Another Messy Crafter

A FAIRLY traditional Christmas card

2011-10-19T15:25:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to the final day of our October Rubber Die Release Showcase!

Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00 PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12.00 PM EST on 19 October.

Today is also the day you can finally have a look at 4th issue of Whimsy Inspirations Magazine - and seriously, it would be SO worth your time to check it out. Ideas and talent and tutorials galore!!

Here is my last showcase card - I have utterly LOVEDthis release and I have seen the next release and I love it even MORE. I have no idea how I am going to be able to choose the stamps!!!

Anyway, without boring you any further - I am using this lil' minx called Mistloetoe on my card. She was fun to colour, let me tell you that (and I did the combo of Copics, Spectrum Noirs & Flexmarkers as seems to be my latest thing, lol). Once again I used purples and blues for desaturating colours in skin shadows.

The papers are from Prima North Country pad, edged with chalk inks and Gelly Roll pens. The beautiful vines are new die by Whimsy. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.
I got that lush twill ribbon from Ann who is utterly amazing and almost omnipotent. Seriously, there's pretty much nothing that woman can NOT do!!

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Annika Ryan
Debbie Eastman
Erin Bailey
Simonne Clay
Stephanne Maraver
Sylvia Blum

Simple and fast

2011-10-18T16:43:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to Day 6 of our October Rubber Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (12 October), Whimsy Stamps released this month's rubber designs and new shapeology dies. From then until 19 October the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies with a daily mini blog hop.

Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00 PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12.00 PM EST on 19 October.

This is a really simple card which I have kinda pre-designed for those pre-Christmas panic moments when you have about 12 cards missing...

I am using new Christmas Ornaments sentiment set with matching dies.

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Annika Ryan (meeee)
Erin Bailey
Sylvia Blum
Tammy Louise Cunliffe

Disregarding the traditions

2011-10-16T15:33:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our October Rubber Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (12 October), Whimsy Stamps released this month's rubber designs and new shapeology dies. From then until 19 October the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies with a daily mini blog hop.

Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00 PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12.00 PM EST on 19 October.

The stamps I am using:
Lady Victoria
Postcard To Santa background stamp
Holiday Mini Postage Sentiments set

I am also using a Cloud Die Set - cut them out from kraft, stamped with a crackle background and distressed with chalk ink and acrylic paint. All the papers, fabric and ribbons are altered with dark brown chalk ink, linen acrylic paint and copper ultra fine glitter.

The image is coloured with Copics, using entine E40-ies, E79, V99 & 100 (black)

The snowflakes and gears are Make It Crafty chipboard, altered with pearlescent felt tip pens & gold gel pen.

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Alberto Gava {Special Guest}
Annika Ryan (meeeeee)
Debbie Eastman
Minna Paajanen
Tammy Louise Cunliffe

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check the Whimsy Inspirations blog tomorrow for more new release creations!

Challenges:Altered Alice - Use Something that Twinkles or Shines AND/OR you can bring some Spookiness (ends 28th Oct)
Crafting When We Can - 2W, 2E, C5 - (1st week) Christmas
The Crafty Pad - SIO - Monochromatic
Creatalicious Challenges - M, P15 - Distress your Edges
Crafty Ann's - 2W, SIO - Inspired by a Christmas Song (Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - yes, I know my mind is twisted..)
Fabulous Friday - A Fancy Trim
Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - (1st week) Use any Sentiment (Winter Theme)
ABC Christmas Challenge - 2W, Christmas - use your old stash (all the metal bits, acrylic paint, fabric, glitter
Ribbon Carousel Challenge - must include spooled item -Sparkle & Bling

Thanks for popping by!!

A very merry card

2011-10-14T17:00:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to Day 3 of our October Rubber Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (12 October), Whimsy Stamps released this month's rubber designs and new shapeology dies. From then until 19 October the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies with a daily mini blog hop.

Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00 PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12.00 PM EST on 19 October.

I used Bart Loves Christmas on my card, along with Holiday Postage Stamps sentiment set.

The image was coloured with Copics, then smothered in glitter and Glossy Accents.

I made the pins with pearls I got from Quixotic Paperie. The paper is by Crate Paper. I also used vintage seam binding and cute stocking charm from Whimsy.

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Annika Ryan
Debbie Eastman
Ellie Stover
Simonne Clay
Sylvia Blum
Tammy Louise Cunliffe

Blog Candy Winner!

2011-10-13T14:35:00.000+01:00

Every good thing has to end some time and Make It Crafty blog hop is now officially over.

I know, sad...

But on a positive note it's time to announce the winner of my little candy.
So, who is the owner of those goodies??

The Hat has spoken and it's GEA from Gea's Hobbyblogg!

Congratulations, Gea and please contact me with your address so I can send you the sweet stuff! :)

Whimsy October Release - Little Santa Claws

2011-10-12T17:00:00.000+01:00

Welcome to Whimsy Stamps October rubber stamp and die RELEASE DAY!

Whimsy Stamps has released 15 fabulous new rubber stamps and 2 wonderful new Shapeology die sets today. These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

From today until 19 October, the Whimsy DT and Special Guests will be showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies with a daily mini blog hop. Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you will have 24hrs to enter each prize draw by ensuring you leave a comment on every blog listed for that day.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow morning. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12.00PM on 19 October.

And there's even more fabulous news! Issue #4 of the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine will be releasing on October 19th! It's a full issue with never-before-seen creations from the Whimsy Stamps design team and guest designers.

I am using Little Santa Claws image by Crissy Armstrong on my card, along with Stockings sentiment set (there is a compatible die available too but I was silly enough not to get it).

I used a combination of different pencils to colour in that adorable pup - mainly Derwent Drawing Pencils which are great for colouring skin and fur.

The sentiment stockings are stamped with red and green Memento ink and coloured quickly with Copics. Then I sprinkled on some Flowersoft to create furry borders.

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Annika Ryan (me)
Debbie Eastman
Stephanne Maraver
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Ellie Stover

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies released today:

4 Crissy Armstrong rubber stamps
Bart Loves Christmas ~ Christmas Dreaming ~ Jolly Little Santa ~ Little Santa Claws

4 Kenny K rubber stamps
Drama Queen ~ Lady Victoria ~ Mistletoe ~ Mrs Claus

7 Raindrop Echo Designs rubber stamp sets
Holiday Mini Postage Stamps ~ Holiday Pennants ~ Postcard to Santa ~ Seasonal Ornaments (compatible die available) ~ Stockings (compatible die available) ~ Advent Calendar ~ Holiday Postage Stamps

2 Raindrop Echo Designs Shapeology dies
Stockings Dies ~ Ornaments Dies

Don't forget to visit today's DT and leave a comment on their blog posts to be entered into the draw to win a new release stamp, then pop by the Whimsy Inspirations blog tomorrow for the next list of showcase posts!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our new release!

Challenges:
Cards und More - 2W, must stamp - #38 Lace & Buttons 2nd Week
Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - (2nd week) Anything Goes
Karens Doodles - 1E, SIO - Distress It
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Card Cupids - Use a Decorative Punch of Some Type
Crafty Emma - E3 - #57 Seeing Red
Raise The Bar - furry friends
C.R.A.F.T. - 5E - Bright Colours

And we're hopping...

2011-10-05T17:00:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to the Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps BLOG HOP!

On Sunday we announced the wonderful news that Whimsy Stamps is exclusively releasing Sylvia Zet's beautiful wee stamps collection in rubber!Whimsy Stamps is releasing 6 new Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps today and these new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. The Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests have been showcasing these fabulous stamps for the past 3 days, and today we are celebrating their release with a BLOG HOP!

We are delighted to welcome our wonderful special guests who are joining the Whimsy DT for this hop -

Alberto Gava,

Mariska van der Veer,

Jacque Beddingfield,

Dena Concienne,

Tab Robinson

and Sylvia Zet herself!

The hop starts today (Wednesday October 5th at noon EST) and ends on Tuesday October 11th at noon EST.
For this hop we have 5 different prize draws! One lucky hopper will win the entire new release of 6 stamps. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*
If you would like to hop along with us today and haven’t arrived from Simonne’s blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Ann’s blog.

For my card I used Silver Fairy - isn't she just delightfully charming and serene! I also used Winter Letter Seals set.

I used a combination of markers here - her hair, wings, shoes and dress are done with Spectrum Noir markers. I got two sets (browns and turquoises) as a test and was seriously unimpressed at first, especially with that bullet nib thingy and with a way they seem to squirt out the ink. I was thinking about getting rid of them but then had a I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY A FLIPPIN' MARKER moment and, well, got crackin, lol

The skin is done with Copics, I used a bit pinker and cooler tones as it IS supposed to be a wintery picture and methinks a fairy should have given it a bit thought before she wandered out so scantily clad. I am at the moment experimenting using strong purples as my shadow colours, still in early stages but I already like it better than using grays.

Oh, and that cool webbed ribbon is a pressie from our fabulous ANN, thank you SO much - I am a lucky gal to have friends like yourself!!
So now it’s time for you to continue the hop by hopping over to Tab’s blog.Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Ann Vento
Chris Olsen
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Debbie Eastman
Dena Concienne
Stephanne Maraver
Sylvia Blum
Jacque Beddingfield
Erin Bailey
Ellie Stover
Mariska van der Veer
Alberto Gava
Simonne Clay
Annika Ryan
Tab Robinson
Sylvia Zet

Here are the challenge I wish to enter:
Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes
Heart Song Inspirations - 1E, SIO - Anything Goes
Touch Twin Markers and more - C5, 2W, SIO - (2nd week) Color Challenge* (ends 8th Oct)
Emerald Faerie Garden - 2W, 3E, SIO, P1/15 - Challenge #10: Punches/ Dies
Sparkles Forum Christmas - M, Christmas, P1 - Christmas Songs
A Gem of a Challenge - 2W - 1stW - #31 With love at Christmas (with a heart) (big doily heart)
Wee memories - C4, #70 Use your favourite technique(s) (distressed edges, paper piercing, marker colouring
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - 3E - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - 1E - Things with Wings
Jingle Belles - Christmas - Peace on Earth
Meljens Designs - SIO - Shapes: Use a circle and a square in the same creation
Samuel Taylor's Challenge - M, C3 - (September) Create a Christmas card using any rubber stamp

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!
Hugs

This is as autumnal as I can get..

2011-10-04T12:26:00.000+01:00

Hello Whimsy fans!On Sunday, Whimsy Stamps announced that we will now be releasing Sylvia Zet's adorable wee collection exclusively in Whimsy rubber! How exciting! This month Whimsy Stamps will be releasing six Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps rubber stamps on 5 October: Autumn Happiness ~ Rose's Bike Ride ~ Silver Fairy ~ Sweet Blossom ~ Wee Suzi ~ Winter Fairy.The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sharing some fabulous sneak peeks of these darling stamps in the lead up to their release tomorrow (Wednesday 5 October). We will be holding a fantastic BLOG HOP tomorrow to celebrate the new release, so be sure to join the fun at 12.00PM (EST) as we will be giving away the entire release to one lucky hopper as well as having a few secret prize draws scattered throughout the hop.

And here is my take on Autumn Happiness - plenty of mucking with watercolours for sure!! I have to say my hubby loved the coloured-up image so I don't really know if I should be real happy or slightly alarmed, lol.

I love those papers though - they are from Authentique Halloween pad and I think I might get addicted to that line of papers as well. Do NOT tell my hubby!!

To take a peek at today's amazing sneak peek projects, please visit the DT listed below...

Chris Olsen
Debbie Eastman
Erin Bailey
Simonne Clay
Stephanne Maraver
Sylvia Blum
Tammy Louise Cunliffe

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check back tomorrow for our fabulous new release blog hop!
Hugs!

A Wee Taster

2011-10-02T17:00:00.000+01:00

Hello Whimsy fans!We are super excited to announce that from October, Whimsy Stamps will be releasing Sylvia Zet's adorable wee collection exclusively in Whimsy rubber!Whimsy Stamps will be releasing six Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps rubber stamps this month on 5 October:

Autumn Happiness ~ Rose's Bike Ride ~ Silver Fairy ~ Sweet Blossom ~ Wee Suzi ~ Winter Fairy

The Whimsy Stamps DT are going to be sharing some fabulous sneak peeks of these darling stamps over the next 3 days in the lead up to their release on Wednesday 5 October! We will be holding a fantastic BLOG HOP on 5 October to celebrate the new release, so be sure to join us then as we will be giving away the entire release to one lucky hopper as well as having a few secret prize draws scattered throughout the hop.To take a peek at today's amazing sneak peek projects, please visit the DT listed below...

Debbie Eastman
Ellie Stover
Simonne Clay
Stephanne Maraver
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Iris Wiechman

I am using a Winter Fairy on my card - I stamped her in gray Versafine ink and coloured with watercolours keeping it very soft. The papers are old Christmas papers from OA and Papermania, all brushed with white acrylic paint and sprinkled with a bit of aqua glitter while the paint was still wet. The filigree corners and medallion are a chipboard by Make It Crafty.

The sentiment is from Peace On Earth set.

Thanksfor stopping by and don't forget to check back on Tuesday for another sneak peek!

Hugs

Tutorial - Cloudy Watercolour Sky

2011-10-01T18:28:00.001+01:00

I have been promising to do couple of watercolour sky tutorials for a while - here's finally the first one for that sky:

Things you need:
Watercolour card - the sturdier the better
Kitchen paper or tissue
pre-mixed washes (diluted paints or inks) in blue, red and grey. This technique gives the best results with watercolours but is totally possible with distress inks too.
Medium brush (round or filbert - I like filbert but that's personal preference)

If you want to use that technique as a backdrop for the image, cover the image with masking fluid first. NOTE - never use masking fluid on top of painted area - it will pull off paint when you try to remove it. Guess how I know that...

I recorded this tutorial very late after recording two other ones, as a result I seem to have lost the gift of remotely coherent speech. Fair play to you if you manage to understand anything!!

Thank you for popping by!
Hugs

On the subject of Zoe's birthday again...

2011-09-29T15:09:00.000+01:00

...and with huge apologies for being late - I meant to be late just one day but fell asleep last night and never got to the 'puter.
Here's Zoe All Excited, probably because it's her birthday!Or was her birthday.Or she is excited because it was her birthday two days ago.
That doesn't make sense and now my head hurts :D

Oh, and I had a lovely plan for a sentiment too, that's before I discovered that my inkjet was parched dry.All-in-all it's the usual uber-organized me.

The background paper and pink matting paper are from Basic Grey, made the flowers myself and pleated loads of sheer ribbon to trim the image.

Don't forget Make It Crafty blog hop is still going strong and check out my candy too!! :)

Challenges:
Penny's Paper-Crafty - 2W - #63 anything goes
Stampin' Royalty - 3C - #91 keep it simple

Celebrate the Occasion - 1E - Any Occasion- Must Use Ribbon
Deep Ocean Challenge - 2W - Happy Birthday
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - 2E - It's A Girl Thing
Crafters`s Cafe Progressive Challenge - Happy Birthday PLUS "Terrible Twos"

Hugs

Happy Birthday, Zoe - Make It Crafty hop and CANDY!

2011-09-27T11:00:00.000+01:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ZOE!!!!

To commemorate this joyous occasion, we're so excited to bring youa Birthday Blog Hop disguised as a Christmas Blog Hop!! We wanted tocelebrate Zoe's Birthday in style so there are lots of inspiration,prizes, freebies and even a gallery album for you to express your ownbirthday greetings. ;D This is one hop you don't want to miss and itonly goes from now until October 12th!

The general theme forthis hop is Christmas and what fun would a hop be without some newimages?! Zoe has released some fabulous new holiday themed images andthey are a must on anyone's holiday list - but the best part is you get15% off ALL the Christmas digis from now until Sunday, October 2nd. Click on this link HERE to see them all.) Be warned, the coupon code is only for this week even thought the blog hop is for two weeks - so make sure to grab them at this sale price while you can!

Before we get to the hop, there's more details and a surprise in order... Everyone in this blog hop is giving away Blog Candy!! Whoohoo!! You'll have two weeks, until October 12th, to visit eachmember in the hop below and winners will be announced on Friday,October 14th on their individual blogs. Feel free to grab the badgebelow and display it on your sidebar to spread the word about Zoe'sBirthday and Blog Hop!

I'd ask if you're ready for someinspiration yet, but wait... we've got yet another surprise for you!!We contacted one of Zoe's artists (S.H.) who also wanted to participateand drew us this gorgeous party girl for the occasion. Thank you!!

This is "Party Girl Zoe" and isn't she ca-ute! We wanted to make sure everyone was included in our celebration so we're giving away Part Girl Zoe as a freebie toeveryone who wants to join in and spread some birthday cheer!! All youneed to do is create a new project using a Make it Crafty image orchippies and upload it into the gallery HERE by October 12th. Then email Barbara at ForgottenScraps@gmail.com with a link to your project to claim her!

You should have arrived here from Angela's blog - if not, I would suggest you jump straight to Make It Colourful blog and start the hop from the beginning. Believe me, you don't want to miss a thing!

Aren't the new images just freakin' AWESOME!!! There is a lot of variety in new release but I chose to practice with these cute manga adorables - Angel and Cherub together. They are also available separately but I couldn't possibly bear to keep them apart.

I am still learning how to colour that style of an image and having great fun with it! I did go a bit overboard with angels robe and shading around her eyes and as a result she looks slightly grubby and suffering with sleep deprivation. Just like me, really.

I also used some cute snowflakes and flourishes from Make It Crafty chipboard range, just dabbed them with white pigment ink.

The papers are from Prima new North County Christmas pad, which is delightfully vintage and different. The sentiment is a digi by Raindrop Echo Designs.

And now to the candy - I have all this lot to give away to one lucky commenter! Just pop your name onto the linky list!

Now it's time to hop on - your next stop is Delphine's amazing blog!

The challenges:
Crafty Boots - 2W, SIO - (2nd week) Wings
My Mum's Craft Shop - #24 Boys and Girls
Top Tip Tuesday - 3E -2 Or More, Ribbon, Twine, Lace, Fabric
Aly's Sunday Challenge - 1E, 2W - (temporarily monthly) Bows
Kenny K Krafty Girlz - 1E, SIO - Christmas Card
2 Sisters - #58 Gingham or Plaid
Marks Finest Papers -#74 Things with Wings
Raise The Bar - things with wings
Hanna And Friends - #112 Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - #88 Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - Let's Celebrate
Magical Mondays - 2W, mystical/fantasy image - (2nd week) Christmas in September
My Craft Spot - 1E - Ribbon
Paper Creations Ink - 2W - (2nd week) Buttons or Bows

Hugs to all!

White mist

2011-09-26T09:58:00.002+01:00

Last Saturday's challenge at Make It Colourful was (and still is) creating white mist. I really wanted to play but was colouring very last minute and top of this bit a lot more than I could chew - I decided to do a no-black-lines version of ZOE ALL EXCITED. Which was a bit of a madness, considering how detailed the image was and how small I printed it out.

It took me about triple the usual time to colour that image and I'm slow to start with!! Never mind the fact that I botched it up anyway. And now that I'm looking at her again I notice that I didn't finish off her eyes - properly - *headdesk*

I tried to publish it yesterday but Blogger was NOT playing ball and wouldn't let me into my posting area at all.

I used Maritime Abode from Steampunk release behind her, printed out as light as possible. Background was created with BV20/23/25. I then lifted out some lighter areas with colourless blender and went at it with white pigment ink to enhance the "mistiness". One of the main reasons for that exercise was to show that you don't always have to use your background stamp as detailed images, rather like silhouettes. It gives a cool feel of distance.

I haven't got a chance to make a card with that image yet but I will this week, just wanted to show you the results of my playtime and maybe encourage you to create some white mist too! Would love to see your results!! See you at Make It Colourful!! :)

Oh, and stay tuned for Make It Crafty Christmas release hop tomorrow - you're gonna be wiped off your feel with the amount of pure talent out team sports!!

Hugs

A card and TWO tutorials - I know, I'm MAD :D

2011-09-24T16:38:00.000+01:00

Just as I had accepted that autumn is here to stay the weather man has promised hottest weather for whole of this year for next week! Great. Just after I had put all the summer clothes away, never mind that kids have grown out of their light clothes and therefore don't have any.

All that aside, here's a very autumnal-looking card for you!! That little (breathtakingly CUTE) fairy by Crissy Armstrong is called Pum Kinnie Fairy and she is available from Whimsy Stamps. The sentiment is from Steampunk Travels set.

The image was coloured with Prismas on kraft card and I recorded two tutorials - how to colour a pumpkin and leaves. You can watch them if you scroll down.

The papers are from Prima Romantique pad (freakin' LUSH), all edged with different flourishes from Lavish Flourishes stamp set. I made the pins myself using various spacers and pearls. The bling fourishes I just eyeballed, only tools being a bottle of glue and pile of loose flat-back gems. The flowers were also stamped with flourishes, then layered and I created centers with some link charms, flat back gems, big flat back pearls and generous blobs of Viva Pearl pens used as an adhesive.

Now, and here's the promised videos:

How to colour a pumpkin with Prismacolor pencils on kraft card

How to colour leaves (especially the lighter veins, really easy trick)

Hope you found something useful!

The challenges:
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - 3E - Autumn Days
Crafty Catz - 1E - Autumn
Lily Pad - 2W - bling
Our Craft Lounge - SIO - patterned papers
Raise The Bar - things with wings
Stampin For The Weekend - 2W, 1E - what a cutie
Paperworks - photo inspire*
4 Crafty Chicks -Fall/Autumn
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - 1E, SIO - For the Girls
Delightful Challenges - 1E, SIO - Happy Fall Y'all!
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - 2W, 1E, SIO - Second week; Things With Wings
Paper Play - 2E – Autumn Leaves
Play Date Cafe - Color Challenge: Picture Inspiration
Crafting for all Seasons - 2W - #10 fall colors
Crafty Creations - #136 fairies
I Brake For Challenges -2W, SIO - Fall
Paper Pretties - SIO -PPC172 fall
Scrapbook Sisters - #53 autumn colors
Tuesday Throwdown -#67 Fall
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - must include Kraft cardstock - Fall/Autumn
My Craft Spot - 1E - Fall Leaves
Pile It On - Colours of Fall/Autumn

Thanks for popping by!
Hugs

Whimsy mini hop - Kenny K

2011-09-20T13:40:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to Day 6 of our September Rubber Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (Sept 14th), Whimsy Stamps released our September rubber designs and new shapeology die! From then until September 21st, the Whimsy Stamps DT will be showcasing these fabulous new stamps and shapeology die with a daily mini blog hop.

Each mini blog hop will have a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you will have 24hrs to enter each prize draw.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 9.00am EST tomorrow morning. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12noon on September 21st.

Today we are showcasing the new Kenny K stamps and Raindrop Echo Designs sentiment stamps. To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Annika Ryan
Debbie Eastman
Mariska van der Veer {Special Guest}
Sylvia Blum
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Zoe McGrath {Special Guest}

On to my card - I used Teen Idol image stamp and sentiment from Fun Life Ticket set.

The image was coloured with Whispers water-soluble markers using no-black-lines approach. It was kind of a challenge to myself because Kenny K images have such strong striking lines and not depending on those while colouring is a wee bit tricky to put it mildly.

Please promise me you will ignore couple of bad smudges where I went in shading and discovered that image wasn't completely dry yet!!!

The papers are from Basic Grey Oliver and Wander pads. I used Whimsy Music Note background to stamp on white twill ribbon.

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. Whimsy Stamps is also offering a fabulous 10% discount on all new release stamps and die. There is no need to enter any code when checking out as the 10% discount has already been applied. (Please note that this special discount is valid for one week only and until stocks last, and expires at midnight EST on Wednesday 21 September 2011.)

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a candy!

A mini hop

2011-09-17T16:24:00.002+01:00

To be entered into today's Whimsy Stamps mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 9.00am EST tomorrow morning. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12noon on September 21st.

Today we are showcasing the new Meljen's Designs stamps along with the new Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiment stamps.

I am showing you a cute Acorn Mouse. The image was coloured with Whispers markers.

It's a double diamond fold card - here's some more angles:

The pretty flourishes on the card are Whimsy Flourishes dies.
The papers are all from my scraps bag - I think there some October Afternoon there and some Crate paper.

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Alberto Gava {Special Guest}
Ann Vento
Annika Ryan (you are here)
Debbie Eastman
Erin Bailey
Mariska van der Veer {Special Guest}
Sylvia Blum

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

Challenges:

Card Makin' Mamas - 2W, 2E, cards only - punches

Crafty Ann's - 2W, SIO - something outside comfort zone (fancy fold.makes my hands shake, that)

Fabulous Friday - punches

Stempelsonnen Challenge - 2W, 3E, must have stamp as main focus - brown, orange, green

Our Craft Lounge - SIO - color photo inspire

Always Something Creative - Challenge#14 Autumn

Heidi's Hobbystuggu - M, 1E, cards only - Fall Colours

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - 2E - Unique Fold

Forever Friends - 2W, SIO, must include animal - (2nd week) Use your Dies

Happileigh Scrappin - SIO - Anything about Autumn /Fall (Colours, Holidays, Leaves...etc

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Animals

Thanks for popping in!

Whimsy - A Smokin' September Release Is HERE!!

2011-09-14T17:00:00.003+01:00

Welcome to Whimsy Stamps September rubber stamp and die RELEASE DAY!

Whimsy Stamps have released 15 fabulous new rubber stamps and one wonderful new Shapeology die today. These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

From today until September 20th, the Whimsy DT and Whimsy Special Guests will be showcasing these fabulous new stamps and shapeology die with a daily mini blog hop. Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you will have 24hrs to enter each prize draw by ensuring you leave a comment on every blog listed for that day.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 11.00am EST tomorrow morning. All winners will be announced here on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12noon on September 21st.

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Ann Vento
Annika Ryan (me-me-meee-eeee!!!)
Debbie Eastman
Ellie Stover
Erin Bailey
Mariska van der Veer {Special Guest}
Stephanne Maraver

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and die released today:

3 Crissy Armstrong rubber stamps
Football Bart ~ Ock Toe Bur Fairy ~ Pum Kinnie Fairy

4 Kenny K rubber stamps
Golfer ~ Scarlett West ~ Teen Idol ~ Wasn't Me

4 Meljen's Designs rubber stamps
Acorn Mouse ~ Cat O Lantern ~ Fall Wreath ~ Little Bunny Witch

4 Raindrop Echo Designs rubber stamp sets
Autumn Letter Seals ~ Lavish Flourishes ~ Steampunk Travels ~ The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments

Raindrop Echo Designs Shapeology die

Whimsy Stamps is also offering a fabulous 10% discount on all new release stamps to all our wonderful Whimsy customers! There is no need to enter any code when checking out as the 10% discount has already been applied. (Please note that this special discount is valid for one week only and until stocks last, and expires at midnight EST on Wednesday 21 September 2011.)

And now to my card. The stamps I used were: Lavish Flourishes (stamped on twill tape), Ock Toe Bur Fairy (the main image) , The Fun Life Tickets(stamped with Stazon on acetate).

I stamped the image with London Fog Memento ink and coloured with various coloured pencils.

The paper are from Basic Grey Pyrus pad and the laser cut chipboard from Make It Crafty.

Don't forget to visit today's DT and leave a comment on their blog posts to be entered into the draw to win a new release stamp, then pop by tomorrow for the next list of showcase posts!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our new release!

A wee hop

2011-09-09T09:00:00.005+01:00

Today is the day we've been waiting for - the gorgeous new Sylvia Zet images are being released by SCACD Stamps! There are EIGHT fantastic and utterly adorable images, all exclusive to SCACD Stamps in yummy red rubber, and they are all available now.

The stamps are all now available, and if you just have to have them all, you can grab them in discounted sets!

US/Canada: You will find the stamps in the Sylvia Zet section at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design HERE.

UK/Europe: You will find the stamps in the Sylvia Zet section at Quixotic Paperie HERE.

To celebrate, we've got a hop for you today, filled with inspiration from the SCACD and Quixotic Paperie design teams PLUS some special guests! We hope you will hop along with us as we introduce you to Loli & Shellie, Poppy and the rest of their friends!

You should have hopped here from Mary Johnson's blog. If you're just joining us and would like to start the hop at the beginning, then pop back to the start over at ELAINE HUGHES' BLOG.

A complete hop list can be found over on the SCACD Store Blog.

I got a beautiful stamped called Hope to play with. And play I did - it was my first time to attempt pencil layering on hot-pressed white watercolour paper.

I used a mixture of different pencils - Derwent Drawing Pencils, Derwent Coloursoft (have about of those, lol), Prismacolor & Faber-Castell Polychromos (good for details). I stamped image with Memento London Fog but now wish I had chosen something lighter, the stamp lines are still a bit too strong. PLEASE don't look for the light source on that one - I must have got a bit confused halfway through, now that I look at it.

I didn't want to overpower the image and kept the layout very simple. The papers are from Cosmo Cricket Odds & Ends pad.

Your next stop on the hop is Suzanne Dean's blog. Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy hopping with us today!

Challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. - Children
Crafts and Me - #51 buttons and bows
Flutterby Wednesdays - anything goes (all month)
Kelley Kid's - 1E, SIO - girly girl
Little Red Wagon - #97 diecut
Paper Creations Ink - Vintage or Distressed Look
The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - 2W - Use Twine
2 Sisters - #55 Friends
ECP Challenges - Yellow

Happy hugs!

Steamin' hot-hot-hot

2011-09-05T12:13:00.001+01:00

Hi my friends! Long time, no see - I know. Been trying to juggle full-time work and the not-so-lethal-but-incredibly-draining plague that has bestowed it's not-so-gracious attentions upon me. And my son.

So, before it gets really cold and damp I would like to show you a really warm and summery card. It was first published in Whimsy Magazine along with loads of inspiration and tips from the rest of Whimsy DT so click on this link and get yourself a nice cup of coffee. You'll be there for a while!

I used Bathing Beauty from Whimsy Stamps and combined it with The Beach digi stamp from Make It Crafty. I stamped Good Life Tickets on acetate in white and black Stazon, cut them out and layered slightly askew so it looks like white letters have a shadow. More readable that way. I also used bits from Vintage Bottle Labels Background behind the image.

The image was coloured with a combination of different things: Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and Caran 'Dache Swisscolour Water Soluble Pencils (30-tin). I used soft pastels to do the sky - don't know the brand as I got the box from discount store, works totally fine for my needs. I laid down the yellow first, rubbed with paper towel and then added orange, violet and red, blending them all with paper towel again.for a last thing I added some white on horizon, to indicate the sharp last light of setting sun.

I used Faber-Castell and Caran D'Ache pencils for the girl because they allow more detail and obscure the outlines less.

There is also a lot of Make It Crafty chipboard on this card - Butterfly Leaves, Filigree Borders, Swirly Corners, Mix n Match centres.

The papers are from Basic Grey Hello Luscious pad. I guess it is very much my sort of a card because it gave me chance to get happily mucky with all sorts of paints and sprays. Because it was originally for the magazine I actually have a list, you can giggle if you want to thinking of all that going on one card!
Winsor and Newton acrylic paints in White, Yellow Ochre, Permanent Sap Green and Gold
Tattered Angels glimmer Mists in Cinnamon, Coffee and Gold

It was a real fun card to make and I hope it was a fun card to look at too!!

Challenges I'm entering
Gingerloft - (1st week) Create a Sky
I Did It Creations - Girly Girls
Kenny K Krafty Girlz Vintage/Grunge
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi

Opus Gluei - (2nd week) Roses or Rosettes
Stamptacular Sunday - Must use a stamp - Anything Goes (It's my first time doing a sunset that way)
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo Inspiration*
Drunken Stampers - Fruity Summer Day Cocktails
Ellephantastic - September Here come the girls
Sweet Stampin - Anything but Birthday
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - add flowers
Kelley Kid's - hot Summer/bright colors
Flutterby Wednesdays - #169 celebrate

Big hugs!

Weddings...again

2011-08-29T14:31:00.000+01:00

I don't have much to show you, didn't get into the craft room at all over the weekend.

This card is the second one of the wedding cards I made last week. I used the fold tutorial I found on StampArtic again. It's a bit different and looks suitably fancy :)

The colouring is done with Copics, E40-ies only. I'm pretty sure the image is from Whiff of joy. I was in rush taking the photos, thus they are quite dark and forgot to take picture of the inside too, although I decorated that as well. :(

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!
Hugs

Whimsy Blog hop winner and - yes - a card, finally

2011-08-26T00:35:00.000+01:00

Sorry I am so late drawing the winner for Whimsy blog hop - I am still settling in to work and kinda lost track of days, lol

Without further ado - Random.org has spoken:

Congratulations, Sandra, I will contact you shortly for mailing details!!

And here is the first of two commissioned wedding cards I've been working on. The image is by Whiff Of Joy. Don't look at colouring, I was TOTALLY uninspired. TOLD you I don't like making wedding cards.

What I DO like is Make It Crafty Chipboard and Echo Park Victoria Gardens papers. Lush stuff! Me approves!

Oh, and I'm discovering Flower Soft that has been just sitting in my drawer. There's potential there - I think you might see more of it on my cards soon.

Thanks for visiting and happy crafting!!

Hugs

Whimsy August Rubber Stamp Release Blog Hop

2011-08-17T17:00:00.008+01:00

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps August new rubber and die release BLOG HOP!

On August 10th, Whimsy Stamps released our August rubber designs and new dies. Today we are hosting a blog hop to celebrate this release and to share creations made using these 15 fabulous new Rubber Stamps and 3 wonderful new Shapeology Dies. These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Elaine Hughes, Zoe McGrath, Alberto Gava and Iwona "Chupa" Palamountain.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been showcasing these fabulous stamps for the past 6 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new August release rubber stamps and dies:

3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Bart Goes Golfing ~ Butterfly Sympathy ~ Hang In There

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Cupcake Treat Trio ~ Monkey Toes ~ Pen Pal Mouse ~ Topsy Turvy Cake

4 stamps from Kenny K
Bathing Beauty ~ Buggin Drummer ~ Wanda Wicked ~ Wedding Garter

4 stamp sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Bottle Cap Sentiments ~ Film Markers ~ Schoolyard Fun ~ Vintage Seed Packets

3 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Elegant Butterflies Die Set ~ Bottle Cap Die (coordinates with Bottle Cap Sentiments stamp set) ~ Film Marker Die (coordinates with Film Markers stamp set)

Today is also the release of the second edition of the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine! The magazine features never before seen samples and tutorials from our DT members as well as some creations from our customers and fans too! This issue is crammed full of crafty goodness and best of all it's FREE! Just click the link below and you will be taken to the magazine where you can read it online or download it and save to your computer.

CLICK HERE to view the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine Issue 2

If you would like to hop along with us today and you didn’t arrive from Elaine's Blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Zoe’s blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday August 17th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday August 24th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 7 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. We also have 5 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

I am using a beautiful set by Crissy Armstrong called Butterfly Sympathy. It is one the most amazing sympathy stamp sets I have ever set my eyes on and I did not really do it justice. :(

I decided to try stamping a bit differently - I embossed the image in white and used vibrant shades of watercolour. When I was finished I realized it wasn't really suitable for a sympathy card like that so I used postage stamp sentiment set instead.

I used a lot of heat embossing on that card. I stamped one of the background papers with butterflies from the same sympathy set and embossed them in sparkly powder. All the edges of the papers were embossed with a mix of UTEE and pearly powders. The metal butterfly charms and resin flowers were dyed with white Stazon ink.

Congratulations! You have arrived to the end of our fab hop and boy do I have a treat for you - a whopping grand prize!
ALL those stamps could be yours:
Film Markers, School Yard Fun, Butterfly Sympathy, Hang in There, Penpal Mouse, Monkey Toes, Wanda Wicked and Buggin'Drummer
Pop your name to the linky collection at the end of the post and keep your fingers crossed!

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!

Don't forget to sign up for the candy!

Trying something new

2011-08-15T07:00:00.002+01:00

I have been meaning to try and colour with pencils on black cardstock before and finally got around to it! The result is ... interesting. The jury is still out if I like it or not.

I stamped Whimsy Star by Kenny K in white ink on black cardstock and coloured her is mixture of different pencils, basically just testing various brands: Faber-castell Polychromos, Derwent Inktense and Prismacolor. If I were to do it again, I'd use Prismacolour only, mainly because they gave the most opaque result.

I used papers From Echo Park For The Record pad and Crate Portrait pad. That lush butterfly swirl is a chipboard from Make It Crafty. I did a lot of random dotting with Viva gloss gel in Sunny Yellow and Walnut Brown.

Film marker sentiment is from a brand new Whimsy set and I cut it out with a matching die.

I hope I might have given you an idea for something new to try out!

Don't forget to check out Quixotic Paperie shop for a summer sale and lots of new goodies! :)

Challenges:
Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Music (Sheet music, music notes, instruments or singing)
Crafty Calendar - M, 1E - August: Hot Colours!
Marks Finest Papers -#68 Distressed Card
Craft Us Crazy - 2W, 3E - Anything goes in August
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - 2W, 1E, SIO - Outside the diecut
Meljens Designs - SIO - Use Black
Crazy Amigo Challenge - Anything goes
The Burtonesque Dolls - 2W, JFF - 2nd week - The Lighter side of Burton

Thanks for popping by!

Here's an old biddy trying to be cool!!! :)

2011-08-14T11:00:00.003+01:00

I have two bits of news for you. First - I hit a respectable 40 years today! I am officially old enough to forget about diets and pronounce my ample padding a normal order of things and just get on with it.

I wish.

Secondly - Whimsy Stamps & Make it Crafty have come together to create a fun Urban Themed digi collection!

Ann Vento has whipped up her magic and designed an incredible collection of
funky wall sayings, city landscapes and of course a range of super cool street signs.

Check out the Sentiments collection HERE

Make it Crafty is trying something new offering all the different elements for you to build your own urban backdrop.

Check out the Urban Street Collection HERE

Then of course, what better characters to incorporate into such a scene than the fabulous KennyK rubber stamps available from Whimsy Stamps!

Our incredibly talented Design Teams have had a blast playing with all the different elements to bring you LOTS of inspiration!

We have broken it in to TWO HOPS
HOP A Starts Here & HOP B Starts HERE at my blog!

There will be a winner for EACH HOP and if you hop your way through BOTH, you’ll go in the draw for the GRAND PRIZE TOO!

HOP A & B Winners will each receive a $15 voucher from both Whimsy Stamps and Make it Crafty

GRAND WINNER will win our full Urban Digital Collection
4 Digi Sentiment sets by Ann Vento & the Urban Elements Collection from Make it Crafty

You are currently on HOP B and should have arrived to the very beginning, you lucky duck - just keep hopping along to enjoy wonderful masterpieces of amazingly talented crafters.

I combined Hot Weave Kenny K stamp with different urban background elements from Make It Crafty. I also used a sentiment from City Talk digital sentiment set by Raindrop Echo Designs. Then I printed barbed wire from the same set in full scale on pearlescent paper and heat embossed in silver. Afterwards I went at it with different ink pads and silver leafing pen.

I have also used a new Bottle Cap sentiments rubber stamp set by Whimsy with a matching bottle cap die. It looks cooler irl - because of the shine the sentiment doesn't show very well on photo :(

The image is mainly coloured with Copics - there are some little shading areas addes with Caran D'Ache Swisscolour pencils.

Once I had decided on silver colour theme I just started piling on all the silvery stuff I got my hands on, lol. Those corners are actually silver foily stickers, I splodged them with BG72/75/79 and added some silver brads. Noth half bad!

Your next stop on HOP B is CAROLE, but before you go make sure you leave a comment below!

You have until August 21^st 8PM Australian QLD time to make your way through the hops!

Be there... or be square!

Challenges:
Challenge Up Your Life - 2W, 1E - #50 No patterned paper
Colour Me Creative Copic's Challenge -3E, 2W - must use copic's - #24 Colour your embellishments and must be Friendship themed
Charisma Cardz - 3E, C10 – Distressing
Crafty Sentiments - 1E, SIO - Punches and Die Cuts
Do You Stack Up? - 3E - Emboss it
Ruby's Rainbow - 2W, JFF - #9 Gems
A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1E - #162 Happy Birthday
Paper Take Weekly - Grow Your Own- use hand made or altered flowers (my flowers are made from jewellery findings, brads and glass effect gel)
Sweet Stamps - 1E, C10, SIO - Bling It Up
The Burtonesque Dolls - 2W, JFF - 2nd week - The Lighter side of Burton

Thanks for popping by!

Keeping it simple. Really.

2011-08-12T08:45:00.000+01:00

This week threw quite a few things at me - the biggest one being that I'm starting back at working on Monday. As you can imagine I've been mad busy trying to sort things out and amongst other things I have needed to make a sad decision to step down from quite a few design teams. Sundays With Crissy is amongst them so that is my last card for them. :(

The theme for August is KISS - Keep It Simple, Sweetie.
You see, I made an honest, no embellies-involved, one layer card!!

The image is called Forget Me Not and I just printed it on kraft base along with a sentiment by Raindrop Echo Designs. All I really did then was to colour the image with Faber-Castell Polychromos and Caran D'Ache Swisscolor pencils.:)

Thanks a million for popping by and happy crafting!!
Hugs

A wee rodent problem here...

2011-08-08T07:38:00.001+01:00

I am not sure how I would react if a mouse popped up from my birthday cake but it sure looks cute on the card!

This stamp is called Birthday Cake Mouse and it's by Whimsy Stamps. I used my plain old watercolours and loads of glitter to perk it up. The banners are from Whimsy Celebration Pennants set, stamped on patterned paper and heat embossed.

The papers I used are from Basic Grey Life Of The Party pad. Flowers are made with Marianne's Floral die set. I also used Whimsy Double Scallop Border die.

And now a bit of enabling - have you noticed that Quixotic is now carrying new Authentique 6x6 paper pads? Boy they are lovely - I think I absolutely NEED that blue one - it's so hard to find papers in those hues for some reason!

Now isn't that just lush!

My another awwwww-moment are Rick St Dennis bears and clowns - so quirky and fun and fabquality of artwork!!

Thanks a million for popping by and happy crafting!
Annika

Just a reminder

2011-08-07T10:52:00.000+01:00

There is a new challenge up at Kenny K Krafty Girlz. Its another simple one for you.

Fun in the Sun!

Anything goes which is summery, bright, cheerful and makes you happy!

So dust off your glitters, pearls, bling, flowers, ribbons and your favourite summery papers and get creating to be in with the chance to win a $15 shopping voucher to spend at Whimsy Stamps.

Cheers!

Pink glow - or at least attempt at it

2011-08-06T10:07:00.003+01:00

I haven't played with Make It Colourful team for a while and FINALLY got my act together. Of course it had to be a week for COLOUR SOMETHING IN PINK.

Well. If you have been here before you already know that I don't really DO pink. At least not well. But since it is all about challenging myself - out came the Copics and I started experimenting.

I combined Annabelle and Clockwork House in MS word toning the background image down quite a bit.

Objective was to try and get a luminous soft glow of colours using the white of the paper for highlights. There was a LOT of layering and blending involved and if I didn't use Make It Colour marker blending card, it would have been a terrible bleeding mess. I am usually pretty heavy-handed with colour so it was very tricky for me to colour like this.

I was trying to achieve that cool pinkish manga skin colour with some warmth in shadow areas so I came up (after a lot of scrapping) with V0000, RV11, E11/53 and colurless blender combo. The hair is done with BV0000/000/12/15, C5/3, blue tones B21/60/0000/23, C4 and pink RV0000/10/21/23/25. All the combos rely heavily on use of colourless blender. Clockwork house uses BV20-ties only, also with a lot of colourless blender.

I made pins with pearls and findings mainly from Quixotic Paperie, some bits were just floating in my stash. Ornate corners are a lasercut chipboard by Make It Crafty.

The flourishes are a die form Whimsy Stamps. The flowers are a result of some fabric, Nestie scalloped circles and a glue gun. :)

Challenges:

Amber's Crafts and Stuff - 1E - Sparkle & shine

Crafts and Me - #46 anything goes

Paper Shelter Challenge - 3E, SIO - #25 flowers

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - Doilies

Paper Take Weekly - Anything goes with optional metal

Crafters Companion - Glitter and Glitz

Cupcake Craftroom - 3E, posted on the 1st - Soft and Sweet

Emerald Faerie Garden - 2W, 3E, SIO, posted on the 1st & 15th - Challenge #2: Lace

iCopic Challenge - 2E, must use Copics - Skin Tones

Victorine Originals - 2W, SIO - Bling

Bird is the Word - 1E, every 2W (lasts 1 month) - dream

Opus Gluei - JFF, 2W - no sentiment allowed

Sparkles Forum - 2W - one for the girls

Thanks a million for popping by!
Hugs

Grumpy card

2011-08-05T11:01:00.000+01:00

It's Digi Day at Stamp Something and I am using an image and sentiment from Bugaboo Stamps! I think their stuff is such a hoot and so great for more humorous/whimsical cards!

The image is coloured with Copics and the papers are from Basic Grey Pyrus pad. I made the pleated flower thingi with Martha Stewart scoring board.

Thanks for popping by!
Hugs

Form an orderly queue!!

2011-08-02T22:01:00.000+01:00

Great news! Quixotic Paperie is having a DT call - here's what Elaine has got to say:
"We are looking for designers who would like to commit to an initial six month term with Quixotic Paperie’s existing team, to help promote products available at the Quixotic Paperie online store. If you're not familiar with the products we stock, take a look and check out the stamp companies and other products you could be working with!

The six month term will start on 1st September 2011. This call will close on 19th August 2011 and successful applicants will be notified as soon as we have made our decision."

Find all the requirements and details HERE!
Good luck!
Hugs

Ooohhh...meloves me some steampunk!

2011-07-31T08:00:00.002+01:00

To celebrate the release of 4 new steampunk images the new challenge at Kenny K Krafty Girlz today is METAL EMBELLISHMENTS.

Our sponsors are - Bearly Mine Designs (2 Digi sets of winner's choice)
Kenny K - 5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

I chose Scarlett West for my card and I coloured her with Copic markers exlusively for a change. :) I did add some accents with Sakura gel and Stardust pens but those do not count as colouring. At least in my little twisted world they don't, lol

The sentiment is from Whimsy Film Strip Sentiments and is cut out with a matching die. The idea to stamp it on acetate is shamelessly nicked from Ann.

I used Fancy Ribbon Sliders and Gears Galore laser cut chipboard by Make It Crafty, giving it a good coating of metallic rub-ons.

I also tore a strip of cork board for added texture and used loads of metal flowers (LOVING them atm) and brads to make sure I totally adhere to the challenge as I've been cheating a lot lately...

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge - 1E, JFF - M is for metal
Glitter Geeks - 2E, C10 - rock and roll
Totally Papercrafts - bling
Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - anything that will make someone smile/enjoy your day
Stampin' B's - JFF - use ribbon
Crafts and Me - #45 ribbon
7 Kids College Fund - 2W, 3E - texture (2nd wk)

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything goes
Victorine Originals - 2W, SIO - 2nd week - Bling
Totally Papercrafts - bling
4 Crafty Chicks - bling

Thanks a million for popping by!
Hugs

Creative approach to Stamp Something Challenge

2011-07-29T12:54:00.006+01:00

Now the challenge this week at Stamp Something is Summer Fun BUT I have a CAPM certification exam next week and I was pretty sure I would need to sit out the challenge. Then I got a commission for a wedding card and since I don't get them too often and every penny is welcome with me at home, I accepted it.

After I had finished it I kinda thought - well, it's summer and weddings ARE fun (unless your mom tells you your hairdo makes you look like a hooker but lets not go there).

So, here's the card:

I used a whole lot of Nesties, pretty papers from Pink Paislee and delicious chipboard by Make It Crafty.

The image is coloured with Copic Markers.

I added some Flower Soft and Stickles to the image to boost it slightly.

Challenges:
Fashionista Friday - summer
Stampin For The Weekend - 2W, 1E – anything with four legs
Stampin' B's - JFF - use ribbon
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - 1E - #20 patterned paper
Crafts and Me - #45 ribbon
7 Kids College Fund - 2W, 3E - texture (2nd wk)
Deep Ocean Challenge - 2W - 2nd W - Ribbons
Crazy Challenge - 2E - Ribbons
Cupcake Craft - Shabby Sparkle
Make My Monday - Vintage lace and pearls

Thank you so much for popping in and happy crafting!
Hugs

I see sea side - and a humongous out-of-proportion bow too...sigh

2011-07-25T07:06:00.004+01:00

This time I am trying my hand with colouring a Carmen Medlin stamp called Siren's Call by SCACD. I have to admit the colouring didn't go as well as I planned - it seemed I wasted most of my steam for the background and scene and then everything about the poor mermaid went a bit wrong. :( But hey, we all have our bad ...and worse days! ;)

All I used was my watercolours and Sakura white gel pen (that's what I made the most mistakes with, sigh).

And the more I look at that oversized monstrous bow, the more I detest it. It's stuck on VERY firmly though. I tested. Sigh.

The chipboard flourish and dragonflies are by Make it Crafty and the pretty papers are from Prima Moulin Rouge pad.

Just a little tip - if you want to paint in strong background involving layered washes like this one, it really helps if you invest into some art masking fluid and cover the foreground figures with it. You can just boldly colour the scene in then, wait it to dry completely and rub off the masking fluid - no ultramarine washes on you mermaids face! :)

Thank you so much for popping by!
Hugs

Stamp Something - Favorite Embellishments

2011-07-22T12:40:00.000+01:00

The challenge at Stamp Something is Favorite embellishemnts this week and the sponsor is Sugar Nellie. It was actually surprisingly tricky for me cause I couldn't stop adding my favorite bits and bobs to the card.

The paper is from Prima Madeline pad. I guess you alreaady spotted one of my great addictions - Make It Crafty laser cut chipboard. In addition to that there's some jewellery findings, cute resin flowers, double layer of lace and flat back gems.Yup, I DID go to town, lol

The image was coloured with Polychromos Art Grip pencils on kraft card. It's one of the older Gorjuss Girls and I absolutely adore her - although this was the first time she saw ink - too many stamps, too little time...

Thank you so much for popping by!
Hugs

Whimsy July Release Blog Hop

2011-07-20T16:00:00.002+01:00

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps July rubber release BLOG HOP!

The Whimsy July rubber release happened last week on July 13th, but today we are hosting our blog hop to showcase the 9 fabulous new rubber stamps and 2 new Shapeology metal dies now available at Whimsy Stamps! These new goodies are available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favorites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Deb Routledge, Elaine Hughes, Niki Estes and Zoe McGrath.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been showcasing these fabulous stamps for the past 6 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful July release rubber stamps and dies:

5 stamps from Kenny K
Boogie Down ~ Holla Back Girl ~ Hot Weave ~ Spy Chick ~ Victory Kid

4 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
A Touch of Elegance ~ Adventure Mini Postage Stamps ~ Vintage Bottle Labels ~ Vintage Transportation

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Dress Form Die (coordinates with ‘A Touch of Elegance’ stamp set) ~ Elegant Flourishes

If you would like to hop along with us today, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Lori’s blog. The hop starts today (Wednesday July 20th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday July 27th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have one grand prize draw where one lucky hopper will win a selection of new release stamps for hopping along with us. We also have 5 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp!

For my card I chose Spy Chick by Kenny K and a sentiment from Vintage Transportation set.

I also used new Elegant Flourishes Dies set - cut them out from the designer paper and rubbed on some metallic rub-ons with my finger.

The image is coloured with Copic markers and some accents added with Sakura white gel pen and gold Stardust pen.

The papers are from Crate Paper School Spirit pad - I know the the card doesn't have anything to do with school but the colours and patterns were exactly what I wanted :)

The cogwheel and filigree jewels are laser cut chipboard by Make It Crafty. I used metallic rub-ons on jewels/medallions and copper leafing pen on the cogwheel.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. The next stop on the hop is the super talented Iris's Blog. Be sure to pop over and see what she has for you today. And then remember to leave comments and enter for your chance to win the prizes on offer along the hop too!

Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash - C10 - #9 Technique not used for a while (distressing with leafing pen)
Try It On Tuesday - Steampunk
Tuesday Throwdown - #58 Something Metallic
Happileigh Scrappin - SIO - Make your own embellishment
Make My Monday - Vintage shabby chic, torn or crumpled
Gingerloft - 2W - 2nd week - Make it Sparkle
Lollipop Crafts - July challenge - Anything goes
Ellephantastic - M, 1E - July: Celebrations

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and we hope you enjoy all of the DT creations!

Whimsy July release taster

2011-07-19T10:43:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow is the blog hop for Whimsy July release and I thought I share a little sample of new stamps with you.

This is Victory Kid by Kenny K and he is available from Whimsy Stamps and, if you are in Europe, Quixotic Paperie. The sentiments are from Adventure Minu Postage Stamp set cut out with matching Mini Postage Stamp die (one of my fave sentiment dies at the moment!!).

I coloured with Copics on Make it Colour blending card - I never get tired of recommending that stuff. Best marker surface I've ever tried!

I used the papers from Basic Grey Marjolaine pad - LOVE the colours in this!! Quixotic has 15 % off designer papers at the moment so if you are planning to boost you stash, it would be a good time to take a look at their stock. Just sayin', lol

Challenges:
Cupcake Craft - include Stars
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Here Come the Boys - 2W, 3E, cards only, must be masculine - 2nd week - Sporty
A Gem of a Challenge - 2W - #25 2nd Wk - Lets Hear it For The Boys
Charisma Cardz - 3E – use stars
Rainbow Lady's - 2E - real, faux stiching or pinked edges
Crafty Creations - #127 Boyz to Men

Thanks for visiting and have fun crafting!
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...and back to Copics :)

2011-07-18T07:00:00.003+01:00

It's my first time of colouring up Victoria Case image and I really went into town with shading here - I was using Make It Colour blending card and the brilliant thing abouit that stuff is that you can REALLY go into the town with layering your Copics. I am still to see the colours bleed on that card!

This image is called Thinking Of You - brilliant for all sorts of caard - I can even see it on back to school cards! The papers are from Basic Grey Life Of The Party pad.

I was experimenting with different skin colour combo here - YR02/61/00/000, YG00, E13/15/0000. A bit unusual but works well, I think.
The fiery red hair is achieved with E07/09, Y21/38, YR18.

Those lush flourishes are a brand new set of dies from Whimsy Stamps - real versatile and incredibly intricate. And of course I used fair bit of flat back pearls - they just finish off the cards so well, I think!

Thank you so much for visiting and hope you found something of interest. :)
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New stamps from Whimsy - and Messy is going MASCULINE

2011-07-16T11:29:00.000+01:00

This month Whimsy Stamps is doing things a little differently - they are releasing the stamps and dies a whole week before our new release blog hop! So that means... the July New Release rubber stamps and dies are available to buy RIGHT NOW from the Whimsy Stamps store! Yippee!!

We are going to be holding a fabulous new release BLOG HOP on July 20th, when we will have our usual plethora of prizes, special guests, and lots of amazing creations from our DT.

From the middle of this week until July 19th, the DT are going to be showcasing this month's new release stamps and dies in the lead up to our BLOG HOP on July 20th, so be sure to stop by our blogs to see what we've created.

Here is a list of the new stamps, sentiment sets and dies Whimsy has released in July:

5 new Kenny K rubber stamps
Boogie Down ~ Holla Back Girl ~ Hot Weave ~ Spy Chick ~ Victory Kid

4 new Raindrop Echo Designs sentiment rubber stamp sets
A Touch of Elegance ~ Adventure Mini Postage Stamps ~ Vintage Bottle Labels ~ Vintage Transportation

2 new Raindrop Echo Designs dies
Dress Form Die (coordinates with A Touch of Elegance stamp set) ~ Elegant Flourishes

Remember, they are all available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store RIGHT NOW!

Happy shopping! :)

I have created a little masculine card set to show you using the Vintage Transportation and Adventure Mini Postage Stamps from new release and various backgrounds from previous relases.

I used Versamark in for stamping and various embossing powders for heat embossing. All the papers were inked with Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and Aged Mahogany.

I stamped Adventure Mini Postage Stamps straight onto background paper here with brown and red inks.

The crickled and distressed paper here is from the packaging of my glue gun tape rolls, lol. The background papers are created using Life Defined Background and Music Notes Background (the last I stamped haphazardly without the use of the block.).

The backgound is fabric-covered card I've had for ages and the corrugated stuff is from the top of chocolates in chocolate box.

Thanks for visiting my humble abode here!! :)

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Stamp Something - Christmas in July

2011-07-15T14:55:00.000+01:00

It's Christmas in July at Stamp Something and the sponsor is DRS Designs. I have used one of their cute snowflakes and a sentiment to make a little quick gift bag - perfect for giving a lip gloss or gift card or something in that size :)

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting!
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Mix & Match with Tiddly Inks & Make it Crafty

2011-07-14T06:01:00.004+01:00

It’s finally time to release the big Mix n’ Match collection from Tiddly Inks and Make it Crafty!

Together they have been craftily plotting behind the scenes for months (making us drool in anticipation) to bring you a fabulous collection of Steampunk creations with a Victorian theme! You’ll find little steampunk houses, bits and bobs background scenes, flying contraptions, gorgeous characters and the finest selection of digital papers!

We could send you on a little hop, but they are getting a bit boring... so we knocked our heads together and thought up a game to play instead!

‘I SPY’ with my little eye...

... hmmm what do you spy??
Well to find out, head on over to where it all begins!!

CLICK HERE

PLUS 15% OFF NEW RELEASE IMAGES FOR A WEEK!!

Start Mix n’ Matching with Tiddly Inks and Make it Crafty straight away as you grab the super bargain of 15% OFF!!

Just enter the coupon code MIXNMATCH at checkout!

I mixed-and-matched this elegant Owlette from Tiddly Inks with a glorious Steampunk Treehouse from Make It Crafty.

As you can see I've been messing with watercolours again. I reduced the opacity of the background house quite a bit in Gimp to prevent it from competing with the foreground too much - and then used too bright tones for colouring it...duh! - lesson learned!

It was a pretty big image I coloured - about five and half inches square or a bit more. I was determined to add some clutter though to go with overall steampunk/ornate Victorian feel.

I used different bits of Make It Crafty lasercut chipboard and heat embossed it with three different embossing powders. I totally fell in love with these dragonflies!! To give them lil' heads and bodies I snapped off backs from some metal brads and attached these with glue gel.

Thank you so much for popping in and happy mixing-and-matching to you! :)
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Kenny K Krafty Girlz blog hop

2011-07-10T08:00:00.002+01:00

Good Morning Kenny K Fans, today we're celebrating the 1st year Anniversary of the Kenny K Challenge blog with a Blog Hop and 8 Fabulous New releases from Kenny K called the Showbiz Celebrities that are now available at Kenny K Downloads

The Kenny K Krafty Girlz have all created some fantastic cards for you showcasing these new images

If you'd like to participate in the Kenny K 1st Year Anniversary blog hop and you didn't arrive here from Karina's Blog, then click here to start at the beginning on Donna's Blog

The Blog hop starts today and runs until July 23rd at midnight UK time.

On your way around the Hop, some of the Krafty Girlz will be offering up a candy of their own as a small token of thanks for stopping by!

For my Blog Hop Creation I used Dr Phil-Me-In digi stamp.

I coloured the image with Copic markers and used papers from Cosmo Cricket Wanted pad.

(insert your card here with description)

When you've finished hopping we have a challenge (everyone's favorite.....ANYTHING GOES) AND a MAJOR prize from some fantastic sponsors

Here is a list of our sponsors and the fabulous prizes they have donated

is offering a Bev's bag of blooms

Bunny Zoe's Crafts is offering one KENNY K rubber stamp
of the winner's choice

Cult Pens is offering TWO sets of the Copic Ciao's in addition to offering KENNY K fans a SPECIAL DISCOUNT for the two week's only of 10% off your COPIC purchases using this discount code at the checkout

KK10

Offering 5 Die Sets worth £61.95

offering a £10 Gift Voucher

offering 5 Tria Markers of the winner's choice

is offering a $15 Gift Certificate

is offering a special dispenser full of ribbons worth £25

plus they are also offering a special collection of ribbons for Kenny K that normally retails for £25, but for the Kenny K customers, you can get it for only £15....how awesome is that!

is offering a £10 gift voucher

is offering a £15 gift voucher

and in addition to all this.........Kenny is offering

TEN rubber stamps (winner's choice) plus a $30 Gift Certificate to his shop

And that's not all...........he's also giving away

a tub of pearls

a selection of web ribbon

head pins

I Am Roses gorgeous blooms

Sakura Jelly white Opaque pen

Total Prize value over £300

Conditions for being eligible for the MAIN prize:

You MUST leave a comment on EVERY BLOG, there are only 23 and you have got a whole two weeks to leave comments, that’s almost 2 or 3 a day! You are also asked to make a card for the Anything Goes Challenge using a Kenny K image and link it after completing the blog hop. The big prize Winner of the challenge will be picked by Random.Org.

We hope you have fun hopping around the Krafty Girlz and special guest’s blogs, leaving comments along the way and can find enough inspiration to get your creative juices flowing so that you can enter our challenge for the next two weeks for your chance to win the GRAND PRIZE

Good Luck!

Here's a complete lineup of the blog hop girlz and special guests
Donna
Carina
Arjette
Bettina
Denise (Special Guest)
Judith
Heidy
Deb
Kimmi
Vanessa
Trine
Christine
Elaine (special Guest)
Vicky
Sarah
Dena (Special Guest)
Angela
Katarina
Patty
Marilyn
Karina
Annika
Renata
Kenny K Challenge Blog

Now it's time to head to Renata's Blog and see what gorgeous card she's created

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Stamp Something - Bugs

2011-07-08T16:28:00.001+01:00

The challenge theme is actually BUGS or BUTTERFLIES at Stamp Something. Since I had to make an engagement card my friend asked for I kinda went with butterflies...

I used cute papers from Lily Bee and a lot of Sakura white gel pen.

The image is by Karens Doodles - I raked the web looking for the kind of "grown-up lovey picture" suitable for the The sentiments are made using Oval Scallops - Stripes and Ways of Love Sentiments.

Colouring is a combination of Copics and Prismacolor pencils with mineral spirit.

Thank you for visiting and big hugs!

Sundays With Crissy - an example of what happens if you get your challenges mixed up and a DT call

2011-07-05T18:53:00.001+01:00

The challenge at Sundays With Crissy is Distressing this month. Can you spot ANY distressing on my card? No? That's because there isn't any! I totally got things mixed up! lol

The image is a Cupcake Bliss stamp from Whimsy Stamps. I coloured it with distress inks on watercolour sketching paper. It's quite thin so I tried to keep my colouring drier than usual.

There's also great news - Sundays with Crissy is having a DT call!!

You can find all the details about the DT call HERE.

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Tutorial - colouring blonde hair with Prismacolor pencils on kraft card

2011-07-04T08:28:00.002+01:00

I don't have a card for you today since I haven't got to the crafts room much last week. Hubby has been overseas working for a while and that single mother business is quite a challenge. Those of you who manage to do it on permanent basis - I am SERIOUSLY in awe of you!

Here is my next video for colouring with Prismacolor pencils on kraft card. This is for coloring blonde hair.

Colours I have used: Cream, Jasmine, Goldenrod, Mineral Orange, Brown Sienna, Dark Umber, White.

Hope it's of any use to you.
Thanks for watching!

Stamp Something - Digi Day

2011-07-01T14:31:00.000+01:00

It's a digi day today at Stamp Something and I was working with an image from Delicious Doodles.

The image was printed on watercolour card with inkjet, washed to prevent runs and watercoloured after it dried overnight. I embossed the card and designer paper and treated both with gold poster paint and bronze acrylic paint.

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting!
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Whimsycal day at Quixotic Paperie

2011-06-28T07:00:00.004+01:00

The Quixotic Paperie design team and friends hope you have been enjoying the Quixotic Paperie 2nd Anniversary celebrations. We have been throwing the spotlight onto some of the fantastic stamp companies available from Quixotic Paperie and our last celebratory spotlight for you is:

Whimsy Stamps

Whimsy Stamps is owned by Denise and Kevin Lynn, with Denise as the papercrafter and Kevin illustrating their Kids Collection based on their two children. As the company has developed they have built up their collection of contributing artists, stamp collections, dies and papers.

The ranges include the Crissy Armstrong Collection; Melissa Jenkins Meljen's Design Collection; KennyK Collection; Whimsy Sentiment and dies by Raindrop Echo Designs; Whimsy Animals Collection and Whimsy Kids Collection.

Whimsy Stamps are available in the UK/Europe at Quixotic Paperie.

If you're in the US then you can find the stamps at Whimsy Stamps direct!

As part of the celebrations and the spotlight today, we have a PRIZE GIVEAWAY!

Pop on over to the Quixotic Inspirations blog to get all the details and enter the draw to win some fantastic Whimsy Stamps and more!

So now for the inspiration! Hop on over to each of the blogs below to see some fantastic Whimsy Stamps makes!

- Elaine - Judy - Kim Dellow - Mary -
- Ann - Iris - Minna - Patricia - Vicki -

I have a very simple and (hopefully) masculine card to show - I am using a stamp called Sick Little Bear - don't you just feel sooooo sorry for him! For the sentiment I layered three of the same stamp from Whimsy Circle Postmarks set.

The image is coloured using Prismacolor pencils and OMS. I should REALLY practice more with that technique.

Thanks for joining us and we hope you are enjoying all the Whimsy Stamps fun.

Kenny K - red, white and blue

2011-06-26T09:00:00.002+01:00

It's not an easy colour combo for me but I hope I rose to the current challenge at Kenny K Krafty Girlz. :)
hooray for the red white and blue

Sponsor of the challenge is Crafty Ribbons plus Kenny K offering 5 digi stamps!

Our Guest Designer is Debbie Pamment

And here's my card:

The colouring is pure Copics job - used my fave combo of E000/00/02/21/11/15 on the skin and dark brown for deep shadows in red.

The papers are from Lily Bee and I made the flowers myself. The leaves I just hand-cut from denim scrap which I had previously treated with pearlized acrylic paint. Some edges are treated with dark blue micropearls.

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting to you!!
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Tutorials - Prismacolor pencils on kraft. Introduction and skin tones.

2011-06-25T20:15:00.000+01:00

Here I am finally with the promised tutorials for Prismacolor pencils on kraft.

The first two ones are a very long-winded introduction about supplies, different suitable cardstocks and also basic techniques for colouring. The lighting is quite bad but I hope you'll find something useful there.

It is probably NOT essential to watch introduction videos, especially if you have some experience with Prismas already.

I had to split the video because Youtube rejected the full length so here's Part 2.

Next ones are THE ones you've been most asking for - colouring skin with Prismas on kraft.

I am no expert - this is just the way I happen to colour. I want to thank wonderful Dorcas who's amazing talent and skill inspired me to start playing with pencils again!

Part 1

Part 2

The colours I've used are: Cream, Sand, Peach Beige, Blush Pink, Light Peach, Peach, Goldenrod, Mineral Orange, Henna, Burnt Ochre, Burnt Umber, White.

Hope you found something useful!

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Double celebrations AND the promised video tutorials for prismas on kraft - introduction and skin tones

2011-06-25T10:33:00.004+01:00

Today is a joint celebration! As you may be aware, this is the month that Quixotic Paperie turned TWO! What you may not know is that it is also the month in which Australian company Make it Crafty is turning ONE!

Quixotic Paperie have been stocking the fantastic Make it Crafty range of products (Rubber Stamps - Lasercut Chipboard - Make it Colour Blending Card) since April 2011, and are one of the first places you can find them outside of Australia! We are thrilled to be celebrating with Make it Crafty today.

To celebrate we thought that rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!

To get inspired, hop on over to the Make it Colourful challenge blog where you will see the amazing creations our fabulous DT’s have created for this event! PLUS find out all the details on how you can play along!

OF COURSE THERE ARE PRIZES!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS!

PLUS, PLUS, PLUS

There will be random winners throughout the whole month. The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.

PLUS there’s MORE!!

Quixotic Paperie have a little something for you too!! Make sure you pop on over to HERE to enter your name for a chance at MORE Make it Crafty Goodies!!

PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of
July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!

PLUS THERE’S EVEN MORE!!!

You’ll also receive a set of steak knives when you... hahaa ONLY Joking BUT... for THREE DAYS ONLY you’ll be able to get 40% off Make it Crafty Digi Stamps when you enter the coupon code: CELEBRATE (Ends June 28^th)

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!!

My stamp is called Summer Dreams and I coloured it with Prismacolour pencils. There are tutorials at the end of this post which you might check out if you are interested in how I colour with Prismas.

There is also loads of laser cut chipboard on this card - I just dabbed it with white ink pad.

The papers I used are from new Basic Grey Out Of Print pad. I made the flowers myself from the gauze fabric and glue-gunned pear string onto those.

I distressed all the papers and lightly edged them with Stickles. Also used loads of flat-backed pearls.

I will add the tutorial videos here later today once they have finished uploading to Youtube. I actually did that yesterday but they got rejected so I had to re-edit them! :(

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Stamp Something - Celebrations

2011-06-24T12:04:00.002+01:00

The challenge at Stamp Something this time is:
Use Red, White and Blue
OR
Sparkle
OR
Celebration theme
OR
all of the above
Sponsor is Simon Says Stamp

I am using a stamp called Bart's BBQ and two sentiment sets: Whimsy Birthday Letter Seals Set and Whimsy Party Mini Letter Seals.

I coloured the image with watercolours using wet-in-wet method. The clouds are stippled on with gouache paints but acrylics would give the same effect. I also used white gouche paint slightly diluted with water for highlights.

The papers are from Basic Grey Life Of The Party pad. The orange glitter maatting is made with Papermania glitter strips and all the papers are eged with orange Stickles. Sparkly enough?? lol

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting!
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A simple little card

2011-06-20T07:32:00.001+01:00

As you might or might not know, I am a wee bit intimidated by manga. I'm never quite exactly sure how to colour it - which is a darn good reason to keep practicing. :) I have loved Make It Crafty summer/beach line of stamps from day one - about time I got around playing with them! Today I have happily mucked up the Hula Girl.

I decided to be awkward again and mat kraft card on designer paper (Basic Grey Hello Luscious) instead of other way around, like normal people. Sponged and distressed everything on sight with linen-hued acrylic paint. I love regular acrylic instead of crackle paint because IT DRIES FAST. 'Nuf said.

The colouring is done with Faber-Castell Art Grip pencils. Yes, I am going through all the possible pencils I can get my hands onto. Those particular ones are pretty good. Not as soft and vibrant as Prismas but easier to achieve precision and detail in colouring.

For the sentiment I have used brand new Whimsy Good Life Ticket sentiment set - it fitted like a glove! The flowers are old Primas - I was real happy to finally use them! And under the flowers - yes, you guessed - uber cool laser cut chipboard I am happily obsessed with! lol

Now, that's it from me today - big hugs and happy crafting!

Stamp Something - Pretty Papers

2011-06-17T15:46:00.000+01:00

This Friday at Stamp Something we are looking at your creations using pretty papers!

Our sponsor is Funky Kits and I am using one of their Sweet and Sassy stamps I won on their blog as a candy.

I coloured the image with Copics and used LOADS of different patterned papers.

Thanks so much for visiting and happy crafting!
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We're hopping!

2011-06-15T17:00:00.005+01:00

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps June new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 15 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new wonderful dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Deb Mitchell and Elaine Hughes.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Bart’s BBQ ~ Fairy Day Dreams ~ Journey Into The Sea

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Garden Bird House ~ Garden Fence ~ Mailed With Love ~ Sick Little Bear

4 stamps from Kenny K
Alice Chains ~ Bling Baby ~ Showgirl ~ Surfer Dude

4 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
The Good Life Tickets ~ Into The Farm BG ~ Summer Letter Seals ~ Thank You Tiles

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Cloud Die Set ~ Hot Air Balloon Die

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Erin's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris’s blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday June 15th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday June 22nd at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

For my blog hop creation I used Alice In Chains by Kenny K and Good Life ticket sentiment set.

All the colouring is done with Copic markers, pearls on her neck are accentuated with a yellow Sakura Glaze pen.

The flowers I made made myself from bits of lace from my odds-and-ends box. Flower centers are a combination of different bling bits and spacers/charms.

The chains were fixed to the card with the brads and I also stuck a bit of grey tulle underneath the image. Just because I could, lol.

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Crissy’s blog.

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Chris Olsen
Deb Routledge
Stephanne Maraver
Deb Mitchell
Crystal Irwin
Simonne Clay
Erin Bailey
Annika Ryan (ME! lol)
Crissy Armstrong
Marley van der Heijden
Debbie Eastman
Vicki Parson
Ann Vento
Donna Smith
Elaine Hughes
Minna Paajanen
Patricia Garcia
Iris Wiechmann
Beate Johns
Lori Pachkowsky
Denise Lynn

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!

Challenges:
Crafts and Me - #39 Bling
Crafty Creations - #123 "dress up"
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - 2E - Anything Goes
The Burtonesque Dolls - 2W, JFF - Put Any Image Into A Burton Movie
Top Tip Tuesday - 3E - #38 Open Challenge
Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Distressed/Torn Edges
Crafty Pad - SIO - 'Just Because' - no birthday or congratulations etc.
A Gem of a Challenge - 2W - Flowers & Charms
4 Crafty Chicks - Handmade flowers
Rainbow Lady's - 2E - Ticket to ride

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Whimsy Sneak Peek - day 4

2011-06-14T09:30:00.001+01:00

Today is the last day of Whimsy previews and all the new rubber stamps will be available tomorrow. And of course there will be a blog hop with loads of cool prizes!

I am showing a card with image from Meljens called Mailed With Love.

I am REALLY unhappy with this card - just didn't come together the way I wanted to at all. Which is a real pity since I actually am pretty happy with the colouring on the image. It looks better irl - the photos ain't great either...

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting!
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Testing, testing...

2011-06-13T08:35:00.000+01:00

I wanted to try if I could colour with my kids pencils without the help of OMS or the blending stump, just blending one pencil with another. The answer is yes, but the leads are too pigment poor and hard to give a good blending. And I had to use Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for face because my kids pencil box just didn't have good skin colours.

The image I used is called 1st Signs of Spring and she is by Carmen Medlin for SCACD. I think she looks lovely for any season though and has a bit more grown-up feel. As much as I like colouring cute kiddo images not everybody is keen on them and it's great to have a variety of cards.

The papers I used are from Pink Paislee Sweetness pad and all the fancy medallion and butterfly shapes are laser cut chipboard from Make It Crafty.

For sentiments I used one of favorite staple sets - Whimsy Treasured Moments Ticket Sentiments Set. I also stamped the edges of the image panel and some papers with Stempelglede Grunge Collection stamps.

There's also a liberal sprinkling of flat back pearls involved - just can't keep my hands off them! :D

Oh, and don't forget that it's a birthday month at Quixotic Paperie - keep checking the inspirations blog and shop website for fun projects and special offers! :)
Thank you for popping in and hope you'll have a great week!
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Favorite Colours

2011-06-12T09:00:00.003+01:00

The challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz is to use your fave colours. Easy - as long as it's deep and vibrant, I'm game, lol

Kenny K is offering 5 digi's of the winner's choice as a prize for a winner and Fantastic Ribbons is offering a pack of buttons.

Guest designer is Suzanne.

I coloured the image with Copics. The papers are from Cosmo Cricket Upcycle pad. The banner stamps are Whimsy Celebration Pennants Sentiments.

Thank you for popping by and have fun crafting!
Hugs

And a little peak...

2011-06-11T09:33:00.001+01:00

It's time for Whimsy Stamps June rubber release previews!

I am using a new stamps called Fairy Daydreams - it's going to be available from Whimsy on next Wednesday, June 15th.

I coloured her with watercolours - thought it would work real well with the big lush blossom and I think it does.

The fancy corners are a laser cut chipboard coloured with sparkle paint. I also painted the doily. The sentiment is from Whimsy Magical Mini Letter Seals set.

Challenges:
Clearly Inspired - 2W, 1E, SIO - 2nd week - Distressing
Fairy Fun Fridays - 2W, SIO – 2nd week - Summer fun
Totally Papercrafts - Summer
Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - Summertime
Crafts and Me - #38 Stamp something
Simply Scrapping Creative Card Challenge - 1E, M - painting
A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1E - #155 Summer - Colours, images etc
Crazy Amigo Challenge - Summery Card
Creative Card Crew - Wings
KB Cute Monday - Bright colours
Scrappy Frogs - 3W - 3rd W - Birthdays

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting to all!
Hugs

Stamp Something - Punch Something

2011-06-10T14:52:00.000+01:00

Hi there - I'm finally here with a new card! :) It's for Stamp Something this weeks challenge - Punch Something. You need to either use punches or your dies for participating.

I needed to make a baby card so I used a stamp from LOTV and combined it with a baby sentiment stamp set from Whimsy.

The image is coloured with distress inks - I tried to keep it very soft and subtle, not easy if you're usually very heavy-handed.

I rummaged my button box for different cute buttons and made couple of rolled ribbon roses for variety.

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting!
Hugs

Happy Birthday to Quixotic Paperie!

2011-06-01T09:43:00.000+01:00

Today is an exciting day! Why? It marks the 2nd Anniversary for Quixotic Paperie!

2 years ago on 1st June 2009, Elaine (Quixotic Cards) took the leap and opened an online craft store selling a small selection of crafty stash. Now, the store features stamps from favourite companies around the world, lots of pretty papers and embellishments and other papercrafting favourites.

To celebrate this year, we have a month filled with fun! Stick with us as we show off projects featuring products from around the store, bring you tutorials and tips, and throw the spotlight on some of the awesome stamp companies in stock at Quixotic Paperie! There will be prizes along the way (and a big one at the end of the month), so you won't want to miss a thing!

To get the ball rolling, this week there is a birthday special offer at Quixotic Paperie:

1st June to 8th June 2011

10% Off Throughout The Store!

(This does not stack with existing sale offers or discount coupons, and does not include Gift Certificates.)

Plus, the Design Team are all showing off their favourite creations from their time so far with Quixotic Paperie!

Pay a visit to the rest of the team to see a round up of their favourite makes.

* ANNIKA * ELAINE * JUDY *

* KIM C * KIM D * MARY * ROWENA *

But first, here are a few of my personal favourites!

Isn't that a CUTE image!! She is called Blowing Kisses and she's from Elisabeth Bell line of SCACD stamps

This is one of my favorite cards from this year - I love Cordelia The Mermaid and all the laser cut chipboard from Make It Crafty.

Looking at this card I really wish I would get my act together and make more interesting folds! Plus the Biker Girl is an absolutely gorgeous stamp!

.All the sentiments and postcard stamp on this card are from Whimsy sentiments and I absolutely love the result - one of my favorite cards EVER! I used digital version of Lacie With Ice Cream but she's also available as a rubber stamp from Quixotic!

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting!!
Hugs

Fabulous Florals

2011-05-29T09:00:00.002+01:00

Time for a new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz. Theme is Fabulous Florals - use anything flowery on your project.

Kenny is offering the winner 5 digi's of the winner's choice.

My card is featuring a very perky cheerleader from Kenny K Downloads. She is coloured with Copics, no other mediums involved - except that I used Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for the little bits of grass.

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps - it's a new set of film strip sentiments and you can also get a cool matching die to cut them out!
The swirls are cut out with Marianne's die and embossed with black sparkly embossing powder. The papers are from Basic Grey Olivia pad and I made the flowers myself from twill ribbon.
Pink lace is by Fancy Pants.

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting to you all!
Hugs

Say Something

2011-05-27T15:51:00.001+01:00

The challenge at Stamp Something is Say Something this week - we would like you to use a sentiment on your card. Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp.
I am using an image from LOTV on my card and the sentiment stamp is from Whimsy Stamps.

The image is coloured with Copic Markers and glitzed up with Stardust pens and Stickles.

The flowers are all bits and bobs I dug up from my stash.

Here's a close-up of the sentiment stamp - it's from Love Letter Seals set. I used a frame stamp from Joanna Sheen underneath.

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting!
Hugs

OMG, I'm so behind - finally my candy winner

2011-05-25T18:22:00.000+01:00

Hi all and sorry for my long absence - am now finally back and trying to get into the flow again. :)

I am VERY late announcing the candy winner Stamp Something hop but better late than never ... right?? lol

So, the winner of two rubber stamps of her choice from Make It Crafty and 10 sheets of my favorite colouring paper Make It Colour is:

#31 HEIDY

Congratulations and I will contact you shortly!

Hugs to everybody - I have started to colour so will have something to show on Friday! :)

Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release Blog Hop

2011-05-18T16:00:00.006+01:00

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps May new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 18 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new wonderful dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Jacque Beddingfield, Deb Mitchell and Elaine Hughes.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

5 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Baby of Mine ~ Mystic ~ Thunder Lizzy ~ Wee Snippet ~ Wee Snippet & Mystic

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Birthday Cake Mouse ~ Birthday Cup Mouse ~ Gruffy Little Gnome ~ Happy Little Gnome

4 stamps from Kenny K
Devastatia ~ Hockey Girl ~ Queens Cutie ~ Super Mom

5 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Celebration Pennants ~ Film Strip Sentiments ~ Magical Mini Letter Seals ~ Street Art BG ~ Welcome Baby Sentiments

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Film Strip Die ~ Welcome Baby Die Set

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Elaine Hughes's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Lori’s blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday May 18th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday May 25th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

For my blog hop creation I used Wee Snippet by Crissy Armstrong.

The image is coloured with Prismacolor pencils on kraft card.

The papers are from Crate Paper Portrait pad. The filigree corners and swirls are all laser cut chipboard painted with off-white acrylic paint

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Erin Bailey's blog.

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Lori Pachkowsky
Patricia Garcia
Donna Smith
Simonne Clay
Vicki Parson
Iris Wiechmann
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Minna Paajanen
Stephanne Maraver
Chris Olsen
Ann Vento
Deb Mitchell
Denise Lynn
Beate Johns
Marley van der Heijden
Debbie Eastman
Elaine Hughes
Annika Ryan
Erin Bailey

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!

Challenges:
Anita Be Stampin' - SIO - #21 Pearls & Lace
A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1E - #152 Anything Goes
Claudia & Co - 2W, 1E - #82 Girls Birthday Card
Clear It Out! - 2W - Projects using Colouring Mediums
Creative Craft Challenges - 2W, 3E - 2nd W - Distressed/Vintage
Paper Take Weekly - Something Floral or Use Molly Bloom image
Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Challenges - SIO - #43 May Flowers
Stamping Vacation - M - Start With Any Yellow Flower
Crafts and Me - #35 Anything goes, Optional Kraft
Paper Pretties - SIO -PPC154 Flowers
Stampavie and More - JFF - #142 Summer
Truly Scrumptious - 2W - #57 Anything Goes

Hugs,

A little sneak from Whimsy Stamps... :)

2011-05-17T12:27:00.003+01:00

This is a pre-scheduled post - I am away for most of May due to family issues.

Whimsy Stamps May rubber release is ALMOST here and I have a tiny little sneak to share with you!

This grumpy gnome is by Meljens and will be available tomorrow in rubber at Whimsy Stamps.

The papers are from MME and I desperately tried to keep embellishing to minimum, lol. The sentiment id from Pebbles The Cat digi set.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!!
Hugs

Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release sneakie....

2011-05-15T13:00:00.001+01:00

This is a pre-scheduled post - I am away with my family for the best part of May.

Here is my first little preview of Whimsy Stamps May rubber release.

The card is using an image from Kenny K called Queens Cutie.

The papers are from Old-Fashioned Nursery pack (my new find!), all heavily embossed with 3 different embossing powders, lol

The filigree border, corner and swirls are all laser cut chipboard painted with off-white acrylic paint and the heavy scattering of pearls is made with Viva Pearl Pen in Salmon.

And just to remind you - today is a day for a new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - well worth checking out!

Thank you so much for looking and happy crafting!
Hugs

Stamp Something is 3 years old - and we're HOPPING!

2011-05-13T23:04:00.004+01:00

And not only are we hopping this week at Stamp Something - every single designer has a candy on their blog, so woo-hooo!

If you came here from Alex's blog you're right on track, if not - you might want to go to Stamp Something and start from the beginning not to miss all the sweet stuff and lovely creations on offer!

My candy is from Make It Crafty - Zoe is generously offering TWO rubber stamps of your choice and 10 sheets of my favorite colouring card Make It Colour! If you've been curious about all my rambling about that stuff, you better enter your name to mr Linky at the end of my post! :)

My card features Pippy Bug Catcher whom I cheerfully coloured up with Prismacolor pencils.

The sentiments I mucked together myself in Gimp.

The papers are from Echo Park For The Record 6x6 pad and those cool wings are from laser cut chipboard set.

Thank you so much for hopping with us - it's time now to move on to Ellie's blog and feat your eyes on her fab work!

And don't forget to leave a comment and enter your name into my candy draw! :)

Challenges
Crafty Creations - #118 Anything Goes
Creative Belli - 2W - #117 Anything starting with S - stamens
Creative Card Crew - May Flowers
Divas by Design - 2W, 2E - 2nd W - Anything goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty - 2W - #53 Anything Goes
Daring Cardmakers - C5 - Bugs
Digi's With Attitude! - SIO - 2nd week - make us laugh with your sentiment.
Craft Us Crazy - 2W, 3E – Use your favourite embellishments and/or something new (laser cut chipboard and new flowers)
Cute Card Thursday - C5 - Distressing
Dutch Dare Card Challenge - 2E – Winged things
Paper Play - 2E – Celebrating summer
Rainbow Lady's - 2E – Let’s feel it (use texture).
Creative Craft Challenges - 2W, 3E - Distressed/Vintage
Crazy Challenge - 2E - Anything Goes
Card Cupids - Flowers
Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E - Flowers
Pile It On - Funny sentiment or image
Cupcake Inspirations - Inspiration Photo

Hugs

New stamps are coming to town!

2011-05-11T08:44:00.000+01:00

This is a scheduled post - I will be traveling most of the May due to family issues.
Many of you know Angie and her mindblowing colouring and beautiful cards - well, she has now decided to have a new venture and will have her own shop Love2Stamp with a totally new exclusive line of stamps called Little Darlings.

The big opening will be on May 16th but she has decided to give you little teasers. :)

Unfortunately I'm too busy to join another DT (I can SEE you rolling your eyes!!!) but I couldn't really pass on playing with these cute images altogether so I managed to make a little teaser to give a taste of things to come. :)

You can keep yourself up to date on Little Darlings Challenge Blog.

The image is coloured with Prismacolor and Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils. The circular sentiments are from Whimsy Stamps.

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting!
Hugs

It's dots and kids at Make It Colourful

2011-05-07T11:00:00.002+01:00

This is a scheduled post - I will be traveling most of the May due to family issues.

Hey, it's time for kiddie challenge at Make It Colourful again - and the challenge is DOTS. Doesn't matter how they are created as long as the project has some. Oh, and a coloured image too.

The sponsor for this challenge is Little Miss Muffet stamps and it's real great cuz I now have images I wanna play with after kids picked them out, mwahahahaaaa.

Let me introduce you to the young design team and their work.

first up - CILLIAN THE MESSY

4 years old. Loves soccer, rugby, crafting, puzzles and generally knocking things over. Will not eat much else except fish fingers, ketchup, chips, toast. Oh, and cookies. Especially the homemade kind.

He used Anise for his card and coloured him with Crayola pencils. Had a free run of my stash, only got his fingers slapped when he reached for Copics. Apart for some little help with cutting he did everything totally on his own.

Ribbon and bows are on his card mainly because his sister wanted some on hers. Bloodshed and misery ensued.

And the dots were created with black sticky-back pearls. A full bloody sheet of them!

our next designer is ORLA THE MESSY

A very girly girl, so much so that I'm doubting my maternity once in a while. Loves anything she can scribble on a coffee table in the family room. Favorite foods include broccoli, boiled cabbage, smoked salmon and houmous. Yup, she's totally a toddler from a twilight zone...

And judging from that pout will be making her first moves towards modeling career fairly soon.

Orla picked out and coloured Cocoa. Her idea of making dots was draining my bling drawer from pearl strips and sticking a big round flower on Cocoa's dress. And picking some dotty ribbon.

And please note that just by looking at the colour scheme you can easily tell who's kids have been crafting, lol

Thanks for visiting and come on, let your kids to roam with your stash a while :)
Hugs