Have a hoot!

Good morning from a rainy Michigan! I think the weather thinks it is still April! 

Today I'm showcasing my all time favorite bird a cute little owl from Scrapoholic Candy Shop

He is part of the Snuggle Palz and is a 2 digistamp set his pal being a super cute Giraffe

I have chosen to color him in traditional owl colors and giving him a big pink heart on his tummy.

I used alcohol markers for most of him and then fine line water makers to give texture to his feathers.

The branch and leaves were die cut and I fussy cut the owl so I could sit him on the branch

I then chose a digital backing paper with clouds on to look as though he was high up the tree.

I stamped sentiment which was fitting finishes off my design

You can find him and all his friends in the Snuggle Palz section of the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

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:

Owl Snuggle Pal digital stamp

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Spectrum Aqua Markers 

Nitwit digital papers 

Blue card

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see a comment is always welcome!

Cowabunga!!!

Good afternoon! I have been so busy with paperwork for applying for our green card that I haven't posted much over the last few weeks. I think I am now caught up with all that so I'm back to blogland!

Today is my showcase day for Scrapoholic Candy Shop and I have another sweet critter for you today

Meet Turtle from the Snuggle Palz collection

He comes as a set with the adorable cat too!

So I wanted to do something different with him to show how you can turn these characters into designs for all ages.

Meet Raphael

Yes I added a mask to him and he now looks like a cute version of well know ninja!

After drawing in his mask I colored him with my alcohol markers. I found some design papers on a party website that were perfect for the design so I matted these with red card before adding to a 6x6in card blank.

I then used my graphics program to make my well know sentiment and after matting them with the same red card I added this and my image to the card

Of course you don't have to color him up as a Ninja the images are great to use with any design and so easy to color!

You can find him and all his friends in the Snuggle Palz section of the Scrapoholic Candy Shop 

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:

Spectrum Noir ultra smooth premium white card stock 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

TMNT design papers

Red card

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see a comment is always welcome!

Time for a spot of gardening

Good afternoon - well May is almost upon and us and summer is on it's way! We have started planting out our yard with flower tubs and vegetables - we have so much grass that it needs color out there.

Today's card is my final make for my Guest Design Team member over at 2 Paper Divas and it a great gardening scene

Garden Joy was my favorite to color I loved using delicate colors and the image is almost dreamlike.

Once colored I used a circle die to cut the image out. I then matted it onto a blue  trellis circle die-cut. I used the same blue as a mat on my card having first decorated opposing edges with a lacy punch.

I then added the gorgeous design paper which has delicate flowers all over it. After placing my image I die cut a butterfly to coordinate and used some of my mulberry roses (spiraling the stems of the small ones) to balance the design.

Ingredients Used

2 Paper Divas - Garden Joy

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers 

Spellbinder Circle Dies 

Tonic Trellis Circle dies

Lili of the Valley - Petal Fresh 8x8 design Paper - Retired

X Cut Sparkler Border Punch

Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly Die

Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry roses large

Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry roses small

Gorgeous Giveaway!!!

Good morning - I'm here today with a one day giveaway from Amanda at Faery Ink 

Once a month she does the one day Fae where for 24 hours she makes a new release free. This month is it the stunning Autumn Rose Dragonfly Fae

I was challenged a few weeks ago to try no line coloring so I printed out the light lines version of the stamp and faded her slightly more so I could just make her out on the card

I found it easy to color her in the main but did struggle with her facial features - more practice will hopefully perfect this. Once I'd colored her I fussy cut her out. 

I chose a gorgeous flowery design paper and picked out the dark pink from this and used a card in this shade to mat my card base and my sentiment. I placed my image directly onto the design paper and typed a sentiment on my pc. A few enamel dots just balanced the image

Autumn Rose will be free for the remainder of today but if you miss her she will be available to buy in amongst 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 

Ingredients used:

Autumn Rose Dragonfly Fae digistamps

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers

Colored cardstock

Lili of the Valley Design Paper

Enamel Dots

Bucket full of Tulips

Good afternoon - thank you for stopping by - I do love having visitors to my blog and reading all the comments that people leave make my day!

I'm back again with my 3rd guest design team spot for 2 Paper Divas I am really enjoying using their stamps, they stamp a really good crisp image and are so nice to color.

Today's card is using a recently released stamp Tulip Bucket Bouquet and Bloom Wildly Sentiments:

I challenged myself with the flowers making them variegated instead of one color, blending from pink to yellow. Once colored I used a corner punch on the top left of the image and matted this onto pink and white card having used the corner rounder on both of these. I made a 5x5 inch card base and matted this with pick card from my stash I then cut a piece of patterned card into diagonal strips removing every other strip I arranged them over the pick card to give a striped background effect.  

After adhering my image to the card I matted the sentiment with the same colors and rounded the bottom right corner on this - I was then fixed into position using dimensional foam squares

Ingredients used:

2 Paper Divas - Tulip Bucket Bouquet

2 Paper Divas - Bloom Wildly Sentiments

Spectrum Noir - Ultra Smooth White Cardstock 

Spectrum Noir Markers

Collal All Purpose Glue

Papermania - Lemon Sorbet Capsule Collection - Retired

Corner rounder

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