New challenge over at Sarah Hurley 365.

And this time the theme has been chosen by the lovely Claire N, and it is All Embellishments Just One Shape. What a great theme, I of course had to pick stars for mine.

I used some gorgeous navy blue starry paper from one of Sarah's  A Few of My Favourite Things kit as my background. I made a postcard using the Christmas Mail Stamps, I am really loving this set and use the postcard quite a lot as it is so versatile. I masked the bottom left hand side of it and stamped the gorgeous Wish Upon a Star set, and coloured her in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers to match the papers. 

The sentiment comes from Star Stamps, and I heat embossed it using silver embossing powder. To add a few stars to it, I scattered some silver sequin stars on the backing paper and one on the front of Twinkles dress. I distressed the edges of the postcard using some Memento ink.

I popped some pleated ribbon on and put the postcard onto some 3mm 3D foam to give the card some dimension.

Ingredients

A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Christmas Mail Stamps

Wish Upon A Star Girl Stamps

Star Stamps

Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Memento, Versa Mark and Archival Ink.

Foam Pads and Collall.

Ribbon and silver sequins from stash.

I hope you can pop over and join us this month at the Sarah Hurley 365 Challenge, there are great prizes up for grabs.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Through The Purple Haze - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - use a Sentiment

2 Sisters - Embossing

Allsorts Challenge - Colour Beginning with B

Cards Galore Encore - Add Bling

Frosted Designs - Winter Blues

Crafty Ribbons - Anything goes with ribbons

Paper Crafting Journey - Emboss That

It's October

And that can only mean one thing...Halloween is on it's way! It is my turn to host the challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenges and I had to choose Halloween.  I love everything Halloweeny, from witches to bats, ghoulies to black cats and I think it is becoming much more of an occasion here in Britain too.  Thankfully, it is much easier to get Halloween stash to make things too.  

Sarah has recently launched a new range of characters and you can find them living in 31 Spook Street. There are stamps and a great digi kit, which includes some awesome digi papers.

I used stamps for my project and did some inky crafting for a change.  I usually make quite clean and simple cards, so this was an adventure for me.  I used elements from Angelica Strange and Malcolm Strange Stamp Sets and embossed some of them with clear embossing powder to make a background.

I then used Distress Inks to add some colour to the background, whilst leaving the pumpkin and boooo clear/white.  I was really pleased with the results, and the stamps produce clear crisp images every time, and because they are clear you can see exactly where you are stamping and that it is straight, which was important for the "Spooktacular" sentiment, which is in the Angelica Set.  I used black embossing powder for the spider, fussy cut him and popped him onto some 3d foam to give him some dimension.

Ingredients

Angelica Strange Stamps

Malcolm Strange Stamps 

Distress Inks

Clear and black embossing powders

Versa Mark Ink, Black Memento ink

Orange and white card from stash.

I really hope you can pop over to the Sarah Hurley Challenges and join in with the things that go bump in the night.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Bearly Mine - Halloween

Cutting & Stampin - Halloween

Country View  - Something Spooky

Emergency Crafters - Halloween

Imagination Crafts - Halloween

The Stamping Boutique - Halloween

Created with Love - Halloween

Quirky Crafts - Quirky 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