Wee Stamps - Emily

Hi everyone! I'm always happy when Friday rolls around because that means just one more day at work and then the weekend and extra time to craft, plus we have been having some glorious weather this week in the UK.
 I have some plans in my head already for what I want to make this weekend and it's a shabby chic make or two I have in mind.

In the meantime, I'm sharing my latest Whimsy Stamps make, this time using an older stamp from the Wee Stamps collection called Emily. I just love this stamp and I thought she was the absolute perfect match for this paper I had in my stash.

Colouring is done with Distress Inks.

Embellishments are as always from The Ribbon Girl and I've listed them below for you with links that will take you straight to the item in the shop.

25 mm  Dusky Pink Satin Ribbon
16 mm Dark Brown Grosgrain Ribbon
Cheesecloth
Pale Pink Wild Rose
20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose
Baby Pink Sweetheart Blossom
Pearl 10 mm Ivory Flower Trim
12 mm Pearl Ivory Flower Shape Flatbacks

I thought the lace was also from The Ribbon Girl, but I can't find it in the shop, so I may have had it in my stash for some time!! They do have some similar ones here though. The little heart on the bow was recycled from a birthday card my daughter bought me :)


That's all for today, enjoy your Friday! 

Wee Stamps - Jenny

Hi everyone! Are you feeling festive yet?!  I'm really starting to get in the Christmas spirit now as the days count down, and not so much to do to finish.

I have another Christmas/Winter card to share with you all today, but before I do I would just like to say a huge thank you to all of my followers for visiting my blog this year. I would especially like to thank those of you that leave me wonderful comments. I know I am not as good as I should be at commenting back (although I do always pop in on your lovely creations), time is not always my friend, and much as I would love to leave comments on everyone's blog all the time, my full time job means that it's hard to balance all the things I do with my limited spare time. Aside from the normal day to day necessities and chores, I try and divide my time between  friends and family, crafting, blogging and Facebook, and there just isn't enough time to go around! It's for that reason that I often offer candy on my blog (there's some still available till Christmas Eve if you haven't already entered), by way of a thank you.

Now onto my inspiration for today, I have made another Christmas/Winter themed card using one of the gorgeous new digis from Wee Stamps. I just love Sylvia Zet's sweet style.
You can find her and others here.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers to match these Maja Design papers.
Colours used:
Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Frayed Burlap, Hickory Smoke, Stormy Sky.
I kept the style of the card fairly simple (well for me!).
I cut her out with a Die-namics postage stamp die and added some snowflakes cut with La-La Land Crafts Small Snowflakes dies and La-La Land Heart Snowflake dies. The paper and dies are available from Dies to Die for

I added some Frantage in Aged Teal around the image to give it a snowy look that matched my colour scheme. I also added lashings of Glamour Dust to all the 'furry' parts of her outfit for some sparkle.

I added some embellishments from The Ribbon Girl (linked below) and my stash.

I decorated the inside fairly simply, with more Maja Design paper and a place to write a message.

Products from The Ribbon Girl

25 mm Sky Blue Satin Ribbon

32 mm Victoria Antique White Fine Cluny Lace

10 mm Mocha Open Rose

20 mm Dusky Blue Open Rose

Pastel Mixed Pretty Blooms

3 - 6 mm Ivory Pearl S/A Pearls

I'm entering this card into the following challenge:

The Shabby Tea Room - Winter Wonderland

* (Update from 5th Jan 2016)


That's all from me today, this is a scheduled post because I'm still at work today and tomorrow (boo!), but then I'm off for 4 days (yay!).

Have fun! :) xx

Wee Stamps - Lullaby

Hi everyone, sorry I've been absent for a few days, it's all been very hectic in my life lately, work has just been super busy and I'm been shattered on returning home at the end of the day. Luckily that should ease up a little as we get to the end of next week and I'll have time to catch my breath.

I've had this card made for a little while, I just haven't had a chance to blog it, so I'm sharing it with you today as my Ribbon Girl post.

This is a digital stamp from Sylvia Zet of Wee stamps, you can purchase Sylvia's digital art here. Or if you prefer stamping by hand Whimsy produces this stamp in rubber and you can buy it here.

Isn't she divine?  I decided to use these gorgeous papers from Kaisercraft . They're from a 6.5 x 6.5 pad called  Silver Bells.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers and wanted to keep the colours very light and delicate, in keeping with the image and papers.

I used lashings of Glamour Dust on her wings for sparkle and for the snow I used liquid applique and dusted it with Twinklets Glitter before heating to puff up.

This fabulous glittery ribbon made the perfect accent, tied in a double bow.

The little Snowflakes are cut with a set of dies from Le-La Land Crafts and I accented each one with a pink gem.

I finished off with some pretty flowers and decorated the inside simply with more paper from the same pad.

Ribbon Girl Products Used

38 mm White/Silver Glitter Organza Ribbon

55 mm Monique White Guipure Lace

Ivory White Magnolia Flower

Chrysanth White Kurt & Godt

30 mm Ivory Wild Rose

10 mm Ivory Open Rose
Hip Rose Bud Pink Two Tone

3-5 mm Mixed Gems Fuschia

That's all from me today, I have a few cards that I need to share, so hopefully I will get some time to share those in the coming days. Before you go don't forget to check out the Blog Candy I'm giving away here if you haven't already!

Big hugs :) xx

Sympathy Bugs - Wee Stamps

Good morning (oops no it's afternoon here now, how did that happen?!), folks!  It's the weekend and I have no visitors or other demands on my time this weekend (other than the normal regular chores), so I have plenty of time to craft, yay! :)

I have a card to share with you today and I must firstly apologise for the photos, I had to make this card super quick and get it sent out and I didn't really have time to do more than take a few shots before packing and sending and when I've looked the pics I had were not brilliant but the card has been sent and no time to take more sadly.

I made this card for a colleague at work who recently lost her Mum.  It was after a long illness and her passing was a relief to her family (and herself as she was tired and wanted to go) who didn't want her to suffer, so I didn't want to go with a traditional sympathy card and rather made something just to let her know she was in my thoughts.

I thought that this image from Wee Stamps by the talented Sylvia Zet, was perfect for this.  It's called Sympathy Bugs and this is a digi but you can also get it in rubber if you prefer.

I coloured it up very quickly with my Copics so you'll have to forgive any  little mistakes you spot lol.

The paper is from Maja Designs, Summer Basics from the 6 x 6 Pad.  I got this one from Dies to Die For, they also see the rubber version of this stamp and the stamp set and die that I used for the sentiment.  I love these sentiment sets that you can buy a matching die for, from Whimsy Stamps, they have such a great selection I'm starting to collect some, I have a whole wish list lol.  The shape of the card is cut with a Frilly Frames no #7 from Go Kreate. The colours on this photo are really not great, but I really couldn't improve it in editing more than this sadly and no chance to take alternative photos now so it will just have to do.

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts as usual.

The button and twine are from The Ribbon Girl, and everything else is from stash.

I hope you enjoyed my share today, I'm off to get some more crafting done, I'm hoping to do a Blue Peter job (here's one I made earlier) on some of my upcoming DT cards, but hopefully I'll also have something else to share with you tomorrow.

Next Friday (8th) is my first DT post for A Creative Romance (and yes I have this card already made and photographed ready to go lol), soo exciting, so look out for that in addition to my regular Crafty Catz DT card, and the following week I'll be showcasing my special GDT card for a certain birthday celebration, but I won't let all the surprise out so you'll have to swing by on the 11th  to check it out!!

Well that's all from me for today, I'mm off for a little visit and comment catch up in blogland and Facebook before I continue crafting.  

Whatever you plan to do this weekend, make sure you have fun doing it.

See you soon :) xx

Entered for the following Challenges:

Whimsy Stamps - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps - Colour Palette

Wee Stamps Summer Fairy

Good evening (or morning, depending on when you read this and indeed, what part of the globe you're from I guess).  I should have blogged this card earlier today, in fact it was made and ready to go but then we had a visitor and I needed to go out to get a guillotine, as I'm fed up of buying blades for my trimmer.  I even bought titanium ones last  time and they seemed to last no longer to be honest. Anyway, finally I got round to taking pics and just finding time to blog it before bed. 

I didn't make this for any particular reason other than that I loved the image and fancied trying something a little different. I had an idea I wanted to try out, I'd seen a card in monochrome with a touch of blue here and there a while back, and loved the kind of frosty look of it.  I thought it might be fun to do a similar thing but with pink, like something gradually warming up and coming to life.  Here's what I made.

I used my favourite Maja Design papers collection, Crea Diem, love love love these papers.  Well I love all the Maja papers to be fair, but these most of all, these come from Dies to Die For.  All the papers and card have been edged with Pumice Stone DI and stitched with white top stitch thread. I don't think the camera really does this card justice (or maybe it's just the photographer :P), the effect is very subtle and doesn't really capture on film as it does in RL. 

The image is drawn by the talented and sweet Sylvia Zet.  This digi from Wee Stamps is called Summer Fairy.  Isn't she gorgeous.  I think she looks a bit like a statue coming to life coloured like this, love her.

She's coloured in Copics, I used a selection of  Warm Greys and RV91.  I accented her wings with a little glamour dust.

I used a Memory Box frame, a Joy Crafts Butterfly Border split into 2 parts and a Magnolia Doohicky tag.  The card was shaped with dies from Go Kreate.

Flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts, the seam binding and narrow white lace (which I realise I have ONCE AGAIN, covered almost completely, what am I like) are from The Ribbon Girl, everything else is from stash.

I rather like the effect, I hope you do too and that it inspires you to try something a little different.

This card can be bought from my Etsy store, see link at Top left of page.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create #42 (Image, patterned paper, shaped, die cut, liquid pearls, bling, flowers, stitching)

Alphabet Challenge R is for Roses

7 Kids Anything Goes with a twist of marker

Live & Love Crafts #16 Use Pink

Stampin' for the Weekend Anything Goes

I've had quite a productive weekend as I've finished a GDT project as well as this make and almost completed this weeks CC DT project, so now I'm off to catch some zzzs. work in the morning.

See you again soon, until then, take care :) xx 

Flower Fairy DT Card for Crafty Catz

Woop woop it's Friiiiday again and I'm seriously glad for it, this week has been hectic and I'm looking forward to my weekend.  But Friday also means a new challenge at Crafty Catz.

This week our theme is anything goes, super easy right? :D  We're sponsored by Bugaboo who have a great prize for our lucky winner and I've used one of their digi images in my card this week.

I've manipulated the digi to form the sentiment for my card, this is one of the things I love about digital stamps, that you can resize and adjust them to suit your project.  I made this the right size and also removed the square frame that was around the original image as I wanted it shaped to match my card.

I combined the Bugaboo digi with a Wee Stamps one, this is Flower Fairies, there's 2 in the set, I was going to use the 2nd one on the inside of my card but I'm afraid I ran out of time...did I say I'd had a crazily busy week?

I coloured her up with my Copics and added some glamour dust for sparkle.  I added a little colour and sparkle to the Bugaboo digi too.

I distressed, inked and stitched all my papers these are Bildmarlarna - Welcome Lovely World simply gorgeous, I must get more, these were from Dies to Die For.  I added flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and some pearls, pearl string, cheescloth, ribbon and crystal spray.  I also added a little fairy charm from my stash.

The papers were so beautiful I decided just to use them to decorate the inside of the card without any added embellishment, the paper is light enough to write on clearly.

Well that's my card today, blogged very quickly as I don't have a lot of time to get this done and scheduled, but hopefully I'll have more time at the weekend.  Time allowing I'm having a big tidy up and clear out so I may have some candy this weekend albeit most of it will be pre-loved :)  

Do pop along to the blog and give the other DT girls some love, they've made some super cards this week oh and join in with the challenge...it's Anything Goes, so no excuses!! :) xx

I'm entering the following challenges:

Inky Chicks Use 2 different die cuts

Papertake Weekly Anything Goes

Check out my Giveaway here