What the Bookshelf Is For

Adorable stamp, isn't it? Two cats relaxing and feeling cosy. Millions of details to colour, and that is what I love about this Charles Wysocki's stamp "Frederick the Literate".

Card blank - 8x8 Craft UK
Stamp - Charles Wysocki "Frederick the Literate" (Stamps Happen) - I've been looking for information of when the stamp was released, but no luck. Artist passed away 2002 and stamp was released by Mosaic Licensing. 
Colouring - Promarkers and Flexmarkers
Design Papers - Trimcraft
All the rest - stash

Challenges: 
Passion for ProMarkers - Week 386 Lace/Ribbon/Twine
Crafty Creations - #336 Always Anything Goes 
Retro Rubber Challenge - (must use rubber stamp you had for some time/at least a year) - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girls - must use ribbon, must be a card – Any Card with Ribbon 
Color Inspiration Monday - Always Anything Goes with hand-colored image
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes

A Very Proud Grandma Presents

Long time since last blogging. Well, here I am now and happy. Happy because I am a GRANDMOTHER. It was quite certainly one of the happiest days in my life when son told me the news that they are expecting. I was laughing and crying same time, heart was singing tunes and I felt so proud and happy for my son and daughter-in-law.

Here's the one I sent after birth.

Colouring by Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Flowers coloured using Distress Inks

Embossing board is Keepsake Glitter Girls Board #50

Die cuts Marianne Design

Cardstock Crafter's Companion

Challenge for this:

Passion for Promarkers - Week 385 It's a boy

Through The Craft Room Door - March 7 - 13

Big News and Lots of Fun

Good Morning, All!
This is going to be quite long post, but no apologies there, all good and exciting. Here we go!

This is quite big thing for me, Kenny K's Krafty Krew had Guest Design Team spots for 3 (yes, THREE) months and naturally. For my own surprise and great pleasure, I was invited to join the team.

Kenny K's Krafty Krew is celebrating because it is the BIG 200!

Our theme is Banner Day which means you need to make or use on your project a banner or bunting. In addition to KennyK prize, we are offering 4 different gift certificates of $25 each on our 200th challenge celebration.

Here are the prizes for the 200th challenge:

- $25 for paper/ink to Stampin' Up http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/teresasstampinspot/
- $25 to Dies to Die For for dies http://www.diestodiefor.com/




- $25 GC to Dawn Lewis's shop at http://www.dawnlewis.com.au/

- $50 GC to KennyK's clear stamp shop (6 stamps) http://www.kennykstamps.com/clear-stamps.php 



- $25 GC to KennyKdownloads digi shop (7 stamps) http://www.kennykdownloads.com/

Wow! Can't wait to see your creations, but before that I would like to share with you what I came up with. Here are "Dowager Countess" and Kenny K's newest digital stamp "Valet".

Dowager Countess enjoys a day in the garden because it brings shine in her eyes and she also enjoys a glass or two of champagne kindly served by Valet. 

Red and white flowers homemade, as usual :)

Digistamps - KennyK Dowager Countess and Valet
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers and Flexmarkers
Embossing board - Keepsake (Glitter Girls) Once Upon a Time
Cutting die - Tonic Studios
Green paper - Lidl
Cardstock - Papermill Direct
Bunting - free cutting file from Bird's Cards and I cut is using Silhouette Cameo
Flat back pearls and hearts - all stash
Flowers: homemade

Box:
Corner die: Joy! Crafts
Swirl die: Tonic Studios
Acetate window, card stock, pearls - all stash

Challenge or two I would like to take part:

• Sassy Studio Designs - #292 Dry Embossing  Oops, it was not dry embossing
• Southern Girls -  #116 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #30 Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - #73 Anything Goes/Bingo (die cuts/punches - image - flowers)
• Decorate to Celebrate -  #105 Anything Goes 
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  Always Anything Goes

Being is Beautiful

Being alive, being different, being blessed, being able to communicate are all wonderful things.

Digi Stamp - KennyK

Bench - Magnolia stamp

Colorine - Flexmarkers

Dies - Sizzix

DP - Papermania

Pink card embossed using Crafter's Companion embossing folder

Roses - stash

Challenge or few to take part, please, are:

• KennyK`s Krafty Krew - Challenge #193 - Flower Power
• Crafty Catz -  #275 - Girly
• Digitally Sweet - M, Digital images/projects - (Does not have to be 100% digital.) - No. 133 - April - Anything Goes

CAS maybe part 1

White leather embossed card and pearls with MiC image resulted this:

Image - Make it Crafty "Cherry Blossom"

Colouring - Letraset Flexmarkers

with a touch of Staedtler Triplus

Card - Papermill Direct Leather Embossed

Die cut - Stampin Up

Stamp on the die cut also Stampin Up

Pearl string - stash

Till next time...

Winter Is Coming - Again

If you ever get cold, just stand in the corner of a room for a while. They're normally around 90 degrees.

Good job :)

Long time no seen, but pain is so bad can't stand still, can't sit down more than few moments and nerve pain is making my toes "dancing" all the time. That's just fyi. Life goes on and so does crafting.

Neighbour passed his driving test:

Yep, they have a red Volvo :)

When Kid Goes to College or Uni

It's first of September and of course we all know how wonderful month this is! Kids go back to school, some leave for college and some for uni. My card is about it.

Let me first introduce you our wonderful sponsor we have at Crafts Galore Encore for September Challenge #9 Make a Card:

Beccy's Place 

and 

prize is 3 digi stamps or 1 set of your own choice. 

What the artist herself says: I love spending time in my craft room designing and creating with paper, fabric, flowers, ribbons, paint... anything I can get my hands on really. I have tried many different arts and crafts and have a particular passion for papercrafts, decorative painting and ribbon embroidery. I love to share ideas and "how to's" with other keen crafters, which is the purpose of this blog. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy what I have to offer.

For September Challenge I used digi stamp called "Raspberry House".

Empty nest when child leaves home to follow the dreams what he wants to study.

He is homesick (as if!) and folds the card to think about home. How sun was shining and love in the middle of it all was so warm and made him feel good.

Raspberries and sunshine with love. Raspeberries got a fab 3D effect when adding Glossy Accent them each one by one. Sun is made of different flowers and of course shiny heart in the middle :)

Card falls flat and oops, there is a pocket and there is something in the pocket!

This is just to show embossed part of the card and pearls.

Little book attached the tag and there is a message from home. (Not done it yet because need to blog this first.)

Big tag is actually another pocket and there is some money.

AND THAT REALLY MAKES YOUR STUDENT'S DAY!!!

That's it. Hope you like this one.

Details:

Digistamp - Beccy's Place

Colours - Letraset Flexmarkers

Card blank - 8x8 Craft UK

Tag and book - Sizzix dies

Embossing Folder - Couture Creations

Glossy Accent for Raspberries

Papers, pearls, ribbon, etc - all stash

There are couple of challenges I would like to take part:

Favourite Colours for a Special Occasion

Here we are in the middle of August, well almost, and I love this day for a Very Special Reason.

The Sisterhood of Crafters took me in for August, and this is my first Step Sister project. I hope you like it. The Sisterhood of Crafters is totally stress free place with great challenges. For this fortnight theme is "Your Favorite Colors". This is mine:

 

I only got this stamp few days ago and was buzzing to use it on card.

 

This might be my favourite Make it Crafty digistamp :) I LOVE this lady.

Few years back my favourite colour was black. It was excellent if it was black. No other colours, thank you very much! Almost without noticing I was drawn to purple and silver and now it is clear they are my favourite colours.

Now listing all things made this card possible:

Stamp on front - Stampin Up Layered Labels

Ink - Stampin Up

Digistamp inside - Make it Crafty Soprano Singer

Distress Ink - Ranger (TH)

Cardstock - Homebargains (light ivory), Papermill Direct (purple)

Colourine - Copic Ciao, Letraset Flexmarkers, Prismacolor fine liner

Diva's belt - satin ribbon from endless stash

Leafy thingies - Joy Craft cutting die

Roses - I made them

Little daisies - stash

blings - stash

Embossing folder - Crafter's Companion 6x6 

Card blank and all layers were cut using Silhouette Cameo and shape inspired by Sizzix 

double sided tape, Snopake wet glue

Done.

Couple of challenges I'd love to take part:

• Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
• Die Cuttin' Divas - #178 Favorite Color Combination
• Paper Minutes - #334 Music
• Love to Create - Inspired by a Song, Book or Movie (Can't help it, but for me it is "Madame Butterfly" in this.)
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 69 - Anything Goes

Atmospheric Perspective

Atmospheric Perspective. Oh yeah, can I have one of them, please. Err... what is a "Atmospheric Perspective", please? Dictionary tells you:
"atmospheric-perspective. aerial perspective. a technique of rendering depth or distance in painting by modifying the tone or hue and distinctness of objects perceived as receding from the picture plane, especially by reducing distinctive local colors and contrasts of light and dark to a uniform light bluish-gray color." 

Tried my best and here we go. Make it Crafty has this fantastic challenge here.

 

Chelsea sitting on grass hugging her legs. 

 

Chelsea and grass

 

This one is to show the hill behind her *far far away*. 

 

More pics.

 Idea for this pic is all tourist pics were there is Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, Pisa Tower, or something else behind you and you have someone to take a photo of you.

I put special effect on camera "dramatic" and wow, in my eyes this looks fab.

One more.

 Details to follow... All I want to do just now is have a piece of home made apple pie (own apple tree) and blog this. :) Hooray.

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Ok, apple pie was beautiful!

Card stock - Papermill Direct and Papermania

Digi stamps - 

MiC - Chelsea Hugging Legs

MiC - Hilly Lane

MiC - Rocky Tree

MiC - Grass

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Colourine - Copic Ciao, Letraset Flexmarkers

Challenges! Oh yes, please :)

• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Must Be Square or Rectangular #48 Anything Goes
• 4 Krafty Girlz - # 24 Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 69 - Anything Goes

Good Luck

Today is the day when schools are closing for summer holiday! Good luck to all kids/teens/young adults, have a good few weeks for relaxing and enjoying life.

 

Zoë from Make it Crafty has made great colouring tutorials, both "live" and e-books. For me they have been truly good because my colouring with markers is NOT good. This is the first time I've tried to concentrate and learn. Person with no flippin patience this is A Very Hard Task! ;)

 

 Result with Tilda's dress was something I couldn't believe I've done it! Well, messed the sleeves up, but those shades on skirt, oh boy I love. 

This gives me some confidence that I can improve.

Dress: Soft Aqua, Pastel Green, Soft Green

Hair: Sandstone, Vanilla, Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Raw Sienna

Skin:  Blush, Tea Rose, Ivory, Linen

 Image - Magnolia Tilda something (never remember details)

Colours - Flexmarkers

Backing papers - Papermania and Home Bargains

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Die cuts:

oval from ebay, 

layers under the sentiment I cut using Cameo

butterfly - Cheery Lynn

Flowers - homemade with Tonic Studios punches

Pearls - old stash

Challenges, please:

Stamp and Create with Magnolia - Summer Fun

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge Blog  - OTT or CAS (mine is CAS)

Magnolia Mania - Summer

Totally Tilda  - #100

Crafty Catz - Hot Summer/Hot Colours (I trust all this yellow screams SCORCHIO!)

4 Krafty Girlz - # 22 Anything Goes

 Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #44 Anything Goes

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Little kind reminder of 

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge

Use a Stamp or Digi Stamp somewhere on your Project for Fred She Said!

Sun and Fun

It's been 2 weeks since my last blogging! No wonder, because half of the time I'm like ouch auch can't move and then... WE HAVE HAD WONDERFUL SUNNY WEATHER!

Anyhow, here is the first of "My Very Long Way to Colour with Really Trying to Learn How to Colour with Markers" blogging. Phew. Ooh, this is gonna be fun. You are welcome to laugh at and with me.

Card blank is 6x6, embossed background is just couple of mm larger and nicely covers the base.

Detailed photos:

Crafter's Companion 6x6 embossing folders just about too big for the 6x6 card blanks I use. Oh well, rather this than other way round, to be honest with you. You have to love those sharp lines and beautiful details of them.

I put 2mm and 4mm pearls, colour is the same, although looks different shades.

Wows, 7 layers if counting base and image.

As you can see above, blending is not my strong point

smudging is ;) BUT I like her head.

Clearly she says:  Yep, that's all for now!

Make it Crafty digi stamp 'Classy Victoria'

Flexmarkers

2mm and 4mm flat back pearls

Crafter's Companion embossing folder

Cheery Lynn butterfly dies

homemade flowers using help from Tonic Studios punch

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Remember our fab Crafts Galore Encore 

Challenge #7 "Use Stamp or Digi Stamp". 

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I would like to take part of these challenges:

• Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  #44 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
• Twisted Tuesday - Challenge: Pearls  Twist : Lots of Layers
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
• Digi Makeover Challenge - Girly Girl
• Crafty Catz - Flowers