Mellzcraftz

 Hi all  So before Christmas I pledged towards the Alex Syberia Designs full release bundle and I was so pleased when they had reached their target as this meant their first physical product went straight into production and I received the bundle just before Christmas. I have now been able to spend some time today playing with the Modern Weave stenci l which is just amazing! So versatile and can be changed up with colour to create all kinds of backgrounds for all style of cards . In this colour example, I used Distress Oxide colours. I used pine needles, lucky clover and twisted citron. The stencils are so easy to line up and they are numbered so it takes the guess work out of knowing which one to use first. The stencils are really sturdy so you won't have any problems with them bending out of shape. Other examples of the backgrounds I created are below: In this example the Distress Oxide colours I used were - peacock feathers, wild honey and picked raspberry. Here are the o...

 Morning Crafters, It's choosday which means it is time to enter our 'Anything Goes Challenge' over at  Polkadoodles Digi Choosday .  Remember to check out the blog for full details and to grab your code to receive a very generous discount from the  Polkadoodles shop . Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas when it arrives. The design team were asked to create a project with the theme New Year using a particular colour palette. Today I have made a card for New Year. I firstly created an ink blended background using my distress oxides in the colours of seedless preserves, faded jeans and Peacock feathers. I then created a card mat using the Circle star numbers from the Zodiac collection , I used numbers 20 and 23, I then added the sentiment 'Best Wishes for the New Year' which is from the  Winnie white Christmas .  To finish off the card I coloured the stars in a gold colour and added some glossy accents to the bigger stars. Happy Crafting and I hope S...

Morning All,  It's choosday which means it is time to enter our 'Anything Goes Challenge' over at  Polkadoodles Digi Choosday .  Remember to check out the blog for full details and to grab your code to receive a very generous discount from the  Polkadoodles shop . this week the design team have been challenged to create a project for a December Birthday and for a boy.  For my project I have created a birthday card with a bit of a twist. I first created my background using Wild honey, pine needles and abandoned coral Distress Oxides.  I then used the tree from The Tweetest Christmas stamps   and stamped repeatedly on to the background using tone on tone inks.  For my digital image I used the Party Little Dude Digi and to finish off the card I did a mashup of sentiments which reads – ‘ Merry Birthday ’ both parts cropped from other sentiments using the Winnie white Christmas   and the Zodiac collection sentiments. Happy Crafting! Mel Challeng...

  Morning Crafters, This week the design team were tasked to create a Christmas project but keeping to red and green as our colour palette. For my project I created a Christmas card.    I used the Rudolph Reindeer Wreath digital image - I coloured the image in using my spectrum noir alcohol markers using traditional Red and Green colours but overlaid the red with an embossing pen so that I could add some red glitter embossing powder which created some sparkle and texture. For my sentiment “ Believe” I used the Winnie White Christmas sentiment bundle - which I printed using my laser printer so that I could cover with green deco foil and ran through my laminator to give a foiled effect. To complete the card, I cut out elements of a poinsettia flower using my scan and cut machine and adhered this to the right side of the card. I really wish you could see this card in real life – It’s just full of texture and sparkle! Happy Crafting! Mel x Challenges entered ...

  Morning Crafters, I am back with some more Christmas inspiration from Polkadoodles. It's choosday which means it is time to enter our 'Anything Goes Challenge' over at  Polkadoodles Digi Choosday .  Remember to check out the blog for full details and to grab your code to receive a very generous discount from the  Polkadoodles shop . For this weeks challenge, the design team were tasked with creating something for a Man at Christmas using two chosen digital papers. For my project I created a Christmas card using  Gnome Festive Fun - Put your boots on digital image  which was the pre-coloured version. I printed this image using my Canon Pixma printer and die cut it out using a basic square shaped die. For my chosen papers, I used  Elvis Wesley Moose themed digital papers  which I die cut out using a basic rectangle stitched die and then cut in half. I then used one of each half to create my background and added a thin red cardstock strip to bring ...

  Morning Everyone, I’m back to share some festive inspiration, Can you believe it is the 25th October!!!!!!!,  For this challenge the design team were tasked to use a particular colour palette being :       F or my card I’ve used the Gift Tree Gnome festive fun digital image -  I’ve coloured using my alcohol markers keeping to the colour palette. For the star and the bell, I’ve added some glossy accents to give some dimension and shine. For my background I used digital papers from the Cactus succulentdigital papers - I printed the green, yellow, off white, and dark pink papers and cut a load of ¼ inch strips to make a striped background. For the light pink strip, I used the light pink paper from zodiac papers 3 No. 11.   To complete the card I used the ‘You are a gift’ sentiment from the Winnie celebrations 2 digital download   I also added some sequins and heart drops from little things by...

  Morning Crafters, I'm back with some more Halloween inspiration from Polkadoodles. It's choosday which means it is time to enter our 'Anything Goes Challenge' over at  Polkadoodles Digi Choosday .  Remember to check out the blog for full details and to grab your code to receive a very generous discount from the  Polkadoodles shop . The design team were tasked to create something for a Halloween party - but not a card.  For my project I have chosen to create a Halloween treat bag! I mean what's a Halloween party without treats! To create my treat bag I've used Polkadoodles  Halloween Trick or Treat digital paprs  I've used the purple paper with bats as well as the orange boo with ghosts paper. I've embellished the front of both bags with circle die cuts which have been cut from purple and green glitter cardstock then adhered a smaller circle on top which reads Trick or treat and Happy Halloween which is from the  Boo Halloween sentiments . B...