The Scarlet Sofa

Good morning Trish here i have a couple of cards to show you today my 1st is my challenge card for the current Crafts and Me challenge(Circles) a new one will start tomorrow morning so you still have time to enter,i have used one of the New Jasmine Becket-griffith rubber stamps The Scarlet Sofa available Here at the crafts and Me store.



Teresa also stocks Whiff of Joy stamps at the Store so for my second card i have used this cute mouse called Sneezing Henry see all the WOJ stamps available Here at the Crafts and Me store.


Have a fab day whatever your up to!
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Genevieve

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday :-)

Sylvia here with two cards I wanted to show you today. Hope you'll find some inspiration in them.

But first things first: As it's Wednesday, there is a new CHALLENGE starting today on the Crafts and Me Challenges Blog! So hop on over and see what the aweseome digi girls are daring you this week!

Now onto my cards:

This first one was made with one of the new and adorable (as always!) stamps designed by Hannah Lynn. Her stamps are available HERE.

The image I used on this card is 'Genevieve' and it's available HERE

The second card is totally different in style and uses one of the Whiff of Joy stamps that are available at Crafts and Me, also:

I used 'Willow with Coffee 2 Go' designed by Elisabeth Bell and you can purchase it HERE

Thanks for stopping by today and we all hope to see your entries in our challenge, too :-)

Sylvia

Fairy At Sunset and Melody Wishes You...

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday :-)

Yes, it's Wednesday again! And that does not only mean that I (Sylvia) am posting my Crafts and Me creations here on the blog ;-) but it's also time for a NEW CHALLENGE! 
This week's the digi teams challenge week and they want you to create something for BIRTHDAY's :)

Ok.. now onto my creations that hopefully will inspire you :-)

The first card is one with the last month new released images from Jasmine Becket-Griffith. This stamp is called 'Fairy At Sunset' and you can find it in the store HERE. The sentiment is from a stamp set by Whiff of Joy (a variety of their stamps is available in the shop HERE).

The second card was the one I made for last weeks challenge. The stamp image is  'Melody Wishes You...' by Lemon Shortbread and is also one of the last month releases. Isn't she adorable? The stamp is available in the store HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today and we hope to see you participating in our challenge ,too  :-)

Sylvia

Mr & Mrs

Morning Crafts and Me Fans,

Yayyyy it's finally Friday.  I don't know what it is about the bank holiday weekend's but even though we didn't go back to work until Tuesday it's still been a long week.  Anyway's work's been boring, well maybe not boring but extremely busy, still shouldn't complain I do actually love my job, but then again if I were to win the lottery, I think I'd be off like a shot!

For my card I have used the Whiff of Joy Oakley as Groom and Willow as Bride available from Crafts and Me.

I have coloured them using my copic pens and prisma pencils and added some star dust stickles to the veil. Don't know if you can tell but it was extremely sunny when I took this picture. 

My sewing machine decided to do it's own thing at the top, typical, but I have worked out why.  There were lots of layers and the stitching I kind of decided to do as a last minute thing and I had glued, yep glued the edges on before deciding to stitch.  So I think my machine didn't like glue, don't blame it and because it was strips it was hit and miss as to whether the needle went through all the layers or not.  Anyway that's what I get for deciding afterwards!

Ahhhh, aren't they gorgeous.

 

Have a good weekend.

 

A BIG Thank you to you...

Good evening everyone,
First of all I would like to say a great big THANK YOU to all the ladies who applied to be on the Crafts and Me D.T, there were so many talented entries it made it very difficult for me to pick the girls for the team. I wish I could have took you all on, but that just is not possible.
Our first new member will be putting on her 1st post tomorrow, so please pop by and give her your support as we are all nervous when we start a new team aren't we?

I am going to show you some lovely cards this evening made by you crafty ladies out there using stamps available in the store.

Card designed by Nancy Holland - Hiding available HERE

Card designed byMarlene-Flowing in Blue SweetPea stamp available HERE

Card designed by Cheryl-SweetPea stamp available HERE

Card designed by Teresa- Whiff of Joy Stamp Musing Melinda available HERE

Kaos- Sweet Pea stamp Unregrettable Pirate Life available HERE



Beautiful creations don't you think....

Don't forget there is still time to join in our latest challenge under the sea.

Have a good evening everyone,
Teresa x

Under the Sea challenge

Our challenge for today is by Vix,

Good Morning campers! Time for another challenge here at Crafts and Me but before I introduce just a huge thanks for all your entries for our wings challenge the last 2 weeks! Fan-dab-i-doozie! Winners will be announced soon so please do check back!

We're all excited here at the ranch as Teresa recently held a DT call so there will be some new faces soon when everyone has been contacted and confirmed. We'll all still be here too, can't get rid of us that easily mwhaha!

We have a stamp prize up for grabs called spring Joy by Whiff of Joy who have a great range available and are also sold via Crafts & Me shop.

Righty-o my challenge for you this next fortnight is UNDER THE SEA, what would you find under the sea? For us its eaaaaaaasy MERMAIDS yay! You can of course choose starfish, dolphins, shells, whatever takes your fancy!

And here's our humble offerings for your perusal! Come 'dive in' and join in the challenge! (I'm giddy tonight aren't I lol!)

VIX

Vix used: Adrianna by Hannah Lynn

AMY

Using Pearl swirl mermaid available HERE and blue pearl ovals from HERE.

TRACY

Using Pearl swirl mermaid available HERE

Gina

Used Molly Harrison Creekside Magic HERE

TRISH

Using Ching-chou kuik's Dragonfly Fantasy Sweet Pea Stamps Available HERE

Teresa

Stamp used Molly Harrison-Creekside Magic

Vicky

Using 'Hidden Treasure' by Hannah Lynn digi image available here

Pop over to the challenge and join in the fun!!!

Pen Holder

Good afternoon folks its Gina here and I hope you are all well and enjoying your weekend I spent a good part of yesterday in bed as I just cant shift this blinking cough that is still doing the rounds lol but at the mo I dont feel to bad.

Any way I dont have a card for you today I have a pen holder that I made for my MIL, well now she plonks her pens on the side and I hate it, well now she lives with us and I have to clean up behind her so I made this and now there are no pens just plonked down lol, see there is a method in my madness lol, as you can see its a triangle shape with three images which are all available from Crafts and Me, oh yes you can now order the Whiff of Joy stamp without having to email Teresa first now I thought I would just share that bit of news with you lol.







I will pop a tutorial on my blog for you soon as I'm feeling human again lol, well that's it from me I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

luv gina xx

A round up!

Its meeeee again with my round up of creations! I'm really spoilt for choice with all the new designs and many more coming so keep an eye out so you can be amongst the first to grab em! Also if you pick up this months Craft Stamper (Feb 10) you'll see one of Teresas stamps, The Butterfly Keeper by Hannah Lynn in there for my project on the easel post it note holder. Its a lovely stamp, one of my favs, very bold, can colour any way you like for a variety of occasions. This is a blue and turquoise one below which was inspired by one of my kids snakes lol! Well its more a piece of fluffy material stuck to a stick but they think its a snake :)

This is one from Lemon Shortbreads range and is Gift Melody. When Vera was designing these Teresa asked me what design I'd lke so I said one holding a parcel because change the colours and you can use her for xmas - versatile! She has such a pretty face Melody doesn't she? Theres some new ones coming soon which are also stunning, I absolutely love ALL of them! On top of the parcel here I used a tiny scrap of pink organza ribbon and tied it in a knot and secured with a glue dot just for a more 3d look - see not even tiny offcuts of ribbon are wasted!

This one is Christmas Melody, again versatile as you could stick a posy on there to cover the christmas candles and its an any occasion ;) I did the dress in white on this one but then I scribbled some clear sakura stardust pen on and spread it with my fnger to get rid of the scribble lines and gave the dress sparkles!

This is also one of my favs, Flapper Girl Melody, I love exploring this stamp! My DD asked for an altered candle for someone with black and white decor and she was just right for this. The lady loved it!

Flapper girl done a totally different colourway again, experiment and play with these images to your heart's content!

This is the very beautiful Wintergreen by Hannah Lynn who I've done in green, Blue, red and pink and she looks lovely in any colour you choose. I went for an afro-caribbean tone on this just to experiment and think she turned out lovely with darker skin :)

This is another of Hannahs called Glacier-Lily Fairy I was playing with my new airbrush with this to do the background :D For the bumps on the mushroom when you colour dont worry about going round them just colour over them and use an opaque pen such as sakura souffle or any opaque paint such as the 3d lacquer in the Crafts & Me shop here and then do the bumps at the end :) For smaller details that your nib is wider than such as if you use promarkers then switch to a pen like sakura stardusts or gel pens to do finer detail ;)

This is another angle showing the finish to the card. I use Glimmer Mist on most of my cards and own just 3 colours - Iridescent Gold, Pearl and Dazzling Diamonds. As you can see from above it doesn't affect the design and underlying colours until it catches the light then its wowzers sparkly! I tend to use the iridescent gold on yellow/orange/red colour group cards, pearl on pinks and pastels and dazzling diamonds which is almost clear and the one to use for a really subtle sparkle on darker colours, the blues and purples. You only need a couple of squirts, I tend to squirt it in the air and waft the card through the spray so I dont get big blobs. It really is a beautiful finish to a card and also when your bottle gets down to a quarter add more water back up to about half as theres plenty of mica left in the bottom ;)

This is a stamp by Whiff of Joy - Yes they're at Crafts & Me too! This one is Dancing Willow. I made this for my mates 40th as she's a party girl just like that lol! I actually won this stamp on a challenge blog for my pink version of Wintergreen, this was the prize and then I made this card with her and won more stamps lol! We have challenges at Crafts & Me too so if you've not played before pop over HERE and join in!

And finally Cinderella by Kraftin Kimmie, I just love love love that dress!

I'll be back soon with more - many many more!!

Today's challenge card showing is.....

It's time to show you who's turn it is today to shine on our store blog and it is Mysticcat with her first Easel card that she has ever made and I think she has done a brilliant job don't you?
For Mysticcat's card she as used the Whiff of Joy Stamp Melinda Blowing Kisses which is out of stock at the moment but is on order along with lovely new christmas designs there are lots of their other lovely stamps available HERE

If you havn't joined in the challenge to win a W.O.J xmas stamp yet why don't you pop over to the challenge blog and join in!!!!

Have a great Sunday,
Love Teresa x

Whiff of Joy In The Spotlight

Evening Peeps,

And the spotlight today is on meeeeeeeeeeee, lol. I inked up my very neglected whiff of Joy image availabe from crafts and me and thought I would just pop it on the blog and showcase it, so forgive me for spotlighting myself. I hope you have enjoyed the design team spotlighting your cards this week., it's been fun! I have used one of my favourite shades of blue, hope you like it.

I have coloured her of course using copics and distressed around the outer images using Tim Holtz Distress InkOld Paper.

I'm glad I got her out to play, I must look at my others. Don't forget there is still time to enter this week's challenge of Petals and Pearls and we will have a new challenge for you on Wednesday.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Heidi's in the Spotlight

Good morning folks its Gina here spotlighting Heidi of Heidi's Crafts and i hope you are all enjoying the bank holiday weekend.



just look at this beautiful card that Heidi has created, the image is Willow with Champagne which you can buy from Crafts and Me and i love the colours Heidi has used and her colouring is brilliant.
Why noy pay Heidi a visit on her blog i'm sure she would love the know what you think.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Sweet Baby Girl

Good afternoon all you lovely peeps out there, well its much cooler here today in Essex so i'm able to spend some time in my craft room as its been so hot in here i've not been able to spend any time up here during the day.



Any how the card i have for you today is made using one of the whiff of joy stamps called Willow holding baby its available here at Crafts and Me,i have coloured the image with copic markers, i have kept my card very plain and simple as the young lady its for does'nt do frilly and fussy lol.

Don't forget our challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges its a fab sketch this time that our fabulous Trish drew up and also Teresa has some gorgeous new stock in the shop Here at Crafts and Me so pop over and check it out.

There is also another new stamp designer that Teresa at Crafts and Me has found Sara Burrier and these are just gorgeous and they should be in the shop anytime now so keep checking back as these are exclusive to Crafts and Me well i think that's it so enjoy the rest of your day.

Sitting Summer Willow and Rose Swing By Whiff Of Joy

Yayyyyyyyyyyyy It's Friday,

Thanks goodness! I have had lists of things to get done all week and I haven't been to bed before midnight this week and up at 6:30 and I'm still behind with everything. Hopefully I will complete all my tasks this weekend!

Today's card is using the images Rose Swing and Sitting Summer Willow by Whiff of Joy which are available from Crafts and Me. Please make sure you read the note on the website, these are available, and if you need any help Teresa is more than helpful, so please don't be afraid to ask.

I have coloured her with copics, isn't she adorable and isn't that swing awesome! I edged all my papers with olive green and broken china distress inks.

I have added sakura clear jel pen to the flowers are the swing which makes them really sparkly, but just can't be seen very well in ther above picture.

Here's a peek of the inside of the card.

Have a fab weekend Everyone, and thanks for stopping by.