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My 2013 New Year Resolutions are to practice painting with Distress Ink, make more effort with colouring in general, do lots of stitching on my creations, and try to improve my feeble attempts at masculine cards (I love pink too much to ever be good at this, so perhaps this will be my first resolution to fall by the wayside). I love your feedback on my creations and I read every message, so please leave a comment, or use my sidebar 'chatbox' widget to let me know you've visited.

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

JIngle Bells Pickle

It's the mid way point of the 'Jingle Bells' challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge and I've got a cute  pingu card to share with you.  I've wanted this stamp for ages, after seeing it quite a lot last Christmas.  I finally got it from The Stamp Basket and this it its first inking.

I've kept the card quite simple, water-colouring the image with my DI reinkers, adding some glamour dust, a ribbon, some twine and a couple of dies.  The jingle bells are actual bells tied on with the twine and I've doodled some stitching around the edge of the image and sentiment panels.



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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Mimi Stars Box

Stampfairy are sponsoring Tuesday Morning Sketches today so I've made a card to support the theme.  It's also the mid way reminder of our challenge at Top Tip Tuesday which is Boxing Clever, so I've made a matching box to go with my card using the same backing papers.

I've painted my image in DI reinkers.   I've tried to create a soft wash of colour rather than bold colours as the papers were quite pale too.

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Here's the box using matching papers:


And here they are together so you can see the respective sizes:


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Monday, 20 May 2013

Metal Mania

The theme at Incy Wincy today is Metal Mania, and I'm joining in as a Guest Designer for StampFairy who are sponsoring the challenge this week.

My metal is the brad that I've used to hold on my flower.  It looks a bit like a screw, but I thought the colour was perfect for this card.

I got the gorgeous papers when I visited LOTV at Easter and this is the first time I've used them.  They look a bit shabby-chic, and I really love the rich chocolate colour scheme.



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Sunday, 19 May 2013

Walkies !!!

I'm sharing a new image for The Stamp Basket today, called Walkies.  I've not used a Molly Bloom image before, and this one is kinda cute.  I've also used some beautiful papers from Graphic 45 in a gorgeous soft purple.  The text on the papers is just so pretty, I love it.




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Saturday, 18 May 2013

Cherry Blossom

Yay, it's Saturday, so I've got a card to share for The Stamp Basket.  I've used my favourite Saturated Canary Rubber called Cherry Blossom, and painted her with my DI reinkers.  It gives a really soft appearance but does appear to make her hair grey rather than black!  For my first attempt at painting this image I was actually quite pleased with the result on the dress, face and tree. Might need a bit more practice on hair though.



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Thursday, 16 May 2013

My Favourite Colours

We were bowled over with 200 entries for our first challenge at As You Like It.  Thank you to everyone who joined in and entered our DT call.  We'll announce the new team shortly, but we're already onto our second challenge, and the theme this fortnight is to showcase your favourite two colours.

Well, anyone who visits me often knows that I love pastels, and especially pink and blue (although purple would be a very close third choice).

I've made a card and matching gift pouch using my favourite colour duo.



I've used some new cute bear stamps that just happened to fall into my basket when I visited the LOTV shop on my holiday travels to York at Easter.  I think they're really great on this C&S themed project and I used a different image on each item in the set.

Here's a close up of the little gift pouch which is a template from our sponsor at the As You Like It Challenge this week, Shape EZ.




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  • Anything Goes - Not a Square - do you remember the cream card bases, Lynne !  ;0) 
  • Sweet Stampin' - C&S
  • Papertake Weekly - The Sound Of Music 'These are a few of my favourite things' :
       - Two favourite colours (pastel pink & blue),
       - Favourite rubber stamp company (LOTV),
       - Favourite digi paper company (Nitwits),
       - Favourite animals (teddies),
       - Favourite colouring medium (DI reinkers)
       - Favourite style (cute and cuddly!)
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Jingle Bells

The theme today at ABC Christmas Challenge is J for Jingle Bells.

I've used an adorable image from Wiff of Joy of Maya with Kitty drinking Hot Chocolate (with cream and marsh mallows of course!).  The little kitty had a teeny bell on his collar, but in case that is not enough jingle to qualify, I've also used a jingle bell die cut in sparkly blue at the top.


Whilst I've got your attention, I'd like to let you know that there's a Special Promotion on at the Stamp Basket for the next week, ending on Tuesday 21 May so get your skates on and pop over to see the bargains.



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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Boxing Clever

The theme today at Top Tip Tuesday is to make a box, and there's also a tutorial on how to make a 6-sided box.  So I've had a go at making one.  It's a bit different and really looks great when it's made. It's also much more simple to make than it looks as the template is quite easy to make.

Hope you like my purple gift box.




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Monday, 13 May 2013

Clean and Simple Barry

I've got a 'just for fun' card today using a cute image from Stampfairy called Barry Spring.  It's a nice clean and simple layout, and I've painted my image with Distress Re-inkers.



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    Sunday, 12 May 2013

    Mariella

    Today's card for The Stamp Basket features Mariella from Crafter's Companion.  I've used a pretty pink and blue colour scheme to match the papers, added some blue ribbon and a blue button and also some new dies.

    I've used Arianna Sprig, Dancing Butterflies and Forest Snail from Memory box, and also my new La La Lands Heart fence which I've coloured with some brown streaks to give it a wood grain effect.

    Don't tell anyone, but I didn't have the right shade of blue for the flower sprig die, so I cut it out in white and coloured it with my Copics!!




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