Wee Witch

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Good morning again! I have my last post as a June Guest Designer for MarkerPop! :(  I have really enjoyed being a part of the MarkerPop! family this month. What a fun blog hop we had, right? Everyone did an amazing job and it was so fun reading everyone's lovely comments about Hedgie.

Anyways, on to my card! I have used the cutest witch ever, Hazel, from Wee Stamps. Sylvia Zet is an amazing artist!

I used an older paper pad by Carta Bella: All Hallow's Eve. I got out the amazing Cheery Lynn flourish again and cut out a gate with The Greeting Farm Gate. I cut the gate out twice: once with some off white paper from the pad and another time with black. I stacked them for a shadow effect to help make it pop off the page. I then popped them again with foam tape. It's a super fun die as I can cut it up like I did for this card or leave it whole for a different look. (I am excited to try both dies on some 12x12 layouts I have planned with which to decorate my daughter's room.) The dies are of a size that that makes them very versatile for different projects in my opinion. 

I used Wild Orchid Craft flowers, of course, and some gauze I bought at the 99 cent store to finish it off. 

I used my fave Copics to color her:

Skin: E000, 00, 11 R20

Hair: E51, 53, 57, 59

Purple: V000, 01, 04, 06, 09

Black: W1, 3, 5, 7, C9

Broom: E11, 13, 15, 18, E51, 53, 57

Ground: E43, W1, 3, 5

I am super duper happy with this card. I seem to really like the purple cards I make. Not sure if it's the color or a coincidence, lol. I hope you all like my wee witch card as well and please leave comments if it strikes you, as I love to hear what you all think of my efforts!

Have a fantastic rest of your weekend!

Danielle:)

Challenges I'd like to enter:

TBD

Heidi

Hi all! Today I have my last card to share with you as a March Guest Designer for Wee Stamps. I am bummed that it will soon be over, but I had so much fun this month coloring up and sharing Sylvia Zet's super amazing and adorable images! I will definitely be buying more!

For today's card, I have used sweet 'Heidi'. She and all Wee Stamps will are will be also available as rubber stamps at Whimsy Stamps.

I have colored her up with Distress Ink. I used random papers and distressed them with walnut stain. I used Fran-tage Shabby Gold, I think (it's chunky white with bits of gold!), to the edge of some of the papers and the blue flowers to give them a snowy look. 

I've also used some Liquid Pearls Platinum on the falling snow. The flowers are WOC, as are the pearl stamens. I am drawn to neutral colors with a pop of color, so I am really pleased with this card. I hope you all like it, too! Thanks for looking and have a great Easter weekend!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

CRAFT (Mother's Day/female)

DRS Designs (paper flowers)

R R Challenge (Vintage/ Shabby Chic)

The Paper Shelter (Anything Goes)

Anything Goes (Mail-postage stamp sentiment)

 Flourishes Timeless Tuesdays (Sewing/Stitching)

Ladybug Crafts (A.G.)

TTCRD (Anything Goes)

CMC (Pastel)

Crafty Bloggers Network (Pastels)

Pause, Dream, Enjoy (A.G.)

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' (No red or green)

Simon Says Stamp (A.G.)

Whimsy Inspiration (Stitching)

Another Birthday Boy!

Good Wednesday morning to you all! I have another card to share with you using the adorable 'Birthday Baby Boy' by Sylvia Zet of Wee Stamps. This sweet boy and all her stamps are or will be also available as rubber stamps at the Whimsy Stamps store.

This version is colored with Copics.

I had just bought these cute mini clothespins, so I had to find a way to use them! Next time I'll use them farther into the card, so they're not sticking out so much, but it works for where the banner is for now:)

I tried a gesso-like look with some semi dried out white paint and really like how it transformed the card giving it just a little something extra!

Well, I hope this card finds some admirers out there, lol! Have a fabulous Wednesday and rest of the week leading up to Easter. Local weather here is threatening rain, boo! We shall see!

 As you might notice from my posts I'm not much of a talker/typer, but I would like to say a few things to all you lovely crafters. Thank you all for your wonderful comments you leave for me! They really mean so much and make my day! Like I've said before, I don't have anyone IRL who is into paper crafting like me, so it's so nice to be able to blog about it and 'socialize' with other crafty people in blogland. Thank you!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Creative Moments (Animals)
Paper Pretties (For kids)
Rhedd's and Rosie's (Vintage/Shabby)
Simon Says Stamps (A.G.)
Whimsy Inspiration (Stitching)
Creative Craft (for kids)
Flourishes Timeless (Stitching)
TTCRD (A.G.)
Ooh La la (Male themed)

Birthday Baby Boy

Good morning! Today I get to share with you my card using "Birthday Baby Boy". There will be more inspiration at the Sylvia Zet blog from Mariska and the other March Guest Designers. I again used my Distress Inks to color the image. 

I used a Whimsy stamp for the sentiment and cut out the very center to use. I used an owl charm from Miriam's Craft.

Here's a close up of this cute baby boy!

You can get this cutie at the Wee Stamps store. You can also find Wee Stamps images in rubber at Whimsy Stamps.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafts and Me (Buttons and Bows)

Divas by Design (Babies and Toddlers)

Creative Moments (Animals)

Whimsical Designs (Buttons and Bows)

Card Mania (Lots of Layers)

Creative Creations (B-button, birthday, boy, balloons)

Creatied with Love (Button Up)

Feeling Green

Happy Tuesday morning! I have a card to share with you all! I don't usually make a card for Party Time Tuesday as I am one of the Sponsor Coordinators, but I made a card that fit the bill for this weeks challenge using a Wee Stamp. I received it as I am a March Guest Designer for the Sylvia Zet blog!

The challenge at PTT is 'Luck of the Irish', so I was inspired to make a green card with the adorable 'Sweet Blossom'. She and all other Wee Stamp images are or will be also available as rubber stamps through Whimsy Stamps for all you rubber lovers!

Here is my card...it turned out o'bit busy, but it's grown on me!

I used a Tim Holtz Butterfly On the Edge die (I had just bought it so had to use it!), Wild Orchid Craft flowers and Prima papers.The tag was from the paper pad, also. The lovely rub-on in the lower right corner is from The Robin's Nest and I stamped 'sweet' to fit perfectly inside. The seam binding was dyed using either Peeled Pain or Forest Moss DI. Sorry, can't remember :-/  I distressed the paper edges and inked them with Vintage Photo.

I hope you all find some inspiration in it and please check out the PTT blog and see what the DT have created! We are being sponsored by The Robin's Nest, Bunny Zoe's Crafts and Paper Nest Dolls, so there are many awesome prizes to be won!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Celebrate the Occassion (Spring is in the Air)

Bunny Zoes Crafts (Girly)

Clear it Out (St. Patty's Day and green)

Creative Card Crew (Ribbon)

Crafty Sentiments (Hello Spring)

Deep Ocean (Cute and Cuddly)

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday (Go Green)

Loves Rubber Stamps (Green)

Paper Minutes (Make or include a tag)

Papertake Weekly (1,2,3) 1 rub-on, 2 die cuts, 3 kinds of flowers)

Twisted Tuesday (Spring, green)

Crafty Bloggers (spring)

The Pink Elephant (Green)

Live and Love Crafts (Easter)

Fairy Fever

It's Fairy fever over at the Stamptacular Sunday blog! Your challenge this week is to create a card or project with a fairy on it! Easy, right?

Our sponsors this week are A Day for Daisies, offering up a $12 Gift Certificate, and Delicious Doodles offering four digi images!

I chose to use "Spring Bringer" by Sylvia Zet. I have had her colored up for some time with the intention of using the "Once Upon a Springtime" papers from Graphic 45. I had looked everywhere for them months ago, but since I had just recently found the world of cardmaking long after the papers came out, I fell in love with these papers after seeing projects that had been made several years earlier :( Long story short, I was able to hunt down a pad being sold in a kit for an outrageous price, but I had to have them. It's been over four months, but I finally got up the courage to cut into them and make this card!

The pink silk ribbon was one of the five ribbons that came with the kit. The postcard stamp was stamped  with Vintage Photo and a fairy postage stamp from the paper pad was glued on. I distressed the edges and inked them with Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain. I lightly colored the pearls with R20 Copic to give it a pinkish hue. On the Martha Stewart punch trim I added some Liquid Pearls, although I am not happy with the dots. How am I supposed to do it to get nice round pearls? I have heard of a pearl pen, are those better and where do I buy them?

Now I just need to make sure I save enough papers to make my daughter's first year scrapbook as was my original intention and rationalization for the price I paid!

So now it's your turn to show us your fairy project! If you need more inspiration, the other DT ladies have all done a fantastic job of sharing their lovely fairies at the Stamptacular blog!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
CLP Challenge (Sketch)
Live and Love (Something Old-paper and sentiment)
Divas by Design (Make it Girly)
Bunny Zoe (Anything  Goes)

Spring Bringer Resprung!

I am being naughty and crafting instead of prepping for the big Turkey day we are hosting tomorrow! I finished a card I started last night and I am so happy with it! I used "Springbringer" by Sylvia Zet. I first made her into a fall fairy for my Stamptacular Sunday debut. You can see her in my post here. This time I made her more in the spring style with soft colors!

I used Prima Madeline papers, Wild Orchid Crafts roses and the peonies are Prima. I used seam binding that I had dyed using Victorian Velvet Distress Ink! The crochet ribbon is from my grandmother, originally bought for a dress I made for my daughter! The cute little "Made with love" charm is from Bunny Zoe's Crafts and I made the pleated kraft card fan with Martha Stewart"s Doily punch. I distressed the pages with scissors and Vintage Photo and sewed around some of the layers, but it is not showing up too well in the photo!

She is colored with Copics: my usual skin E00,000,11 R20 hair E50,51,53,57 Clothes RV000, R81,83,85 BG10,15 C0 W3 and colorless blender, shadow C0

Thanks for looking! Happy Thanksgiving to all my American followers and Happy Thursday to everyone else!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Sketchy Challenge (Sketch)

Papertake Weekly (Ribbons and Pearls)

Cupcake Craft Challenges (Paper Pleating)

Creative Card Crew (Anything Goes)

Divas By Design (2 or more Patterned Paper)

ABC-Challenge (B for Butterfly)

A Gem of a Challenge (Ribbon and Lace)

Autumn Bringer

Wow! I keep hearing about lost posts and now it has happened to me! Well on to the exciting stuff! Today is my debut on the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog DT! And this weeks theme is based on this photo inspiration:

Just use this photo as inspiration to make a card or project and don't forget to stamp! This is for the STAMPtacular Sunday challenge after all!  

This is my contribution! 

I used "Spring Bringer" by Sylvia Zet and colored her with Copics. I figured with Autumnal colors she could be Spring Bringer's twin- Autumn Bringer ;) I used some Liquid Pearls in her hair and as the center of many of the flowers to add some sparkle and dimension. The leaves were cut out using my Silhouette and I used distress inks to color them and curled them for extra dimension. The papers are from several years back when I thought I was going to start scrapbooking. Well, I just got around to using them! I still really like them, especially the plaid paper. It's too bad I covered it up so much :)  

The sentiment is stamped with Wild Honey and distressed around the edge with vintage photo.

Here's an attempt at an artistic view photo!

That's my card! I don't know why, but I worked myself up and stressed myself out for my first card that it was so much harder to create this card than all the others! Especially since I got sneak peaks of what my teamies came up with! I had to force myself to start and just go with whatever happened. (Next Sundays card I had a lot more fun with!) 

So, please stop by the Stamptacular blog and see the beautiful cards my teamies created (there are some really gorgeous ones) and join in on the challenge!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations- colors of fall

Card Makin' Mamas- Fall

Totally Gorjuss- anything goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show-leaves

Simon Says Stamp- Glimmer and Sparkle  (Liquid Pearls)

The Paper Shelter- distressing

Paper Play- Shine On (Liquid Pearls)

Just Keep on Creating- anything goes

Divas by Design- use some texture (leaves and Liquid Pearls)