Pastel Wings

Good morning and happy Friday!  Well I am very glad this week is over, I'm hoping for a relaxing weekend and a far less dramatic week next week!

I've been busy house hunting too, so not had a great deal of time for crafting and my mojo has decided to go walkabout for a bit, I'm sure it will be back soon though lol.

Anyway today's make is a card using Wings, from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  Products are listed at the end of my post.

I used this stamp for the blog hop, but I thought I'd colour her again in pastels this time.

Skin: Vintage Photo

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Clothing and Wings: Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet.

I've used a Joycraft die behind her, and my embossing mat has also gone walkabout too, so I had to forgo the embossing this time.

Layers are distressed and edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Love, love, love that Prima bling!

Products Used

Wings

Joy! Crafts - Around with Butterflies

Joy! Crafts Paper Bloc - Romance

Prima Say it in Crystals - Vintage Swirl Pink

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Pink Poppies

Rose Leaves

10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

20 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

Starburst Stamen Pink

Cheesecloth

16mm Old Rose Gros Grain Ribbon

Vintage Style Seam Binding - Iced Lime

15mm Church Window Guipure Lace

That's all from me today but I'll be back again at the weekend with more inspiration and some candy.  Happy crafting! :) xx

Gwen at Little Darlings Rubber Stamps

Happy Monday everyone! It's my turn to start the week over at LDRS and post some inspiration.

As we have lots of new stamps to share with you from the recent release, I thought I'd colour up Gwen from the latest Dollhouse collection. Isn't she sweet? Love that little bunny she's holding too and her tiny little feet (my feet are only a size 3 so I can relate to having small feet, mind you if my feet were that small I think I'd fall over lol!).

I chose these beautiful LOTV papers from my collection, I've used them quite a bit but there are lots of sheets left, especially as I bought the matching solids pack and I absolutely love them.

I coloured Gwen with my Distress Ink and Spectrum Aqua markers to match the papers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Spice (SA)
Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain
Clothing and Bunny: Slate (SA), Spun Sugar, Burgandy (SA), Shabby Shutters

All the papers are inked with Walnut Stain distress ink and stitched with Gutterman top stitch thread.

I popped a doily between my layers and a little cheesecloth behind my framed image. I was going to go all out for a triple bow to match her hair bow, but sadly I didn't have enough of  the right coloured ribbon, so a single one had to suffice.

I added a little flourish die cut (cut into 2), some pearls some liquid pearls, and finished off with some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

Links to products from my favourite stores:

Dollhouse - Gwen
Cheery Lynn - Mini Fanciful Flourish Die
Platinum Pearl Liquid Pearls
Lili of the Valley 8 x 8 Pad Always & Forever
Lili of the Valley 8 x 8 Pad Solids - Always & Forever

Cheesecloth

Victoria Lace

25 mm Burgandy Satin Ribbon

Velvet Ric Rac

14 mm Flatback Pearls

8 mm Flatback Pearls

6 mm Flatback Pearls
Small Lily Pale Pink

That's all from me today, enjoy the rest of your week and I'll see you back here tomorrow! :) xx

Little Darlings Spring Hop

It's time for our NEW SPRING 2015 RELEASE from

FEATURING 16 NEW
IMAGES FROM

OUR MOST POPULAR
COLLECTIONS

SATURATED CANARY

CANDIBEAN

DOLLHOUSE

We are very excited about each of these new images and we know you will
want them all!!!

We want to give
you a chance to win several of these new stamps so let's get ready
to HOP!

AND THAT IS NOT
ALL!

You are invited
to share in the Blog Hop Party

filled with more
prizes, prizes, prizes and

even more chances
to win some of our latest images 

by joining us on
our Facebook page and on two of our favorite sponsor's FB sites,

 Kit and Clowder
and Passionate Paper Creations!

 First, let's begin with our SPRING 2015 BLOG
HOP!

Each of our Design Team members will be sharing their
inspiration with gorgeous projects that feature
every one of these new images!

For my first card I used 

Wings 

from the new Dollhouse collection and the following Designer Dies

Dewdrop Circles
Lovely View

I also used a sentiment from 

Vintage Sentiments - Enchanted Wishes

For my 2nd project I used 

Time for Tea 

and the following dies

Dewdrop Circles
Dewdrop Border

and the sentiment is from 

Vintage Affections - Friends 

What would a blog hop
be without a fun game and some prizes? 

As part of our hop, we invite
you to play our

W O R D S C R A M B L E

As you hop, you will collect letters from each design team member's blog
and unscramble them to form the names of TWO new stamps!

The first correct winner will receive 2 stamps from each new collection!

 But keep answering because 3 random winners will be chosen to win one stamp from the collection

Here is how you play:

1.  Visit
each design team member's blog (Blog roll below).

2.  Leave a
comment on each blog.

3.  Each design team member will feature one or
more letters on their blog post. Collect each
letter (by writing them down on a piece of paper) and when you are finished...

4. Unscramble the
letters to form the NAMES of TWO of our new images!

5. When you reach the end of
the hop, you will be at Tammy Cunliffe's blog.  There you will leave
the names of the TWO new stamps which you unscrambled.

NOTE:  You may want to make a list of the names of the stamps in the collections as you go along the Hop.

MY LETTER IS- F

When you are
finished hopping along with us,

please JOIN US
FOR AN ONLINE PARTY

at:

Little Darlings Rubber Stamps Fan Group

Passionate Paper Creations and Friends Facebook Group

Kit and Clowder Facebook Group

Hundreds
of dollars in prizes will be given away

 before it's all over on Sunday night!

You
could be one of the lucky winners! 

ARE YOU READY TO GET THIS PARTY STARTED?!

LET'S HOP!

Alexandra
Morein

Alyce Keegan

Barbara Grbec Rebersek

Becky Hetherington

Fabi Ormerod

Fleur Pearson

Jennifer Dove

Rosemary Shaner Bridges

Tracy Payne

Ruby Montes

Stéphanie Beauchemin

Rhea Weigand

Linda Levoir 

Tammy Louise (leave your answer on Tammy's blog)

Best of luck to you all!!!!! 

This is a scheduled post as I'm away celebrating my Dad's 85th birthday, but I'll be back tomorrow to read your comments :) xx

 

Boho Chic at Dies to Die for and some exciting news!I

Happy Friday everyone, it's the weekend soon ..wheee!! and that can only mean one thing, it's time for my inspiration piece for Dies to Die for.

Today I'm using the delightful 'Boho Chic' a Dollhouse stamp from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.

This is my first time using one of the Dollhouse collection, but it certainly won't be my last, I just love them! In fact you'll be seeing more Little Darlings Rubber Stamps shares from me. I was going to wait until my first official post for them, but since Angie mentioned it the other night in the LDRS Facebook Group, I can't wait any longer to tell you that I've joined the Little Dralings Rubber Stamps Design Team!!! How cool is that? I have to say that when Angie asked me if I would join the team I barely let her finish the sentence before answering yes yes YES!  I was just a 'bit' excited :P So look out for my first post for them in April. I have to say there will be more of these lovelies available in May and you will NOT want to miss them, I'm in love with them already.

My choice of which stamp to use was driven primarily by the paper, as soon as I saw this fabulous flowery MME paper that came in my DT pack, I knew which stamp I wanted to use with it.

I've listed the products I've used at the end of my post along with links to take you directly there.

I coloured her with my Distress ink Markers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick.

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Outfit and Bird: Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Black Soot, Evergreen Bough, Bundled Sage

I used the new LDRS Dewdrop Circle die behind her, isn't it fab, look at that gorgeous embossing.

I thought this MFT die echoed those pinking edged circles on the paper perfectly!

The sentiment, which is also from LDRS, is framed by a Scrapberry's frame embellishment. These come in white but I colored it with one of my Copic markers, Tracy has only just got these in stock at Dies to Die for (lucky me I got to use one first!) but they should be available on the website really soon, maybe even this weekend :)

Products Used:

LDRS Dollhouse - Boho Chic

MME Market Street Nob Hill 6 x 6 Pad

La-La Land Stitched Circles Die

MFT Pinking Edge Circle Die

LDRS Dewdrop Circle Die

Memento Ink Pad - Love Letter

Before I go I just wanted to share one more bit of news with you (if you're on FB you will probably have seen this already). I got published! Very exciting and I'm just sharing a pic of one of my magazine posts below.

How exciting is that? It was for Die Cutting Essentials magazine. Not my very best work as it was a very last minute request, but still very exciting to be asked and find yourself in print.

On that note I'll bid you all adieu, but I will be back in a very short while with another post.

Take care! :) xx