Current Challenge over at ABNH: OMBRE

Hi friends!

I'm so behind on posting here on the ol' bloggo-sorry for that!

I thought I'd share the card I made for the current challenge over at A Blog Named Hero.

This time we want you to break out your 

 This month we are lucky enough to be working with

I wanted something clean, graphic and a little bit masculine for this card, so here's what I came up with.

I used 3 Hero Arts Shadow Inks (navy, pool and cornflower), to ink up the sentiment (from Reverse Confetti).  The background stamp is Hero Arts and is stamped in HA Blackboard ink.

I added some sequins from Neat and Tangled (where else?!) and that was that!

I hope you like it!

Please pop on over to the ABNH blog to check out the rest of the examples the DT have cooked up for you, and even enter the challenge! You have a few days left and you could win a

thanks to our super fabulous sponsors!

thanks, as always, for stopping by!

Watercolouring with Distress Markers

Hi friends!

I'm here with a sweet card using Some Odd Girl and some Distress Markers as watercolour paints.

I stamped the image, and then scribbled the markers onto an acrylic block, before picking them up with a wet water colouring brush, and painting the image.

To create that fun sky background, I waited for the fairy image to dry completely, then I wet the rest of the background with a clean brush, and then slowly added small amounts of blue to the page. The pre-wetting allows the ink to move around freely (which takes away the 'brush stroke' look) I love how this looks! To add deeper colour in some sections, you can either wait for it to dry, then add more ink, or you can remove some of the colour using a dry paper towel :))

I love this soft dreamy effect!

The sentiment is from Hero Arts. Love this handwritten sentiment from my sweet friend Lisa.

That's it for today!

see you again soon!

Umbrella Gwen walking in the rain

Hello!

It's I took about two weeks away from my computer and my DT's recently, due to some family kerfuffle, and during that time, I did my best to get a LOT of crafting done so as to get ahead.

SO far it seems to have worked!

I have several cards all ready to go, waiting to be share with you, so I'll be ATTEMPTING to keep a bit of a schedule from now on (we'll see how that goes lol)

For today, I'm sharing a card I made using Some Odd Girl stamps. I coloured in this image of Umbrella Gwen several weeks ago, and she's been sitting on my desk waiting for me to add her to a card.

I had coloured Gwen with lots of bright tones, and added detail to her dress and umbrella using my white gel pen, so I wanted to keep the background pretty simple.

I thought it would look like she was walking along a rainy city street if I used this patterned paper, and I love the effect! Some white alpha stickers for a super simple sentiment and I was done!

Thanks for looking!

Be Back soon

Gold and Navy

Hi there!

I thought I'd have some fun playing with some Avery Elle Stamps that I've had for ages, but haven't had a chance to use for a while.


I saw this photo on Pinterest and thought it would make a cool card, but I don't have that ikat pattern on any stamps (WHY NOT?!) so I went with this Japanese fan style image.

I used Gold Delicata and Hero Arts Navy. Such a beautiful combination!

love the shine you get with that delicata!

That's it for me, a quick one today!

See you again soon!

Linda x

Mama Elephant Thinking of You

Hi friends!

I'm here today to share a super cute card I made using the Mama Elephant sets In My Heart and Up and Away.

First I stamped the little girl from In My Heart, on an angle, and then the balloons, so that it looked as if the balloons were lifting her away.

I then set about colouring the images in, using my copic markers. I added some fun glitter to the balloons using my Wink of Stella glitter pen. The sentiment is from In My Heart as well, and I used Hero Arts Black Dye Ink (as I always do for my sentiments!)

For the base layer of card stock, I took some Simon Says Stamp Tiffany Blue Cardstock and the coordinating ink, and stamped a background stamp from Impression Obsession. I love that tone on tone look. Perfect for an extra touch, without taking away from the main image/panel on the card.

I love these sweet images! So fun to colour and they're so so cute.

I hope you like!

I'll be back again soon with another card :)

Have a great day!

Elephant birthday

Hi again!!

Its cutesy-elephants time!!

I coloured these two cuteys in with my Prismacolour pencils, and used some blending solution over them (cue me still squealing over the difference it makes).

I then fussy cut them and added them on top of my patterned paper sky and grass

I used a Simon Says stamp curved edge die for the grassy hill. I then cut a little slit in between the elephant's feet (it didn't hurt him I promise) and added the little paper-pieced gift.

I love how the elephant on the right looks shy. squee!

Hope to see you again soon!

Creat a Smile August Release BLOG HOP

Hi friends!

I'm here with a FUN post today because it's release time for Create A Smile!  We thought we'd do a Blog Hop, so you should have come here from the incredibly talented Laura's blog!

Create A Smile are a new stamps company in town - their first stamps were released in July 2014. The stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile!

 

For this hop, we asked on our Facebook page, for suggestions on topics or types of projects we could create! Anyone who's suggestion was used in the hop by a DT member or hop participant, wins a

For today's card I used Distress Markers as watercolour 'paints' and I went with a fab idea from Ágnes Eglesz-Tábori: congratulation or encouragement card/tag/wrapping.

 

Poor little guy is stuck indoors coz of the rain! Hope he gets some sunshine soon :)

Create A Smile are a new stamps company in town - their first stamps were released in July 2014. The stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile!

These are the facts:

Create A Smile is releasing two sets TOMORROW! You can find their store at www.createasmilestamps.com 

There are TWO fun sets filled with super cute images, available for purchase at 8am CET (2am EST).

You can win a $15 gift-certificate for the store - all you need to do is hop along and leave comments on all the fantastic and inspiring stops (one comment per person, per blog please!). We’ll pick random winner from all the comments - so the more blogs you visit (and leave a comment on) - the more chances you have to be a winner!

 

You have until Saturday August, 9th 8am CET (that's 2am USA EST). The winner will be announced on the Create A Smile Blog on Sunday (July 13th)

 

Create A Smile

Jenny Mullens

Kelly Latevola

Kasia Curry

Christine Drogt

Taheerah Atchia

Samantha Mann

Laura Sterckx

Linda Trace

Mayuri

Danielle Walls

Amy Tsuruta

Anja Curvers

Next up you're off to the lovely Mayuri's blog, Can't wait to see what genius she's made for us all!

Enjoy the Hop!

 

ABNH Die Cutting Challenge: Inlaid Diecutting

Hi friends!

I'm here with the card I've made for this months' new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero!

We're collaborating with the fantastic Reverse Confetti for the entire month, and this time our challenge is to use Die Cutting!

Here's what I came up with

I thought I'd pull a Laura Bassen while making this card. She always makes THE most ridiculously gorgeous cards that are somehow intricate yet super simple. It's an amazing talent she has!

I hope you like it! It took a while. That inlaid die-cutting looks amazing but holy moly is it fiddly.

I'll be trying it again :)

Be sure to head over to ABNH and enter the challenge, for your chance to win a

thanks to our fabulous sponsors

Be sure to have a look! the DT have been INSPIRED yet again :)

Roarsome

Hi friends!

I'm here with a fun card I made using Some Odd Girl On Safari stamp set.

I recently bought some mineral spirits (used to blend coloured pencil) and oh my goodness does it make a difference!!!!!! I can't get over it.

The background of the main panel (the orange) was done using Hero Arts Orange Soda Mid-Tone ink, and Impression Obsession background stamp.  The panel was diecut using a Mama Elephant die.

I added some stickles to those thickers and hand-drawn stitch marks on the star :)

Love that shimmer!

Such a cute lion I think. I'll be giving this card to my nephew :) He's totally roarsome.

See you soon!

ABNH Challenge; One Layer

Hi!

I thought I'd shared this card I made for the recent challenge over at ABNH so I thought I'd share it with you here as well!

We're having fun with Paper Smooches this month!

Who wouldn't want a glossy red sewing machine?!

hope you like it! 

stopping in

Hi friends

I'm taking some time away from most/all things electronic this week, but wanted to quickly stop in and show you this card I shared over at the Create A Smile blog last week.

I used Memento Luxe Inks and Friends in the Woods stamp set, Mama Elephant die (stitched borders), and Impression Obsession background stamp :)

Sorry for the short post, but I gotta run!


See you soon!

Create A Smile Stamps:sneak peek

Hi friends!

I'm over at Create A Smile Stamps today, with my first official post!



Here's a sneak peek

But I've got a WHOLE lot more than just a card waiting for you :)

Hope you'll pop over there and check it out!

Some Odd Girl Release day: School Supplies

Hi friends!

I'm here with my card, from the second set being released this week!

School Supplies is such a fun set, full of school-themed images and punny sentiments.

Check out my card:

I wanted this card to be full full full of colour.

First I stamped the rainbow of crayons and added the sentiments. Next I coloured and fussy cut them, and then I sprayed a background panel with colour mists.

I mounted the misted panel onto a black matte, before adhering the crayons down with dimensional adhesive.

Finally I added that panel onto the main cardbase, at an offset angle.

That's it! I wanted the main card base to be a nice simple white, to allow the coloured images and sprayed panel be the feature.

I hope you'll come check out the rest of the creations made by the design team, they're all amazing!

All newly released sets are available in store now!

See you again soon!

Some Odd Girl Release: Teacher Mae

Hi friends!

It's release time at Some Odd Girl!

This month's sets are cute as ever and they're really going to be getting used a LOT around here!

Here's my card:

I thought it would be fun to stamp this gorgeous image onto dictionary paper (note that I found the page with the definition of illiteracy?!)

I love how this turned out! I coloured in with my Prismacolour Pencils and Made sure to really blend well.

Such a fun way to use a stamp!

Hope you'll pop back again tomorrow, you'll get to see the other set we're releasing this week!

See you then!

Welcome to the New CREATE A SMILE STAMPS!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's finally here!!! Today is the first official day of CREATE A SMILE STAMPS!!!!!!!!!


Can you tell I'm excited??

Welcome to the Create A Smile First Release Blog Hop!

Create a Smile is a new stamp company in town, located in Germany!

When Christine Drogt started illustrating and sharing images with friends, it soon became crystal-clear that those images would make awesome clear stamps.  Because Christine has always loved to make people smile (it can be as easy as smiling at strangers!) the name was found quickly (thanks to her friend Alison!) and the vision became reality.

Create A Smile stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile!

We’re thrilled you are joining us as we begin this great adventure! We truly love the fantastic paper-crafting community (YOU!) and are so excited to be bringing something new to you all!

These are the facts:

Create A Smile are releasing our first two stamp sets TODAY!! You can find our store at www.createasmilestamps.com 

We have TWO fun sets filled with super cute images, available for purchase.

You can win a $15 gift-certificate for the store-- all you need to do is hop along and leave comments on all the fantastic and inspiring stops (one comment per person, per blog please!). We’ll pick random winner from all the comments - so the more blogs you visit (and leave a comment on) - the more chances you have to be a winner!

You have until Saturday (July 12th) 8am CET - that's 2am EST. The winner will be announced on the Create A Smile Blog on Sunday (July 13th)

Today we're releasing two fantabulous stamp sets!!!!

Comfy

Friends in the Woods

Sadly my stamps are still on their way to me (darn you post!!) so I had to use my digital files for this one, but the images are still adorable and SO fun to work with!

I hope you like it!

Here is the full list of participants:

Create A Smile Blog

Laura Bassen

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Lucy Abrams

Samantha Mann

Yana Smakula

Kelly Latevola

Cindy Lovell

Christine Drogt

Amy Tsuruta

Tanja Kewel-Neef

Anika Lerche

Christiana Reuling



As you can see, you should have come here from the incredibly talented Laura's blog, and now you're on your way to see Lucy--she's a favourite of mine!

Don't forget to leave a comment! You have a chance to win a $15 Gift certificate to the store!

see you again soon!

Challenge Time at ABNH:Colouring

Hi friends!

It's time for another challenge over at ABNH and this month we're SUPER lucky to get to play with Paper Smooches!

So the challenge this month is

COLOUR IT! Super easy, just ensure you include some colouring in!

I decided to make the colouring part, the feature of the card. Here's what I came up with.

I simply coloured in the hearts with copics, cut them out then mounted them onto the cross-hatched panel I'd stamped. I had some Lawn Fawn twine behind them, and mounted them so they'd look as thought they were hanging off the line.

For the finishing touch, I added faux stitching around the outside of the top part of the panel, and some stickles to the hearts.

Hope you like!

I do hope you'll join us in the challenge, because you'll be in for a chance to win a

 thanks to our fabulous sponsors

thank you also to the delighftul Paper Smooches, who were so generous as to supply our Design Team with product we could use!

See you again soon!