Crafty Sentiments August new release week - Day 2

Good morning my lovelies and I hope you are all in fine spirits.  We have another soggy day here today and after such a beautiful and warm day yesterday too.  Seriously you can get whiplash from our good old British weather you never really know quite what you're going to wake up to!

So anyway I've popped in today as it's Crafty Sentiments Designs August new release week yay and it's a digi release this time too so instant gratification even better!!

So it's day 2 and my turn to share with you a little something and I got to play with the gorgeous 'My Little Helper'.  The theme this time is Christmas so I've actually made my first Christmas project of the year.  I saw when I was browsing a little while ago a gift card holder idea (can't remember where unfortunately) but I thought I'd have a little go at one.  These are going to be so useful for giving gift cards so I will be making a few this year I can tell you.

Image:  'My Christmas Helper' by Crafty Sentiments Designs

Medium:  copics

Papers:  First Edition 'Nordic Christmas'

Crafters Companion Kraft Card, Neenah 'Desert Storm' kraft colouring card

Ribbon, twine and bells from stash

As you can see the beauty of having a digi is you can resize it.  So here I've got it printed out quite large for the inside and then I made it really small and printed it out on the tag to.

Lastly my usual close up of the image.  I decided to use colour on kraft this time which is a first for me with copics but I love the outcome.

copics

Face/body:  E000, E11, E00, E13

Clothes:  R14, R17, R29, W7/G24, G94, G99, W7/BG72, BG75

Hair:  E41, E43, E47, E49

Okay that's all from me today folks.  Don't forget the release is happening all week so pop over to the Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspirational blog for some lovely projects from my team mates and remember this release is digi so no waiting the images are available in the store now!!!

Take care and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie 

xx

Challenges I would like to enter:-

ABC Christmas challenge  -  P, Q, R  - I've gone for People and Red

Creative Inspirations  -  anything goes

Cute Card Thursday  -  anything goes

Christmas at Sweet Stampin  -  anything Christmas goes

Winter Wonderland  -  use a digi

A little pully wagon

Hello my lovelies just dropping by to share with you all a little creation I made for my Dies to Die for DT.  I've been trying to get this finished since Monday, but as its half term we've had a few visitors and family over so I kept getting interrupted but I got there in the end!

When I saw this little Candibean stamp 'Penny's Pully Wagon' my first thought was gosh she's a cutie patootie and then I thought hey I could make a little wagon and it would be great to hold a little birthday gift.  So that's what I did and I had so much fun and a little heads up - she's on sale too over at the Dies to Die for shop.  

Once I'd made the basic wagon I decorated it with these gorgeous Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics 1909 papers - which are seriously lush folks and took a lot of will power to cut into I can tell you!  Anyway, all the edges were distressed with walnut stain and then I added the image and decorated with flowers and fab sentiment which I think is perfect for a little girl.  Piccies coming up next:-

Image:  Candibean 'Penny's Pully Wagon'

Sentiment:  Whimsy 'Fairytale Dreams'

Papers:  Maja Design 'Vintage Summer Basics 1909'

Dies:  Whimsy Crown

Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink pad

Tim Holtz 'Walnut Stain' Distress Ink

Copics/Promarkers used

Face/Body:  E000, E00, E11, R20, R81

Hair:  E50, E53, E57, E29

Clothes:  W1, W3, W5, W7/Promarker Pale Pink, Dusky Rose

Okay time for me to be off but I'm hoping to be able to do a little visiting around blogland later so catch up with you soon folks.  

Take care, 

Ann-Marie

xxx