Paperbabe Stamps - Birthday Card

Hi everyone, it seems a while since I've posted here but I hope you're safe and well. Today the Paperbabe team members have a little blog hop going on starting at Terri's blog where you'll find links to all the team members posts. Why are we holding a blog hop today? Well it's Kim's birthday and we thought we'd celebrate and send her some love! Happy Birthday to my lovely and talented friend, this card is on it's way to you, I hope you have a perfect day.

My card is a little bit of Kim and a little bit of me :)! I water coloured the flowers and used Kim's stencil Iso Fun, Flourish and Grow Stamp Set, Just Because and Butterfly Pieridae stamp sets for the rest of the card.

I added distress oxide through the stencil all around and in between my watercolour flowers, and then I started the outlining with black pen.

the panel is finished off with stamping and ink splats.

I added a pink mounting layer and glued to a blue card base to finish off.

I hope you enjoy the hop and as I mentioned all the team links are on the Terri's blog.

Chris x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #40 - Inspiration Photo

Hi everyone, it's the start of a new challenge at Paperbabe Stamps today and this fortnight we have a photograph as inspiration to work from. As always a great prize is on offer for the winner and we hope you'll join us even if you don't have Paperbabe Stamps.

I used one of my all time favourite Paperbabe stamps, MayLeeDee Kimono, it's a while since I coloured her and I've enjoyed making a little woodland scene around her by masking her with sweet stamps from the newly released Whimsical Woodland stamps Whimsical Woodlands stamp set 3 (Bunny) and Whimsical Woodlands Stamp Set 4 (Butterfly). I also coloured a little fibreboard mushroom from the Whimsical Woodland Fibreboard Substrate kit as an embellishment.

 

 

 

 

Paperbabe Stamps 3rd Anniversary Blog Hop

It's Paperbabe Stamps third Anniversary month and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paperbabe Stamps JULY 2016 release with you!

FOUR new mini stamp sets and Three new substrate kits will be available to purchase on July 30th. You will find our new products HERE once they go live.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize!

Two prizes -

The Paperbabe Stamps entire July's release and

a £25. gift to choose what you like in the Paperbabe Stamps online store

Here are the details:

• Two winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the designer's blogs and the PaperbabeStamps Blog to win.
• Just leave a comment on any of the designer's blogs listed below or the Paperbabe stamps blog for your chance to win! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your chances)
• Deadline: You have until midnight on Sunday, 31st July to leave a comment.
• Please check the Paperbabe Stamps blog on Monday, 1st August to see if you are one of our lucky winners.

Kim has asked some great designers to join in our birthday hop...

 

Delphine

Terri

Kerrie

Keren

Aimes

Katy

Trish

Kim

Kath

Paperbabe Stamps

I hope you enjoy our fun hop!

I made a tag with a woodland scene for my first project. These adorable little animals and all the accessory stamps in the set give a huge amount of variations for scenes, I love the sentiments too. I stamped with pigment inks and added some shading with markers, then created a watercolour background around the stamping.

My next project uses two of the new substrate sets, the frame with it's pretty and intricate frame and oval centre piece. The ornate frame and oval layer have been painted and stamped with pigment ink. I also added one of the new cut out words which I coloured with ink and wink of stellar pen.

What a gorgeous illustration of a fox Kim has drawn, I love him and he's a two step stamp that lines up so that you can use different inks for the body and the ears, face and legs. I stamped in a couple of colours of ink, kissing the edges of the fox body with a slightly darker ink and then adding shading with pencils.

Next I have a little paper mache frame painted and stamped as previously and this time I stamped the cute hedgehog onto the hedgehog cut out, again I've shaded with pencils and a white pen over the stamping. I also used the gorgeous 'look cute' sentiment and a heart stamp from the set for the middle of the heart.

If you made it all the way down to here....I like you very much :-D!

Chris X

 

Paperbabe Stamps April Release

Hi everyone, it's been a little while and I'm back today for day one of Paperbabe Stamps April release. We're introducing the much requested male templates and face stamps starting with the standard size which I've used for my journal page. Included in the stencil set are three styles of hair together with a head and upper torso and a great selection of features stamps within the set to achieve a variety of looks.

I drew round the templates in pencil first and did the skin and hair colour in Neocolour II watercolour pastels. After that I stamped the features using the mask parts in the layering and then used a black pen to draw in the outlines and do some shading.

On the shirt and in the background I've added some colour through the mixed media knit stencil and used one of the Design a Tweed stamps too.

The Stamps and stencils will be in the shop later in the week and if you want some gorgeous inspiration from Kim this can be found at the Paperbabe Stamps blog. I'm back tomorrow with day two releases so see you then.

Chris x

 

21st Birthday card

 

 Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend and are enjoying a lovely summer so far. 

I'm joining in with the Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge 5 which this time is Distress Watercolouring Part 1 on page 39 of Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities 3 book. This challenge is sponsored by Inspiration Emporium.

I ended up working through page 39 and 40 to include part one and two using the party hat image from the Birthday Blueprints stamp set.

I added the happy birthday sentiment from the TH hashtags set (great for male cards!) and to add to the collage style I added the 21 birthday numbers and a couple of other sentiments and an arrow from the TH 'life quotes' remnant rubs. The image panel is completed by using the Ranger Spritzer and basically the technique on page 40 of CC2 except with different colours. I also added some brush splatter with watered down distress inks from the markers.To make up the card I layered the panel on dimension tape over paper from a TH paper stack with twine and an ideology metal key.

I gave the card to the recipient at his celebration on Saturday evening and I'm glad to say that he was really pleased with it. As it was a card for a male I'm also entering into the Country View Crafts Challenge 'only men allowed' where hopefully it'll be male enough to fit in with their theme.

Magnolia-liscious Christmas Blog Hop

 Hi everyone, hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I'm part of a fantastic Magnolia-liscious Christmas Blog Hop and if you arrived here from Ruby's fabulous blog then you're in the right place but you can always go back to the Magnolia-licious blog for all the information.

Wonderful prizes!

By calling in at all the of the blogs on the hop you can gather all the letters and clues to make up a phrase. One randomly chosen winner from those who correctly get the phrase will receive a fantastic suprise gift package to the value of  $50.

There is another way to win and for all of December until the 31st you can enter a Christmas/winter themed project to the challenge blog inlinkz. There are two great surprise gift packages to be won, $100 to the first place winner chosen by Diana and $50 to the runner up which will be randomly chosen from the entries.
 

I've made a little gift bag as my Christmas project for the hop cut using my Sizzix die from white card. Before putting the bag together with Scor-Tape I sponged on the snowflake design through a Crafters Workshop stencil with some Shabby Shutters distress ink and punched a hole through the top of the bag for the gingham ribbon. I coloured the absolutely gorgeous Penny Black stamp from the Mimis Winter Friends transpartent stamp set with distress and watercolour markers and a little bit of pencil then cut it out to mount on the bag. I've finished off with stickles glitter glue, gems, a die cut and glittered snowflake and a chit chat sticker. This makes the perfect gift bag for a small Christmas present and can be hung on the lower branches of the Christmas tree, I think anyone would be delighted to receive a gift packaged with these Penny Black cuties.

Now it's time to send you on to Cabio's fantastic blog and you need to take the following letters with you to help with your collection for the phrase.

N, y

Have fun!
 

Magnolia-liscious - Wee Stamps Card

Hi everyone, I'm back today with a card for Magnolia-liscious and with a sweet Wee Stamps image WEE 114 Sam's Special Delivery. I've coloured Sam with pencils and with watercolour markers and created a pencil and watercolour scene behind him. The image panel is mounted on foam tape for some dimension, doodled around the edges with a rub on sentiment and number and to finish off I found a lovely enameled apple charm in my box that seemed perfect for this card and the very special lady that it's being sent to.

Back soon with a mixed media canvas and thank you as always for the lovely comments, they're always appreciated.



 

Magnolia-liscious and Wild Rose Studio Stamps

 Hi everyone, back today with a DT card for Magnolia-liscious. I'm delighted to now be part of Diana's team where I'll be showcasing Diana's newest additions to her stamp range which are Wild Rose Studio, Wee and Penny Black Stamps. Back to my roots actually as Penny Black stamps is where it all started for me so it's lovely to be working with all these cute images.

Today I've created a card with the Wild Rose Studio Stamp WRS#219 Feeding Birds which I've coloured with watercolour and distress markers with a bit of pencil here and there. I've extended the scene a little by doodling in a hedge in the background and a few more flowers either side.

My card background is created firstly by flicking watercolour that I used to paint the image onto the card base. I die cut the floral corner pieces, flowers, Magnolia DooHickey Swirly Butterfly DH #29 and some triangles using paper from the ever so pretty WRS Annabelle Meadow 6 x 6 papers and white glitter card. I layered everything up including the letters, little butterflies and scalloped image mat and finished off with Stardust Stickles and pearl pen pearls. There's lots of beautiful inspiration from my team mates at the Magnolia-liscious Challenge Blog so if you love cute images you'll be in for a treat.

Thanks as always for your lovely comments, they're always appreciated.
 

Magnolia ‘Santa on Christmas Eve’

Hi everyone, hope you’ve all had a good week so far. I’ve managed to do two challenges with this card, Everybody Art Challenge where the theme is Christmas and My time to craft where the challenge is ‘Very Vintage’. I’ve used the gorgeous Magnolia ‘Santa on Christmas Eve’ and the ‘Fir Twig’ background stamps and the card just kept getting bigger and bigger so it’s a huge card cut from a pre-folded A4 card blank, so I think this will go to one of the family, I like to give them big cards.

 

I stamped then masked Santa and then stamped the background in and watercoloured with distress inks. There’s some gold metallic pen on the belt buckle, lantern and boots and also some glaze on the bet and boots but the camera hasn’t picked that up. I made a frame from some Doodlebug embossed velvet paper and placed that over the top of the image with dimension tape. The snowflake is cut with a cuttlebug die and then glittered with chunky glitter. I stamped the Penny Black sentiment stamp in red ink and then cut out with a Nestabilities labels die. Everything else quite straightforward really, snowflake punched white bazzil, red bazzil layer, faux stitching, stickles, sponging and a big bow.

 

I’m still playing catch up, but not actually catching up at all, I think everyone is the same at the moment, not enough hours in the days. Still on a mission to get Christmas cards done and not getting very far with that either :D. See you tomorrow with my Craft Barn post. TFL.

Magnolia Wrapped Tilda

Hi everyone, hope you’ve all had a good weekend! A card today using the holly letter stamp and the sweet Wrapped Tilda stamp, I think she’s gorgeous and very sweet so I’m entering the card into the Roses on Paper Challenge where this week the challenge is ‘romance or sweet’.

Tilda has been masked so that I could have her sitting on the envelope and then water coloured with distress inks with added copic spica pen and stickles. The white background card has been embossed with the CB snowflakes embossing folder and is then mounted on pink core’dinations card. Going along with the wrapped theme I've made this fold up style card so that Tilda is hidden inside, I think this allows me to enter the ABC challenge this week where the theme is ‘hidden’.

I cut some kraft cardstock 12inches by 8 inches, scored on the long side at 4 inches and 8 inches and on the short side at 4 inches and cut off the two outside 4 inch squares leaving the square in the middle at the bottom, I also cut the two wrapover pieces into points to give the envelope look. There are stamped snowflakes all over the kraft card in white ink inside and out and I’ve also done faux stitching along all the edges with a pink sparkle pen. Added more pink and white card to the bottom panel and a few snowflakes around the edges in antique linen distress ink. To tie up the card I placed the ribbon behind the pink panel on the base of the card, punched a hole through the two out side flaps and threaded the ribbon through the hole plus a punched snowflake. I added some clear gems to the stamped snowflakes to add some more sparkle. Well I hope to get round some blogs to comment during the week, haven’t had much time over the last week or so and I need to catch up. As always, thank you for all the lovely comments you leave, I always appreciate them so much. TFL.