Lemon Tilda in the Sun at ACR

Morning all, it's Friiiiiday. My goodness I'm glad to see the end of this hot and busy week.  I'm here today with my A Creative Romance design team hat on, yup it's the Elegant Artisans turn to post a challenge and I must admit it seems ages since I made something for them, because I stupidly missed the last one as I'd got my dates mixed up in my diary.

Anyhoo I'm here today and our theme is 'Fun in the Sun'.  So we want to see your Summer Sunshine inspired makes.

**It's 11 pm as I'm typing this up and i'm starting to fall asleep (lots of early starts at work this week), so to save time I'm not linking products or listing colours....BUT....I'll come do that tomorrow evening after work**  : )

So let's get straight on with the pics:

I used Lemon Tilda from the new collection. It paired brilliantly with this Maja 'Coffee in the Arbour' papers. All papers have been distressed, inked with Walnut Stain distress ink and hand stitched, I couldn't find top stitch thread in purple shades, so I doubled up machine embroidery thread instead. I popped a couple of Hot Air Balloon die cuts in the top left corner, using a La-La Land Crafts die, these were cut from the Maja Vintage Spring Basics 6 x 6 pad

She's coloured with Inktense pencils.
Skin: Baked Earth, Carmine Pink, Saddle Brown
Hair: Amber, Tan
Clothing, basket, lemons: Sicilian Yellow, Dusky Purple, Mauve,Light Olive, Neutral Grey, Saddle Brown

I added a little Aged Wine frantage and a little glamour dust.

Lace, Seam Binding and ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl. The bling is from The Hand Crafted Card Company.

Flowers are a mix from WOC  and The Ribbon Girl and the butterfly at the top is from Kay's Kreative Korner.

Do pop along to the blog to see the rest of the team's amazing makes, and why not join in, we have the wonderful Mary and Andrea from The Ribbon Girl sponsoring our prize this week.

I can't wait to see what you make!

That's all from me today, I'll pop along later and list colours and link products/suppliers and I'll be back on Sunday with my Totally Tilda make.

Have fun, it's almost the weekend!

Silver Fairy in Violet & Rose

*If you're looking for my Candy you can find it here*

Happy Tuesday Stampers!  I'm here again with my regular Tuesday inspiration post for Dies to Die for, and today I'm using another of the wonderfully talented Sylvia Zet's images.  Just love her work the stamps are sooo sweet.  If you follow me on Facebook you've probably seen me share this image when I first coloured it whilst at my parents and when I chose the colours I actually had the new Pion papers in mind.  However I wasn't sure they were going to arrive in time for my make and so I went ahead and made the card up with another Pion collection....and then guess what?  Yup, those new Pion papers arrived with the postie on Saturday.  Oh well, at least I have them all ready for my next make.

This is my finished card, I used Silver Fairy, from Whimsy Stamps and the crner lace die is also made by Whimsy.  The shape is made with a Martha Stewart PATP punch set.

She's coloured with my Inktense pencils plus a few watercolour pencils for the skin and hair.
Skin: Flesh Pink (W), Pale Vermillion (W), Saddle Brown
Hair: Raw Sienna (W), Raw Umber (W)
Clothing and Wings: Deep Violet, Dark Purple, Carmine Pink, Shiraz

I finished her off with some stickles on her wings, but the camera wasn't really picking it up too well.

I added some flowers and ribbon from TRG.

I finished off with this lovely bead trim and a La-La Land butterfly die.

I used more papers from the same collection to decorate the inside and give a space to write a message.

Items Used:

 Wee Stamps - Silver Fairy

Pion Design - Flower Frames - Viola 6 x 6

Pion Design - Flower Frames - Roseus

La La Land - Butterflies Set 1

Mini Lace Doily Corner 1

Bazzill Self Adhesive Jewels - Clear

 4mm String Beads Lavender

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

Neenah Cardstock

I do hope you like her, I'll be back next week for more inspiration, until then, happy crafting!

Salute Tilda - All at Sea at Totally Tilda

*If you are looking for my blog candy please follow the link here*

Happy Sunday to all my followers and visitors both new and old, I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend and I'm so glad you took the time to drop by.

Today it's time for a new challenge over at Totally Tilda, and this time the theme is 'All at Sea'.

For this challenge we want to see your nautical or beach themed Tildas.

I chose to use Salute Tilda, and matched her up with some beautiful Pion papers. I've added links to products used, where I can, at the end of this post.

I coloured her up with my Inktense pencils, with a light distress ink style.  I do love these pencils, they're so versatile the way you can get different effects with them.  I'm afraid I don't have the colours for this one as I forgot to note them down, and I'm not as familiar with the colours yet like I am with my Copics. I must get into the habit of noting the shades I use when I'm colouring with them. If you're interested in trying these pencils for yourself, why not enter my blog candy here as I'm giving a set of them away.

The frame is an MFT one and the wave border is from La-La Land Crafts.  I added a little cheesecloth behind my layers, to simulate netting.

The inside is simply decorated with a design from the 6 x 6 sheet and a plain white frame for a message.

I hope you like her, do nip across to the challenge blog and take a peek at the rest of the team's makes, it's really worth your while.

I'd love to see you join in this challenge too our prize this week is

Salute Tilda

Shoreline Treasures - Sailing

Shoreline Treasures - Tags

Shoreline Treasures - Borders

Boat Wheel Charm

Compass Charm

Rolled roses and satin ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl

All other flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, I'm off now to finish crafting my cards for next week in the hope I might get to enjoy some of this lovely sunshine we're having today.  Take care! : ) x x 

I'm entering the following challenges:

Tilda's Town #107  (Fussy & Fancy)
Addicted to Stamps #84 Outdoors
BunnyZoe's Crafts May Challenge - Flowers and Charms

Charmings at Dies to Die for

Happy Tuesday folks!  I'm back to day with my inspiration post for Dies to Die for and this time I have a different colouring medium to show you.

On Saturday 10th May I went to Lili of the Valley's Birthday Party, and amongst the people demoing there was Dena, from Dena's Stamping Corner and she was showing how she used Inktense pencils.  Now I've used watercolour pencils before...well a loooong time ago now, before i even started crafting, when I used to do art lol, but these babies are different.  Because they aren't watercolour paint, they're ink...and you might think, well how do they differ from distress ink, well for one while they are ink and do turn from pencil to ink by adding water...they aren't exactly a watercolour ink.

What this means is that when they dry, they're permanent, if you wet them again they stay put. Also while they're delicate and translucent, just like distress ink, they have the most beautiful bright and luminous colours, very intense  colours and hence the name.

Anyway, I've been having a bit of a play with them and coloured up this Saturated Canary stamp by Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  This stamp was actually a present from my DT chum Jenny for my birthday, but Tracy stocks her in the store, she's called Charmings.  I've added links to items used at the end of my post, but because Inlinkz want's to charge me a fortune to carry on using them, they're just standard links now, no pretty pictures sorry.

I don't think she came out half bad!
Skin: Baked Earth, Carmine Pink
Hair: Violet
Clothes: Violet, Antique White, Hooker's Green, Thistle

I paired her up with these gorgeous Whimsy papers I've had in my drawer for some time, just waiting for the right card to use them on. 

I used a lovely Whimsy sentiment and die that I thought went perfectly on this card and I finished it off with a little Prima bling.  The lace and daisies are from The Ribbon Girl.

 Most of the flowers here are Wild Orchid Craft and of course I've stitched all my papers with top stitch thread.  I inked the edges with Distress Ink in dusty concord.

 The fabulous butterfly is handmade by a talented lady called Karla and bought from her little Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KarlasKreativeKorner I thought it set these papers off really well.

Finally I decorated the inside of the card with some more papers from the pack to complement the front.

Items used:

Saturated Canary - Charmings

Hummingbird & Butterfly Garden

Fairy Tale Dreams

Crown Die

*NEW* Prima Say It In Crystals - Princess

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

Collall All Purpose Glue - 50mls

Well that's all from me today, I'll be back again on Sunday with my Totally Tilda post, but I'll pop in before that with a little Candy post.  In the meantime, why not try something new?  

Have fun! : ) x x 

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girl May Colour Challenge- Lilac/Purple
The Squirrel & the Fox -#70 Let's Hear it for the Girls
Crafting at the Weekend - #1 Anything Goes
A Random Fan - #9 Anything Goes
Card Making Mamas - Over the Rainbow