Santa's Favorite Gift Tags

Good Morning! It is white over here, it snowed at the weekend and because it's so cold it's hanging around.

I'm here today with inspiration for the gifts you are going to be giving during the holidays. Each gift needs a cute tag to go with it and I am going to share 4 with you using Santa's Favorite Digital Stamp Set:

The first 2 have the adorable Santa's Favorite penguins - the little guy fishing and my favorite the penguin in eye glasses:

 

I die cut some tags and mats for my little guys. The penguins were fussy cut with my scan n cut and colored with alcohol markers. I couldn't resist giving one little guy candy cane glasses. I used crystal glaze on the glasses and the other little guy's proud catch! Foam tape was used to adhere them to the tags and some bows and ribbons completed the design.

My second set of tags used the same Santa's Favorite digital set, the remaining penguin is skiing and I decorated a tree for him.

 

Both images were colored with alcohol markers and added to the tags with foam tape. I then added snow writer to the edge of the tree layers and decorated it with red ornaments and of course a star at the top! My little skier had glitter added to his hat pompom and glaze to make his eyes shine. again ribbon and bows completed the tags.

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.

Bouquet for Spring

Good morning, After late snow this week we have finally reached spring - the flowers in the yard are starting to make their appearance and I've even had the doors open to let the sun in!

Today marks a new moodboard challenge over at SumMore Fun and we have some gorgeous blue hues with a floral theme this time round so I have created a bouquet of flowers using the color themes:

I have used SumMore Fun's Brush Floral Stamp Set  and stamped the flowers to make my bouquet. I then added a sentiment from the same set using the same green ink as the flower stems.

I matted my card base with a coordinating blue card before adding my design. I tied a small bow and added this to the flowers. A few scattered green bubbles complete the design.

So want to join our challenge and get the chance to win a gift certificate to SumMore Fun? Oh and the prize doubles if you use stamps from from the store! 

Want some discount too? use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

Now check out the mood board:

And pop on over to the SumMore Fun Blog for details, our few rules and to link your project.

Be Mine, Valentine

Good morning, we are under a few inches of snow again and it's said to last for much of the month so I'm keeping warm and hibernating in my craft room.

Valentine's Day is only a week away so I thought I would share a bit of my love with you all using some cute stamps from SumMore fun:

I chose a scalloped edge card base and stamped it all over with the Conversation Heart Stamp set.

I used a number of colors trying to keep them pastel shades like the candy. I then stamped the Be Mine, Valentine sentiment onto a separate piece of white card, I rounded the corners of this and matted it onto a piece of coordinating pink card.  

This was then added to the center of my card using foam squares. Lastly I added some pink ribbon and bow to the top of the card.

As hearts are the main focus of the current moodboard challenge this design fits right in with it. Head on over to the SumMore Fun blog to check out how to play and what you can win!

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies cards on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

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

Ready for the ball

Good morning, as Christmas draws ever nearer the Christmas parties start happening and what a great time to get dressed up in all your finest!

That's exactly what Victoria from Jiggery Makery has done. Dressed in all her finery she just waiting for her date to arrive.........

She has been colored using Spectrum Noirs and a few Spectrum Aqua pens and the colors are at the bottom of my post.

I matted her onto some black card and some digital design paper from Little Treasures. I added a red organza ribbon tied in a double bow and a few black pearls for embellishment,

You can find Victoria over at Jiggery Makery's Etsy shop

For more inspiration why not check out the designs created by the rest of my teamies over at the Jiggery Makery Facebook page

 Here's the Spectrum Noir and Aqua colors I used:

Skin: TN1,2,3 FS3 CR3

Dress and gloves: DR1,6,7 IG3,5,7,9 plus blender

Hair: GB1,2,8,10 plus Sepia

pearls: Black and a white fineliner

Lips: Scarlet and white fineliner

Eyes: Kingfisher and Black

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Craft-Dee Bowz - Anything goes with a bow
Crafting from the Heart -Anything Goes
Craft your Passion - Anything Goes
Paper Nest Dolls -Anything Goes
Creative Moments -Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Garden Dwellers - pretty dragonfly

Hi it's lunch time on a Thursday and that can only mean one thing - Ok 2 one I'm hungry and need to feed myself but the main thing is it's New release day over at Julia Spiri!!

Wow she has some gorgeous characters for you today -The Garden Dwellers -you can find all of the out in the yard!!!

As we live near a lake we get lots of dragonflies buzzing around our yard so guess who I have colored up!

OK I know the female dragonfly hasn't got the pretty colors that the male has but hey this is fantasy land!!!

I have colored her with my Spectrum Noir makers and Derwent Metallic pencils to give her the shine you see on them as they buzz around the yard.

I have then added Clear Wink of Stella to her wings for a bit of extra sparkle!

I used a blue pearl card blank which I matted with an iridescent mirror card overlayed with a sheet of acetate which has been glitter embossed with butterflies and leaves.  

I used a flower corner punch on my image and matted this onto the same pearl card I made the blank from. and angled this on my card. 

Some blue sheer ribbon and a dragonfly charm just finished the cute look I was trying to achieve.

Dragonfly and her friends are available now over at Julia's Etsy Store along with all of Julia's fab designs so why not add them to your collection and join our challenge with them.

Pop over to Julia's Facebook group for more inspiration by the rest of the Design Team and to see the other newly released stamps from the collection.

 

I am entering this card into the following Challenges

Crafting by Design - Anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes