Mermaid in Blue

I do believe that mermaid are just fantasy and result of wild running, or should I say swimming, imagination but digistamps from Make it Crafty are fabulous to colour and if this bothers anyone, please think this was just a costume party outfit ;)

Flowers I made using Britannia cutting dies
Embossed sea is by Fiskars embossing plate
Embossed light cream card from Papermill, 
embossing folder Crafter's Companion 
and a bit of Ranger - Tim Holtz Distress ink. 
Ribbon and pearls are from by endless drawers 
Sentiment is from Lili of the Valley
Backing paper could be Docrafts or First Edition
Card blank is 8x8 Craft UK
Coloured using Promarkers

Baby News

It's always great news when hearing wonderful miracle happening, a new life has been created. This is a card to first time parents to be.

Digistamp - Make it Crafty
Colouring - Promarkers
Cutting dies - Spellbinders, Tonic Studios

Apr-CAS-MiC-Sketch

You really must love abbreviations ;)
April
Clean and simple
Make it Crafty
Sketch Challenge

Digistamp - Make it Crafty Adele

Colouring - Promarkers

Dies - Spellbinders

Embossing folder - Couture Creations 

Golden card - Create and Craft

All the rest - stash

From Make it Crafty website: This month our challenge is a Sketch Challenge! Here is the Sketch we would like you to play with:

Join the challenge, it's fun!

Fancy a Cuppa?

There is something special in Make it Crafty "Little Houses". This is a teapot and I wanted to try kraft + Prismacolor Premiers and Metallics.

Every month Make it Crafty has a colouring challenge and March Challenge was Bubbles. Heh, this blog post is written after all the fun. I really need to shake all the dust off and blog more often! There are lot of cards and keepsakes I've made :) Watch this space ;)

Challenge:

Make it Crafty: #31 Bubbles

Till next time :)

Colourful Autumn is Just Around the Corner

Hello, it's a beautiful day here in Yorkshire.

Make it Crafty has a fabulous digistamp collection called "Little Houses" and this card is made using Fairy Tree House digi stamp. Took me ages to colour and also wanted to use a bit rarer colours for layers than usually, so here we are:

Digistamp from Make it Crafty 

Coloured by Promarkers

Embossing board Keepsake Glitter Girls:

The Big Screen, Framey, Galaxy, Treasured Memories

Embossing folder

Butterfly die from Sizzix

Flower punch from Tonic Studios

Sentiment stamp from Lili of the Valley

All the rest - stash

It Really Is Summer

This is my third post today, yay! 

This time it's Make it Crafty digistamps and Glitter Girls boards and some other usual stuff ;)

Of course there is a box.

Let's see...

Digi stamp - Make it Crafty "Carefree Elise" and "Daffodil Dell"

Colorine - Promarkers and Copics

Embossing boards - Glitter Girls "Once Upon a Time" and "Wings of Love"

Cardstock - Lidl

Embossing Folder - will check it

Swirls - Joy! Crafts - 6002/0303

Flowers - I made a cutting file and cut using Silhouette Cameo

Acetate window - stash

Springly Hair

Just a quick posting today with springly hair. :)

Digi stamp - Make it Crafty "Anastasia"

Colours - Promarkers

Die cut - Tonic Studios

Punch - Martha Stewart

All the rest - old stash

Challenge:

Make it Crafty - Focusing on Hair

:)

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...

Wild Thing

Wild Thing (you make my heart sing etc)

Image Make it Crafty

Colours Crafters Companion

Butterflies Tonic Studios

Circles Tonic Studios

Card Papermill 

Embossing board Glitter Girls 

Till next time...

Make it Crafty - Top Three

I made Top Three when Make it Crafty was having one utterly "come on brain cells, keep going" challenge, that I really loved. This was few months ago, but doesn't change the fact that I felt and still feel sooo happy.

Details of my blog entry for the challenge Atmospheric Perspective.

Till next time...

Experiment

Flat back pearls are probably my favourite embellishments and this suits nicely here:

Q: Why didn't the oyster give up his pearl? 
A: Because he was shellfish.

I tried first time colouring the image with fineliners. Staedtler triplus fineliners out of the box and this is what I came up with:

Calvin Sitting Baby Digi Stamp coloured using Staedtler triplus fineliners. Also a bit of shading around his eyes and cheeks and chin by Letraset Flexmarkers bluish grey. I wanted to have expression of tired but happy looking fellow with day old face need shaving.

Calvin Sitting Baby Digi Stamp - Make it Crafty

Flat back pearls - stash

Bronze corners - stash

Hearts - Sizzix

Baby die cut - Marianne

Design papers - Marianne

Challenge I would like to take part:

Make it Crafty: Challenge #14 - Ball point pens or mediums you are not familiar with

Little Boy

Beautiful digistamp from Make it Crafty and Spectrum Noir pencils from Crafter's Companion.

 

Congratulations is hot embossed using white ink and green embossing powder.

 

I like how I coloured his eyes and hair.

Inspiration for this was my neighbour's son, who had a fab holiday with his family. Also the thought how beach and summer and Primary School are left behind now and he is going to High School. 

Thanks for visiting :)

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

It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings

Mademe Butterfly, or should we say it ain't over till the fat lady sings? Anyhow today was the last football game of the season, i.e. season is over. Italy is a famous opera country and Leeds United (my beloved football team) has a new Italian owner, so this is just perfect.

Make It Crafty has fab digi stamps and Soprano Opera Singer is from them.

Image - Make It Crafty

Background Image - Magnolia stamp

Colouring - Flexmarkers

Flower or File pots - Marianne Creatables

Butterflies - Tonic Studios

All flowers - scraps, Tonic Studios punches and my fingers

Satin ribbon, stems, holographic card - stash

Of course I have couple of challenges in mind:

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #33 Floral 
Allsorts Challenge Blog - #257 Butterflies

Stampin With The Dragon - May - Flowers 

STAMPlorations Challenge Blog - May - Stamps & Flowers  

A Little Bit Crafty -  Flower Power  

Bearly Mine  -  Flowers  

Little Red Wagon - #235 DIY flower  

Use Your Stuff -  use your stash - Flowers  

Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 55 - Anything Goes  

4 Krafty Girlz - # 17 Anything Goes  

Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes

Thank you so much for visiting!

Butterflymania

If you like Make It Crafty digi stamps, this weekend is a great opportunity to stock up, because they have AMAZING 30% OFF!

NOW my BIG NEWS!

Crafty Catz were looking for Guest Designer Team member for May, and YES, they chose ME!!! It feels great, because I don't apply DT's often at all, this is the second time ever. I think.

Anyhow, although my GDT post starts on Friday 2nd May, this is sort of warming up blogging :)

This is Adele, and yes, from Make It Crafty. 

White rose is homemade and the others probably from Wild Orchid, not sure, because they were pressie from a friend.

White loopy background is inspired by Martha Stewart with a nice touch of flatback pearls. 

Make Up: Eye shadow is Heather, lipstick Rose Pink, white areas of eyes are coloured with Antique White, her eyes are Cyan and Surf Blue. Nails also have touch of Rose Pink.

Digistamp - Make it Crafty 

Colours - Flexmarkers

Butterflies - Cheery Lynn

DP - from Beatrix Potter Collection 

Leaf dies - Spellbinders

Swirl - Joy Crafts (or Marianne)

Lace, pearls, flowers - all stash

There are couple of challenges I had in mind:

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Things with Wings 

Crafty Catz - #228 Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - #91 Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - #112 Pearls and Lace

Creative Fingers - #33 Anything Goes/Bingo (Die Cut - Pearl - Flower)

Thank you so much for visiting :) and I hope you like my latest card.