Pumpkin pals!

 Good afternoon! How can it be the 1st of October? where is this year going - doesn't seem like 2 minutes we were breaking for summer!

Today's post is inspiration for Stamper's Delights Progressive challenge. This is a FB challenge where anyone can enter. The images are available free by signing up for the Stamper's Delights membership. You just then enter your completed design on the Stamper's Delights Facebook group, all rules can be found in the challenge post over there.

So on to my inspiration, this month's image is called Harvest Wishes which is this super cute Kawaii pumpkin:

Isn't it adorable? I arranged my images in a graphics program, added my sentiment and printed on to stamping card. 

This was then colored with Copic markers and cut to size. My A2 card base was matted with orange and black cardstock and my image added to this. I added some white gel pen to the lines of the pumpkin to give the illusion of shine.

Thank you for stopping by, now go join the free progressive membership and lets see your entries to the challenge!

Stamper's Delights has a MerMAYzing New Release!

 Good afternoon! we've had a lot of rain this week but it's been warmer too so I can live with that!

It's the start of Stamper's delights new release and we are going merMAYzing this month lots of little mermaids for you to color and design with

We are kicking off the release with cute little Kawaii mermaids:

Aren't they the sweetest. They can be found on the Stampers Delights store in to forms - YES!!! they have more clear stamps You Are Mermazing has 3 of these little guys and lots of added extras:

They are also available as digital images if you prefer to use those.

I stamped my scene and have colored it with alcohol markers, I then matted an A2 card base with teal and blue cardstock and a digital design paper that has waves and bubbles on it. My image was trimmed to size and matted with the blue cardstock and adhered to my card. Finally I added some die cut 'seaweed'

 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! 

 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! 

Santa's Little Helper

 Good Afternoon! We had a fab Thanksgiving day yesterday, a lot quieter than normal but I'm good with that!

It's the Kawaii new release day over at Stamper's Delights and I say this every time but the images are sooo cute! Meet Xmas Elf Gift:

What I Did:

I resized him and printed onto stamping card. In my graphics program I cropped the image so I only had the gift, I resized this 3 times and printed onto stamping card. my little guy was then cut out using my scan N Cut and I cut the extra gifts out by hand. All were colored with alcohol markers and I added glaze to the pompoms on his collar and the scissors.

There is a sentiment included with the elf, I added this multiple times to my graphics program, recolored them and printed onto white cardstock.

A white A7 card base was matted with red card and my sentiment layer was added. Finally I added the little elf with foam squares. The gifts were stacked at the side of him again using foam squares.

What I Used:

Digital Images: Stamper's Delights - Kawaii Xmas Elf Gift

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Glaze: Gelly Roll Glaze Pens

White Cardstock: Neenah Solar White Cover 110lb

Red Card: Tonic Studios

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! 

 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! 

Nose it's Snowing

 Good afternoon! Michigan is known for it's snowy winters and yes we've already had the first snow of the season last weekend. Thankfully it didn't hang around and it's 70 degrees here today!

Since snow is on my mind, let me share some cute images from Stamper's Delights. They are doing mystery boxes and this month is winter if you've been following on the Facebook group you will have already had sneak peeks of some of the cut 12 images.

let me introduce Winter Snowman:

What I Did:

I started by choosing a wintery digital design paper, I imported my images onto this and resized them for my card. I then typed up the sentiment (this is not part of the pack) which I felt was so fitting since the little guy is holding the snowman's carrot nose!

I printed and then colored the images with alcohol markers. My A7 card base was matted with red card and my image was added to this. Finally I added lots of snow with a paint marker.

What I Used:

Digital Stamps: Stamper Delights - Winter Mystery Box

Digital Design Paper: Unknown

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Red Cardstock: Tonic

White Card for base: Neenah solar white coverstock

Paint Pen; Molotow

Glue: ZipDry

The winter mystery box is available all month for £12 - a saving of £8!!!! there are lots of super winter images great for Christmas or winter birthdays!

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this month’s New Releases so far!

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! 

Frankie Stein is Trick or Treating

 Good afternoon, we have had a rough week this week, 2 of our very dear neighbors have moved homes, one to a completely new state. Then Mollie's well loved bunny Snowball died. We've worked through it all and I am so proud of Mollie, even though she has been devastated at losing Snowball she never let her school work slip!

On to better news - It's Kawaii new release over at Stamper's Delights and if you love Halloween you need to check it out. We have some adorable Trick or Treaters for you. I got to play with the super cute Frankie Stein:

What I Did:

I resized the image and the star, I added the sentiment to the star and printed everything. I then used my Scan N Cut to fussy cut them. They were then colored with alcohol markers.

My A7 card base was matted with orange cardstock and a piece of Halloween themed digital design paper. I added my star so it went off the edge of card and used foam to to raise Frankie off the card giving him some dimension.

What I Used:

Digital Stamps: Stamper's Delights Frankie Stein

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Black card for base: Linda Chapman

Orange cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Digital Design Paper: Polkadoodles

Glue: ZipDry

Foam Pads: Dollar Store

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! 

 

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

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes with colouring

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes 

Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasions

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

Markers Everywhere!

Good afternoon! We are still in the height of summer, heat index is really high so I've been staying in and doing lots of crafting.

Today is Kawaii new release over at Stamper's Delights and like always the images are really cute! Meet the Marker Pals:

They are super sweet and fit well with the art packs that were released a few weeks ago.

I decided to use the little boy, and he's in a bit of a mess with markers everywhere:

What I Did:

I started by resizing and printing the little guy, markers and sentiment. I used my Scan n Cut to fussy cut him and colored him and his pile of markers. I then fussy cut all the markers.

For my background I matted a grey card base with blue card. Then using watercolor paper I sprinkled different colored pigment powders over it. This was then misted with water to give the brightly colored speckled background. 

While this dried I added foam tape to the back of my little pal and the markers. I matted my sentiment with the blue cardstock and again applied foam tape to this.

Once dried I glued my background to my base. I image was added to the left of my card and the markers scattered around him. Finally I added my sentiment.

What I Used: 

Digital Images: Stamper's Delights - Marker Pals

Stamping card: X-Press It

Alcohol markers: Copic

Grey card for base: Simon Says Stamp - Fog Grey

Blue cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Water color paper: Canson XL

Pigment powders: Brusho
Foam Tape: Dollar Store

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! 

 

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

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes Coloring

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes 

Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasion

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

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!

Pencils make you look sharp!

Good afternoon, Here's my second inspiration for the new stamp launch at Stamper's Delights. Yes if you didn't hear they are launching physical stamps that are amazing. Meet the Kawaii Pencil Pals:

What I Did:
The 2 characters , their scribbles, the sentiment and large pencil were all stamped on to stamping card. I then colored them with alcohol markers. Don't they just make the cutest twins?
I matted my 5x7in card base with blue card and added my images - Simple card but I don't think it needed anything else!

What I Used:
Stamps: Stamper's Delights: Pencil Pals
Stamping Card: X-Press It
Alcohol Markers: Copics
Card Base: Core'Dinations Premium Heavy Weight white card.
Blue Cardstock: Core'Dinations
Glue: ZipDry

As well as the amazing new release stamps Stamper's Delights The progressive challenge over on our Facebook Fan group has a huge bundle of images that can be used not only for the challenge but to honor all of the heroes at the front line during the current pandemic. They are also great for get well cards to show your love for the sick:

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this weeks thrifty offers.

We also have a monthly challenge where you can enter any makes you do.

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

Kawaii New Release

Good Afternoon! We are had a mixed bag of weather this week - was gorgeous at the beginning of the week that saw the snow shrinking back, then we've had snow, rain and sunshine since!

My designs today are using the gorgeous new Kawaii releases from Stamper's Delights. I am so in love with this genre that they are doing and get excited for what comes next!

We have 2 sets being released today. The first is a great set for all your Easter makes. Meet Bunny Love:

What I Did:

Bunny Love:

Using my graphics program I arranged the main character and a bunny gang and printed them onto stamping card. I did add the sentiment to this but changed my mind later.
The images were colored with alcohol markers and you can see this on my You Tube channel.
I used an 8x8in card base and matted this with blue card and a green Easter digital design paper. I then matted my image and a cute floral design paper with the same blue card and arranged these on my base.
My sentiment was recolored before printing, matting and placing in the center of my card using foam dots.

The second digital stamp set is continuing the Zodiac theme: Aries

What I Did:

Aries

This little guy was resized and printed on to stamping card. After I had colored him with alcohol markers I cut him out using my scan n cut, I also added a mat to him but increasing his size on the scan n cut and cutting it out in green cardstock.

I matted my card with the same green cardstock, I then printed the Aries multiple times on some design paper and added this to my card base.

Stars were die cut from the green card and arranged over the card before adding my image raised on foam tape.

What I Used:

Bunny Love:

Stamper's Delights Kawaii Bunny Love digital stamp collection

Stamping Card: X-press It

Copic Markers

Blue cardstock: from my stash

Digital Design Paper: Polkadoodles Easter Collection 

8x8in Card Base: Craft UK

Zipdry glue

Foam Tape

Aries

Stamper's Delights Kawaii Aries digital Stamp Collection
Stamping Card: X-press It
Copic Markers
Green Cardstock: Core'Dinations
Star Die: Tattered Lace Tuck in Star dies
Design paper: Lili of The Valley (retired)
Scan N Cut
Zipdry Glue
Foam Tape

I have an amazing new bunch of teamies who have also done amazing designs with these images you can check them out on the Inspirational blog.

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this weeks thrifty offers.

We also have a monthly challenge where you can enter any makes you do

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

Thanks for Stopping by and if you like what you see, please let me know in the comments.

Kawaii Meow

Good afternoon, we are having a lazy day today since so much snow was forecast.

I'm back today with the other Kawaii new release from Scrapper's Delights. This is a collection of images and sentiments called Kawaii Meow. I have chosen to use 2 of the images and a sentiment but there is also a milk carton, a food dish and paw print included along with another sentiment.

It is just a hungry kitty:

What I Did

I used my graphics program to put the kitty in her bed and add the sentiment, having png files really works for scene building! I then printed onto stamping card.

I colored the kitty and bed with copic markers.

I made a white 5x7in card base from 110lb card and matted this with a green card that coordinated with my coloring.

I adhered my image to my card, die cut 2 paw prints and added these.

To finish the card I colored the sentiment with a blue glossy gel pen and added crystal glaze to all the eyes and the kitty's nose.

What I Used

Digital stamps: Kawaii Meow

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Copic Markers

White card: Core'Dinations Premuim

Green Card: Core'Dinations

Kraft Card: The Paper Shelter

Glossy Gel Pen: Gelly Roll

Paw Print Die

Crystal Glaze: Nuvo

Thanks for stopping by and if you love what you see please let me know in the comments.

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