Hats of to Easels

Good afternoon, well the weather has been great today, a lovely day to have been out and about but that's not possible so Mollie and I walked the dogs around the subdivision getting them and us some well needed fresh air.

I have been seeing gorgeous hat cards all over Facebook so I googled and found Ann Melvin from Positively Papercraft has done some great You Tube tutorials so I followed them and today's blog post is to show how they turned out.

What I Did:

Instead of listing how I made the card here is Ann's You Tube video after all the credit goes to her. I made the cards as a pick me up for my neighbors so I typed out the sentiment on my PC.

What I Used:

2 Pieces of letter sized purple cardstock: Create and Craft

Patterned cardstock: KanBan 

Circle Dies: Tonic Studios Nesting Circles

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts: various 

Ribbon: from my stash

Gems: from my stash

I did make 2 of them but gave one away before photographing it but they were both in shades of purple.

Thanks for stopping by and if you love what you see let me know in the comments.

More than one fold

Good morning. It's been a busy week for me and I'm still trying to play catch up with blogging but will get there by the end of today :)

 

Today is the start of the next challenge over at Wags and Whiskers and I got to play with another of their gorgeous images!

 

The theme this time is more than one fold. The prize is a Wags and Whiskers rubber stamp.  You can use any stamp for the challenge however, if you use a Wags and Whiskers stamp you will be entered into a second draw to win a digistamp.

 

Rules are

You can enter any type of paper-craft project.

You can enter 2 times per challenge.

You must use a new project - no back linking.

Follow the theme.

You link must be a direct link to your entry.

 

I decided to do an easel pink and girly easel card

 

 

The image is Tiny Dancer - isn't she just adorable :) I have colored her using Spectrum Noir markers and used a die to cut her into a circle. The card is a Craftwork cards pre shaped card blank with the scalloped cut-out. I have matted pink card onto this and used Lili of the Valley backing paper. The die-cuts were made using the same pink card and a die which was a freebie in a magazine. I typed the sentiment on my PC and printed it in pink ink. Again matting this onto the pink card.

A simple but adorable card!

 

If you love what you see please leave me a comment before hopping over to the Wags and Whiskers blog and entering our challenge.

 

 I have entered this into the following challenges
 Graph-its coloring challenge Pretty in pink

Gone fishing

Good morning and welcome to the first of many posts from me today.

 

There is some exciting news happening in blog land today. Firstly it's new stamp release day over at So Suzy Stamps! Yep check out her website for some gorgeousness!!! And there is even more if you order today you get free shipping - INTERNATIONAL INCLUDED!!! Yes my friends from across the pond you can have free shipping too!!!!

I'm not finished yet - The new challenge starts today too the theme this month is celebration. All you have to do to enter is make a card with her delicious stamps and added it either via the linky on the blog or on the Facebook group page!

 

On to my make for the release:

 

 

This adorable little fisherman is sitting in his boat hoping to catch the fish! The sun is shining and looks so happy! Both of these are from the new release - aren't they gorgeous!

I have colored the stamps with my Spectrum Noir Markers and used the SVG (that you can get free) to cut the boy out.

On white piece of card I used die cut cloud shapes to ink around to make the sky. I then used a scalloped edge die - keeping the negative part of the die cut - to make the waves with card from my stock. I then used a curved edge die for the grass on the river bank!

 

 

The easel was made using a square card blank with the front folded in half again to which I attached the fishing scene. The little fish is a freebie clipart which I shrank and fussy cut for my stopper. The sentiment is a stamp that I have had forever!!!

 

There are other adorable stamps in the same theme under the new release tab on the So Suzy Stamp website some of which will also be shown by my colleagues on the new release blog post!

 

Thanks for stopping by and before you leave hit the June tab on the top right of the So Suzy blog and enter our challenge. If you don't have a blog - don't worry you can enter over at our Facebook group

 

For more inspiration why not check So Suzy out on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest

New this month So Suzy has also ventured out to Flickr so check that out too!!