Faeries in the moonlight

                       Good afternoon, well the kids are back at school and enjoying it and I'm enjoying the peace and quiet again!

James is in his final year wow can't believe I am Mom to a senior! Mollie has moved into second grade and already loves her teacher but then she loves everything about school.

Today is my Inspiration day over at Faery Ink and I am getting the chance to color up some of my favorite type of images - a Pin Up Faery!

Meet Pin-Up Toadstool Faery:

She is just stunning. I have colored her using my alcohol markers and fussy cut her to add her to my design

The background is a digital print - I printed 2 of these and cut the layers off one so I could tuck the faery behind them integrating her into the design more.

This was then matted onto a dark purple card before adding to my card blank to make it pop more.

I added stars using a white gel pen and the design was complete!

I hope that this has given you some ideas of what you can do with this beauty. She is available for purchase over at Faery Ink along with lots of other gorgeous digital stamps 

For more Faery Ink inspiration check out the Faery Ink Facebook page

Ingredients Used:

Faery Ink's Pin-Up Toadstool Faery digital Stamp

Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Card

Copic Markers

Katy Sue's Wishing on a Star Crafting CDs

Purple Card

White Gel Pen

White card for card base

                                          

Jack-O_lantern time!

Good afternoon, we sure need a storm here to freshen the air, the humidity is unbearable They were forecast but I think it has skipped around us.

We have discovered who Mollie's 2nd grade teacher is going to be this week and are really pleased with the choice she has been given. Going back to school means only one thing - Fall is around the corner and with Fall along comes Halloween and have I got a cutie to share with you today

Faery Ink new release this month includes some super cute images and I couldn't resist showcasing this stunner:

Meet  Fable Jack-O-Lantern to color. She is super sweet with her wand and her pumpkin

I of course, had to color her in Halloween colors and chose black, orange, green and purple alcohol markers as my main colors.

Once she was colored I designed my card keeping with the same theme and color scheme. I stamped a black cat at her feet and added  the die cuts and sentiment because they just fit perfectly with my image. I matted my design with orange and black card makes the image pop and added a few enamel dots to balance the design.

I hope that this has given you some ideas of what you can do with this beauty. She is available for purchase over at Faery Ink along with lots of other gorgeous digital stamps 

For more Faery Ink inspiration check out the Faery Ink Facebook page

Ingredients used:

Fable Jack-O-Lantern Witch

Spectrum Noir Ultra- White Card

Copic Markers

Black Card

Orange Card

So Suzy Stamp sentiment stamp

So Suzy Stamp Cat stamp

Staples White Card - for base

Cottage Cutz Spooky Border Die

Enamel dots

Happy 4th July!!!!

Ok so I'm a day late but lets face it who was around yesterday - most people were out enjoying the festivities of the holiday.

Today is my inspiration day for Faery Ink and being Brit in the US I thought is only fitting I used the American version of the new digital image.

Meet Destiny BBQ Pool Party:

She is comes with different country flags on her tee or you can just color the plain one as above!

Here is my version

For the first time I used only copics to color with instead of a mixture of them and Spectrum Noirs - I have to say I am now a convert - they lay the ink down much easier and blend so well.

Once colored I fussy cut her out. I then typed part of the American National Anthem onto a picture of a scroll edged this with marker and fussy cut.

I matted my card base with dark blue card and then the stars and stripes paper. I arranged Destiny and the scroll onto my card and then colored white card candy in patriotic colors adhering them to the top left hand corner.

Ingredients used:

Destiny BBQ Pool Party Digital Stamp

Scroll png

Spectrum Noir Ultra- White Card

Copic Markers

Blue Card

Card Candy

Staples White Card - for base

Design paper - from my stash

I hope that this has given you some ideas of what you can do with this beauty. She is available for purchase over at Faery Ink along with lots of other gorgeous digital stamps 

Thank you for taking time to stop and read my post we love having visitors especially if our posts give you inspiration.

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Dandelion wishes

Good afternoon - it was the first day of summer yesterday and yes summer has finally arrived in Michigan. We have had gorgeous hot sunny days and spent lots of time out in the yard.

I am showcasing Dandelion Fae from Faery Ink today and I just loved coloring her up.

If you follow my blog you will know I am a huge fan of soft, pink and girly so took the opportunity to be just that in my design after all dandelion clocks are soft and delicate.

I colored her with alcohol markers, adding sparkle to the dandelion clock.

She was then fussy cut so I could add her to the blowing seeds design paper. 

I added sparkle to the dandelion clock I matted the design paper with blue card to make it pop against the white card base. The stamped sentiment just fits too - who as a child used these clocks to make a wish? I know i did and my daughter does now!

Ingredients used:

Faery Ink's Dandelion Fae Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Ultra-smooth card

Spectrum Noir Markers

Copic Markers

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear overlay

So Suzy Stamp - wish

Blue Core'dinations card

Staples white card - for base card

Dandelion Design paper- from my stash

I hope that this has given you some ideas of what you can do with this beauty. She is available for purchase over at Faery Ink along with lots of other gorgeous digital stamps 

Thank you for taking time to stop and read my post we love having visitors especially if our posts give you inspiration.

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Oh how Tweet!!!!

Good afternoon from a hot Michigan. School is out for the summer and my days are taken up entertaining our 2 kids - well stopping them from fighting!!!!!

It's the one day fae giveaway over at Faery Ink and WOW is it a cutie this time

Meet Fable and Tweets

Isn't she adorable and little Tweets is just so snuggly looking

I have chosen to use colors I don't usually go for in my card design

The photo doesn't really show how bright the colors are it is a very summery design!

 I used alcohol markers to color her and added detail to her hair with a fine liner. 

I chose some design papers from my stash and die cut 2 of these and my image using a stitched die. The third paper was matted with green card and adhered to my 7x5in card base, adding the bright yellow ribbon in between the layers. 

I then stacked my die-cut design papers and image on to my card.

I added a bow in the same ribbon and some coordinating enamel dots just to balance the design.

Ingredients used:

Fable and Tweets Faery Ink Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Copic Markers

Green Card

Enamel Dots

Ribbon from my stash

Design Papers from my stash

I hope that this has given you some ideas of what you can do with this adorable couple. They are available for free on the Faery Ink website for 24 hours only. If you miss them they will be available to purchase in the store after this time

For more Faery Ink inspiration check out our Facebook page where my teamies also hang out and post their designs as well as other fans of Faery Ink

Thank you for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave some love in the comments

I can build a rainbow!!!!

Good afternoon, here's the 2nd post from me today and Wow is a colorful one!!!

Faery Ink had a fab new release this month which just screamed color me!!!

Meet Lahla Artist Fae  

When I chose her as my design team inspiration image I knew straight away I was going to challenge myself and give her rainbow hair!! My go to colors for hair are usually brown or blonde so doing this was a real challenge for me.

It took patience to work out which part of her hair went with which so I could carry the same colored strand from root to tip.

 I used alcohol markers but then added Aqua fine tip markers over the top to add texture.

She was then fussy cut before adding her to the gorgeous rainbow paper from my stash. I typed the sentiment on my pc and printed it in multiple colors. 

The skittles were also rainbow colors to just follow the color theme through.

Ingredients Used:

Lahla Faery Ink Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers

Spectrum Aqua Markers

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Card

Purple Card

Rainbow deisgn paper - from my stash

Skittles

I hope that this has given you some ideas of what you can do with this beauty.

Lahla can be purchased over in the Faery Ink Store along with other digital stamps

For more Faery Ink inspiration check out our Facebook page where My Teamies and I hang out!

Faery Ink Giveaway

Good afternoon - Wow we are at mid-May already where is the time going!!

It's the One Day Fae time over at Fairy Ink and the gorgeous Maggie Daisy Fae is up for grabs!

 

You can find her free here

I have colored her up with my alcohol markers and decided to go more fussy than my norm with my card

Once colored I inked around my image with distress ink. I added design paper from Lili of the Valley to my card base and inked this too. I then chose a coordinating paper from the same collection and tore this before placing under my image.

I used a tuck in die and lace to add a bit of texture. Then embellished the card with mulberry flowers and die cut butterflies. I then die cut "hi" twice using colors from the design and adhered these to the card slightly overlapping so that it gave the effect of shadowing.

It's Faery Ink's birthday this month and there has been lots of fun going on on the Facebook page. There are freebies still available and we would love to see what you can do with them so don't forget to post your images on the Facebook page for us all to see!

Ingredients used

Maggie Daisy Fae Digital Stamp 

Spectrum Noir Markers

Spectrum Noir Ultra-smooth Cardstock

Lili of the Valley design papers - retired

Wild Orchid mulberry flowers

Tattered Lace Tuck in die

Diamond Press butterfly and Hi dies

Lace from my Stash

Happy Birthday Faery Ink!!!

Good afternoon!

 Faery Ink is 13 years old today there images are so cute and Amanda the artist has an amazing talent bringing us these adorable faeries and other images.

We have a challenge running this month and the theme is birthdays so get your Faery Ink images colored up and enter here

Today I am showcasing my make in celebration of the birthday month. 

I have chosen to use Birthday Girl

She's such a pretty girl and a challenge to color with all those balloons

I decided to do an easel card. I colored the image using my alcohol markers and fussy cut around the balloons.

 I used a birthday design paper from my stash to cover my card base and used pink card to mat this onto. I also matted the image and again cut around the balloons so they would stand above the card. 

I die cut a few balloons and arranged these around the card using foam dots to give them dimension and adding strings to the balloons on the stand up part of the card. 

I then typed up the sentiment on my PC using Faery Moot font! I placed this on the base of the card to act as the stopper for the easel

Ingredients Used:

Faery Ink Birthday Girl Digi-stamp

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Poppy Stamp Balloon Dies 

Papermania Happy Birthday to You Paper Collection - retired

Pink card

Happy Birthday Faery Ink

The Faery Ink website is where you will find all details pertaining to Faery Ink, we also have a Facebook Fan page where you can see everyone's inspiration and check out all the offers that are available this month including freebies!

Gorgeous Giveaway!!!

Good morning - I'm here today with a one day giveaway from Amanda at Faery Ink 

Once a month she does the one day Fae where for 24 hours she makes a new release free. This month is it the stunning Autumn Rose Dragonfly Fae

I was challenged a few weeks ago to try no line coloring so I printed out the light lines version of the stamp and faded her slightly more so I could just make her out on the card

I found it easy to color her in the main but did struggle with her facial features - more practice will hopefully perfect this. Once I'd colored her I fussy cut her out. 

I chose a gorgeous flowery design paper and picked out the dark pink from this and used a card in this shade to mat my card base and my sentiment. I placed my image directly onto the design paper and typed a sentiment on my pc. A few enamel dots just balanced the image

Autumn Rose will be free for the remainder of today but if you miss her she will be available to buy in amongst the Newest Digis this month over in the Faery Ink Store and if you need more inspiration my teamies are also coloring her up and posting on the Faery Ink Facebook Group page 

Ingredients used:

Autumn Rose Dragonfly Fae digistamps

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Colored cardstock

Lili of the Valley Design Paper

Enamel Dots

Tottie Breezy Fae

Good afternoon - well after a cold spell its started warming up here at last! We had a great week away last week staying on the beach at the side of  Lake Michigan 

I'm here today with another new release from Faery Ink and what a cutie she is

Meet Tottie Breezy Fae, a little daisy flower with flowing hair.

As it's Spring I decided to use fresh spring like colors on the card

Just look how her hair is blowing in the breeze!

I colored her with alcohol markers, keeping with greens and yellows. i then used the same colors on the card.

using a scalloped card blank I matted it with yellow card and a cute daisy printed sheet from my stash. I rounded 2 corners on my image and matted this with yellow card again rounding 2 opposing corners. I added some yellow ombre ribbon and making a chocolate box bow and adding the cute green flower button 

Tottie can be found in the newest digistamp section in the Faery Ink online store. For more inspiration on using her and all the Faery Ink digital stamps pop across to the Faery Ink Facebook page. The challenge over there this month is flowers and Tottie would be a perfect image to use for this.

Ingredients Used:

Tottie Breezy Fae

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Corner punch

Daisy Design Paper from my stash

Ribbon from my stash

Button from my stash

April Showers

Good afternoon - April is renowned for being showery - but as the saying goes "April showers brings forth May flowers" so the rain is necessary! 

Mollie has a little ditty she sings when it rains:

"Rain rain go away come again another day"

The Faery Ink image I am using today just reminds me of this - Fable April Showers isn't she just adorable? 

She looks as though she is dancing through the puddles

I chose to use the version of her without the rain drops and colored her up in bright pinks and lilacs

 As usual I used my alcohol markers in my favorite colors. I then matted her and my card base with a bright pink card. I chose some coordinating design paper from my stash and matted this onto the base before adding my image. 

I then die cut the adorable umbrellas in matching colors and adhered these to the design. A few pink pearls just finished off the design.

April Showers Fable is one of this months new releases in the Faery Ink online store along with others which my teamies and I will be showcasing on the Facebook fan page this month.

Ingredients Used:

Fable April Showers Digistamp

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Design Papers from my stash

Pearls from my stash

Spellbinder Umbrella Trio

Dragon Lady

Good afternoon - and Happy Easter, hope you are full of the Easter story and not chocolate - OK a little chocolate won't harm :)

 Fantasy-land is nothing without dragons, they don't all have to be mean looking and the Dragon Lady digistamp is a stunner. She is one of the new releases at Faery Ink for March I couldn't wait to color her up with my Spectrum Noir Markers and bring her to life.

 I rarely use green in my cards as it's not one of my favorite colors but I decided that she needed to be bright and colorful so used a bright green both for her and my design paper on my card. it keeps the image bright I used a blend of yellow and orange down her spine - almost looking like the fire dragons breathe.

I will not lie I searched the web for a suitable sentiment to go with her and came across this and thought it very fitting because I have used a large 8x8 inch card blank I decided to split the wording so that it balanced the card. A few enamel dots just completed the design.

You can find Dragon Lady in among the Newest Digis this month over in the Faery Ink Store and if you need more inspiration my teamies are also coloring her up and posting on the Faery Ink Facebook Group page 

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave me a comment below :)

Gabbie Frangipani Mermaid

Good afternoon - Wow time is flying!!! I don't know where all my days go - Easter is almost upon us - where did the beginning of this year go????

I'm here today to showcase one of March's new release from Fairy Ink

Meet Gabbie Frangipani Mermaid:

Such a sweet image! She was a delight to color. 

I love flowers so I first did a google search to find out about the Frangipani flowers that circle her head. Of course it is also known as the Hawaiian Lei flower and is native to warm tropical areas. It is a delicate white color with bright yellow centers and edged with rose pink and is highly fragrant at night making it an ideal flower for bouquets and the Leis that Hawaiian's can often be seen wearing!

OK so now I had the colors out came my Spectrum Noir Markers:

I used a stippling technique on her tail to try and get the textured look of scales which I think has worked. I then used a clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen to add shine this was difficult to capture in the photo so I have a close up here:

Doesn't the pen just make her tail pop?

Once colored I matted Gabbie onto Kraft card. I chose some design paper with a water effect and matted this with Kraft card before adhering to a white card base.

I added an ocean creature die cut which was colored using the same color as the rock Gabbie is laid across.

I chose the sentiment from a Crafter's Companion collection - I thought it was very apt for an image of a mermaid!

You can find Gabbie along with all the other March new releases here in the Faery Ink store, if you are looking for more inspiration then my teamies are showcasing their designs over on the Faery Ink Facebook page so call by and see us!

Thanks for stopping by 

 I would love to know your thoughts on my card in the comments below :)

Lose Your Heart to the Ocean

Good afternoon! We are still in the throws of Spring and long may it last!!!!

I'm here today with a new release from Faery Ink and what a stunner she is! 

Meet Demera Sea Siren:

Each month with Faery Ink I try and push myself out of my comfort zone. So as I have never tried any other skin color than white I thought I would use Demera to push my boundaries and as she is a sea siren what better way than giving her a skin tone that would reflect this:

So I colored her green and used shades of green and aqua through out my coloring the only other color being the flash of orange of the starfish on her arm. Of course I have used my Spectrum Noir Markers to color her!

I decided to make this a very simple card and chose the quote from the internet, typed it so it fit around Demera and printed it directly onto the image topper. 

I made a white card base, used some design paper which coordinated with my coloring. then matted my image onto dark blue card as a contrast.

I added my favorite embellishments of 3 enamel dots to the bottom right of the card just to balance the design 

If you love her as much as I do you can grab her in the newest digi section of the Faery Ink shop. There is also more inspiration with her over on the Faery Ink Facebook page.

Doodlebug Bunny Ballerina

Good morning all - the snow has finally started to disappear and there is no more forecast over the next 8 days - in fact the temperatures are due to rise to decent levels!

Spring is finally on it's way and I have seen my first robin today which confirms this! With Spring comes Easter and fun for kids over at Faery Ink the Facebook challenge this month is to color a gorgeous Easter Image - Meet Doodlebug Bunny Ballerina.

Isn't she adorable? She is free over on the challenge group and as long as you follow the directions over there you can win some fab prizes.

One thing you need to do is create a background for her. As she's an Easter Bunny I chose to make an egg shaped card!

I colored Doodlebug with my Spectrum Noir Markers choosing a nice peachy color for her dress. I then fussy cut her ready to be placed on my card

My card blank was designed on my Silhouette Cameo, I drew an egg shape, copied and pasted it so I had 2 then welded them together before cutting in yellow card. 

My design Paper is from a Crafter's Companion collection, I die cut one edge and then cut to fit on the lower part of the egg. Doodlebug was positioned so her ear overhangs on the card. 

I added a small stamped sentiment, some coordinating Wild Orchid flowers and a few enamel dots to balance the card.

Isn't she just a cutie and she's all your if you decide to follow our Facebook challenge   

Faery Ink Freebie!

Good afternoon! It's hard to believe that it is still February here - all the snow has melted and it is kind of mild for the time of year! hey but I'm not complaining!

OK onto the reason for the post Faery Ink have a gorgeous digi stamp freebie until 11pm EST tonight! Meet Bella Spring Magic 

You can get her by clicking here 

Isn't she just stunning? I had an 8 year old's birthday to create for and thought that she was just perfect for the little lady who is starting to out grow the usual fairies 

I chose to use my favorite colors on her

Pinks and purples from my Spectrum Noir Marker range. I then matted her onto purple card and used the same to mat my card base. I then chose some design papers from Trimcraft Pretty in Pink collection before adding my image.

The sentiment is a stamp from Lili of the Valley and I have placed this onto a scalloped die cut using the same purple card. I used purple heart ribbon to balance the design.

Thank you for stopping by and now pop over to the Faery Ink Facebook page to see my teamies inspiration using the gorgeous Bella before going and getting your own free image!

A little Faerilocks Inspiration

Good afternoon, time is just passing too quickly we are already in mid February! Oh and it soon will be spring!!!! 

Today I have a gorgeous Faery Ink image that has masses of curly hair!

Meet Destiny Faerilocks

Isn't she adorable!!! She is one of the February releases that you can find in the store

I have decided that I am going to try and get out of my comfort zone when coloring and for this one I decided to try bright colors!

I colored her with Spectrum Noir Markers and added highlights to her clothes with a white gel pen. Her hair was the most challenging so I colored this first - she has lots of it as you can see from this close up!!!!

I then used a Crafter's Companion embossing folder on some bright blue card adding rickrack ribbon to the band. The flowers are from my stash and they match perfectly with the color scheme as did the enamel dots!

Please stop by the Faery Ink Facebook group where you can find freebies, challenges and all my teamies inspirational makes using these stunning images.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges: