Growing Friendship

 Good afternoon, hope your weekend is amazing! We are spending it quietly at home.

I'm back with another of this weekend's new releases from Stamper's Delights. Chibi Friendship Grows is a sweet little gardener:

I printed her, her flower and the included sentiment onto stamping card. She was colored with Copic markers and trimmed to size.

I cut the top front section off a 7x7in card base. Then matted the remaining bottom section and inside with pink card and patterned papers. I also matted the section I had removed and adhered this back at a 90 degree angle in the center of the bottom front of the card, giving me an upside down T for the card front.

My Chibi and sentiment were matted with pink card and arranged on the center panel. I fussy cut the little flower and used foam pads to attach it to my card.

Finally I colored some card candy to coordinated with papers and added this to either side of my image panel.

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies!

Also for this weekend Stamper's Delights have a great give away over on the Kit and Clowder Facebook group - Come and see how you can win both clear and digital stamps!!!

All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know!

Racoon Love

Good evening and Happy New Year!!! Let's hope by the end on 2021 the world is in a better place, life is easier and we can all hug each other again!

Talking about hugging my card today has a cutie to hug:

She is from Stamper's Delights and is called Anime Jane & Racoon. She was colored with Copic markers, placed in a die cut frame and added to a card base matted with yellow cardstock. I added the 'With Love' sentiment to complete the card.

Stamper's Delights is having a month long sale save 35% off any orders of £5 or more! It includes everything in the store except items already discounted. So you can get this adorable image or any that you have had your eyes on just by using the code JANSALE2021

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of the images available.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know! 

 

From Us and Ours at Christmas

 Good afternoon, we are going to have a white Christmas, it's been snowing on and off all day it makes it feel so much more festive. As all my personal cards have hopefully been received by now I can share them here.

 Both my kids grew up being able to recite the book Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney we loved the book and still do. So when Colorado Craft Company brought out a range of stamps drawn by Anita Jeram the illustrator from the book I had to have them.  My first cards are using some of these stamps. This one went to a neighbor who recently moved states and is missed! I used to provide doggy day care for her puppy so of course cards to her always have puppies on them

This stamp is from the Christmas Presents set. I stamped the image and sentiment onto watercolor card and broke out my Spectrum Noir Aquablend watercolor pencils to color this pooch. 

I wanted a clean and simple card so card base was matted with dark red cardstock and my image added. I also matted the inside and colored and added another image from the set with Merry Christmas sentiment: 

My next card is using stamps from the same company, this set is Snow Happy:

Again I stamped on to watercolor card and colored with my Aquablend pencils the added sentiments. I matted a card inside and out with aqua cardstock and added my image on the front and stamped the cute bunny inside too

I also made some 3D cards I bought these cutting file from Silhouette Design store, cut the individual parts on my Cameo and built them up. The files are designed by Lori Whitlock and there is a whole collection of different ones:

 

I do have more to share but I don't want to spoil the surprise so check back for more later!!

Thank you for taking time to read and Merry Christmas, keep safe and well!

Home Tweet Home

Good afternoon! Despite being stuck at home this year is flying by, I can't believe we are at the end of July already!

Guess what?? Stamper's Delights' Kawaii new release starts now!!!! head on over to the store and check out the cute images they have. For my design team inspiration I have 2 cards to show you using Tweet Kawaii:

Aren't they cute!!!

My first card show one of the cuties singing away in her tree:

I arranged multiple elements from the digital stamp collection onto stamping card, colored them with alcohol markers and stenciled clouds in the background;

My second card uses the bird house as its base:

So I resized and printed 2 version of the bird house, I used one as a template to make my card base, I cut 2 of them from cover stock card, scored down the side of one, glued these together and hey presto! a bird house shaped card base! The second bird house was fussy cut, including the heart in the center. I used alcohol markers to color this and the bird. The house was stenciled with a vine stencil. I then adhered bird in the center of the card base. Foam tape was added to the house and this was adhered so the bird was looking out of the center. The Home Sweet Home sentiment was matted on coordinating card and added using foam squares.

What I Used:

Digital Stamp: Stamper's Delights - Tweet Kawaii

Stamping card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Stencil for clouds: Picket Fence - Layers of Clouds

Stencil for bird House: Sara's Signature Collection - Enchanted Forest Hanging Foliage

Card base: Neenah Solar White 110lb Coverstock

Blue and brown cardstock for mats: Core'dinations Premium

Glue: Zip Dry

Foam Tape; Dollar Store

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases. including these:

                               

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! You can also use your Stamper's Delights images to enter the Cheerful Sketches Challenge as we are sponsoring them this month 

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know!

Hello!

Good afternoon, how is everyone doing? Social distancing is 2 words that I never thought I would be using given my previous occupation as a nurse! Life is hard currently but we are all trying to make the best of it. Kev has worked from home this week, Mollie has been keeping up with school work as well as enjoying being at home. The dogs just think everyone is here to play with them and me? well i'm spending as much time as I can in my craft room.

today I'm sharing with you a sweet card I made with an image that has been sitting on my desk begging to be colored. She is from Sherry West and is called You Light Up My Heart.

What I Did:

I resized and printed the image onto stamping card she was then colored with alcohol markers and die cut into an oval. picking out colors from the image I chose a yellow cardstock and a pretty flowered design paper. These were both matted on to my 5x7in card base. I die cut a further oval in the yellow card and matted my sweet image with it before adding her to my card. I used coordinating ribbon for a bow to add to the top of the Oval. Finally I die cut the word hello 3 times from dark blue card, adhered these together and added to the card.

What I Used:
Digital Image: Sherry West: You Light Up My Heart
Markers: Copic (sorry I didn't list colors)
White Card for Base: Core'Dinations Premium Cardstock
Yellow Card: Core'Dinations color core
Design Paper: Lili Of The Valley (Retired)
Die Cut: Hero Arts: Stamp and Cut Hello
Ribbon from my stash
Glue: ZipDry

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Kawaii Kitties

Good afternoon, we are waiting on another snow front coming in that is supposed to last the weekend. We didn't get half of what was expected last week so we'll just so how it goes. It is very cold out though!

My card today is highlighting a new image from Scrapper's Delights. Janice who owns the company has decided to design Kawaii images and I LOVE them! So much so that i have used both of the new images. Today's card is using Kawaii Miss Kitty She is so adorable and has her own sentiments included.

 

Here's What I Did

I printed the image and Hello sentiment onto stamping card and colored her with my Copic markers. I added some freckles with a gel pen to both her and her kitty hat. 

I then used my scan n Cut to cut the Hello letters. While it was cutting I trimmed my image down and inked the edges of the card.

I cut my card base from 110lb card and folded this to form a 5x7in card

I then chose some printed patterned paper that fit with my colors in my image. As this had a fine green line running through it I used green card to mat this and my image on to.

I adhered my image to my card, as is normal for me I put her at an angle. My letters were placed on pop dots and positioned along the bottom of the card

Here's What I Used

Digital Stamp: Kawaii Miss Kitty

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Copic Markers

Uniball white gel pen

Distress Ink: Worn Lipstick

White card: Core'Dinations Premium

Green Card: Core'Dinations

Patterned Paper: Lili of the Valley (retired)

Zipdry Glue

foam pop dots

Thanks for stopping by, come back tomorrow to see another of these super cute images. If you like what you see or just want to say hi then leave me a comment

Kuddly Koala

Good afternoon, We are supposed to be under a winter storm warning with up to a foot of snow but so far it's only raining. It's so cold that it's freezing rain so if the snow does come it will likely settle.

I'm sure you have all seen the devastation that is hitting Australia with all the fires. Being a huge animal lover it is so sad seeing all the pictures of the native animals suffering and dying. So today's card is in honor of them. I love koala bears and couldn't imagine a world without them. I still have my childhood bear bought for me by my Nanna and he is a koala bear.

The image on my card is one of Lili Of The Valley's digital stamps, I have colored him with Copic markers. I used card scraps from my stash to decorate the card which led to me doing a purge of scraps - who else collects bits of card and design papers just in case?

Supply List:
X-press It card stock
Koala digital stamp - Lili of The Valley
Copic Markers
White Card Stock for base card - The Paper Studio
Blue cardstock - Core'dinations
Leaves - Sylvan Frame: Poppy Stamp
Design paper - from stash

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Unicorn's are cute!

Good afternoon, we are having a real mix of weather, snow, warm sunny days and rain all within 4 days! Yesterday was so nice that Mollie got her sandals out!!!

On to my post for today - who love's unicorns - these mythical creatures are stunning and can look so elegant but today's version is a little cute pudgy one from the Scrapoholic Candy Shop:

Aren't they the cutest?

I have colored the one on the left:

I used my Spectrum Noir Markers and a purple fine line pen to give the mane and tail depth.

I then matted the image and some gorgeous rainbow design paper from my stash with purple card before adhering them to an 8x8in scalloped card base. I added a matching ribbon and some colored skittles to finish the card.

The image is part of this week's Monday releases and you can find him in the Scrapoholic Candy Shop along with cute dragons and the most adorable gymnasts you have ever seen! You can see other inspiration over on the Scrapoholic fan Facebook page 

Thanks for stopping by please let me know what you think in the comments.