this week using the new stamps.



Don't forget our challenge over at Crafts and Me challenges where the theme is White Christmas, oh yer and don't forget to keep checking back for our birthday celebrations as Teresa and Crafts and Me shop has been going for a whole year, wow how time flies lol.

Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for stopping by.

Another new girl joins the shop :D

Just check out all that hair to play with :D I LOVED colouring this one in. I have coloured her up in several colours to be honest so be prepared to see a few more cards with the beautiful Vanessa. I have used my normal mix of promarkers and sakura stardust pens so she sparkles a lot more than it looks like in these pictures. I have also used some of the tiny pearls from the Crafts and me store just to finish the card off. I wanted to keep the layout quite simple so that the focus is all on her.
Don't forget all of these new stamps will be available for pre order with 10% off for newsletter readers from today for one week. As well as that there is a big Birthday celebration going on in Crafts and Me land for the stores First Birthday! Make sure you don't miss out as there are going to be different offers both here on the blog and in the Crafts and me store.

Another Peek at Hannah Lynn's Beautiful Frosted Rose

Morning Peeps,

Yayyyy it's Friday and I have been waiting for this day for a couple of weeks, just so I could show off this beautiful, beautiful, did I say beautiful, lol, Hannah Lynn Frosted Rose stamp. Well, how's your luck, Teresa from Crafts and Me is launching the new Hannah Lynn range that the DT have been showing off this week tomorrow, with 10% off for one week for registered readers. If your not registered, don't worry it's free, just hop on over to the Crafts and Me site HERE and away you go. She's a dream to colour so why not get hubby to pop one in your christmas stocking.

She's stamped on cryogen cardstock for that extra sparkle and coloured with copics and prisma pencils.

Image by Hannah Lynn available from Crafts and Me HERE

Have a fab weekend everyone.

Lemon Lilac Design images

No cards today everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know who has been waiting for the Art Deco stamps to come in, that I have now taken over the copyrights to these images and that they will be available again soon and in the New Year new art deco stamps for you all too!
My appologises to everyone who has been waiting for these to come into stock again but they will be worth the wait.

Love Teresa x

Showcasing One fab New Hannah Lynn Stamp(Frosted Rose)

Good afternoon today i am showcasing one of the new HANNAH LYNN Stamps
and the rest of the week you will see the rest of the fabulous D.T's showcasing the other new Hannah Lynn Stamps that go on sale on the 4th December with a 10% special for my newsletter readers, if you havn't registered pop over to the store and register it is FREE to do so.
So please keep popping back to see these too! they are lovely.

Isn,t she a beauty,Shes called FROSTED ROSE, i had so much fun coloring her i think any colour you choose will suit her,i,ve already coloured her twice more in other fab colours all ready and waiting to be made into a beautiful card.

On the 3rd December it will be Crafts and Me 1st Birthday, and to celebrate this special occasion
Teresa is saying a very special thank you to all her customers who have supported Her store and blogs since over the past year, she is having different promotions going on in the store for 1 month only from the 3rd December.
So please keep popping back to see what the promotions will be.

You still have time to enter our current challenge SNOWFLAKES HERE on the challenge blog.
(hugs)
Trish (-: