Metal Mania

The theme at Incy Wincy today is Metal Mania, and I'm joining in as a Guest Designer for StampFairy who are sponsoring the challenge this week.

My metal is the brad that I've used to hold on my flower.  It looks a bit like a screw, but I thought the colour was perfect for this card.

I got the gorgeous papers when I visited LOTV at Easter and this is the first time I've used them.  They look a bit shabby-chic, and I really love the rich chocolate colour scheme.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Spring from Stamp Fairy
• Colouring - Distress Re-Inkers
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• LOTV Country Lady Paper Pad
• Memory Box Catalina Wreath Die
• Memory Box Corner Bow Die
• Memory Box Dancing Butterflies
• 15mm Chocolate Satin Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Liquid Pearls
• Brown Paper Flower
• Liquid pearls
• Magnolia flower die cuts
• c'Art Us Border Die
• Metal Brad
• White Gel Pen

I've been inspired by:

• Simon Says Stamp - Flower Power
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - Favourite Ink (water painting with Distress Ink reinkers)

Happy Crafting

Walkies !!!

I'm sharing a new image for The Stamp Basket today, called Walkies.  I've not used a Molly Bloom image before, and this one is kinda cute.  I've also used some beautiful papers from Graphic 45 in a gorgeous soft purple.  The text on the papers is just so pretty, I love it.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Molly Blooms Walkies
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Graphic 45 Secret Garden Papers
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• La La Lands Filigree Corner Die
• Spellbinders Lacey Circles
• Bo Bunny Small Doilies
• Ribbon & Lace
• 5mm Lilac Pearls

I've been inspired by:

• The Sketchy Challenge - Sketch
• Penny Black & More - Sew Special
• Charisma Cardz Challenge - No Digis
• Papertake Weekly - The Sound of Music (Singing in the rain)

Happy crafting

Cherry Blossom

Yay, it's Saturday, so I've got a card to share for The Stamp Basket.  I've used my favourite Saturated Canary Rubber called Cherry Blossom, and painted her with my DI reinkers.  It gives a really soft appearance but does appear to make her hair grey rather than black!  For my first attempt at painting this image I was actually quite pleased with the result on the dress, face and tree. Might need a bit more practice on hair though.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Cherry Blossom from Saturated Canary Rubber Stamps
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papers Graphic 45 Secret Garden Patterns and Solids
• Bo Bunny Doilies
• Purple Card
• Colouring Medium - Distress Ink Reinkers
• Spellbinders Lacey Circles
• Memory Box - Evergreen Landscape
• La La Land Heart Banner (heart cut outs)
• Liquid Pearls
• 3mm Snow White pearls
• Ribbon
• Sentiment is one of my own freebies
• Sewing Machine

I've been inspired by:

• Saturated Canary - Emerald with photo inspiration with purple
• The Sketchy Challenges - Sketch
• Penny Black & More - Sew Special
• Creative Craft - Just Checking

Happy crafting

My Favourite Colours

We were bowled over with 200 entries for our first challenge at As You Like It.  Thank you to everyone who joined in and entered our DT call.  We'll announce the new team shortly, but we're already onto our second challenge, and the theme this fortnight is to showcase your favourite two colours.

Well, anyone who visits me often knows that I love pastels, and especially pink and blue (although purple would be a very close third choice).

I've made a card and matching gift pouch using my favourite colour duo.

I've used some new cute bear stamps that just happened to fall into my basket when I visited the LOTV shop on my holiday travels to York at Easter.  I think they're really great on this C&S themed project and I used a different image on each item in the set.

Here's a close up of the little gift pouch which is a template from our sponsor at the As You Like It Challenge this week, Shape EZ.

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Card Recipe:

• Shape EZ Gift Pouch Template
• Image - Posy Trio from LOTV
• Typed Sentiment onto Digi Paper
• Colouring - Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Distress Inks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Nitwits Digi Papers
• Lacey Circle Spellbinder Nesties
• Pink Satin Ribbon
• Glossy Accents
• Pink Gems
• Pink Gem Brad

I've been inspired by:

• Anything Goes - Not a Square - do you remember the cream card bases, Lynne !  ;0) 
• Sweet Stampin' - C&S
• Papertake Weekly - The Sound Of Music 'These are a few of my favourite things' :
     - Two favourite colours (pastel pink & blue),
     - Favourite rubber stamp company (LOTV),
     - Favourite digi paper company (Nitwits),
     - Favourite animals (teddies),
     - Favourite colouring medium (DI reinkers)
     - Favourite style (cute and cuddly!)

Happy crafting.

Jingle Bells

The theme today at ABC Christmas Challenge is J for Jingle Bells.

I've used an adorable image from Wiff of Joy of Maya with Kitty drinking Hot Chocolate (with cream and marsh mallows of course!).  The little kitty had a teeny bell on his collar, but in case that is not enough jingle to qualify, I've also used a jingle bell die cut in sparkly blue at the top.

Whilst I've got your attention, I'd like to let you know that there's a Special Promotion on at the Stamp Basket for the next week, ending on Tuesday 21 May so get your skates on and pop over to see the bargains.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Maya and Kitty from Wiff of Joy
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Papers - Far Far Hill
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Bo Bunny Small Doilies
• Fiskars Snowflake Border Punch
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Liquid Pearls 
• Sewing Machine

I've been inspired by:

• Wild Orchid Crafts - 3 Different Flowers (Cherry Blossom, 15mm & 10mm roses)
• Cute Card Thursday - Something Blue
• Penny Black & More - Sew Special

Happy crafting.

Boxing Clever

The theme today at Top Tip Tuesday is to make a box, and there's also a tutorial on how to make a 6-sided box.  So I've had a go at making one.  It's a bit different and really looks great when it's made. It's also much more simple to make than it looks as the template is quite easy to make.

Hope you like my purple gift box.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Meljens Garden Fence Background, Turtle's Friend, Diggin' A Hole
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Nitwits Digi Papers
• Liquid Pearls
• Ribbon (liberated from inside the shoulder of a jumper!!)

I've been inspired by:

• Anything Goes - Shaped and Not a Square

Happy crafting.

Clean and Simple Barry

I've got a 'just for fun' card today using a cute image from Stampfairy called Barry Spring.  It's a nice clean and simple layout, and I've painted my image with Distress Re-inkers.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Spring from Stamp Fairy
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Sentiment - typed and given some sparkle with Sakura Stardust Gel pen
• Spellbindgers Labels Eighteen
• Cut outs from Spellbinders Lacey Circles
• Nitwits Digi Papers - Crab Apple Too
• Ribbon from Fantastic Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Liquid Pearls

I've been inspired by:

• Sweet Stampin' - Clean & Simple (this is about as C&S as I can manage!)
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Happy Crafting

Mariella

Today's card for The Stamp Basket features Mariella from Crafter's Companion.  I've used a pretty pink and blue colour scheme to match the papers, added some blue ribbon and a blue button and also some new dies.

I've used Arianna Sprig, Dancing Butterflies and Forest Snail from Memory box, and also my new La La Lands Heart fence which I've coloured with some brown streaks to give it a wood grain effect.

Don't tell anyone, but I didn't have the right shade of blue for the flower sprig die, so I cut it out in white and coloured it with my Copics!!

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Mariella from Crafter's Companion
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Wild Rose Studio Flight of Fancy Papers
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• La La Land Heart Fence Die
• Memory Box Forest Snail Die
• Memory Box Arianna Sprig Die
• Memory Box Dancing Butterflies
• Button Mix Pastel (blue)
• Natural Twine
• Vintage Ribbon
• Liquid Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Stickles
• 5mm, 4mm & 3mm Snow White pearls
• C'artUs Border Die
• Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers (Cherry Blossom, 2x 15mm roses, 2x 10mm roses)

I've been inspired by:

• Wild Orchid Challenge - 3 different flowers
• Craft Your Passion - Floral Delights (image, papers, embellies)
• Simon Says Stamp - Things with Wings (fairy image and butterfly die cuts)

Happy crafting

Amy's Room

My project for The Stamp Basket today is something a bit different, and it's not a card.  I've made a door hanger in some lovely pinks, and of course some gorgeous dies!

The hanger is a large piece of chipboard and I've threaded some ribbon through holes at the top to hang it by.  I used some really teeny circle dies to make some re-inforcers for the holes.  The sentiment is typed in Word in white text with a purple background, and then cut out with my Bistro Label die.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Bunny With Flowers by Wild Rose Studio
• Docraft Country Companions Sunshine Meadow Papers
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Purple Card
• Lacey Circle Spellbinders
• Memory Box Precious Stars
• Memory Box Lavish Branch
• Memory Box Antique Lamp Post
• Memory Box Bistro Label
• Satin Ribbon
• Gingham Ribbon
• Liquid Pearls
• 5mm Lilac Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts

I've been inspired by:

• Craft Your Passion - Floral Delights (flowers in image, on papers, and as embellies)
• Wild Orchid Challenge - 3 or more different flowers (I have 4 different styles)
• Creative Craft - All About Animals

 Happy crafting

Bad hair day?

I've got a rarity today as I'm posting a 'just for fun' card that I made.  I've also been making a lot of items other than cards this week, so it's been fun to make a card again!  I tried really hard with my colouring on this image, and I don't think the dress is too bad, but I'm not keen on her hair.  I think that I need to print her out larger next time (although this is quite a big card base so she probably looks smaller than she actually is anyway!)

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Nevaeh from Saturated Canary
• Sentiment - Go Kreate dies
• Colouring - Promarkers
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• La La Lands Heart Banner Die
• cArt-Us Nesting Dies Frame Scalloped
• X-Cut border punch hearts
• Ribbon - Fantastic Ribbons
• Butterfly
• Pearls on a string
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Papermania pearl brad
• Liquid Pearls
• Lace
• Homemade Pin

I've been inspired by:

• Charisma - Black & White plus One (black ground, white lace, blue everything else + skintones allowed)
• Dutch Dare - Ribbons & Lace (lace is below the ribbon, it's just a bit faint in the photo!)
• Passion for Promarkers - Birthdays
• Simon Says Stamp - Things with wings (the butterfly)
• Cute Card - Something Blue (yup, think I got something blue on there !!!)

Happy crafting.