Moonlit Lioness

This weeks sees a new challenge over at Stamp n Doodle, where we ask you to include an embossed element on your creation. That could include heat embossing or dry embossing, and you are not limited where you use and include it (just as long as it is somewhere).

 I couldn't resist using this gorgeous digi stamp and creating a beautiful moonlit scene, with distress inks and stamps that I have in my stash.

Card Recipe

Stamp n Doodle digi stamp - Love is in the air

Silver Birch Trees, leaves and verse - Clarity Stamps

Base card - Tim Holtz core'dinations paper (adirondack)

White coated paper

black card stock

black self adhesive ribbon

Distress Inks (black soot, chipped sapphire, crushed olive)

Promarkers (sandstone, dusky pink, satin, primrose)

Silver embossing powder

Cuttlebug and embossing folder

You can see above what I used to create the card. To create the background, I printed the lions onto a coated paper, stamped and embossed the silver birch trees beside the lions. The same images were then printed onto sticky notes and cut out, to act as masks (you can see above the well used masks that are somewhat inky!)

By placing the masks over the images on the coated paper, also adding an additional 2" mask above the lions head that will create the moon.

 I inked up the brayer (roller) with the chipped sapphire ink, and starting in the corner over the moon, covered the paper working towards the bottom where the blue faded.

I then inked the brayer with black soot, and repeated the process from the opposite corner (by the trees) and worked upwards. The contours of the black were created by ripping copy paper into a hill formation, covering the blue sky, so that the colours are not mixed.

I continued inking until i was happy with the intensity of the colour.

When the masks are removed the image comes to life, and the lions then coloured with promarkers.

The second embossed element on the card is the base card. Because of the nature of the core'dinations paper, the embossing is sanded back and a subtle second colour is showing through.

Thanks for stopping by. Why not hop over to the Stamp n Doodle blog to get more inspiration from the wonderful creations of my team members, and maybe join in with the challenge too.

Challenges entered this week

Emmas craft challenge - Shades of blue

Lace and Ribbons

This theme this week at Stamp n Doodle was LACE & FLOWERS (Any lace and flowers - can be die cuts, punches, actual lace and flowers, etc )
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Card recipe

Digital image from Stamp n Doodle, Puppy Love

White card base 6x8 inch

Background paper, handmade flowers & smal flower border sticker - Basic Grey, Capella collection

Lace - lovely surprise gift from Mum

Tim Holtz stick pin with K & Co. heart tag

Die cut flowers cut with Cricut cartridge, Mothers Day Bouquet

With the boys on half term last week, we went out to the cinema, and naturally looked in a few shops. I saw a card that was incredibly simple, but very effective, so I used that as my inspiration in starting this card and a means to do something  bit different with the lace.

The lacey panel is an ATC (artist trading card) wrapped in 4 lengths of ribbons, and then used as the backdrop for the ever so cute digital image from STAMP n DOODLE. The image of the little girl was printed twice, in brown to keep the softness of the image in keeping with the rest of the colour palette (shown below). 

One of the images was coloured with promarkers, cut out and decoupaged onto the other image.

I made the flowers using one of my favourite Basic Grey paper collections, Capella. I used the Cricut cartridge Mothers Day Bouquet to cut the flower layers.

This is the card for this weeks challenge over and the STAMP n DOODLE challenge blog.

Why not hop over and join in too. New challenges are posted weekly on a Tuesday. You can also enter the Never Ending Badge Contest to be in with a chance to win a FREE Digital Image monthly from Stamp n doodle! All you have to do is paste the Stamp N Doodle Badge (with a link back to the Blog) on your own blog and you are entered. You only have to enter once. As long as the badge is on your blog with an active link you are eligible to win!
There is plenty of inspiration on offer from the rest of the design team, who have all submitted their own amazing designs.

I have also entered this card into the following
Crafty Bloggers Network - Shabby chic
Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Flower Power
Creatalicious challenges - All about Lace
Crafts and Me - Distressed

Thank you for taking the time to come over and visit.

Exciting News

Well, its half term, again, the christmas holidays were only 5 minutes ago, that's how it seems anyway.
Where is the time going?
And I still have a lingering cold type thing that will not go and for the last 5 days it feels as though my head has been stuffed with cotton wool, and I can barely hear a thing.

Its not a good time to be feeling under the weather with the boys at home - but then again, if I can't hear properly maybe it will block out some of the bickering and whinging that you otherwise bother me.....mmmmm.  The boys are not that bad honestly, and the youngest is at nursery for 3 of the mornings anyway, giving me a chance to spend some time with my eldest. In a complete turn up for the books, I have now started to teach him how to play the guitar!. So far he is really enthusiastic and listening to me. Its great, I started learning at around his age, and have 2 guitars so its perfect. Its lovely to see him learning on my original smaller instrument

Anyway that is not my exciting news.......I can now say that I can put my 'creative makings' to good use and have been invited by a website www.stamp-n-doodle.com  to join a design team, and along with the rest of the team members provide a design for their weekly challenges on their blog.


Here is my first offering for the up coming challenge FOOD or BEVERAGE.

 Stamp-n-Doodle is a Canadian  based stamp company founded by Lynne Crosskill.  There is a wonderful collection of digi stamps, and also unmounted rubber stamps, that range from character figures, but also natural images of wild animals and scenery, that will appeal to those who do not tend to go for 'cutsey' images. I am really taken with them all.

Hope you can make it over and join in with the challenges.


 Thank you for taking the time to visit me.

Quickie notelets

Hi, just a quick post really to test out the new blogpress app on my phone.
I had made a couple of quick note let cards to pop into a couple of parcels, and because they were small (5x5 inch) they photographed nicely with my camera phone. I coloured the cards with distress inks. The purple card is coloured with dusty concord, and the hedgehog card is coloured with old paper and highlights of crushed olive.

I have been able to spend a bit of time crafting this week, and will be back soon with a few things to share.
See you then, bye.
Claire x

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