Happy Sunday...

Good morning everyone I hope wherever you are your enjoying a little bit of sunshine, the sun seems to have foresaken Britain totally but we all live in hope of summer paying us a visit sometime before Christmas dont we...I have a couple of Hannah Lynn beauties to show you this time...the one above is the beautiful Sadies Dragon, how cute is that cutie dragon, I want one...my other is Frenchie Friends Michelle & Jojo, I coloured both these gorgeous images with distress inks and all the details of these and others can be found on my blog...thanks for stopping by today and whatever your doing I hope you have some sunshine to do it in
Mina xxx

Another Sadie's Dragon & Amanda

Morning all!  I have a couple to share with you today!  I have also done Sadie's Dragon which is clearly proving very popular with the DT!  I coloured with promarkers using a pink and lavender theme which gives her a much softer look.  I adore the little dragon she has, wish I had one!

Next up is Amanda which I've been itching to do for a couple of weeks but have had a lot going on so only just got round to having a play!  I again used the pink and lavender theme but used bolder papers which are the fab Crafts & Me range HERE.  I use these quite a lot as I'm not really an embellishment kinda person and find the papers really fill the card so you don't need an awful lot on.  Here I've just used a bird die cut a friend gave me, a border die cut and 3 tiny nailhead gems.

 Thanks for looking!
Vix

Sadie's Dragon and Aliah

Hi everyone! It's Alyce here and today I have two cards to share with you using some gorgeous Hannah Lynn digis. As a lot of you know...I am a sucker for colouring hair and I find these images are the best to practice on! They are also really great for practicing skin tones. I have been trying to add a little more depth and have introduced some copic E21 to the mix. For skin, I generally use E000, E00, E21, E11, R11.

Here is my first card using the new digi Sadie's Dragon - isn't she a stunner! :)

My second card is using the gorgeous Aliah - more lovely hair! :)

I hope that has helped give some inspiration to brighten up your day! :) Don't forget there is still time to enter this week's challenge over at the challenge blog - you could even win these gorgeous images :)

Lovely Sienna

Hi Everyone

This week I want to showcase to you a Sara Burrier image - this one is called Sienna.  Sienna is a bit of a mermaid - I seem to have a bit of a thing for mermaids at the moment - just about all my cards are mermaids!! hahahah

I have created my own background mini paper - right behind Sienna - I did it with some distress inks, Mr Huey's spray in white (which dried kinda chalky??) then I stamped with a music stamp in some oil based stamp ink... apparently it's better when stamping on Distress Inks - so Mr Tim Holtz tells me!!

Anyway here she is I hope you love her as much as me:-)

Don't forget that it's Wednesday and a brand new challenge has just started over at the challenge blog - be sure to check out that the girls have made to inspire you this week - I know it's gorgeous!!!

Image Used: Sienna


Till next time - Happy Stamping
Karen
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Hannah Lynn - Sadies Dragon & Snow White

Good morning all.Its my turn (Coops) to share some cards with you today.I have 2 cards both using Hannah Lynn digital stamps and i really enjoyed making them too :D
Fisrt up is this little circular card using a new digi by Hannah Lynn, she is called Sadies Dragon and you can find her HERE at the CRAFTS AND ME store.Do check out the other new releases why you are there, you will be spoilt for choice.

I went with quite bright colours with this one and did her hair flame red.

If you are a promarker user, i find using the chisel end of your pens on the hair give a really good effect and you get finer strands of hair.

And a close up for you.How cute is the little dragon.I added a little flower to her hair and also lots of sparkle.

For my 2nd card i have the card i made for our current Digi girls `Birthdays` challenge HERE which you still have time to enter :D
I used the fabulous Hannah Lynn digi - Snow white which you can find HERE at the CRAFTS AND ME store.

I kept my layout quite simple on this one as she is such a detailed image, i didn`t want to cover her.

She took a while to colour up but i enjoyed every minute.

And a close up, so many little details to look at.

Thanks so much for looking and do pop on over to the CRAFTS AND ME CHALLENGE in the morning for a new challenge with the Rockin Rubber girls.

Hugs Coops.xx

More Amazing Rubber and Digi Images at Crafts and Me Stamps

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.

It seems to me that this lovely fairy is ready to reward a loving Christmas star as she shares warm words with someone special. Her name is Sea Star and she has been designed by Jasmine Becket-Griffith exclusively for Crafts and Me Stamps.  Sea Star is available as a rubberstamp (here).  Perhaps Sea Star wasn't intended to be used on a Christmas/Winter card but it's the first thing I thought of when seeing this sweet image.

Crafts and Me Stamps carries many of Elisabeth Bell's images through Sweet Pea Stamps, Whiff of Joy and Belles 'n Whistles.  This playful little girl is named Kiki with Dolly and she can be found as a rubberstamp here.

You may have seen this card at the current Dynamite Digi team's "Birthdays" challenge.  I've used a recently released digi image named Kittys Kard, designed by Hannah Lynn exclusively 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 "Birthdays" challenge here for a chance to win your choice of THREE Crafts and Me Stamps digital images!  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

Tutorial Using Cool and Warm Greys

Hi Everyone,

I love using Zindy's images and colouring in black and white.  A few weeks ago I coloured an image using cool and warm greys and loved the effects and so did many of my followers so  I thought I'd show you how I achieved it.  I know there are many tutorials on how to colour black so not to bore you I have already coloured this section, but I thought I would just show you how I colour the face in black and white.

I have chosen the image Please Don't Let It Fly by Zindy Nielsen and we'll start colouring the face using C3, C1, C00.

Start with C3 and add your shadows where you think they will be.

Blend out using C1

And blend out again using C1 and I went one step further and blended to the lighter areas using C00

I then proceeded to follow the same process for all other skin areas

I then went back to the stubbly area on the Gentlemen and added some stippled C7 (dots) 

Now I start to colour the shirt using the Warm Greys.  I started with W3 and again outlined where I wanted my darker areas to be.  Google images of shirts and see how the folds are.

I then blended the W3 out with W1

And then blended the W1 out with W0.

When I had done this I wasn't entirely happy with the result so I went over it and repeated the steps using W5, W3, W1 and this is the result.

And here's my finished card.  I hope you like my vintage black and white and will give it a go.

Image Please Don't let It Fly by zindy Nielsen available from Crafts and Me