Easter Lily Fairy

Hi there! This is Rose sharing a card that I've made using one of the wonderful digital images available at Crafts and Me Stamps.

You may have seen this card at the recent Dynamite Digi team's "Spring Flowers" challenge.  I've used this beautiful digital fairy surrounded by gorgeous blooming lilies named Easter Lily Fairy by Hannah Lynn on a card to share happy spring wishes.

 

 

I've created handmade gerber daisies and accent daisies using Punch Bunch large oak leaves, large, medium and small daisies, small and mini suns, medium dusty miller leaves and small birch leaves punches.  Stickles glitter glue is lightly painted over flowers for beautiful sparkle.

 

My stamped sentiments are part of the Kraftin' Kimmie Yvette set.

 

 

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There are more amazing rubberstamp and digital images in a variety of styles 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 "Spring Flowers" challenge here for a chance to win a fabulous prize of a set of the newly released vintage/shabby chic digital paper pads. 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

Fairy sunset

Hi everyone :D
I hope you are all having a great weekend. I have a couple of cards for you this week and I am going for some oldies but goodies :D For my first card I have used the beautiful Fairy sunset (you can get her HERE) I have coloured her with pencils for a change. The paper is from memory box Fernbrae set and I have used a swirl stamp on the edges to give a bit more effect.

My second card is the one I made for the current Crafts and Me challenge that is to use lace. I have used the brilliant Kraftin' Kimmie "Nerissa" stamp HERE. I have coloured her with promarkers.


Huge hugs

Amy xx

Thanks a Latte

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday :)

Sylvia here with two cards: On the first one -that I made for the new challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges- I used my very first Kraftin' Kimmie stamp :) This stamp is called 'Angie' and it comes in a set together with two sentiments and this cute pair of slippers I used here on my card as a cut out element on the lower right side. The stamp is available HERE.

And I assume in the meantime all of you know that our new Crafts and Me challenges always starts on Wednesdays! This week is the digi team's turn and they challenge us/you to use punches on your cards or projects!

That's the reason why I used one of my age-old punches to create the little daisy on the upper right side and I'm positively astonished and really pleased with the result... never have thought this little old daisy punch could look so pretty on a card ;-)

And here's the other card I wanted to show you. This one was made for last weeks challenge and I used the adorable 'Creekside Magic' stamp by Molly Harrison, available HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will hop over to our challenge blog and participate in this weeks challenge 'punches'!

Sylvia

I am still under the sea

Well I just had to play with some of the other stamps that you can get at the brilliant Crafts and me for my DT creation this week. I have actually used several different stamps for this one. They are all from the Kraftin' Kimmie range, the mermaid is Marina and you can get her from HERE, the fish in the background are from the Cordelia mermaid stamp(get her HERE), The bubbles and sea weed are from the Arianna stamp (grab her HERE), and last but not least the little cute crab bottom left is from the Nerrisa stamp (available HERE). Can you tell I have been wanting to ink these up for a while lol :D
The background I have again gone inky Oh and the sentiment is also from Crafts and me Kraftin' Kimmie range the mermaid sentiment set that you can pick up HERE. For the main image I have coloured her and her friend with promarkers then mounted them on foam pads so they stand out.
There is still time to join in the current challenge at Crafts and Me challenges which is under the sea and there are lots of new things going to be happening so make sure you are with us for the next challenge too to find out what plans Teresa has for us all :D
Have a great weekend

Hugs

Amy 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!!

Here's some I made earlier....

Good Afternoon *waves madly* and how are we getting on with the Xmas card making? I'm popping over to show some creations I've made recently using gorgeous stamps available at Crafts & Me which you may not have seen yet :) I've won blog awards for several of them and the feedback has been immensely positive but then they're absolutely gorgeous to work with so thats half the battle!

First up my Wintergreen Wishes in Pink, I saw a challenge for Pink Christmas and I just had to enter it, who can't resist a bit of pink! This one won Top 3 and Top 5 awards and a Top prize and she's so easy to colour and looks nice in any combo you choose! She's coloured with Promarkers and highlghts with sakura stardust pens. I sprayed the flowers with cosmic shimmer (Angel Mist) to match. She has long flowing locks and a big face area and really is simple to colour so if you're looking for something thats quick look no further.

Here she is again in traditonal Xmas colours for a totally different look :)

Next up is one of the new Kraftin' Kimmie stamps - Cinderella. I just loooove her dress and can lose myself colouring her, beautiful and suitable for many occassions (Xmas, Birthday, Prom etc) Again another one that's easy to colour though I do like to spend my time on her and again colour is no object, anything you like :)

This pretty lady is Krista by Hannah Lynn and again another one that screams COLOUR ME! Oh I do love this stamp and like playing around with different colours in her hair :) Here's a blue and a pink version with a pink and yellow version is on the shop.

More of a nautical one here and this is Kathleen again by Hannah Lynn (Can you tell I'm rather fond of Hannah's designs!) A bit tricker to colour so if you find your promarker nibs a bit fat for some of the more wispy bits I switch to a sakura pen for that.

A couple by the designer Molly Harrison, this first one The Gift is proving quite popular as I've seen her a few times round blogger and again if you're looking for quick and easy simply stamp, colour your hair and skin tones and I just added cool aqua promarkers around the edges and used the blender pen to smudge them out then I've used a glue pen and glamour dust aka ultra fine crystal glitter for sparkle on the wings.

This is another by Molly Harrison called Hiding. She's also quite easy if you left the background plain as she looks good in any colours. For the background here I used promarkers and the blender pen to tone out from light blues to black then smeared stickles over it for the stars.

Ths one is another by Kraftin' Kimmie called Cordelia. Again she's coloured with promarkers and sakura stardust pens and for the tail I coloured it in completely with a glue pen then added blue ultra fine glitter. She also comes with the fish stamp too!

One of my favourites now by Hannah Lynn called The Butterfly Keeper. I broke away from my usual blues and dark tones as the pink and orange paper was calling me! I do love how she turned out, she's a very pretty girl and a dream to colour!

And last but not least this is the gorgeous Adrianna coloured with promarkers and sakura stardust pens. There is a tutorial HERE in the shop on how I did the background and tail.

I love this close up showing all the sparkle! The earrings are made wth tiny 4mm daisy spacer beads and a sticky pearl.

I hope I've given you some inspiration and ideas on various ways to use these fabulous stamps! If you have any questions feel free to ask :)

Vix

Another great card!!!!!

Good evening peeps!
What a terrible day out there more time for crafting as we can't go out in this weather girls can we!!!
Today I am showing you a beautiful card made by Katie of Glitterykatie such a pretty card with lovely backing papers too!
Katie has used the stamp image Charlotte from Kraftin' Kimmie available HERE in the store

Don't forget to join in our new challenge that started Wednesday to win some fab downloads.

Love Teresa x

Hello again :D

Well I have to say it has been another busy working week for me and I was so happy because I got my brand new stamps through from the lovely Teresa so now have a full set of all the new releases from the amazing Crafts and me stamp range :D I have been so excited to get them all inked up but with work have had no time so thought I would show off one of the other new items to the Crafts and me store this super cute girl from Kraftin' Kimmie ( you can get her HERE and the sentiment is also Kraftin' Kimmie and available HERE . I have coloured her with promarkers and drawn the stitching round the edge of the image.
I hope you are all having a good weekend.

Hugs

Amy xx