A snowy scene - Colourific Inspiration

Hello Everyone
and welcome to my blog.

For this weeks Colourific Inspiration I have gone all snowy.
In honest, I'm an autumn baby so October and November are my favourite months.. but you cant beat a bit of snow lol

For this weeks project I used a selection of colourific stamps, you can find them all in the STORE.

Ive used:
Sentiment (from the Christmas minis set)
Snowman (from the stitched Friends set)
Snow background (the Spotty background stamp)
Robbin (from the Christmas Minis set)
Candy cane (from the Santa's Sleigh set)

 For this card I made a snowy background by first stamping my spotty background stamp, using versamark ink, and heat setting with clear embossing powder.

I then made a hill stencil from a piece of copy paper and used distress ink to create the hills.
I stamped, coloured and fuzzy cut my snowman, candy cane and robin and added them all on foam pads.
I stamped and die cut my sentiment and die cut a few Christmas trees to finish the card.

And that is all from me for today.

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Colour Crazy Challenge -Guest Designer - Breast Cancer awareness image

Hello Beautiful People
And welcome to my blog.

Todays post is once again for my Guest Design Team

Colour Crazy


Its a weekly challenge with an "Anything Goes" theme, as long as you colour your images. But pop over to the blog for all the rules and regulations.

I have joined the Design Team this for this weeks challenge and used a digital image from
Ching-Chou Kuik and have used the image called "Believe in Faith/Breast Cancer awareness Ribbon Girl". A stunning piece of art work.

My background is a stamp from my stash I stamped repeatedly with distress ink and smothered in more distress ink. I scruffed the edges with a pair of sissors and added more distress ink.

My image is printed on to watercolour cardstock, left to dry overnight and coloured with watercolour pencils. My sentiments are diecut and layered and covered with a glitter pen for a bit of shimmer.

And that is it. For all the details of the challenge pop over to the blog.

  Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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Daring Cardmarkers challenge - Guest designer

Hello Beautiful People
and welcome to my blog.

Todays post is to share with you a wee card Ive made for
Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog.

Its a weekly challenge and I have joined the DT for the month of september.
Make sure to pop over to the blog for all the deatils.

The challenge this week is called "Elemental Inspiration". Meaning you use a picture as inspiration and use 3 elements from it to create your own card.

I love the picture used for inspiration. It reminded me of the sea and the naticaul theme so that is what I went with.I used a back ground paper and a ton of dies to create this card. It was simply just layering it all up. My greeting has some sparkle to it although it dont show up on the picture. I finished with a few white Nuvo drops.

And that is it. For all the details of the challenge pop over to the blog.

  Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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BeeCrafty - SNEAK PEAK of brand new stamps

Hello Bloggers..

I have a very exciting post to share today..
I have gotten the honour of sharing a sneakpeak of the BRAND NEW stamps from
BeeCrafty.

Make sure you tune into Hochanda this friday at 10am & 3pm.

 

The stamps for this brand new release are amazing and its all about Safari.

They are'nt yet in the BeeCrafty STORE, but will be avaliable on Hochanda from Friday.

Here are my samples, and DO look forward to se what all the other girls have made.. Their samples are amazing as always..

 Stamping and black embossing powder.

 Alcohol inks on vellun, stamping and black embossing powder.

 Gelli plate background with acrylic paint. Stamping and high lights with white gel pen.

 Distress ink background, water sprayed through star stencil. Circles die cut, stamped and tripple heat embossed with black embossing powder, smothered in distress ink.

 Another Gelli plate background and plain black stamping.

The sentiments I've used are the new BIG sentiments. The sentiments are the same as previously released BUT they are BIIIIGGG.. I just love them. Next week I will share a few more samples I have made for the show, but only used the sentiments.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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FraticStamper.. Its been a journey..

Hey Bloggers..

Ah its with a bit of a heavy heart I write todays post..
Its my last as a guest DT member for
FranticStamper.

I have had such a blast and Im overwhelmed with the generosity from the girls. The amount of goodies I have recieved to play with.. ah it's all been amazing..
But my term has come to an end and I just want to extend a huge THANK YOU to Fran and Kathy for having me. 

Anyway.. I made a project for today, once again using a selection of dies.
You can find the whole selection over in the STORE.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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FraticStamper - Scrappage

Hey Bloggers

My turn to share some inspiration for my Guest DT for

FranticStamper.

Today i have teamed the egyptian dies with the British dies and paperdoll and made a fun little scrappage of my "baby". Abbie is 7 now so not a baby any more but she is my youngest so will always be the baby lol

Make sure you pop over to the STORE to see the full collection. There is something for everyone..

 

I have started to scrap onto A4 instead of 12x12. I dont scrap often anymore, simply due to time, but once in a while I take the time to create a memory like this.

These "around the world" dies just fitted this picture of Abbie so well. She is standing on "our" road leading from our house to her grandparents house. She always loved walking up to visit grandma and Grandpa. Sadly they are both in heaven now, but the house is still in the family so the journey isnt over and the memories lives on.

This page is made using a couple of stencils from my stash. Im afraid I dont know what companies they may be from as I take them out of the packaging and store them in a folder. BUt I used several with a bit of distress ink through. I then diecut all the dies I wanted and coloured them with distress ink. Then it was a simple matter of layering them up how I wanted and stick them to the LayOut.

A very simple page but hey if you visit my blog regularly, you will know that that is simply just my style lol

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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FranticStamper - More Egypt..

Hey bloggers 

and welcome..

Time to share a few more of my creations I made with the amazing New Release dies from
FranticStamper..

 Pop over to the FranticStamper STORE to see the whole collection. The theme is All around the world and its an amazing collection. 

I have once again used the egyptian themed dies and I have 4 projects for today. This is seriously one of my favorite die series I have ever seen.

 

I wanna tell you a funny little thing that happened when I was making these.
I was working away and my 12 year old son came into me. I had already shown him the dies and he loves them as much as me. (totally history buff this kid is and he is patiently waiting till he can play with the dies). Anyway, I had diecut a whole selection of these images, just sitting shuffling them about to get some ideas.. My son looks at me and says "mum your not gonna put those two ones together are you?? they dont go together". So I asked him to explain and he said: " the sarcophagus means death, its like a coffin and your putting it next to the hieroglyphic of life, that wont work mum". I got it delivered with a head shake, eye rolls and a laugh lol..
Personally still think the 2 would look great together my my history buff told me otherwise so I listened and kept them apart lol..

 Anyway.. this one is made from craft card smothered in Distress ink. I die cut my map in gold. When I diecut the map, all the little pieces stayed together even when i took it out of the die. Im guessing its because its such a detailed die?? But it still cuts perfect. So I added foam tape on the back of the map itself, but only glue on a the land pieces. I then took the whole thing, stuck it where I wanted it on my card and used a ball tool to push the land pieces down onto the card. As there was already glue there, all the pieces went strait onto the card and voila.. Easy peasy..

I diecut my paperdoll and used the egyptian add on die to dress him using black, gold and craft card.
The pyramid is just dicut, added distress ink and stuck strait to the card with foam tape.

 This one is very simple. My mat is gold mirri card as is my greeting. The Sphinx and the pyramid are just craft card with distress ink. My background is a sheet of paper from a Tim Holts paper pack. 

 And then there is these little beauties.. It was the first creation I made when the dies landed on my table. The hieroglyphics just lend them selves to this amazing little gift box. Its another die from the collection but it can be used for soooooo many things. It cuts the wee box in 1 go, with all the fold lines on it, so a spot of glue and voila.

One of the other girls have made boxes just like mine, with the same hieroglyphics on them, pure coincidence, but she has made her boxes in gold.. They look amazing so make sure you keep an eye of for her creation.

 

Last but not least for today.. One of my favorites.. I simply diecut the sarcophagus mutiple times from gold mirri card and added them to a white card blank. I matted and layered onto gold again and diecut my greeting from brown card stock. I did however find that the greeting got a bit lost, so I used one of my favorite tricks, I layered my greeting on top of a strip of vellum. It mutes the background a little bit but is still visible..

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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BeeCrafty Inspiration.. More Bookmarks

Hello Blogger Friends..

Wednesday again and my turn to share a bit of inspiration for
BeeCrafty..

I have a few more bookmarks to share today.. As I mentioned last week, I had the christmas craft fair coming up and I wanted a few bookmarks to sell as they flew out the door last year. As well as this year.. So I made some using the stamps from BeeCrafty. This time I used Brusho and a selection of the Banksy Stamps. I did also use a selection of stencils from various companies, but check out the Stencils from BeeCrafty, something for everyone.

These have all been made the same way. No magic. Simply just a tag diecut, sprinkled with Brusho's, sprayed with water. Left to dry, Stamped and distress ink through stencils.. Finish with matching ribbon and Voila!!

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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FranticStamper New Release Inspiration..

Hello dear bloggers 

and welcome..

Today im sharing my first post, for this month, for my guest DT
FranticStamper..

This months release is amazing. Dont get me wrong, all the releases are pretty darn amazing, but this one.. really hit a spot with me.. Its "all around the world".. 

As some may know, Im Danish, but I live in Ireland with my Irish husband and our babies. Our 2 cultures are not worlds apart, but it has always been very important to us that our children understands and respect different cultures. One of their aunties come from Japan, and another from Germany so many cultures enter our lives..

On top of that, my son is a right history buff.. He loves everything about vikings, greek mythology, anything to do with Gods and EGYPT.. Ohh how not only he, but all of us loves Egypt. We hope one day to be able to afford a trip there..

And that will explain my creations (and the amount of them I made lol)
Part of this collection is EGYPT.. Darn they are amazing these dies. And Im not gonna lie, I a'int done creating with them..

Listen, enough of me rambling on.. Pop over to the FranticStamper STORE to see the whole collection. As I said, theme is All around the world.

This little paper doll here have been with FranticStamper for a while I believe, but for this release, they have designed the accsesories to match the different places in the world. Again, you need to pop to the store to see them all.

Both of these creations (above) have been made on craft card. It was mealy diecutting, smotherings of distress inks in various brown colours and a spot of edge distressing with a distress tool. (Use your sissors if you dont have a distress tool, just be very careful)

Not much magic in this one either but I do love the look of it. The background is made on white card stock, again with distress ink and I used a water mister to create the splatter effect. I diecut again from craft card and my greeting in brown card, and this time matted and layered on gold mirri card.

And that is it for today. Ill have more creations using these amazing dies, next friday.

 Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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FranticStamper Inspiration.

Hi Blogger Friends

Its once again my turn to share a bit of inspiration for my guest DT,
FranticStamper.

Im using the November release called A life of Love and Music. Its a beautiful collection of dies and stamps. Visit the STORE to see the full collection.

 

 For this card, I teamed this months release with last months. (Find it HERE)
Last month was the beautiful christmas collection and it just suit so perfect with these music stamps.

My background is distress ink and the FRA-CLG-B033 Bit of music stamp which I heat embossed in gold. I then cut the FRA-DIE-103255 Layered Tree die and the FRA-DIE-10342 Joy die from white card stock. I coloured all the parts of the tree and the letters with distress ink and added to my card.
The tree comes as seperate dies and needs to be layered up to make the tree. I love this as it gives real dimention when you layer the pieces up. On my tree on this card, I used silicone glue so the tress really stands out again the beautiful music background.

 This one was very simple to make but really stands out due to the colours and the beautiful die I've used for the background.
My background is simply distress ink and then water stamped with the FRA-CLG-B033 Bit of music stamp. I then repeatedly die cut the FRA-DIE-10354 Musical Heart die and just glued each die cut strait to my background. I finished with FRA-DIE-10351 Love and Kisses die, which I cut and triple heat embossed in gold, layered onto a piece of vellum.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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FranticStamper - New Release Inspiration - Love & Music.

Hello Bloggers.

Its once again my turn to share a bit of inspiration for my guest DT,
FranticStamper.

Im using the November release called A life of Love and Music. Its a beautiful collection of dies and stamps. Visit the STORE to see the full collection.

For my 2 cards today, I have used the following:
Piano Keys Edger - FRA-DIE-10293
Musical Heart - FRA-DIE10354
Love and Kisses - FRA-DIE 10351
A Bit of Music - FRA-CLG-B033 (background stamp)

For this one I started with a black piece of cardstock. I die cut my Piano Keys die towards the bottom of the black cardstock. I then used the edge of the die and made a mask to cover the diecutting. By using the edge of the die I got a mask that matched the curved of the diecutting.

I then stamped my background stamp at the top of my black cardstock (I lay my mask over the diecutting) and heat set it with white embossing powder. I then die cut my Heart and my greeting from silver mirri card. I diecut 2 of each and stuck together to raise them up a bit from the card.

I then matted my black background on to silver mirri card, stuck my heart and greeting down and voila, all done.

Right for this one... I started with a black piece of cardstock as before and I diecut my piano just as before. The die dont seperate the bottom from the keys fully, so I just snipped that bit of. This left me with a piece fitting my cardblank BUT with the bottom bit missing.

I then took my cardblank. I needed the bottom bit removed to replace with accetate. I simply used the edge of the die itself to give me the right curve, drew a faint line with a pencil and cut by hand.
I then stuck a piece of accetate on the inside of my cardblank.

I then added my black piece of card on top of the cardblank and the white card shows through the holes where the keys are.
I diecut my greeting from glitter cardstock and added to the card and voila..

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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