Happy Sunday...

Good morning everyone, I hope you have something lovely planned for today, we are having a family Sunday lunch...I love those kinds of days dont you...all the family together, chatting away over a mountain of food...perfect...Its my turn to show you some of the stunning digis from Crafts and Me today and my first is using one of the new November digis, isnt this amazing Autumn just stunning, I coloured her with Distress inks and glittered her, using her for a Christmas card, she works well for it dosent she
The next one is the one I made for our last amazing Digi team's challenge, this amazing image is another Sara Burrier digi and is called Perched at Dawn, I coloured the bird as a robin for Christmas too...I love this stunning image and again I coloured with distress inks...all the details are on my blog as always and while your there I have some mega candy to celebrate my 3rd blogaversary and your welcome to join in with it...I will leave you to enjoy the rest of your Sunday...have a wonderful day everyone
Mina xxx

Moon Glow

Hey Peeps!

Finally...Here i am with my post for the day.  Waaay overdue, lol, but that`s how it goes when life gets in the way, lol. I have used the gorgeous image "Moon Glow" designed by Hannah Lynn. Look at that amazing hair. These images are such a joy to colour. She is available right here. This image is one of the brand new november releases put up in the Crafts and Me store at nov 1st.

Closeup of the image.

I also just wan to show you real quick, my DT card for the last digi challenge. This image is called "Gpepper Tree" and is designed by the über talented Sara Burrier. I just looove her images. I gave her a bit of a shabby chic look, and i was fairly satisfied with the end result. This image is available right here.

I would also like to inform you about where you can find information about postage and delivery. All information you can find under the information tab in left sidebar in the online shop: Delivery and Return Here is the link. Please note that Europe and international customers postage is set to £3,45 If you are wondering about anything, our lovely boss Teresa is available to answer any question you might have. Here is also the link to the contact form. So please just ask if there is anything you are wondering about.

Don`d forget that the Rockin` Rubbah Team has a birthday challenge going on over at Crafts and Me challenges. So please feel free to come and join in on the fun. The girls on the DT has really outdone themselves this time. Their creations are fabulous eyecandy if i might add.

Hope you are enjoing your weekend so far. And i wish you all the best for the rest of it too.
Happy Crafting!

Good morning everyone,
First of all I would like to thank everyone who entered to be our Guest Designer for a month, It was lovely to see your creations on your blogs. But unfortunately there can be only one winner.
In the previous two posts there are georgous creations from our new digi d.t Karen and Lydia our monthly GDT.
Now for store news!
We have a new artist joining us next month, so keep visiting back to see the d.t's creations using these georgous new rubber stamps.
We have some more IDEAS in the pipe line which when ready I am sure you will want to have but my lips are sealed for the moment sshhhh!
Now I would like to show you some wonderful creations from Crafts and Me Crafters.

These two cards are made by Katerina Baird, these are her first attempt at stamping and card making I think she has down a great job don't you!

Hiding rubber stamp by Molly Harrison HERE


Rose of Fire rubber stamp by Molly Harrison available HERE


Don't forget we have a new challenge and a great prize up for grabs over on the challenge blog here the theme is birthday's a nice and easy one.

Teresa x

Introducing our Guest Designer Lydia

Good Morning all!  I'd like to introduce you to our Guest Designer Lydia who will be coming to play along with us for the next month including showing her beautiful designs here and taking part in our challenges.
Please leave her a comment below to welcome her to the team and I hope her designs inspire you :)

**************



Hi, my name is Lydia, I live in the Netherlands together with my husband, little daughter and two dogs.

I was starting 10 years ago with scrapbooking and a few years ago to make cards. Now make more cards than scrapbook pages. I really love to stamp and colour.

The base of my card is cardstock, I use design paper and distress the edges. Under the image I use a Tim Holtz sizzix die Swirl.  The flowers were white but colored with the airbrush and copic markers.

The images is Miss Mirabelle and is colored with copic markers. the background I have also colored with copic markers, I make spots with the brush nip of the marker

Bring a lot of spots together with different colours so you will get the background.

The Blessing

Good Morning everyone,
Today I want to introduce you to our very talented new D.T Karen,
Karen will be on the digi team as from today and every other Wednesday, where you will see Karen showing you what you can make with our lovely range of digi's.

Here is a little bio from Karen:

Hi Hi Everyone!!! My name is Karen, and I'm from Australia. I live on the central coast of Tasmania, (the little Island at the bottom of the big island). I am 35 and married to a lovely husband, Leigh, and we have 1 baby girl - well she has just turned 2 so I guess she is a toddler now:-) Her name is Ruby!!! I started scrapbooking about 7 years ago to record and hold the precious memories of our Honeymoon in Europe and other travelling adventures we have been on! Then when Ruby was born in 2009, I started to make some cards, and really found that I love stamping and colouring in with Copic's, after a long battle with Distress Inks and Watercolour Pencils!!! I love to craft with awesome stamps, and I'm a sucker for gorgeous ribbons and flowers and bling and pearls... and my major, major, weakness, has to be patterned Paper - Oh dear!!! LOL

I took an adventure into Blog Land one day and got a wee bit lost (almost 2 years ago).... but I have made some life long friends which whom I treasure, and now I am here for another crafty adventure and to make some more blog buddies:-)

Cuddles

Karenxxx

Now onto Karens 1st post.

All Crafts and Me fans please welcome Karen to the team.

Teresa xxx

`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

G'Day everyone!! My name is Karen and I'm from Australia... This week is my very first post for Craft's and Me, and boy I have something I think is a little bit special to share with you all!!

As you are aware, there was a bunch of newbie Digi stamps that was released last week.... anyway I have used one by Sara Burrier, called The Blessing, which of course you can get your mitts on HERE. I've also added on the cool circle from the Christmas Embellishments Set which is available HERE....

I was able to merge the two together on Photoshop which I must say I think I'm pretty clever in doing as my Computer skills???? I don't really have any!!! ... anyway once I got it printed I started colouring, and then the idea struck on how to display these gorgeous images....

It's a 6 x 6 Chippy shadow box that I picked up at a paper craft show about a month ago. I've painted it white and then once it had dried, I got out the Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle Paint and gave it a good going over with that... it looks really cool in real life... sorry if the pic's don't pick up all the details. I've also added a few glittered up die cuts and some flowers, a bit of seam binding in the corner with a Pearl Bling Buckle on top... can't really see it that well... My snow on the image has been created with some Ranger Liquid Pearls... awww so pretty!!


Well as this is my first ever post as a new member of the Design Team I don't have a Challenge card to show, but the Challenge is up and running and this week's theme is Birthday's so please get your entries in, I can't wait to see what you guys are creating:-)


Till next time
Cuddles
Karen

Tutorial - Treat box card/Tealight candle card

Morning all!  I have a little tutorial for you today for a really easy make especially if you're looking to make a lot in a short time.  With Christmas fast approaching these are a lovely little gift you can make plenty of in a short time.  There are further ideas at the bottom to customise it for your taste but as I'm making a lot of these for charity I simplified it :)


You will need:

1 piece of card 9" by 4"  (approx 228mm by 101mm)
1 piece of card 5 1/2" by 5 1/2" (Approx 140mm by 140mm)
1 piece decorated card just under 3" by 3" (approx 73mm by 73mm)
4 glue dots
Glue Stick
Papers to decorate



STEP 1 - Take your piece of 9"x4" card and score it at 4" and 5"  on the inside then score your 5 1/2" x 5 1/2 card and score it on the back around each edge at 1/2" and 1 1/4"

STEP 2 - After you've scored your square card you will see little squares formed, trim these as shown (NB see pic for red cut line)

STEP 3 - Fold in your box as shown below and secure the flaps with a glue dot - I have tried numerous glues and they dont work very well so a simple glue dot will hold it nicely.
Trim the opening of the box by snipping the corners.

STEP 4 - Decorate as desired then on the bottom of the box use a glue stick along the flaps and glue this onto your card base.  Take the small piece of decorated card (Slightly smaller than 3"x3") and glue the back, slide this into the bottom of the box and secure.

STEP 5 - Fill your box with goodies!  I have used scented ikea candles which fit nicely.

And this is the front using part of the new ANGEL RAYS digi



FURTHER IDEAS!

You can make your card base larger if you wish, simply readjust the measurements.  I make them 4 x 4" as you can get 2 card bases out of 1 sheet of A4 at that size

Add a layer of acetate on the inside of the box if you wish to fill with items that might fall out

Don't cut a hole in the top and decorate the top of the box so that it has a nice surprise inside

I also use ready decorated card, here I've used one I made with moonshadow ink as the boxes are quite fiddly to decorate with patterned paper and if you use patterned paper on the top before die cutting make sure your glue is completely dry or it may tear or slip!

You can use plain card for the box and simply spray with GLIMMER MIST for some sparkles.

I use 3" x 3" images on the fronts, this is very easy to do with digi stamps and you dont have to use the entire stamp (also saves time if you've lots to do!)

If you have lots to make do them together in stages so cut all your bases then score them all as it saves looking back repeatedly for measurements if youve the memory of a goldfish like I have!

Hope you like this and if you have lots to make for an event for example then I highly recommend them.  I think the Elizabeth Shaw mints fit as well (8)

It's a Fairy Christmas . . .

Hi there! This is Rose sharing three Copic-filled digi images that I’ve been having a lot of fun with.

This photo shows a recently released Lady of Opal image by Sara Burrier.  I've attached her to the inside of a shaped window card so you can get a peek at her through the window.  You can find this lovely fairy at the Crafts and Me online store here.  Can't you just feel her sending peace and well wishes through her gently drifting flowers?

This gatefold card showcases Sara Burrier's Lady of the Field all decked out for the holidays!  You can find her here.  Who said faeries don't celebrate the holidays?  The woodland creatures can't wait!

You may have seen this card at the current Crafts and Me "Let the Music Move You!" challenge. I've used the warm Christmas Fireplace image on this easel card.  You can find this image here.  It's a beautiful image that can stand by itself.  This Christmas Fireplace will also make a wonderful background image with the addition of another focal point image.

You can find these and more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.


There's still time to add your entry to the current Digi team's "Let the Music Move You!" challenge here.  Crafts and Me Stamps is offering THREE digi stamps to a randomly selected entry.  What a great way to get your hands on some of these magnificent digi images!!!  Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.


Wishing you a magical day!  We're so glad you stopped by to visit!


~ Rose