Catching a Floral Note

Good morning from a very cold Michigan, Valentine's Day is just a couple of days away so I thought I'd post some hearts and flowers. I stayed away from the typical reds and went with my favorite crafting colors - teal and purple.

I cross pollenated digital stamp set and used one of the stunning images from Floral Catcher and a sentiment from Just Butterflies:

I used Copic Markers to color the image but then added purple glaze to the heart and used a glitter Gelly Roll on the 'strings' of the catcher.

My card base was matted with teal cardstock and I added my image. To make in coordinate, I changed the color or my sentiment, fussy cut this on my Scan N Cut and added to my card with foam squares. I then added crystal glaze to make it shine. Finally I added a few clear drops.

These collections are part of the February new release - Blooming Is Life which has more gorgeous floral designs all available as digital images.

Thank you for stopping by. I will be back during the month with more inspiration from Joy Clair. Also my teamies will be sharing with you over on the Joy Clair Facebook Group.

 You can check out the new release and all of Joy Clair's products over in their store.

Happy Galentine's

Good afternoon - Valentine's Day is almost upon us, Mollie has had her party today as she is on mid-winter break tomorrow so I get to spend the day with her 😊.

Scrapper's Delights has had a makeover which has included a name change as well as a web address change. So my post today is my first one for the new and improved Stamper's Delights!!

It's Thrifty Thursday so head on over to the store where you can get today's image at a thrifty price!

To highlight this I my card today is a Galetine's one (yes it's a thing where you send a girlfriend a Valentine's!). This guy is part of a duo, Anime We Have Gifts, but I decided to just use the hunk!

What I Did:

I printed my image on stamping card, colored him with alcohol markers and fussy cut him out. Next I used a heart stencil and pink ink on white card for my background I then adhered this to a purple card base. My hunk was then glued in place, we don't want him running away! I typed the sentiment on my pc and printed this, matted it with the same card as my base and positioned it on the card.

What I Used:

Stamper's Delights Digital Image: Anime We Have Gifts

White Stamping Card: X-press It

Purple Card Base: The Paper Studio

Stencil: DyLusions Love Hearts

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress, Spun Sugar

Copic Markers:

           Skin: E000, E11, E21, 

           Hair: E30, E50, E51

           Jeans: B21, B23, B37

           T-Shirt: T0, T2, T4

           Boots: E33, E35, E37

           Gift BV000, BV11, BV13, BV17

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! 

My True Love

Good morning - the week's almost over and it's February already!

It's Thursday which means it's Inspiration day over on the Prickley Pear blog and I have a couple of cards to share with you today. 

The first one is a Valentine's Card using the stunning Large Swirl Heart:

I die cut a large heart and stamped the image into the center with red ink - I did re-stamp it 3 times to get the rich red color and as you can see despite this it hasn't lost any of it's fine swirl detail.

I matted my white card base with red card and a heart design paper. The white heart was placed on the card to position the My True Love wording. Once I had stamped my sentiment I adhered by white heart in place using foam tape. 

Thank you for stopping by, you can find more inspiration from me and my teamies on the Prickley Pear blog and their Facebook page.

Yours Always

Good morning - Wow Thursday already this week and month is flying by St Valentine's Day will soon be upon us.
I have some more inspiration from the gorgeous new release to share with you

I have attempted to get a masculine feel for this card.

 I matted my card base with red card. I then stamped the Small Swirl Heart and the Medium Swirl Heart in red ink. I fussy cut them and then inked the whole of the hearts with versamark and  heated clear embossing powder on them to give them a shine. I then chose black card and Stamped the Yours Always sentiment from the Love Banner Stamp Set and embossed this with white embossing powder. A length of twine was fixed in place to the left of the black card before it was adhered to the card base. I then added the hearts using foam tape to give dimension.

Thank you for stopping by, to see all the new release stamps head on over to the new release section of the Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps website - don't forget the offers:

You can find more inspiration from me and my teamies on the Prickley Pear blog and their Facebook page.

Time is flying - It's Scrapper's Delights mid-month reminder

It's the middle of January already??? Wow where is time going? 

This means it's the mid month reminder about the Scrapper's Delights challenge it's also the 3,000 members celebration over on the Facebook page and super heroes are abundant there so call and by and see what excitement is happening .

So today I'm showcasing one of Scrapper's delights Fairies - It only being a month away from Valentine's Day I thought I'd color up the Love Fairy 3:

Isn't she the sweetest!!

I have colored the image with Copic markers and enhanced the shading with Polychromo pencils, to make the hearts pop I added glossy accents.I then matted both the image and some coordinating design papers with red card. I used white card to make my 5x7 inch base and layered mt mats onto this - adding pink ribbon to the side. I then die cut the word love and placed this across the corner of my image. A pink bow on the ribbon just balanced the card. 

Ingredients:

Scrapper's delights digital stamp - Love Fairy 3

Spectrum Noir Ultra smooth card stock

Copic Markers

Polychromo pencils

Red Card

White card for base

Head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store to see all of their images.

Don't forget to enter the monthly challenge you may win!

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 this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - #398 Wings on Things
Brown Sugar Challenges -#233 Anything Goes
Crafting with Friends - #34 Anything Goes
Morgan's Art World -#1 Anything Goes

Valentines Day

Mollie's class had a Valentine's party and each child was asked to take in cards for each other and the staff. They made this educational by insisting that all the children wrote their own cards.

This meant she had 27 cards to write and I took on the challenge of making them all. All I can say is thank goodness for the MISTI. 

I used 4 Stamps simultaneously and made red cards for the boys and pink for the girls

The large heart and sentiment are both from So Suzy Stamps and the smaller hearts are from the  Gorjuss Dear Apple collection

I cut 27 pieces of white stamping card to size, lined up the stamps using my MISTI and off I went on a production line of stamping, changing ink colors half way through. I then cut 13 red mats and 14 pink mats, 27 card bases cut and folded. whilst I was making the cards up Mollie sat and wrote in every single one and her friends names on the envelopes!

It took us both an hour and 20 minutes from start to finish - Oh and along with these she also helped make a card for her Daddy and one for James!

Love Angel Valentines card

Good afternoon! The snow is still here on the ground in West Michigan and more is planned for next week. I have been sick over the holidays and my voice has decided that it doesn't want to return just yet much to the relief of my family!!! 

Today I am here to show case a new release over at Faery Ink - Arielle the Angel of Love. 

Isn't she just stunning! You can find her in the new digi section over at the Faery Ink Store.

I took myself out of my comfort zone with this image and decided to use bold colors on her 

She was colored with Spectrum Noir Markers but I colored her hair first before deciding on the colors of her dress and wings as I wanted to make sure I could get the texture of her gorgeous long locks.

Once colored I backed the image on to purple cardstock. I found some stunning black glittered acetate in my stash so layered this over the same purple card. Instead of using a sentiment I die cut the word love a number of times and fixed these randomly onto the acetate before adding my image. A black shaped card blank completed the design.

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:

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes 

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes 

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes