Sweetie Sonia - GDT for Art by Mi Ran

Happy Saturday and happy 1st of the month! Hard to believe it's already November, where did that year go? It seems that Halloween played a trick on me too, because I had my post all scheduled for 4am UK time and it didn't go live, so I'm not sure if I made an edit and didn't hit the publish button again, but anyway I'm a few hours late, so I'm blaming the goblins lol!

The reason I'm posting today? Well some time back the lovely artist Mi Ran Jung, who draws these awesome Chibi style images, approached me about doing some GDT work for her inspiration blog Art by Mi Ran. Of course I was super excited to, I really love her sweet stamps. 
   If you aren't familiar with Mi Ran's work, you can find them in her Etsy shop here, or you can get her work in rubber from Whimsy Stamps or any of their stockists.  If you're in the UK or Europe you can find the rubber stamps here.

I was given the choice of whatever digis I wanted to work with from her store and boy oh boy, the choice was not easy, she has loads to choose from and they are all gorgeous! I fell in love with this cutie though, she is called Sweetie Sonia, you can find her here

The theme this month is non Christmas colours.

I went bright, with some gorgeous Kaisercraft papers and some wonderful ribbons and lace from The Ribbon Girl.

I coloured her with my Copics. I thought she'd look rather sassy with turquoise hair!

I'm afraid I coloured her up some time ago and I cannot find where I put my list of colours used :(

I added some gorgeous Wild Orchid Craft flowers, love all the colours they come in.

Some pretty ribbons and bling, have you had to put shades on yet ?lol The small and medium gems were clear, but I coloured them with Copics to match my colouring, love doing this!

Finally I decorated the inside of my card to complement the front.

If you pop over to the blog here, you can browse though all of the design team's work with these gorgeous stamps, and there's also a Challenge Blog here and a Facebook page here, and if you like to work with these stamps you can share your work with us in the Facebook Group here.
I'll be back again with another make for Art by Mi Ran on the 15th of this month, so watch out for that!

This card is available for sale in my Etsy shop

That's all from me for today, enjoy your weekend! :) xx

Candy Canes at Dies to Die for

Wheeee! It's Friday again, I've been horribly unwell this week (I even took a couple of days off work sick, which rarely happens), but it's almost the weekend and I'm here with my regular Dies to Die for post.  It's another Christmas card, I do hope you're not getting tired of these lol, but I promise I have some non Christmas creations coming up as well!

This is another Little Darlings Rubber Stamps - Saturated Canary image, she's called Candy Canes .  Now I have to say it wasn't originally my intention to go monochrome with this, she just turned out that way, but I really like the effect. Don't you just love her hair? It reminds me of Mr Whippy ice cream lol  just substitute a couple of chocolate flakes for the Candy Canes hehe.

I've popped a list of products used, along with some links at the end of my post.

I matched her with some gorgeous Maja design papers from the Vintage Frost Basics collection, and I've coloured her in Distress Ink markers.

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Spun Sugar (blush)
Hair: Spun Sugar, Fired Brick
Clothing: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Pumice Stone.
I added Glamour Dust to her wings, I also added lines of subtle shimmer to her hair and clothes with a SakuraJelly Roll Stardust pen, but sadly the camera just doesn't pick it up, which is a shame because it's a beautiful effect in the flesh.

I added this lovely MFT Snowflake Doily behind her.

Look at that gorgeous bow, I thought it deserved some extra special bling.

I kept the inside quite simple, as by this time I was feeling very poorly indeed.

Stamp: Candy Canes
MFT Sowflake Doily Die
Reverse Wonky Rectangles
Maja Vintage Frost Basics-3rd December
Maja Vintage Frost Basics-5th December
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Candy Cane Charm
Ophelia 50mm Ivory Lace
Ivory Flat back Pearl Trim
Ivory Pearl String
Pink Pearl String
Pink Faux Silk Ribbon
8 mm Flat Back Ivory Pearls
Diamante and Pearl Embellishment
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

This card is available to buy in my Etsy shop



I hope you like her and that she's inspired you to make a start on those Christmas cards if you haven't already.  I'll be back tomorrow with another (non-Christmas) make and some exciting news!  See you then! :) xx

Casey in Pencils

Happy hump day! Very quick share from me today as I've been suffering with a really awful cold this week and have even been home from work as I felt that bad, very unusual for me.

I experimented with colouring using Polychromos Pencils this weekend, Casey was ideal I thought to try them out as she's really quite quick to colour, and while there is a lot of work still to be done (lots more depth to be achieved I think), she turned out well enough to go on a card.

The beautiful papers are from Maja, Fika collection, love these.

The beautiful butterfly is from Karla's Kreative Korner.

The lovely bling on the bow is from The Handcrafted Card Company

I finished of the inside quite simply, with matching paper, a little seam binding and lace to match the front and a large blank oval for writing a message.

Casey Rubber Stamp
La-La Land Birdcage Die
Butterfly Embellishment - She Daydreams
Ophelia 50 mm embroidered ivory tulle lace
Mauve Mist vintage style seam binding
Cheesecloth Fabric
Rolled Rose Purple/Violet
Lilac 30 mm Wild Rose
Lily Flowers Small Pale Pink
Sweetheart Blossom Baby Pink and White
Pretty Blossom Purple/Violet
Cosmos Daisy Flower Deep Pink
Beaded Lavender Gypsophalia
Purple Round Pins
Heart Pins Pink

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop



Right that's all from me today, but I'll see you all again on Friday and if I can stop sniffing and sneezing for long enough I'll try and drop by your blogs this weekend and leave some love.

Take care! :) xx