Good Morning and welcome to my first official post as a 'Sous Chef'.  I have to say I'm loving every moment of the team, the girls are fantastic and the images… well they are just wonderful!!!

So I'm here today with my first (of hopefully many!) Friday release -
please let me introduce you to…...

Life is a Cabaret

Isn't she just a STUNNER! I love everything about this girl! I have to be honest and say she stumped me at first, but then I came up with the wonderful idea of an easel card…. the first time in ages that I have made one!!! The image was coloured with copics

E000, E00 E02

R35, R37

T2, T4, T6, 

Now it was then how to fill the 'blank' and so I decided to make it my sisters birthday card - she is a dance teacher - for ballet, tap and modern - but this year I decided she needed something a bit more 'mature'! the plaque on the left says;

Performing Tonight

28.10.2013

Miss Kathryn!!!

 Well I hope you like her and you will pop over to The Stamping Chef this image at the moment has 20% off in the store so grab her NOW!!! to see what the rest of the new release team have come up with! Hope to see you again soon :) 

Hugs

x

Sunday releases - Heart Song Designs!

 Morning everyone, well its been a busy week with Amelia on half term, I have felt as soon as I have finished one thing another has started! 

I hope your all having a lovely relaxing Sunday.
I once again have some beautiful new releases from Heart Song Designs! 

This week we have a lovely little bunny called 'Theadore' and he is holding a lovely little tulip.  I saw him in the week and thought how adorable he is! I just wanted to make him and cuddle him!!!  I couldn't wait to play! 

Here is a quick card I have made with him, I hope you like him! 

We also have the beautiful 'Butterfly thistle', again such a beautiful image and so easy to colour! 

I have an obsession with stickles at the moment, so all my cards seem to be covered in them! Here we have a easel card I have made using the image! 

I hope you like them, if you have time take a look at what the rest of the team have created! 

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges

Paper Playtime - Anything goes 

xx

GD Spot at Gingerloft

Hi everyone, I hope you have all had a brilliant day! I have had a wonderful day today been to see some family I haven't seen in a long time! 3 years to be exact! Was a lovely turn out! 

Well As you may know a few weeks ago I won top three at Gingerloft Challenge Blog, I was over the moon.  And so I was honoured with being Guest Designer at their challenge this week.  The theme is furry friends, I had so much fun playing with the image I chose! This little one just stole my heart! 

Well as you can see I made him a easel card, I thought that was the best way to make him stand out! I coloured him with my pro-markers, I used different shades to get a bit more effect on him,  

The blue sky was done using my SU dabbers.  I then mounted him onto pastel pink centura pearl card stock and then again onto some pastel blue centura pearl card stock.  

His little face just screams, it wasn't me! You can see why I fell in love! 

The ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment was printed from my computer and cut out with my nestabilities! 

Well I hope you like him, maybe you have a card with our furry friends on to enter into the Gingerloft Challenge Blog this week???

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges - Birthday Wishes
Totally Papercraft - Do It With Digis
Delightful Challenges - Animals
Paper Sundaes - Masculine Colours
Stampin with the Dragon - Birthdays
Patties Creations - Pets
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - One for the men
Pro-Marker Challenge - For the Boys

xxx

Sweet Sixteen

Evening everyone, well had a bad day.  

Went to print some digis out and the silly printer has decided that its run out of ink! GRRR so I spoke with my neighbour and she has ordered some (we have the same printer and we have decided to 'bulk buy'!) And so, after speaking with a friend (who reminded me its her 16th Birthday Thursday) I decided to make her card tonight! Although I have a million cards to make, but need the digis to do them! 

And so one sat and raided the mountain of stamps I forgot I had, took out the inks (versa-fine), the embossing powder (clear), the heat gun and the WOJ stamps and created a new masterpiece! 

Ok so what else prompted me to go through my stamps was that I spent some much needed time on the internet earlier and visited the WOJ site, They had some sale items and so the mouse ran away with its self and clicked on the 'add to cart' button on a couple of items and then 'checked out' all by its self.... now how would that happen???

This is only my 2nd easel card, I feel its lacking on something but unsure as to what... If you have any ideas please let me know! Once I had stamped, heat embossed, coloured and cut out the image, I decided to mount her on a white scalloped circle cut with my nesties!

I coloured her with my pro-markers.  I used Sun-kissed Pink and Blush for her skin tone, her hair was coloured using Shale, Cocoa and Caramel, her top was coloured using Buttercup and Tulip yellow. 

The hearts and flowers were coloured with Poppy and her trousers with Denim Blue and Pastel Blue.  Her bracelet was coloured with gold and i put grey #1 around her wings.

I then used some 4mm red rhinestones around the edge of the scolloped circle, then added some small flourishes with two-tone 2mm rhinestones.  The ribbon is from my stash and I wrote 'sweet sixteen' with peel-offs.

I have entered this card into the following challenges;

Papertake Weekly - Have a Heart

Promarker Challenge - Let there be love

The Crazy Challenge - Lots of Love

Whiff Of Joy Challenges - Love is in the air

Well I hope you like her, I'm happy with her! If you have time please feel free to leave a comment with any advise! 

Thank You! 

xx

For a Special Sister

Evening everyone, happy crafting days and nights I hope for all! 

Well been busy and making tonight, being back at work has drained me the last couple of days, have been fortunate enough to work from home today, so after working I made the most of being able to catch up on housework with no children!  Got one awake at the moment! GRRR!!!

Well my boss asked me to make a card for her sister, nothing like a bit of notice! She needs it for Tuesday, so thinking ahead I thought I would get it done tonight, so at least if i didn't finish it tonight I would get it finished over the weekend.  

All my boss said was her sister liked crystals and angels, well I spent ages looking for the right image, then I came across this beauty at digital pencil too, she is called sending peace, click here to go to Mo's store

When I printed the image I printed her bigger than I needed her, but I decided that I would find a way around it. So I made an easel card!  Once I had coloured her with pro-markers I went around the edge of the entire image with the vanilla pen to give the effect of light.

  I mounted her onto a piece of dusky pink bazzill stock and then used my Tim Holtz brushed corduroy ink pad along with my SU dabbers to get the effect around her, I also went over the bazzill stock as I felt it showed the detail on the paper a bit more.  I then mounted her onto plain black card.  I went over the lines on her wings with my art glitter glue and then sprinkled glitter onto her.  The doves have just had a little bit of grey on to add a bit of detail to them.

From a bit of the Bazzill card I had a made the small rose (OK so I love making them at the moment!) and then used a bit more of the ink around the petals.  You can just see on the edge how the Bazzill stock has small raised bubbles on, 

The sentiment is something I just thought of and wrote on my word program on my computer, I then cut it out with my nestabilities as well as a larger oval for the backing, I then went round with rhinestones just to add a bit more detail.  I just used some purple ribbon I had in my stash! 

This is my 1st every easel card I have made (thanks for the inspiration Lou)!

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Fab 'n' Funky - Delight in your Digi
The Sisterhood of Crafters - anything goes
Tuesday Throw down - Distressing
Gingerloft - Things that fly
CES Challenges - Angels and Fairies
One Stop Craft Challenge - More thank one fold

I hope you like it.  If you have time, please let me know what you think

thanks for taking the time to look! 

xxx