It's a Boy!

Hi guys

Well, after a long time of getting frustrated at having some digi images and not being able to use them, I was finally able to treat myself to a new printer at the weekend! Yay!  

A friend of mine also gave birth to a little boy a few days ago so I decided to make my first digi card using an image and patterned paper I'd recently bought from Pink Petticoat.  

Here it is...

Materials used:

• Image: Pink Petticoat - Sweet Cheeks
• Patterned Paper: Pink Petticoat - Little Dots
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Accents: Glitter Glue: Stickles - Star Dust; Ranger - Glossy Accents
• Punch: EK Success - Dotted Scallop

Challenge Entries:
A Gem of a Challenge - Challenge #110 - Something New
Moving Along with the Times - New Beginnings
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes (with option to celebrate something new)
Simply Create Too - Challenge #52 - Anything Goes
Passion for ProMarkers - Week 229 - Clean and Simple


That's all for now, I hope to be back later this week with more to share with you.

Take care

Clearly Besotted Stamps - September Release Teaser Time - Day 3

Hi guys

Welcome to Day 3 of Teaser Time for Clearly Besotted Stamps' September release of products.

If you've been following Stephanie and members of the Design Team (linked from Steph's blog) over the last couple of days I think you'll agree that this month's release features some fantastic sets of stamps and co-ordinating dies.

Today I'm sharing three cards I have made using a stamp set called 'Tag Along' together with co-ordinating dies.  This set features loads of different sentiments together with tags and banners.

I think myself and DT Mandy were on the same wavelength when we picked up these stamps, here's the link to her teaser yesterday!

For the first two cards I teamed up Tag Along with a die from the previously released Baby Love Collection.

 

 



 

and I had to make a girlie one too...

 

 

 

 

For the next card I used a combination of Tag Along and the balloon stamps from the previously released Make a Wish set.

 

 

There are lots of other sentiments in the Tag Along set so I think I'll be getting a lot of use out of this one, its really handy.

 

The new releases will be available to buy from the online store on 6 September.

 

Thanks for popping by today.  I'll be sharing another sneaky peek tomorrow so I'll hopefully see you again then.

 

Take care

 

 



Materials used:

 

Baby Cards

• Stamps & Dies: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Tag Along and Baby Love
• Ink: Versa Color - Sky Blue, Petal Pink and Hyacinth; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Cardstock: DoCrafts - Boofle 6x6 Designstax (blue and pink);  yellow, lilac and white card from stash
• Punch: EK Success - Dotted Scallop Edger Punch
• Twine - Doodlebug - Bright Assortment
• Ribbon from stash

Balloons

• Stamps & Dies: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Tag Along and Make a Wish
• Ink: Versa Color - Camelia, Royal Blue and Tropical Green; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Twine: Doodlebug - Bright Assortment
• Cardstock from stash

 

 

Inspired by.....#2

Good morning crafters

As promised, I'm back to share another creation in my 'Inspired by' series...

 

 

I decided to use a textured card base for this card.  At first I was trying a portrait layout but I couldn't find a design that I was happy with so I turned the base to landscape and I much prefer the result.

 

 

 

And this is where I found my inspiration...

 

 

 

 

MY LUNCH BAG!

 

 

I wasn't too sure about this card until it all came together at the end, but now I think the colours look great together :)

 

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (turquoise); white and red from stash
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Flower Arrangement and Leafy Accents; Wild Rose Studio - Everyday Greetings
• Ink: Versa Color - Cardinal and Turquoise
• Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Scalloped Ovals Large; Clearly Besotted Stamps - Flower Arrangement
• Punch: EK Success - Edger Punch Dotted Scallop

 

That's all for now folks, have a great day x

 

 

A Little Bundle of Joy

Morning lovelies

Just a quick post this morning to share a new baby card I made to order for a friend. 

When I made this one I discovered that I'm in serious need of some baby themed stamps, this is all I have! I have loads of old baby themed peel-offs but I didn't want to use these.  I'll use them up to make some cards for my stock but I feel some new purchases are required...and soon! :)

I didn't really have a design in mind when I started this one.  I stamped the image and coloured it with ProMarkers then used a Spellbinders die to cut it out.  I then went in search of some patterned paper and found this gorgeous design in my Boofle paper pad.  Not a bad match considering I coloured the image without thinking about what else to use!  A little scalloped border, a sentiment and some gems and there you have it!

Materials used:

• Stamps: Cart-Us (image); Personal Impressions - Mix and Match stamp set (sentiment)
• Ink: Memento - London Fog
• Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Scalloped Ovals Large
• Design Paper: Docrafts - Boofle 6" x 6" Designstax
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (lilac)
• Punch: EK Success - Edger Punch Dotted Scallop
• Coloured with Promarkers
• Gems from stash

I'm feeling a lot better this morning, hopefully this bug is finally on its way out :)

Have a fab weekend guys

Less is More Week 109 Colour Challenge

Happy Sunday from a very grey South Devon, can't wait for Spring to arrive.

Today I'm having a go at the latest Less is More challenge.  The pastel colours are so beautiful so had to give it a shot.  To be honest I really struggle with colour challenges and have only entered one other so far.  I have loads of ideas then go to my craft cupboard and find there's always something I don't have or the colours aren't right.

Anyway, here's my attempt at this one...

 

and a closer view...

 

This is the colour palette we were given from Less is More...

 

Isn't it gorgeous - as well as making me feel extremely hungry for doughnuts!

 

 

The two pieces of pink card I used are actually quite different but they look very similar in the photograph.  The punched border is a hammered baby pink whereas the card I've stamped the image into is a more dusky beige/pink but doesn't show too well in the photo.  I stamped the image with Versamark then used a pastel peach embossing powder.  The sentiment is stamped in brown ink them embossed using clear embossing powder.

 

I'm not entirely happy with this one but thought I'd have a go and enter it anyway :)

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Kanban Crafts - Spring Meadow; Personal Impressions - Mix and Match (sentiment)
• Ink: Versamark; Versa Color - Brown
• Embossing Powder: Personal Impressions - Pastel Peach; Rubber Stampede - Clear
• Punches: EK Success - Dotted Scallop Edger Punch; Fiskars - 4 in 1 Corner Punch Embosser 'Spiral'
• Cardstock and Pearls: From stash

 

Thanks for visiting, make the most of what's left of the weekend :)

 

Neet x 

 

Very Happy Me :) and Valentine Challenges

Hi lovelies

I want to start today by saying how excited I am...I've only won a whole lot of goodies from Uniko Studio's February Release by commenting on their blog hop.  I never win anything so I'm well chuffed right now!  Yay for me! :)

On to today's post and a Valentine's Day card I've made for my chap.  I've been wanting to post this for days, lets hope he sees the real thing and doesn't look here first!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Hearts

A Gem of a Challenge - Hearts/Valentine

CASology - Red

CAS-ual Fridays - Love Song (We Belong Together - Mariah Carey)

Craft Your Passion - My Valentine

Crafty Catz - Love is in the Air (feature a heart)

Crafty Creations - Love and/or Hearts
Dream Valley - Valentines

Ooh La La - Love Story

One Stop Craft - Love is in the Air

Simply Create Too - Valentine's Day/Hearts

Totally Gorjuss - Love

 

 

A closer view...

 

 

The red card looks slightly orangey in these pics, it is actually a slightly deeper red with a slight pink tone, I just can't seem to get it right when taking photos in artificial light.

 

I used one of my most recent purchases, the gorgeous Paired Up stamp set by Clearly Besotted Stamps, its so lovely and there are loads of stamps in the set.  I used a Hero Arts shadow ink to stamp the moon in the background behind the two birds but the camera hasn't picked it up too well.  The birds were stamped using Versamark ink and embossed with silver embossing powder.  I decided the inside was a little plain so I stamped a little 'love you' in the bottom corner just to add a little extra :)

 

 

  

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Anita's A5 White Card (base card); Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (red and grey)
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Paired Up stamp set
• Ink: Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Stone; Versafine - Onyx Black; VersaColor - Rose Red; Versamark
• Embossing Powder: Rubber Stampede - Silver
• Die: Xcut Nesting Dies - Circle
• Punch: EK Success - Thin Edger Punch 'Dotted Scallop'
• Ribbon from stash

Thanks for visting, I love your visits and comments :)

Neet x