Teachers Notebook

Afternoon all!  My lad is 'Graduating' from Nursery today so feeling a bit sad!  Wasn't that long ago that we were trying to get him to stay there and the teachers were trying to peel him off me when he was hysterical then he finally settled, loves it and its time to move on to big school!

 I made all the staff a notebook each with Ethan helping me choose images and colours and this is one of them using the Hannah Lynn digi stamp Forever Rose.  I coloured with promarkers and sakura stardust adding tiny star gems randomly in her hair and outlining with glitter glue.

This one was for last weeks challenge at Crafts and Me and I was playing around with a Clean & Simple style with lots of white space.  I can do simple OK but I generally use papers to accent rather than embellishent so lots of white space is new territory for me!  The image is May by Sara Burrier and is simply mounted on orange and yellow card to match the dress.

Well I'm off to pick my lad up and watch him graduate, it'll be his senior school one before I know it!

Forever Rose

A big hello to all creative souls out there. Karina here, it is my turn today to show you what I made with one of the gorgeous Crafts and Me Digis. Weekend is coming soon, so the best time to take a look at the new release of four wonderful images by Hannah Lynn and all the other images as well at the Crafts and Me Shop, pick one or more of them and start creating with them. I can assure you, they are so much fun to work with.

I picked for myself the beautiful 'Forever Rose' image by Hannah Lynn to make my card for today. You can find it here. I so much love this image. It is a pleasure to colour, like all the images of this wonderful artist. 

She is coloured with Copics. When I almost finished my card I got this sweet pink feather in my hands. I storaged them already quite a long time. And I knew this feather would be a lovely addition as some hair decoration. What do you think?

Well, I wish everyone a wonderful weekend now and keep on crafting. Thank you so much for watching.

Hugs, Karina

Here's some I made earlier

In Blue Peter style! Are we sitting down, go grab a coffee I may be some time....!

First up is my challenge card for this week and is ADRIANNA by Hannah Lynn. She is probably one of the easiest of the range to colour, all skin and hair lol! I've added some tiny 2mm iridescent crystals to the bodice and filled the gaps wth stickles and a sprinkle of glamour dust. The background was done with the letrajet (promarker airbrush)

This little beauty is CHRISTMAS MELODY. Oh yes she is!! I've hidden the xmassy candle and flowers with some small roses, voila you have a year round stamp! Looks a bit lke a bridesmaid to me, what ya think?

I love love love this image! Its a new one by Jasmine Becket-Griffith called Making a Wish. She's coloured with promarkers and pencil, the background is distress ink. Another easy one to colour so if you're a bit wary try this one :)

This one is a digi called NOON by Sara Burrier. I've enlarged and cropped and the original image is actually a little blonde girl but I kept seeing this stamp as a little afro-caribbean girl and think she looks lovely in dark tones. She's finished with a spray of iridescent gold glimmer mist

This is also NOON done another way. I've added a swing and a tree and coloured mainly with pencils, promarkers for the skin and painted the wings with an iridescent blue which you can see when you turn the card into the lght (2nd pic)

Been playng with my letrajet again lol! This one is VIOLET FAIRY by Jasmine Becket-Griffith coloured with promarkers, the background is all promarker letrajet and masking.

This is the new Flapper2 Melody, such a glam puss! I added some tiny detal to her bracelet with sakura stardust pens using clear and red, I love the lemon shortbread range, theres a few new ones there too, see them here.



Another gorgeous digi from Hannah Lynn, this one is FOREVER ROSE. I kept thinkng of the rose from Beauty and the beast for this. I added a pale blue to her hand for some glow. I think this is the first time I've ever done one of Hannahs with brown hair!

Last but not least, this is SHOPPING MELODY, she's a girl who knows what she wants! I coloured with promarkers then added a darker band with pencil (I use derwent coloursoft and Faber-Castell polychromos) Then I've used a white gel pen to add spots to match the DP's

Thats all from me for now! Just gong to have a play with petal melody as I've been itching to have a go at her!

Are you ready to see more customer creations

Hello Peeps!
Today I am showing you some lovely cards made by Angela Sowell using the versatile digi images and these are really pretty.

This one is Forever Rose available HERE

and this is Poppy available HERE

Thank you for sharing these with us Angela

You still have time to join in the fun over on the challenge blog so pop over and have a peek at what you could win!
Have a good day everyone,
Teresax

Digital delights

Hi everyone I thought I would take this chance to show off some more amazing customer creations that have caught my eye and I am getting most inspired at the moment by all the amazing things you are all doing with the gorgeous digis that are for sale now in the Crafts and me store. I could have gone on for ever but had to limit my self so here are just a few to get you as inspired as me :D

This first one is by the incredible Carisa and she has used Forever Rose

This next one caught my eye on the amazing Angela's Blog She has used Noon

Aren't they just adorable!!

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Sneaky Peaks Updated

Morning folks now then hopefully I'm on my way to the Stamparama show to meet Teresa, now she doesn't no that I'm going as I never know if my RA is going to play up so I waited until Saturday night to see how I am, and I know a couple of the other girls are going to the show and I get to see my gorgeous little Alfie today too anyway here are a couple of little sneaky peeks at a couple of little gifts I've been making to take with me I cant show you the whole thing as the recipients haven't received them yet but when I get home I'll show you.

Well there you go you can now see that i made note pads for each of the girls so Vicky Trish Amy and Vix theirs will be in the post tomorrow so I've not put the pics of their on here yet lol. I had the pleasure of meeting our Lovely Teresa and Tracy and Teresa lovely family too and they meet my sweet little Alfie and my wonderful son Aaron i had a great time but next time i'll stay longer and spend more lol. xx



This is the one that Tracy picked the image is Forever Rose.



This is the that Teresa picked the image is Fragile Heart







Well that's all I've got time for I best get an early night for a change catch up with you all soon.

Forever Rose

Good morning everyone. I will start by wishing you all a Happy New Year, may you have all you wish for in 2011. 

Thankyou Teresa for the lovely intro. I am really excited about joining this amazing team but I'm also very nervous......& this is my first post.....eeeekkk!!

Just before crimbo Teresa put on my customer creation of the book box using 'Forever Rose' digi image. Well I would like to show you 'Forever Rose' in a different way just to show you how versatile she really is.

I have made a tissue box & matching card its for my step-mum to say thanks for all she does. Its the first time I've made one & I will be doing a tutorial very soon on how to make this.

You can get 'Forever Rose' by Hannah Lynn from here

On the tissue box I layered the image with extra thick embossing powder & a wee bit of glitter & cracked it here & there.... it also helps protect the image I think. I wish you could see how truly beautiful this image looks IRL. She is coloured with Promarkers & Sakura gel pen to the rose to add a bit more sparkle lol.

Its for my step-mum to say thanks for all she does for us so below is the thank you verse thats on the other side of the box.

I have embossed around the top to help protect the card when pulling tissues out, it was embossed with Lilac embossing powder whcih you can get from here of course!!! Told you I loved this shop lol. By the way the Mother's Day pink embossing powder is so pretty & delicate just thought I would tell you cus b4 we know Mothers Day will be here!!!

Soz about the chopping off of the bottom of the card lol.

Well thats the last of the pics, I will give you the list of materials used now & the colour of Promarkers....not many used here lol.

Forever Rose digi image & embossing powder - Crafts & Me

Pearls, large flower on lid of box & stickle glitter on flowers are all from my stash.

Lace trim was crimbo prezzie off my step-mum.

Promarkers Used Are.........

For skin - Apricot, Oatmeal, Blush & baby pink for cheeks.

For Hair - Amethyst, Lilac & Lavender

For Eye - Cinnamon & Tan

I used Sakura on lips & eyelid.

Well thats it from me may be back later you never know, lol. Thank you if you stayed til the end, you have completed the Sticky Marathon lol your award is a lovely jubbly cuppa & a few chockie biccies.

Isn't she so beautiful, no matter what colour she is coloured in she looks amazing still.....its one of those must have digi images I think.

Don't forget you still have a day & half to enter our fabby challenge of 'Anything Goes' which you can enter here

Well thats it for me my nervous little fingers are going to go & post this on my blog. If you like 'Forever Rose' pop on over to my fave shop to purchase her & have a look around believe me there are lots of fabulous things to buy including more digi stamps.

Bye bye for now thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Vicky xxx