Birdie and his bird house!

Good afternoon! Nice and summery here today just how I like it - not too hot but warm enough to enjoy the sunshine!

I'm showcasing a great summery image today from The Scrapoholic Candy Shop the gorgeous Bird House Birdie

He was one of last week's new releases so I had to have him to pair him up with the image I showcased last week.

He was great to color and as we have some gorgeous blue birds come to our feeders I've colored him in blue tones

I used my go to alcohol markers adding texture to the wood, leaves and plant pot with fine liners

The design papers I used are from a free magazine set and I thought they toned well with the color scheme I used on the image. I then chose red card to mat the image pulling this again from the hearts on the image.

The red hearts were cut using a new die that I love and again I felt these drew the eye into the red on the image.

I haven't used any other embellishments as I thought the image was busy enough to not need anything else

You can Bird House Birdie and all the new releases at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients used:

Bird House Birdie Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Free papers from my stash

Tattered Lace tuck in die

Red card

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see a comment is always welcome!

Bird in a bath!!

Good afternoon, it's a beautiful day here in Michigan and I've been doing some summery coloring

The Scrapoholic Candy Shop has released some gorgeous summer images this week and I couldn't wait to play with them

The first one I have used is Bathing Birdie

This cute image was perfect for the theme I had mind - a Baptism card

I colored the image with my alcohol markers choosing muted colors in the main but then making the bird pop with bright yellow

I kept to the summer theme with the design paper and chose a bright pink from the paper for the matting layers.

I typed the sentiment on my PC and again matted this with the same colored card.

I few graduated pearls in coordinating colors was all that was needed to finish the design

You can Bathing Birdie and all the new releases at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients used:

Bathing Birdie Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Lili of the Valley Design Papers - retired 

Pink card

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see a comment is always welcome!

Have a hoot!

Good morning from a rainy Michigan! I think the weather thinks it is still April! 

Today I'm showcasing my all time favorite bird a cute little owl from Scrapoholic Candy Shop

He is part of the Snuggle Palz and is a 2 digistamp set his pal being a super cute Giraffe

I have chosen to color him in traditional owl colors and giving him a big pink heart on his tummy.

I used alcohol markers for most of him and then fine line water makers to give texture to his feathers.

The branch and leaves were die cut and I fussy cut the owl so I could sit him on the branch

I then chose a digital backing paper with clouds on to look as though he was high up the tree.

I stamped sentiment which was fitting finishes off my design

You can find him and all his friends in the Snuggle Palz section of the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients used:

Owl Snuggle Pal digital stamp

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Spectrum Aqua Markers 

Nitwit digital papers 

Blue card

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see a comment is always welcome!

Cowabunga!!!

Good afternoon! I have been so busy with paperwork for applying for our green card that I haven't posted much over the last few weeks. I think I am now caught up with all that so I'm back to blogland!

Today is my showcase day for Scrapoholic Candy Shop and I have another sweet critter for you today

Meet Turtle from the Snuggle Palz collection

He comes as a set with the adorable cat too!

So I wanted to do something different with him to show how you can turn these characters into designs for all ages.

Meet Raphael

Yes I added a mask to him and he now looks like a cute version of well know ninja!

After drawing in his mask I colored him with my alcohol markers. I found some design papers on a party website that were perfect for the design so I matted these with red card before adding to a 6x6in card blank.

I then used my graphics program to make my well know sentiment and after matting them with the same red card I added this and my image to the card

Of course you don't have to color him up as a Ninja the images are great to use with any design and so easy to color!

You can find him and all his friends in the Snuggle Palz section of the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients used:

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

TMNT design papers

Red card

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see a comment is always welcome!

Hissss.........

Good afternoon! Well we have had a real mixture of weather over the last week! Snow sun, rain and now it's starting to warm up!

Today is my showcase over at Scrapoholic Candy Shop and I have a really cute image to share with you. She comes as part of a set and has a Hippo Snuggle Pal:

Yes I've colored up this cute snake and made her rather girly

She is colored with alcohol markers and I used a white gel pen to highlight her. The sentiment was typed on my PC and added after I had colored the image.

I then used a bright pink cardstock for matting and a sheet of double sided design paper to mat the card and make the smaller accent mat.

A few coordinating pearls just balanced the image.

You can find her and all her friends in the Snuggle Palz section of the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients used 

Snuggle Palz Sake and Hippo Digi set

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Pink Cardstock

Patterned Design paper from my stash 

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

Golden haired cutie

Good afternoon, It's hard to believe we are already 4 months into 2016 time is just flying by!

As it's Wednesday I'm here again with my Showcase for The Scrapoholic Candy Store, continuing with my princess babies meet Tangles

What a cutie and Mollie's all time favorite princess. her tower comes as a separate image so you can use her alone if you wish.

I colored her up using alcohol markers she is just adorable

Her green eyes are just stunning and draw you in to the image.

I then decided I was going to use the tower so colored this up. I planned to do a side stepper card with the tower on the largest part of the card but when I pulled the images together that was just not going to work so I switched it around slightly and it looked perfect

I used patterned card from my stash in coordinating colors using the lilac to mat my pink stepper card. The cardstock came with strips of mirrored card and I used one of these for the 'ribbon' along the bottom edge of my card I then adhered my princess baby and her castle to the card. Adding a sentiment which was a line taken from the movie, matted in the same card used for my base. 

Using the images this way gave a different perspective so the castle doesn't look too small!

Tangles and all her baby Princesses and Princes are available in the store and are great for children's cards so why not check them all out!

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients Used:

Scrapoholic Candy Shop Tangled Digi

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Crafter's Meadow Cottage Bears Companion Card collection - retired 

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

Ella and her Castle

Good afternoon - Spring Break starts at the end of this week and I sure hope the weather is kind to us!

OK those of you who know me or read my posts frequently know I have a daughter, Mollie, who is crazy about princesses so I couldn't not color up the gorgeous baby ones from the store - I showcased  Princess Annie and Ollie a couple of weeks ago 

 Now it's Ella's turn:

Isn't she adorable and her castle is stunning. 

I colored her up with alcohol markers and added sparkles to the snowflakes on her dress, hair and castle. I had some gorgeous sparkly paper that has snowflakes embossed on it which I used as my backing paper - unfortunately the photo doesn't show it too well. I then printed some blue digital design paper, matted them all with a blue card. The image was also matted onto this before arranging on the card. I used a snowflake corner die to balance the image and some gorgeous sparkly gems to make it look symmetrical.

I chose to make an 8x8 inch card this time as I felt it needed the size for the magnificent castle - this gave me room to draw brickwork onto the walls after I had colored them

Ella and all her baby Princesses and Princes are available in the store and are great for children's cards so why not check them all out!

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients Used:

Scrapoholic Candy Shop Coloring Fun Collection Digi

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Memory Box Snowflake Corner Die

Design Papers from my stash

Gems from my stash

Thank you for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave me a comment 

Bunny is Egg-cellent at Hiding!

Good afternoon - we have had some great weather just lately - hard to believe that it was only Early March - didn't last long though - it's started snowing again today and it seems intent on laying! 

 It's almost Easter so I'm here with another of the gorgeous digistamps from the Coloring Fun Collection from The Scrapoholic Candy Shop

Meet Peekaboo Bunny 

Before printing her out I typed Peek a Boo on the egg!

Isn't she just the cutest???

I have colored her with alcohol markers and matted her on to pink card before using spring like papers from my stash to complement the image. I also matted these with the same card. Once arranged on the card I placed my image using foam tape to give it dimension. I added a tagged paper clip and fixed it in place at an angle to make it look as though the clip was holding it in place.

If you need any last minute images for Easter cards then these would be great as you don't have to wait for them to be shipped - you can start straight away!

There are lots of other Easter or Spring themed images that will work too just pop along to the online shop and check them out.

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients Used:

Scrapoholic Candy Shop Coloring Fun Collection Digi

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Heidi Swapp Flagclip 

Design Papers from my stash

Gems from my stash

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

Cold hands.........warm heart

Good morning, we've had thunder storms over the last couple of days but luckily no snow!!!

I'm here today to showcase another Scrapoholic Candy Shop cute digistamp - well actually 2! These 2 adorable baby characters together but are separate stamps but because they are digital format they can be grouped together without the need for masking as you would need to do with physical stamps!

Meet Annie and Ollie

Aren't they the cutest babies?

They are part of a collection of Royalty which even includes little princes!

I have cuddled them both together and colored them with my Spectrum Noir Markers:

I then typed the sentiment and printed along side them. I made a 5x7 inch card base with white card and then matted this with purple card. The design papers are from Lili of the Valley and I have again matted these and my image with purple card. before arranging them on my base keeping to my signature design of clean and simple.

Finally I added a few enamel dots just to balance the card. 

The image can be found over at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop and if you want any more inspiration pop across to the Facebook Page - there are regular giveaways and we are holding a challenge there at present!

Thank you for stopping by

Un-Frog-ettable

Good afternoon, I've had a busy morning but sitting having a cup of tea with Gizzie on my feet so decided to do an extra blog post for Scrapoholic Candy Store.

On leap day they released a cute little frog character - he is still available in the online shop and can be used for any occasion 

Ok so I know leap day has passed but I still wanted to color him up so I printed him without the sentiments

I colored the design with my Spectrum Noir Markers, adding texture to the little frog with the colorless blender.

I then stamped the water splashed from a cute little Clearly Besotted stamps set in an ink slightly darker than the marker I had used for the water.

I used white card for my base and matted this with a blue card which coordinated with the design. to add a pop of color I matched up some card with the water lily flower and matted my image with this. The sentiment is from a personal Impressions stamp set and again I have matted this on the pink card

A few token enamel dots just completed the design

The image can be found over at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop and if you want any more inspiration pop across to the Facebook Page - there are regular giveaways and we are holding a challenge there at present!

Thank you for stopping by x

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.

Some Bunny Loves you

Good afternoon! We had a huge dump of snow yesterday but it's supposed to disappear quickly and we have temperatures of 60+F forecast for next week! - Here's hoping!!!!

I'm kicking off some Easter makes with my post today, The Scrapoholic Candy Shop has released some adorable Easter digi stamps this week and I couldn't resist coloring up this adorable Bunny Butt!

Isn't it just the cutest???

It's from the Coloring Fun Collection, the sentiment is separate but I decided to place it within the egg - that's the advantage of digi stamps you can play around with the size and order of everything. 

I colored the image with my Spectrum Noir Markers and die cut that and the checked design paper with Gina Marie's stitched circle dies. 

The papers are from Lili of the Valley, I matted the pink onto my card base and used the others to accent my image.

I found the ribbon in the clearance section in my local Walmart's Store this morning and couldn't resist popping this and another 6 roll into my cart :)

I added some enamel dots just to balance the card - a super cute card for a super cute image!!!

Pop over to our Facebook Fan page and check out my Teamies makes for further inspiration and while you are then have a look at the Design Team Call we are having - you could joining in the fun all you have to do is apply!!!

The luck of the Irish

Next month brings St Patrick's day - The patron saint of Ireland, I've never made a card for this holiday but when The Scrapoholic Candy Store released their latest digi stamps I just couldn't resist Lucky Penguin.

OK I hear you - what has a penguin got to do with St Patrick??? Nothing but you have to admit that he is so adorable!

I just had to color him up and this challenged me as I don't usually use green in my designs but I couldn't avoid it with this little fella

I colored him with Spectrum Noir Markers adding white highlights to give him some depth.

I chose to do a large card for this one and matted an 8x8" base card with Green card. I then chose some shamrock digital papers and again matted these and my image with the same green card. Placing them in a symmetrical design on my base. The added shamrocks are sticker I bought in my local papercraft store which just balanced the image.

Oh and the little fella "adjusted" his sentiment after all he is so much cuter than a duck would have been!

You will find more inspiration over at The Scrapoholic Facebook Page where all of my teamies hang out!

You Giraffe me Crazy

Good morning, well the snow from the weekend is starting to recede and temperatures are rising again - supposedly not for long though - this winter has been so strange but hopefully spring will be here soon.

We had a holiday weekend so didn't get much crafting done however everyone back to work / school so had time to play. 

I just had to color up this little chap from The Scrapoholic Candy Shop. He is part of a collection called A day at the Zoo.

I printed him onto Spectrum Noir ultra smooth card stock and colored him with my Spectrum Noir Markers. 

Once colored I chose a color pallet of browns and oranges and made up my card design

I matted a reddy brown card onto my base card, using a slightly lighter shade I then matted my image and some design paper from Lili Of The Valley and added these to the card. The sentiment is from the same collection as the digi stamp - I matted this onto some of the darker card and positioned it alongside the image. I then used some enamel dots from my stash to balance the card.

You can find him and his friends in the Scrapoholic Candy Shop along with lots of other cute designs. If you are looking for inspiration pop across to our Facebook page where all the design team are showcasing their work. 

There's a new designer in town!!!!

Good Morning! This week is flying by I can't believe it's Wednesday already - well they say time flies when your having fun and I've been having fun coloring up a brand new digital stamp for a brand new design team!

The Scrapoholic candy Shop 

Amanda has some adorable digital stamps that are so easy to color up. 

She is currently having a design team call too so if you are interested pop along to either the online shop or Facebook page for more details 

As it's Valentines day this week I have chosen to use A Piece of my Heart for my first showcase,

This set includes sentiments and 3 adorable mice all clutching puzzle pieces which fit together as a heart?!

I have used the main stamp and one of the sentiments. I have colored them with Spectrum Noir Markers then matted them onto pale pink and red card. I have then used my markers to color some pearl hearts and randomly placed these around the image.

Come and pop over to the FB group and check out the fab inspiration!

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Joy Clair - Love
Crafting By Design - Hearts
Crafting For All Seasons - Love is in the Air
Crafty Creations Challenges - Hearts
Creative Moments - Anything goes optional twist Love
Moo-Mania - Hearts
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes / Cute and Cuddly