Stamp Something - Christmas in July

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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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