New Release at Little Miss Muffet

Today is release day at Little Miss Muffet stamps and they are adorable rubber cuties!

For my card I chose to use Good Luck. Isn’t she such a cutie?? I love her shamrock.

Here are the stamp names and sizes:

Puppy Addictions - 1.34"x2.75" and 1.5"x1.5"
SS Good Luck - 3.25"x2.25"
SS Lil Bunny - 3.48"x2.375"
Spencer's Garden - 2.625"x3"
Claudia's Butterflies - 2.875"x3.19"
Poorly Chester - 2.75"x2.25"
Celeste Amberglow Egg Hunt - 3.68"x1.75"
Sunny Honeycloud Poetry - 3.5"x1.875"
Celeste Amberglow Farmin' Apples - 3.5"x1.375"

Be sure to go over to Little Miss Muffet and check them all out!

Spots and Stripes

It’s time for a new challenge today at Totally Tilda and we want to see your creation with lots of spots AND stripes.

This time we are sponsored by

Please pop over and have a look at all the lovely goodies over at the

Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

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For my creation I chose Tilda with big Tulip pot for my image and lovely papers from the Trimcraft Family Ties paper pack.

I added flowers from Wild Orchid and colored the Tulips to match the theme. I also added a vintage bottle cap. I stamped the border and sentiment using Bottlecap stamps – Word and Typewriter and Bottle Caps stamps – Rounds 1. I added some pearl stringers to my flower arrangement also.

I stamped Tilda with Memento Ink – desert sand to achieve the no-lines look onto Make it Crafty blending card and colored her with Copics.

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, R11
• Hair and shoes – E57, E25, E23
• Clothes – R29, R27, R24, R22, B26, B24, B21
• Flower pot – E15, W3, E29, E57, E74, E23, E44, G29, YG67, YG63, B26, B24, B21
• Ground – W5, W4, W3, W2

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you will join us at Totally Tilda for our spots and stripes challenge.

Surprise for a friend blog hop at Make It Crafty

I have a friend that is moving to Florida and wanted to make a special going away gift. I used this frame

And made this

I made an overlay using chipboard and Tim Holtz alcohol inks and just daubed away. This is the result.

From Make it Crafty I used these lovely beach and summer images – beach umbrella, Dylan, sandcastle and Ebony. I printed them onto MiC blending card and colored them with Copics.

I took some black glitter foam stickers that I had in my stash, painted them white using Picket Fence distress paint and then inked them with Archival Cobalt ink. The flourishes are the Flower and Leaf flourishes from Make It Crafty. I also colored them with the cobalt ink … should have colored them white first too ….

Now, if you did not start the hop with Kasey you should go back and start there, wouldn’t want you to miss any of the lovely creations!

Kasey

Åsa 

Aeryn 

Ruby

Trudie

Stephanie – you are here

Jennifer

Thanks for stopping by and visiting and be sure to leave me a comment, I would love to know what you think of my altered frame.

Yellow and Blue

Today starts a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet challenge blog and we want to see your creations in yellow and blue and I did just that! This is Marjoram. She is from the newest release and is so adorable!

List of materials:

• Marjoram digital stamp
• Flowers from Wild Orchid 
• Vintage bottle cap (rolled the edges by putting it through my ebosser)
• Bottle Caps stamps – fancy rounds and words & typewriter
• Epoxy dots 
• Blue Metallic ribbon
• Gems from my stash
• Spellbinders Floral Ovals
• Make it Crafty blending card & flower leaf swirls
• Docrafts capsule collection DP – burleigh and lincoln themes
• Copics

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will join us at Little Miss Muffet!

Midway at Totally Tilda

We are midway through our Valentine Tilda challenge at Totally Tilda.

Our generous sponsor is the lovely Nikki fromBunny-Zoe crafts

with this fab prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher to spend online..

For my card I chose to use Tilda with Heart Arrows. I also went with a non-traditional color scheme – peach!

I used Glitz Hello Friend DP and Core’dinations cardstock along with inking the edges of the paper with Tim Holtz distress ink – Rusty Hinge. The glitzy heart is from Michael’s and flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts. The sentiment is from Sweet Crazy Love collection and used Spellbinders Classic Heart dies.

I stamped Tilda with Memento Desert Sand onto Make it Crafty blending card. Using Desert Sand gives the image a look of no lines in most instances and it is much easier to color as the lines are a little darker! I think I am hooked .

Thanks for stopping by and visiting.

Happy Valentine’s Day

To all of my e-friends, hope you have a great day. Not only is it Valentine’s Day but it is also time for a new release at Little Miss Muffet stamps. I have the joy to show you Thyme …. isn’t she a cutie?

Be sure to hop on over to the Little Miss Muffet challenge blog to see all of the other DT creations, they are lovely.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Seeing dots …

….Polka dots that is. Along with this weeks inspiration at Make It Crafty blog of non-square cards we were also given the option to do polka dots. I really like the way this turned out.

After I colored Pearl I took a Memento black pen and just started adding dots and it really made it pop!

For my card I decided to go with a circle easel card and I wanted it small enough that I could fit Pearl above the circle. She is so elegant all decked out in this gorgeous dress!

I love using this chipboard, it is nice and sturdy and I can make it any color or texture that I want. To color the chipboard I used a distress ink pad and the distress sponge tool. I dabbed the tool in the ink and then just dabbed away on the chipboard until it was the color I wanted. I would like to say that I didn't get inky fingers but I did :) You don't really need to hold on to it when you dab it but I always seem to.

MiC Digital Stamps

Pearl from the new Masquerade collection

MiC chipboard

Flower Leaf Swirls

Mini Butterflies

MiC Blending Card

Other Supplies

Spellbinders Jewel Framed Accents and Labels 11

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Dried Marigold, Black Soot and Aged Mahogany

Bo-Bunny Little Miss DP

Copics:

Skin - E21, E00, E000, R11, R12

Dress - N8, N6, N5, N4, N3, YG17, YG25, YG03, YG01

Hair - E35, YR24, Y23

I am entering this in the following challenges:

• Catered crop – polka dots
• Pile it on – shaped cards
• Paper Creator Crafts – circular
• Copic Marker Europe – use Copics
• Flutterby Wednesdays – must have butterfly

Thanks for visiting!

Such a beauty

I have loved this image since she was released at Make it Crafty. I just thought wow! I started coloring her awhile back and would look at her and sigh as I had other projects that needed to come before her. Today I was getting a jump on other projects and the ink I used in my printer (after market) decided to smear so I decided to finish Anastasia and I am so glad that I did, I love the way she turned out.

I bought a 6 x 6 stack of cardstock by Docraft called Lucy Cromwell and it was perfect! So here is Anastasia finished and mounted on a card.

I also used Spellbinders Floral Ovals to mount her on and Make It Crafty Fanciful Flourishes chipboard. I covered them with Adirondack Paint dauber – Pearl and then dabbed on Tim Holtz distress ink – aged mahogany, it almost matches the Core’dinations cardstock perfectly.

I printed her onto Make it Crafty blending card with real Kodak ink (hehehe) and colored her with the following Copics:

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, R12
• Hair – E99, E97, YR21, Y23
• Flowers – R89, R85, R83, R81, RV99, RV95, RV93, RV91, R35, R32, R30, Y26, Y23, Y11, G16, G14, E81
• Background – G00, G000, G0000

Thanks for stopping by and visiting!

Valentine’s at Totally Tilda

The new challenge at Totally Tilda this time is Valentine Tilda. We want to see your Valentine’s using Tilda …. easy peasy right?

This time we are very lucky as we are sponsored by the lovely Nikki from Bunny-Zoe crafts
And the Prize is

For my card I chose to use Love is in the Air Tilda from the Love ‘13 collection. I colored her with Copics, cut her out and then affixed these little red hearts in about the same places as they were originally stamped. I added chipboard accents from Make it Crafty after adding Adirondack Pearl paint. Flowers are from Wild Orchid and pearls are from my stash.

I stamped Tilda with Memento Desert Sand. This gives you a good light line and almost allows for full no line coloring, you can still see a few but I like the look.

I am participating in the following challenges:

• A gem of a challenge – Hearts/Valentines
• All sorts – Valentines
• Crafty Catz – feature a heart
• Stamp and Create with Magnolia – spring flowers
• Tilda’s Town – anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and visiting and come on over to Totally Tilda and enter your creation, we would love to come visit.

Valentine’s Day Hop with Make it Crafty

Today at Make it Crafty we have a new blog hop for you and this one is themed Valentine’s day …. and yes it is right around the corner, my how time flies!!

Do you recognize this cutie? This is the new Vanessa and she is free for a limited time so hop on over and pick her up!

Along with seeing tons of inspiration on this hop you also have a chance to win some wonderful goodies. Six of us will have a hidden prize so be sure to leave a comment … you never know it may be you. In your comment let me know your favorite Valentine memory.

Zoe has also decided to have a great sale – use coupon code VAL10 for 10% off ALL digi stamps and until Monday 11th!!

OK, so this is my Valentine card for hubby … our 19th Valentine's day together is right around the corner … so hard to believe!

Along with Vanessa I added MiC chipboard Ornate Corners Two and Wings of Love. I used Adirondak Acrylic paint dauber – pearl to the chipboard. I also added some charms, flowers and a sentiment.

Below is the order of the blog hop and I hope you came here via Sandie. If not, you might want to start over so you can see all of the gorgeous creations!

• Daria - http://daria-pn.blogspot.com/
• Bron - http://bronsspace.blogspot.com.au/
• Amanda- http://cardscatsandcopics.blogspot.com
• Rhea - http://passionatepapercreations.blogspot.com/2013/02/make-it-crafty-valentines-blog-hop.html
• Mary J - http://maryjdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/
• Our Guest - Emily - http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/emily521004
• Julie - http://stampincabin.blogspot.com
• Franz - http://fran-z-blog.blogspot.com/2013/02/mic-valentines-hop.html
• Delphine - http://delphinesplace.blogspot.fr/
• Sandie - http://sandieshores.blogspot.com
• Stephanie - http://mycardshack.blogspot.com (you are here)
• Barbara - http://forgottenscraps.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to leave me a comment …..

Enjoy the hop!

Sketch challenge at Little Miss Muffet

Today starts a new challenge at Little Miss Muffett challenge blog and it is a fun one as you can tell from my card. This is the sketch we would like for you to follow.

For my card I used the adorable digital Ice Cream Bench from the store. Aren’t they just the cutest little kids?

We can’t wait to see what you will create with our sketch …. see ya at the challenge blog.

Midway #64 at Totally Tilda

It’s the midway point at Totally Tilda for our inspiration challenge. What is your take on this photo?

My idea is pink and chocolate ….. yum, love this combo.

Our sponsor this time is

The Ribbon Girl

Generous prize on offer from The Ribbon Girl is a £10 voucher for the store.

For my card I chose to use Kangaroo Tilda.

Supplies:

• Kangaroo Tilda
• Core’dinations cardstock 
• Spellbinders Fancy Postage Edge dies
• Make it Crafty Ornate Corners
• Make it Crafty blending card
• Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon
• Flowers from Wild Orchid 
• Tim Holtz distress ink – brushed corduroy
• Skeleton leaves
• Copics

Close up of Tilda

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, R11, W3
• Kangaroo – E79, E77, E74, E71, E70, R11
• Clothes and hair – E29, E27, E25, E23, R21, R20, R11, R00, E35, E33, E53, E51

I am participating in the following challenges:

• All Sorts – lets get cute
• Totally Gorjuss – anything goes with flowers
• Charisma cardz - pink and brown
• Simon Says Stamp – anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to hop on over to Totally Tilda to enter the challenge and see all of the lovely DT creations for inspiration!

Bottle Caps

Have you seen the new bottle caps? Here are a couple of cards that I made today using them and also the new stamps up for pre-order at Stamping Scrapping. They are sized just perfectly for the bottle caps.

For this card I used the 1/2” bottle caps.

Supplies:

• Spellbinders Card Creator Polka Dot dies
• Core’dinations cardstock 
• Elganza Web ribbon – pink
• Mini bottle caps
• Pearls
• Flowers from Wild Orchid 
• Bottlecap stamps – Word and Typewriter
• Heart from my stash
• McGill Pine Punch 
• Epoxy Dots
• Tim Holtz jump rings 

For this card I used the 1” distressed bottle caps

Supplies:

• Spellbinders Fancy Ribbon Threader dies
• Spellbinders Botanical Swirls and Accents
• Card Creator Swirls 1 stamps
• Bottle Caps stamps – Rounds 1
• Distressed Bottle Caps – 1”
• Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon 
• Pearls
• Epoxy Dots
• Tim Holtz jump rings

Thanks for stopping by and visiting!