My Lovely Followers

Monday, 12 January 2015

La-La Land Crafts CHA * New Release Team Monday

Good Morning everyone! Well sadly I'm fully back at work this week, I must say it was very nice having some time off after the Christmas break and it allowed me to catch up with all my DT work and also relax a bit, so I'm feeling quite stress free at the moment! Although after a week back at work that could all change lol.

Anyway as I'm sure you all know, the HUGE Craft show from the CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) is going on at the moment, over in Anaheim USA, and yours truly was asked to create a couple of samples to display there.....very very exciting!

For my first sample I used the newly released Baby Marci. Oh my this stamp is just too adorable for words!  I do love making baby cards, so I was totally in my element with this one.

La-La Land Products Used

Baby Marci and Sentments 
(sentiment used inside the card)
Large Lacy Border Die
(used inside the card)



I coloured Baby Marci with Distress Ink Markers

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Spun Sugar 
Hair: Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy
Clothing and Accessories: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Pumice Stone, Antique Linen


I went for a shabby Chic look and used paper from Pion's My Precious Daughter collection, which I inked with Pumice Stone DI, then distressed with a Tim Holtz tool and stitched by hand with Top Stitch thread.


I used a lot of goodies from The Ribbon Girl to add even more prettiness to the card, and then finished it all off with lashings of Gesso.



Other products used



I do hope you liked my card, I had such fun making it, and I'll be back here tomorrow with my second sample for CHA with the new La-La Land stamp and die releases.

See you then! :) xx

Posted by at 11 comments:
Labels: ,

Sunday, 11 January 2015

May - Saturated Canary GDT Entry

Happy Sunday to you all! I hope you're all having/had a great weekend.  As many of you may know, Krista Smith the wonderful artist of Saturated Canary Stamps and her Design Team are having a GDT call in their Facebook group. I must admit I procrastinated about trying out for quite a while, not because I wouldn't love to be a guest, but because after the previous try I really wasn't sure my work was good enough or what they are looking for....and oh my, there are soooooo many simply stunning entries there, I felt quite intimidated! 

But then, I really really love this image (well I love all Saturated Canary images, but this one really called out to me) from the bundle that Krista has in her shop at the moment, and since you're required to use an image from this bundle to enter...I thought, I will colour the image and make something I really like, then at the end of the day if I don't get in.....I will still have had the enjoyment of playing with an image I love and have made something I'm proud of.

Now this image seems to be a favourite of a lot of the entrants (and I can totally understand why) and it's been coloured in many different ways, but just recently I have been playing around with colouring hair in unusual colours with my distress inks, and also using brighter/stronger colours in them, so that's what I decided to do with her.

I did get quite excited when colouring her because she came out so well and I also got nervous too. I'm sure those of you who colour will understand what I mean...things are going so well but almost 'too' well, you are scared that you will make a mistake and destroy the whole thing (and I have to say that the first 2 attempts went straight in the recycling lol!)? So it was very tempting to stop at a certain point, but I made myself go ahead and add in all the little details and depth, and I'm really glad that I did. 

I've put her on a card for now, but I haven't decorated the inside yet, because I may frame her and keep her for myself, I haven't decided yet.

Anyhoooo...enough of my witless waffle and on with the sharing.


This is May and you can find her as part of a special bundle here.

I coloured her with Distress Ink markers, colours as follows:

Skin, Lips and Eyes: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Spun Sugar, Milled Lavender, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Pumice Stone.
Hair: Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Milled Lavender, Picked Raspberry.
Clothing & Butterfly: Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry.
The background is just a little Antique Linen.

I had originally chosen some brighter papers to match her too, but I decided that I didn't want to detract too much from the image and instead used these lovely, more muted papers in the same colours. These are from the Sofiero collection from Maja design. I don't have much of this left and they are out of stock now, so it takes something special for me to cut into them! Papers are inked with Walnut Stain DI and hand stitched as always.


Since there was a butterfly in the image, I took that as my inspiration to use this lovely Joycrafts die. It's actually a circular die, but I snipped into it and opened it up more so I could semi frame my image. I popped a little cheesecloth between my layers, and some gorgeous lace underneath,


I didn't want to over embellish, so I stuck mainly with some flowers and some fairly subtle bling, I liked the flourish (which I cut into 3) as it looked like the breeze blowing the strands of her hair.
Originally I was going to add a bow in my lovely pink organza ribbon, but it looked too much, so I just tucked a snippet under my flowers.

Some of the products I used:





I do hope you like her and I hope Krista and the Saturated Canary DT love her as much as I do, but if not at least I'd made something I'm proud of and had so much fun doing it, and after all, that's what it's all about isn't it? :) xx


Posted by at 15 comments:
Labels: , ,

Friday, 9 January 2015

Genie at Dies to Die for

Happy Friday everyone!  It was my first week back at work today after my holidays (well I say week I was only in for 2 days lol) and I'm already missing my craft corner, it was really nice to have the time to really go all out and get creative.

I'd been itching to ink up this stamp for quite a while now and yeah I know that maybe genies are supposed to be all floaty and ethereal BUT, look at that funky hair? To me she was crying out to be totally edgy and cool.

I was originally going to colour her with my Copics, or Inktense pencils, but I got all these new colours for Christmas that I wanted to play with and it seems you can go bold and bright with Distress Ink and still keep that translucent delicate look, it shouldn't work, but it does.  I hope you like her.

I've added links to products used at the end of my post. 


Colours used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea dye (I used more than usual to give her a slightly darker skin tone), Aged Mahogany (I can't remember what I used on the lips for this one)
Hair: Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Old Paper, Evergreen Bough.
Clothing: Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Black Soot (white dots were made with a Posca pen)
Background shadow: Frayed Burlap

Then I covered her trousers and top with Glamour Dust, which looks really lovely and sparkly, but I could not get the camera to pick it up hardly at all.


I edged my papers (these are old Glitz ones called Hoopla but you can get them in a sale bundle which is a really super deal) with Old Paper Distress Ink and hand stitched them all with Top Stitch thread and edged all the dies with the same ink and some splodges of Gesso. The beautiful butterfly is one from Karla's Kreative Korner (I really need to get some more as I'm running low and I do love them so. The dies here are from Cheery Lynn and Little Darlings.


I coloured the edging on her outfit to match the corner of my design paper and then added a lush bow to match, love this b & w polka dot ribbon. I thought the button finished it off nicely


Finally I decorated the inside to complement the front and spritzed the whole up with some flowers, lace and ribbon and some little sparklies from my stash.

Stamp - LDRS - Saturated Canary - Genie
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels Four
Cherry Lynn - Felicity Doily
Little Darling's - Lovely View
Glitz Hoopla - From Glitz Box Offer

I also used some lovely Ribbon Girl embellishments

Francesca Black Lace
38 mm B & W Spot Organza Ribbon
Black Button Twine
Medium Lime Green Polka Dot Button
9 mm Parrot Green & White Spot Ribbon


I do hope you like my make for today, I was really quite taken with her cool and funky style.

I'm entering this card to the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - Polka Dots



Posted by at 13 comments:
Labels: , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)