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Showing posts with label Spellbinders. Show all posts
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Friday, 6 June 2014

Rosie with Cake for ACR's 1st Birthday

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Wheeee! It's Friday! Thank goodness for that I say, having 3 days off is lovely till you return to work and your in box looks like you've been off for a month! It's been a busy 4 days for me.  Luckily, I'd already made this card a few weeks ago when I was having my first play with Inktense pencils and a LotV stamp after my visit there for their birthday bash, and how very appropriate it is because it is A Creative Romance's first birthday, yay!

To celebrate some of the Chic Crafters and Elegant Artisans are joining together to put on a Blog Hop for you.  If you've never joined in on a blog hop before, all you have to do is jump from blog to blog, and if you get lost, just pop back to the main blog here, to pick it up again.

The theme this time is Anything Goes, with the option of Happy Birthday if you want. I can't wait to see what you all make. 

Now since it's a special occasion the challenge will run for a whole month rather than our normal 2 weeks, AND we have 3 great prizes to give away. As always the prizes will be drawn at random from the challenge entries, but make sure you stop at each blog in the hop and leave a comment, as we also have some extra prizes hidden along the way, and who knows where they might be?!

I haven't been with the girls since the start of the challenge blog, but I've had the best time being here and I still can't really believe they chose little old me to be on one of their teams.

So anyhoo...on with my card. I made a birthday card and this actually went to a friend to give to her mum for her birthday. I've popped links to my items at the end of my post.


The image is Rosie with cake from LotV. The shape is cut with a Go Kreate die, I used a different shape for the second layer, and the frame is a Spellbinders oval.


I coloured her with my Inktense pencils and as this was my first try I wasn't noting colours, but I do know that I used Teal Green and Red Violet for the clothing. The gorgeous flowers are a mix from TRG, WOC, Prima and a gift from a friend. The sentiment is also from LotV as is the lush paper.


The ribbon is the last piece from my stash and the lovely bling is from the Handcrafted Card Company.

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If you've come here from Jenny's blog, you're going the right way and you need to visit Melly next.  If you're lost you can pick up the trail again back at ACR

Well I do hope you enjoy hopping with us and I'll see you back here on Sunday for my Totally Tilda DT make.

Happy hopping! : ) X X

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Stamp :Lili of the Valley Rosie with Cake
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Mimosa - Summer Wind at Dies to Die for

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Happy Tuesday everyone!  Are you almost ready for Easter? I'm really not lol, I have so much still to do, but at least I'm up to date with all my DT work.  Anyhoo....on to the reason I'm here, which is of course my regular inspiration post for Dies to Die for.  This week I've used one of the sweet little Mimosa stamps from Bildlamarna, and normally I colour up these cuties with my Distress Inks, but I thought for  change I'd use my copics.  I rather like the way she turned out. Links to products used are as always at the end of my post.


Colours used

Skin: E11, 00, 000, 0000, R20, 11
Hair: E00, 11, 13, 15, 18
Clothes: RV000, 91, 93, 95, B000, 00, C2, E50, 51, 53
Basket and flowers: B000, 00, RV91, 93, 95, E41, 42, 44


I used these gorgeous papers from Pion, and I believe that they've now been discontinued, so best snap them up from Tracy while you still can...I must admit I'm very sad that I won't be able to get this range in the future as it's one of my favourites.  I do hope they plan on replacing it with something similar, because while the A Day in May range is drop dead gorgeous, it doesn't have the range of colours that this collection has.  Luckily for me I still have various sheets in my stash. I inked the edges and then sewed them with top stitch thread.


I used some lovely La-La Land and Die-namics die cuts and this rather lush Prima flower, though I was rather mean to it an pulled out the centre and replaced it with one of my rolled rose ones. I finished off with this fab sentiment from Whimsy, cut with a matching die, a little stamp cut from the element sheet to match the papers used, a couple of stick pins and some liquid pearls.

Well that's all from me for today and I get a bit of a break to get ahead with my crafting, and enjoy my holiday, as it's almost a week till I'll be back with my GDT inspiration for La-La Land crafts, and don't miss it because it's all about the new release and OH MY the new stuff is just soooooooo cool!

Enjoy your Easter everyone! : ) x x




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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Coco, Wonderful Wednesday for Kraftin' Kimmie

Good afternoon everyone. I'm still on my hols at the mo so posting this live today. It's Wednesday and  I'm sharing my GDT card for Kimmie's Wonderful Wednesday challenge.  These are always Anything Goes challenges,  your submission must use at least one Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp but can be any theme, any style, any design and it can be a card, a scrapbook page, an altered item....you name it!! 
It must be a NEW creation and you can enter until Tuesday, April 1st when the winner for March will be announced!! What do you think.....wanna WIN??

**Please note that you are more than welcome to combine this Wonderful Wednesday Share to Win challenge with other challenges, BUT not our regular weekly challenges. This must be a new and different creation than anything you create for our Saturday challenges.

I decided to go with Coco Chocolate as I've been dying to use her and Tracy from Dies to Die for had sent me this delicious pack of paper full of reds pinks and chocolate browns, just perfect for this image I thought.
It's a simply fabulous pack, because not only do you get lots of strokeable double sided designs, you also get 2 pages of stickers! I've used some of the little word stickers to make my sentiment, but Coco does also come with it's own fabulous sentiment if you prefer to use a stamped one.  I've put links to the products I've used from the UK at the end of my post.


I coloured her with my Copics, I used E13, E11, E00, E000 for her skin, R81, R83, R85, R35, R37 and R59 for her outfit and so many different bown tones for her hair and the chocolates that I forgot to list them as I was working, mostly from the E20s and E50s, but also a couple from the E30s. For the white chocolate I used E50, E41 and E42.


The frame for the sentiment is a Tim Holtz book plate, I love using these but you do need a fairly solid card base to use them like this, as they're pretty heavy. The lovely pearl and diamante embellishment is from the Handcrafted Card Company, the pearl was cream, but I coloured it with my Copics to match.


I layered up some brown tulle (which I gathered by hand) which was a pressie from a friend, (thank you Susie!) with some pale pink lace, red satin ribbon and thin brown velvet ribbon, these were all leftovers from other cards that I've had in my stash for ages now. I had to use lots of glue and tape to hold all this lot down lol.


I finished the whole lot of with some die cut flourishes and some pearls and gems and then decorated the inside to complement the front, the picture isn't great I'm afraid, it was very hard to get the light in there when I took it.
Don't forget that Alyce from Kit & Clowder is doing a live colour along with Kraftin' Kimmie's Hannah Hearts this Saturday. Unfortunately Hannah appears to out of stock right now, but if you managed to snap her up we hope to see you at the live colour along...and wouldn't she look perfect on this card too?

Well that's all from me today, I'm off to my crafting corner to get as much as I can done today, it's back to work for me tomorrow *boo!* but then only 2 days till the weekend *yay!*.  I'll be back here on Saturday to share my last GDT card for Kraftin' Kimmie with you.
Until then, happy craftin' !! : ) x x





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Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Emma at Dies to Dies For

Happy Tuesday folks. I'm flying in by the seat of my pants today to share my inspirational make for Dies to Die for with you.  My goodness I've been busy lately, not only is it super busy at work (we've had a visit from the Deanery last week followed by a CQC visit next week, so everybody is very stress and hyper lol) but I'm been rushed off my feet with design work the last week.  Just be ready for an influx of stuff from me, because this week I should have 6 or possibly 7 makes to share with you....if I don't break down and hide under my desk LOL!

Anyway, here's the first of them, I hope you like her.


I used some beautiful papers from MME.  Links at the end of the post.


This is Emma from LDRS, as Saturated Canary drawn by the talented Krista Smith.


I tried not to over embellish as I didn't want to draw away from the beautiful delicate image.


Instead of a sentiment I used one of these wooden embellishments by Prima, I think this word says it all.

Well that's it from me today, I'll be back on Thursday with my Kraftin' Kimmie sneak peek.

Have fun! : ) xx






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