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Monday, 4 July 2016

Monday Blog Candy Number 4

*This is a pinned post until Monday 4th July, please scroll down for more recent posts*
Morning everyone! Monday has rolled around again, I hope you all managed some fun and relaxation this weekend. I'm back with my final giveaway for June. The first 2 stamps have been claimed and now posted out, and I'll be drawing the winner for number 3 this evening once I'm home from work.

This week I'm giving away this cute Lisbeth stamp from LDRS Creative.


If you would like to win this stamp, just be or become a follower and then leave me a comment in the comment section below and I'll draw a winner next Monday.

Good luck!




Pastel Wedding Card


Hello everyone. I'm here with an inspiration post for The Ribbon Girl.
 I had a play with my papers and embellishments recently and made another pretty wedding card. I did this one in pastel colours to match the lovely papers from Craft & You. Love the way this one came out.

I used 2 sheets from the Vintage Time pad (links at the end of my post as usual),  lightly inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink and distresed the edges with my Tim Holtz tool.  I added a very little gesso on an almost dry brush to the edges of the papers.

I've hand sewn around the top layer with some lilac top stitch thread and I popped a little purple tulle between the layers and popped the top layer up on some foam tape.
I added some beautiful lace, then I cut a scalloped oval out , popped that up on some foam tape and tucked a little cheesecloth behind.

I coated the 2 corner chipboard pieces with versamark ink and then sprinkled with frantage and heated with my heat gun. I did the same for the sentiment.


I made a small floral arrangement with some mulberry paper flowers and some die cut leaf sprays, and poped a little twine bow behind. The flowers have a very light brushing of gesso too, just to tone down the colour a little.


I finished off with some pearl hearts and some pearl and crystal spray.

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Well that's all from me today, but I'll see you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! 






Sunday, 3 July 2016

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 


 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!!