Jumping in Puddles....

Who can resist jumping in a puddle, at some stage our lives, just to test how deep it is ? :-)

Funnily, it is my eldest son (10 yrs old) who is the worst for getting wet feet, my youngest does like a puddle, but because Peppa Pig only wears welly boots to jumps in puddles, then that is what he does. I'm very sure that will change one day.

The beginning of the month sees another stamp highlighted at 'Stamp of the Month', at the Stamp-n-Doodle website, where the above image, named Puddlejumper is offered at a 25% discount.

 Lynne has so many wonderful digi and rubber stamped images as well as her FABULOUS line of Crafts U Print items and NEW ITEMS being added all the time! Also, make sure you check out the work of our FABULOUS NEW Tutorial DT members at THE LEARNING CENTER part of the shop

Why not visit the Stamp n Doodle BLOG to see what my  team members have created with this image, I'm sure you'll find plenty of inspiration.

Thanks for taking the time to visit.

Sunday Sketch and Stamp challenge #99

This is my card for this weeks challenge on the Sunday Sketch and Stamp blog. I'm really enjoying using the sketches at the moment, and a great way to use the really pretty Basic grey, Capella collection of papers. Also I was able to get back to using some of my favourite stamps, these being from the wonderful designs of Barbara Gray at Clarity Stamps.

 

Card Recipe
6x6" base card - white watercolour paper
backing papers - Basic Grey Capella collection
Embellishments - Flower & white flourishes, cordinating card stock stickers from Basic grey
- flourishes enhanced with liquid pearls (soft pink & white opal), faux pearls, sticky gems
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - weathered straw, bundled sage, brushed courdroy, peeled paint

To create the scene in the smallest circle (2.5" diameter)  I used a collection of miniture clear stamps from Clarity, stamping them with distress inks onto watercolour paper. Having built up the scene, I used I make up sponge and again the distress inks (see the picture for colours), picking up small amounts of ink at a time and dabbing onto the paper. The bird table was masked, so it could be watercoloured  after.

 

Thanks for taking a look.

D is for Dad - an Embossing Challenge

Hi Stamp n Doodle challenge time again, this week we ask that a form of embossing is used on your creation.  Of course, we would love to see you use a STAMP-N-DOODLE image on your creation, but you are not required to use one to join us. Come have some fun and a chance to win a digi from STAMP-N-DOODLE SHOP.

This week I am getting ready for holiday, can't wait we are jetting of to Spain for the first week of the Easter holiday and soak up some that elusive sun. Also can you believe we are having a couple of days skiing too - in Southern Spain! Seems mad doesn't it, but apparently the slopes of Granada, Sierra Nevada are worth a visit. I'm a novice myself, so I'm sure I'll have stories to tell on my return.

 

So here is my card for this weeks challenge, made very late last night while I was up with my little boy who was coughing all through the night. Of course hearing a toddler cough in bed means that you can't sleep yourself until they quieten down, unfortunatly last night he only had about 2 hours rest. It was the perfect time to create, strange I really get emersed in crafting at that late hour.

I pleased to say that tonight, he is tucked into bed and I havn't heard a peep from him, the doctor prescribed something that has obviously done the trick - phew

Card Recipe

Stamp-n-Doodle image - Lonesome cowboy

Art Nouveau Cricut cartridge - pg 44 cut the letter D (font 2) & all associated layers at 5.5"

Decorative papers - My Minds Eye, Complete Boy collection by Jen Wilson

& Core-dinations whitewash (sand colour)

Promarkers - black, warm grey 4, cinnamon, sandstone, Gold, blush, powder blue, ruby

Hero arts alphabet stamps & gold embossing powder

Scrappers floss (tawny)

The image was coloured with promarkers , but to give the clothes of the cowboy that old worn in look the whole image was first coloured in with the sandstone colour (warm grey for the shirt). The shading and extra colours were then added on top and the vibrancy of the colours were muted. I was pleased with the outcome, the more I use Lynnes digi stamps and promarkers to colour them, the more confident I am becoming and getting reasonable results (i think anyway).

I did cut away all the white paper from the image and this has allowed it to blend and bee part of the card, i think giving the illusion he is sitting within the D itself. Also if you look closely i have used a length of scrapping floss, coiled and stuck it over the rope that is being held - adds some dimension to the otherwise flat image.

I have used D, but of course it could have been anything, and would be ideal to personalise with the initial of the recipient.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and have a look.

Bye,

'Birdie Wishes'

Just a quick post from me tonight, its a bit late!
I have made this card and dug out products and stamps that havn't seen the light of dau for quite a while, and I am really enjoying re-visiting all the stash Iwas so excited to buy at the time.

The bird is from a collection of clear Inkadinkadoo birds, that are just so decorative. It was stamped in versamark clear ink and coloured with Rangers perfect pearls, a pigment coloured mica powder, that has an amazing sheen when tilted in the light. unfortunatly i could capture that in the photo.

I have also made this card using the latest sketch (#98) from the challenge blog Sunday Sketch and Stamp. I'm finding it a great way to to make a card, as alot of the time I usually take making decisions of the look of the card, can now be spent concentrating on the stamped image and embellishments.

Thanks for taking a look.

Challenge Circles - Happy Birthday Rosette

Tuesday is here again and time for another Stamp-n-Doodle challenge.

This week we are challenging you to use circles or ovals on your creation, what will you be able to come up with I wonder.

Of course, we would love to see you use a STAMP-N-DOODLE image on your creation, but you are not required to use one to join us. Come have some fun and a chance to win a digi from STAMP-N-DOODLE SHOP!

 I look forward to see what you post over on the Stamp -n-Doodle challenge blog.

I am really enjoying being on this design team, not only do I get a chance to use use some lovely images, but it is giving me a chance to actually get making again. I thought that while my husband was working away for a couple of weeks at a time I would have more time to create. Its not quite worked out that way, and I always seem to find I get caught up with giving priority to other jobs, and of course being a Mum.

Talking of which the inspiration for this card today, is the state of my 10 year olds' school books!! When he pulls them out for homework each night, I see them get progressively more dog-earred and graffitti'd as the year goes on. being I bit of a stickler more keeping papers and books neat and tidy, I really have to bite my tongue and not nag too much about keeping them tidy. It would fall on deaf ears !!!

As a celebration of the scruffy books, i too have created a neatly dog earred card  hehe........ hope you like it.

Card Recipe

Nice Kitty image from the Stamp-n-Doodle shop

Cricut Imagine cartridge - Notebook doodles (all paper on card)

Cricut Cartridge Ribbons & Rosettes - 6x stamp2 (p56) sections cut at 2"

promarkers

button & bakers twine from stash

Kaisercraft bubblewrap & grid clear stamps

various clear doodle stamps from stash

Black soot distress ink

Card Candy 8x8" card blank

Method

1) For the rosette, the way they are made using the cricut cartridge, is to cut sections a couple of inches long, in the desired height (remember the finished diameter of the rosette is twice the height of each section), and stick them all together forming a long chain.

The chain for this rosette ended up 3" high, 24" long.

2) Concertina fold all the way along the 24"  at the pre scored markers (to do yourself score along the strip at 1 or 1.5 cm intervals). Adhere the 2 ends together (ensuring the concertine continues) to form a ring.

3) Prepare a 2" diameter circle of cardstock with a generous 'dollop' of your tried and tested glue.  Push the centre of the concertina'd ring don onto the circle of card, and put a heavy weight on top  - and applly some patience while the glue dries. hehe, honeslty you really must be patient because the rosette will not be usable until glue has dried completely.

4) The image was printed then coloured with promarkers, and matted and latered onto co-ordinating coloured circle mats. Glue on top of rosette with a strong glue.

5) The rossette was placed onto the card and the backing paper was stamped with various doodle stamps using black soot distress ink. The distressed tearing of the backing paper was dampened slightly to allow the paper to soften and therefore be rolled and to stay in position.





Hope you have enjoyed this post, thank you for taking the time to look.



Mothers Day

Hi, I wanted to share the card I made for Mum this year for Mothers Day. I wanted to try something a bit different, and have had a couple of products sitting in my room that I havn't had a chance to play with since christmas, until now.

one of those was the cricut cartridge Art Nouveau, and also the Tim Holtz grunge paper. here you can see I have combined the two and created the dimensional swan.

If you don't know already, grunge paper is a grey flexible fibrous paper of a substantial thickness (2-3mm), but will very readily take any type of colour application, embossing, cutting, distressing etc.

The more I played with it, the more I wanted to do....so can't wait until my next project with it.

Card Recipe

6x6" card blank

Cricut Cartridge Art Nouveau - swan cut at 3"

Tim Holtz grunge paper

Tim Holtz Idealogy, lost & found paper pack

Distress Stains - chipped sapphire, dusty concord, victorian velvet, antique linen, picket fence

Tim Holtz tissue tape

Tim Holtz acrylic fragment 2" square

Stampers anonymous wallpaper cling stamp

Tim Holtz dusty concord distress embossing powder

Bo bunny metal slider

Scrappers Floss, Lace, gems, embossing folder, metallic rub-ons all from stash

Here you can see how I laced the scrappers floss to attach it to the lace and tie the bow. I doubled up the floss, to give a more substantial bow detail 

 

 You can see the dimension in the swan, with the wing being made up with four layers, before sitting on the body, providing the fifth layer. I have tried to capture from a couple of angles in the photos that the wing layers (feathers) are fanned. All layers reach across and sit under the small top layer (linen colour), and it was here that I glued each together, allowing the movement at the back of the swan.

 

This is the base of the card, taken from the ideology stack (6x6") section. Two strips of the tissue tape placed up the side and then run through the cuttlebug. it wasn't possible because of the size of the paper and cuttlebug aperture, to emboss the whole sheet, so the top third of the paper was stamped with the antique wallpaper stamp and then embossed with dusty concord embossing powder. The advantage being the special release particles within the powder allowing some of it to be rubbed away (without compromising the image), adding to the distress look. i was really pleased with the outcome. And the colours were gorgeous together.

  I was quite chuffed with how it turned out, and can't wait to use the grunge paper again, i think it can be put to use in many many ways.

Best go to bed now, its time to get some sleep.
Night night,

Sunday Sketch Challenge

I made this card using this weeks sketch from the Sunday Sketch and Stamp challenge blog. It was a perfect excuse (as if I needed one !) to use the papers from DCWV, that I 'just needed to have' when I saw them sitting in the craft shop, waiting to go home with someone (hehe, me!!:-)

I paper pieced the little hat and dress to match, the floral paper to one of the backing strips, reminds me of the cute little pinafores girls wear for school.

Card Recipe

Card base - 12x12" scalloped card cut down to 6x12"

DCWV patterned card stock - Linen Closet stack

SWALK stamp -Sunshine

Watercolour pencils

Prima flower and button

Blue organza ribbon

Cricut cartridge - Cindy Loo (tree altered to fit card with gypsy)

Thank you for taking a look.

Challenges entered
Sunday, Sketch & Stamp - Challenge #97 Marie's sketch and DT call
Sugar Creek Hollow - #3 Layers