Monarch Mermaid by Hannah Lynn

Hi Everyone, It's Karen here and today I want to show you a cool image designed by Hannah Lynn - this one is called Monarch Butterfly.

I've coloured her up with my copic's and added some sparkles to her gorgeous blue and yellow wings!!  My card is pretty CAS which is something I rarely do so I hope you all love it as much as me....

Monarch Mermaid is available in the store right now!!! and don't forget it wont be long and there will be more new images available - always on the 1st of each month - how cool is that?

Don't forget that a super cool and brand new challenge has just started over at the Crafts and Me Challenge Blog - so get your caps on and think of a really cool creation to add in to all the fun!!!!

Thanks so much for looking and till next time

Happy Stamping!!

Karen

xxx

Phlox Princess (including triple oval easel card tutorial) and Unveiling the Heart

Good morning all.I hope you have had a good Bank Holiday weekend.Today i (coops) have a tutorial to share with you on how to make a triple oval easel card.I have done a step by step photo tuturial so this post is photo heavy.
So first up the photo tutorial.You will need:
Die cutting machine or ready cut die shapes
1 large scalloped oval die
2 plain oval dies, 1 large and 1 medium
5 A4 pieces of card, 3 in one colour, 2 in a contrasting colour (a heavy cardstock works better)
Patterned paper of your choice ( i have used 5 sheets of 6x6)
Your ready prepared coloured image
Double sided tape and foam pads
Embellishments and sentiment of choice.

Here goes.
Start with a piece of A4 card (out of your 3 sheets) and fold it in half and crease with a bone folder.

Place your die on to your machine, my crease is at the bottom here.Leave a little of your die showing so you can create your oval shaped card blank.

Use a little sticky tape to hold your die in place so it doesn`t move.

Once you have run your die through your machine, you will have your oval shaped card blank.

 

Open your card and fold the top half down to the centre and crease the fold as you do for a normal easel card.

You now have your main easel shape.

You will now to need to cut 4 more large scalloped ovals, the same size you used for your easel card base.

 

In your contrasting colour card cut 4 of your large plain ovals and also 1 large plain oval of your backing paper,

Using the medium sized plain oval die cut another 4 sheets of your patterned paper.

Matt and layer up 3 of your large scallop ovals, large plain ovals and medium paper ovals.

Matt and layer one of your large plain ovals and medium paper ovals.

Now using your last large oval and large paper, mount up adding your image last.

Now its time to assemble.I have stuck the plain oval and paper to the bottom of the easel and you need to apply double sided tape to the folded over half of your easel.

Attach one of your ready matted ovals.

With your next 2 ready ovals, turn over and apply a little double sided tape but only on the inside edges.

With your card opened out, attach your oval overlapping the one you have just attached.

Then do the same with your other oval on the side so it looks like this.

 

Add your image oval to the centre, i like to use to foam pads for this bit.

Finally add a sentiment or embellishment to act as a stop for your main easel.I use a sentiment as you can raise it on foam pads.

Then embellish how you like, one tip is to try and keep your embellishments to the centre of the card or it can tip it over if its too heavy on the outside.

 

And heres my finished card, i have used the beautiful Phlox Princess by Sara Burrier available HERE at the Crafts and Me store.

 

My 2nd card for today is using the stunning Unveiling the Heart by Sara Burrier available HERE at the Crafts and Me store.

This is the card i made for the current Crafts and Me challenge which you still have a little time to enter.Click HERE to see the fantastic DT cards and do pop back in the morning for a new challenge.

Gorgeous isn`t she.

Thanks so much for visiting and do pop on over to the Crafts and Me store and see all the goodies that Teresa has to offer.

Hugs Coops.xx

 

 

 

Some of My Favorite Stamp Artists

Hi there! This is Rose sharing three cards that I've made using some of the fabulous rubberstamp and digital images available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store.

Crafts and Me Stamps carries an exclusive line of fabulous life-like stamps designed by one of their newest artists Zindy S.D. Nielsen. I've used Please Don't Let It Fly on a multi-layered card to share loving thoughts. You can find this image as a rubberstamp here.

The lovely Teresa at Crafts and Me Stamps sells Elisabeth Bell (EB) images from several rubber- and clear-stamp companies. You'll find EB images from Whiff of Joy, Sweet Pea Stamps, and Belles 'n Whistles!  I've used this sweet A Warm Fuzzy Hug rubberstamped image designed by EB for Sweet Pea Stamps.   She's available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store here.

 

 

You may have seen this card at the current Dynamite Digi team's "Autumn Colors" challenge.  I've used a digi image named Smartie Pants, designed by Hannah Lynn, exclusively for Crafts and Me Stamps. She makes a great Back-to-School inspirational image!

 

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You can find more wonderful rubberstamp and digital images by your favorite artists at the Crafts and Me Stamps store here.


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You still have time to add your entry to the Crafts and Me Stamps' digi team's "Autumn Colors" challenge here for a chance to win THREE digi images from Crafts and Me!  Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Here's wishing you a fantastic day!  We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose

A Little Bit of Love

Good morning folks its Gina here, sorry i'm late with this but its a bit manic in our house at the mo, anyway i have a card to show which i made for the last challenge for the rubber girls lol,i just love this beautiful image Just a Little love available HERE the Sizzix border down the right hand side is also available HERE at Crafts and Me.

Anyway here's my card

Well that's it from me i hope you are all enjoying your weekend whatever your doing.

In the spotlight

Hi everyone,

Wow it is horrible weather today here in the UK I hope you are having a nicer day wherever you are. I wanted to spotlight some of you today. I have looked back and found a couple of my favourite creations from you :D

 

So here goes this amazing creation is from Lizzy and she has used the gorgeous Believe.

 

I love the way Lizzy has used the lace and border punch with all those tiny butterflies scattered around to bring it all to life.

 

 

 

And my second pick is Janice. Janice has used the beautiful Flapper girl Melody

I just love the way Janice has given her such a great retro style and I LOVE they way her hair has been coloured to have that great shine :D

 

Thank you all for all your inspiration and I hope you have a great rest of the weekend.

 

Huge hugs

 

Amy xx 

 

 

Misunderstood

Hello everyone, hope you're doing fine. Karina here to show you some more inspiration with the fabulous images from Crafts and Me. 

The first card I show you is made with one of the newest images by the amazing artist Robin Pushay. It is called 'Misunderstood'. This time I decided to kept it in creme and red. A colour combo I never tried before, but have to confess I quite like it.

I coloured the image with Distress Inks this time.

My second project I want to show you today is the tag I made for our last challenge, where we had the theme 'add some lace'. I used one of my favourite image by another brilliant artist Janna Prosvirina called 'Night Blossom'.

I coloured the image with Distress Inks as well, this time in monochromatic brown tones. I cut away her wings, but add some other ones made with feathers.

Hope you enjoyed your visit today. Have a magical day!

Hugs, Karina

April in August with Hannah Lynn

Hello all of our lovely friends its Vicky here to showcase one of my fave artists. As a lot of you will have noticed I've been off poorly for quite a while ill so when I started crafting again I struggled with my colouring as I hadnt coloured for 2 months........long time for me. However there is 1 artist that always gets my copic ink flowing & gets me colouring again & it is Hannah Lynn. Now I know I'm on the Rubbah Team but when I first started colouring I just stuck to digi images so I'm gonna show you 2 today.

This is the gorgeous 'April' you gotta love her hair!! These are my fave things to colour, hair & face so when Teresa first got Hannah Lynn rubber I was addicted from the start!!!!

I decided that this lady could def pull off a fabnulous colour so I coloured her hair blue. The straps I wanted to look leather so coloured them browns.

Next up I used 'Sadie's Dragon' you gotta love that cute little dragon, it reminds me of my little lizard I had as a pet years ago.....

Hasn't she got such a pretty face, but then havnt all of her images got pretty faces!!!

You can of course find Hannah Lynn digi images & rubber stamps at Crafts & Me along with such a lot of fabulous other goodies to fill your basket with. Go on go on a shopping frenzy, tell your partners I said you HAVE TO...........but please dont tell em where I live lol.

Well thats it from me lovelies but dont forget you still have time to enter Crafts & Me current challenge. For any more info on these cards pop over to my blog.

Thank you for popping by we really appreciate all of your support, toodles mmwah xxxx

Happy Sunday...

Good morning everyone I hope your all having a beautifully sunny happy weekend...its my turn to show you some lush digis from Crafts and Me today...I have started with a stunning Sara Burrier digi called Phlox Princess, isnt she elegant...my other card is showing a Hannah Lynn digi called Easter Lily, I love how Hannah draws eyes and hair dont you, a total dream to colour...all the details of the papers, colours etc are on my blog as always...you can find a direct link to them here...I will leave you in peace to enjoy the rest of your Sunday and I hope its a great one...thanks for stopping by
Mina xxx

Easter Lily

Morning everyone its my turn to show you a card i have made with one of the new digi stamps available in the store now ,this gorgeous image is called Easter Lily and is by the very talented Hannah Lynn

as always with Hannah's images a real joy to colour 

more pics on my blog 

dont forget you still have time to enter this weeks lace challenge 

thanks so much for looking 

hugs sara x x x

Unveiling of Heart

Hi everyone! It's Alyce here and today I have two inspiration cards to share with you. The first one is using one of the brand new digis in the store; Unveiling of Heart. I LOVE her! So mysterious! I love all things fantasy and I can really think of a story behind this image :)

My next card you might remember from the challenge last week and it is using another of the new digis; Easter Lily Fairy. I tried to go with more of a shabby chic theme for this card...don't you just love the frame around her! :) I painted it white and sanded it back to give that shabby chic effect.

Well hope I have helped to give a little inspiration this week! Don't forget there is still time to play along with this week's challenge of Lace. Can't wait to see all of your creations! :)

Unveiling of heart

I have made a paperbag card with one of the gorgeous images from

Sara Burrier`s digi stamps.

Unveiling of heart ♥

Isn`t she just gorgeous?!

(You can click the pics to get them bigger ;) )

I have colored her with Prisma color pencil.

Thank you for peeking in,

and happy crafting!

Hugs, Maya

Phlox Princess by Sara Burrier

Hi there everyone!!

It's Karen here to show off another gorgeous August Digi image.... this week I want to show and tell all about Phlox Princess by Sara Burrier:-)

It's a gorgeous image which I have coloured with my copics, I've also added some Atyou Spica Pen sparkles to some of the pretty details on her dress... so here she is I hope you love her - and she is available to purchase right now in the store:-)

So there you have it, isn't she lovely?  

Remember that a new challenge has just started over at the Crafts and Me Challenge blog so make sure you get your entries in - have to be in it, to win it!!!

Till next time

Karen

xxxx

Monarch Mermaid & Easter Lily Fairy

Good morning all.Its Coops here today to share a couple of cards with you.I only have a week to do at work and then i have 2 weeks off, i can`t wait :D
So on to my cards for today.
For my 1st card i have used the gorgeous Monarch Mermaid available HERE at the Crafts and Me store.
I tried to do my card so it looked like she was in her own private lagoon surrounded by tropical plants.

And this is how it turned out.

And a close up of the beautiful Monarch Mermaid and just look at her little mermaid cat, too cute.

On to my 2nd card which is using the beautiful Easter Lily Fairy available HERE at the Crafts and Me store.

I made this card for the current Digi girls `Use a Digi theme` over on the Crafts and Me challenge.

You still have a little time to enter and there will be a new challenge tomorrow morning with the Rubber girls.

Pop on over to the Crafts and Me challenge and take a peek.

I went very girly with one, i wanted her lillies to be stargazers so thats where by colours came from.

Isn`t she a stunner, look at those eyes.

And a close up for you.

Thanks so much for popping by and do take a peek at the Crafts and Me challenge blog and the Crafts and Me store.

You won`t be dissapointed.

Have a good day.

Hugs Coops.xx

A Couple of Red-Haired Beauties and a Mysterious Brunette

Hi there! This is Rose sharing three cards that I've made using wonderful rubberstamp and digital images available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store.

Crafts and Me Stamps carries an exclusive line of fabulous life-like stamps designed by one of their newest artists Zindy S.D. Nielsen. I've used Watching It Fly on a monochrome card to share loving thoughts. You can find this image as a rubberstamp here.

Crafts and Me Stamps also carries an exclusive line of fabulous rubberstamps designed by another one of their newest artists Janna Prosvirina. I've used Dragonfly on this celebration card. You can find this image as a rubberstamp here.

You may have seen this card at the current Dynamite Digi team's "Use a Digi" challenge.  I've used a recently released digi image named Unveiling of Heart, designed by Sara Burrier (another exclusive image for Crafts and Me Stamps!).

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You can find more amazing rubberstamp and digital images by your favorite artists at the Crafts and Me Stamps store here.


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You still have time to add your entry to the Crafts and Me Stamps' digi team's "Use a Digi" challenge here for a chance to win a set of SIX Letraset markers!  Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Here's wishing you a wonderful day!  We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose