Moon Fairy

Yeah it's the end of my week and it's a bank holiday too so four days off - whoopee!!!!  I hope the sun stays out the whole time although by saying that I've probably jinxed it now.  What's everyone up to on their long weekend?  Anything exciting?  Me I think I'll just take it as it comes and just enjoy my time off.

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Anyway it's the first of the month and by now you should all know what that means, and if you don't then you just don't know what you're missing!  Do you want to join in the fun too?  Come along to the Clarity Stamp Challenge to see what we get up to, you never know you could win a £50 voucher to spend on Clarity Stamp goodies.  Now where would I start mmm......

We have a new challenge for May with the theme of "IT'S ALL IN THE SENTIMENT".  We all love to make cards don't we, but mainly we focus on the images we use and not the sentiment.  So for this challenge we'd like to see the sentiments made the shining star of your projects (using Clarity stamps of course).

Here's my card for inspiration, but why not pop over to the challenge blog as well to have a look at the projects the Clarity Stamp Challenge design team have created too.  They're stunning!!!

a close up of the sentiment

Materials used:

Stamp - Moon fairy

Coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers

Wings - film & fibre

Moon - mirri card

Adirondack ink - wild plum & denim

Sentiment - silver shoon

Versamark

Black detail embossing powder

Nestability - large deckled rectangle

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - to die for

Joanna Sheen - recycle (take away lid for the mirri card - unused of course)

As You Like It - dies/punches (frames sentiments perfectly)

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Vintage Wedding Exploding Box

It's time for another challenge over at Fussy and Fancy and the new theme is VINTAGE.  Don't you just love all of the vintage stamps and digi's out at the moment?  This was a relatively new style to me when I made it, and I hadn't got any stamps, so I went with papers, dies, ribbon and distressing instead.

I made this for a friends wedding and they had a vintage theme to their day so this fitted in quite well.  I do like to match my cards to the event, don't you?  I did personalise it a bit more than in the pictures below but obviously just wanted to show the basic project.

If you'd like to make an exploding box, I have a tutorial here with pictorial and written instructions.  I'd love to get your feedback and see your finished projects.

Materials used:

Pearlised card - vanilla ice shimmer

Nestability - labels eighteen

Distress ink - vintage photo

Martha Stewart edge punch - doily lace

Magnolia Doohickey die - bloomy tag

Sentiment - together forever

Ribbon & Pearls

I'd like to enter my project into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - one paper taker
Creative Inspirations - anything but a card
Dutch Dare - anything but a card
Sassy Studio Designs - fancy folds
Inky Impressions - die cuts/punches - TOP 3
A Little Bit Crafty - anything goes

By the Cute & Girly - vintage

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

In the Garden

Good morning crafters, I hope you're all enjoying your long weekend.  Hope you all got loads of Easter eggs?  Mark took me out for a meal last night instead of buying me an Easter egg, you can't argue with that can you?

It's the first of the month so that means only one thing!  It's time for a new challenge over at the Clarity Stamp Challenge.  The theme for our second challenge is "IN THE GARDEN" which is where I know a lot of us wish we could be.  I keep looking out of the window at our garden thinking it needs a good old tidy up but then it starts snowing and I think better of it.  Oh well one day soon hopefully!

Anyway back to the challenge and here's my inspirational card for the challenge to get your creativity going and if this isn't enough the rest of the design team have loads more ideas for you too.  You could be in with a chance of winning a £50 Clarity Stamp gift voucher.  It's a pity I can't enter myself!!

I love creating scenes with my stamps and the sets are ideal for these types of cards

Materials used:

Stamp - garden set

Stamp - cherry blossom

Stamp - small birds in flight

Stamp - wrought iron chair

Stamp - small tree silhouette

Stamp - haberdashery set

Adirondack ink - lettuce, stonewashed, sunshine yellow

Liquid pearls - pastel raspberry

Glossy accents

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

I love Promarkers - spring is in the air

Stamping Sensations - great outdoors

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Spring Days

Spring?  More like winter isn't it?  I think we've had more adverse weather conditions in the last few weeks than I've every seen before in spring. We've had snow, heavy winds, heavy rains and floods, but very little sunshine!  Those poor spring bulbs will be coming up with their winter jackets on, tee hee.  At least the nights are starting to pull out and the mornings are lighter too and of course we change the clocks at the end of the month so the nights will be even lighter.  Fingers crossed for some better weather though.

Enough of me moaning.....

It's time for another challenge over at Fussy and Fancy and you've guessed it already we've chosen the theme of SPRING DAYS, so brighten us up with some bright spring colours or some lovely spring blooms.  Here's my card to try and brighten your day:

Materials used:

Nestability - scalloped oval

Distress ink - crushed olive & spun sugar

Promarkers

Sentiment - for you

Ribbon & pearl buckle

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers - anything goes
Really Reasonable Ribbons - ribbon & flowers
Whimsy Stamps - stitch it
Creative Inspirations - spring colours
Paper Crafting Journey - ribbon or lace
Inky Impressions - flowers
Paper Shelter - Spring

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day everyone, hope you all get suitably spoilt!  I know I did with a visit from my daughter yesterday, bunch of flowers in hand and a bag full of crafty goodies.  I was smiling like a Cheshire cat.  Bless her she even buys me a card that I can pick to bits afterwards, she knows me too well!  It's got a great dress on it that would make a brilliant stencil....

My post today is the card that I've made for my Mum who I shall be visiting later today.  I sent her a bouquet of flowers yesterday because I think it's always nice to get a surprise like that isn't it?  I don't do it every year otherwise she'd be waiting for it.

Materials used:

Stamp - clockwork

Coloured with promarkers

Gems from my stash

Stamp - blazing poppies

Cosmic shimmer misting ink - blue lace

(free with Craft Stamper subscription)

Mica powder - pearls & pastels

Versamark

Embossing powder - clear

Adirondack ink - cloudy blue & denim

Ribbon - carnival collection

Nestabilities - labels eighteen

Frantage - aged ivory

Card candi - regal gold

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

IndigoBlu - blue
Passion for Promarkers - one for the ladies
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - Mothers day
Dream Valley - Mothers day
Joanna Sheen - Mothers day
Quirky Crafts - no dp
That Craft Place - anything goes
Crafts 4 Eternity - marvellous Mums
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Clarity Stamp Challenge - Launch Day

Happy Friday crafters and I'm pleased to be able to tell you that the Clarity Stamp Challenge blog has launched it's first challenge today, yeah!

It's taken weeks, if not months, of planning and now you're able to join us and share our excitement too.  The theme for our first challenge is "ANYTHING GOES" so dust off your Clarity Stamps and pop along to the blog for some inspiration from the design team.  You could be the lucky winner of a £50 Clarity Stamp gift voucher.  Tempted now?

Here's my inspirational card using a new technique and a new product for me.  I had great fun with a my crafty friend Hazel playing with different ways of using Dylusions Inks and I think I've fallen in love all over again.

Materials used:

Stamp - wire art heart

Stamp - "love" from the birds and flourishes set

Stamp - small leafy swirl

Stamp - love you (NDC)
Adirondack ink - red pepper & denim

Versamark

Clear detail embossing powder

Dylusions ink - postbox red & London blue

Distress ink - worn lipstick
Card candi - regal silver
Ribbon saved from a box of chocolates

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - sketch #42
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon
Crafts and Me - dies/punches
Divas By Design - anything goes
Inky Impressions - splash of red
Dream Valley - ribbon and bling
A Gem of a Challenge - add a bow

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx