Looking for Greener Grass

There is something very sweet in this stamp. From the biggest to the smaller they work together to give Mr Big Pig a chance to look for the greener grass. 

Got this stamp from eBay years ago, but unfortunately never got the front part. Never mind, this is such a beauty anyway. Not the first time I made this to a card :) 

All farm animals like spring and yay! will get out and enjoy sunshine, nice warm promise of summer and want to wonder around. (Clearly I have no idea of real farm life, but here we go!)

Stamp - Art Impressions U1719 Pig (front and) Back

Colours - Prismacolors Pencils

Card blank - Craft UK

Backing papers - Trimcraft

Flowers - small made using Cheery Lynn die + distress inks

Flowers - big made using Britannia die + distress inks

Card stock - Image stamped on Papermill 300gsm ivory card

and white hammered card backing is from Crafter's Companion

Cutting die - Go Kreate Frilly #3

Anything else - stash

Some nice challenges:

Crafty Catz – #162 - Anything Goes with a twist: Touch Of Pink (PIG)

Art Impressions Stamp Challenge  #204 Spring-y Cards

Moving along with the Times 2W,3E #41 Handmade or Die Cut Flowers

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

Fit Together As Pieces In a Puzzle Part 2

I'll continue with my latest topic :) how I like to make a box to go with the card/keepsake.

One more today :) but before that, there is a list of stuff I used for this one:

Stamp Magnolia Flower Fairy Tilda

Coloring - Letraset Promarkers

White cardstock for stamping - Crafter's Companion "Neenah"

Circle dies - Spellbinders

Bottom layer - Papermill Direct Leather Embossed card

Pink, lilac, yellow and white layers all Lidl card and paper

Embossing board - Glitter Girls "Once Upon a Time"

Leafy Swirl - Tonic Studios

Flowers - homemade using Tonic Studios punches, 

my own design cutting file, Mod Podge and glitter

Corners on the box - Joy! Crafts cutting die

Acetate window - stash

Pearls - stash

Challenges :)

Midweek Magnolias - Embossing

Tilda's Town - Challenge #163 Fussy & Fancy, Clean And Layered…

Passion for Promarkers -  Week 305 – Candy Crush

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

:)

Around the World Having Fun

Spread your wings and go and see the world.

Image - KennyK

Colours - Promarkers and Copics

Rose frame die - Tonic Studios

White card - Papermill Direct

Embossing folder - Crafters Companion

All the rest - stash

Challenge or two I would like to take part:

KennyK's Krafty Krew - #192 Steampunk

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...

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.

***

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

A Bit Fancy Pencil Box

Good Morning! It is Friday, the 1st of August 2014 and we have had SCORCHIO days this summer here in West Yorkshire, England. At least 3-4 hot(ish) days! Hehee, I call that a wonderful summer.

My project for Crafts Galore Encore 

Challenge #8 Anything Goes

and our fab sponsor for this month is

Di's Digis, And the prize is for $12 to spend on the online store and there's just so many really cute image on there, so get making and take part with this months chanllenge!
Can't wait to see YOUR creations. Come and play with us!

I needed a nice box for my coloured pencils. 

No stamps at all on this.

First I made 6 boxes 5cm x 5cm x 12cm.

Glued them together to have a sturdy base.

Mine was kraft one side and white the other and naturally I made boxes without thinking and left WHITE side to show. Argh, numpty.

Printed a LV wallpaper x few A4 sheets of gorgeous leather embossed card from Papermill Direct, that was for front, back, sides and bottom. 

Needed brown strips for all edges. 

I thought golden corners etc would be nice and then glued tons of half back pearls around front edges.

Here we go.

3 x A4 sheets of sturdy card for departments (6 boxes)

3 x A4 sheets of white leather embossed card

printer

2 x A4 golden card for buckles and corners

3mm flat back pearls 

4mm flat back pearls

There are challenges I'd love to take part:

• 4 Crafty Chicks - #205 Anything Goes
• 4 Krafty Girlz - # 23 Anything Goes
• As You Like it Challenge - Favorite Papers and Why

leather embossed card has wow-factor and colours look good on it, quality is awesome

golden linen card has soft surface and embossing is easy, shines too

• 613 Avenue Create - #82 Anything Goes w/optional use a sentiment
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
• Die Cuttin' Divas  #176 Anything Goes
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Must Be Square or Rectangular #46 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - Anything goes
• Divas by Design - Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - #188 Anything goes
• Wonderful Wednesdays - Always Anything Goes (I hope it is okay to join, although there is no stamps on my creation...)

As I said a bit earlier: 

Can't wait to see YOUR creations. Come and play with us!

Joyful July

Morning! Or afternoon or evening depending where you are, but Good Morning this is and I hope you are, too. I have delightful news and long blog post with lots of photos. 

Couple of months ago with big hopes I applied a DT post when I saw DT call at Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. Today I can proudly present my first DT creation for this funny and warm challenge blog.

Crafts Galore Encore rules are easy: Our Challenges are for crafters of any medium, as long as it fits the theme! July theme is "Use Stamp or Digi in Your Project". We all love cards and this is something we can say that sky's a limit. Use anything you like, let your imagination fly and join us!

Our wonderful sponsor in July is Fred She Said, and this is just a short note from FSS: Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-coloured images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files. Have some fun with Fred!

Very generously Fred She Said is giving a Gift Card for $15 to spend on FSS goodies in the shop!

Here is my card (box card), and I used Fred She Said digital stamps Emma and Rosie and also a freebie from year 2010 called Flower Pot,because flower pots were like made for this bench where Emma and Rosie are sitting, don't you thing?

This project was fun and dead easy. First I coloured the stamp, then measured how big the box should be, then I took a piece of card and made the box and drawer. Glued all together, all roses made by me. This is suppose to be very girly and I think it is.

Materials:

Digital stamp - Fred She Said

Colourine - Spectrum Noir Pencils

Die cuts - Sizzix

Roses punches - Tonic Studios

Lace, ribbon, pearls - all stash

Challenges I would like to join:

Crafting From The Heart - Challenge 25 - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Challenge 257 - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - July Challenge - Let's Go Digital
Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - 1st-7th July - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions - Challenge 165 - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Challenge 82 - Stamping
Simon Says - Anything Goes
The Stamping Chef - Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Challenge 237 - Anything Goes
Crafting At The Weekend - Challenge 3 - Anything Goes
Scribble And Scrap - Challenge 21 - Always Anything Goes
Suzy Bee's - Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge - Butterflies
Sparkle n' Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking
Stamps & Fun - Flowers and Pearls

Now it's your turn. Welcome and have fun!