Girly Birthdays

Hello :)

In my world, I don't have many little girls to make cards for.  I have three nephews so cards for little people usually consist of trucks, cars, planes, motorbikes, dinosaurs, dragons or monsters....and very little bling ;)

This weekend was fun, stressful but fun!  My friend is Mum, and Stepmum to two gorgeous little girls who were celebrating their 2nd and 9th birthdays.

Over on the Kit and Clowder Facebook page Polkadoodles had the most amazing image give away to coincide with a funky hair challenge put up by Alyce. Everything fell into place, and it was the perfect image to use for Miss I's 9th birthday card.

A close up of the gorgeous Miss Luna from Polkadoodles.

Copic Colours

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Tunic/Shoes - BV29, BV25, BV23, BV20

Skirt - BV01, BV11, BV13, BV08

Hair - C9, C7, C5, RV29, RV25, RV23

Little Miss E was turning 2, and the image Baby Unicorn from Make it Crafty reminded me of a My Little Pony.  I wanted to colour it in bright, fun colours.  I certainly achieved bright :)  The mane gave me grief though, pink is soooo not my colour, and I lost it half way through and almost started again.  I persevered though, and I was really happy with the end result :)

This image shows the Clear Wink of Stella brush I used through out its mane to give some beautiful soft sparkle :)

Copic Colours-

Pony - B06, B05, B04, B02, B01

Hooves - B39, B37, B34, B32

Mane - RV09, RV06, RV04, RV02

Eyes/Horn - V01, V04, V05, V06, V09

Two very happy little girls to be spoilt by everyone on their birthdays.

Thanks for looking xx

Curvebomb

Good evening all,

Here tonight with my second DT post for The Stamping Chef, this week I have used the gorgeous Curvebomb image.  I love this digi, such a classy image! To me she is the Smexy old hollywood glamour girl :)

On to my project which I made for the gorgeous Miss M who celebrated her birthday on Monday, this image was just perfect for her :)

The papers were scraps that I had in my drawer saved to use on another project as I just love these papers, and they were the perfect colours to keep the black and red theme going.

Copic Colours

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Red - R27, R29, R59, R89

Black - W5, W7, W9

Hair - E44, E43, E41

Please make sure you head on over and join in the challenge this week, the theme is Anything Goes :)

The Stamping Chef Challenge Blog

Thanks for stopping in and I look forward to seeing your projects entered into the challenge this week.  Don't forget to share them with us over on the Facebook Group too, we'd love to see you there!!

xx

The Funny, Quirky, Smexy Bunch

Hello and welcome, 

Super excited to be here today with my very first design team post for The Stamping Chef.  Joining the team this August I am really excited to be sharing you my version of the funny, quirky, smexy bunch :)

I love these images, so different, quirky and creative.  The Stamping Chef certainly has an image for every occasion!!

This week over on the challenge blog we have an anything goes challenge.  I used the gorgeous Suzette, and coloured her in with Copics

The lace and ribbon with crystals came from my local craft store, the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the gorgeous hydrangea paper is from Magnolia.

Copic Colours

Skin:  E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Hair: E50, E53, E55

Top: B60, B63, B66, B69

Bow: R29, R39, R89

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  I hope you take some time to look around at some of my other projects, both in copics and distress inks.  Would love to see you again soon.

xx

Time flies when you are having fun...

Hi there and Hello :)

An hour or so ago and I was on the couch struggling to stay awake, check my email and find some amazing news and so not sleepy anymore..but more on that later ;)

As I have so many projects to catch up on I am going to post a lot of photos and try and keep the words to a minimum tonight so I can get my blog back up to date with where I am at with all my projects.  

I hope you enjoy, you may want to make a coffee before you start ;) and if you have any questions on Copic/Distress colours used, or other materials please feel free to leave me a comment and I'll do my best to help you out :)  Links to images used are all the way through to help you out :)

Starting with the two Mother's Day projects I made this year, my Ma's present made with Aurora Wings Image White Poppy and coloured with Distress Inks

For my sister's Mothers Day Card I used a Hannah Lynn Image - Cali Girl

Miss K's birthday is another Hannah Lynn image available through Crafts and Me - Amber Eyes

Happy Birthday Shinks with Kraftin Kimmie's Birthday Friends and background paper made by using Annabelle Stamps - Scribble Scrabble 1

For beautiful new baby Isla I used Saturated Canary's Butterfly Baby masked with Make it Crafty's Daffodil Dell

This one was a commission piece using two Magnolia Stamps masked, On the Road Tilda and Tulip Walkway

For handsome baby boy Kaan - the image is from Little Miss Muffet Stamps - Babe Moon Lullaby

Gorjuss little Ladybird Gorjuss Girl :) 

A card for a very special Miss J using Saturated Canary's Butterfly Princess, zoomed and cropped

Participating in a colouring competition over in the Kit and Clowder Facebook group I bought this beautiful image from The Stamping Chef - Alyce.  I had so much fun with this image and really pushed myself out of my comfort zone with the colours I used and I was super happy with the results!!

This next piece is also courtesy of a Kit and Clowder Facebook group colouring competition.  This gorgeous image is from The East Winds - Floral Kiss  I was lucky enough to be a random winner of two free digis from this competition, one of which you will see below.  This card was for Miss N, which also marks my 1 year anniversary for using Copic Markers.  I used markers on an image for Miss N's birthday for the first time last year :)

My nephew turned 6 on the 16th July and when I asked Mr W what sort of picture he would like on his card he said he wanted a dinosaur.  So I picked this image as I thought it looked like him dressed up in a dinosaur costume.  This image is from Tiddly Inks - King of the Wild Ones

A very soft and lovely birthday card for Miss L using one of the digi's I won in the Kit and Clowder colouring competition. From The East Wind - 'Aurora' Daisy.  I was so, SO happy with how the hair turned out on this image, it shows that my classes with Alyce at Kit and Clowder are definitely paying off!

Next up a card for my best mate's husband, using another image from The Stamping Chef, Miss Smexy.  It was only as I was uploading and watermarking this evening that I realised I forgot to colour her eyes... I want to fix them!!!

For my favourite Miss S's birthday this year I used this cute as stamp from La-La Land - Ladybug Marci - I love Ladybirds!!

This second image shows the gorgeous sparkle from the Wink of Stella brush I used on her wings

This next piece was a step WAY out of my comfort zone.  I keep seeing all these gorgeous 'no lines' coloured images, but hadn't been confident enough until now to try it.  This little cutey from Tiddly Inks - Whatcha Doing?, seemed like the perfect image to try it out for the first time, not to complicated.  Super happy with how this turned out!!

This card for JLo was made using Tiddly Inks - For the Birds

For Miss J another Tiddly Inks Image - Ellie Says Hi

Last up tonight another image from a Kit and Clowder Facebook Group colouring Competition.  This image was offered a free image to the members of Kit and Clowder from All Dressed Up.  I tried to do something a little different by using my gold prisma pencil and add a touch of face paint/make up to her face to try and fit the theme.

We are there, I hope you are still awake ;)

Thanks so much for looking and please feel free to leave any questions below

xx

It's Time for a Catch Up...

Good evening,

Although I can be terrible at keeping my blog up to date, there is still plenty of colouring and card making in the background.  

Tonight's post is all about catching up on the projects I have made and not posted.  This will be very picture heavy, so grab a cuppa and enjoy.

The first project I would like to share is the card I made for my Sister for her birthday.  Being that she is so Awesome I had to make her a spectacular card.  This Saturated Canary Sweater Socks Fairy was a little bigger than a normal card so I had to think outside the square a bit for this project and made her more like a plaque.  There is a little hidey hole behind the Tim Holtz butterfly die cut that I tucked a matching tag with the message.

The Second project was a card I made with an image I have shown previously.  This card was for my gorgeous and fabulous hairdresser.  I thought Melyssa from Make it Crafty with all this gorgeous hair was just perfect for a hairdresser :)

My third project was a card I made for my youngest Nephew Alexander for his second birthday.  This little Rocket Boy image and sentiment came from Tiddly Inks and the planet I found in a free colouring page.  The star was a standard shape from Pages :)  The stars on this project look a little grainy and funny, but that is because they are covered in glow in the dark embossing powder, works a treat!!

The fourth project was a birthday card for a friend of mine.  This one was a week or two late unfortunately, but thankfully B didn't mind - he knows how terrible I am lol.  This little monster was put together using the Monster Elements sets available from Little Miss Muffet Stamps.

The fifth project was a card I was asked by B to make for his Mum.  For the last three years I have been making cards for him for his Mum's birthday.  My Ma had given me this gorgeous Flourishes Cherry Blossom stamp set for my birthday, and I thought it was just perfect.  Embellished with lovely Wild Orchid Craft flowers and a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page plaque, simple and elegant :)

My sixth project was for my friend J's birthday.  J loves everything Tinkerbell and has a whole display of all her Tink trinkets and cards.  Using the Butterfly swing from Make it Crafty I merged a free colouring page image of Tink.

My seventh and eighth projects to share were from Easter this year.  I had promised my oldest nephew a Bookmark to use when reading his Harry Potter series I had bought for him.  I was planning on using Wizard Boy from Tiddly Inks, but when I was showing him the picture he liked the Tiddly's Be My Mummy better, so I used it to make this bookmark for him.

Just before Easter I was lucky enough to win a free digital image from Little Miss Muffet Stamps for my anniversary card I made (Shown in the post titled Weddiversary).  I chose this gorgeous Easter Bunny Hiding and made 3 cards for my 3 little men to put with their Easter presents.

My ninth project was a piece I coloured with my Copics using a Hannah Lynn digital stamp called Cali Girl available through Crafts and Me.  I love the style of Hannah Lynn images,  one of the first stamps I bought when starting to colour was Hannah's Genevieve, and it is still one of my absolute favourites. I actually realised after I had taken this photo that I hadn't finished off her eyes properly. Since taking this picture I have coloured the centres in black and added back in the white reflective dots off centre from the middle of the eye.  I was so happy with how this turned out, and especially her eyes and skin.

The last two incredibly cheeky ;) projects I have to share use the same image available through Redonkadoodles called Cheeky Greeting.  These cards have been made for colleagues of mine, both have a great sense of humour and cheeky personalities, so I couldn't resist this image for the lads :)

Phew... and we are there!!  I think I may be caught up on blogging all my recent projects!!  All of these images have been coloured with Copics, if you have any questions on colours used, just drop me a line and I will see what I can do to try and remember the combinations, note to self, must write this stuff down!!

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Mother's Day projects, I have spent all day in the craft room today working on one of my images in distress inks, and there is still more painting to go!!  I wish I could share the progress as I am so happy with how it is looking, but I know that my Ma looks here to see what I have been up so I'll just have to wait.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed today's photo gallery :)

xx

Weddiversary

This last week has seen a celebration of two marriages, 1 a wedding :)  and the second a 5 year Anniversary.

Last friday I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Wedding of my Ma's, Partner's Son held at Maggie Beer's in the Barossa Valley.  Such a lovely setting, and it was a gorgeous day.  The bride C looked amazing, and the groom D was dashing.  C & D went with a country theme for their wedding, and the setting was perfect.  

Considering the theme I chose to use my distress inks and colour in a gorgeous stamp from Lili of the Valley called Over the Threshold.

My best mate and her husband were married five years ago on the 11th of April, as Sammy is also a fellow paper crafter her husband had asked me if I could help out with a card for the occasion.

I had this gorgeous digital image (only available in rubber now) from Little Miss Muffet Stamps called The Stolen Kiss that I hadn't printed and used yet that I thought would be perfect.  Coloured with Copics (colours below) I used a simple card design to let the picture be the star of the show.  The sentiment I made using a free font I downloaded from the web, I just love flowing cursive script like this, I wish I could write like that!!

Happy 5th Anniversary to you both xx

Copic Colours

Purple - V20, V22, V25 and V28

Brown - Lady E70, E71 and E74

Brown - Man E70, E71, E74, E77 and E79

Flowers - R35, R37 and R59

Leaves - YG25, G94 and G99

Thanks for looking

xx