Guest Design Team Position

Good Afternoon - While you are reading this I will be on vacation - yes we decided that as it is Spring break we would join friends and enjoy some R&R time Up State.

A few weeks ago I was asked if I would like to do a month long guest design team spot for 2 Paper Divas - I was delighted to accept and over the next 4 Tuesdays I will be showcasing some of their gorgeous floral stamps.

2 Paper Divas is an online stamp company owned by 2 friends - Melissa and Gayla - who stamps are influenced by their love of the mountains, ocean and outdoors they also have a vintage-style flair to some of their stamps. I love all things nature so their stamps are perfect for me to craft with!

So onto this week's showcase. I am using 2 of their stamps on my first card:

Delightful Sunflowers & Bloom Wildly Sentiments:

First I stamped just the sunflower heads 3 times, I then colored them before fussy cutting them and shaping them to give them dimension.

I then die cut a small scalloped oval from out of the center of a piece of design paper adhered a piece of white stamping card under this and stamps the sentiment in brown ink. This was positioned on my card blank which was matted with a coordinating brown design paper - I used the same design paper to die cut the ivy corners. I arranged the sunflowers around the sentiment, placed an ivy corner at the bottom left and trimmed the second one before placing in top right.

A few enamel dots just complete the look.

Ingredients used:

2 paper Divas -Delightful Sunflowers

2 Paper Divas - Bloom Wildly Sentiments

Spectrum Noir Markers

Lili of the Valley - Country Gent paper - retired

ColorBok - Cosmopolitan cardstock

Signature Dies - Ivy Corner

Freckled Fawn Enamel Dew Dots

2 Paper Divas hold monthly challenges - the details are here.

They also have regular features and competitions on their blog 

and for more inspiration using their gorgeous stamps checkout their Facebook page 

Thank you for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave me a comment

Ella and her Castle

Good afternoon - Spring Break starts at the end of this week and I sure hope the weather is kind to us!

OK those of you who know me or read my posts frequently know I have a daughter, Mollie, who is crazy about princesses so I couldn't not color up the gorgeous baby ones from the store - I showcased  Princess Annie and Ollie a couple of weeks ago 

 Now it's Ella's turn:

Isn't she adorable and her castle is stunning. 

I colored her up with alcohol markers and added sparkles to the snowflakes on her dress, hair and castle. I had some gorgeous sparkly paper that has snowflakes embossed on it which I used as my backing paper - unfortunately the photo doesn't show it too well. I then printed some blue digital design paper, matted them all with a blue card. The image was also matted onto this before arranging on the card. I used a snowflake corner die to balance the image and some gorgeous sparkly gems to make it look symmetrical.

I chose to make an 8x8 inch card this time as I felt it needed the size for the magnificent castle - this gave me room to draw brickwork onto the walls after I had colored them

Ella and all her baby Princesses and Princes are available in the store and are great for children's cards so why not check them all out!

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients Used:

Scrapoholic Candy Shop Coloring Fun Collection Digi

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Memory Box Snowflake Corner Die

Design Papers from my stash

Gems from my stash

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Dragon Lady

Good afternoon - and Happy Easter, hope you are full of the Easter story and not chocolate - OK a little chocolate won't harm :)

 Fantasy-land is nothing without dragons, they don't all have to be mean looking and the Dragon Lady digistamp is a stunner. She is one of the new releases at Faery Ink for March I couldn't wait to color her up with my Spectrum Noir Markers and bring her to life.

 I rarely use green in my cards as it's not one of my favorite colors but I decided that she needed to be bright and colorful so used a bright green both for her and my design paper on my card. it keeps the image bright I used a blend of yellow and orange down her spine - almost looking like the fire dragons breathe.

I will not lie I searched the web for a suitable sentiment to go with her and came across this and thought it very fitting because I have used a large 8x8 inch card blank I decided to split the wording so that it balanced the card. A few enamel dots just completed the design.

You can find Dragon Lady in among the Newest Digis this month over in the Faery Ink Store and if you need more inspiration my teamies are also coloring her up and posting on the Faery Ink Facebook Group page 

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave me a comment below :)

Gabbie Frangipani Mermaid

Good afternoon - Wow time is flying!!! I don't know where all my days go - Easter is almost upon us - where did the beginning of this year go????

I'm here today to showcase one of March's new release from Fairy Ink

Meet Gabbie Frangipani Mermaid:

Such a sweet image! She was a delight to color. 

I love flowers so I first did a google search to find out about the Frangipani flowers that circle her head. Of course it is also known as the Hawaiian Lei flower and is native to warm tropical areas. It is a delicate white color with bright yellow centers and edged with rose pink and is highly fragrant at night making it an ideal flower for bouquets and the Leis that Hawaiian's can often be seen wearing!

OK so now I had the colors out came my Spectrum Noir Markers:

I used a stippling technique on her tail to try and get the textured look of scales which I think has worked. I then used a clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen to add shine this was difficult to capture in the photo so I have a close up here:

Doesn't the pen just make her tail pop?

Once colored I matted Gabbie onto Kraft card. I chose some design paper with a water effect and matted this with Kraft card before adhering to a white card base.

I added an ocean creature die cut which was colored using the same color as the rock Gabbie is laid across.

I chose the sentiment from a Crafter's Companion collection - I thought it was very apt for an image of a mermaid!

You can find Gabbie along with all the other March new releases here in the Faery Ink store, if you are looking for more inspiration then my teamies are showcasing their designs over on the Faery Ink Facebook page so call by and see us!

Thanks for stopping by 

 I would love to know your thoughts on my card in the comments below :)

Bunny is Egg-cellent at Hiding!

Good afternoon - we have had some great weather just lately - hard to believe that it was only Early March - didn't last long though - it's started snowing again today and it seems intent on laying! 

 It's almost Easter so I'm here with another of the gorgeous digistamps from the Coloring Fun Collection from The Scrapoholic Candy Shop

Meet Peekaboo Bunny 

Before printing her out I typed Peek a Boo on the egg!

Isn't she just the cutest???

I have colored her with alcohol markers and matted her on to pink card before using spring like papers from my stash to complement the image. I also matted these with the same card. Once arranged on the card I placed my image using foam tape to give it dimension. I added a tagged paper clip and fixed it in place at an angle to make it look as though the clip was holding it in place.

If you need any last minute images for Easter cards then these would be great as you don't have to wait for them to be shipped - you can start straight away!

There are lots of other Easter or Spring themed images that will work too just pop along to the online shop and check them out.

We also have a Facebook page where you can get more inspiration from me and my teamies, there are also giveaways and discounted posted frequently!

Ingredients Used:

Scrapoholic Candy Shop Coloring Fun Collection Digi

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Heidi Swapp Flagclip 

Design Papers from my stash

Gems from my stash

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave me a comment