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

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!

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

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!

Kaarin and Jyrki

My cousin and her fiance tied the knot this afternoon.
14.06 @ 14:06

Bubble, Bubble

Oops, a week gone with no blogging! I've make all sort of things and done gardening, got new dishwasher fitted... i.e. household tasks :) Because of my poor back and legs (hahah, feeling sorry for myself?), I truly can say that I was enjoying those few moments I could so something. It just meant to take painkillers enough and be positive. Afterwards it is nice to look around and see results. Well, my son probably does 99% of the works, but I am trying.

Here is a card I made for my good friend's daughter. For some reason I thought there's something wrong...

Here is the new version.

Image - Mo Manning

Circle dies - Spellbinders

Leafy thingy - Marianne

Colours - Flexmarkers

Lace - stash

Words - gift from a friend

Pearls - stash.

That's if for now. Oh, I have wonderful news regarding blogging, challenges and more.

Sweet and Fragile

Hello from Very Wet and Cold Yorkshire (wouldn't swap places to anyone), we have ideal weather to grow apples. Looks like there's going to be plenty after couple of months. Apple pie... Can't wait.

Here's my first card today, and is the very first time I'm using Sugar Nellie's Victoria.

Will fill the details a bit later.