Sparkles in the Craft Room

Good Morning! Summer has finally arrived - it's a little cooler here today so being outside is a bit more bearable.

Hey! It's Tuesday and what does that mean????? A new Digi Choosday challenge, head on over and join us!

My inspiration this week is using the Gorgeous Sparkle, the cutest Unicorn on the block! she has joined me in my craft room this week as a new sign:

What I Did:

 I resized and colored the image with alcohol markers, then matted Sparkle onto some pink cardstock. I then covered a piece of mount board with some digital patterned paper. Craft Room was cut from vinyl using my Cameo. Sparkle was positioned and adhered onto the board and I used transfer tape to add the lettering.

What I Used:
Digital Image: Polkadoodles - Crafting is the best bit of the Day - Sparkle Unicorn
Stamp Card: X-Press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic Markers
Pink Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium
Mount Board: from my stash
Digital Design Paper: Polkadoodles: Pretty Sweet
Vinyl for wording: Joann's Fabric and Crafts
Glue: ZipDry

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!

If you love Sparkle as much as I do we have had a huge new release.  You can buy the complete collection of the new images or get them individually.

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 Color with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by, now go join the challenge!

Scribbled Flowers & Vintage Roses

Good afternoon! the weather is perfect here today, nice cool temperature with lots of sunshine!

Today's post is another one showcasing some of the work I am doing for the Altenew Educators Certification program. My first card is using the Scribbled Flowers stamp and matching die set as used in lesson 2:

I started this card by using a stencil on some stamping card for my background. I then stamped the flowers and leaves, using 2 layers for the larger flower and layering the centers in to the smaller flowers. These were then die cut ready to be arranged on my card.
My 41/4 x51/2in card base was matted with coordinating cardstock and the stenciled topper. I arranged my flowers and leaves then adhered them in multiple heights with foam tape. I stamped a couple of leaves in a darker shade of green directly onto the card.
The sentiment, which is from the same stamp set, was stamped in black ink and I added a few different sized clear enamel dots to finish the design

My Second card was from lesson 3 and I have used the Vintage Roses Stamp set:

I started this card with a blank 4 x 51/4in stamping card. I stamped a few sizes of the layered roses and leaves to design a background effect. I then matted this on to a black 41/4 x 5/1/2in card base. I stamped out my sentiment using black ink and then used my scan n cut to cut this out along with 3 more just using white card stock. These were then stacked together giving my dimension to my sentiment.
I finished the card with a scattering of iridescent gems.

What I used Scribbled flowers card:
Stamps: Altenew - Scribbled Flowers
Dies: Altenew - Scribbled Flowers
Stamping Card: Neenah Solar White 110lb
Ink for Stenciled background: Altenew- Leafy Forest
Ink for Flowers: Altenew - Shades of Purple: Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields, Deep Iris and Midnight Violet
Ink for Leaves: Altenew - green Fields: Forest Glades and Evergreen
Purple Cardstock: Core'dinations Premium Cardstock
White Cardstock for Base: Core'Dinations Premium Cardstock Heavy Weight
Clear Enamel Dots: Gina Marie Designs

What I Used for Vintage Roses:
Flower Stamps: Altenew - Vintage Roses
Sentiment Stamp: Concord and 9th - Every Day Bouquet
Ink for Flowers: Altenew - Cool Summer: Sea Glass, Ocean Waves, Dusk, Desert Night
Ink for Leaves: Altenew Green fields: Leafy Forest, Forest Glades and Evergreen
Ink for Sentiment: Altenew Jet Black
Card Base: Lynda Chapman's Black Cardstock
Gems: Studio Katia - Iridescent Snow Crystals

Thank you for stopping by, if you like what you see please let me know in the comments.

Altenew Vintage Flowers

Good afternoon, Hot and humid here but nice with the air on inside!

Around 6 weeks ago I was sent an email asking if I was interested in taking part in the Altenew Educator Certification Program. Of course I was interested I LOVE Altenew stamps and their inks are amazing. I sent in my application and was accepted 😊. Then came my craft room make over so I put the classes on hold for a couple of weeks 

Now I'm fully moved in I have started the first class which is All About Layering with the lovely Nicole Picadura. Of course this focuses on lessons for Altenew's layered stamps and gives some basic stamping techniques and demonstrates ways to line up the stamps. 

My first card uses the Vintage Flowers stamp set, the flowers have either 3-4 layers to them and do look so realistic when stamped:

I used a few techniques making this card. lining up the flowers, masking off the central flower to stamp the others making it look even more dimensional and using accent flowers to fill in my design. The sentiment was from another Altenew set but fit perfectly in the space left for it.

What I used:

Floral Stamps: Altenew Vintage Flowers

Sentiment: Altenew Build a Flower Ranunculus

Stamping Card: Neenah Solar white 110lb

Pink inks: Altenew Red Cosmos Mini Cubes

Green Inks: Altenew Green Fields Mini Cubes

Yellow Inks: Altenew Summer Afternoon Mini Cubes

Card Base: Simon Says Stamp Fog Cardstock

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you like what you see and come back soon!

Pretty in Pink

Good morning!!! Sun is shining but the world is sad! Lets shine more light on it with crafting the sentiment on my card today was so fitting for the current time!

My post today uses an image coming from the wonderful hands of Sherry West. Meet Starlight Star Bright Fairy:

What I Did:

I resized and printed her onto stamping card, of course she had to be colored in pink, I used alcohol markers and metallic gel pens. 

I Matted a 5x7in card base with lilac cardstock and some digital design paper. I matted and used a strip of the same paper collection but in lilac across the card. 

My image was matted with the same cardstock and added to the card.

The sentiment was printed this on stamping card and matted with the lilac cardstock before placing in on the bottom right of my card.

Finally I added some purple iridescent gems

What I Used: 

Digital Image: Sherry West Art - Starlight Star Bright Fairy
Stamping Card: X-Press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
Gel Pens: Gelli Roll
White Cardstock for base: Core'dinations Premium Heavy Weight
Lilac cardstock: Core'dinations Premium
Digital Design Paper: Polkadoodles
Sentiment: Polkadoodles
Gems: from my stash
Glue: ZipDry

The image is available from Sherry's Esty Store her images are currently only 99¢ and she has plenty of them to choose from.

Thanks for stopping by you can see my teamies inspiration over on our Facebook group.

Scouting outdoors

Good afternoon! Where is this year going. We are already in the 6th month but it feels as though we have missed half of those!

As it's the first Saturday of the Month its time for Scrapper's Delights to have a new Kawaii release and wow is it a cute one this month.

                     

                     

Not only have they released the little characters but also a whole host of props to use with them.

My first card is using the Scout and images from both of the prop sets:

What I Did:

Scouts and Camping Props

I started by building my scene with the props and little girl scout including adding marshmallows for her to toast. I added the sentiment and once arranged I resized and printed on to stamping card.
I colored the scene with alcohol markers, As Mollie is a girl scout I had to color the image in the colors she currently wears. The clouds were made by using a stencil and distress ink.
I then matted a 5x7in card base with black cardstock and added my image. The scene is so busy that it didn't need any embellishing.


The next image is Cute As a Bug and wow is she cute:

What I Did:
Cute as A Bug
I resized the image, added the sentiment and printed her onto stamping card. She was colored with alcohol markers her dress is plain but I just had to add ladybug dots. The clouds were done the same as the camping scene just lighter!
My 5x7in card base was matted with black card and some digital design paper that has an adorable ladybug border.
I matted the image with the same black card and used foam tape to adhere her to the card.

What I Used:
Scout:
Digital Stamps: Stamper's Delights Scouts, Scout Props and Camping Props
Stamping Card: Xpress-It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
Stencil: Picket Fence, Layers of Cloud
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Tumbled Glass
White card for base: Core'Dinations Premium cardstock heavy weight
Black Card: Core'dinations
Glue: Zipdry

Cute As A Bug
Digital Stamps: Stamper's Delights Cute as a Bug
Stamping Card: X-press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
Stencil: Picket Fence, Layers of Cloud
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Tumbled Glass
White card for base: Core'Dinations Premium cardstock heavy weight
Black Card: Core'dinations
Digital Design Paper: Design Bundles
Glue: Zipdry
Foam Tape: Dollar Store

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s full new release here's what they look like:

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

We also have a monthly challenge where you can enter any makes you do!

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