Tiddly Inks Beach Boy

 

Morning All! (Well evening really as I’m scheduling this post….5am is far to early for me…hehe!).

Back at the start of the year I entered a DT for Tiddly Inks but wasn’t lucky enough to make the team. Christy asked all of us who ‘Nearly Made It’ if we would like to take part in a blog hop and I am so glad to be joining in.

If you head over to the Tiddly Inks Blog you will find links to everyone taking part in the hop today. You can hop in whatever order you like and take as long as you like to oooh and aaah at everyone’s makes!

I’ve used My Beach Boy for my make today and I coloured him up whilst on holiday last week. My eldest was sitting colouring with me and was asking me to use specific colours (green being his favourite) and when I was done asked if he could keep it as he said it looked like him when we had been to the beach that day! How could I refuse?…..So, I’ve turned it into a little photo holder to hang in his room and I’m going to add some pictures of him and his little sister playing on the beach

The base is made from a recycled cardboard box, painted with Gesso and edged with red sparkle embossing powder. I’ve then covered it with patterned paper, mounted on green card. I’ve kept the embellishments simple… some stars, doodling and some pegs to hold the photos.

Supplies:

• Image: My Beach Boy from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
• Hair:E29, E39, E37, E35 and E33
• Shorts, Sandals and Spade: BV29, G17, G05 and G02
• T-Shirt: B39, B24 and B23
• Sun and Bucket: E13, Y08, Y06 and Y02
• Crab: R08, R05, R02, BG09, BG49 and BG23
• Sky: B00, BG10, BG01 and Blender
• Sand: E39, E37, E33, Y17, YR23 and YR08
• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘ Up Up and Away’ Paper Pad
• Card: Recycled cardboard box, Green Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Framelits Star Dies
• Embellishments: Wooden Pegs and Doodling with a red fineline pen

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

The Craft Cupboard Trilogy

I’ve seen a couple of people blog about the challenge over at The Craft Cupboard Trilogy to use the free heart stamp that came with last months Craft Stamper Magazine.

The challenge is a fitting tribute to Sarah Lawrence (who designed the stamp) as she sadly passed away last December. I was never lucky enough to see her demonstrate in person but have seen her on Create & Craft many times. She was a source of inspiration and will be missed by many many crafters.

This little project started out as a birthday card, but then morphed into something completely different.

I’ve used the heart stamp to make butterfly wings. I covered black card with Washi tape, stamped and embossed the hearts and cut them out. I used the stamp again to add a shadow under the butterfly and I used some more rolled up Washi tape to make the body. The antennae are hand drawn with small pearls at the ends.

The panel is made from some glittered polka dot card that I had left over from a couple of wedding anniversary cards. The edges of the panel are distressed and embossed with Gold EP. I’ve stamped the heart in gold and black repeatedly along two edges of the panel to create a border. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts Valentines set and the words seemed fitting, this is what made me change it from a card to a wall hanging. So I made a box frame, inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, stamped through some sequin waste and added a bit more Washi tape. Lastly a cream ribbon (coloured brown with a ProMarker) and my little wall hanging was complete.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa