Mermaid Wryn

Morning All! It’s Fab Friday over at Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and I have a Mermaid card to share.

I’ve used Mermaid Wryn and coloured her with my Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers:

Doesn’t Wryn have lush hair?

Supplies:

• Image: Mermaid Wryn from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
• TN8, EB1, FS3, FS8, FS9
• Hair: True Black, TN9, GB9, GB7, GB4, BO1
• Tail: True Black, BT9, GT2, CG1, CT1, OR3 
• Starfish: CR11, OR3, CT3
• Card: Kraft Card and Neenah Solar White Card 
• DP: Crate Paper ‘Random’ 6x6 Pad
• Sentiment: Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles VIP XXL Download
• Dies & Embossing Folders: Spellbinders Floral Oval Dies, Magnolia Swedish Lace Die and Britannia Leaf Flourish Die
• Embellishments: Doodling, Wooden Heart, Liquid Pearls and Glossy Accents

Don’t forget to hop over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog for inspiration from the rest of the team.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Rain or Shine…Kraftin’ Kimmie New Release!

Morning All! Welcome back to day TWO of our March Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks! Have you been enjoying the peeks so far? We've got more beauties for you today!

Today we are thrilled to share the newest set of elegant sentiments by artist BECKY PEARCE! This set features some lovely words about friendship in beautiful fonts and is called RAIN OR SHINE! This set includes NINE lovely sentiments and is designed especially to brighten anyone's day!

This stamp set is absolutely gorgeous and I knew straight away what I wanted to create. As you may have seen above,  I got a little carried away and made two cards. This one:

I thought the Sunburst paper went perfectly with this sentiment.

And this one:

Very CAS but I like out it turned out.

Are you planning to join us for our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY? Hope you can join us for all the fun, excitement and prizes Sunday morning beginning at 11am EST! Hope you can come hang out with the Krafty Girls and Krafty Guests!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Rain or Shine Stamp Set from Kraftin' Kimmie
• Ink: Archival ‘Jet Black’ Inkpad
• DP: Crate Paper ‘DIY Shop’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Ivory Linen Texture Card and Grey Card
• Dies & Punches: Memory Box Puffy Cloud Dies, Spellbinder Plain Circle Dies and Spellbinder Label 18 Dies
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Button, Twine, Pearls and Doodling with a Fineline Pen.

Below you will find all the Krafty Girls and Guests who have goodies to show you today and while you're visiting their blogs, be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper is going to WIN some $$ to spend at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop……Woohoo! {This winner will be announced at the party on Sunday!}

Thanks for stopping by and happy hoppin'!

Lisa

Wonderful Wednesday at Kraftin’ Kimmie

Afternoon all.

You know me and that I’m not great at sharing my own fabulous news….well this month I’m a Krafty Guest at Kraftin' Kimmie! Wowee am I over the moon. I’m new to Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps (thanks to the enabler Alyce over at Kit & Clowder for introducing me to them :-)) but I have fallen for the Moonlight Whispers stamps, they are so fabulous to colour.

Well my first post is for Wonderful Wednesday! We hope you play along and as always it's ANYTHING GOES! Break out your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get krafty!

I’ve been thinking about making an album for a while, but I don’t really scrap and I’m not into Art Journaling so I’m making an album of my colouring journey and card style, here is my album page using Moonlight Whispers – Sophia:

Supplies:

• Image and Sentiment: Moonlight Whispers - Sophia from Kraftin' Kimmie  
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Crate Paper ‘Random’ 6x6 Pad
• Card: Grey Linen Card and Copic X-Press it Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Fancy Tag Framlits and Brittania Small Ivy Flourish Die
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Paper Flowers and Pearls/Gems

Be sure that you are one of our friends on the Krafty Friends FB page... not only will you be up to date on all of the goings on, but you can share your Kraftin Kimmie creations! Let's see your Krafty Stuff!

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Giggle Fairy

Morning All. Hope you all had a good weekend! After a tiring day at the craft show and with the miserable rain outside I spent a wonderful afternoon getting crafty and playing with some of my new stash. I didn’t actually finish a card, just made a good old mess so in true Blue Peter style here is one I made earlier…

This card was my valentines card for hubby and uses the cute Giggle Fairy from Some Odd Girl. He’s not really into pink but he doesn’t mind because he knows I am ;-) I’ve also made my favourite rolled flowers from a circle punch.
Supplies:

• Image: Giggle Fairy from Some Odd Girl  
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Crate Paper ‘Random’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Pink card from stash and Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Floral Ovals, Speech Bubbles from Whiff of Joy, flourish die and circle punch
• Embellishments: Glitter, Hessian, Washi Tape from Ikea, old beads from a broken necklace, gems and doodling with a Pigma Micron Pen

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

Thanks for stopping by
Lisa

My Favourite Five Cards of 2012

Debby is hosting another Favourite Five and this time it’s Favourite Five Cards of 2012.
Here are mine:

#1 – I love Saturated Canary images and this is my favourite Saturated Canary card this year. I love the Colour scheme and the CAS design. Original post is here…

#2 – Masculine cards are always quite hard, but I was pleased with how this one turned out. It uses a Digi from Crissy’s Digi’s called Whatzup Dog, and the colours, layout and embellishments just seemed to come together. Original post is here…

#3 – This is  bit of a cheat, it’s two cards! I adore this image from Pink Gem Designs called Moon baby and this year I’ve used it to make both a Girl and Boy New Baby card and I couldn’t decide between them. Original posts are here and here…

#4 – This was a card from quite early in 2012 but I like it because it doesn’t use a really cute image and it also uses a negative die cut as a frame. The stamps are from a Little Claire set and the original post can be found here…

#5 – Again another slight cheat as this is two cards, but something I struggle to do is embellish my cards. Sometimes I add embellishments and to me they look as though they have been plonked on top and don’t form part of the design, but with with these two cards I think I got it just about right (well for me anyway!). The original posts can be found here and here…

        

I had a really hard choosing these as I think my crafting and style has really grown in 2012, I could have chosen about another 10 cards!

I hope you enjoy my selection and thanks for stopping by
Lisa

Add Some Bling at PCJ

 

Morning all. As you read this I should be having a nice little lie in on my holiday (hopefully Nanny and Granddad will have got up early with Little One). So I have scheduled this little post to share my card for the new challenge over at Paper Crafting Journey which this fortnight is:

ADD SOME BLING

I have used a gorgeous image from Tiddly Inks called Wryn Grow a Little Love. She has been coloured with ProMarkers. I used some fabulous papers from Crate Paper Random 6x6 Pad, my favourite papers at the moment I think! I’ve also used some flowers and bling from Wild Orchid Crafts, some ribbon and pom pom trim from my stash, a gorgeous butterfly die from CC Designs, a Sizzix/Tim Holtz Wonky Scallop border die and a sentiment from a Personal Impressions Paula Pascual set.

Please hop over to Paper Crafting Journey and see the rest of the DT’s inspiration.

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

• Stampin for the Weekend – Feeling Floral
• Totally Gorjuss – Anything Goes
• Joanna Sheen Challenge – Down in the Garden
• Divas by Design – Anything Goes
• Flutterby Wednesdays – Use Kraft
• By the Cute and Girly – Birthdays

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Happy Birthday Sister-in-Law

Good morning, hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. It's pouring down with rain here in Portsmouth and I can't craft as we're staying with the In-Laws. So just a quick post from me then we're headed out into the weather so I can try and locate a warm maternity sweatshirt/coat to cover my baby bump. I can't just buy a normal one in a bigger size as where I was so sick at the beginning I'm smaller now than I was before I got pregnant and my bump is so big already (I'm 5 months) that to get one to fit it would hang off my shoulders and over my hands as I'm quite short too.

Anyhoo, enough waffle, here is my card which follows this weeks challenge at Sketch & Stash (see below for sketch):

     

The image is Patchwork Bunch of Balloons from Lili of the Valley and has been coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers. Patterned papers are from the Crate Paper Random 6x6 pad and the plain card is from my stash, all edges have been distressed with a mix of Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar Distress Ink. The image has been cut out with a Nestie and mounted on a square parenthesis X-Cut die cut. The flowers have been cut with an MFT flower die available from Dies to Die for. The ribbon and pearls are from my stash.

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

• Sketch & Stash - #96

• Craft Your Passion- Bingo (bling, ribbon, distress)
• Divas by Design - Lovely Layers
• Lili's Little Fairies - Flower Power
• Stampin for the Weekend - Feeling Floral
• Dream Valley - Celebrations
• Joanna Sheet - So Sweet (the image)

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa