Let your dreams take flight

Good evening my lovelies.  A bit of a late pop in from me but it's just been one of those days .. you know the sort where you've been busy but nothing actually got done kinda day .. yes one of those and don't you just hate them .. well I do with a passion.  Hubby was home today the first Saturday in at least a month where he's not had to work and I thought hey that will be kinda nice - yes until that was he had a great idea he was going to tidy and rearrange his garage.  Somehow, not quite sure how, but I seem to now have a conservatory full of 'toot' that was obviously in the garage for a reason and he's decided he doesn't want it in there so I feel a tip run coming on big time!

Anyway, I digress, what I'm really popping in for is not to share my moans with you all but to share my latest creation with you.  I was asked by a dear friend if I would make her a card for her to give to her daughter after her proms and exams have all finished.  My only remit was to have an image of a dress to resemble her prom dress and the colour minty green but with a turquoise hint to it to match her outfit and her hair to be strawberry blonde.  Of course my first port of call was Saturated Canary as I knew I would find an image for what I needed from Krista's amazing collection and I settled on 'Bubbles' who I think is perfect.  She has as normal been coloured with copics.  I was lucky enough to have in my collection the gorgeous Melissa Frances '5th Avenue' paper pad which complimented the image perfectly.  I decided to distress things up a little and roughed up the edges of the papers and inked them up with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  In fact I went a little bit ink crazy and distressed quite a lot buy hey I like the outcome so no worries.

Image:  'Bubbles' Saturated Canary

Medium:  copics

Papers:  Melissa Frances '5th Avenue'

Sentiments:  Whimsy Stamps ''Fluttering By' stamp set, LOTV sentiment tags 'set 24'

Dies:  Whimsy Stamps 'Dragonfly' border die, Whimsy Stamps 'Butterfly Frame' die, Die-namics 'Faux Crochet' border die, Spellbinders Nestabilities 'Romantic Rectangles', Magnolia Doohickey 'So wrapped lovely' tag die, Magnolia Doohickey 'Dragonfly' die set

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts 

Another piccie to show the pull out tag made using an older Magnolia Doohickey die.

My last piccie shows the adorable Saturated Canary digi image.  She was a dream to colour and that hair is so gorgeous and beautiful to colour.  

Copic List

Face/Body:  E000, E11, E13

Hair:  E50, E53, YR23

Hazel Eyes:  YG91, BG93, bG96

Dress:  BG11, BG13, C3/C1, C2, C3

Challenges:-

Bunny Zoes Crafts  -  lovely layers

Crafty Ribbons  -  ribbon and lace

The Ribbon Girl  -  May 'any image' challenge

Stamping Sensations  -  anything goes

Okay that's all from me this evening.  It's late and I really should climb the wooden hill to bed but I bought a couple of digis in the week and I haven't had chance to play with them yet so my fingers are itching to colour so maybe I'll just have a very quick play honest!!

Take care folks and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xxx

Whimsy Stamps - Circle of Friends - hop for Bev

 

Hi everyone and welcome to our Circle of Friends blog hop especially for our dear DT member and friend Bev Rochester
 

Unfortunately, Bev has had to take a little break from crafting over the past few months due to ill health.  We are missing her here at Whimsy and want to let her know that we are thinking about her and wishing her a speedy recovery.   Even though the Whimsy family is scattered all around the world, we have come together as a circle of friends to show Bev our love and support by each making her a card.   Although this hop is for Bev, we do hope you will hop along with us to support our wonderful teammate and friend. 

If you arrived here from Deb Routledge, then you are in the right place! If you’ve happened upon this post by chance and would like to hop with us, hop on over to the Whimsy Stamps blog to begin the hop.

Okay for my creation, I decided to ink up 'Suzi with Bunny' by Wee Stamps and used Whimsy papers again this time 'In the Country'.  She's been coloured with copics and a few little gems added to the flowers.  I've been a bit handy with the old walnut stain distress ink again on all the papers and the flowers have even had a touch of distress crackle paint!  So let me show you my card:

Image:  'Suzi with Bunny' by Wee Stamps for Whimsy

Medium:  Copics

Papers:  'In the Country' by Michele Roos for Whimsy

 

Copics/Promarkers List

 

Face/Body:  E000, E00, E21, R20, R81

Hair:  Caramel PM, Cocoa PM, Walnut PM

Clothes:  R20, R22, R27/E41, E43/BG93, BG96, W7(for shadow)

Bunny:  E31, E33, E35

 

When I began crafting and blogging a couple of years ago I happened across Bev's blog and I have been a bit of a blog stalker ever since.  Everyday after the school run I would sit down with my cup of coffee and her blog was my first port of call - I had to have my fix of crafty inspiration!!!  The sentiment I decided to use on my card and is on the Doohickey heart tag tucked behind the image (which I stupidly didn't take a picture of) reads "you brighten my day", so what I wanted to say is this is for you Bev to 'brighten your day' as your gorgeous creations have mine so many times and to send hugs and best wishes your way for a speedy recovery as I'm missing my daily dose of inspiration!!!!

 

Okay enough from me its now time for you to hop over to ... Heidy Blom.

 

Finally, here is a full hop list in hopping order:

Whimsy Stamps blog
Simonne Clay
Jacque Beddingfield
Kathy Tanner
Debbie Eastman
Louise Roache
Deb Routledge
Ann-Marie Sinfield (ME)
Heidy Blom
Iris Wiechmann
Shelby Thomas
Melissa Andrew
Patricia Garcia
Shannah Bartle
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Denise Lynn
 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

 

Take care,

Ann-Marie

xxx

Shabby or is it vintage .......

... I never really know - is it one and the same or are they both different? 

 

Anyway, hello everyone and a happy Tuesday to you all.  The countdown has begun - only two weeks and two days until the kiddies summer holidays and I can't wait (you can remind me of this on the fourth week into the hols when I'm pulling my hair out!!!).  So we have a very busy couple of weeks coming up what with leavers assemblies and bbq's, discos, summer fairs and classroom meets where you get to go in and see all their lovely work.  They always seem to cram it in last minute so I have so many dates running around my head I'm not sure whether I'm coming or going.

 

Okay, enough of my ramblings lets move on to my card.  I thought I'd stamp up a Tilda and she's been coloured using a mixture of copics and promarkers.  I thought I would do a 'shabby' card this time so I stamped her in Memento 'London fog'.  I also followed the sketch over at CLP challenge but I've managed to cover up quite a lot of it with all the embellies but go check it out if you're like me and love a good sketch its certainly one of the places to head over to. 

 

Image:  Magnolia Tilda with Umbrella

Medium:  copics/promarkers

Paper:  Melissa Frances 'c'est la vie'

Flowers:  large daisy/dahlia & beaded Gypsophalia from The Ribbon Girl, roses and cherry blossoms from WOC

Dies:  Spellbinders 'fleur de lis rectangles', Memory Box 'fushia sprig', Dienamics 'crochet border'

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Ribbon:  pearl rose ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, other ribbon from stash

 

A bit of a side view up next where you can see that gorgeous daisy.  The corner and frame with the sentiment I made myself out of Martha Stewart polymer clay and silicone moulds.

 

 A closer look at Tilda and the Martha Stewart frame.  I bought a kit a month or so back (I think it was the 'heirloom' kit) where I got a few silicone moulds and some clay and seriously its lovely to work with its so tactile you can't help but play.  I've never used polymer clay before but I'm seriously thinking of getting a few more moulds just love it!. 

Copics/Promarkers used

 

Face:  E000, E00, E11, R20, R81

Trousers/Umbrella:  V91, V95, V99

Shoes/Hair:  E70, E71, E77

Blouse:  Promarker Tea Green, Grey Green + BG72 copic

 

Challenges I would like to enter

 

My Mum's Craft Shop  -  just for girls

 

Allsorts  -  favourite things

 

Sweet Stampin  -  butterflies and bows

 

Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia  -  flower power

 

Magnolia Down Under  -  shabby

 

Simply Magnolia  -  vintage with pearls

 

The Ribbon Girl  -  add a bow

 

A Little Bit Crafty  -  'die-ing' for it

 

CLP challenge  -  fab sketch

 

Hobby House  -  vintage

 

Right that's all from me today best get a shift on with dinner I think.  We're going to fire up the bbq tonight so that's flash grilling and burnt sausages for tea then folks - no seriously I don't bbq that often but how difficult can it be right?!?!

 

Take care and catch up with you soon.

 

Ann-Marie

xxx

 

 

 

 

Forgotten Sugar!!

Hi guys, I've been away a little longer than I planned but we've managed to catch every bug going around the school and you know kiddies they love to share so we've all had something in one form or another.  

I've been trying to complete this card for a good week and a half at least!  Anyway, here it is and I wanted to do an easel card/box as I haven't done one for a long time.  I was going through my stamps and came across this little forgottren treasure from Sugar Nellie.  She's so sweet and easy to colour.  I've used copics and prisma pencils and the papers are my all time fave GCD studios 'Ella Blue'.  Not sure you can see very well but I have had a go at distressing the papers both with my scissors and then going over with distress ink.  There were a couple of challenges around (well there were when I started it!!) that wanted Vintage/Shabby Chic.  Well I love shabby chic/vintage but I can never quite get that 'shabby' look but I tried and I do think it came out more 'vintage' than anything but I quite like it and for once I'm quite happy with the end result.

I used flowers from WOC and the others were made using a Magnolia Doily Flowers die which I absolutely love. 

The sentiment is from Whimsy, the butterflies are a really old punch I can't even remember where I got it from.

I would like to enter into a few challenges:-

Bunny Zoes  -  Shabby Chic/Vintage

Simon Says Stamp  -  Anything goes

Wild Orchid Crafts  -  BINGO (gems,flowers,ribbon)

Okay I've gotta dash now, its an early tea today for us all as we have parents evening for Emilie, my youngest, at 6.10 p.m. and then Luke, the eldest, has a school disco at 6.30 p.m.  All I can say is thank god that the two schools are next to each other otherwise that would be fun trying to get to both!!!

Take care folks, catch up with you soon.

Ann-Marie

xxx