Craft Stamper - Take Make It Challenge Four

Hi everyone, back again today with my project for the Craft Stamper Blog's 'Take it, make it Challenge number four and this time our challenge is taken from Kim Costello's beautiful acetate article on page 46 of the current issue (September) of the magazine.

The prize on offer for the winner of the challenge apart from being published in the magazine is a gift voucher from  a sprinkle of imagination.



 I love Kim's takes on acetate, she always has such imaginative ideas so I enjoyed finding a way to use some acetate that was part of some packaging on a die which I'd saved. I used my Sizzex Tim Holtz Bigz pillow box die to cut the acetate and then I inked it all over with alcohol inks, stamped with a Kaiserkraft texture stamp and decorated with Cheery Lynn build a flower and butterfly dies, lace, twine and pearl pen pearls.

Hope you'll join us in the challenge :)!

BasicGrey Challenges 26 - Pearls

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start. A new challenge today on BasicGrey Challenges and this time our theme is pearls as well as including something from a BasicGrey collection. There's a great prize as always from our sponsor Simon Says Stamp and some amazing inspiration from my DT friends so I hope you can join us.

I used some paper from the Porcelain collection, made a border with a Martha Stewart heart punch and the image is from a Crafty Individuals pad of nature themed images. I've decorated with punched butterflies, Viva pearl pen and white satin ribbon. Enjoy your Saturday and thanks for all your lovely comments, they're very much appreciated.

Craft Barn Mini Album Competition Day 1

Morning everyone! Here's sketch one for the Craft Barn Mini Book competition and what I did with the first sketch which is the front cover. I decided to make my mini book of a holiday to Corfu using BasicGrey Marrakech papers combined with Inkadinkado Gem stone flowers stamps, Faded Jeans Distress ink and Typhoon Bazzil card. The writing is done with a Viva Decor pearl pen, There's a scalloped rectangle nestability to frame the photo, some prima flowers and pretty ribbons to decorate. Back tomorrow with page 2. TFL.

Magnolia DT card

Hi everyone, hope you’re having a good week so far! Another Magnolia DT card from me today using the lovely heart chocolate box, the rose stamp and the gorgeous Dinner Tilda. Everything is water coloured with distress inks apart from the background paper which I made by stamping the rose onto vellum, heat embossing with white embossing powder and then colouring on the reverse side with copic markers (a nice tip from my friend Sandra :)) and it gives a lovely soft look to the roses and quite different from those I’ve stamped and water coloured. Everything has been cut out and arranged over the card blank which was cut with a labels nestie die and some ribbon and lace. I added some pearl pen, stickles and some of the pretty lilac bead strands which Magnolia have just brought out to decorate.

Have a nice evening, thank you as always for the lovely comments you leave and which I appreciate very much, I hope to catch up with my blog hopping when I get all my DT cards done. TFL.

Cuttlebug Challenge

Hi everyone, hope you’ve all had a good weekend. A card today for The Cuttlebug Challenge where the theme this time is to make a mask and use glimmer mist. For my mask I used a strip of paper that I’d previously punched some hearts from, placed it over the white heart doily die cut and sprayed it with Creme de chocolat glimmer mist, moved it up and sprayed again the embossed with the hearts cuttlebug folder. I stamped the gorgeous Amor Tilda and water coloured her with distress inks and then cut her out. There’s stickles dotted about and little pearls on her headband done with a Viva Decor pearl pen. The round card blank was cut on the Expression as was the scalloped heart doily and on the blank I’ve stamped with the Magnolia Love post and love heart stamps in old paper distress ink. The large heart is another die cut and the smaller one is from a Martha Stewart punch, both have been edged with walnut stain distress ink and then glittered with chunky glitter. A pretty ribbon, a Papermania sentiment and a few more pearl drops to finish. TFL and as always, thank you for the lovely comments you leave, I really do appreciate them very much.