It's cold outside

Good afternoon! the first week of the year has passed - how did it go for you?

the sale at Stamper's Delights continues all images (excluding bundles or zodiac kits) are 50% off so go shop until you drop!

My inspiration today is using a chibi image It's Get-Well-Girl however I have used her for a winter card:

I printed her onto stamping card and colored her with Copic markers - I did make a bit of a boo boo i colored the left part of her pillow same as the blanket - but hey it looked like the folds of her blanket so I left it.

I worked out where my image was going to sit and die cut a window from teal colored cardstock sized to mat onto an A7 card base. I  worked out where I wanted my image to sit and die cut the window. This was also from Kraft card, then both windows were glued together.

I sent the teal card through my printer adding my typed sentiment to it.

The back of the window 'hole' was covered with snowflake patterned paper, turned over and matted on to my base. The windows were adhered into the hole giving me a window frame.

Finally I added my image with foam tape. I decorated her mug with snowflakes - I often look like this when we have been out with the fur babies - huddled in a blanket with a hot cup of cocoa.

Stamper's Delights sale is live until the 31st January so go check their website out!

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and if you sign up for the Stamper's Delight Membership you will get free images to enter the challenge with!

All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know!

Snow Drift Pile Up

 Good Morning! Hope you are al staying safe and well, please don't forget to wear a mask!

It's Tuesday again which means hello to another Digi Choosday challenge. My card today is a slimline, which I'm starting to enjoy making and I use a pile of Snow Drift Friends:

Aren't they adorable? I colored them with alcohol markers, trimmed to fit my card base which was matted with green cardstock. to finish I used tiny gold brads to fix a banner from Winter Wonderland Tags and Frames to the bottom of my card 

The Digi Choosday Challenge runs for 2 weeks, it is always anything goes so there is no reason not to enter and you never know you may just win!

 

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by, now go join the challenge!

I'm Santa's Favorite

 Good Morning! We had our first proper snow fall on Monday night which means Christmas isn't far away and I am far from ready how about you? So I'm sharing some holiday inspiration using the Santa's Favorite digital set. I love the cute penguins in this kit especially the one wearing eye glasses:

Isn't he the cutest! I colored both him and the tree with Copic markers, leaving white areas on the tree to indicate snow. Once colored, I fussy cut them both and moved onto making my scene for them. I laid a snowy stencil on white stamping card and inked through with pale blue ink for snow fall. I then chose a sentiment from the same collection and printed this onto my stenciled card.

I matted this onto an A2 grey card base, giving dimension with a foam layer in between. I added my tree with wet glue and my little shortsighted penguin with foam squares. Finally I added crystal glaze to his glasses for the lenses.

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.

Nose it's Snowing

 Good afternoon! Michigan is known for it's snowy winters and yes we've already had the first snow of the season last weekend. Thankfully it didn't hang around and it's 70 degrees here today!

Since snow is on my mind, let me share some cute images from Stamper's Delights. They are doing mystery boxes and this month is winter if you've been following on the Facebook group you will have already had sneak peeks of some of the cut 12 images.

let me introduce Winter Snowman:

What I Did:

I started by choosing a wintery digital design paper, I imported my images onto this and resized them for my card. I then typed up the sentiment (this is not part of the pack) which I felt was so fitting since the little guy is holding the snowman's carrot nose!

I printed and then colored the images with alcohol markers. My A7 card base was matted with red card and my image was added to this. Finally I added lots of snow with a paint marker.

What I Used:

Digital Stamps: Stamper Delights - Winter Mystery Box

Digital Design Paper: Unknown

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Red Cardstock: Tonic

White Card for base: Neenah solar white coverstock

Paint Pen; Molotow

Glue: ZipDry

The winter mystery box is available all month for £12 - a saving of £8!!!! there are lots of super winter images great for Christmas or winter birthdays!

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this month’s New Releases so far!

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 

All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.
Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know! 

Too Cute - Yep that's Waddy!

 Good afternoon! it's already been a crazy week but that's life now!

I'm here today to share the first of my Polkadoodles Too Cute new releases with you. Christmas is only 3 and a half months away and we have some adorable things to share with you over the coming weeks.

Meet Waddy Snow Kite:

What I Did:

I resized the image and printed him onto stamping card. I then colored him with alcohol markers.

My white 7 x 5 in card base was matted with deep red cardstock. I matted digital design paper onto this.

I then rounded opposite corners of my image with a corner rounder along with a mat for this. and adhered it to my card.

My sentiment was resized and printed onto stamping card, matted and added to my card with foam tape.

To give dimension to my image I added crystal glaze to Waddy's googles and covered the bottom of his sled with snow writer. I then cute a length of twine and covered the kite string with it.

Finally I added some graduated pearls to the lower left corner.

What I Used:

Digital image: Polkadoodles - Too Cute Waddy Snowkite 

Digital  Design Paper: Polkadoodles - Winnie White Christmas Printable Papers 3

Digital Sentiment: Polkadoodles - Winnie White Christmas Sentiments

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Stamping Card: X-Press It

White Cardstock for Base: Neenah Solar White 110lb 

Red Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Crystal Glaze: Tonic Studio Nuvo

Snow Writer: DecoArt

Twine and Pearls: From my Stash

Glue: ZipDry

Foam Tape: Dollar Store

All the new releases can be found in the Polkadoodles Store I will have another Waddy inspiration post later this week.

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Snow Angels are Fun

Good afternoon! Winter has returned, the temperatures have dropped from what they were around Christmas and we've had more snow. Hey it's Michigan what else can we expect!

It's Thrifty Thursday over at Scrapper's Delights go check out the website for this weeks deals! 

 When we first arrived in the USA and Mollie was able to make snow angels standing up the snow was so deep!

 So I couldn't resist Willy Snow Angel- he's perfect for this time of year:

Isn't he just the happiest little penguin! and I had to give him some snowy dimension so I used a snow writer and added extra glitter:

Head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store to see all of this week's thrifty offers.

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!

Supply list:

8X8 inch white card base - Craft UK

Cardstock - Core'dinations
design papers - Lawn Fawn

Stamp - Scrapper's Delights Willy Snow Angel

Copic Markers

Deco Art Glistening Snow writer and Glamour Dust

Karen Burniston snowflake dies

Shaking In The Snow

Good afternoon! I hope everyone had a great Christmas I know we did! Santa was definitely kind to use all.

Today's post is a card using a super cute image from Scrapper's Delights which was a gift for the design team members:

Isn't this a gorgeous Image! I colored it with my Copic markers, after it was colored Mollie said the girl reminded her of Anna from Frozen - I had unintentionally colored her is a similar color scheme!

I haven't made shaker cards for so long that I thought this was the ideal image to do so.

I had some acetate with snow already on it so I used This for my window. I cut an oval aperture from some patterned and foiled cardstock and added the acetate over this. 

I then matted my 7x5 inch card blank with a coordinating aqua colored card. I then lined up my image so she would show through the aperture and adhered it to my card base. Using foam tape I covered the back of the aperture card ensuring that there was a seal around the acetate window so the glitter wouldn't fall through.

I added a pile of glitter over the image and placed the aperture cardstock over the base, sealing in the glitter so it would shake loosely.

As the cardstock has snowflakes foiled on to it I didn't feel I needed to add anything else to the card.

I am trying to incorporate more videos in to my crafting so here's a little one showing the shaker!

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

Victorine Originals Mood Board Challenge

Good afternoon! I hope my American friends have all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are not still in a food coma. Who took advantage of the many Black Friday deals? We have shopped some of them more on line than in-store though.

Today is my debut for Sum More Fun - I found out a few weeks back that I had been given the open design team position and since I just love their stamps I am so thrilled to be on the amazing team.

Sum More Fun have a mood board challenge, you can win a $20 gift certificate - If you use a Victorine Originals or Raisin Boat Products the prize doubles.  

Your project inspiration can come from the photos, the colors palette, and/or the theme. Cards, ATC, Mixed Media, Scrapbook Layouts, Journaling, and Planners are welcome. 

Please read the rules before entering!

On to my make, I am following the color palette:

I have used the Empty Snow Globe Stamp Stamped it onto x-press It cardstock and colored it with my Copics then cut the center circle out of the globe adding snow covered acetate to this..

I stamped the tiny string of lights from the Christmas Borders Set across the top of my image and the tiny snowmen from the same set onto a separate piece of card.

After coloring these I fussy cut a bunch of them, wow was that a task! for inside my globe.

I used a snowflake digital paper for inside the globe and made a fake shaker by gluing the cute tiny snowmen and sequins to the digital paper.

this was then layered over the back of the globe.

I matted a 5x7 inch white card based with some pink snowflake patterned paper and then added my image.

A die cut sentiment across the bottom balanced out my design. 

Sum More fun is an umbrella name for a number of stamps that are being brought together under one name. Today's make is using the Victorine Original stamps range.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to go enter the challenge!!!

New Release Day 3

Good morning and welcome to day 3 of the Riley and Company new release

Today I'm show casing 2 of their new stamps and don't forget if you love them you  can get them shipped free (domestically) until the 21st November by using the code FREESHIP when you order!

My first Inspiration is using a Funny Bone's Sentiment - Although this one is kind of nice instead of Snarky - Friends Value You

Who doesn't want a true friend and I am lucky that I have a few - and they know who they are! 

The stamp comes as one but is made so if you want to split it as I have done you can. 

I have teamed the sentiment with Heart Riley who I think is a symbol of a true friend. He is colored with Copic makers and the die cut . I cut the same die twice, second time in red so I could insert the hearts back into the die. Some Ric Rac ribbon, pink design paper and matting with pink and red finishes the design off.

My second make today is a holiday hanging ornament. I just love Mushroom Lane the cottages are adorable and in the new release section of the store you will find 5 new ones including 2 winter ones.

I have chosen to use Mushroom Lane Winter House for my project

Isn't it the sweetest snow laden cottage you have seen, there is even a little snowman waiting to greet you!!

I colored it with Copic markers, adding chalks to the background. I then printed a snow-globe from one of my design cds. I used 2 circle dies to cut a frame then cut the center of the globe section out using the frame as the edges of my ornament. I backed the snow-globe with snowy acetate then using foam pads adhered it to my Mushroom Lane image. cutting the excess card away leaving just the design. 

I added some gold chord to hang the ornament and finished off with a red bow matching the bows on the cottage.

So to go shopping for these gorgeous stamps - check out the Riley & Co website you'll find the sentiment above along with 3 pages of new stamps in the New Release section.

 For more inspiration check out the Riley and Company Blog. Or for more news about what the Moose and his pals are up to head on over to the company Facebook page 

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment if you like what you see.

Cold hands.........warm heart

Good morning, we've had thunder storms over the last couple of days but luckily no snow!!!

I'm here today to showcase another Scrapoholic Candy Shop cute digistamp - well actually 2! These 2 adorable baby characters together but are separate stamps but because they are digital format they can be grouped together without the need for masking as you would need to do with physical stamps!

Meet Annie and Ollie

Aren't they the cutest babies?

They are part of a collection of Royalty which even includes little princes!

I have cuddled them both together and colored them with my Spectrum Noir Markers:

I then typed the sentiment and printed along side them. I made a 5x7 inch card base with white card and then matted this with purple card. The design papers are from Lili of the Valley and I have again matted these and my image with purple card. before arranging them on my base keeping to my signature design of clean and simple.

Finally I added a few enamel dots just to balance the card. 

The image can be found over at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop and if you want any more inspiration pop across to the Facebook Page - there are regular giveaways and we are holding a challenge there at present!

Thank you for stopping by