Candy Cane Tails And Christmas Wishes

 Good Morning! Christmas is fast approaching - are you ready??? we are just about, still some deliveries to come in and food to buy oh and of course the Christmas tree to put up but that will be done tomorrow!

Christmas cards are something I love making and today's post shows another one using Joanna Sheens House Mouse Xmas Project Book, this is no longer available but is a great resource;

Just look at those 2 cuties with their entwined candy cane tails. They were sat in a wreath in the image but I wanted to bring the image alive so I die cut a bunch of pine branches and built a 3D wreath around them. I carefully cut their tails out of the image so I could continue the wreath under them and adhered them back in place on foam squares to give dimension. Red pearls made great berries.

For my card I matted an 8x8in card base with red card, I added some die cut holly tuck ins to break up the red. The project book has papers to match each image so I printed and trimmed some down. I them added glitter to the design before matting with green card and adding to my base. My image was also matted with green card and added to the card. Finally I die cut Love from red and green card and added this to the corner of the card.

What I Used:

Image and Backing Paper: Joanna Sheen's Christmas House Mouse Project Book

Pine Branch Die Cut: Tattered Lace

Card Base: Craft UK Ltd

Red and Green Card: Core'Dinations Premium

Holly Die: Tattered Lace

Glitter and Red Pearls: From my Stash

Love Die: Tonic Studios 

I will be entering tis card in to the House Mouse and friend Monday Challenge the theme is always anything goes but has an optional theme of Christmas this time around.

Thank you for stopping by I love sharing my work so if you like what you see please let me know in the comments 

Un-Frog-getable Day

Good Morning It's new release day at Scraper's Delights and it's going to be an un-frog-getable one!!

Yes there are some gorgeous frogs available in the Scrapper's Delights store from today and I have been coloring up 2 of these little darlings

Moonlight Serenade Girl & You've Stolen My Heart:

       

Aren't they adorable and they also have other friends which my teamies will be showcasing over on the Scrapper's Delights blog and Facebook group.

I colored You've Stolen My Heart first using my alcohol markers. I had to make him look dapper in that top hat:

I then matted him and some digital design paper onto bright Green card. I then used a stamp set for the sentiment and circle die-cut again matting these onto green card. once all the elements were completed I then arranged them onto my card base.

He looks as though he's ready to propose to someone and who knows it might be this cutie - Moonlight Serenade Girl:

Again I colored her using alcohol markers. I used a corner punch to round the corners before matting the image onto pink card. I then did the same with some leafy design paper. 

The sentiment is from the same stamp set as I used above. Corners were rounded on this and again it was matted onto white card. 

I then assembled my design onto a pre-made scalloped card base. I thought the die-cuts just enhanced the image and I even cut one of the music notes up so I could add the single notes to the image.

Ingredients used 

Scrapper's Delights You've Stolen My Heart Digistamp

Scrapper's Delights Moonlight Serenade - Girl Digistamp

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Card

Spectrum Noir Markers

Copic Markers

Personal Impressions Stamp set - retired

Tattered Lace music die

Tattered Lace Heart Tuck in Heart Die

Green Card

Pink Card

Staples cardstock

Craftwork Cards Card Scalloped Card Base

Head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store and meet all the friends of these adorable frogs. 

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:

Critters and Creatures Linky Party - June 6th

Allsorts Challenge - color themed

Imagine That - Tic Tac Toe - die cut, patterned paper & flowers

                             

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

Shabby Chic

Good evening, morning, afternoon depending on where you are in the world. I hope the Easter bunny ha hopped by your place and left you some yummy goodies!

 

 Today is the start of Challenge 7 over at Lil Patch of Crafty friends. The challenge as always is anything goes and you can find the rules here. The main one to observe is you can only enter 10 challenges along with ours.

As always we have some fab sponsors offering great prizes:

 

 

Cottage Rose Graphics

Prize - $20 to spend in store

 

Kith and Kin

Prize - 3 images

 

 

Michele R Designs

Prize - €10

 

For my design team card I have used Michele R Designs who has some gorgeous vintage shabby chic papers and embellishments.

 

The set the design team have been given to use is just stunning. It's called Whimsy Romance and includes, papers, elements and inserts.

I have used one of the 6x6 papers twice, resizing one so I could layer it with the pink card. All the edges of the layers have been distressed before matting them onto a 6x6 card blank. I have then glued some lace across the top layer before adding a post card and bow from the elements packs.

I die cut the With Love from a tattered lace die set and added flowers and pearls from my stash

 

 

Having added the sentiments using a graphics package on my pc I then printed off one of the gorgeous insert sheets for the center of my card.

I tend to shy away from vintage/shabby chic but these papers made it so easy to stick within the theme.