Month: November 2018

Hello, and welcome to this week’s round-up post! Last week was all about recovering from the Health and Wellbeing Day last weekend – I made sure I had a restful Sunday and a slow start to the week. Still, I got a lot done …

On Monday, I shared a mixed media layout created using Distress Inks and lots of water! You can watch the process video here. On Tuesday, I shared a card made using Cheeky Studio Sweet Succulent ephemera. On Wednesday, I shared a watercolour Christmas card featuring a sentiment from the Mama Makes Sending Hugs stamp set. On Thursday, I shared another Christmas card made using stamps from Skull and Cross Buns.

As well as sharing previously-made projects, I also made a set of custom cards, an art journal layout, and a 12×12  scrapbook layout. YOu can watch the accompanying videos here and here.

On Friday, I received my December design team pack from EllieBeth Designs UK. It was the absolutely stunning Galaxy Creative Pack which I couldn’t wait to use, so on Saturday I filmed a live video on the EBDUK facebook group and turned the creative pack into a mini album using my tag dies from Tim Holtz. I’m going to use the album to record my daily gratitude in December.

This mini album will be a lovely accompaniment to the And So the Adventure Begins sticker collection that I’ll be using in my bullet journal next month. Speaking of which; this is how my bullet journal looked at the start of this week. The stickers are from the EBDUK Winter Dreams collection.

On Sunday, I did a bit of scrapbooking, just for fun and for the Winter Olympics Challenge over at For the Love of Pretty Paper. Not a huge fan of the chevron paper, but at least it got used!

Well, I think that about wraps it up! Next week, I need to crack on with some Watercolour Mastery practice and my December design team makes. Thanks for stopping by! xxx

If you’d like to buy anything from the shops I’m on the design team for, you can use the discount codes below!

• Cheeky Studio – for 10% off your order, use the discount code: natalie1o (excludes kit club subscription).
• EllieBeth Designs UK – for 10% off your order, use the discount code: NATALIE10.
• Mama Makes – for 20% off your first order, use the discount code: IMNEW.
• Skull and Cross Buns – for 10% off your order, use the discount code: DESIGNTEAM.

If I had to sum up last week in just one word, I’d choose the word productive. As well as all my usual design team work, and the Watercolour Mastery course I’m taking, I had all the preparations for Saturday’s Health and Wellbeing Day to do – which, by the way, went very well. If you like, you can read about it here.

So what about design team work? For Cheeky Studio, I shared two cards I made using the Sweet Succulent ephemera, and one 12×12 layout I made using the August kit and Notebook Nancy ephemera.

For Mama Makes, I used a sentiment stamp from the Sending Hugs set on a Christmas card. It’s not always appropriate to send someone a ‘merry’ Christmas card, so I like to make some that might be more suitable. For Skull and Cross Buns, I used several elements from their new Christmas range to create another Christmas card. It’s rather unusual, but I like it!

For EllieBeth Designs UK, I shared a few peeks of my planner and used the new Winter Dreams collection to set up this week in my bullet journal.

For Watercolour Mastery, I had another bash at the beach scene I painted last weekend. As I knew I wouldn’t have much time to paint, I decided to do smaller versions of the painting on greetings cards and try different colours to see how they effected the mood of the painting.My favourite is the one on the right. I think I achieved a better variation in value, and the colours are brighter, more uplifting. After painting these, I took them along to the craft fayer, and, interestingly, the only one that didn’t sell was the one on the left which has darker and stormier tones.

As for the other cards I made for the Health and Wellbeing Day, here they are:

I didn’t make them all from scratch, some of them were half made and I just finished them off. Still, it was a very productive week – my die-cutting machine has never seen so much action! Some of these cards are still available to buy via my Etsy shop, and 25p from the sale of every card will be donated to the Southern Health Recovery College.

So that was last week. What about this week? Well, I’ve got my usual design team makes to share and a bunch of custom cards to make and an Etsy order to fulfill. I’ll also be tackling this week’s Watercolour Mastery lesson which is all about different ways to paint from reference photos. Plus there are some facebook challenges I’d like to try to do, and a few videos I need to film. I’ll tell you how I got on with all that next Monday.

Until then, don’t forget, if you’d like to buy anything from the shops I’m on the design team for, you can use the discount codes below!

• Cheeky Studio – for 10% off your order, use the discount code: natalie1o (excludes kit club subscription).
• EllieBeth Designs UK – for 10% off your order, use the discount code: NATALIE10.
• Mama Makes – for 20% off your first order, use the discount code: IMNEW.
• Skull and Cross Buns – for 10% off your order, use the discount code: DESIGNTEAM.

Thanks for stopping by! xxx