Julia The Purple Ballerina!

I have made this card for my friend Julia becuase it is her birthday today! Happy birthday Julia!
My stamp is one from a range of stamps called La-La Land Crafts that I discovered last weekend when I went to a craft show. When I saw them I knew I was going to have to buy heaps of them and by the time I left the craft show I had accidently purchased 6 of them! This sweet little ballerina is called 'Marci Ballerina' and she is just gorgeous. I coloured her with copics and added a row of little pearls in her hair. My friend has lovely long black hair and her favourite colour is purple so I tried to colour the stamp to look like her. My flowers are spritzed with Glimmer Mist in 'timeless lilac', 'creme de rouge' and 'spring rain' (yes, I am obsessed with glimmer mist too and I am too scared to count exactly how many I have purchased....). I also used lace, ribbon, pearls, bling and gorgeous deep purple glitter paper.

Let me know what you think!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

- Friday Sketchers; Sketch #147
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge; Mother's Day/Girly Challenge
- Fab n' Funky Challenges; 'Do it more than once..!'
- Pile It On; 'Pearls and Rhinestone and Bling, Oh my!'
- La-La Land Crafts; March customer gallery
- Allsorts Challenge Blog; For a Special Lady
- Cupcake Craft Challenges; Monocramatic

Top view of my easel-style card:

Close up of the top of the easel card:

Close up of the bottom section of the easel card:

Happy Birthday Julia!:

Side view:





Mmmmmm....Milkshake!

Here is an easel-style card I have made using pink, grey and black tones. I could not resist using my favourite things on this card; glitter, glimmer mist and glossy accents! My stamp is an adorable bear drinking a milkshake from Hooked on Craft; isn't he so cute? I think he is really enjoying that delicious looking sugary treat! Mmmmmmm yummo! I have coloured him with copics and added glitter and glossy accents. My flowers and leaves all started off as white but I spritz them with glimmer mist in 'viva pink', 'black magic', 'hot chocolate', and 'bronze' (except for the black flowers but I spritz them too!) . I think I am obsessed with glimmer mist and I seem to be 'accidently' purchasing more and more colours. But you can never have enough, right? My doilie, lace and flower ribbons, leaves and flowers are also from Hooked on Craft. In the background I have used some core-dinations paper and I embossed it with my cuttlebug and lightly sanded it back to reveal the light pink colour underneath.

Let me know what you think! I love reading everyones comments.

I am entering this card into the following competitions:

- Friday Sketchers; Sketch #145
- Charisma Cardz Challenges!; Easel cards
- Let's Ink It Up; Embossing
- Simon Says Stamp; Anything Goes!
- Little Claire's Ideas and Inspiration Blog; Flowers
- Tuesday Throwdown; Lace

Easel Card:

Close up of the top of the card:

Close up of the bottom of the card (love the glimmer misted flowers and leaves; so sparkly!):

Side view of easel-style card:



Be My Valentine?

Here is another card I have made for Valentine's Day using another georgeous stamp from Hooked on Craft. I think the new series of Valentine's Day stamps from Hooked on Craft are just so sweet! All Hooked on Craft stamps are so fun to colour. This sweet cupid can be purchased here. My sentiment is also from Hooked on Craft and can be purchased as part of a set here. Good news is they now sell embellishments such as flowers, ribbons and doylies! Yay! I love buying new goodies! I have used Hooked on Craft's doylie, leaves, roses, rosebuds, gardenia and their awesome metalic lace. The metalic lace is gorgeous and so easy to cut with sissors becuase it does not fray. My stamp is coloured with copics and I have added glossy accents to cupid's bow, heart and wings. I love glossy accents; I think they look great and add a lovely dimension to stamps.

I am entering this card into the following competitions:

- Charisma Cardz Challenges!; Mythical/Fantasy. I have used a sweet little cupid.
- Craft Your Days Away; Photo inspiration. The photo is of a white cake with gorgeous red roses and ribbon
- Creative Inspirations; Challenge 98 Red, pink and white only
- Cute Card Thursday; Challenge 151 Hearts and flowers
- Fab n' Funky Challenges; Challenge 59 Tempting texture
- Friday Sketchers; Sketch 141

Let me know what you think!

Cupid's Heart!

Here is a card I have made to celebrate Valentine's Day which is just around the corner! My stamp is a gorgeous little cupid from the new 'Valentine' series of stamps from Hooked on Craft and he can be purchased here. He is coloured with copics and I have added stickles for sparkle! I have gone all out with the Valentine's Day theme for this card and I have used hearts everywhere I could, and I could not resist glittering a few of the hearts too. I added a heart button with a little dangle charm hanging off it with a star shaped charm at the bottom which says "Just For You". I have distressed the edges of my paper panels and my stamp. My flowers and sweet little bow are also from Hooked on Craft.

I am entering this card into the following challenges;

- Mojo Monday; Sketch challenge
- Craft Your Days Away; Love
- Pile it On; Love is in the air
- Tuesday Throwdown; Distressing
- Really Reasonable Ribbons Ramblings; Heart theme
- Kaboodles Doodles Challenge Blog; Bling it up!

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

Here is a sweet easel-style card I have made using The Greeting Farm's 'Dahlia'. I just love her! I have coloured her with watercoloured pencils and highlighted parts of the stamp using glossy accents to really make the image 'pop' (I am loving glossy accents and seem to be using it all the time now!). I love flowers, bling and pearls so I have used heaps of them for this card. For the dark blue background I have used core'dinations paper which I embossed then lightly sanded it back to make the embossing stand out. I also finally pulled out my sewing machine and had a go at stitching! (the green panels are stitched). For my bow in the corner I tied it using the 'bow easy'.

Let me know what you think!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
- Card Patterns; Sketch challenge
- Stamp Something; 'Cute somethings'. I think Dahlia is pretty darn cute!
- Splendid Stamping With The Greeting Farm; 'Pop!'. I have used glossy accents to make my project pop!
- Paper Cutz Challenge; 'It's your choice'
- One Stop Craft Challenge; 'More than one fold'. I have used an easel-style card.

Close up of the top half of the card showing Dahlia with glossy accents:

Bottom of card:

Side view of the easel-style card:

Ribbet!!!

I have had lots of mojo today so I have completed another card. This card features a very sweet little froggy who is part of the new Valentine's Day stamps from Hooken On Craft and he can be purchased here. My 'for you' sentiment and my flowers are also from Hooked On Craft. The green rose was actually a white rose but I spritzed it with a dash of 'key lime pie' glimmer mist. I have coloured the cute frog with copics and then I went over the hearts and the flowers with a coating of glossy accents. The copic colours really 'pop' with the glossy coating!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
- Friday Sketchers; Love this week's sketch!
- Fab 'n' Funky Challenges; 'Animal Magic'
- Icopic Lover; 'Purple, green and orange'

Viva Pink!

For this card I have used my three favourite colours; pink, pink and pink! My lovely stamp is called 'Bookworm Fairy' and is designed by Hannah Lynn and she can be purchased from Crafts And Me. I have coloured her with copics and added some glossy accents for added shine! For my 'dotty' background paper I used a sheet of core'dinations paper and embossed it using my cuttlebug and 'tiny bubbles' embossing folder, then I lightly sanded it back to make the dots stand out a bit more. For the edges of the paper I have used Spellbinders dies called 'deckled mega rectangles large' and 'large deckled rectangles'. I also used a pair of Fiskar's 'deckle' sissors. My flowers are from Hooked on Craft and I have used a 25mm pink paper flower and also a 14mm pink paper flower. I spritz the flowers with Glimmer Mist in 'cosmos' for some sparkle (I love, love, love glimmer mist!).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
- Crafts And Me Challenges; 'Monochrome'. My monocrome colour is the best colour ever (pink)!!!
- My Time To Craft Challenge; 'Spots and dots'
- Cute Card Thursday; 'Recipe 1,2,3!'. I have used 1 image, 2 flowers and 3 background papers (panels).