Mermaids home

Good afternoon, it's a lazy Saturday for me not going much planned, it's the last weekend before school starts so making sure everything is ready for 7am on Monday 

It's also the last weekend of the month so time for an exciting new release from Scrapper's Delights. We are carrying on with the under the sea theme from last month and there are some great props for you to add to your mermaids and fish themes.

I have used Sea Rock 1 - I chose to use the png file so I could add Pearl Mermaid 2 peeking out from the middle of the rock

I colored the image using alcohol markers then went over the top of all of it with an aqua colored marker to make it look as though it was all under water.

As I had used a deep red for the coral I chose the same to use as my matting card. 

I made a 6x6 inch card blank, matted this with the same red card and some digital design paper that looks like water. I recolored a piece of this to tine in with the image and matted this onto the same red card to contrast under my image.

A bubble die cut and some clear dimension drops just finished off the design.

Ingredients used

Sea Rock 1 Digi stamp

Pearl Mermaid 1 Digistamp

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Cardstock

Copic Markers

Spectrum Noir Markers

Red card

Design paper from Craft Artist

Tuck in die

Nuvo Crystal Drops

Head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store to see all of the new releases.
We also have a monthly challenge where you can enter any makes you do
Why not stop by the Scrapper's Delight Facebook page for regular news on and inspiration from my Teamies and keep your eyes peeled on my blog for new releases from them!
I am entering these  cards into the following challenges:

Elliebelles Creative Moments -Color Challenge

The Pencil Case - Anything Goes 

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes 

                                                  

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.

For more Faery Ink check out our Facebook page

Mushroom Fairy has some news!!!!

Hello - Today I'm excited to announce that I am joining the Spotlight Team over at Scrap N' Dipity and today is my first posting on their blog!

They have some adorable digital stamps in their store which cover a wide range of themes. Of course I had to pick a fairy for my first make and I loved the cute face on The Mushroom Fairy:

Isn't she sweet!!!

I  couldn't wait to color her up!

I have always been an avid Spectrum Noir marker user but recently I have been having problems with the pens coming apart so as I do so much coloring these days I decided now would be the time to invest in Copics. My wonderful hubby purchased me a collection of 72 for our anniversary and I have been buying the odd singles each week to bolster my collection. I have to say after using them properly for the first time on this little fairy I love them! I still needed to use some Spectrum Noirs to increase my color range.

Once I colored the image I matted Little Miss Mushroom onto green card. I used the same card for the butterfly tuck in die and used the waste from this to add the butterflies around the image. 

I chose some design paper from my stash that coordinated with my coloring and again matted this with green card. 

I added the mats to my card blank placing the die cut under the image and the butterflies around it.

Ingredients Used:

Scrap N' Dipity Mushroom Fairy Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth White Card

Copic Markers

Spectrum Noir Markers

Tattered Lace Butterfly Tuck in Die

Green Card

White Card base made from Staples White Cardstock 

Thank you for stopping by - for more inspiration please check out the Scrap N' Dipity Facebook fan group 

We also have a challenge blog where you can win some of the gorgeous digi-stamps 

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

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

Exciting News!!!!

Good morning - very early for me but I'm here in spirit if not out of my bed yet!

I have some exciting news to share I am a new design team member for Scrapper's Delights. I have joined their New Release team and this weekend there are special offers happening as Scrapper's Delights have reached 3,000 likes on Facebook.

The new release is all about Steam Punk and if your a follower of my blog you will know that Steam punk is not one of my strongest themes so I used my image as a Victorian Lady.

Meet Lady Constance

She looks so elegant so I chose not to distract from this in my design

I colored her up using alcohol markers then chose the colors of her dress to design the rest of the card. Using cream and burgundy card for my mats and die cut flowers. After matting my card base and image I added cream lace to the edge of the image before adhering this to the card. after fixing the flowers in place I added crystal drops to the centers and to the right hand corner of the card.

Ingredients used:

Scrapper's Delights Lady Constance Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers

Copic Markers

Spectrum Noir Ultra smooth Card

Cream card

Burgundy card

Spellbinder Blooms One dies

Lace from my stash

I am extremely excited about being part of the team and sharing my designs with you over the coming months but for now why not pop over to the Scrapper's Delight Blog and check out the blog hop going on there.

You can also use the code below in the store and get 35% off your order of $5 or more.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes 

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Vintage with Ribbon

Ellibelle's Creative Moments - Let's Color

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies - Anything goes Challenge 20

Thank you for stopping by and as always if you like what you see please let me know 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!

Happy Anniversary Kev!!!

Today is our 7th wedding Anniversary - and I love my hubby more today than I ever have!!!
Wow how time flies and how far we have come in just this short time!

I have used an image from The East Wind, she is voluptuous just like me!!!

Diva Lisa Cheeky II

Not that I would ever dare where a dress like this or those heels - I would definitely end up with toppling over!

I imported the image into my graphics program and added the sentiment to make it look as she is leaning on the words. Once printed, I colored Lisa using my alcohol markers. I have used Copics for my skin color instead of my usual Spectrum Noirs - I like the effect and am eventually going to be moving across to these.

Once colored I matted her onto black card stock - as this is a card for a man I tried to keep int masculine looking. The mirror card I used has a pattern with love birds on it so I felt this was appropriate. I again matted this onto black card and then onto a white card blank. I colored some card candi black to coordinate with the design.

As well as for our anniversary I am using this card as my submission for The East Wind Design Team Call. just hope they like it!!!

Ingredients Used:

Diva Lisa Cheeky II Digital Stamp

Spectrum Noir Markers

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Card stock

Copic Markers

Black Cardstock

Card Candi

Mirror Card - from my Stash

Thank you for stopping by and if you like what you see I would love you to leave me a comment

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!

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!

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!

Time for a spot of gardening

Good afternoon - well May is almost upon and us and summer is on it's way! We have started planting out our yard with flower tubs and vegetables - we have so much grass that it needs color out there.

Today's card is my final make for my Guest Design Team member over at 2 Paper Divas and it a great gardening scene

Garden Joy was my favorite to color I loved using delicate colors and the image is almost dreamlike.

Once colored I used a circle die to cut the image out. I then matted it onto a blue  trellis circle die-cut. I used the same blue as a mat on my card having first decorated opposing edges with a lacy punch.

I then added the gorgeous design paper which has delicate flowers all over it. After placing my image I die cut a butterfly to coordinate and used some of my mulberry roses (spiraling the stems of the small ones) to balance the design.

Ingredients Used

2 Paper Divas - Garden Joy

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers 

Spellbinder Circle Dies 

Tonic Trellis Circle dies

Lili of the Valley - Petal Fresh 8x8 design Paper - Retired

X Cut Sparkler Border Punch

Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly Die

Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry roses large

Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry roses small

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