Saturated Canary - Tilly

Evening! I'm dashing in with a quick post for Deep Ocean Challenge, we have a new theme for you to enter and it's

Colours of Summer

 I've had this Saturated Canary digi in my files for a while now (along with MANY others) and I thought it was about time she got coloured up and onto a project.

As usual I turned to my Distress Ink markers to colour her up, I really must crack out my Copics again soon, these days they are quite neglected and only seem to do gem colouring duty etc, and I won't mention the full set of Primacolor pencils that the OH bought me for my birthday and I've barely played with because of course I need the time to sit down practise using them!

I used this very pretty paper - Vintage Time from Craft and You, love the colours in this and I thought they were lovely summery colours to fit the theme.

I've used the following items from The Ribbon Girl

Craft & You Vintage Time 6 x 6 Pad
Pale Aqua Silk Ribbon
Shabby Pink Ruffled Ribbon
Clementine Ivory Tulle Lace
Aqua Wild Roses
Pale Pink 20 mm Open Roses
White Sweetheart Blossom
Beaded Stamen White
Baby Pink Tulips

5 mm Clear S/A Gems
2 mm Clear S/A Gems

I'm selling this card in my Etsy shop, you can get there by clicking the icon below.

I do hope you can join in with our challenge, there's a lovely prize to be won from our sponsor

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Saturated Canary - Makeup Time

Hi everyone! It's the 2nd Sunday in the month and that means that it's time for a new challenge over on the Ribbon Girls Blog.

You can make anything for the challenge, it doesn't have to be a card, but you must use an image on it.

I've used one of the new digi images from Saturated  Canary, I just love Krista's work.
She's called Makeup Time and I've linked her and all my products below.

I coloured her with my Distress Ink markers and matched her to some beautiful papers from Maja. I'm very sad to say that these are the last of the sheets of this design I had in my stash ...sigh

I added some beautiful velvet ribbon, pearl trim and flowers.

Just love Kay Fatula's stunning butterflies for accents.

For once I managed not to totally cover the pretty lace I used! Yay!

Saturated Canary - Makeup Time

Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics - 1933

50 mm Ophelia Ivory Tulle Lace

9 mm Colonial Rose Velvet Ribbon

FB Trim 10mm Square Ivory Pearl

Ivory White Magnolia Flower

White/Purple-Pink 2 Tone Wild Roses

Ivory 20 mm Open Rose
Pink Gutterman Top Stitch Thread

The fabulous butterflies are of course from Kay Fatula's Etsy store here

We are sponsored by our friends at Lili Of The Valley who are giving a prize of a stamp of your choice and The Ribbon Girl who are giving a £10 voucher

I hope you can join us! :) xx

I thought I'd enter her into the challenge over at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges as this week it's Sassy Ladies and I thought that was rather appropriate for this image.

Sweetheart

Happy Sunday everyone!  I hope you're all having a fabulous weekend. Mine has been super busy, I have quite a few commissions to finish and my mojo has decided to go walkabout, so it's taking me twice as log to finish stuff.

We have a new challenge over at the Ribbon Girl blog, and it's super easy, 'Anything Goes with an Image'. So you can let your creativity flow as long as your project has an image on it.

For my image I used the incredibly pretty Sweetheart, drawn by Krista Smith and available here from Saturated Canary. She comes in a set of 9 digis at less than you would pay (here anyway) for a single rubber stamp. Bargain! Especially as every digi in that pack is just wonderful. So please people, buy your digis from the source, don't download suspect 'free' digis from Pinterest.

I decided to use these beautiful papers from Michele Roo Designs with her and coloured her with my distress ink markers to match.  I am sooooo in love with this paper collection, I even used it to completely decorate the inside of my card as you can see below. The collection is called Designer Grunge isn't it just fabulous? Love every sheet in this set.

I used the following Ribbon Girl goodies on my project.

45 mm Jessica White Lace

Cheesecloth

Scarab Aqua Vintage Seam Binding

20 mm Pink Open Rose

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

Well that's all from me today. don't forget to check out the rest of my teams gorgeous makes, as usual we have 2 fantastic prizes, a voucher for 

and for 

 

I should be back later today with the first of my Candy giveaways for my Blogversary...yup that's right, I decided that rather than give away one huge stash, I would make several smaller giveaways and share the love a bit more.

I'll see you later, until then Happy Crafting! :) xx

Breeze - Easel, Stepper or Joy Fold card at Totally Tilda and Friends

Happy Sunday!  I hope you're all enjoying the weekend. I had my first full week at work since the Christmas holidays, so the weekend break felt sorely needed by me.  Mostly I've spent it relaxing and doing some crafting, what about you?

If you're looking for something to do, why not join in the new challenge over at Totally Tilda and Friends?  The challenge this time is Easel, Stepper or Joy Fold, just make a card of one of those types, you can use any stamp you want, as long as it's a rubber stamp and not a digi.

I chose an old favourite of mine, Breeze. She's drawn by the very talented Krista Smith of Saturated Canary and available in rubber from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  I've included links to items I've used at the end of my post.

Anyhooooo, this is what I did with her.

 I made the shape with a Go-Kreate die.  The gorgeous papers are from the Maja Vintage Summer Basics collection 1933 and 1934. All have been edged with Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and all the layers on the front of the card have been hand stitched with Top Stitch thread.

This is what the card looks like closed, I coloured Breeze with distress ink markers, colours are listed below, and then covered the pink part of her dress with lashings of Glamour Dust.  She's a lot more sparkly in the flesh, but as usual the camera has not picked it up so well.

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Aged Mahogany (cheeks) Milled Lavender, Victorian Velvet (lips)

Hair: Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs

Dress: Evergreen Bough, Milled Lavender, Victorian Velvet

Background: Walnut Stain

The beautiful bling is from my stash.

Lots of lovely embellies from The Ribbon Girl

25 mm Joanne Ivory Fine Cluny Lace

38 mm Vintage Ivory Fluted Edge Sheer Ribbon

4 mm Flat Back Pearl Ivory Bead Trim

3 mm Ivory Pearl Bead String

11 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

Pink Sweetheart Blossom Flowers

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels Pink and Blue (Pink Used)

Cheesecloth

Our challenge is sponsored by

so you could win a lovely prize

Don't forget to check out the rest of my team's gorgeous makes on the blog!

That's all from me for today, enjoy your Sunday, don't forget to sign up for my rubber stamp giveaway if you haven't already, and I'll see you again tomorrow with some La-La Land fun :) xx

May - Saturated Canary GDT Entry

Happy Sunday to you all! I hope you're all having/had a great weekend.  As many of you may know, Krista Smith the wonderful artist of Saturated Canary Stamps and her Design Team are having a GDT call in their Facebook group. I must admit I procrastinated about trying out for quite a while, not because I wouldn't love to be a guest, but because after the previous try I really wasn't sure my work was good enough or what they are looking for....and oh my, there are soooooo many simply stunning entries there, I felt quite intimidated! 

But then, I really really love this image (well I love all Saturated Canary images, but this one really called out to me) from the bundle that Krista has in her shop at the moment, and since you're required to use an image from this bundle to enter...I thought, I will colour the image and make something I really like, then at the end of the day if I don't get in.....I will still have had the enjoyment of playing with an image I love and have made something I'm proud of.

Now this image seems to be a favourite of a lot of the entrants (and I can totally understand why) and it's been coloured in many different ways, but just recently I have been playing around with colouring hair in unusual colours with my distress inks, and also using brighter/stronger colours in them, so that's what I decided to do with her.

I did get quite excited when colouring her because she came out so well and I also got nervous too. I'm sure those of you who colour will understand what I mean...things are going so well but almost 'too' well, you are scared that you will make a mistake and destroy the whole thing (and I have to say that the first 2 attempts went straight in the recycling lol!)? So it was very tempting to stop at a certain point, but I made myself go ahead and add in all the little details and depth, and I'm really glad that I did. 

I've put her on a card for now, but I haven't decorated the inside yet, because I may frame her and keep her for myself, I haven't decided yet.

Anyhoooo...enough of my witless waffle and on with the sharing.

This is May and you can find her as part of a special bundle here.

I coloured her with Distress Ink markers, colours as follows:

Skin, Lips and Eyes: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Spun Sugar, Milled Lavender, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Pumice Stone.

Hair: Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Milled Lavender, Picked Raspberry.

Clothing & Butterfly: Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry.

The background is just a little Antique Linen.

I had originally chosen some brighter papers to match her too, but I decided that I didn't want to detract too much from the image and instead used these lovely, more muted papers in the same colours. These are from the Sofiero collection from Maja design. I don't have much of this left and they are out of stock now, so it takes something special for me to cut into them! Papers are inked with Walnut Stain DI and hand stitched as always.

Since there was a butterfly in the image, I took that as my inspiration to use this lovely Joycrafts die. It's actually a circular die, but I snipped into it and opened it up more so I could semi frame my image. I popped a little cheesecloth between my layers, and some gorgeous lace underneath,

I didn't want to over embellish, so I stuck mainly with some flowers and some fairly subtle bling, I liked the flourish (which I cut into 3) as it looked like the breeze blowing the strands of her hair.

Originally I was going to add a bow in my lovely pink organza ribbon, but it looked too much, so I just tucked a snippet under my flowers.

Some of the products I used:

Saturated Canary Digi May

MFT Pierced Ovals Stax

Joy Crafts - Around with Butterflies

Ophelia Ivory Lace

Fuchsia Pink/White Spot Organza Ribbon 

Crystal Flourish

Small Flatback Clear Gems 

Cherry Blossom Lilac/White

Beaded Lavender Gypsophalia

I do hope you like her and I hope Krista and the Saturated Canary DT love her as much as I do, but if not at least I'd made something I'm proud of and had so much fun doing it, and after all, that's what it's all about isn't it? :) xx

Genie at Dies to Die for

Happy Friday everyone!  It was my first week back at work today after my holidays (well I say week I was only in for 2 days lol) and I'm already missing my craft corner, it was really nice to have the time to really go all out and get creative.

I'd been itching to ink up this stamp for quite a while now and yeah I know that maybe genies are supposed to be all floaty and ethereal BUT, look at that funky hair? To me she was crying out to be totally edgy and cool.

I was originally going to colour her with my Copics, or Inktense pencils, but I got all these new colours for Christmas that I wanted to play with and it seems you can go bold and bright with Distress Ink and still keep that translucent delicate look, it shouldn't work, but it does.  I hope you like her.

I've added links to products used at the end of my post. 

Colours used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea dye (I used more than usual to give her a slightly darker skin tone), Aged Mahogany (I can't remember what I used on the lips for this one)

Hair: Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Old Paper, Evergreen Bough.

Clothing: Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Black Soot (white dots were made with a Posca pen)

Background shadow: Frayed Burlap

Then I covered her trousers and top with Glamour Dust, which looks really lovely and sparkly, but I could not get the camera to pick it up hardly at all.

I edged my papers (these are old Glitz ones called Hoopla but you can get them in a sale bundle which is a really super deal) with Old Paper Distress Ink and hand stitched them all with Top Stitch thread and edged all the dies with the same ink and some splodges of Gesso. The beautiful butterfly is one from Karla's Kreative Korner (I really need to get some more as I'm running low and I do love them so. The dies here are from Cheery Lynn and Little Darlings.

I coloured the edging on her outfit to match the corner of my design paper and then added a lush bow to match, love this b & w polka dot ribbon. I thought the button finished it off nicely

Finally I decorated the inside to complement the front and spritzed the whole up with some flowers, lace and ribbon and some little sparklies from my stash.

Stamp - LDRS - Saturated Canary - Genie

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels Four

Cherry Lynn - Felicity Doily

Little Darling's - Lovely View

Glitz Hoopla - From Glitz Box Offer

I also used some lovely Ribbon Girl embellishments

Francesca Black Lace

38 mm B & W Spot Organza Ribbon

Black Button Twine

Medium Lime Green Polka Dot Button

9 mm Parrot Green & White Spot Ribbon

I do hope you like my make for today, I was really quite taken with her cool and funky style.

I'm entering this card to the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - Polka Dots

Kit

Happy Saturday everyone, hope you're all well and enjoying the weekend, and for those of you who make cards, its World Card Making Day today :)

Today I'm sharing a card that I made for a very special reason. 

Now I'm sure those of you who follow my blog regularly know that I often do GDT work around my regular DT slots.  It gives me an opportunity to work with different artists that I love, showcasing their designs in my own style.  Usually I just take up offers when I can fit them in and don't go actively looking, but Saturated Canary is having a GDT call and I just couldn't resist.  

To give you some history, Saturated Canary images are one of the reasons I got into stamping and colouring in the first place.  I stumbled across somebody's blog where they'd used a SC image on a card and loved the image so much I googled for Saturated Canary Images......well I'm sure you can imagine the vast array of results I got.  Clicking on one of them led me to Bev Rochester's blog and I followed that by email (I had no blog at the time), and after a few weeks I decided I would try my hand at stamping and colouring. I bought quite a few SC digis and boy was choosing hard!

So SC images were one of my first loves in the world of stamping and that love has not faded with time, I love Krista's stamps, both digi and rubber and love to colour them up in both Copics and Distress Inks (and occasionally Inktense Pencils), so when I saw the GDT call I just had to try as it's been a dream of mine for a while to work with the DT, they have inspired me soooo much!

Anyway, enough waffle, this is my entry:

This is Saturated Canary's  Kit, she's a digital stamp and she's a required image for the call, isn't she adorable? Love that face and hair. I had a hard time deciding whether to colour her with Copics or Distress Inks, but in the end I went with DIs as I thought they would go well with the Pion papers that I chose. These are from the  My Precious Daughter collection. The beautiful sentiment is cut from the same collection. I've distressed. inked and stitched all my layers, and used a little shabby pink frantage around the image.

Colours used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Fired Brick

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Clothes: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen, Broken Twigs

I used a lot of heart motives to complement her hairstyle. I must admit it was quite hard getting the balance right on the card, because the extra height caused by the plaits makes this image quite tall in relation to the width. In hindsight I should have gone with a different shape card to balance it out, but instead I blanaced it by the use of shapes to break up the squareness of the card. I used the largest dies from my Spellbinders plain and scalloped heart nesties, a La-La Land Crafts Heart Doily die and an oval from the MFT Pierced Ovals Stax. The beautiful pearl heart on the bow is from The Handcrafted Card Company and I coloured the diamantes with my copics

The lace (almost hidden), pearls, pink tulle trim and ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl. Flowers are from Wild ORchid Crafts.

 To finish I used more paper from the collection, another Spellbinders heart with another  Heart Doily behind and a few flat back pearls.

Hope you like it and wish me good luck on the GDT call, I would so love to be chosen, but there are only 2 spots available and lots of talented people entering, so I need all the luck you can send!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Live and Love Crafts #28 PINK anno 2014

This card is available for sale in my Etsy shop

Happy crafting and enjoy your weekend! :) xx

In the Garden at ACR

Good morning and happy Friday! Boy am I looking forward to chillaxing at the weekend, work has been mental this week.

It's time for a new challenge at A Creative Romance, and today our theme is 'In the Garden'

For my make today I've used Saturated Canary's Gardner Gayle, from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps, but this time I coloured her with distress inks and gave her a vintage feel, using Pion Design's Vintage Garden papers. There's a list of products used with links to the store at the end of my post.  

All papers have been distressed and inked with Walnut Stain distress ink and then hand sewn.

She was coloured with the following inks:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Fired Brick

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Broken Twigs

Clothing and Flowers: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Weathered Wood, Old Paper,  Bundled Sage, Black Soot, Scattered Straw.

Basket: Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo, Broken Twigs

I used some beautiful die cuts made with some La-La Land dies. The card stock is a beautiful iridescent one, but sadly it isn't showing up on camera, which is a shame as it's quite lovely in the flesh. 

The beautiful lace and ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl, the bling is from The Hamdcrafted Card Company.

I finished off the inside quite simply with one of the 6 x 6 sheets. Flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts.

LDRS - Gardner Gayle

Vintage Garden - Phlox 6 x 6

Vintage Garden - Lady 6 x 6

Vintage Garden - Seed Packets

LLLC Birdcage Die

LLLC Birdhouse Die

LLLC Birds Die

Spellbinder Reverse Wonky Rectangle Die

Distress Ink Walnut Stain
Pink Loopy Ribbon
Pearlescent Cardstock

Do go take a look at the blog, the girls have created some fabulous makes to inspire you and why not join in with our challenge?  We're also looking for talented people to join us for a Guest DT spot, so if that sounds good to you, just pop GDT after your name when you enter.

Our sponsor this week is BunnyZoe's Crafts and they are offering a great prize.



That's all from me today, I'll be back on Sunday with my make for Totally Tilda, have a great weekend! :) xx

Emma with Sparkle and Glitz at Dies to Die for

Happy Friday everyone, it's the weekend tomorrow, yay! I plan on recharging my batteries with a bit of a lay in and some crafting time.

I have another Saturated Canary design from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps to share and I've coloured up Emma again, but whereas last time she was soft and subtle, today she has some zing in her step.

She's stamped on to some Fabriano watercolour paper and coloured with a mix of Distress Ink pads and markers and some Inktense Pencils, I've popped the colours further down for you. I cut her out with the MFT Pierced Ovals Stax.

The gorgeous, gorgeous papers are by Glitz, and called Hoopla.  Green isn't a colour I usually use much, but I do love a pop of acid lime green and against the black and white I thought that these were so striking.

They've been edged with Black Soot distress ink and hand stitched with top stitch thread.

The beautiful butterfly is from Karla's Kreative Korner and the bling, which I've coloured to match with my Copics, is from the Handcrafted Card Company.

All the ribbon and lace is from The Ribbon Girl, and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Colours used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Fired Brick

Hair: Black Soot

Clothing: Shabby Shutters, Black Soot used with Sherbet Lemon Inktense Pencil

Background: Shabby Shutters

I smothered her dress with Glamour Dust to make her sparkle and shimmer.

I've decorated the inside to match up with the front and with plenty of room for a message.

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop

I'm entering this into Live and Love Crafts - Things with Wings Challenge

That's all from me today, I'll see you again next week with something new to share.

Have fun! : ) x x