Monday Blog Candy Number 4

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Morning everyone! Monday has rolled around again, I hope you all managed some fun and relaxation this weekend. I'm back with my final giveaway for June. The first 2 stamps have been claimed and now posted out, and I'll be drawing the winner for number 3 this evening once I'm home from work.

This week I'm giving away this cute Lisbeth stamp from LDRS Creative.

If you would like to win this stamp, just be or become a follower and then leave me a comment in the comment section below and I'll draw a winner next Monday.

Good luck!

Monday Blog Candy - number 3

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Well Monday has rolled around again and i have a new stamp to give away.

This time it's a Candibean stamp called Hold Tight.

This is a brand new never been inked stamp.

If you would like the chance to win this stamp, you just need to be or become a follower and to leave me a comment below. 

If you would like to help me reach my 500 follower goal by sharing this post, I would be very grateful. but it isn't necessary to do so to be eligible to win the stamp.

I'll draw the winner of week 2's stamp tonight when I get home from work.

Have a great Monday!

Little Darlings 3rd Quarter Release Day 3

Good morning and happy Sunday!

I hope you're all enjoying a fun filled or relaxing weekend and are getting the opportunity to re-charge your batteries.

Today I'm here with my 2nd card for the 3rd quarter release from LDRS Creative.

The stamp I used this time is called 

Swinging by to Say Hi.

I used some lovely papers from Pion Design and some wonderful embellishments from the 

Ribbon Girl.

I also used a sentiment stamp from the 

Vintage Affections - Friends 

stamp set.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers to match the papers.

You can see all the wonderful work from our design team on our blog 

and our Facebook group

To add to the fun

Passionate Paper Creations & Friends

are having a special LDRS colouring competition that's lasting all week!

I do hope you can join in the fun.

Have a lovely Sunday! :) xx

Little Darlings Blog Hop

It's time for our 3rd Quarter 2015 RELEASE from

FEATURING 11 NEW
IMAGES FROM

CandiBean and 
Lisbeth

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
chances to win with games and a special coloring contest! 

by joining us on our 

Facebook page and on one of our favorite sponsor's FB sites,

 Passionate Paper Creations and Friends!

 First, let's begin with our Fall 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!

I used the delightful Candibeans Pamper Time, which you can find here on the Little Darlings Rubber Stamps Store.

 I coloured her up with my distress ink markers to match these lovely papers from Michele Roo.

I also used the Dewdrop Circle Die and the Fluttered Tulip Bodice Die which I trimmed a little. I accented with one of Kay Fatula's gorgeous butterflies.

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

As part of our hop, we invite
you to leave a comment on each designers blog, as you hop along!
This will enter you for a chance to win!!!!

1st prize = 5 stamps from the NEW RELEASE!!!

2nd prize = $25 Voucher to the LDRS Creative Store!

Winners will be chosen by random.org.

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 FB Group

ARE YOU READY TO GET THIS PARTY STARTED?!  LET'S HOP!

Little Darlings Inspirations Blog

Alexandra Morein

Barbara Grbec Rebersek

Becky Hetherington

Fabi Ormerod

Jennifer Dove

Rosemary Shaner Bridges

Ruby Montes

Lizzy Smith

Stéphanie Beauchemin

Linda Levoir

Tamara Potocnik

Best of luck to you all!!!!! 

Enjoy the hop everyone and I'll be back on Sunday with more from the new release! :) xx

Gothica Notebook

Oh my, I nearly missed my post for Little Darlings Rubber Stamps DT inspirations. I had scribbled all my dates down and I thought I'd put the 28th and it was the 26th, so I totally had to rush out something quick this morning, the glue isn't quite dry on this make lol!

So being short on time I used some great products to make a quick fun project.

I'd picked up a small cheap notebook (I think it cost me around £1.50 at most, it may have been less) in a supermarket stationery section, with a view to decorating it, so I grabbed that, the lovely Gothica stamp from the Saturated Canary Girl Power range by LDRS, some of my favourite Fika papers from Maja Design and some LDRS and C.C Designs dies.

This is what I made.

Gothica is coloured with my Distress Ink markers and I've inked all my edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
I cropped Gothica a little and sprinkled some frantage araound her (it's ages since I used Frantage!)
I layered up my paper and die cuts and finished off with some pearls and seam binding from the Ribbon Girl.

I'm fairly happy with the way it turned out and it was super fast!

Supplies

Cheap Notebook from Sainsburys

LDRS Saturated Canary - Gothica

Little Darlings Dewdrop Border Die

C.C Designs Make a Card #4

C.C Designs Make a Card #3

C.C Designs Make a Card #2

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Seam Binding - Mauve Mist

Seam Binding - Lady Lavender Purple

Key Ornate Large Charm

Ivory FB Pearl Trim

12 mm Ivory Flower Shape FB Pearls

11 mm Pearl Ivory FB

8 mm Pearl Ivory FB

6 mm Peark Ivory FB

Hope you're all having a wonderful Sunday! :) xx

Casey @ Little Darlings Rubber Stamps

Happy Sunday folks, I hope you're all keeping well, I'm still a little fragile but feeling a lot better than yesterday!

I had to whisk this card up super quick, because I had planned to make it yesterday, but of course I really did not feel up to it so I made the majority of it this morning! It is a bit of a rush job, but I think I just managed to pull it off by giving it a shabby vintage twist.

Anyway I hope you like her, I've linked the products used at the end of my post.  

The stamp I used is called Casey and I coloured her up to match these vintage looking Pion papers that I've had in my stash for ages.

I coloured Casey with Distress Ink and Aqua Tint markers colours are below.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Outfit & Background: Slate (AQT), Stormy Sky

I inked all my edges with walnut stain, popped some cheesecloth between the layers, and to finish after embellishing I added some daubings of gesso to add to the shabby chic/vintage feel.

LDRS Saturated Canary - Casey

Dewdrop Circle Die

Pion Design Studio of Memories - Ornament

Cheesecloth

Ivory Silky Crush Ribbon

Cherry Blossom Antique Blue 2 Tone

Hip Rose Bud White

Ivory Rolled Roses

6 mm FB Pearls

8 mm FB Pearls

14 mm FB Pearls

That's all from me today, enjoy the rest of your Sunday and I'll see you soon! :) xx

Nevaeh @ Dies to Die for

Morning all, I should have posted this yesterday, but I was so tired on Thursday that I didn't get a chance to schedule it so was going to do it when I got in from work yesterday, but I got lured out for cocktails and frankly once I got in I wasn't capable of hitting the right keys on my keyboard lol, never again! Feeling most unwell today.

Anyhooo.....on with the card!

I decided to make another easel card (I don't make this very often, but I do love them), using the gorgeous Nevaeh by Krista Smith. She's on sale in the shop at the moment so snap up a bargain before she's out of stock!

eh (one of the first stamps I bought), and these lush papers from Pion.  I wanted to showcase the wonderful contrast of the purple and pink, so I coloured her outfit to match.

This is the card shown closed.

Colours used

Skin: Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Outfit: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Seedless Preserves

This is the opened card, I kept the inside pretty simple so as not to distract from the front.

Products used:

LDRS Saturated Canaray Nevaeh

Pion Design - My Precious Daughter - Angels

Pion Design - My Precious Daughter - Julia's Dress

Pion Design - My Precious Daughter - Images

Pion Design - My Precious Daughter - Anenome

Die-namics Pierced Oval Stax

Die-namics Oval Decorative Doily

Prima Say it in Crystals - All Pink

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Flowers ribbon and charm are from The Ribbon Girl

I've just realised that it's my Blogversary in a few days time, wow that went fast! I will have to try and sort out some blog candy once I'm feeling better.

That's all from me today,  happy crafting! :) xx

Cherry Blossom @ Dies to Die for.

Good morning!! A huge hello to my new followers and a big thank you to my older followers for sticking with me. I'll have a little tank you Candy for you soon, I just need some extra time to sort it out lol. My hours have been taken up a little with my mini album addiction, and I will have one to share soon that I'm immensely proud of, but I'm waiting on my new camera to film that because it really does deserve to be shown at it's best. Don't worry though I haven't given up making cards, it's just like when you have another child, you love them equally but differently.

Anyhooooooo, on with my share today and this time I made a card using an older Saturated Canary image from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.

I've linked the items used at the end of my post.

This is Cherry Blossom, isn't she pretty?

Tracy has this stamp on sale, so if you want to pick up a bargain go snap it up while she still has stock left!

I coloured her up with my Distress Ink markers (and one Spectrum Aquatint marker) to match these pretty Pion papers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose
Hair: Slate (SA), Black Soot
Clothing & Background: Bundled Sage, Slate (SA), Tattered Rose, Abandoned Coral, Gathered Twigs

I didn't stitch my layers this time because I did a lot of distressing on my papers, I really like the way it turned out.

Products Used

Dies to Die for

LDRS Saturated Canary - Cherry Blossom

Pion Design - Fairy tale of Spring - Newly Hatched

Pion Design - Fairy tale of Spring - Cherry Blossom

Pion Design - Floral Frames - Viridis

CC Designs Make a Card #4

Die-namics Oval Decorative Doily Die

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

The Ribbon Girl

Cheesecloth

Vintage Seam Binding- Peach

11 mm Diamante Spacer

5 mm S/A Clear Gems
Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels
Pretty Blossom Pink

I'll be popping this card in my Etsy store at the weekend.

Well that's all from me today, but I'm working on several projects at the mo, so no doubt I'll be back again soon.
Enjoy your weekend! :) 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

 

Pricilla

Happy Monday everyone. Linda here popping in with another Saturated Canary make for you. I've used Pricilla  from the Girl Power collection today and I don't know why but when I saw this pretty little thing stamped up I thought of the song 'Buttons and Bows' I mean just look at all those frills and flounces. So that made me want to put buttons on my card and then I ended up with buttons, flounces, bows and a whole sewing theme on there lol.

I coloured her up with my distress ink markers and I have to say I'm not really happy with the way she came out, Mr Mojo seems to have gone on a little vacation, I can't complain because I've kept him very busy lately. if I had more time I'd like to do her over, but time if not my friend and work calls so she will have to stay as she is.

Colours Used:
Skin: Vintage Photo, Victorian Velvet
Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs
Outfit: Evergreen Bough, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Slate (Spectrum Aquatint)

I've used the following products from shops in the UK

Stamp SC, LDRS - Pricilla
Paper Carta Bella - Sew Lovely
MFT Pierced Oval Stax

Pink Tutu Tulle Ribbon
Ophelia Ivory Tulle Lace
Cheesecloth
3mm Aqua Satin Ribbon
3mm Hot pink Satin Ribbon
6mm Flatback White Pearl Trim
Pale Pink Small Polka Dot Button
Aqua Rolled Roses
Baby Pink Tulips

That's all from me today, enjoy your week and I'll see you back here on Friday for something a little different.

Have a great day! :) xx

Genie - Shaped cards at the Ribbon Girl

Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. Yesterday they finally came to fit my new oven, so I can cook stuff properly again lol, apart from that most of yesterday was spent on Pinterest and in my crafty corner discovering the joys of beer coaster mini albums, my goodness they are just soooo much fun! So expect to see something from me soon in that category.

Anyhooooo, back to the reason I'm here today and it's to share my card for the new challenge over at The Ribbon Girls.

The theme this week is Shaped Cards or Anything Goes.

You can use any image you like as we know you all have your favourites and we're looking forward to seeing them on this 'everything goes - use any image' challenge - we hope to see all types of project including shaped cards, boxes, candles and projects of all kinds!

**Your project must include an image**

I made a shaped card, though if I had discovered beer mat mini albums earlier it may have been something else :P

Earlier this week I chose an image that I'd used before and gave it a different treatment and I thought I'd do that again. A while back I used Genie, but I did her in very strong funky colours to match the papers I had chosen, I thought that this time I'd choose the same shape and a similar layout but use very different colours and a bit of a twist on the design.  So I chose this lovely Maja design paper and coloured her up with my distress inks in soft pinks and yellows to match.

I've popped a list of items used and links at the end of my post.

Just so you can compare the difference, here are the 2 cards side by side

Items used from the Ribbon Girl:

Nicole Vintage Style Lace

Pale Pink Pure Silk Ribbon

Ballerina Pink Tutu Tulle Ribbon

Double Row Ivory Pearl Trim

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

20 mm Pearl and Diamante Flower Embellishment

Pretty Blossom Pink 

Gardenia Small Pink/Baby Pink

Beaded Berries Pink/Pale Pink

Beaded Stamen Pink/White

Lily Flowers Small Pale Pink

Tulips Baby Pink

Pale Pink 10 mm Open Roses

Stamp - Saturated Canary Genie from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps
Papers - Maja Design - Coffee in the Arbour - Flourishing Garden
Bazill Cardstock Frosted Yellow
La-La Land Folding Banners Die
Little Darlings Vintage Affections #4 Enchanted Wishes

This card is for sale in my Etsy store

This card is now sold.



I do hope you can join in with our challenge.

As usual we have two fabulous prizes, the first is a stamp of the winners choice from our generous friends at Lili of the Valley who have some beautiful images to choose from, and a £10 voucher from The Ribbon Girl for the randomly chosen winner of the challenge

That's all from me today, but I'll see you again tomorrow and don't forget to check out the rest of the makes from the DT, they are pretty amazing!   Happy crafting! :) xx

Eva at Dies to Die for

Happy Friday !! It's the end of another working week and a weekend of crafty fun to look forward to. I've been a busy little bee recently with lots of makes to share here now and lots for future releases, so far I've been lucky and Mr Mojo has not deserted me, let's hope he doesn't decide to do a runner after I type this lol!

Today I thought I'd share Eva again, I used her back in January and I used quite deep strong colours and I thought it might be fun to colour her again in a quite different style...well still MY style, but I thought it might be nice to go for much lighter softer colours etc to show the difference.

I used the beautiful Paris Fleamarket Collection from Pion Design, these are so yummy.

I coloured her with distress inks to match my papers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Victorian Velvet
Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut
Clothing: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvey, Weathered Wood, Stormy Sky, Evergreen Bough (I blended these a bit to get the colour I wanted)

I used plenty of Glamour Dust on her top and underskirt for sparkle.

I cut out letters from the border sheet to make a little sentiment in a Scrapberry polymer frame, I used some Frantage in Shabby Pink over the frame for a nice effect.

I echoed the layout on the front inside the card, using one of the border strips to replace the lace and ribbon.

Items used:

LDRS Saturated Canary Eva

Reverse Wonky Rectangles Die

Pion Design Paris Flea Market - Blue Fabric

Pion Design Paris Flea Market - Borders

Pion Design Paris Flea Market - Pink Lace

Scrapberry's Polymer Wedding 3

Shabby Ribbon Light Pink 15mm

Cherry Blossoms Pale Pink/White

Cherry Blossom White

Walnut Stain DI

This card is for sale in my Etsy store, just click the link below



That's all from me for today, but I'll be back on Sunday.  Have a great weekend! :) xx

Amber - Little Darlings Rubber Stamps DT Post

Hello! I'm back with some more Little Darlings Rubber Stamps inspiration. Now as all my followers will know, I have a real love for Saturated Canary images, I just love them. I have coloured this one before, but she's so lovely and last time I did her with alcohol markers, so I thought I'd bring Amber out again and colour her with my distress ink markers.

I did have a hard time deciding which paper to use, but I just love the coral pink of this older Pion Design paper and I wanted to echo the shape of a card I made recently, but without the easel element.

I also used the Fluttered Tulip Bodice die, I thought it looked perfect with the butterflies!

I do love how this turned out, she looks gorgeous in this colour I think.

I've popped some links to items used at the end of my post.

I coloured Amber with the following DI Markers

Skin: Vintage Photo, Fired Brick

Hair Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Outfit and Butterflies: Fired Brick (I added white dots with my Posca pen)

I decorated the inside with one of the 6 x 6 squares of Pion paper.

A few close ups of my elements.

Stamp - Saturated Canary - Amber
Fluttered Tulip Bodice Die
Pion Design - Vintage Garden - Peony
'Renaye' Handmade Butterflies by Karla Fatula
Eros Diamnte Embellishment (coloured with a copic marker in RV34)
Memory Box Dancing Butterflies
CC Designs Make a Card # 2
Die-namics Pierced Oval STAX
Ophelia Lace
Cheesecloth
Ivory Faux Silk Ribbon
Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels - Lemon & Mint
Tulips Baby Pink
Hip Rose Bud White

This card is for sale in my Etsy store, just click the link below



That's all from me for today, but I've been a very busy bee in my crafty corner recently, so I'll be back on Friday, Sunday and Monday with more crafty goodness to share.

Have fun! :) xx