Add a Charm at Deep Ocean Challenge

Happy Tuesday! Well sadly I was back at work today and still feeling quite poorly, but it could have been worse, at least I didn't fall ill while I was away on holiday! Anyhooooo I'm here because we have a new challenge over at DOC and this time it's 'Add a Charm', dead easy right? I've had this feather charm in my stash for so long that the shop I bought it from doesn't seem to stock it anymore, oh well at least it's getting used now.

This is also kind of my last GDT post for Saturated Canary. We received some images just before I went away on my hols, but while I got her coloured up, I just ran out of time to make a post, so I'm sharing her now, full details on where to purchase her as well as links to most other items used are at the end of my post.

This is called Night Lights, isn't she lovely? She actually comes as a full size image with tree branches and Chinese style lanterns, but I printed her out bigger and cropped her for my card.

I did make sure I got all of that gorgeous hair in though!

I coloured her with Distres Ink and Spectrum Aquatint markers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Spice (SA)

Hair: Slate (SA), Charcoal (SA), Black (SA)

Outfit: Teal (SA), Pumice Stone & Sakura Clear Star Pen

The beautiful 7 Dots Studio papers came in a mixed box of papers, it's a very cheap way to buy a lot of different paper, ideal if you want to make something quite paper intensive like a mini album, and a great way of trying something different to your usual style. The have all been edged with Black Soot Distress Ink. I used a combination of Pumice stone and Black Soot Distress Inks to make the shadow around the frame and coloured some small gems in shades of aqua, black and grey to add a little sparkle and interest.

Items Used

Saturated Canary - Night Lights Digital Stamp

Mixed Box of Papers
Big Pierced and Stitched Rectangles Dies

38 mm B/W Spot Organza Ribbon

38 mm Phoebe White Guipure Lace

Diamante 20 mm Round Spacer

14 mm Aqua Blue Gems

2 mm S/A Gems

5 mm A/S Gems

The rest of the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the narrow spotty ribbon is from Stampin' Up and was a gift from my crafty friend Susie. The shape of the card was made with a Go Kreate die.

This card is available to buy on my Etsy store



I hope you like my card today and that it has inspired you to join our challenge. Don't forget to check out the rest of the talented design teams makes here, they're pretty amazing!

Enjoy the rest of your week! :) xx

Sabrina - Anything Goes with Flower Power at Saturated Canary

Hi again, 2 posts in one day?! Get me. If you're looking for my Dies to Die for post, please scroll down.

I'm back again with my Saturated Canary GDT hat on, because we have a new Facebook challenge live today over in the Saturated Canary Facebook Group, it's anything goes with Flower Power, so you can make anything you like, as long as it has a Saturated Canary digi or rubber stamp on it and is flowery in some way.

I used Sabrina, I must admit that I've had this digi in my folder for a very long time, just waiting for the right time to use her, and with her pocket full of flowers I thought she'd be just the thing for this challenge.

I coloured Sabrina with my distress ink markers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick, Victorian Velvet

Hair Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Outfit & Flowers: Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, Milled Lavender, Pumice Stone, Black Soot, Shabby Shutters, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry.

Products used:

Sabrina - Digital Stamp

Maja Design - Vintage Summer Basics 1933

Maja Design - Vintage Summer Basics 1934

Reverse Wonky Rectangle Die

La-La Land Heart Doily Border Die

Cheery Lynn - Mini Fanciful Flourish Die

Victoria Antique White Lace

16mm Aqua Ruffle Edge Sheer Organza Ribbon

25mm Aqua Satin Ribbon

6mm Flat Back White Pearl Trim

White/Purple-Pink Two Tone Wild Rose

Hip Rose Bud Pale Pink

Don't forget to check the rest of the teams FABULOUS makes here.

I'm entering this card into the following challenge:

Live and Love Crafts Photo Inspiration

That's all from me for today, have a lovely weekend! :) xx

Birthday at the Ribbon Girl

Happy Sunday all. Well I finally went to the docs on Thusday and he put me on a course of Prednisolone (oral steroids) as well as increasing the strength of my inhalers and I have to say I feel so much better. It feels like months since I've actually been able to breathe properly and you really don't realise how bad it's got sometimes until you feel the contrast. Not sure I could run a marathon but I feel marvelous!

Anyhoo......it's the 2nd Sunday in the month already (where did it go?!) and that means it's time for our Lovely Lili challenge at The Ribbon Girl.......except that we're having a bit of a change and now it's a 'Use Any Image' challenge.

So you can make whatever you want, be it cards, mixed media, altered art etc, as long as it has an image on it. Of course you can still use your LotV stamps if you wish.

Our theme this week is

'Birthday'

easy right?

For my card I've used a new digi stamp from Saturated Canary, it's called Inked Pretty, isn't she gorgeous?

I couldn't wait to colour her up when she was sent to me by the lovely Krista from Saturated Canary. The wonderful perks of being a guest on her Design Team :) I coloured her with distress ink markers to match these lovely LotV papers.  Yes I know, I've used this pad a lot recently, I just LOVE it!

I used the following colours

Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick, Victorian Velvet
Hair: Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs
Top and Tattoo: Victorin Velvet, Worn Lipstick, Shabby Shutters

I stamped a little birthday sentiment in the space below the image, with Momento Ink in Rich Cocoa.

I inked all my edges with Walnut Stain distress ink and then distressed and stitched the layers. I added lots of fab embellishments from the Ribbon Girl.

Finally I decorated the inside to coordinate with the front and shabbied the whole thing up with some gesso.

Ribbon Girl Products Used

Clementine Lace

Cheesecloth

9 mm Pink velvet ribbon

9mm Brown velvet ribbon

Resin Cameo Frame

Oval ivory pearl bead string

Oval double row pearl trim

Pink Tutu trim 

Dusky Pink Vintage Wild Roses

Other Products

Stamp - Digi - Inked Pretty

Paper- Lili of the Valley - Always & Forever - Solids
Paper - Lili of the Valley - Always & Forever
Sentiment Stamp - Lili of the Valley - Simply Sophisticated

We have a lovely prize for our lucky winner



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So I hope to see all your lovely makes, and don't forget to drop in on the other DT girls, they're made some really stunning designs.

It's been a long time since I entered any challenges, so I thought I'd like to enter a few with this card.

Crafting for all seasons - Girly Girls
Simon Says Stamp - Special Lady/Girly
In the Pink - For a Special Lady
Southern Girls Challenge - Get your Girly On

This card is for sale on my

 

store.

Well that's all from me for today, I'm off to make another card, I'll see you here again tomorrow.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Anything Goes with a Spring Feel at Saturated Camary

Oh my goodness I am running late with all my posts this week, really looking forward to the weekend and resting up, hopefully clearing my chest a little. I hope you are all keeping well and I'm giving big waves to all my new followers, I hope you will stay with me on my crafting journey and find some inspiration along the way :)

Righto then, on to the reason I'm here today and it's as GDT for Saturated Canary, we ave a new image showcase challenge over on the Saturated Canary Facebook page and this time it's

Anything Goes with a hint of spring!.

You can make any creation you like be it card, scrap page, an altered something, smash book/journal page etc...just let your creativity go!

The prize, as always, will be 2 digital images of your choice from the shop and the rules are super simple too..

* you can enter ONLY ONCE. 

( this makes it fair for everyone )

* you can enter with any NEW and FINISHED creation but...IT MUST BE HANDCRAFTED. 

(digital colouring of Krista's images is not permitted in accordance to TOU's)

I have been positively itching to use this image ever since I bought it, just love that hair! I decided my hint of spring (well a bit more than a hint lol) would be the colours used, though I did also add a spring sentiment and well spring is all about the flowers right?

Now for me whenever I think of spring I think of daffodils and crocuses, so I went with yellow and lilac and pink.

I apologise for the lack of links, posting this reeeeeeally quickly before dashing off to work, so I will add all the links and colours used when I get back from work this evening in about 11 hours. For now you have the pics, hope you enjoy them :)

This is Color Me Wonderful and I coloured her with distress ink markers and Spectrum Aquatints (I'll add the colours used this evening) I just loooooved colouring that hair!

She's so beautiful and the papers are so pretty, (these are Bo Bunny) that she didn't need a lot of embellishments. Just some seam binding, lace, a few flowers and gems and to top it off some simple punched butterflies.

I do hope you like her.  Don't forget to drop in on the blog to see all the other SC team's make, but cover your keyboard because you will be drooling over all the gorgeousness! If you have FB, why not join in with our challenge!

I'll be back this evening quickly to edit my post for colours and links. Have a great Friday! :) xx

Feeling Groovy

Well my most of my first day off work has just flown by! But I've been busy after my little lay in to catch up on some much needed sleep.

I've been working on this card for a while now, she was going to be for a DT commission, but then I realised I'd completely messed up because it needed to use a rubber stamp and this was a digi, so then I had to super rush stuff to get it finished in time.....but that's a whole other story.

Anyway, I had this Saturated Canary image all coloured up and had even chosen papers, since I like to colour to match paper normally. But looking through my upcoming work, I have nothing she really fits, so I've been working on her slowly, 30 mins here, 15 there, and this morning with a bit of spare time on my hands I finished her off.

I thought that as the image is called Hipster, I'd go ahead and theme the entire card, so I chose very 70's looking papers and colours, and also decided to add the word 'groovy' to the card. I made the little scrabble type tiles from the 'windows' of the lovely view die. The lovely view die? Well viewmasters were a very 70's toy ;) 

I coloured her with a mix of Distress Ink and Spectrum Aquatint markers.

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Spun Sugar

Hair:  Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, (Blossom & Rose Pink SP AQ).

Outfit: Antique Linen, Picked Raspberry,Spun Sugar, (Marigold, Jasmine & Rose Pink SP AQ)

I finished off with some psychedelic swirls and some lovely goodies from The Ribbon Girl.

I kept the inside quite simple as there was so much going on at the front!

Items Used:

Hipster

Bazzil - Miss Teagen Sue

Lovely View Die

Prima Mini Swirls - Rosarian

Memory Box - Alphabet Soup

Ophelia Lace

Deep Rose Velvet Ric Rac

Peach Seam Binding 

Deep Pink Cosmos Daisy

All the rest from stash (also known as I can't remember exactly where I got them from and don't have links :P )

That's all from me today, my daughter is coming to visit tomorrow for a few days, but I will try my best to get round some blogs befor then. Enjoy the rest of your day, and as our little Hipster would say 'don't let the man grind you down!'.  Oh and apologies if you have the Simon and Garfunkel song rattling around in your head all evening now! :) xx

Steampunk Valentine

Hi everyone, big hugs to all my followers new and old and a big thank you for all the lovely comments you've been leaving for me recently, I really love to read them and totally appreciate every one of them :)

Unusually for me today I'm not here as part of any challenge or DT....well I suppose it's kind of as GDT for Saturated Canary, but this post was not required, or for anything special other than that I totally fell in LOVE with this image when I saw it, and couldn't wait to make something with it!

Well of course I had to wait a bit, because you know ...life...I work full time with quite a long journey to and from work, and then there are DT commitments etc, not to mention chores and squeezing in family and a social life lol!  I did manage to get it coloured up last week and shared it in the Saturated Canary Facebook Group, but I've been itching to make something with it since then.

Now I have a thing for Steampunk, though I don't often get to indulge, but this was really pretty too, so I didn't want to go too far down the dark and utilitarian Steampunk path, so I decided to make a Steampunk Valentine card.

I love the way this turned out.

The colouring is done with Distress Ink markers.

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Aged Mahogany

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Outfit: Victorian Velvet, Frayed Burlap, Gathered Twigs, Pumice Stone, Antique Linen.

The beautiful papers are Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics, they're edged with DI and hand stitched.

I used the Steampunk Clock and Heart Cogs from La-La Land  Crafts and some other cogs cut with a Cheery Lynn die set. They've been edged with Vintage Photo DI. I added a little lace and seam binding and a brass coloured key. The little screws are brads and are by Tim Holtz.

Finally I decorated the inside with complementary paper and some steampunk vehicle stamps.

There you go....not a flower in sight!....well only on the patterned paper.

Sadly this stamp is not yet available, it's going to be used for a project kit over at Kit and Clowder, so I was very lucky to get to play with it early :)

Items used

Maja Design Papers

Steampunk Clock

Heart Cogs

Cheery Lynn Gears

Clementine Lace

Seam Binding Oloroso

Cream Top Stitch Thread

Pink Top Stitch Thread
8mm Flat Back Ivory Pearls
6mm Ivory Flat Back Pearl Trim

That's all from me, but I'll be back on Friday with more to share, see you then! :) xx

Hand me Downs

Happy Friday to all my lovely followers and visitors. I have another share for you as GDT for Saturated Canary....sooooo exciting!!

Today the Saturated Canaries are starting our next image showcase challenge over on our Saturated Canary Facebook page.

And its a super duper one this time! we just want to see where your creativity takes you so its...

Anything Goes.

You can make any creation you like be it card, scrap page, an altered something, smash book/journal page etc...just let your creativity go!

The prize, as always, will be 2 digital images of your choice from the shop and the rules are super simple too..

* you can enter ONLY ONCE. 

( this makes it fair for everyone )

* you can enter with any FINISHED creation but...IT MUST BE HANDCRAFTED. 

(digital colouring of Krista's images is not permitted in accordance to TOU's)

Krista has some gorgeous new digi stamps available in the shop here and I would have loved to have used one, but this week has been super busy and I just didn't get quite enough time, this image was already partly coloured and I'd chosen her to go with these lovely Pion Papers from the new Paris Flea Market collection that I won recently but you can buy them here.  I thought she went just perfectly!

This is HandmeDowns  isn't she pretty? I just love her. I've coloured her in Distress Inks

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Worn Lipstick

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

Clothing: Pumice Stone, Broken China, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Mowed Grass.

Floor: Walnut Stain

I popped a little cheese cloth behind my layers to soften the edges and I added a couple of bits from the cut out sheet. I edged all my layers with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, but I didn't sew all my layers for once as I needed to be quick and hand sewing takes a long time, but I did sew around my image to frame her, with top stitch thread in blue.

I added some lace, ribbon, buttons and flowers for my embellishments, most of these can be found at The Ribbon Girl.

Finally I decorated the inside simply to complement the front.

That's all from me today, but I'll be back on Sunday with my post for Totally Tilda & Friends.

Have a great Friday! :) xx