Mi Ran cards

Hi friends!

I'm here to share a few cards I've made for the Art By Miran Challenge Blog.

For this one I used my Prismacolour Pencils on Winter Sofia and I stamped a Lil Inkers sentiment, before layering onto patterned paper and coloured card stock.

For this card I water coloured April and added her on top of a Hero Arts stamped pink piece of card stock, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts too.

 That's it for me! I hope you like!

I'll be back soon

Linda xx

Sending Smiles with Purple Onion Designs

Hi friends!

I thought I'd pop in and share a card with you quickly.

My whole family have been SIIICK this weekend, so I'll be keeping this short (I can still only sit up for short periods of time and typing a blog post while laying down is impossible!)

This card was created for a kraft-themed submission call, but it didn't make it in to the mag (even though it might be my most favourite card ever.

The stamp of those two adorable bunnies is from Purple Onion Designs, and I used Prismacolour Pencils to colour them in.

I added some soft white to the bottom, to give a snowy ground for them to stand on.

I added the sentiment from Mama Elephant using Hero Arts white embossing powder, diecut the panels with Lil Inkers stitched border rectangles, and used my white signo gel pen for the snow fall :)

Ok that's it for me, I'm feeling woozy again.

Hope you like it!

See you again soon

Linda xx

Thanks a Latte

Hiya!

Today I've got a card using a stamp set is one I'd wanted for such a long time and I so love it!

First I coloured in Hipster Mae with Copics, and added some fun highlights to her socks with a white gel pen, as well as some Wink of Stella over her hat band, and handbag.

I wanted to keep the card a little bit simpler and let the image be the star :)

I'll see you soon!

ABNH Challenge SMALL SCALE--draft

Hi!

It's time for a new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero, and this time we want you to do

Use a smaller space to create your card or project. You can use multiple smaller areas, do a tag, create a masked off area and stamp within that. All you need to do is ensure you use a small area.

Here is my take on the challenge;

I've had this idea in my head for weeks now, and I really love how it came out. I stamped the beautiful Hero Arts Poppy stamp, about 13 times, 12 of them in Charcoal ink, once in Neon Pink Hero Arts Shadow Ink.  

After cutting the stamped images down to a smaller square, I then mounted each square onto a black card panel, making sure to leave a little hint of the black around each side, and I offset each line purposely, because I didn't want a grid pattern.

I heat embossed the sentiment onto matching black cardstock, and then added that to the front. 

I hope you like it!

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I hope to see your creations there!

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Frenchy Gwen, Some Odd Girl's February Release!

Hello friends!

It's time for another release at Some Odd Girl and let me tell you, this one might be my favourite yet!

Today we're releasing Frenchy Gwen, and she is tres chic. (see what I did there?!)

Here's my card:

So for this cutey, I coloured her up with Copic Markers, then cut her out, but I left a little teensy thin white border around her, so she'd pop out from the pink background.

I saw a card or invitation on Pinterest ages ago, with this style background (with the two offset panels) and it really stuck in my head, so I gave it a go for this card.  I like how modern and clean it looks, especially against my sweet girly Gwen.

I heat embossed my sentiment and added some pretty enamel dots for the final flourish!

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you'll check out the rest of the Design Team's work, over on the Some Odd Girl blog!

Don't forget to take a peek at our Facebook Group, it's full of wonderful crafters who are so supportive and inspiring!

 See you soon!

Frenchy Kody: Some Odd Girl February Release

Hi there!

It's release time and today's young man is quite the charmer :)

Meet Frenchy Kody:

I coloured him up with copics and for a little extra somesing (that's something in a bad French accent lol), I gave him some darker stubble around his cheeks and chin. Tres French, non?! (Ok I'll stop)

I just love his little slip on shoes lol. Adorable.

I used a tag die to create the panels he's standing on, and a Tim Holtz stencil with some embossing paste for the background. I added a few bits of bling using the Some Odd Girl Sorbet Sequins, and then I was good to go!

I hope you'll stop by the Some Odd Girl Blog to see the rest of the Design Team's inspirational projects--they're super cute (or as they say in France, tres magnifique!)

See you tomorrow for the next release!

White on White with pops of colour.

Hiya!

I'm here today to share a card I made using Some Odd Girl's new stamp Wink Mae.

I wanted something really simple and white on white, but with nice pops of bright colour.

First I stamped and coloured the image, then I embossed some nice thick vellum from Stampin Up.

I adhered the image using dimensional adhesive, and added sequins and a little sentiment banner. 

Hope you like it!

 

You Make My World Bright with Clearly Besotted

Hi friends!

I'm up over on A Blog Named Hero today, with a card I made for our collaboration with Clearly Besotted!

They're such an awesome company and I've been a huge fan for years now.

Here's my card

 All the deets of how I made the card are up on A Blog Named Hero--why not check it out? I'd love to hear your comments. They make my day.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda xx

HERO ARTS CLEAR STAMPS WRITTEN IN THE STARS CL772	*Hero Arts Mixed Layering Papers BLUSH ps620	Bracket Edges Die Collection	*Prismacolor PREMIER COLORED PENCILS 72
Thanks A Bunch	*Neenah Environment ***100 LB*** SMOOTH DESERT STORM Paper Pack 25 Sheets

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Hip Fox

Hi there crafty friends!

Thought I'd pop in and share this fun, cool card I made, using the sweet little fox from the Hipster Pets stamp set.

Before I get to the card, be sure to check out the Some Odd Girl 5th Birthday fun over at the blog!

I cut some orange patterned paper on angles, and adhered them all down, some popped up on dimensional adhesive, some flat on the card-base.  I thought it would be fun to play around with the dimension.

I coloured the fox in with my prismacolour pencils for a nice soft effect.

Hope you like this!

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More copic colouring

Hey there

I just can't seem to get enough of colouring in these days, so I'm running with it!

I recently bought a new printer, for a grand total of FIFTEEN dollars (thank you back-to-school specials woot!) and oh my word it's a gem. Its a little Canon, and honestly, it does a better job than my more-hundreds-of-dollars-than-I-care-to-remember HP printer that I bought about 5 years ago. So far ZERO problems. Prints quickly and cleanly. I'm in love.

ANyway, due to the aforementioned dreamboat printer, I'm all about the digis this past couple of weeks. Tiddly Inks have always been a favourite of mine, so I had a peek around their store last week and holy moly what a load of GOODNESS.

You should check them out immediately.

Anyway. onto the card.

For this card I used the Hanging Around Gwyn image, which is adorable. For the clouds I used Balzer Designs stencil, and the sentiment is Mama Elephant Up and Away, papers are from an 8x8 paper pad by Merci.

Hope you like it!

See you again soon.

Linda x

Saturated Canary and Simon Says Stamp: Hello Beautiful

Hello Hello!

I've been doing some more colouring so I thought I'd share what I made out of that colouring!

I used two of the images from the Saturated Canary New Year's 2015 Special Bundle, and overlapped them a little, cause I loved the idea of there being three friends instead of two.

I used two stamps from Simon Says Stamp for the sentiment.

I'm so happy with the hair on this card. Next I have to work on my clothing!

See you soon!

Linda xx

Small Stamps: Challenge Time at A Blog Named Hero.

Hi there!

It's time for our first challenge of the year over at A Blog Named Hero, so I thought I'd drop in here to show you my project.

This month we're challenging our readers to use those oft-forgotten teeny little stamps that are in sets--flowers, hearts, stars etc.

Here is my card:

 I used the TEENY little leaf-cluster image from an older Hero Arts Set (CL497) and I repeatedly stamped it in gradually darkening colours of Hero Arts Shadow Inks.

I then added a little scoring using my scoreboard, to give an extra hint of interest, without taking away from the original pattern I'd stamped.

I stamped the great Crafty Friends stamp onto some neenah white cardstock, and used that as a sentiment panel.

To finish off, I mounted this all onto a Hero Arts Midnight Notecard and added some enamel dots from My Minds Eye.

Nice and simple but I love the effect! I should score through my cards more often, I love how it looks. Just enough added detail without going over the top.

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Ok that's it for me!

Be back soon!

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