Live your dream.

What a dreadful day it is here today, heavy rain, freezing cold, damp and dark.  So I thought I would share a nice bright and cheery card with you all.

I made this for the Lookbook from Sarah Hurley using the Doodle Doll Princess Stamp Set. I got a piece of white card and used the star border from the set to make the corners. I used lots of bright colours of ink to make it really pop.  Once I had completed that I stamped the princess onto it and coloured her hair, eyes and face with Promarkers. I just love the sentiments that are part of this set and this one was perfect for the card.

 

Ingredients

 Doodle Doll Princess Stamp Set  by Sarah Hurley

Promarkers

Memento Inks

Card from stash.

I hope you can pop over and have a look at the Lookbook and get lots of inspiration from all the fabulous creations in it.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
7 Kids College Fund  - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Whimsy Inspiration - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesdays - Colour Explosion

Moooo Booooo!

It's midway inspiration over at Kitty Bee Designs for their Halloween Challenge and I thought I would join "Team Bees" as I love the Halloween digi stamps so much.

I used this cute cow dressed as a pumpkin, how cute is it?  I coloured it with Promarkers, and popped some Stickles on the black patches and the pumpkins eyes.  I spent some time looking through all my digi papers, I hadn't realised how many I actually had, just as well they don't take up much space ;) and picked a pumpkin one and some cow print for contrast.

I hope you can pop over and join in with the Halloween challenge.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Bloggers - Boo To You
Card Crafters Circle - In The Pumpkin Patch
Card Makin Mamas - Halloween
Simply Create Too - Halloween
Totally Paper Crafts - Too Cute to Spook
Crafting for all Seasons - Too Cute to Spook
The House That Stamps Built - Halloween
Freshly Brewed Designs - Pumpkins
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Halloween
Without Words  - Pumpkins

Autumn Glow

Hello, it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. And this post is for the new challenge over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, and the theme set by the lovely Jess is Autumn Glow.  I don't know about you, but Autumn is my favourite season, cold sunny days, walks in the park with crunchy leaves under foot, hot choccies and candles...oooohhhh can't wait!! Anyway, I digress, for my DT creation, I played about with Autumnal colours and used the idea of an Indian Summer and made a pretty little Red Indian girl.

I used stamp sets available from the Sarah Hurley Shop and will explain which stamp set each one came from.  

I made the background arrows using a border stamp from the Borders, Corners and Banners stamp set (I also used a banner from this to stamp the sentiment on).

The girl comes from the Be Amazing Girl stamps, as do the feathers in her hair and her fabulous eyelashes. I stamped her onto white card using brown memento ink. I decided to put lots of stars on her dress and they came from the Wish Upon a Star Girl Stamps. I really wanted to put a headdress on her and used one of the chevrons from the Borders, Corners & Banners stamp set and curved it slightly to sit nicely on her head. For the first time ever I stamped the feathers onto the top of her head using the masking technique, oh it was nerve wracking lol. I coloured her hair, skin and shoes in with promarkers.

The sentiment is from Sentiment Stamp set.

 

Ingredients

Borders, Corners & Banners 

 Be Amazing Girl Stamps

Wish Upon A Star Girl Stamps

Sentiment Stamps

Memento ink pads

Promarkers

Martha Stewart Corner Punch

Diamond White card

Green and burgandy card from stash.

I hope you like my card, and will join in with us this time.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes with an Uplifting Sentiment

Part Time Tuesdays  - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles  - Fall Colours

The Squirrel and the Fox - Fall Colours

A Creative Romance - Masking

A challenge full of character.

Hello, it's been a couple of weeks since I blogged, been busy catching up with DT creations and relaxing over Easter. Hope everyone had a nice time.

 

This month over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, which is sponsored by Letraset, the theme is "Projects with character".  I had great fun making this card using papers and the adorable Jack digi stamp from the Secret Rose Garden Kit. It is packed full of lush papers and embellishments, and I loved making this card for a boy, which is unusual for me as I tend to make quite girly cards :) 

 

Ingredients

Papers and digi stamp - Secret Rose Garden

Card candi, charm and twine from stash.

Sentiment from Stampin' Up

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

 

I hope you can join us this month.

 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

 

Aud Sentiments - For a child

Sparkle n Sprinkle - Use a digi

The Stampspot - Masculine

Love to Scrap - Recipe(3 layers, 2 papers and 1 image)

The Pink Elephant - 3 papers and favourite embellishment(card candi)

The Shabby Tearoom - Beautiful blues

There She Goes 201  - Masculine



 

Always time for tea.

I am a tea-aholic, and when I saw this image at Simply Betty Stamps, I had to have him (along with a few extras shhhh!) It works perfectly with the Sarah Hurley Wonderland Digi Kit, which contains the most amazing papers, containing tea cups, rabbits and all the other fabulous pretties from Alice in Wonderland.

I made this card for a FB friend for a stash swap, where the theme was "Hot and cold drinks".  I tried to colour him as near to the Johnny Depp Mad Hatter as I could, and I hope you like the card.

Ingredients

Mad Hatter Digi

Papers, sentiment and "Drink Me" tag from Wonderland Digi Kit from Sarah Hurley

Coloured with Promarkers

Ribbon from stash.

I would like to enter him into the following challenges;

One Stop Craft Challenge - Time for tea

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Inspired by a song or film(Alice in Wonderland)

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Colour Crazy

One Stitch at a Time - Digis

New month, new challenge.

And the theme this fortnight over at Card Cupids Challenge Blog is Bugaboo Halloween. There are some fabulous digis over at Bugaboo Stamps, and they have a fab sale on this weekend too! 

I chose the adorable Halloween Brat Witch for my card, coloured with Promarkers, Kuretake Art & Graphic and Fleximarkers.  I used a Sakura glitter pen on her buckles, to make them nice and sparkly. I sat her on a piece of Black Magic Co'redinations that had been embossed with a Cuttlebug Halloween folder, and lightly sanded to reveal some purple. I used the lovely pumpkin paper from the Sarah Hurley Witching Hour kit, the spiders web paper is also from that. And I popped a wee die cut bat on it too.

I hope you like it.

Here is a close up of the sparkly bits.

Hope this inspires you to make something Halloweeny :)

Ingredients

Bugaboo Halloween Brat Witch

Sarah Hurley Witching Hour Digi Kit

Cuttlebug embossing folder, Co'redinations embossing folder,bat die cut

Coloured with Promarkers, Fleximarkers and Kuretake Art & Graphic.

Sakura Glitter Pen.

I would like to enter into the following challenges;

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Shopping Our Stash - Use your favourite things(Promarkers, embossing folders, die cut)

Craft Your Passion - Emboss it.

Fashionista Challenge - Card for a child.

One Stitch at a Time - Use a digi

Pile it On - Something with "P" - Pumpkin

Platypus Creek Digitals - Let's Get Spooky