There's a new designer in town!!!!

Good Morning! This week is flying by I can't believe it's Wednesday already - well they say time flies when your having fun and I've been having fun coloring up a brand new digital stamp for a brand new design team!

The Scrapoholic candy Shop 

Amanda has some adorable digital stamps that are so easy to color up. 

She is currently having a design team call too so if you are interested pop along to either the online shop or Facebook page for more details 

As it's Valentines day this week I have chosen to use A Piece of my Heart for my first showcase,

This set includes sentiments and 3 adorable mice all clutching puzzle pieces which fit together as a heart?!

I have used the main stamp and one of the sentiments. I have colored them with Spectrum Noir Markers then matted them onto pale pink and red card. I have then used my markers to color some pearl hearts and randomly placed these around the image.

Come and pop over to the FB group and check out the fab inspiration!

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Joy Clair - Love
Crafting By Design - Hearts
Crafting For All Seasons - Love is in the Air
Crafty Creations Challenges - Hearts
Creative Moments - Anything goes optional twist Love
Moo-Mania - Hearts
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes / Cute and Cuddly

Princesses in Fairy Land

Good morning, Mollie was at a princess birthday party on Saturday and all the little guests got to dress up in the most beautiful princess dresses. 

Since she got the new dress for Christmas Mollie went as Cinderella

All the girls had a great time!

Of course I had to make her a card to take and I chose to use one of the NSR (No stamp required) images from My Craft Studio's Fairy Land CD. 

The image is called Princess but I think it's obvious who she is! I printed both her and the wording out on my PC and colored the image with Spectrum Noir Markers.

I then matted my design onto blue card and a white card blank. I added blue pearls to opposing corners to balance the card.

It was loved by its recipient and well as Mollie!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Cards Und More - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge - Anything Goes 

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes 

Our Crafty Corner - Anything Goes 

The Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by, comments are always welcomed if you have time to leave me some love

Birthday Box

Good Morning - We have had thaw over the weekend and can see green grass which is unusual for this time of year in Michigan. There is more snow forecast though so not getting too optimistic!

Friday was James's Girlfriend - Liz's birthday and he had bought her lots of little pill cases which he filled with soppy little love notes. He asked me to make him a box to put them all in and also wanted a card making so I decided to combine them in one!

I made a set of drawers box and added an easel on top.

I made 4 matchbox style boxes and glued these together on a base and lid of matching card. Pearl brads were used as handles for the drawer. I then made and easel card the same dimensions as the box and adhered this to the top. I used Love Never Melts Poppy Stamps set  colored with Spectrum Noir Markers and matted this onto matching card and design papers from my stash. I decorated the bottom part of the Easel with the same card and paper.

Using a Memory Box die, James had made these little shopping bags to put the pill cases in inside the boxes:

I took one and matted it to match with the card design, added a stamped heart and sentiment it was then used it as a stopper for the easel as you can see here:

Once completed the drawers were filled and I am told she loved it!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crafts Galore Encore  - Use a digi or stamp

Crafty Time Challenges - Buttons bows and Brads 

Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes 

Kreativeinkauf - Snowman 

Live and Love Crafts - Love is in the Air

One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes 

Paper Creator - Must be Love

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes /Cute and Cuddly

Faery Ink is going steam punk!

Good afternoon! Well we are having a very mild winter this year, most of the snow has dissipated and we've even had rain! The Great Lakes aren't as frozen as they usually are - OK I bet now I've opened my mouth I bet things change!

I'm showcasing a new release from Faery Ink today, The more I color these images the more I fall in love with them. This month Amanda has released some fab steam-punk images - this is something I usually shy away from and thank goodness my chosen image this month wasn't too much within the theme!

Meet Clockwork Cupids

Isn't the image adorable? - just look at the tiny cupid sat on the top of the heart in his flying cap!

I pondered over it for a few days wondering how I could avoid coloring the heart in red as it was such a big part of the image. I first tried the no lines technique but quickly decided that just didn't suit this image. In the end I just started coloring and let my imagination take it.

I used my Spectrum Noir markers and chose to go with delicate pale tones, using browns so I could incorporate Kraft card into my design. I was still stuck with what to do with the heart and as you can see the traditional red would just not have been the right way to go. After discussing it with a great friend we decided leaving it white worked. but to add interested I used one of the new Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens in clear.

You can just see the shine here - these pens are fab, the shimmer is much more obvious than other similar pens I have used but without being over the top like loose glitter can sometimes be.

Once I'd colored the image I die cut 2 different sizes of clock from Kraft card - using a brad and some pale turquoise card for the hands on the smaller clock. I then used some design papers from Lili of the Valley and Kraft card to mat the 8X8in scalloped card blank.

A few small enamel dots just completed the design.

The image can be found in the Newest Digis section over at the Faery Ink Store

and if you want further inspiration my teamies on the Faery Ink Design Team will be posting throughout February over on the Faery Ink Facebook Group

Winter Wonderland

Good evening - well my post title doesn't reflect the weather here - it has been unseasonably warm today. We woke to thick fog and black ice causing the schools to close but then the day turned into a gorgeous sunny fairly warm one. It has melted lots of the snow - feels really odd after 2 years of very cold snowy winters!

On to today's make, It's the start of a new challenge over at 12 Months of Christmas Link up - Yes keeping making your Christmas cards our challenge runs all year!

Our sponsor this month is Scribbles Designs 

They are offering a $10 gift Certificate to one random winner

The theme this month is Winter Wonderland.  In order to have a chance to win the prize from our wonderful guest sponsor this month,make sure that your card has some snow on it in some form or other.  Snow, snowmen, or snowflakes, it is completely up to you!  If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that we include you in the draw for the prize

Remember, you don't need to follow the theme to link up your cards and earn a free paper each month, and have your name thrown into the year end draw for some extra digital goodies.  You only need to follow the theme if you want a chance to win this month's sponsored prize of a $10.00 gift certificate from Scribbles Designs.

As always Decosse's Dynamite Doodles is offering an additional prize of a free digital paper for everyone who links up 2 cards and a mini set of 6 digital papers called SnowBiz to a random winner

On to my design team make 

I have used Snowflake mason Jar  I have lightly colored the jar with my Spectrum Noir Markers to give it a glass look. Then I glittered the snow flakes to make them shimmer. I cut this out and wrapped twine around the top before using dimension dots to adhere to my card which had one of the new Decosse Dynamite Doodles digital papers matted over blue card. I then used 2 So Suzy Stamps - the butterfly and snowflake sentiment to complete my design.

So get started with your cards for the 2016 holiday season and come and join our challenge you never know you may win!!!

Thank you for stopping by