Snow White

Hello!

It's been a couple of weeks since I made a card with a coloured image, and even loooooonger since I had a play with a Saturated Canary image, what's more I had NEVER inked this stamp Snow White up. So I thought it was high time I rectified all that and coloured her up with my distress ink markers to match these bright and happy papers from Kaiserkraft.

The ribbon, lace, apples, rose and blossoms are from The Ribbon Girl and all the rest is from my stash.

I'm afraid I didn't note all the colours I used but the skin and hair were Vintage Photo, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot and the clothing was Candied Apple and Cracked Pistachio, Pumice Stone and Crushed Olive.

Thanks for dropping by and I'll see you soon.

Saturated Canary Breeze in Blue

Hello there!

It's time for a new challenge theme over at Deep Ocean Challenge, and it's super easy this time as it's 'Anything Goes'

So I'm going to make a confession here, and I'm wondering if any others of you also do this.

Sometimes I stamp or print up a bunch of images with the intention of colouring them all up ahead of time ready to go on cards as and when needed. All well and good and fabulously organised you may think..........well think again, because what actually happens is I start colouring them and part colour them and then I get busy and work on other stuff that I need to do 'right now' and of course my poor partly coloured images languish, neglected and unused. So I'm trying to work my way through these before I stamp or print anymore.

Today is the turn of Breeze and I have to say that of all the stamps and digis I own, this is probably the one I've coloured the most, except maybe for Tiddly Inks 'You and Me'.

I thought I'd reprise a design I used for her before, but using a different Pion Collection in a different colourway, I've changed up a few other details as well such as card shape etc, but in essence it's the same basic design.

This is how it turned out

I used the following items on my card.

Saturated Canary - Breeze Rubber Stamp
Pion Design Paper - Paris Flea Market
Cheesecloth
Ivory Gathered Tulle Trim
Blue Vintage Seam Binding
Pearl and Diamante Embellishment
Ivory Magnolia Flower
Blue 30 mm Wild Roses
Dusky Blue 20 mm Open Roses
Dusky Blue 10 mm Open Roses
Blue Sweetheart Blossom
Antique Blue 2 Tone Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom White
Hip Rose Bud Cream

this was the original card.

I have to say straight up that I prefer the original card, ....everything actually from the colouring, to the warmer colours, the papers etc, and honestly I had a lot more time to spend on the original card and that definitely shows. But at least I've used up one of those abandoned images!

I do hope you can join in with our challenge and don't forget to check out the rest of the team's gorgeous makes here.

See you soon!

Little Christmas Angel

It's definitely a week for Christmas cards, I'm still working my way through them, so you'll probably see a lot of Christmas themed cards from me over the next few weeks.

This one is my DT card for the new challenge over at Deep Ocean and this time we have a Bingo grid for you to follow. I've shared the grid at the end of this post. You have rather a lot of choice here, you can do one line, straight or diagnol, or a full house and just to give you even more choice, you can choose to do a line of colours rather then using the elements.

I used a diagonal line of elements encompassing lace, flowers and pearl, I did also squeeze in die-cuts a sentiment and a charm so I did 2 straight lines also.

I used some lovely Christmas papers from Lemoncraft and coloured up a digi stamp from Saturated Canary that I've had for a while and not found the time to colour up before. I think she's called Little Angel. I've coloured her in distress inks and listed the colours below:

Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Worn Lipstick, Pine Needles, Walnut Stain, Pumice Stone, Festive Berries, Fired Brick, Wild Honey, Gathered Twigs

The sentiment is from a set from Mama Elephant.

Our lovely sponsors are Live and Love Crafts and The Ribbon Girl and you could win the following prizes

I've used the following products from The Ribbon Girl on my card:

Cheesecloth

Ophelia Embroidered Tulle Lace

25 mm Red/Cream Rustic Gingham Ribbon

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

Ivory 30 mm Wild Roses

14 mm Flat Back Pearls

11 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

I've popped the grid blow for you so you can see the choices on offer and hope that you can join in with our challenge.

If you haven't done so already, don't forget to enter my 500 follower giveaway here!

Happy crafting!

Beach Happy - Notebook

Morning all! I have a little notebook to share with you today. Remember me mentioning that I bought a Cinch? Well this is my first make with it. This was originally supposed to be for the Deep Ocean Seaside/Beach Challenge a couple of weeks  back, but I had a couple of weeks where everything just went horribly wrong and my crafting was somewhat curtailed.

But better late than never right?

 I coloured up an older Saturated Canary digi that I've had for a long time called Cali Girl. I gave her a little yellow polka dot bikini and made the pages inside the notebook yellow too to match.

Colours from memory are I think:
Vintage Photo. Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Rasberry

The papers are various scraps of mostly older Maja design ones, and I made a little scene with some dies. I tried to keep stuff fairly flat as this was a notebook, and just finished off with a few enamel dots and a couple of Make it Crafty's fabulous chipboard words.  I inked the bottom and top pieces of chipboard in 2 different colour pink inks. The top one has a shimmery sheen to it.

I love how simple the Cinch made this to do and I will definitely be making some more in the future!

Bye for now,

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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Monday Blog Candy Week 2

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good weekend. I spent a lot of mine crafting as the OH was working nights

I'll be posting last week's winner this evening when I get in from work, so look out for that.

So this week I have a stamp from LDRS - Saturated Canary called Ducky. Brand new and in the original packaging.

If you would like to own this stamp, please leave a comment below. You do need to be a follower or become one. You don't need to do anything else, though I would, of course,  be very grateful if you shared the news with others.

I'll draw a winner next Monday when I post next week's stamp, and post the winner that evening.

Good luck! 

Emma

Hello lovelies!  I hope you're all doing well.  I'm back from holiday now, but I think my mojo must still be in holiday mode, I'm finding it hard to apply myself to the things I should be doing.
 I've got several makes in various stages of completion lol. So to try and get myself back in the mood I thought I'd revisit an older stamp in my collection that's fun and quick to colour. Would you believe that the whole card took me less than 3 hours from start to finish? That's super quick for me!

I really need to start working my way through my stamps and digis as there are some that I've yet to ink up and some that deserve a re-visit, now if I could just find a large bottle of time!

Anyhoo, enough waffling and on with the card!

The image I used is Emma from Saturated Canary and I coloured her with my distress inks.  

Vintage Photo, Ground Expresso, Gathered Twigs (just for the eyes), Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Cracked Pistachio.

I coloured the oval diamante to match with one of my Copics, see they're still useful even if I don't colour with them much now.

The paper is from the Field of Lilies 12 x 12 paper stack from Galeria Papieru, it's so fresh and pretty.

A little close up shot just to show the subtle sparkle on her dress.

I used the following Ribbon Girl products

Paper - Field of Lilies

15 mm Mint Green Satin Ribbon
25 mm Dusky Pink Satin Ribbon

65 mm Louise White Guipure Lace

40 mm White Daisy

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Pink Sweetheart Blossom

White Sweetheart Blossom

Starburst Stamen Pink

Starburst Stamen White

Oval Clear Diamante Embellishment

5 mm Clear Crystals

I'm entering the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - G is for Girlie
Crafting with Friends #22
Crafting with an Attitude #16
Crafty Girls Creations #20
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #139
StarStampz - Hand Coloured Image

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop. Just click on the icon below to go to the shop.




That's all from me, enjoy the rest of your day!

Saturated Canary - Singer

Hi Everyone, hope your week is going well.

I'm sharing a card with you today that I made as a commission for a friend at work, for her daughter's 13th birthday. She loves to sing and recently took part in the school musical, so I thought this theme worked pretty well.

I decided to make the card an easel card and I have to say I LOVE how it turned out.

The image is from Saturated Canary, you can buy her from the shop here but make sure you are quick as it's closing in August.

The front of the card when closed.

The card opened up.

Some close up shots.

Ribbon Girl Embellishments

Clementine Lace
Ivory White Magnolia Flower
Red Poppy Flowers
Hip Rosebuds Cream
20 mm Ivory Open Roses

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenge #199
Allsorts Challenge #364
Bunny Zoe Crafts - Lots of Layers
Crafting from the Heart # 113
Craft your Passion # 313

Well that's all from me today, see you again soon!

Saturated Canary - Turtle Love

Hello lovely crafters! It's time once more for a new challenge over at Deep Ocean Challenge and this time our theme is

Shabby Chic

Oooooh don't I love this one! :)

I've been making quite a few in this theme recently, but I thought I would share this pretty girl from Saturated Canary called Turtle Love.

Krista will be closing her shop in August, so if you want to own them, you need to snap up these digis soon.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers and used a slightly older Pion collection called 

A Day in May

which it is isn't it? 

Lots of layers, cheesecloth and gesso here.

Products used from The Ribbon Girl

Ophelia Lace

Cheesecloth

15 mm Brown/Cream Rustic Gingham Ribbon

16 mm Khaki Grosgrain Ribbon

20 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

20 mm Ivory Open Roses

Pink Sweetheart Blossom

Ivory Pretty Blooms

6 mm Pearl Ivory Trim

11 mm Ivory F/B Pearls

8 mm Ivory F/B Pearls

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop, just click on the icon below to go there



I'm entering the following challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft #20
Animal Friends Challenge #38
Classic Design Team Open Challenge #02

That's all from me, but don't forget to check out the rest of the team's shabbylicious makes.

Until next time!

Distress Ink Colouring Tutorial 5 - Adding Detail to Hair

Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend, and for Mother's in the UK, I hope you had a great Mother's Day.

Today I'm bringing you part 5 of my Distress Ink Colouring Tutorials and this one is about adding detail, texture and definition to hair, using the pen nib end of the distress ink marker.

This is a completely optional step, but one that I often do.

So after we add the detailing your image should look something like this
(apologies for the poor quality of the picture, I didn't have time to take one before scheduling this post, so I just lifted one from the video. I'll add a better quality photo tonight when I get in from work)

 The video will take you through it step by step, or you can visit the YouTube video directly, by clicking on the link here.

I hope you find this video helpful, I have more video tutorials to share with you in the following weeks, including colouring black hair on Canson Montval paper, colouring clothing, and how I make one of my cards (including a speed clolouring of the image), from start to finish.

I also plan on making videos on colouring curly hair, animals and backgrounds.

Thanks for taking the time to visit me today and if you don't already follow me I would love it if you would do so and not miss any of my posts.

See you soon! :) xx

Distress Ink Tutorial 4 - Hair Basics - Blonde/Langton Paper

Hello everyone! Well I finally managed to finish editing my tutorial for colouring hair with distress inks. Sorry it's taken me so long, it's been a bit of a learning curve learning to use the YouTube video editor, but I've learned a lot and recently downloaded a trial version of  some video editing software so that I can edit first before uploading which should mean a faster upload time and quicker viewing.

For this video I'm showing you how I colour blonde hair and add shadows and some depth. In my next tutorials I'll be showing black hair on Canson Montval paper, and also how I add extra definition and texture to both the blonde and black hair, and yes don't worry I will be covering how I colour clothing as well, I won't leave her unfinished.

The image I'm colouring here is May, from Saturated Canary. You can find her in Krista's shop but I warn you you'll be tempted by many others just saying !

My video can be watched below or you can watch it on my YouTube channel here

Hope you like it and find it helpful!

You can find the first 3 videos in the series by following the links below

Tutorial 3 - Skin

Tutorial 2 - Prepping your Image

Tutorial 1 - Materials & Equipment

See you soon! :) xx

Baker - Kitchen Gift Set for Noor! Design UK

Hi everyone! Well I'm back to work this week and playing catch up. Last week was lovely celebrating my birthday and spending time with my daughter, but I never got to spend much of that crafty time that I'd planned.

I was really quite late finishing this gift set, it should have been posted last Thursday, but I certainly did not make things easy for myself as this was quite a bit of work. I really did enjoy making it though.

As soon as I saw this MDF Apron from Dutch Doobadoo I knew I wanted to make something with it for my friend who is quite the keen baker. I had the idea to make a recipe box and I also wanted to make a little chalk board for her kitchen.

I covered the edges of the apron in gesso before decorating with paper. I cut a little pocket with an oval die and popped a few pieces from the Kraft Art Kitchenware inside. These are so cute, and perfect for any kitchen or cooking theme. The kraft gives them a lovely vintage look, which I accentuated further on my card by covering them with Crackle Glaze.

To make the chalk board I covered one of the apron's with some black gesso. You can use this like chalkboard paint, you just need to use a damp cloth to erase your chalking. I made a little gift bag to match my set also.

The image on the card is a digi from Saturated Canary called Baker, and I coloured her with my distress ink markers. I love the way she turned out.

MDF Art Apron

Craft Art A5  Kitchenware

White Gesso

Crackle Glaze

Black Gesso

Cutting and Embossing Edge Dies

Cheesecloth

Joycraft Artificial Flowers - White & Cream

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Retro Twist Starburst Spray

Craft Art A5 Leaves 2

Box Art A4 Little Gift Bag

Pearl Pen

I also added the following embellishments from The Ribbon Girl

25 mm Red/Cream Rustic Check Ribbon
10 mm Blue/Cream Square Check Ribbon
Windsor Blue Vintage Style Seam Binding
50 mm Ophelia Ivory Tulle Lace
Food Mixer Charm
Red Rolled Roses
Magnolia Flower
Sweetheart Blossom Red/White


That's all from me today, but I'll be back with you soon :) xx

My Valentine - Noor GDT

Happy Thursday everyone!  It's nearly the end of another busy week for me and one during which I've been fighting off a cold (it hasn't got me yet!) and it's been bitterly cold here too.

So it's lovely to get home in the warm and craft. 

Recently I was contacted by the uber talented Tracy of Crafteezee fame, (I'm sure you're familiar with her gorgeous work), to ask me if I'd do a guest spot on her Noor UK design team. Of course I said yes, so I've been having a play with some fabulous goodies.

I loved this paper pad, the colours in it are right up my street and I love the post marks, which I thought fitted in well with this Paper Art stamp. 

I had the perfect image to go with it too, this is My Valentine from Saturated Canary, this is included in the Buncha Digis set. With that envelope in her hand she was an easy choice to fit my theme.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers in tones that harmonised with my papers.

I cut my card and layers with these great edge dies (so many uses), inked all my edges and distressed my straight edges.

Love these butterfly dies which I teamed up with some Tim Holtz Pen Nibs, to continue my whole love letter theme.

I added some cheesecloth, pearls and flowers.

Finally I added lashings of Gesso and voila!

Walnut Stain Distress Marker

Forest Moss Distress Marker

Antique Linen Distress Marker

Vintage Photo Distress Marker

Wilted Violet Distress Marker

Milled Lavender Distress Marker

Worn Lipstick Distress Marker

Tim Holtz Pen Nibs

DecoArt White Gesso 

0037-With Love Paper Pad

0479-Cutting & Embossing Edge Dies (4pcs)

Butterfly Die (2pcs) 6002/0390

Kraft Art A5 Leaves

036-Paper Art A5 Valentine

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That's all from me today, take care and I'll see you again soon! :) xx