Gorgeous new rubbah from Crafts and Me

I have one of the brand new beautiful Janna Prosvirina stamps to show you today. She is called Dragonfly and I think she is gorgeous! There are a whole load of beautiful new rubbah stamps coming out next week at the brilliant Crafts and Me and as normal for the first week of the new release newsletter subscribers will get 10% off of them and trust me you will want them all :D

For my card I thought I would try and keep it simple to show her off. I have inked all round the edges of the card in 3 different colours (Pool party, Lucky limeade and then soft suede) Next I stamped the Inkadinkado butterflies out randomly over my inking in soft suede to almost make my own DP.
The stunning image I coloured with the following pro and flex markers....

Skin: Saffron, Vanilla, Ivory

Hair: Gold, Canary, Lemon

Dress: Indigo blue, True blue, Surf blue

Branch: Bunt Sienna, Cinnamon

Dotty background: Meadow green, Cloud blue, Tea green, pastel green

I have then used Marianne D corners 1 dies to just kind of frame the image and glazed her wings so they shine.

I hope you all have a great rest of the weekend and that you all manged to get your hands on the new beauties when they are released.

Embossing at Crafts and Me

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It is the time of the week when we at Crafts and Me challenges set you a new challenge and this week we want you to do some embossing.

The prize this week is from Crafts and Me

For my card I have used the stunning Genevieve. I have coloured her with promarkers then inked all round the edge of the picture quite roughly before covering it in gold embossing powder. I have not tried that effect before and I quite like it. I have then also used some dry embossed gold card across the card and stamped the heart boarders at the top and the bottom with a Marianne D stamp from the bear sentiments stamp set (SF1113).

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Fashionable stamping - Embossing
Let's ink it up - Distressing

Coming soon from Hannah Lynn

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I can not begin to tell you how excited I am to be able to show you one of the amazing new stamps that are going to be released on the 4th of April. This one is from Hannah Lynn. I am a mega fan of Hannah Lynn so was over the moon to see these new ones and I know you are all going to love them too. The design team are going to be showing them off for you over the next couple of weeks till they are released.
This beauty is called Tatiana. I have coloured her with the following pro markers:
Skin: Oatmeal, Vanilla, Ivory
Hair: Burnt Orange, Amber, Gold
Tail: Holly, Grass, Meadow green
Top: Pastel blue (just for shadow)
Wooden stump: Henna, Cinnamon, Sandstone, Pastel beige

The dotty boarder at the top and bottom of the card I have made using a Stampin' Up borderlines stamp and certainly celery ink. The distressing has also been done with a Stampin' Up ink called Soft Suede.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Stampin' for the weekend - Anything Goes
Scrapbooking sisterz - Anything goes

All the new stamps are going to be 10% off for the first week if you are a newsletter subscriber so if you are not signed up get your name down now :D
There is also still time to enter the current Crafts and Me challenge where there is a brilliant prize and all you need to do to enter is use pastel colours in your creation.
I hope you are all having a great weekend.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

If you would like to get any Stampin’ Up products I can order them for you and you only have to pay £1 for postage rather than the normal £4.95. If you want to have a look at the current Stampin' Up catalogues you can see them all HERE

Aliah!

Morning everyone, I hope your all ok, huge hugs for those who aren't! I've had a poorly girl (katie) all week, she started last Saturday & spent all week on the sofa watching rubbish, or curled up on our bed (my craft stuff is in our bedroom) so she could be with me! Little love was really bad, she's getting there now tho thankfully, as we are off to the footie this afternoon, keep your fingers crossed it stays dry!! We are off to the Molineux to see Wolves v Blackburn....sore throat time I think lololol!!

Anyhoos its time for a new challenge over at CES & this week the theme is

CHARMED!

so just add a charm to you creation! Now I have roughly a hundred of these thing & could I find one I liked lol, nope! So I asked NIge to pick one he thought went with my card....what do you think of his choice?

I have had this image since last October when I went away on my crafty weekend, there was a voucher in my goodie bag, to spend on digi images from Crafts & Me. I thought it was about time I used her lol!! If any of you are interested in joining us this October on our crafty break, you will get loads of goodies for your money as well as meeting some of the nicest people. People I wouldn't normally know are now friends for life! If you are interested there are a few spaces left, why not ask hubby to treat you, an early Christmas prezzie! Pop over & check out the accommodation it looks amazing!

CRAFTY WEEKEND

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Seems A Little Sketchy- great sketch

Cardmad Fairy- moms the word
Crafts For Eternity- special mom
Crafty Catz- mom or special lady
Totally Papercrafts- favourite things (promarkers, flexmarkers, pink &  my Ecraft)

Goodies I Have Used

Image- 'Aliah' by Hannah Lynn from Crafts & Me

6" square card blank from Crafty Emma's Store

Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Skin- coral, sunkissed pink & blush

Eyes- cyan

Hair- umber, caramel & sandstone

Flowers- vermillion, shocking pink & cerise

Dress- sky blue, azure & true blue

Butterfly- lavender & amethyst

Papers & Embellishments

DP- 'Journey' by Authentique from Crafty Emma's Store

Pink card my stash

Blue paper by Kodak

Hearts & star stamp by Molly Bloom (cyan)

Doily die cut by Marianne Design LR0169

Bracket cut on my Ecraft using font already on my laptop

Pink mini blossoms from Crafty Emma's Store

Aqua divine twine from Crafty Emma's Store

Butterfly charm from Crafty Emma's Store

Thank you for stopping by today, have a fab weekend & keep your fingers crossed Wolves win & it stays dry lol!! hugs xx

Things with wings at Crafts and Me

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It is time for another challenge over at the Crafts and Me challenge and this time is the digi teams turn but I could not resist this gorgeous new stamp any longer :D She is from the brand new release and called Golden guitar fairy.



I have coloured her with the following pro markers and flex markers:
Hair ; Gold, Canary, Lemon
Skin ; Saffron, Vanilla, Ivory
Top and eyes: Midnight blue, French navy, Azure
Shorts; Cocoa, Cinnamon, sandstone
Wings;Burgundy, Amaranth Red, Lipstick Red
Outline; Pastel Beige
Guitar; Red gold (metallic marker), Burgundy, Amaranth Red, Lipstick Red, Umber, Henna, Cocoa

Then just for that touch of sparkle I have added some sakura stardust clear pen to her wings. For the back ground I have used something new to me a stampin' up stampin' around roller called music notes. The ink is also from Stampin' up and I have to say I got a whole load of colours so expect to see more of them. This one is soft suede and I have also used it for the distressing rond the edges. If there is anything from stampin' up you would like just drop me an email and I will order it for you and you will only need to pay £1 postage rather than the normal £4.95. Also at the moment if you order £45 worth or over you will get your choice of stamp set free from their sale-a-bration range :D The deal is only available till the 31st of march.
The gems are from my stash and the sentiment is from Crafty Emma's Store.

Some thing new at Crafts and Me

This weeks Crafts and Me challenge is to use a new stamp that you have not used before. I was very lucky to get my hands on one of the new releases from the Jasmine Becket-Griffith range. There are 4 new ones that the lucky people who can get to the Crafts and Me stand at Stamperama will be able to get there hands on. I so wish I could go but am working on Sunday :(
There will be loads of items on sale as well as these new show releases so well worth going if you can.

Now onto my card. This beauty is called Sea Star and I have coloured her with promarkers and flex markers, before adding touches of sparkle and shine with metallic promarkers and sakura stardust pens. I have coloured her in the following colours:

Skin: Saffron, Vanilla, Ivory
Hair: Black, cool grey 5, Cool grey 4, Cool grey 3
Dress: Midnight blue, Egyptian blue (flex), True blue

I have kept the rest of the card plain to show off the stamp. I have used my dreamweaver brushes and midnight blue ink to distress all the edges and used the gold and navy card to mat and layer with. The sentiment is from Kraftin' Kimmies fairy sentiments. The swirls are a die cut from Marianne D's Frame straight - LR0111

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Paper take weekly - Anything goes
365 cards - Use markers
Celebrate the occasion - Anything goes Birthday
Craft your passion - Anything goes no DP
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Smudgy antics - Anything goes
Crazy Challenge - Fairies

Time to brighten up your day :D

Hi all you Crafts and me fans. Thank you to everyone that joined our last challenge I hope you join us again this week. I have set the Crafts and Me challenge for this week and I don't know about where you are but here it is quite dark and dreary so I thought I would go for bright colours to brighten up the day :D

We have a great prize for you from Crafts and me of 3 Digi's of the winners choice

I would like to win that prize there are so many on my wish list.
The DT have made some brilliant cards to inspire you so please go see them as well and leave them some love :D

For my card I have done a little 4x4 inch card and could not resist using the gorgeous Vivid Wings. I have coloured her with promarkers and yep you guessed it added sakura stardust for the sparkle. The paper is from Memory box's Fernbrae pack and you can get the papers and the sentiment from Crafty Emma's Store.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Creative Card crew - Fantasy
Hooked on Craft - Something bright
Lollipop craft - Anything goes
My Craft spot - Anything goes
Truly Madly Crafty - Anything goes

2 ways with pins

Hi everyone I have 2 creations for you today the first is a card and I have used the gorgeous stamp from the Crafts and Me Sara Burrier range called "The Leap" available HERE the I have then coloured with promarkers and added sparkle with sakura stardust pens. I have inked all the edges to give a more distressed look. I have added some ribbon (from Papermania), flowers (from Mulberry Crafts UK) and pins (from Crafty Emma's Store) to finish it off. The paper is an old one from Dovecrafts Charcoal Prints pack.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Card makin' Mamas - Something old (the DP is years old)
Sketches by Carly - I have used their great sketch
4 Crafty chicks - Pins
Crafty Ribbon - Love is red and black
Moving along with the times - Blooming marvelous
Paper crafting Journey - Flowers

For my second creation I have made a bag charm using a big nappy pin :D For my main image I have used the fun Hannah Lynn "Alice Lost" image. I stamped her in Hydrangea stazon (you can get different colours of Stazon HERE) Then used my heat gun to shrink it down and put it on an eye pin with some beads before attaching it to the pin. I think I will be making some more of these it is a great way to use up odd beads and charms.

I am entering this pin for the following challenges:
Cafty Catz - Things with wings (I have used a butterfly and a dragonfly charm)
Fariy fun Fridays - Anything but a card

I hope you are all having a good weekend and don't forget there is still time to join the current Crafts and Me challenge which is pink and sparkly.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

A mega Christmas challenge at Crafts and Me

Today sees the Start of Our Last Crafts and Me challenge for 2011 and our Month long ANYTHING GOES Christmas Bumper Challenge. The Challenge will run from today wednesday 21st December and will end on Tuesday 18th January 8pm when mr Linky expires .You may enter up to 3 times only.

We have lots fabulous prizes up for grabs from Crafts and Me and our regular sponsors there are 6 PRIZES up for grabs all picked by random org so everyone has a chance of winning.

PRIZE 1 has been donated by our Fab boss Teresa the owner of CRAFTS and ME and one lucky winner will get a £20 Voucher to spend in the store

PRIZE 2 sponsor WHIFF OF JOY

and the prize is this brill stamp set of City Girl sentiments

PRIZE 3 sponsor THE STAMPSMITH

The Fab prize is 4 Single Stamps of the winners choice

PRIZE 4 Sponsor CRAFTY RIBBONS

The Yummy Ribbon Prize is some Thankyou Ribbons which will be available from 23rd December

PRIZE 5 Sponsor WHIMSY STAMPS
The Prize is

PRIZE 6 Sponsor LETRASET
And the Fab Prize is a set of 12 Promarkers

Now that is a seriously good line up of prizes I wish I could enter. You have to be in it to win it so go on and try It is a mega challenge so you have a lot longer to enter and as anything goes you should all be able to take part.
The whole DT is getting involved as the rubbah team are showing off some creations to inspire you today and next week it is the digi teams turn to give a bit of extra inspiration :D Please check out what they have done and leave them some love.

I have made my card using one of the brand new Zindy Nielsen stamps called Red ridding hood available HERE. She is on offer at the moment as well for newsletter readers with 10% off the already great price. I have coloured her with pro markers then mounted her on foam pads so she stands out a bit from the rest of the card. The peel offs are from my stash and the sentiment is from craft work cards. The design paper is from First Editions Festive fun set available at Crafty Emma's Store and I have torn it to give the white distressed edge .

Close up

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Dream Valley - Christmas

Creative Inspirations - Inspired by the holidays

The crazy challenge - Christmas

It's Christmas at Marianne D

*****Please click HERE if you would like a chance to win some Marianne D candy :D *****

Thank you to everyone who entered last months sparkle challenge there were a lot of stunning entries. I am sorry if anyone did not get a comment some of us have been having some problems with blogger and been very busy with home life but we really do love to see you all taking part and we hope to be back to normal very soon.

For this months Marianne's Design Divas challenge I know that everyone is busy and that if you are like me you still have some more things to do for Christmas so that is the challenge. Make something with a Christmas theme :D
And we have 2 prizes up for grabs again

The first is from the great.....

The second is this little lot from Marianne.......

There is loads of inspiration from the rest of the DT so please pop over and leave them some love.
For my card I have used Marianne D's dies Pine Tree Branch LR0181, Norwegian Ice Star LR0124, Finnish Ice star LR0125 and Swedish Ice star LR0123. I have inked the edges of all the stars with versa magic midnight blue and also inked the background with it. The gorgeous image is one of the brand new stamps soon to be released over at Crafts and me she is called First Snow. Make sure you sign up for the news letter if you want to get 10% off and hear as soon as you can get your hands on her.
I have coloured her with the following pro and flex markers:
Skin: vanilla, dusky pink
Hair: Walnut, henna, cinnamon
Cloak: Lush green, flex marker charteuse, pastel green



I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Creative card crew - Tis' the season
Deep Ocean Challenge - Let it snow
Going Grey with scrap creations - First snow
Passion for Promarkers challenge - Celebration
Creative Stamp friends -X-mas
Cupcake craft challenge - sparkle, shine and/or glitter (I have used stickles on her fluffy hood and gems)
Crafts and Me challenge - Christmas

Angel at my side

Hi everyone I hope you are all having a great weekend and are not feeling too rushed with Christmas now so close. I can not believe how quickly the year is going!!
I have a card for you today using the very pretty Molly Harrison's The gift stamp available HERE, the paper is from Memory box's Tinsel pack availableHERE and the pearly hearts are also from Crafts and me and you can pick them up HERE 50 of them for just 60p! I have coloured this beauty with the following promarkers:
Dress ; Maroon, Berry red, Lipstick red
Skin ; Vanilla, Saffron
Star ; Pine
Wings ; Pastel beige
Hair ; Umber, Burnt sienna, Cinnamon
You can get you promarkers from HERE. I have also added some metallic touches with a sakura gold metallic pen. The sentiment came free with a magazine years ago.
Don't forget there is still time to enter the current Crafts and Me challenge which is pearls and swirls.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Crafty Anne - Bingo ( I have used red,green and gold)
Scrap and stamp - Sketch
Card and scrap - Angel
the artistic stamper - Christmas
Scrappin' chics - Christmas
Simply create - All about Christmas
Fairy Tale - Christmas

Hugs to you all

Amy xx

Art Deco - Twisted Easel Card

I have made this using a stash of goodies we got on the Crafty weekend

Materials

Ribbons - Fantastic Ribbons

Flowers - Mulberry crafts

Image : Art Deco Bride/Flapper - Crafts and me

Papers : Authentique- Blissful - Crafty Emma

A few more Christmas cards

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Did anyone else see frozen planet the other day? I do LOVE penguins and the filming as always with the BBC nature programs is just incredible! Well if you saw it and saw the emperor penguin bit you will know just where my inspiration for this card came from :D
The gorgeous main image is of course from the House mouse range and this one is a decoupage sheet from the lovely Joanna Sheen. I have added stickles to the snow so it really sparkles (not that this pic shows it very well). The sentiment is one I got a couple of years ago I got a whole load of them when they were on sale and they are from DCWV if I remember rightly. The paper is an old one as well from a couple of years ago from Dovecraft. The ribbon is from Fantastic ribbon while the border punch is Martha Stewart's doily lace edge punch from Crafts and me.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Scrapology - Feature a house mouse (that is not hard for me :D )
House mouse challenge - Warm and fuzzy
Shopping our stash - Winter or Christmas related
Ladybug crafts - Blue Christmas


My next card is using one of the brilliant digi's I won from Bronte and Bella's challenge a few weeks ago. Isn't she just sooo sweet! She is called Ragged Angel and you can pick her up HERE from Mo's Digital Pencil. I have coloured her with promarkers and added some stickles for a touch of sparkle. I have stamped some snowflakes around the edges of the image and torn all the edges before inking them for a more distressed feel. The paper is an old one again (yep I am trying to use up that old stash) again from Dove craft I think. The sentiment is from craft work cards. The peel offs gems and ribbon are from my stash.


I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Paper crafting journey - Anything goes
Daisy doodles creative challenge - Christmas creation


My last card is just a quick one using one of the Mo's Digital Pencil topper sheets I picked up at Ally Pally. These are such good fun to use as they are pre coloured and die cut so very quick. I have added some glaze and touches of sparkle with sakura stardust pens :D then I inked all the edges with gold brilliance ink. The sentiment also comes on the sheet. The gems are from my stash and the gorgeous paper is from Marianne D's winter world pack available HERE.


I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Bronte and Bella's challenge - Fairies,elves, santa or snowmen
Scrapbooking sisters - Christmas time