Tuesday 30 August 2011

Juniper and Dusk

Hi! Jane here to show you my latest makes using some of Crafts and Me's stunning digi images! The first one you may have already seen on the challenge blog for the current challenge which is lace. I used the gorgeous Dusk to create a spring wall plaque as she was perfect for a springtime look with those cute little bunny rabbits!
For my second card I've used the stunning new image, Juniper and created a vintage look by colouring in black and white and using the cracked glass technique over the image.
I took one look at her and thought she'd look fabulous in black and white as though she was an old Victorian print or something and I'm thrilled with how she turned out!
I used distress ink before giving the whole image a cracked glass effect with UTEE available in the store. Once I had the cracked glass effect I inked over it with distress ink available HERE. This gives such a fabulous aged effect as not only does it work into the cracks but in larger cracks it also seeps down into the cardstock to give brown spots which to me look similar to when a mirror is very old and the foiling is coming away from the glass. I was especially pleased with all the fine cracks that almost radiate from the mirror onto her face - how perfect - couldn't do that again if I tried LOL! For more details on either of my creations please see my blog.
Hope you have a lovely Tuesday and thanks for looking! x

Monday 29 August 2011

Digi Stamps Juniper and Porcini with Rubber Stamp Time Flies

Hi there! This is Rose sharing with you two cards and a cracker box that I've put together using fabulous Crafts and Me images.  I have filled these images using Copic colors.

This photo shows a recently released image by Sara Burrier named Juniper.  Early this month, I added Juniper to a birthday card.  Now I've used her on this Christmas card where I attempt to show how she's using the strand of pearls wrapped around her arm to trim her Christmas tree.



You may have viewed this thank you card, showing the recently released Porcini, also by Sara Burrier, at the Crafts and Me Dynamite Digi team's Lace challenge.  Ahhh, she's so sweet!



You can find these and more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.

I really enjoy working with fantasy art images and found this cracker box candy holder to be perfect for displaying this wonderful rubber stamp image by Ching-Chou Kuik called Time Flies.  I realize this birthday project is a little bright, well, okay, so it could actually hurt some sensitive eyes, but it was a lot of fun to make.  Anything is acceptable with fantasy art and I love that that these beautiful images can be used on projects other than cards.



You can find Ching-Chou Kuik's Time Flies rubber stamp here.


There's still time to add your entry to the current Digi team's Lace challenge here.  Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Wishing you a lovely day!  We're so glad you stopped by to visit!


~ Rose

Sunday 28 August 2011

Gift of Winter - Porcini and Queen of Halloween.

Good Morning folks its Gina here this morning i hope you are all well, i wish the weather would make up its mind lol but at least its dry here today in Essex

Any way i'm here to show you a couple of my resent makes using some of the gorgeous Crafts and Me stamps and digi's the first one is a card using Gift of Winter you can get her HERE isn't she beautiful.



Here a book mark i made using Queen of Halloween you can get her HERE



Here's another card using Porcini you will find her HERE and isn't she adorable.





Well that's it from me folks but don't forget the Crafts and Me Challenge this weeks theme is to use Lace on your project and the DT girlies have done a fab job as usual.

Enjoy the rest of your day and take care.

Saturday 27 August 2011

Christmas is comming


Hi everyone :D
I am sorry to mention it but it is true and I suddenly realised the other day that I really need to get a move on with my making lol
So here is what I have started with. This pretty girl is an oldie but a goodie from the Sara Burrier range called Thankful Blessings (get her HERE) I have coloured her with promarkers and added some touches of sparkle with sakura stardust pens.



I also made this bag charm as a little gift using a mix of beads I have collected in my stash. The image is Kathleen Mermaid available HERE. I stamped her on shrink plastic and then coloured her with pencils and sakura stardust pens. I know you can't tell from the pic but she sparkles in real life :D


I hope you are all having a good weekend and don't forget there is still time to enter the lace challenge over at Crafts and Me challenges for the chance to win a great prize.

Huge hugs to you all

Amy xx

Friday 26 August 2011

Look at these Customer Creations

Hello Everyone,
We have another day of rain here can you believe it, no hot summer again this year!
Today I want to show you some customers lovely cards that have been sent to me.

Tracey Feeger
Using Pink Lightning by Jasmine Becket-Griffith stamp HERE



Violet Angel-Jasmine Becket-Griffith Stamp HERE



Fairy with Dried Flowers-Jasmine Becket-Griffith Stamp HERE

Thank you Tracey


Suzanne
Using Forever Rose DIGI HERE



These are stunning cards made with Crafts and Me's own stamp range.

Thank you Ladies for sharing these with everyone.

Don't forget this weeks challenge over on the challenge blog is Lace, pop over and join in for a chance to win a fabulous pack of ProMarkers.

Teresa x



Thursday 25 August 2011

Bride/Flapper and Alice Lost



Hi everyone.  Today's post is going to be short and sweet.  I have had a lot going on and almost NO craft time. I have had this card done for a while now and wanted to share it with you. This image is called Bride/Flapper and is one of Crafts and Me's Art Deco stamps and it can be found HERE I made a card similar to this one before, but this one was for the Show.
I was trying to get more cards finished to share with you, but that never happened. Just one thing has come up after another.


Oh and I almost forgot about this card to share with you.  This is "Belle of Bon Adventure" by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith. I wanted to give her a little darker but Spanish look. Her ruffles on her dress remind me of a Spanish looking dress so I went with red and black for my color scheme.
I love these Spellbinder Dies. All images were colored with copics.




Here is my card from our last Rocking Rubber Challenge. I used a Hannah Lynn image called "Alice Lost". She is one of Hannah's newest releases.



Well I am off to get some things done as it is last here and I have to finish some things for the kids and get some sleep before work soon. 
Make sure you hop on over to our Challenge blog to see what new challenge our Digi team has for you and to see their creations. Thanks for taking time to stop by today

Wednesday 24 August 2011

Feeling Blue

Hi everyone, Karina here. Hope you're all doing fine. While such hot days like we had the last few days with temperatures up to 35 degrees, I found it a bit cooling to create a card with blue tones :o). 

So the first one I want to show you I made on Sunday. I wanted to make the colour combo blue and brown, which I like so much. I used this beautiful image by the fabulous artist Sara Burrier called 'Mourning'. I coloured her with Distress Inks.



The second card I show you I made last week was for the last challenge where we had the theme blue or blue/green. I used this sweet image called 'Carry Me Away' by the amazing artist Molly Harrison. I coloured it with Copics.



Wish you a wonderful week now. Thank you so much for your visit which is much apprechiated.
Hugs, Karina

Tuesday 23 August 2011

Sample cards using new stamps

Good morning,i am away on holiday this week so this post is sheduled.
Have you visited the Crafts and Me store lately if not your missing out on some fabulous NEW stamps(which were available to buy at Stamperama last sunday 14th) and Digi Images all available now HERE at the store. Go check them out you,ll want them all!!!!
Today i have 3 cards i made to go in the sample books which my fabbie teamie Tracy painstakingly made for customers to browse through at the show.All the images are rubber stamps.
First up is Jasmines VIVID WINGS



Number 2 is another of Jasmines FAIRY WITH DRIED FLOWERS



Number 3 is one of the new Art Deco stamps called LULU the little Heart is one of the ART Moulds also available at the crafts and me store HERE




Heres a pic of the NEW Pretty Pendants (stamp) image i coloured in and will be making card with when i get back of my hols.
Isn,t she great.


Bye for now
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Monday 22 August 2011

Hannah Lynn & Sweet Pea

Hello everyone & a happy Monday to you. Hope you have all had a good weekend.
Today I have a few samples to show you what I did for various DT's of course all with images from my favourite shop Crafts & Me.
I will start with my fave artist first which as most of you know is Hannah Lynn
This is the beautiful 'Deevonne' she is sexy & sultry dont you think?? She is a digi image which means no waiting for that postman......you can get her straight away, resize her, flip her.....what ever you want.
Best part for me is 'No waiting'.....cus my postie can be rather slow at times....
Next up we have a Sweet Pea rubber stamp which is again available from Crafts & Me. This is the beautiful 'Arden' by Nikki Burnette  She is out of stock at the min but you can pop over & click to be notified by e-mail when she is back in stock......you can do this on all of Teresa's products so you need never miss anything....
It is an easel card, I so love doing these. The 2 sparkly 2 crystal brads that are in the tool are from Crafts & Me here, they are so pretty.
Finally this is the card I did for this weeks challenge. I know she is a digi image but I had already coloured her few weeks before & she was perfect for the challenge lol.......
She is of course another beauty by Hannah Lynn 'Violet' & she is available for instant download from

Well thats it from lickle old me but dont forget the Rockin Rubbah's still have their current challenge running so you still have time to make a card & enter it here.
Also pop on over to the Crafts & Me Store as Teresa has released new stamps by Hannah Lynn & some gorgeous new Art Deco stamps which you will absolutely love.
So I will go now & you go shopping.......well go on what are you waiting for.............

Tatty bye everyone & from all the DT girlies here we thank you for popping by.
See ya soonies mmwah
Big squishy hugs Vicky xxx

Sunday 21 August 2011

Happy Sunday

Good morning everyone I hope your having a wonderful weekend...my cards I wanted to show you today are two totally different images and ones rubber and the other a digi...my first is using another of the amazing Sara Burrier digi stamps this one is called The Talisman, how beautiful is this little merboy and he is a dream to colour, I coloured him with distress inks oh and by the way he doesn't come with a number 8 behind him I added and paper pieced the 8

this one is made with this fantastic Art Deco stamps called Glitzy Ladies and of course I again used distress inks to colour them...right I will leave you to enjoy the rest of your Sunday...if you would like any more details just hop on over to my blog
Mina xxx

Saturday 20 August 2011

Wonderland and Porcini

Hey Peeps!

Wakie wakie rise and shine, lol. Well i`m not the right person to be up early...unless i have to, lol. It`s soooo nice to sleep in, lol. My hubby has really spoiled me course he usually gets up in the morning with our little one....and he is the one working, hahaha. Ok, so i work too, but usually in the evening but you get the picture, hahaha.


This first card, some of you may have seen before, as i published it earlier this week in my blog. This is the first card i have created with a RUBBER stamp from Crafts and Me. The image is called Wonderland and is designed by Molly Harrison. If you just now got a reeeeeaaaal craving for it, lol, you can find it right here.


I used smooch to colour her wings and i actually think the texture i got was kinda fun. If you have felt the contours of an oilpainting, you know what it felt like when i rubbed my fingers over the image. I also used two Marianne dies for my flower arrangements an both of them are available right here in the Crafts and Me store.


My second card is the one i created for the last digi team challenge over at the challengeblog. Oh...and oooops...i accidentally chopped off her feet, lol. I`m sooo bad, lol. No, seriously...i just wanted to show you the versatility of a digistamp. I have lately gone crazy with my new Big shot, lol. I just looooove it, and i`m spending too much hard earned doh on new dies, sssshhh don`t tell my hubby, lol. So now i don`t make a card without some kind of die on it. On this card i have used the decorative doily die from Die-namics, available here in the Crafts and Me store. I have also used one of the same Marianne dies that i used on the card above, available here. And last but not least i have used the Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterfly punch, available here.


Now, don`t forget to enter our challenge over at Crafts and Me challenges. It is the Rubbah team`s week this time, and you really should hop on over to see all the extremely gorgeous creations the girls have made to inspire you. If you`re up to it, please visit their personal blogs and leave them some love too. I know they get really excited when they get some sugar, lol.

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking. Happy crafting everyone!




Thursday 18 August 2011

Thank you everyone and NEW Release news

Hello Everyone,
Now we are all rested from the show at Stevenage Stamperama, I want to thank all of you who came to our stand to say hello, it was lovely to see our regulars and lot's of new faces too.
Tracy was swamped with people all day watching her demonstrate and getting tips on colouring etc.
I also want to give the d.t's behind the scene a very big THANK YOU for all their hard work making all the example cards in preparation for the show.
My granddaughter Jayd came along to help for the 1st time and thoroughly enjoyed it and was amazed how busy it was there.
I will be posting some pics when I get them from Christy my Daughter, who was just as responsible in planning the day as me and she was also the photographer of our pics.

I will be adding our NEW ART DECO images within the next couple of days to the store with 10% off for Newsletter readers, there are 8 new stunning images to buy, and they are only £4.25 each but with the 10% off you will be paying just £3.83 per each.
So please keep popping in the store so you don't miss out.

Teresa x

Tuesday 16 August 2011

Porcini and The Talisman


Hi, Jane here and today I'd like to share with you my latest two creations with the gorgeous new digi stamps for August from Crafts and Me. The card above shows the stunning Porcini on my challenge card for the currently running on the challengeblog so you may have already seen it.




My second card is a little Just a Note card I have created using the gorgeous The Talisman digi stamp - this image is just so beautiful!! I have coloured with copics and couldn't resist adding some stickles to the scales on the mermaid tail and some pearls to represent bubbles. Have a great Tuesday and thanks for looking! x

Monday 15 August 2011

The Talisman and The Giving Angel

Hi there! This is Rose sharing with you two cards that I've put together using precious Crafts and Me digi images.  I have filled both images using Copic colors.

This photo shows a newly released image by Sara Burrier named The Talisman.  This sweet mermaid holds a shell as though it's a wonderful treasure.


You may have viewed this Christmas Card, showing the recently released The Giving Angel, also by Sara Burrier, at the Crafts and Me Dynamite Digi team's Make It Count! by adding a number challenge.  Ahhh, she holds such scrumptious treats on her cookie tray.


You can find these and more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.

There's still time to add your entry to the current Dynamite Digi Make It Count! by adding a number  challenge here.  Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Here's hoping your day is wonderful!  We're so glad you stopped by to visit!


~ Rose

Sunday 14 August 2011

A show Sample and a Card

Good Morning folks i hope you are all well i was hoping to go to the show today but am in to much pain to drive grrrr so am staying home, anyhow don't forget to say hello to Teresa and Tracy if you go i no they would love to see you.

Right i have a couple of things to show you today this one is using one of the sweet pea stamps that Teresa stocks at Crafts and Me this one is ching-chou kuik's Unregrettable Pirate Life, you can get it HERE



This one is one of the new stamps being released today at the show so not much embellishments, and its called The One Who Sees Me by Sara Burrier.



That's it from me folks i hope you have a fab day whatever your doing, take care.