Tiddly Inks - Molly My Sweet

Hello!
It's time for our final challenge of the year over at The Ribbon Girl, and as usual it's Anything Goes with an Image.

I used the aptly named Molly My Sweet on my card. She certainly is super sweet and after all my CAS makes for Christmas recently it was really nice to let myself go in my more usual softly shabby style with this.

Molly is coloured with distress ink markers and I tried some different combos out and DID write them down, but I cannot for the life of me find what I've done with that list! If they turn up I'll add them to the post.

I used the cake from the Whimsy Stamps Sweetest Birthday Shaker Builder Die Set and stamped a little sentiment from the Mama Elephant Mini Messages set onto the bottom part which I thought worked really well. The top half I slathered with glamour dust for sprinkles.

I used the following embellishments from The Ribbon Girl

Peach Vintage Style Seam Binding 
Apricot Sheer Ribbon
Cheesecloth
Clementine Ivory Lace
Orange Frosted Berries
5 mm S/A Gems
3 mm S/A Gems

I do hope you can find time to join in with our final challenge of 2016,
there are some lovely prizes to be won.

First prize:  £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third Prize from Marianne Designs

Take care and I'll see you soon!

Tiddly Inks - Molly Shares

Happy Sunday! I hope you're all enjoying a good weekend.

I've been quite industrious and even got a couple of cards made, go me!

We have a new challenge over at The Ribbon Girl today and as usual for the 2nd challenge of the month it's an 

Anything Goes with an Image 

challenge.

I thought I'd have a break from Christmas cards for a bit before I'm sick of the sight of them, although I do have a couple left to share.

This is one of Tiddly Inks 'Mollys', I really do love this range of images from TI.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers, I'm actually going to have to replace a couple of markers soon, because they're running short of ink, but as I've had most of them for around 2 years or more now, I don't think that's too bad! This is in my favoured shabby chic style, with plently of softness from cheesecloth and gesso.

Anyway this little cutie is called Molly Shares. I tried a bit of a different hair colour this time, and used Ground Espresso. I've listed the colours used below.

Distress Colours:
Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso, Shaded Lilac, Pine Needles, Bundled Sage, Dusty Concord.

I've just realised that I forgot to add the shading to the rose on her headband when I did the ones in the pot!

I used the following items from The Ribbon Girl. I actually mostly used 12 x 12 papers, but the 6 x 6 versions would work equally well.

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics

Cheesecloth

Rose Leaves

Small White Lily

Hip Rose Bud Cream

Wavecrest Vintage seam Binding

Clementine Lace

10 mm Ivory Pearl Flower Trim

11 mm Ivory FB Pearls

8 mm Ivory FB Pearls

6 mm Ivory FB Pearls

I do hope you can join in with our challenge, you have the chance to win one of the following lovely prizes:

First prize:  £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third Prize from Marianne Designs

and don't forget to check out all the rest of the gorgeous makes from the rest of my fab teamates over on the blog!

Bye for now,

Wryn - Hopping By

I can't believe it's been a week since I posted, sorry I've been so quiet, I've had a lot going on lately and I've been trying to catch up also on some much needed sleep.

It's another CAS card from me today. This is my daughter's birthday card and I don't usually make her a CAS one, but as I wasn't seeing her on her actual birthday, this one had to go in the post so I wanted to keep it flat enough for an envelope.

I used some Kaisercraft papers from an old pad in my stash, the bottom sentiment is from the same pad, the top sentiment is from Amy R stamps and the enamel dots are from Whimsy Stamps.

I coloured Hopping By Wryn from Tiddly Inks with my distress ink markers in colours to match the papers.

Colours:

Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Crushed, Olive, Shabby Shutters, Carved Pumpkin, Fired Brick, Pine Needles, Lucky Clover, Hickory Smoke.

I sponged around the edges of the image with Pumpkin Seed distress ink.

That's it! Super simple but I think she looks effective, even though him indoors groaned and made faces at my punny sentiment.

That's all for today but I'll be back tomorrow with some Candy to share.

Bye for now!

Tiddly Inks - Molly Celebrates.

Morning!
Well I didn't make the Tiddly Inks DT this time around, but there were lots of fabulous entries that also didn't make the grade so I'm in good company lol, and I did make the top 10 which was nice to know. I'll apply next time providing commitments allow.
You can check out the final picks here.

Anyway, I'm still happy I rediscovered my love of these stamps and I'm sharing another Molly today. This is Molly Celebrates and I decided to go for a softer look with this since I've been using a lot of brighter colours recently. Oh and lilac hair because....well why not?!

I thought I would like to give her dress a pattern too, so I paper pieced it, I think the floral dress looks cute.

I used a Martha Stewart punch to cut my lady edges on the layers, and an MFT Stitched Rectangle die to cut out Molly. Papers are Maja, this collection is now unavailable and it's pretty much the last of my stash *sob*. The sentiment is one from a set I bought ages ago from Lili of the Valley.
Cheesecloth, ribbon, FB pearls, and the pearl & diamante embellishment on the bow are all from
The Ribbon Girl and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The stitching on the card is done by hand with some top stitch thread.

Right that's all from me, have to dash I have visitors coming, but I should have something to share with you tomorrow.

Have fun and I'll see you soon!

Forget me Not Wryn

Happy Sunday everyone, I do hope you're all having a great weekend.

It's time for the Ribbon Girl July 'Use any image' challenge -  you can do any type of project, cards, tags, bags, 3-d projects - anything you like, BUT YOU MUST use an image on your project.   This challenge will run until 9pm on Saturday 30th July  2016 

Another Tiddly Inks card from me today, yup I definitely feel a new addiction coming on lol.

This time I coloured up Forget me Not Wryn, and I admit that as soon as I read her name I knew which paper I wanted to use with her. Of course it had to be Lemoncraft's Forget me Not papers.

I'm really rather pleased with the way this turned out, though I'm not 100% satisfied with my colouring. My eyesight struggled a bit with those itty bitty flowers I must say.

Still overall I'm pleased with the result, and I hope you like it too.

I coloured Wryn with my Distress Ink markers
The edges of the paper are inked and distresed and the top layer hand stitched. I fussy cut Wryn out and popped her up with some foam tape, on top of an oval doily frame and tucked a couple of chipboard doily corners underneath, but not before sprinkling them with some frantage and heating.

I added some die cut leaves and some gorgeous flowers

Lemoncraft Forget-me-Not 6 x 6 Paper Pad

40 mm White Daisy

White Cherry Blossom

White Sweetheart Blossom

White Gathered Tulle Trim

10 mm Ivory Pearl FB Flower Trim

Scrapiniec Innocence Rounded Corner Set

I do hope you can join in with our challenge.

There will be 3 winners and we'll share their projects when we announce the winners:

First prize:  £10 voucher for LOTV

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third prize:  prize from Marianne Designs

Right that's all from me today, but I'll see you soon!

Tiddly Inks - Molly Floats

It's no good, I tried to hold out I really did, but I kept seeing all the lovely makes with various 'Mollys' from Tiddly Inks and I just couldn't resist.

Now of course I can tell I will end up like a 10 year old boy in the late 90s collecting Pokeman....gotta catch em all! lol

Anyway, this is the uber pretty and super cute Molly Floats.

I've coloured her with distress ink markers, and decided to give her black hair. I'm thinking all sorts of colours would look good with that hair though, I'm dying to give purple a whirl.

I coloured the rest of her to match some pretty papers in my stash, then I fussy cut her out and mounted her on some foam tape for depth.

Colours used, Vintage Photo, Abandoned Coral, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot, Wilted Violet, Broken China and Twisted Citron.

I kept the layout pretty simple, not too many layers, and accented with a rather fab chipboard balloon I had, which I inked up to tone in with my colour scheme, and gave a coat of Wink of Stella for some sparkle. Rather than add a flower arrangement as such I just went for 3 largish ones in the same colours as Molly's balloons. I couldn't resist adding that teeny tiny flower to her hair though.

Lace, Cheesecloth and Seam Binding can be found at The Ribbon Girl.

I hope you like her, I have another to colour up but that won't get done before the DT call is finished, so will have to wait till a bit later, though I doubt I'll hold out against colouring her up for long lol

Right, I'm off to bed, work tomorrow. See you soon!

Seas the Day!

Hello!

 Remember how in my last Tiddly Inks post I said I loved the newer sea themed stamps?

Well this one was a particular favourite of mine and I just couldn't resist it.

It's called Octopi my Heart, and I just love it's quirkiness, plus it's sooooo cute!

I coloured it with my Distress Ink markers and I already knew in my head what colours I wanted for the Octopuses and I think it suits them really well, I also knew that I wanted to make a shaker card with it, I don't know why, but for some reason it screamed SHAKER CARD at me lol.

It does come with it's own fab punny sentiment which reads 'You Octopi my Heart', but since I didn't want a love themed card, I substituted another punny and sea themed sentiment that I thought went brilliantly with it.

I really like the way it turned out, originally I was going to use sea themed papers, but I actually really liked the colours in the papers I used and there was enough of a sea theme with the image, sentiment, die cut and charms, to not need the addition of themed papers I think, somtimes it's nice to think a little outside the box.

I'm popping this into the

 

as well to give an idea of the range of my style.

Have a lovely day! :) xx

Tiddly Inks - Wryn - My Happy Thought

Sooooooo ....... Tiddly Inks are having a design team call right now.......

...do you know they are one of the first digis I ever coloured when I first started making cards? 

If you want to amuse yourself, here's a link to the very first Tiddly Inks image I coloured up when my blog was only a few weeks old, it's fun to look back and see how our styles have changed and evolved right? 

I've coloured up more Tiddly Inks images over the last 3 years, (if you want to see the rest of them, click here) but in the last year or so...not so much huh? Not because I don't love them, but because I had commitments to other images, and a girl can only fit so much colouring into her spare time. 

Which is why, even though I adore Tiddly Inks and have really wanted to enter their DT calls before, the time has never been right. The very first time I had only just started out and I considered myself too inexperienced and not good enough, since then I've always had enough other DT commitments that have meant that I wasn't sure I could give the images the time they deserved.

But now they are having another call, and this time I'm not over committed (some people say I should be committed...you know straight jacket and padded cell, but let's gloss over that lol), and have space for one last DT spot and am actively looking, so when the newsletter popped up in my email mentioning the DT call, the timing,  for once, could not have been more perfect.

So here's my entry, which called for your favourite Tiddly Inks image, of course I had to colour up a Wryn. Although there are many other Tiddly Inks images I adore, (I'm particularly partial to the gothic ones,  and the recent sea themed ones which are so fun), Wryn just is the perfect Tiddly Inks poster girl isn't she? Since I couldn't pick a favourite, I had to buy a new one to colour up right? It would have seemed rude not to, and a few more may have just ...ahem...fallen into my basket lol and OH MY.....I'd forgotten how much FUN these were to colour up! I'll be posting a couple of other ones soon, I made one of the sea themed ones into a shaker card.

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or have more experience, they are easy to colour and look fab when you're done.

So this is 

Wryn - My Happy Thought

 and I think she's totally delightful.

I coloured her up with my Distress Ink markers to match these pretty Maja Design papers and I was very happy with the way she turned out.

I used Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walmut Stain, Worn Lipstick, Tumbled Glass, Fade Jeans and Hickory Smoke.
The papers are Maja Design - Summer Crush and I went for my usual softly shabby chic style, inling the edges with distress ink and adding a light brushing of gesso. I don't always add sentiments to my cards, and this one is fairly large too, but I thought it went really well  with the image.

I used the following embellishments from The Ribbon Girl

Cheesecloth
45 mm Eleanor White Lace
20 mm Dusky Blue Open Roses
Baby Pink Cherry Blossom
10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses
White Sweetheart Blossom
White Beaded Stamen
12 mm Blue Faux Silk Ribbon

The pink rose organza trim was a present from my lovely blogging friend Maya Go and the rest is from my stash.

Whether I get into the DT or not I'm so glad I rediscovered these stamps, I really enjoyed colouring and making with them this weekend, and have some more ready to share soon.

There are several DT places up for grabs,so if you'd like to try your hand too, just click on the button below, share the love :)

That's all from me today, (I say 'all' I do seem to have waffled on don't I?), but look out for more Tiddly Inks goodness from me in the future, DT or no. But just in case.....wish me luck!!

Tiddly Inks - Love You Mostest

Hello everyone, it's a little extra post from me today.

I found this card in my draft folder where I admit I'm a little embarrassed to say that I forgot all about it,  ooops!

I made it at the beginning of August on request from a friend of my daughter's, and while I did remember to photograph it before sending it off, in all the excitement of my daughter's visit, I completely forgot to blog it! So I'm sharing it with you today.

I used one of the newer wedding couple images from Tiddly Inks and coloured it with my distress ink markers.

The shape of the card is made with a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page set. The lacy flowers are made with a Magnolia die.

I used the following items on my card:

Pion Design Fairytale of Spring (these are older papers from my stash that are now out of stock)

Tiddly Inks Love You Mostest

Die-namics Oval Decorative Doily Die
Die-namites Heart Doily Die
Cheery Lynn Heart Lace Doily Die

20 mm Dusky Blue Open Rose
38 mm Pale Blue Faux Silk Ribbon
9 mm Williem Blue Velvet Ribbon
15 mm White Diamond Guipure Lace
25 mm Dusky Blue Sheer Ribbon

12 mm Pearly Ivory Flower
8 mm Pearl Ivory FB
6 mm Pearl Ivory FB

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

Happily Ever After - The Remix

Good morning! It's a quick share from me today.  A while ago I was approached via my blog contact form and asked to make a card for a 10 year anniversary. The person was quite specific in wanting a card very similar to another card I made last year.  Now I don't normally repeat a card, but they wanted something very similar, so this is probably the closest I'll ever come to making the same card twice.  The layout stamp and colour scheme are pretty much the same, but I made some subtle changes, to give the same effect without being a direct copy. So basic layout is the same, as is the stamp and clock die, and the small fob watch charm.

What did I change?  Well the original card had pearl strings, I substituted sparkly faceted ones. I used different papers, though in the same neutral colour scheme (the papers behind the clock face is the same as the original though).  On this card I used wide stacked fishtail banners, instead of long thin banners in a row. and I added the numerals. The lace, ribbons, ruffle and embellishments are all (apart from the charm) different.  The stamp is the same and is paper pieced like the orginal, but colours are slightly different as are the papers used.  The stamp was coloured to match the skin tones and hair colours of the couple who were celebrating their anniversary

The inside too is a little different from the original card and contains a sentiment.

If you're interested in seeing the original card you can find it in this post

I do have to say that I think this is the stamp I own that I have used the most, I think this makes 5 times and 3 of those have been weeding cards, it is my most favourite stamp.

Well that's all from me today, but i'll be back on Friday with my regular scheduled post, and I do have to say I fell in love with the card when I was making it, so I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you.

Bye for now! :) xx

Happily Ever After - Again at Dies to Die for

Happy Friday everyone! It's Linda here.  If you're in the UK I hope you're looking forward to a lovely long 3 day weekend, so glad I no longer have to work bank holidays like a few years back.

Today I'm showing a wedding card that I made at the request of my daughter's friend, using Tiddly Inks' Happily Ever After ...and yes I know I've used this a few times now, but I actually don't have many 'wedding' or couple stamps and this stamp is on of my favourite images ever.

I used some lovely Pion Papers from the Flower Frame collection. I also paper pieced the brides Dress. All papers were edged with Distress Ink and then hand stitched.

I coloured the stamp with distress inks (apart from a couple of Copics on the paper pieced dress), this is my first try at a slightly darker skin tone with DIs, I don't think it came out too bad, I was concentrating oon it so much I forgot to go back and add some shading to the lighter skinned groom lol.

 I finished her dress with a glue pen and some glamour dust to simulate sequins and beads.
Skin Groom: Tattered Rose
Skin Bride: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo
Hair Bride: Burlap, Walnut Stain, Broken Twigs, Black Soot
Hair Groom: Antique Linen, Brushed Coudroy, Walnut Stain
Clothing Groom: Pumice Stone, Black Soot
Clothing Bride: W1, W3 and W5 Copics on paper piecing

I mounted the couple on a couple of Pierced Oval frames and slipped a couple of Heart Doily die cuts behind it. Can you spot the little love bird charm nestling beneath the flowers at the top right? I used one of the Fairy Tale Dreams sentiments and the matching die. The flowers are a mixture from Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.

The white lace is from The Ribbon Girl and that pink lace is from Live and Love Crafts, not sure if they still do it.  The totally gorgeous butterflies with the wonderful sentiment are by Kay Fatula from Karla's Kreative Korner.

I decorated the inside with more of the same papers, the piece with the flower frame makes a lovely place to write a message.

Items used from the store:

Tiddly Inks Happily Ever After Stamp

Pion Flower Frames Convallaria

Pion Flower Frames Rosa

MFT Pierced Ovals Stax

La-La Land Crafts Heart Doily Die

Whimsy Fairy Tale Dreams Sentiments

Whimsy Crown Die

Looped Pink Ribbon

Love Birds Charm
Walnut Stain Distress Ink

I'm entering this card in the Tiddly Inks Challenge #139 - Anything Goes

Well that's it from me for today, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I'll be back on Monday with my last post for the La-La Land Crafts Monday DT, but I'm not leaving them completely as I'm staying on for the Club DT (more of that on Tuesday!) and should be rejoining Team Monday in the new year, and I'll still post a project for them from time to time when I have a spare moment.

I'm in the middle of making several projects currently, but I hope to find the time to visit some of your blogs this weekend, I've been so busy I've been neglecting you a bit it should ease up a bit once my holiday is done though and then I'll have a bit more time to visit.

Bye for now! : ) x x

Happily Ever After in May at Dies to Die for.

Good morning everyone and welcome to another of my regular Tuesday inspiration posts for Dies to Die for.

Before I move on to my share for today I'd just like to say sorry for not being very active on your blogs lately, it's been hectic recently, but I'm pulling ahead a little and hope to be able to catch up with you this weekend.  You still have 2 days left to enter my Candy, it ends on the 15th, the link is on my sidebar to the right.

Ok so, it's very rare that I take on commissions, like almost never.  I simply have so much I have to make for DTs and I like to craft for fun after all, trying to also fit into what somebody else wants has a tendency to stop my creative flow right in it's tracks. However, my partner's mother asked me for a couple of wedding cards, I've been thinking about making a couple anyway, I loooove making wedding cards, and she didn't tie me down with specific demands as to putting this or that on it, so I had pretty free reign, I work best like that.

Now ever since I first had the Day in May collection from Pion Design sent to me, I've been wanting to make a wedding card with it, because some of the papers just seem totally made for it, and then I combined it with my most favourite stamp ever from Tiddly Inks (I love it too because you can use it for such a lot, weddings, engagements, anniversaries, valentines etc) and coloured it up with my Copics.

It's not often I totally love one of my creations, I'm picky, and my own worst critic, BUT, I have to say that I totally LOVE how this turned out, I almost don't want to give it away lol.

So I'm not going to waffle any more, I shall just let the pictures do the talking. Links to products can be found at the end of my post.

Well I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, any questions feel free to drop me a comment or an email. That's all from me for today, enjoy your Tuesday and I'll see you again same time next week.

Take care and happy crafting! : ) x x

I'm entering the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - Gorgeous Gowns
Deep Ocean Challenge - Distressing 
BunnyZoe's Crafts -Flowers and Charms
MarkerPOP Blog #43 - Anything Goes
May Challenge: Flowers - Kit & Clowder

Tiddly Inks - Happily Ever After	Pion Design - A Day In May - Butterfly Dance	Pion Design - A Day In May - Beige Ornament	*NEW* Joy! Crafts - Cutting and Embossing - Butterfly Border	Joy! Crafts Vintage Flourishes Butterfly	Lace Gold
Prima Lace - Cream	Liquid Pearls - Platinum Pearl	Bronze Key - Medium	Bell Charm	Prima Say It In Crystals - Clear with Roses	Everyday Mini Postage Stamp Sentiments
Mini Postage Die	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

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