Wee Stamps - Mistletoe Fairy

Well it's the final day of the Whimsy Stamps September release, I hope you've been enjoying seeing them. I love this new release so much though that you'll be seeing lots more of it from me throughout this month.

Anyway, today my card is using one of the new Wee Stamps Collection, she is called Mistletoe Fairy.

Now I could have coloured her up in more traditional mistletoe cololurs, and I probably will do that later, but I really wanted to see her as a little winter fairy. I also decided to do a spot of monochrome colouring with a pop of colour that I'm fond of, but this time to change things up a bit I went with sepia tones rather than greyscale.

I used some lovely pages from the new Winter Wishes pad, and a couple of the glittery enamel dots to match which are gorgeous!

I also used the new Snowflakes Dies.

I love the way she turned out. I was going to add flowers to this card, but I thought the new snowflakes looked so nice that it didn't really need it.

I used my distress ink markers to colour her in and just used 2 pens, Frayed Burlap and Broken China.

The cheesecloth and seam binding are from The Ribbon Girl.

That's all from me for today, but I'll see you soon. Don't forget that there's still time to sign up for my stamp and die giveaway here 

Have fun!

Happy Hour for a Fab Fortieth

Happy Friday folks! Hope you're all looking forward to the weekend as much as me. I would like to say a huge thank you to the people who stop by an leave a little love with comments.  I'm sorry I don't get to leave you all comments as much as I would like. I do visit your lovely blogs, but often it's on my phone during my lunch break at work, so I don't get to leave a comment.

It's a work pal's 40th soon and for once I had the time to think about making a specific card.  I thought that Time for Tea's Cocktail Dress would be just perfect for this, who wouldn't enjoy cocktails on their 40th birthday.....well maybe some people wouldn't, but that's certainly not me, though my 40th is definitely behind me lol!

Anyhoooo enough waffle and on with the sharing! I just have the one photo today as I've had a really busy week and dashed off this photo after coming home from a trip to the cinema to see Avengers: Age of Ultron, which I highly recommend you to see if you haven't already.  

I matched the stamp with some beautiful Authentique papers called Elegant and I'm ashamed to say that I did not check the website first and sadly Tracy no longer has this pad available.  She has such a wide range of beautiful papers though, you're sure to find something that you like.

I coloured her with my Distress Ink and Aquatint markers....I really must start using my Copics and pencils again, I just really love colouring my images with a brush, but pencils would be soooooo useful to take on journeys with me to colour images, I just never seem to have the hours in the day to practice lately. Oh well one for the 'to do' list.

I used another of the Make a Card die sets from CC designs, I used the 2 larger rectangle shapes to mount my fussy cut image, plus the long narrow one for my sentiment.

I just love these little polymer frames from Scrapberry, they are perfect as an accent and I used it here to frame the number 40.  I'm sure she will just love me reminding her how old she is lol!

You can find a full list of items available from the shop below:

Cocktail Dress

Make a Card #4

MFT On the Line Sentiment Stamp Set

Memory Box Classic Numbers

Polymer Frame

Die-namics Ribbon Scallop Border

The ribbon, button and twine are all from the Ribbon Girl.

That's all from me today, have a lovely Friday and if you're in the UK I hope you enjoy the long weekend :) xx

Whimsy Stamps July release BLOG HOP!

Welcome to the ...
Whimsy Stamps July release BLOG HOP!

The Whimsy Stamps DT and GDT have been sharing some amazing creations made with the new July release stamps and dies over the last couple of days, and today we are celebrating their release with a GRAND BLOG HOP!

The hop starts today (Wednesday July 9th at 12.00PM noon ET) and ends on Friday July 11th at 12.00pm noon ET.

If you would like to hop along with us today, please CLICK HERE to start the hop at Iris's blog.

Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Iris Wiechmann
Bridget Curnow (GDT)
Jacque Beddingfield
Sue Hughes (GDT)
Simonne Clay
Linda Levoir (GDT)- That's ME!
Ann-Marie Sinfield
Mary Johnson (GDT)
Ellie Stover

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! To enter the draw, simply leave a comment HERE and at EVERY stop along the hop by 12.00pm noon on Friday July 11th.

For today's project, I have inked up Little Apple Blossom Summer Icecream by Elizabeth Bell, and coloured her with a mixture of Distress Inks and Inktense pencils.

I've paired her up with some gorgeous papers from the latest Maja collection, Coffee in the Arbour I think these papers look so summery, don't you?

I distressed my straight edges and inked all edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and hand stitched them as always with top stitch thread.

Some lace, satin ribbon, seam binding, a brad, flowers, an ice cream charm and a beautiful butterfly from Kay's Kreative Korner to finish the card off.

If you're in the UK or  Europe you can get your Whimsy stamps fix from Tracy at Dies to Die for

Now it's time for you to continue today's hop! Don’t forget to leave a comment at every stop along the hop to be entered into the draw to win a $25 gift certificate.

Thanks so much for visiting today. Happy hopping!

Silver Fairy in Violet & Rose

*If you're looking for my Candy you can find it here*

Happy Tuesday Stampers!  I'm here again with my regular Tuesday inspiration post for Dies to Die for, and today I'm using another of the wonderfully talented Sylvia Zet's images.  Just love her work the stamps are sooo sweet.  If you follow me on Facebook you've probably seen me share this image when I first coloured it whilst at my parents and when I chose the colours I actually had the new Pion papers in mind.  However I wasn't sure they were going to arrive in time for my make and so I went ahead and made the card up with another Pion collection....and then guess what?  Yup, those new Pion papers arrived with the postie on Saturday.  Oh well, at least I have them all ready for my next make.

This is my finished card, I used Silver Fairy, from Whimsy Stamps and the crner lace die is also made by Whimsy.  The shape is made with a Martha Stewart PATP punch set.

She's coloured with my Inktense pencils plus a few watercolour pencils for the skin and hair.
Skin: Flesh Pink (W), Pale Vermillion (W), Saddle Brown
Hair: Raw Sienna (W), Raw Umber (W)
Clothing and Wings: Deep Violet, Dark Purple, Carmine Pink, Shiraz

I finished her off with some stickles on her wings, but the camera wasn't really picking it up too well.

I added some flowers and ribbon from TRG.

I finished off with this lovely bead trim and a La-La Land butterfly die.

I used more papers from the same collection to decorate the inside and give a space to write a message.

Items Used:

 Wee Stamps - Silver Fairy

Pion Design - Flower Frames - Viola 6 x 6

Pion Design - Flower Frames - Roseus

La La Land - Butterflies Set 1

Mini Lace Doily Corner 1

Bazzill Self Adhesive Jewels - Clear

 4mm String Beads Lavender

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

Neenah Cardstock

I do hope you like her, I'll be back next week for more inspiration, until then, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Card Challenge #199 Decoupage

Goooood morning Crafty folks, it's Friday and you know what that means?  Yup that's right, we have another super challenge for you over at Crafty Catz :)

This week it's the lovely Dianne's  turn to choose and she chose decoupage.  I'll admit this threw me a bit of a curved ball, the only decoupage I've ever done it when I first started making cards and bought one of those kits with the bits all printed up and stamped out ready to put together.  It kind of felt about as creative as painting by numbers, didn't feel like there was much of me going into it so I never did one again.

This time I wanted to try and do it properly myself, colouring the image and choosing which parts to build up. I don't think I did too badly all in all, there are some parts that could have been built slightly differently to improve the look, but I really had a lot of fun with it and I really didn't think I would at the start of the challenge lol. So this is what I created.

Those of you who follow my blog will recognise the papers as being the same as the ones I used on my Rosegarden Tilda at the weekend, yup I used up my leftovers lol, they're Maja Designs from the Shall we have Coffee' collection.  These were bought from Live & Love Crafts. All papers were distressed and inked with Walnut Stain DI then stitched. I used Frantage in Aged Wine on the edges of the die cuts.

I wanted to choose an image which wouldn't be too difficult to decoupage, ie: one that wasn't too intricate, and I thought this Tilda would be perfect.  I stamped her out 5 times in all and coloured up all the bits that would be on show with my Copics, shading the rest a mid grey.  I shaped the pieces with a flower tool on my embossing mat and layered them with a decoupage glue.

I added flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and some beautiful ribbon, seam binding, rolled roses and pearls from The Ribbon Girl.

Die cuts used were a spellbinders floral oval and oval nestie from Sir Stampalot and Whimsy mini corner die, and Magnolia So Wrapped Lovely both from BunnyZoe Crafts.  

The inside has been decorated to complement the exterior.

I do apologise for the photos, they're not quite up to my usual standard but with winter setting in I'm finding that I can only get decent shots at the weekend so I'm trying to find a decent lamp to take photographs without it costing me an arm and a leg lol

Anyhoo I do hope you like my creation this week, pop on over to Crafty Catz to see the rest of the design team's creations and give them some love, they've gone all out this week with some fabulous designs.  Don't be scared to have a go at this, it's much easier then you'd think and is really a lot of fun, and to encourage you to join in we have a fab prize from our Sponsor 

 

so come join in the fun!! :) xx

I'll be popping this card into my Etsy Store tonight

I'll be entering the following challenges:

Fashionista #1 Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - Fall/Autumn Colours
Midweek Magnolias - Autumn Colours
Lovely hAnglar - Favourite Embellishment (flowers/die cuts)



I'll do these tonight once I'm in from work :)