Jen Kray

Is it really August already?! Where has the year gone... This past Saturday I had the absolute pleasure of visiting the Craftwrok Cards factory and meeting the rest of the Design Team Members as this was our first get together. It was amazing and I am still buzzing with excitement from it all!  I finally got my hands on the Toile De Jouy Jet collection from Craftwork Cards and this is the first chance I've had to open it up and create something with it. Having seen quite a few cards made with lush golds and yellows I wanted to do something a little different for my first make.  So out came the Gelatos. Now, I've never used these before and they were great fun to work with. I coloured in the entire 8x8 sheet to begin with, which did take a little time, maybe 30 mins as I went over some of the images multiple times for a little depth in colour.  Having trimmed the 8 x 8 sheet down to 5.75 x 5.75 to form my card background then used the leftover 2+ inch strips to cut ou...

Hello friends and good evening. I'm back with more samples from an AMAZING new collection from Craftwork Cards - A Pocket Full of Paper Christmas USB. I had the luxury and pleasure of using the colour me images in different ways so thought I would share a few of my samples with you today. The 'Colour with Candi' illustrations are all black and white to begin with so you can colour, paint and print until your heart's content! created using a Sakura gel pen on navy card                                                                    created using Promarkers and LOTS of glitter created using diluted liquid pearls and printed on to kraft card. I had no idea you could colour with liquid pearls!  created with watercolours  created using Promarkers, brusho and glossy accents  Additionally, I was asked to use ...