Maggie

My last share for August is a card made with the super sweet Maggie from StampArt by Kathryne:

This is a birthday card I made for my sister in law for her birthday in a couple of weeks. I have gone pretty cute, sparkly and pink.

Supplies:

• Image: Maggie from Whimsy Stamps 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• DP: Simple Stories
• Card: Copic X-Press It and Blue Card
• Stamps: Alphabet Stamps and Sentiment Stamps from Whimsy Stamps 
• Dies & Punches: Sue Wilson Calabria Die, Various Flower Punches
• Embellishments: Pearls and Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Totally Gorjuss – Pearls (my flower centres)
• Come and Get It – Things with Wings
• Dream Valley – Flowers
• Natalie and Amy's Challenge  - Things with Wings
• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Summer Colours

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Scarecrow and Friends

Just a quick post from me to share the second to last of Augusts makes. Here is a tag shaped card made using Scarecrow and Friend from Crissy’s Digis:

I made a mistake I don’t often do any more when making cards and I coloured my image before picking any patterned papers. I really struggled finding anything to match so I went for plain coloured card and added some pattern of my own with embossing and stencilling.

The flowers are punched from a cork sheet and coloured with a ProMarker.

Supplies:

• Image: Scarecrow and Friend from Whimsy Stamps 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Copic X-Press It, DCWV Cork Sheet and Orange and Green Core’dinations card
• Dies & Punches: Hole Punch, Corner rounder and Flower Punch
• Misc: Embossing Folder, Sarah Hurley Chevron Stripe Stencil, Brown Paint and sandpaper
• Embellishments: Handmade Flowers and Card Candi

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

•  Sweet Stampin’ – Embossing (Dry Embossed Background)
• The Corrosive Challenge – Let’s Hear It for the Boys
•  Dream Valley – Flowers

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Poppy

Morning All. I don’t seem to have quite got back into the swing of blogging since coming back from holiday, not helped by another tummy bug.

Anyhoo, it’s time for a new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge and this time our theme picked by the lovely Claire is:

It’s Summer Time

Here is my card using Poppy…

I’ve used the no lines colouring technique but printed the digi in beige rather than grey (thanks to Alyce at Kit and Clowder for that tip) and it was much easier to colour. Old Mr Mojo has taken a bit of a walk at the moment (if you see him please send him back…lol) so I have kept the rest of the card simple with an embossed background, sentiment and a ribbon.

Supplies:

• Image: Poppy by Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• Card: Copic X-Press It Card, Coral and Purple Core’dinations Card and textured white card
• Stamps: Sentiment from Pink Gem Designs
• Dies & Punches: Floral Oval Nestabilities and X-Cut Square Punch
• Embellishments: Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

•  Sweet Stampin’ – Embossing (Dry Embossed Background)
• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Summer Colours

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Favourite Things

Morning all. I don’t know about you (or if it’s just my funny old brain) but having wrote that title I can’t stop singing the song from The Sound of Music!

Anyhoo, it’s my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 blog today and I’m showing the clipboard I decorated for this months challenge, it uses one of my favourite colour combos…yellow and grey.

Here is a sneak peak

Please hop over to the Sarah Hurley 365 blog to see the card in full and to see what the rest of the team made for the challenge click here.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Angelica

Morning All. I am trying to get organized today as we are off on our holidays again on Saturday. This time it’s a week in Cornwall with my parents and I’m looking forward to the break, but I need to get all the boring chores done before we go.

I’m sharing some Pink Gem Inspiration today using one of Janet’s new images Angelica. Isn’t she adorable?

The image is so beautiful I have kept the rest of the layout pretty simple. I and I been playing with flower punches again…trying to match them to the flowers on the image.

Supplies:

• Image: Angelica by Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Forever Friends Kraft 12x12 pad from DoCrafts
• Card: White Linen Card
• Stamps: Whimsy Stamps
• Dies & Punches: Tonic Doily Border Punch, Spellbinders Picot Edge Circle and Plain Circles, Various Flower Punches
• Embellishments:  Pearls and Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

•  I Love ProMarkers – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Wednesday – Summer
• The Paper Shelter – Dies and Punches
•  Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 or More Diecuts
• A Creative Romance – Fun in the Sun
• Totally Gorjuss – Flowers
• The Corrosive Challenge – Birthdays
• Papertake Weekly – Spots and Dots
• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Summer Colours
• Natalie and Amy's Challenge – Dies Cuts & Flowers
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Tag You’re IT

Morning All. More decorating for me today but before I get started with that I thought I would show this little tag card I made for a feature on the Whiff of Joy blog called ‘Tag You’re It Tuesday’.

I’ve been playing with my Inktense pencils again. I love them more and more each time I use them. I can colour an image so much quicker than I can with markers simply because the water controls the blending and instead of using at least 3 markers to create a blend/contrast within each colour this can be done with just 1 pencil and a waterbrush!

For more info on the rest of the tag please visit my post on the Whiff of Joy blog.

Supplies:

• Colouring Medium: Derwent Inktense Pencils
• DP: Basic Grey and MME
• Card: Anna Marie Designs Kraft Card and Bockingford Watercolour card
• Stamps: Whiff of Joy Summer Stamp Kit
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain and Picot Edge Circles and an X-Cut Corner rounder
• Embellishments: Pearls and Twine

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 or More Diecuts
• A Creative Romance – Fun in the Sun
• Inky Chicks – Photo Inspiration (I have used the colours)
• Papertake Weekly – Spots and Dots
• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Summer Colours
• Stamping Sensations – Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Grow a Little Love

Morning All. I have been a bit quiet lately what with School Holidays, decorating and generally keeping the kids amused! But, I have been busy creating though, in fact as a reward for decorating I had a weekend off and spent as much time as I could in my craft room. So with an afternoon of painting ahead of me I thought I would write up a couple blog posts over a leisurely Cuppa….plus I’ve bribed the kids to sit still with a snack ;-)

Now we all know I love cute and this image falls perfectly into that category….it’s Wryn Grow a Little Love by Tiddly Inks.  Tiddly Inks are having a DT call at the moment and I couldn’t resist  having a try. The call asked us to use our favourite image but just picking one would have had me dithering for hours so I decided to use the first Tiddly Inks image I ever bought.

I like to have a few ‘Just Because’ type cards in my stash, so I made this little cutie….it’s a favourite card shape for me but I have no idea what’s it’s called….any suggestions are welcome! All the layers have been edged with Walnut stain Distress ink and I have kept the layout fairly simple. I have kept the embellishment simple, just adding handmade flowers – which I tried to match to the shape of the flowers in the patterned paper.

Supplies:

• Image: Wryn Grow a Little Love by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers plus a few Copics for hair (and I can see a I have a sticky marker that needs cleaning!)
• DP: Magazine Freebie
• Card: Anna Marie Designs Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Floral Ovals, MFT Rolled Roses, MFT 5 Point Flowers (I used the leaves), Various Flower Punches and a Fiskars Heart Corner Punch (for the little hearts)
• Embellishments: Cream Ribbon, Glitter Glue and Viva Decor Pearl Pen

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

•  Craft Your Passion – Add some yellow
•  Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 or More Diecuts
• A Creative Romance – Fun in the Sun
• Totally Gorjuss – Flowers
• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Summer Colours
• Natalie and Amy's Challenge – Dies Cuts & Flowers
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Christmas is Coming…

Morning all. It’s my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 blog today and I’m sharing some Christmas Inspiration….perfect for getting ahead production line style of equally good for a last minute quick make.

Here is a sneak peak

Please hop over to the Sarah Hurley 365 blog to see the card in full.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Birthday Bunny

Good Morning. Thank goodness for the weekend. It’s been a busy week but thankfully we have a family BBQ to look forward to this afternoon….so fingers crossed for the weather.

Anyhoo, it’s time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this time we have a fabulous theme of:

Embossing

I’ve used dry embossing and I have made a birthday card for my stash using Bunny with Gift…

Supplies:

• Image: Bunny with Gift from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Bazzill Basics Vintage Marketplace 6x6 pad
• Card: Turquoise Card – Papermill Direct, Kraft Card from Anna Marie Designs and Neenah Solar White
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circles, Flower Punches and a leaf punch
• Embellishments: Glitter Glue, Card Candi, Craftwork Cards Sentiment Die Cut, Crafters Companion Spray and shine

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Whimsy August Digi Stamp Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the August digital release blog hop!

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by:

 

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project.

Here is my card using the wonderful new Jewell from Marika Collins:

To find all of today's new fabulous new digital releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store.

Your next stop on the hop is Denise Goeldner  and whilst you are hopping don't forget to leave comments on each blog along the way as there will be two mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts! These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop which this time round is Gina Allen! This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the Whimsy Stamps Store.

The hop will run for one week and end on Friday 8th August at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced on the Whimsy Blog.

If you have just stumbled upon this post and would like to join in with the hop please start at the beginning which is the Whimsy Stamps Blog and below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way:

1. Dewi Lestari
2. Charlene Brown
3. Audrey Ernst
4. Hazel Thompson
5. Kelly Mannix
6. Michelle Oatman
7. Anet Van Zyl
8. Lisa West (Me)
9. Denise Goeldner
10. Gina Allen

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa