Roses Are Pink

Hello.  Welcome.   Cheery Lynn want roses.  The Craft Barn Q&L Challenge is Passion and or Music.  This is what I came up with.......

I stamped Hero Arts flower from the Asian Elements set onto white card using DI Worn Lipstick.  Then I covered it with a sheet of vellum with a music print.  My Prima Doll has a dress paper pieced from MME pp.  I used my Rose Pink Promarker on her headband, shoes and also the lower frill of the dress.  The roses are Cheery Lynn Tea Rose Small cut from white paper and touched with the Rose Pink Promarker.  I backed them with Cheery Lynn Dandelions cut from Basic Grey Indian Summer Woodrose paper.  The quote is Naya Rivera, American actress.

Joining the fun at
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 134 - Roses 
The Craft Barn Q&L Challenge - Passion/Music 
7 Kids Challenge 100 - Anything Goes 
I Love Promarkers Challenge 221 - Flowers 
STAMPlorations May Challenge - Stamps and Flowers 
Stampinback Challenge - One Colour 

Thanks for your visit.  Hugs 

For The Boyz

Hello.  Welcome.  The witching hour has come and gone but a timely reminder has me offering up a last minute make to the Stamplorations sketch challenge.  Revisiting stencil bumping with my old friends DI Walnut Stain and Dreamweavers Embossing Paste but a whole different look....

I used Prima patterened paper from the Craftsman collection and a Prima stencil.  The stamps are Kort og Godt.  I stamped the boy and the sentiment, masked them, then applied DI Walnut stain through the stencil.  Then I bumped it and added the yellow embossing paste.  I mounted the panel on a black card base

Joining the fun at
STAMPlorations Sketch Challenge 12
StampARTic Challenge 235 - Use Stencils 
Eclectic Paperie ePlay Challenge - Get Stenciled 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - The Artsy Stamp 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 


Thanks for dropping by.  Have a great weekend.  Hugs

Birthday Fairy

Hello.  Welcome.  I've not had much time to craft this week.  The weather is hot and dry, the farmer wants lots done and my garden and animals need attention as well.  Plus the too hot to think feeling.  I was going to sit out in the garden and make roses this afternoon but the wind scuppered that idea.  So I've kept it simple and used an LOTV stamp Birthday Fairy.  So cute

 

I've used cream hammered card.  I scored at 1/4inch around the edges using my scor-pal and  some extra lines to frame my sentiment.  I cut a panel and stamped LOTV Birthday Fairy.  Then I stamped her again on another piece of the same card, coloured with Promarkers and Wink of Stella and fussy cut her and the teddy bear/present.  I added these over the stamped image and also some gold glitter on her baubles and wand.  After a bit of a direct stamping mishap I stamped the Kort og Godt Norwegian birthday sentiment onto the same card and added it between my scored lines.  

Joining the fun at

LOTV Challenge - Fairies

Scor-pal More Than One Score Challenge - Stamped Image

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Anyone For Anya May Challenge - Favorite Stamp 

Thanks for your visit.  Have a great evening.  I'm off to kill some thistles.  The things I do..........

Close Encounters Of a Human Kind

Hello.  Welcome.  I remember many years ago I was doing various evening classes and I had signed up to a general craft class.  Imagine my horror, and all the other ladies, when the teacher handed us all charcoal pencils and asked us to draw the tulips!!  Uhhhhhh.   There were protests.  Many protests and threats of leaving but, paid your money, takes your chances.  No one left and a few picture recognisable as tulips resulted.  My feelings were much the same when faced with Clare Lloyd's post over at PaperArtsy.  I managed to ignore it previously but the title and post suggests that this is a regular feature so I have decided to succumb.......

Because of my previous success drawing a tulip I decided a charcoal pencil was the way to go and because of my general non-success with drawing a piece of plain white paper was a good place to start.   Shock horror she looks vaguely human.   I am the subject of alien bodysnatching.  Glad the alien can draw LOL......

Sorry, due to the shock I didn't take any more photo's.  Perhaps less is a blessing here.  If you are laughing may I respectfully ask that you keep it to yourself because for the woman who can't draw fish this is a result!  I used Fresco Finish Rose and Butternut, charcoal for her hair and highlights, or would that be lowlights.  Ah yes, shadows!!  The galaxy markers were still out so eyes and lips.  The background is Fresco Finish Limelight, a Prima stencil, a splat stamp from Kort og Godt and some edging by DI Walnut Stain.  I used the letter stamp from LPC003 on her body.  Let me know what you think, but be gentle with me.  It's the first person I have ever made.

Joining the fun at
PaperArtsy
Eclectic Paperie ePlay Challenge - Get Stenciled
StampARTic Challenge 235 - Use Stencils

Thanks for dropping by and your kind comments.  Hugs

Fantasy Island

Hello.  Welcome.  Fun, fun, fun.  Over at PaperArtsy Penny Nuttall has been sharing some fun 3D projects.  Penny, I must just say I really hoped to make a magic roundabout, cos that looks a blast, but time is against me.  I have managed to make an island paradise for an amateur gardener. 

Check out Penny's post for details but to cut a long story short I cut my circles, stamped and coloured.  All the stamps are PaperArtsy, from EDY06 or the Bloom set.  I used two shades of blue acrylic to make my pond and then coloured all the flowers and leaves with Galaxy Markers.  I was having a challenge getting a mirror stamp of Bloom herself until the little grey cell sugested stamping on tissue paper!  Genius.  I coloured both images with Promarkers.  I was afraid they might bleed on the tissue but they didn't.  I stuck one onto card and fussy cut then stuck the reverse image on the back.  

I found that Bloom was a little short to see over the vegetation but because I had only a single layer of card I improvised with a heart rock and a little bridge.  If you are wondering what she is standing on these are plastic corks from the milk carton which are going to be feet on her island.  

 

So here she is on her little paradise.  I used a piece of card that came as packaging for the base and ran a piece of lace around it to hide those milk carton tops.  It looks a bit like waves against the shore.  A few more flowers and she's a smile on a grey day.  Not that today is grey.  So I decided to get a photo in the garden.

Not so successful between the wind and bright sun but I did find a nice floweredy bush for a backdrop.  

Joining the fun at
PaperArtsy
Fashionable Stamping Challenges - 3D Object 
The Artistic Stamper Creative Team May Challenge - In the Garden 
Stamping Sensations May Challenge - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Botanical 
Country View Challenge 15 - Nature's glories 
I Love Promarkers - #220 Anything Goes 
http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.no/2014/05/recycle.html  recycled card from packaging and milk carton plastic corks

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you are having a great weekend, and if you are having an extra day enjoy.  Hugs

Life of It's Own

Hello.  Welcome.  Do you ever start a project and it just get bigger and bigger and bigger??  It just needs one little bit to finish it.  And maybe a bit here.  And there.  And then you start asking why did I start this??  Should I stop?  Or just keep going?  Well, I kept going but the fancy pop-up center, which is where I started, has been put aside for another day.  Still, I'm pleased with the card and I'll just slip a chocolate bar in there instead.  Something tells me that will be more appreciated anyway.  So here's the card.  

I used a black base card.  I cut Cheery Lynn Tiny Bubbles Border from brown card.  The Cheery Lynn Southern Charm Valance, the two side strips and the backing for the owl are all cut from Stardream Gold card.  It's a lot brighter in the real.  I cut Cheery Lynn Owl With Gears and Cheery Lynn Dandelions from Bronze Stardream card.  I added a bit of gold glitter to the dandelions.  I love this unassuming little die.  It reminds me of fireworks.  Can't wait to work it into some Halloween cards!!  The sentiment is a Kort og Godt stamp and translates as 'to a great guy', or 'to a great lighthouse'!!  Gotta love Norwegian.  This is of course to a great guy.  I mean, who would send a card to a lighthouse!

Joining the fun at
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 133 - Make it Manly
Joan's Touch Challenge #14 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you are having a great weekend.  Hugs

Sunflower Love

Hello.  Welcome.  Today I went out to get a few stamps with Norwegian phrases.  I don't have many of these but I had seen some nice ones and intended to bite the bullet and pay the price.  Then I arrive to find birthday celebrations and 30% off.  Blessed be and happy dancing.  The unexpected bargains are all the sweeter.  So I bought a few sets, just to save a bit more!!  ROFL Crafter thrift.  As we say in my family "How can you afford not to buy?"  

Over at Joan's Touch the recipe this week was to use black, a die cut and embellishments.  I also saw a post over at Simon Says Stamp on custom panels and really wanted to try this technique.  

I started with a gold base card.  I cut an arc in a piece of black card and layered it onto the gold base.   I just used a craft knife to cut my arcs so they are not perfect.  I cut Poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower from the same card as the base but left the cuts in place.  The sentiment is one I bought this morning from Kort og Godt M-218 and translates as "and the greatest of all is love".  I embossed it in black onto the gold card and then added a black mat behind.  I also added three mini gold brads.  

Joining the fun at
Joan's Touch Challenge #14
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Botanicals
Country View Challenge 15 - Nature's glories 
CASology Week 96 - Flower
ALBC - Flower Power

Thanks for your visit and your lovely comments.  Hugs