tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89083473760407115012024-03-14T05:06:16.811+00:00My Little Patch of HeavenAnn-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.comBlogger434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-82576697393803536892023-07-04T19:21:00.004+01:002023-07-04T19:21:39.679+01:00Beautiful 'Sky'<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Tuesday lovely crafty friends. A quick pop in to share one of my latest makes with you .... a little bit of fairy love courtesy of the fabulous Lavinia Stamps and beautiful 'Sky'. I just love this stamp and you can't go wrong with a toadstool either.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">An inked background and a couple of foliage and flower stamps later and it all sort of just came together. Not sure I'm happy with how the moon ended up but I'm not touching it any more. I used lots of Sakura Stardust pens, Posca and paint pens to add accents to the flowers and toadstool. I sort of just ran with it and had to step away at some point lol!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUgtlhExMzwHlNWPx-j2MbBSlzGyHFUmgKbaPQZHig8Fy94HdKmq239UzoO4V1uLrUcaHzrpNuyxzMDUI_YStrveKy7zhLvrzVWK3B6_iFeMgME_KEAFpYntUX8xSD99pXtFEWGJYYXcia8PFxsJLgAqOfozzZ8cBelHDRVv8TPYcIDdodMts7cIc0gnQ/s1511/Lavinia%20Stamps%20-%20Sky%20(watermarked).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1511" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUgtlhExMzwHlNWPx-j2MbBSlzGyHFUmgKbaPQZHig8Fy94HdKmq239UzoO4V1uLrUcaHzrpNuyxzMDUI_YStrveKy7zhLvrzVWK3B6_iFeMgME_KEAFpYntUX8xSD99pXtFEWGJYYXcia8PFxsJLgAqOfozzZ8cBelHDRVv8TPYcIDdodMts7cIc0gnQ/s520/Lavinia%20Stamps%20-%20Sky%20(watermarked).jpg" width="518" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So that's my little fairy card for today. This is a card for my mum to give to her friend for her birthday. I'm actually really happy with how it turned out. In fact I like it so much I don't really want to give it away so I may just do it again and frame it for myself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Right so that's all from me. I've made a few cards lately just haven't had time to share them but hopefully I'll be back in a few days with another.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care folks and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Challenges I'd like to enter:-</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Allsorts</span></a> - anything goes (option of summertime)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Sweet Stampin</span></a> - no designer paper</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Fairy and the Unicorn</span></a> - anything fantasy goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thecraftyaddicts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Crafty Addicts</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Unicorn Challenge</span></a> - no designer paper</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-41729745481664401312023-05-22T15:19:00.001+01:002023-05-22T15:19:06.973+01:00Lots of sparkle ...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Happy Monday lovely crafty friends. As the title suggests I have been playing with lots of sparkle and nobody does sparkle quite like Chloes Creative Cards. I treated myself to the new wedding collection she released not long ago and boy it is absolutely gorgeous and so very versatile.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As lots of my posts will show I'm normally a stamp and colour kind of gal so this is something a little different for me. Lots of sparkle (and it's not even Christmas) and lots of layers but it was so much fun to make. I kept with a silver and white theme and it's beautiful.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SVBC2TnrtghWssRE3GxcGNXIWHsSUZkW6n-5JaJKir7h-u0KG2L8vl0ydVcDm_4COWYPPUiOOJrq50eVfO_dMRi-dYq6Ar3dhU_angJHFHbzpE5Jl6JlHlc2haxjx1D2Tmwy7wfHGPCiEK8FZQX4Nw2jHdws2Fc4pXrBfuCIx1EXKOYIbXTCRmwnLA/s1500/Chloes%20Creative%20Cards%20-%20wedding%20(adj)%20WATERMARKED.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SVBC2TnrtghWssRE3GxcGNXIWHsSUZkW6n-5JaJKir7h-u0KG2L8vl0ydVcDm_4COWYPPUiOOJrq50eVfO_dMRi-dYq6Ar3dhU_angJHFHbzpE5Jl6JlHlc2haxjx1D2Tmwy7wfHGPCiEK8FZQX4Nw2jHdws2Fc4pXrBfuCIx1EXKOYIbXTCRmwnLA/s520/Chloes%20Creative%20Cards%20-%20wedding%20(adj)%20WATERMARKED.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Everything is from Chloes Creative Cards except the mirri card, ribbon, pearl paper I've used to create the flowers and the stamens. The pretty borders are even Chloes and I used her fab chisel tip glue pen to accent them with glitter also.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here's a closer look at the sentiment and flowers:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtFQlG_xUG-crmAvn5bkm6FGZnnvjghZ_KYQXByYZGFIy_6AjiM3nur0Hjrq1O8MQ6azFCBdTxj6hnK9oTXonsqnaN_gBNZXwbymHBPkzfuN7xMkAyE_4nuQCSMIhfSh5DvE7hqudFiq7wogdxevuEtGJLht5WVgwGnqhU99gyuPf-NuNKUalkG-Nlw/s2691/Chloes%20Creative%20Cards%20-%20wedding%20(adj)%20-%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2593" data-original-width="2691" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtFQlG_xUG-crmAvn5bkm6FGZnnvjghZ_KYQXByYZGFIy_6AjiM3nur0Hjrq1O8MQ6azFCBdTxj6hnK9oTXonsqnaN_gBNZXwbymHBPkzfuN7xMkAyE_4nuQCSMIhfSh5DvE7hqudFiq7wogdxevuEtGJLht5WVgwGnqhU99gyuPf-NuNKUalkG-Nlw/s520/Chloes%20Creative%20Cards%20-%20wedding%20(adj)%20-%20cropped.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> apologise I'm not a photographer so the piccies are not the best and the light was terrible, but you get the idea.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So that's all from me today folks. I'm off to have another quick crafty session before I concentrate on feeding the herd. I'm back at work tomorrow so it will be a case of squeezing craft in where I can but hopefully see you soon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Take care lovelies and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ann-Marie</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u>Challenges I would like to enter:-</u></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Crafting Happiness challenges</span></a> - anything goes (option of flowers)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Creative Inspirations</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Creative Crafters</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thecraftyaddicts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Crafty Addicts</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-39902507129821719612023-05-01T21:31:00.000+01:002023-05-01T21:31:28.693+01:00Midnight Magic<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Monday crafty friends. This is me making an effort to update my blog with my makes. I must get in the habit of sharing here every time I upload to Instagram lol! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So here's one of my latest cards made using lots of lovely Lavinia Stamps images. It's a little scene made using Lavinia Elements inks for the background. These were a Christmas present and it's the first time I've used them. I must say I'm very impressed with them. The main images were stamped with a variety of Versafine Clair inks and coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6a0mT-ek_t7OjulT3-MZhB2nxJBcHmbYnul3mkosUzq4VbWzvgWbRgC2Y7prDoF-pZx8FVJsIFbMhAyHhnYG0UmPLVujf4tI0SiGbewcBUGkOjumanlgMfpf4-4CIKktKsttNVZl_NxZjUnKjfrIcHwd9eHmuTJ_q8ks65WU9OeSm_0F8iUoj9c-rTQ/s1500/Moonlit%20toadstool%20%20-%20adj(gimp)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6a0mT-ek_t7OjulT3-MZhB2nxJBcHmbYnul3mkosUzq4VbWzvgWbRgC2Y7prDoF-pZx8FVJsIFbMhAyHhnYG0UmPLVujf4tI0SiGbewcBUGkOjumanlgMfpf4-4CIKktKsttNVZl_NxZjUnKjfrIcHwd9eHmuTJ_q8ks65WU9OeSm_0F8iUoj9c-rTQ/s520/Moonlit%20toadstool%20%20-%20adj(gimp)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I actually coloured the flowers with Sakura Moonlight gel pens and highlighted the leaves with them also. I like to do this as I think it adds some definition. I did add Stickles glitter to the flowers which looks really pretty but unfortunately my ploppy photography isn't picking it up lol!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, that's my little share for today. I do have other makes to add so I will try and upload these too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care folks and happy crafting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-76547590207231808172022-09-17T22:41:00.002+01:002022-09-17T22:43:27.631+01:00Fay loves Fall<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Well look at me .... sharing a second autumn card lol! This is me making an effort to keep my little old blog up to date. So how many autumn themed makes can I get in before Christmas takes over. I'm already itching to play with my crimbo stash but I'm determined to make a few more, although I have had some gorgeous new crimbo goodies arrive in the post this week so it's going to be hard not to at least have a little play.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Anyway, as my title suggests I have another autumnal card to share with you. Again using another Stamping Bella image ... this is tiny townie 'Fay loves Fall' and isn't she adorable. She's been coloured up with copics to compliment the gorgeous Raspberry Road papers. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1uNlUND3uwOcz3q8U3DyRpdr361J-Fj5JUiLr5hz8ApJEsXZ4LRksheYYL2JzEqedY42m96IM0JSk1PHiCjSZwIowYo6KHDci-Uut3tXc0usOgXkN2yWdABo66W_Zm7hl-8mWl_eyvHlGesPJEVsSM45GCqDx6_7gj2D_xmHGHuuU9IwYUCM58S0kg/s1500/Stamping%20Bella%20%20-%20%20Fay%20loves%20Fall(1)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1499" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1uNlUND3uwOcz3q8U3DyRpdr361J-Fj5JUiLr5hz8ApJEsXZ4LRksheYYL2JzEqedY42m96IM0JSk1PHiCjSZwIowYo6KHDci-Uut3tXc0usOgXkN2yWdABo66W_Zm7hl-8mWl_eyvHlGesPJEVsSM45GCqDx6_7gj2D_xmHGHuuU9IwYUCM58S0kg/s520/Stamping%20Bella%20%20-%20%20Fay%20loves%20Fall(1)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Image: Stamping Bella Tiny Townie 'Fay loves Fall'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sentiment: from the same stamp set</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Medium: copics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Papers: Raspberry Road Designs download 'Autumn Evenings'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ribbon and gems from stash</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Vk6rwPeW8x7-RSxKvntTktenw_6qvEnRKLUFBNylWHdy0iLkoTKaNEOxYa7bt0FLUDU24n9hKKfFDdfL1X48QFMw1qQEQ87pupCxwG9p912MXI-1xtZUFVjKNyDfPbbF0c_Zch2__no8ESqgMqEcZqSe2C5_cU2qMT_2qxUstb2ntIv2PLzF7Vyxhg/s1500/Stamping%20Bella%20-%20Fay%20loves%20Fall(2)%20%20-%20%20watermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Vk6rwPeW8x7-RSxKvntTktenw_6qvEnRKLUFBNylWHdy0iLkoTKaNEOxYa7bt0FLUDU24n9hKKfFDdfL1X48QFMw1qQEQ87pupCxwG9p912MXI-1xtZUFVjKNyDfPbbF0c_Zch2__no8ESqgMqEcZqSe2C5_cU2qMT_2qxUstb2ntIv2PLzF7Vyxhg/s520/Stamping%20Bella%20-%20Fay%20loves%20Fall(2)%20%20-%20%20watermarked.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A list of copics used just in case you would like them:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Skin: E41, E50, E53, E33</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Clothes: G40, G43, G46, G29/E33, E35, E37, E39</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hair, Shoes & Basket: E43, E44, E47, E49</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pumpkin: YR21, YR24, YR27, E39</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That's all from me this evening folks. I'm off to paint some pumpkins to add to my tiered tray. Won't be long before it's time for real pumpkins too ... I can't wait. Anyone else excited over pumpkin season? Last year was the first year I spray sealed them and put them out on my front step. They lasted for ages so got to get me some more for this season. My hubby thinks I'm nuts lol!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Anyway, have a lovely weekend, take care and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Ann-Marie</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>xxx</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Challenges:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Colour Crazy Challenge (Wk 37)</span></a> - anything goes</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Creative Knockouts (#470)</span></a> - fall</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Stamping Sensations</span></a> - feminine</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-39161889045191395972022-09-05T17:43:00.002+01:002022-09-05T17:43:34.179+01:00Autumn love<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yay, folks it's officially Autumn! I can't tell you how happy that makes me. I'm really not a summer person and I'm well and truly over it not that I was ever really in it lol but you get what I'm saying. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Anyhow, it's been such a long time since I've shared anything on my little old blog and it's not as if I haven't been crafting I just never seem to get around to posting it on here. Today, however, I am sharing some Stamping Bella autumnal vibes with you. I just love this stamp and decided to make a slimline card for a change as it just seemed to lend itself to it. The lush papers are a download from Raspberry Road Designs and are beautiful.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88WCOKp4rA7c_e3KUJvhqgf6nOrITr9s9xy1ei2_DbizO3X_JZRiqZTKFI6RziRap1N2lMyYgwyPWSJA-e3UEfZYmg3dXGmHkPF1S1kcRWnfv-nhad19WsSjNeWnSwHa1kIicR8Tk8qjSDJt6TsJGKB5-GqLY9W6Pje5H5aRYQBMqiDMNLZ0Jk2XJpg/s1500/Stamping%20Bella%20-%20Autumn%20Loves%20Autumn(1)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88WCOKp4rA7c_e3KUJvhqgf6nOrITr9s9xy1ei2_DbizO3X_JZRiqZTKFI6RziRap1N2lMyYgwyPWSJA-e3UEfZYmg3dXGmHkPF1S1kcRWnfv-nhad19WsSjNeWnSwHa1kIicR8Tk8qjSDJt6TsJGKB5-GqLY9W6Pje5H5aRYQBMqiDMNLZ0Jk2XJpg/s520/Stamping%20Bella%20-%20Autumn%20Loves%20Autumn(1)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Image: Stamping Bella Tiny Townie 'Autumn loves Autumn'</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Medium: copics</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Papers: Raspberry Road Designs 'Fall Breeze'</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A little close up of the image. Isn't she sweet. A little bit of doodling some lines around the image as I thought it was just missing something. I love doing this and they really don't have to be precise.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCLp1wN5FTGt1dRIqz-o9unS2z-8Z0RiTWYanI3QRG0RriW_msmlbtvhJogu96AI1qOxLDExcuPPl6phX5KO0UUSmtA_46yp_mC9r4p26BYuHv8AEEALb3NsBNuM281oUDjZMVJRDFvZAig3kdVzClvly-bJwEAAiXs2ETJn_RUWMBoUjkkcbCd_7uvQ/s1500/Stamping%20Bella%20-%20Autumn%20Loves%20Autumn(3)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCLp1wN5FTGt1dRIqz-o9unS2z-8Z0RiTWYanI3QRG0RriW_msmlbtvhJogu96AI1qOxLDExcuPPl6phX5KO0UUSmtA_46yp_mC9r4p26BYuHv8AEEALb3NsBNuM281oUDjZMVJRDFvZAig3kdVzClvly-bJwEAAiXs2ETJn_RUWMBoUjkkcbCd_7uvQ/s520/Stamping%20Bella%20-%20Autumn%20Loves%20Autumn(3)%20-%20watermarked.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just in case you find it useful for a list of colours, here are the copics I used to colour her up.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Skin: E41, E50, E53, E33, E35</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hair/shoes: C1, C3, C5, C7, C9</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Clothes: R20, R22, R24, R27 + BV25 for added shadow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">/E02, E04, E07, E09/YG11, YG25, YG63, YG67/YR31, YR21, YR24, YR27</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Toadstool: R20, R22, R24, R27 + BV25/W1, W3, W5</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Okay, so that's me done for today peeps. I'll try my very best not to neglect my blog too much but you can always catch me over on my Instagram page .. that's the place where it all gets updated first lol.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So, take care lovelies, have a wonderful week and make sure you get yourself some crafting in ... it's always good for the soul!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Take care and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><u>Challenges:-</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Get Creative Challenges</span></a> - Fall/Autumn</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Stamping Sensations</span></a> - Feminine </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Allsorts</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Colour Crazy Challenge</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Four Seasons</span></a> - September anything goes fall</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Simon Says Stamp</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Creative Inspirations</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </div>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-24780124288917753372022-05-15T16:19:00.000+01:002022-05-15T16:19:02.970+01:00Bluebell Woods<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Sunday lovelies. It's a rather wet and stormy day here but I don't mind I like listening to the thunder just not when I'm on my own.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway, I am behind sharing all my makes with you so I have a backlog to upload on here but for today this is my latest card I've finished. Again it features lots of Lavinia Stamps I'm sorry I do seem to be a little obsessed with them at the moment.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So my background was made with distress inks that I'd smooshed onto my glass craft mat and spritzed with water and then dabbed my white card into. This was dried thoroughly and then I just began making my scene up I was aiming for a bluebell wood. I didn't achieve the depth I wanted in my card but by the time I'd added all the highlights and everything I think it's a keeper. Anyway, it was all coloured with Inktense pencils and soft pastels and lots of highlights added to the flowers, leaves and trees with Posca and Sakura gelly roll pens.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJBz2AvpYMDtWCGcFDaVJGJRM32SOuL3XnywvBfQNTm2VOp6kA0Q37-fThkx8Yp8o7OaHsegXnR3Tqr1ZmUHTn05Bh11MfELfvmr3bjWdRlviJxgfJkRm9Fe_f5pASRU3u2NEQoI_w1RL_WdrdWbznxsMqgYdt5yw9Wtfqhw55NYXZOyrKm-YmwtlhA/s1500/Lavinia%20Stamps%20-%20bluebell%20woods%20-%20(watermarked).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJBz2AvpYMDtWCGcFDaVJGJRM32SOuL3XnywvBfQNTm2VOp6kA0Q37-fThkx8Yp8o7OaHsegXnR3Tqr1ZmUHTn05Bh11MfELfvmr3bjWdRlviJxgfJkRm9Fe_f5pASRU3u2NEQoI_w1RL_WdrdWbznxsMqgYdt5yw9Wtfqhw55NYXZOyrKm-YmwtlhA/w640-h640/Lavinia%20Stamps%20-%20bluebell%20woods%20-%20(watermarked).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A really quick stop by me today. I hope you like my little creation. I really do learn something new every time I play with these stamps and ink and I have such a fun time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So until next time, take care lovelies and have fun crafting. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Challenges</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> - floral and fauna</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Addicted to Stamps and more</a> - any </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">occasion</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-39567228698845025602022-02-16T20:58:00.004+00:002022-02-16T20:58:47.714+00:00King of the Forest<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hello lovelies and a very happy Wednesday to you. It's been a little while since I've popped anything on here so I'm putting that right today. My crafting time of late has been a little erratic what with work and just general life but I have squeezed some craft in when I can. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So what better way to get back into the swing of sharing my makes than to show you my latest card using some Lavinia Stamps images. My background was made using a mix of Tim Holtz Distress Ink sprays and mica sprays. I painted the moon using a Lavinia stencil and acrylic white paint and once dry used some soft pastels to add shadows so it wouldn't appear so flat. The only thing I definitely knew when I started the card was I wanted the fabulous stag to appear in front of the moon and the rest of the card sort of just came together by playing with some tree stamps. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHWRGrmeHfkNVgJVmO40KQt8-mQmLJDlYCbiS3JbUCyQfE1nzz__zspGu-4CRpoBLptS-GQhkZSHUCvEsjsDuzNfB2QFKxT-opdHEknN5VMZtS8b2r-G1pDTnFFqoyMmgMHn6AMz4MdclpAoxf-E35FqiOJ7jBgTUGVq8WCn3w94gSdvE3VdRAbHECrw=s1500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHWRGrmeHfkNVgJVmO40KQt8-mQmLJDlYCbiS3JbUCyQfE1nzz__zspGu-4CRpoBLptS-GQhkZSHUCvEsjsDuzNfB2QFKxT-opdHEknN5VMZtS8b2r-G1pDTnFFqoyMmgMHn6AMz4MdclpAoxf-E35FqiOJ7jBgTUGVq8WCn3w94gSdvE3VdRAbHECrw=s520" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I highlighted the trees with a silver gel pen and added a few orbs with a white gel pen and smudged some white pastel around them to soften them. Whilst I had the white gel pen out I went a little crazy adding lots of stars lol but I like the effect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Overall I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I'm still learning with my spray inks and making backgrounds but I'm loving the process although they don't all make it to cards some end up in the bin but it's fun playing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So that's all from me this time peeps. I will try and not leave it so long between posts on my blog. My Instagram account always seems to get updated first maybe it's because I find it quicker I don't know but I will make an effect to update here too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care lovelies and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Challenges</u> I would like to enter my card into:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Crafting Happiness</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Stamping Sensations</span></a> - anything stamped with option of wings or tails</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">We love Stamping</span></a> - anything stamped option of stencilling</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-25958517079384040172021-08-15T16:05:00.000+01:002021-08-15T16:05:28.505+01:00Mushroom Forest<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hello lovely people and a very happy Sunday to you. I have a few cards I haven't shared on here yet. I must admit I'm guilty of sharing on my Instagram page but my poor little blog gets a tad neglected. I always think to myself "I'll do that later" and then never do. Do folks even read blogs anymore? or is it all Insta and TikTok now? I don't know but for now I shall make an extra effort to update here as well.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So my latest is another card and it's fairy themed again. I just love my fairies lol but then you know that. I think I shall call this one 'mushroom forest'. I've used Lavinia Stamps images and stamped in Versafine Clair ink. My background was made with lots of blending of Distress Inks and a Lavinia Stamps template for the moon. I coloured the spotty mushrooms with Inktense pencils and those that were 'solid' images I used some soft pastels and Sakura metallic gel pens to add light accents. All in all I love how it came together.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fSC4Ql0Dd9k/YRklccvn2BI/AAAAAAAAF80/CBKIQnw1bC0MheXZig3hm0eyqFbs4_yrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1329/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B-%2Bmushroom%2Bforest%2B-%2Bwatermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1329" data-original-width="1329" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fSC4Ql0Dd9k/YRklccvn2BI/AAAAAAAAF80/CBKIQnw1bC0MheXZig3hm0eyqFbs4_yrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s520/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B-%2Bmushroom%2Bforest%2B-%2Bwatermarked.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Images: Lavinia Stamps - 'Spellbound fairy', 'Spotty Toadstool', 'Meadow Mushroom', 'Fairy Toadstool', 'Creeping Vine', 'Luna Lights' and 'Slender Mushrooms mini'</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Backgound: Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Picked Raspberry and Lucky Clover</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Images stamped with Versafine Clair in Nocturne and Twilight</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I used a metallic silver gel pen to add highlights to the mushroom/toadstool stalks and the hanging luna lights and then just dotted some acrylic paint pens around for like little flowers and fairy dust. Oh and not forgetting my white Signo gel pen for the stars that are just peeking through the foliage. No fairy is complete however without a little sparkle so if you look closely you may see her twinkly wings but photography is not my forte so it doesn't show up as much as I'd like.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So that's all from me today. As I said I have a few more cards to share so I'll be back in a few days.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care folks and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ann-Marie</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I would like to enter into the following challenges:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Allsorts</i></span></a> - add some sparkle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Fairy and the Unicorn</span></a> - anything fantasy goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Cute Card Thursday</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-10090709222980188692021-08-02T23:07:00.001+01:002021-08-02T23:07:43.486+01:00Falling Flowers<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Monday lovely crafty peeps. Hope you are all doing okay and staying safe in this somewhat crazy world of ours. Well we have been in isolation for the past 10 days as my son tested positive for Covid. I'd just received his NHS letter through too to book a vaccine jab typical really. We have been very lucky though and he only felt unwell for a few days so they were very mild symptoms indeed. So what do you do when you can't go anywhere ... you craft of course!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was having a little looksie through some of my stash and I came across an older Bildmalarna stamp and I'd forgotten just how cute they are. I coloured her up with my copics to compliment the papers which I also found amongst my stash and must be years old lol! </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D1zDFgYTZfY/YQhibvKJCgI/AAAAAAAAF78/FndtWZH7NIs_Bh4Y8YLluXJBF6XR0vLxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Bildmalarna%2BFalling%2BFlowers%2B-%2Bwatermarked%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D1zDFgYTZfY/YQhibvKJCgI/AAAAAAAAF78/FndtWZH7NIs_Bh4Y8YLluXJBF6XR0vLxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s520/Bildmalarna%2BFalling%2BFlowers%2B-%2Bwatermarked%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Image: Bildmalarna Little Winged Friends 'Falling Flowers'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Medium: copics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Papers: Making Memories 'Sydney' (old stash)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20rQQBd3ffg/YQhjHd-QGZI/AAAAAAAAF8E/BDzp3t-uDmM2eV2hNP67C588WQ2WsPHYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Bildmalarna%2BFalling%2BFlowers%2B-%2Bwatermarked%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20rQQBd3ffg/YQhjHd-QGZI/AAAAAAAAF8E/BDzp3t-uDmM2eV2hNP67C588WQ2WsPHYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s520/Bildmalarna%2BFalling%2BFlowers%2B-%2Bwatermarked%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">She really is adorable and a dream to colour. I decided to mat all the papers onto black card. I like using black card behind papers as it really makes them pop. I didn't add too much 'fussy' stuff didn't think it needed it, although I did do a little doodling around the image with a black fine liner.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUoBqUkzwO0/YQhk9BTrpRI/AAAAAAAAF8M/JBXwPKxhBF4Cn2q5_uhbN-PYmJRnRtsOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Bildmalarna%2BFalling%2BFlowers%2B-%2Bwatermarked%2B%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUoBqUkzwO0/YQhk9BTrpRI/AAAAAAAAF8M/JBXwPKxhBF4Cn2q5_uhbN-PYmJRnRtsOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s520/Bildmalarna%2BFalling%2BFlowers%2B-%2Bwatermarked%2B%25283%2529.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Copic list</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Skin: E41, E50, E53, E33, R20</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hair/Shoes: E43, E44, E47, E49</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Clothes: B60, B63, B66, B69/G40, G43, G46, G29</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Flowers: Y21, Y23, Y26, YR27, E08/B66, B69</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Okay that's all from me folks. I'm back to work tomorrow so an earlier night for me but I think I can still squeeze in a couple of hours of colouring before I go. What to ink up next though? I'm off to have a rummage through my stash.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ann-Marie</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>xxx</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br />Challenges I'm entering into</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Crafting Happiness challenges</span></a> - always anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Simon Says Stamp</span></a> - anything goes (option slimline)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Cute Card Thursday</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Allsorts</span></a> - anything goes (option roses)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-66527267574348370702021-06-19T19:04:00.002+01:002021-06-19T19:09:38.089+01:00By the light of the silvery moon<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Saturday lovely crafty peeps. It's a very quick drop in from me today as I'd like to share one of my latest cards made using Lavinia Stamps and distress inks.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As I've mentioned before I'm very new to making backgrounds and building scenes it's a complete learning curve for me not just the placement of everything but also the colour blends of the inks. I've listed under my card the inks I used to create the background and I've got to say this combination is going to be a firm favourite of mine. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So let me share my card. I've used lots of mediums on here. Obviously distress inks blended out for the background. I created the moon with a Lavinia template and then gesso and soft pastels. All of the Lavinia Stamps were stamped using Versafine Clair inks in various colours to compliment the background and out came my Sakura Stardust pens and Nova metallic markers to highlight some of the foliage images and add like little flowers. Finally, everything was flittered with a little microfine glitter especially the wings of the fairy. I'm rather pleased with my bat flying across the moon too. I don't have masses of Lavinia Stamps yet but I wanted something to be like flying across the sky/moon so I used my mini Sycamore £1 stamp, stamped it but didn't stamp out the stalk part and altered it slightly with my black fine liner pen to look like bat wings and a little head and ears and I've got to say I just love it!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_jJhjtoXyt8/YM4ns8-_pdI/AAAAAAAAF38/wMbJv_5Fl-s_HyjEELrMxD-7qCOb3ElYwCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B-%2Binto%2Bthe%2Bnight%2B-%2Bwatermarked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_jJhjtoXyt8/YM4ns8-_pdI/AAAAAAAAF38/wMbJv_5Fl-s_HyjEELrMxD-7qCOb3ElYwCPcBGAsYHg/s520/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B-%2Binto%2Bthe%2Bnight%2B-%2Bwatermarked.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Images: Grace(small), Creeping Vine, Fairy Buttercups, Lavender, Orchard Grass, Slender Mushrooms Mini, Mini Sycamore</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stamped with Versafine Claire (Nocturne and Twilight)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Background: Distress Inks (Seedless Preserve, Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Okay, so that's all from me today. I'm off to have another play around with my stamps and backgrounds. I find where I'm still learning things it can take me a little while to actually finish a card and I dither quite a bit with where to place all the stamps. I'm hoping I'll get less hesitant as I do more lol.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy crafting folks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ann-Marie</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>xxx</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Challenges</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Crafty Calendar</i></span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sweet Stampin</span></i></a> - something beginning with B (I'm going with bat and colour blue)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Fairy and the Unicorn</span></i></a> - anything Fantasy goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Cute Card Thursday</span></i></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-16019117161335861302021-05-19T09:39:00.004+01:002021-05-19T09:39:55.902+01:00Last of the sun's rays<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Wednesday lovely crafty people. I hope you are all diddling okay. It's been a tad soggy here in fact I think it's rained every day this past week, but on the upside it's perfect weather for hiding yourself away in your craft room.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I have another card to share with you guys. It's another one I've made using lots of <a href="https://laviniastamps.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lavinia Stamps</span></a>. Still out of my comfort zone as normally I just stamp and colour, but really enjoying getting inky and theres lots to learn. In my head it wasn't meant to turn out quite so bright but hey I love it all the same. The background was made using Distress Inks, Lavinia Stamps stencils and Versafine Clair inks and I just accented the sun and mountains with soft pastels. I also grabbed my Inktense pencils and added a little colour to the toadstools and fairy wings.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The beautiful fairy is 'Raven' and she has got to be one of my faves and she's just perched on the branch taking in the last of the evening sun. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MvOfNvodvGc/YKTF6u-_7qI/AAAAAAAAF1c/LYlz9z5zo-AnntvZIYByujHboHIXIki2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B%2B-%2B%2BRaven%2B%2528Watermarked%2529%25281%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MvOfNvodvGc/YKTF6u-_7qI/AAAAAAAAF1c/LYlz9z5zo-AnntvZIYByujHboHIXIki2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s520/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B%2B-%2B%2BRaven%2B%2528Watermarked%2529%25281%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stamps used:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lavinia Stamps - 'Raven', slender mushrooms mini, lavender, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">meadow mushroom, fairy toadstool.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Versafine Clair ink pads:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">nocturne, chianti</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Distress Inks:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">scattered straw, spiced marmalade, seedless preserve</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Okay so that's all from me today. I've managed to grab an unexpected day off so time to play I think.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy crafting folks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Challenges:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Crafting Happiness challenges</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Love to Craft</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Allsorts</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Creative Fingers</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-58847595625203356912021-05-10T15:10:00.001+01:002021-05-10T15:10:34.437+01:00A sprinkling of fairy dust<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Monday lovely crafty peeps, it's been a little while since I've popped on my blog to share anything. I have still been making things it just kinda gets uploaded to Instagram first and that's as far as it gets. However, this is me making a concerted effort to contribute more to my little old blog. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So let me share my latest with you. Well you know how much I love anything fairy and magical so after watching a fair few You Tube videos I finally took the plunge and ordered some Lavinia Stamps. It's a completely new direction for me what with inking my own background and making scenes and stuff. So out of my comfort zone but I had so much fun. I had a few disasters before I actually got to the finish line, but hey what a fun learning curve!</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QlOu50wBCu0/YJkw91fKuHI/AAAAAAAAFyQ/FB36VCCqENw8ClBPu-vDv2qs4xKD3LjcwCPcBGAsYHg/s1501/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B-%2BFairy%2BDust%2B%2528watermarked%2529%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="1500" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QlOu50wBCu0/YJkw91fKuHI/AAAAAAAAFyQ/FB36VCCqENw8ClBPu-vDv2qs4xKD3LjcwCPcBGAsYHg/w597-h597/Lavinia%2BStamps%2B-%2BFairy%2BDust%2B%2528watermarked%2529%25281%2529.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Okay so my background was made using Distress Inks and I used a Lavinia Stamp mask to create the moon with gesso and soft pastels. I dug out my Inktense pencils to add a little colour to some of the stamps especially the beautifully tree 'Druids Inn'. All of the stamps used to create the scene are Lavinia Stamps and I've stamped using a range of Versafine Clair ink pads. I used a touch of soft pastels here and there where I wanted a little more depth such as on the mushrooms and the door in the tree and as finishing touch I used some metallic markers to make all of the little tiny flowers as it needed something and I didn't want to add any more stamping. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I must say I'm quite pleased with the outcome. Considering I didn't really know what I was doing I just went with it I'm quite surprised I had something worth photographing. After matting it on complimenting cardstock and I have one finished fairy card which will probably makes it way to my mum for her birthday.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">That's all from my crafty cubbyhole for today which incidentally is a complete mess after making this so let the clean up operation begin!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Take care folks and I promise to not leave it so long next time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Lil Patch of Crafty Friends</span></i></a> - always anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Allsorts</span></i></a> - create a landscape or scene</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Sweet Stampin</span></i></a> - things with wings</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Fairy and the Unicorn</span></i></a> - anything fantasy goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Creatalicious challenges</span></i></a> - anything goes (option of 'things with wings')</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge</span></i></a> - feminine</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> . <p></p><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-71585868522877792022020-09-13T16:58:00.005+01:002020-09-13T16:58:58.516+01:00Winnie Christmas Wreath<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Hello crafty peeps. It's been a bit of an odd week in our household. My daughter returned to school and my son has now left. It was hard seeing her go but it needed to happen. She was so excited to see all her friends again it was lovely to hear about everything when she got in from her day. The school, to be fair, have done an excellent job in trying to get 1800 pupils back into education and it's going to be a learning curve in these strange times so I think we'll just take each day as it comes.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So, how have you all been? I've noticed a fresh crispness to the air first thing in the morning now and the leaves are just starting to turn so looks like Autumn is just around the corner. This pleases me greatly as it's my favourite season. I spent a day switching up all my planters on my decking and front garden with flowers in beautiful autumnal colours and it's lovely to sit on the decking of an evening and watch my solar lights slowly come on one by one and light up the flowers, so pretty.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Anyway, I digress lol. I'm actually popping in today to share my latest DT make for <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge</span></a>. Our theme for the team this week was 'Christmas' but for all you lovely peeps wanting to join in with us you can share anything you like it doesn't have to be Christmas related or even Polkadoodles goodies for that matter. You can share anything with us and we'd love to have you join us and be in with a chance of winning some goodies.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Well, for my make I decided to ink up Winnie Christmas Wreath. I stamped and coloured her with my copics to match the beautiful LDRS 'Country Christmas' papers. I used a little Frantage around the edges of the die cut oval. I love this stuff and I really should use it more. I didn't really want to crowd my card with too much so opted for a simple bow and a couple of poinsettias. I just love these poinsettia dies too. They cut and layer up beautifully and I love how delicate they look.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_dx4K8PGTec/X143MS5Ll1I/AAAAAAAAFok/bIErTP_7iOoCPGEzoXLeR0vRY8MuhQmagCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/11-Sep-PD-Ann-Marie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_dx4K8PGTec/X143MS5Ll1I/AAAAAAAAFok/bIErTP_7iOoCPGEzoXLeR0vRY8MuhQmagCPcBGAsYHg/w500-h500/11-Sep-PD-Ann-Marie.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Image: Polkadoodles <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-christmas-wreath/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">'Winnie Christmas Wreath</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Medium: Copics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Papers: LDRS 'Country Christmas'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dies: Polkadoodles <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/poinsettia-lace-craft-cutting-die/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">'Poinsettia Lace'</span></a> die set</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ribbon and pearls from stash</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BExUFrrm4mc/X145fIWTW9I/AAAAAAAAFo0/_x0EhTolIAEoQ-EKUW3JsZkKUBHtqrQ-wCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B11th%2BSept%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2Bwatermarked%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BExUFrrm4mc/X145fIWTW9I/AAAAAAAAFo0/_x0EhTolIAEoQ-EKUW3JsZkKUBHtqrQ-wCPcBGAsYHg/w500-h500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B11th%2BSept%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2Bwatermarked%25282%2529.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My usual close up of Winnie. She's so sweet isn't she and what struck me when I got her is it's a real decent size stamp to work with and you get a little separate robin stamp in the set too, although I haven't used it on my card.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YYr-YFIkO1o/X1467A1IieI/AAAAAAAAFpA/9V7WLDSDXQsqpe58GoE_OG8V7glKNVkIQCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B1th%2BSept%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YYr-YFIkO1o/X1467A1IieI/AAAAAAAAFpA/9V7WLDSDXQsqpe58GoE_OG8V7glKNVkIQCPcBGAsYHg/w500-h500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B1th%2BSept%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25283%2529.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Okay so that's all from me today. I better dash as I've got school uniform and stuff to get ready for tomorrow. I guess that's one thing I didn't miss ... getting the lunch boxes ready and ironing school uniform lol!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Take care folks and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Challenges</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Allsorts</span></a> - incorporate things you love (for me that's my favourite colour red, absolutely anything Christmas, my favourite colouring medium copics)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jingle Belles</span></a> - Baby it's GOLD outside</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Krafty Chicks challenge #524</span></a> - Christmas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-91119015062363997812020-09-02T15:55:00.003+01:002020-09-02T17:46:26.844+01:00It's a Magnolia Christmas kind of day<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Happy Wednesday lovely crafty peeps. I'm popping in today to share a little something festive. I've made my first Christmas card of the year and again I seem to be very late to the Crimbo party as everyone's been making festive goodies for a little while, but hey I'm here now and that means that all my Christmas crafting goodies won't stray far from my desk now that I've made a start lol.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So as the title suggests I have something Tilda related to show you. I have the pleasure of being a guest designer over on the fab <a href="https://forevermagnolia.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Magnolia Forever blog</span></a> for this month's challenge and the theme we were given to work with was black and white and this is what I came up with.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k0pzfbrfaPE/X07Gm5wTEHI/AAAAAAAAFl4/pgY2RtYLyYEigK_xXp3KPQaLaP8w3kNaQCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Magnolia%2BTilda%2Bguest%2Bspot%2B%2B-%2B%2B1st%2BSept%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bpersonal%2Bwatermark%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k0pzfbrfaPE/X07Gm5wTEHI/AAAAAAAAFl4/pgY2RtYLyYEigK_xXp3KPQaLaP8w3kNaQCPcBGAsYHg/s640/Magnolia%2BTilda%2Bguest%2Bspot%2B%2B-%2B%2B1st%2BSept%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bpersonal%2Bwatermark%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Image: Magnolia Tilda 'it's cold outside'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Medium: copics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So the card itself is made from acetate and I've just layered up some embossed white card which I've roughly torn to look like hills/snowdrifts and stuck it to the front as foreground snow and then did the same for the inside but placed them higher up the acetate to look like snow in the background. All the die cuts are in black for contrast and Tilda is coloured in copics in shades of grey to compliment it all, cut out and 3d'd on the front. To finish I die cut some snowflakes and added little black gems in the centre and then dotted some liquid pearls around to fill in some of the gaps to make it look like it was snowing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I really enjoyed making this card. It was actually quite simple to do but very effective I think.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Okay so that's all from me today. I'm off to colour some new stamps that fell through my letterbox yesterday and hopefully I'll be back shortly to share them with you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Take care and happy crafting folks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Ann-Marie</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>xxx</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><u>Challenges I would like to enter:-</u></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Holly and the Ivy Christmas challenge</span></a> - anything Christmas goes</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Love to Craft #50</span></a> - anything goes</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Merry Little Christmas challenge #26</span></a> - anything goes</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://crimbo-crackers.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Crimbo Crackers</span></a> - anything goes</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Simon Says Stamp</span></a> - Stamp it</i></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-41718543119727482962020-08-29T19:14:00.001+01:002020-08-29T19:14:27.691+01:00It's all about the paper!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Hello lovely crafty peeps. How are you all? We're all good here. We've had the school uniform marathon buying session this week. What a nightmare that was but I think we're almost there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So I'm popping in today to share my DT make for the new <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles Craft challenge</span></a>. The DT were tasked with making a shaped card this week and I went with something I've been seeing around blogland lately and have been wanting to have a go at for a little while. I decided to try my hand at a 'hat' shaped easel card and decided not to use an image this time on my make. Instead I focused on some really pretty papers from Polkadoodles and actually it was nice to be able to showcase them as normally I end up covering the majority of them up with layers and embellishments. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SYzSzkqWuK8/X0qL2-RvbxI/AAAAAAAAFks/avASFM-FmK82vX6V4uNjVwA9B1gBK9QsgCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B28th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1499" data-original-width="1500" height="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SYzSzkqWuK8/X0qL2-RvbxI/AAAAAAAAFks/avASFM-FmK82vX6V4uNjVwA9B1gBK9QsgCPcBGAsYHg/w512-h512/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B28th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25281%2529.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Papers: Polkadoodles <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-celebrations-2-papers-1-digital-download/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">'Winnie Celebrations Papers 1'</span></a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">printed on to <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/ultimate-graphic-160gsm-paper-pack-50-sheets/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Ultimate Graphic Paper</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sentiment: Polkadoodles <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-celebrations-3-sentiments-digi-kit-download/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">'Winnie Celebrations 3' sentiments</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dies: Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities 'Stately Circles'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Magnolia label die</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ribbon and flowers from stash</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8BZLfqWv_BU/X0qO8UWFWUI/AAAAAAAAFk4/wO5vMZeG9a06wq_6uPutZrBD7wVVtgsxACPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B28th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8BZLfqWv_BU/X0qO8UWFWUI/AAAAAAAAFk4/wO5vMZeG9a06wq_6uPutZrBD7wVVtgsxACPcBGAsYHg/s640/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B28th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LAzbvGkXLiU/X0qPfEHjHgI/AAAAAAAAFlA/rynTK2iM4jcWhCoPYa5UecjvE-A-9_jTACPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B28th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LAzbvGkXLiU/X0qPfEHjHgI/AAAAAAAAFlA/rynTK2iM4jcWhCoPYa5UecjvE-A-9_jTACPcBGAsYHg/s640/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B28th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25283%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Okay so that is all from me today. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and get to do a little something that makes you happy as life is far to short not to!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Take care and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ann-Marie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><u>Challenges I would like to enter:-</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Creative Knockouts</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Simon Says Stamp</span></a> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/">Creative Fingers</a> #191</span> - anything goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-21175660116915677732020-08-14T20:00:00.002+01:002020-08-14T20:01:46.855+01:00Polkadoodles Summer Fun<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Good morning lovely crafty friends. I've woken up to a rather dull Friday but hey at least it's a little cooler than it has been so I'm a happy bunny. Roll on Autumn I say!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">So with it being Friday we have a fresh challenge up over on the <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles Craft</span></a> challenge blog and I'm popping in to share my DT make. The team were challenged with 'summer fun' and citrus colours this week but for all you lovely peeps it's as always an 'anything goes' theme. Well I had a little think and a looksie around my images and decided to colour up Winnie 'Stepping Stones' as she reminds me of when I was a child playing in the stream in summer ... oh I had such fun I'd spend hours down there with my friends. Anyway, she's been coloured up with copics and I added a touch of my white gel pen to give her a spotty hat.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YDmvO6uYfww/XzY2YavHWSI/AAAAAAAAFic/eTkeVEEXkjUe2zdCMKueejKcmYW8AFXKgCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25281%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="570" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YDmvO6uYfww/XzY2YavHWSI/AAAAAAAAFic/eTkeVEEXkjUe2zdCMKueejKcmYW8AFXKgCPcBGAsYHg/w625-h625/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25281%2529.JPG" width="570" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Image: Polkadoodles <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-stepping-stones-winnie-special-moments-craft-digi-download/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Winnie 'stepping stones'</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Medium: copics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Papers: Polkadoodles <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/tropical-sorbet-digi-scrap-craft-download/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">'tropical sorbet'</span></a> printed on to <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/ultimate-graphic-160gsm-paper-pack-50-sheets/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Ultimate Graphic paper</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Flowers and dragonfly from 'tropical sorbet' collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">I decided to matt all the papers onto black cardstock as I love how it makes all the colours pop. I wanted a flower in the corner but didn't want it flat so printed it three times and layered it up.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ATjxjN_kt9w/XzY36H7HecI/AAAAAAAAFio/7O6w-AGSFbYmBNgp3ZuxnxqjY67w24oyQCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="570" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ATjxjN_kt9w/XzY36H7HecI/AAAAAAAAFio/7O6w-AGSFbYmBNgp3ZuxnxqjY67w24oyQCPcBGAsYHg/s640/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--G_KLej0GcM/XzY4bafD9CI/AAAAAAAAFiw/ZG_1eRAg26EK9oZT-w4DCJt0bcgHKAHnACPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25283%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="570" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--G_KLej0GcM/XzY4bafD9CI/AAAAAAAAFiw/ZG_1eRAg26EK9oZT-w4DCJt0bcgHKAHnACPcBGAsYHg/s640/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25283%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Okay so my last piccie is my usual close up of sweet Winnie and I am really pleased with how she turned out. I used my RV copics with a touch of BV for shadow and extra depth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KtYeVfbzDvY/XzY5kb1BKQI/AAAAAAAAFi8/jKZNxugzJksumkt89jFPuXsqmanOLuVsQCPcBGAsYHg/s1500/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25284%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="570" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KtYeVfbzDvY/XzY5kb1BKQI/AAAAAAAAFi8/jKZNxugzJksumkt89jFPuXsqmanOLuVsQCPcBGAsYHg/s640/Polkadoodles%2B%2B-%2B%2B14th%2BAugust%2Bpost%2B%2B-%2B%2Bwatermarked%25284%2529.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>copic list</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Skin: E41, E50, E53, E33, R20</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hair: E41, E43, E44, E47</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Clothes: RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29/Y35, Y38, YR16, YR68 + BV23, BV25 for shadow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Grass: YG11, YG13, YG17, G28</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stream: BG0000, BG000, BG01, BG07/C1, C3, C5</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Okay so that's all from me today folks. I'm off to work now unfortunately so no crafting for me until later on this evening.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Take care and happy crafting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i>Ann-Marie</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i>xxx</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><u>Challenges I would like to enter:-</u></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Cute Card Thursday</span></a> - bright colours</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Crafty Gals Corner #210</span></a> - summer fun</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Creative Moments #196</span></a> - anything goes (optional citrus colours)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://sweetstamperschallenge.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sweet Stampers</span></a> - outdoor fun</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Creative Inspirations</span></a> - summer fun</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-61868683633887327312020-08-01T10:23:00.001+01:002020-08-01T10:23:36.820+01:00Little Rocco in shades of grey<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well happy weekend lovely crafty people. I hope you have had a good week and are ready to craft it up at the weekend. We are all good here ... I think lol! No seriously we are good I'm doing the usual chasing my tail kinda thing but hey that seems to be the norm around here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, there is a new <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles Craft</span></a> challenge up over on the blog and I'm here to share with you my DT card. The team were challenged this week to come up with a card in shades of grey with one coloured paper so here's my take on that. However, for all you lovely craft folk the theme is as always 'anything goes', so why not pop over and share what you've been working we'd love for you to join us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I printed off little Rocco and coloured him in cool grey copics and my pop of colour is this beautiful paper which I printed off onto Ultimate Graphic paper. For something a little different I used the spray die (sorry I don't know it's name) and cut into the edge of the card. To tie everything together I coloured his flower to match the papers and popped a couple of gems on the edge and flower and I think it worked.</span></div>
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<br />Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-4909010218982951812020-07-23T09:23:00.000+01:002020-07-23T09:23:12.012+01:00A little Maggie for a change<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Thursday peeps. I'm popping in to my little old blog this morning before I go to work to share this recently finished card of mine. I do so love my Magnolia's but don't seem to ink them up as often as I should so when I was having a little rummage through my stamp collections and came across this little beauty I put that right. The image is two older stamps which I masked together before colouring with copics. I am actually really pleased with how it turned out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went with a slightly larger size card base than normal and a different shape for a change. Again whilst I was having a rummage through my craft stash I came across an old GCD Studios paper pad. I remember I loved this pad so much that I was very frugal with how much I used of it. Silly now when I think about it as it's a few years down the line and it's just been sat there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dies: card base Go Create XXL dies, Whimsy Stamps 'Poppy' flower die (just used the leaf die), Whimsy Stamps 'Honeycomb Pattern' die, Magnolia 'Dream Tag' die for the stopper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you can see I went with an easel card design. I like the fact you can get to show off more of your beautiful papers this way as I find sometimes they all get covered up on the main section with all the layers and embellishments. Everything was inked to within an inch of it's life lol. I had a bit of a meltdown when I went to use my good old faithful Tim Holtz 'Walnut Stain' distress ink as it had come to the end of it's life. Panic set in as that is my 'go to' for distressing the edges but no fear I found I had a Frayed Burlap which has done the job just as well. I've decided my ink pad stash is sadly lacking so I shall be doing some browsing later to see what I can find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay so that's all from me today. I'm off to work for a few hours now but hopefully when I get back I shall be settling down for a little colouring session. Part of me so wants to get cracking on my Christmas cards as I've seen so many people already making theirs, but in the craft room makeover mayhem I've pack all of it away in boxes and I'm not sure I feel like trying to find everything. I don't know we'll see later I suppose depends how work goes lol!</span></div>
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Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-77573231090518043652020-07-17T08:00:00.000+01:002020-07-17T17:49:11.685+01:00It's a pearly girly Mermaizing post today<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello lovely crafty peeps. Jeez aren't the days just whizzing by lately and it's Friday already and time for a new Polkadoodles Crafting challenge. I managed to get my card done by the skin of my teeth this week. What with work, visitors now that most people are out and about and sods law determines they all decide to descend in the same week, hubby deciding to decorate our son's room as well as me trying to pack up my craft room, well I'm amazed I managed to sneak it in in time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the DT this time were challenged with creating an 'Under the Sea' themed project in colours of blue/green and one pop of colour. Well I decided to go down the mermaid route and this is what I came up with. I don't normally colour up mermaids as I always think they're going to be difficult to do I don't know why perhaps it's the tail that I find daunting, daft I know. However, I really enjoyed colouring up this sweet little Polkadoodles Meribelle and I am very pleased with how she turned out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had this idea in my head that I wanted a shaped card so went with the obvious 'shell' design which I hand cut from pearlised cardstock and then decided to edge it with pretty pearls. I didn't want to cover it all up with lots of papers so I just used one design and added the digi image to it and printed it off before then colouring her in and die-cutting an oval which again was edged with pearls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A little close up next of Meribelle. I added some micro fine glitter to her tail but not sure you can pick it up in the photo and I got out my Sakura white gel pen and just added some little accents to her hair. I had an idea to add some little dots down the side of her face and body as I just thought her being a mermaid and all why not. Not so sure I like it now but hey it's done so it's too late now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's been a bit of a mad week here. I managed to have a little accident and fell down the stairs. Luckily it wasn't the full flight just the lower half but I did happen to go head first (never do things by halves me!) and all I can say is if it wasn't for the cupboard at the bottom breaking my fall I'm pretty sure I would be in a worse state. I am sporting some lovely coloured bruises and very sore muscles but I am in one piece even if it did take them 6 odd hours, x-rays and a CT scan to decide this lol. The funny thing is, and I do chuckle when I think about it now, was we had already been to A & E that day with our daughter. She'd fallen off her penny board and hurt her wrist but luckily she hadn't broken anything either she's just sporting a nice wrist support. I do believe someone must have been watching over us that day and I am very grateful for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well happy Friday folks I hope you are all doing okay. What have you been making since my last post? I have been a little slow on the creative side this past week. Operation 'craft room makeover' is still underway. What with work and wanting to sit and actually colour the packing away of my stash is proving to be a slow process. I have actually packed up in boxes all my Christmas craft bits as I figured I will have a month or two before I make a start on all the Crimbo madness, so that's something I suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, I did manage to get finished my DT make for this weeks new <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles</span></a> </span>challenge. The challenge for the DT this week was 'my hero' and the romantic in me thought immediately about the beautiful 'Rose Budd' collection with all those period style backgrounds and images. I didn't want to just print and colour an image I wanted to make a little scene so I used one of the many background choices and added in a couple of the characters. Then a light bulb moment happened and thought I wanted to bring it to life a little more. Yes I could have just coloured them up and it would have been fine but I wanted to add some depth to my card. So I thought I would do a little 3d decoupage. I haven't used this technique in such a long time and I admit it can be a little time consuming but so worth it in the end when you see the effect it gives. I've tried to take a few photos to show you the result. Sadly I'm no photographer but I hope you get the gist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay so I'm going to share a few closer shots so hopefully you can see the layers. I must have printed off at least 7 layers of each image. I think I may have a go with another image but take process photos and then you can see how I did it. I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of it when doing this card but it's too late now so I'll have to do it again.</span></div>
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<br />Ann-Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13290882007446537951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908347376040711501.post-17503881064409042542020-06-05T12:49:00.000+01:002020-06-05T12:49:04.370+01:00Winnie in Wonderland<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Friday lovely people. I hope you are all doing okay. All is good in my neck of the woods. I am quite excited this weekend as operation 'craft room' is a go. My room used to be our old kitchen before we moved it so at present it still has part walls of tiles and a couple of old kitchen units so a right mess really but it was mine and I made it work. Well during lockdown hubster decided it would make a nice project and I'm not one to argue with that. So this weekend will see me begin to pack everything up into boxes and I will be relocating to the kitchen table for a little while. Now this is going to drive me insane I know crafting out of boxes and having to clear it all away each day so we can use the table, but I'm keeping my sights on the end goal which will be a lovely clean and tidy room (I say 'tidy' very loosely as I'm not a tidy crafter lol).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, I digress. What I actually popped in for was to share with you my <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles</span></a> DT make. As it's Friday there is a new challenge up on the blog <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> and the team were asked to make something that involved quarters. Well I've been wanting to play properly with the Winnie in Wonderland kit for a little while as I must say I'm rather taken with it. I think it's all the rich colours in it. Anyway, I settled on colouring up Winnie 'Red Queen' and then for the 'quarters' part of my card I printed off a design sheet and cut out four playing cards. In fact the whole of my card apart from the image has been made from the one design sheet which I think is rather cool myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Good morning lovely people on this not so nice Friday morning. Where has the sun gone? I certainly won't be hanging any washing out today and it actually feels a tad thundery so I shall be hiding later too lol!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well I hope you are all doing okay in these strange times. I say strange don't you find that sadly it now feels like the norm to actually keep your distance from everyone I don't really think about it now I just automatically move. One thing I do know for sure though is I'm certainly missing my 'Costa'. First on my agenda when they figure out safe opening is a Chai latte or three lol. I'll be beating down that door with my inky glittery fingers to get me some spicy goodness!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello crafty friends how are you all doing. I appear to have lost a few days this week. I mean I have not been to work since Wednesday and it has completely thrown me I don't know whether I'm coming or going …. today is Sunday right?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, on Friday I was meant to post my <a href="https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles</span> <span style="color: red;">Challenge</span></a> dt make for the new challenge this week, but hey in my defence I spent all day Friday thinking it was Thursday so I'm just catching up now lol!! So as normal it is an 'anything goes' theme over on the challenge blog so real easy to enter and we don't have many rules you don't even have to use a Polkadoodles image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So for my make I used one of the keyworker images from Nikky's 'heroes' set. Have you seen this set yet? There's a mix of images to colour up and some are even already coloured if you're short on time or maybe not confident with your colouring and the best bit … it's free … yep F R E E isn't that lovely of Nikky. Here's what my card turned out like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A little closer view of the image and sentiment. I decided I would colour her top in to match the rainbow paper. I didn't trust my judgement so lightly pencilled in some lines first to make sure they were sort of evenly spaced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Monday folks. Just a little pop in from me to spread a little <a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">Polkadoodles</span></a> sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a card to share I've made using the image 'cutest' and some very pretty papers all from the new Polkadoodles Sunshine Delights collection. Have you seen the collection yet? Oh my it's adorable. I love Winnie anyway but these are oh so cute. Do I have a favourite? Well I would have said 'happy days' until I coloured up 'shopping bliss' and well now I've just given up trying to choose lol!! So let me introduce you to 'cutest' and what a very apt name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">printed on to </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/ultimate-graphic-160gsm-paper-pack-50-sheets/"><span style="color: magenta;">Ultimate </span><span style="color: magenta;">Graphic paper</span></a></span></div>
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