Stampsmith Challenge

Just a quickie for the new stampsmith "all dressed up" challenge
This was an experiment in picking up the first two random patterned papers I found and seeing if I could make them work together.

so cold we are turning inuit!

We have had so much snow over the last few weeks that we have decided to put it to good use and build an igloo. We had so much fun doing this as a family.
I have also managed a little bit of crafting I have made this ATC/card for Wednesday Stamper's "when I grow up" theme using an image from the stampsmith

easel card for 40th birthday

I made this as a commission for a fortieth birthday. I used an image from The Stampsmith and made yet another easel card. This time I added a tab, which tucks behing the words, this holds it really well.

The papers are yet more from the huge K&co pad I got from QVC (I've hardly made a dent in it yet)

The quote says "Don't see yourself as 40, but 18 with 22 years experience"

As the crazy amigos challenge is happy birthday, I will enter this card.

Gingersnap Monochrome : blue moon card

The theme this week at Gingersnap Creations is Monochrome
I went for shades of blue throughout the front of my card, with a little surprise, as I have used double sided card, the inside of the card is brown.
All the paper and card is from the Paper Temptress (this month's sponsor at Gingersnap)
I used
double sided card
Blue sparkle card
heavyweight Vellum
White glossy card

The image is from the Stampsmith.

wedding card

Prepare for a busy blogging day , this is post one of four. I was going to do one long post, but decided to split them as I know some people are more interested in knitting some in cardmaking, etc.
So post one is cardmaking.
The Paper Temptress is kindly sponsoring the gingersnap challenges this month, and as part of the the design team wer given the opportunity to try out some of the delisious papers and card.

On this card I have stamped the stampsmith image onto Ultra high glossy card, which has been mounted onto laser silver lustre (silver), mounted onto a card made from Sparkle Noir ( a lovely black card with a subtle shimmer), and wrapped with heavy weight clear vellum. (gorgeous quality vellum)

I have attached the vellum with white ribbon, added touches of white flower soft to the image, and stamped the wording on the front with white ink

Hallowe'en : note the apostrophe!

If you know me well, you will know that I am on a personal mission to "stop the drop" of the apostrophe in the English usage of Hallowe'en. I won't rant too much about it. I know language evolves, but I think it just looks so ancient and beautiful with the apostrophe, why lose it? It's not like it is used that much throughout the year.

So please, just for me,
use the apostrophe!

Anyway, back to business, I have made this card for Wednesday Stamper.
This is the first time I have tried this diamond fold style of card, and it was much easier than I expected, and I just made it from a strip of A4 card. The witch is from The Stampsmith, and is the witch from the Wizard of Oz plate. The detail on the left hand side is a scrap of lace.

I have included a couple of extra photos to show the detail of the fold, in case you are not familiar with the style of fold.

TGiF: the colour white

The theme at TGif is the colour white. I was really pleased about this as I have recently purchased this broderie anglais effect white backing paper and the fab new polar white flower soft. I used them with the gorgeous soft image from the stampsmith, and I have also posted this card on the stampsmith blog.
I hope you can see the effect of the flower soft.




I have also used the flower soft on this card made using products from PaperArtsy. The stamp is from a winter wonderland plate, the paper is from the brand new rum and raisn pack, which is gorgeous (one of those packs which you don't want to cut into, but luckily you get four of each sheet, and they are double sided). Even the lovely ribbon is from PaperArtsy

gingersnap extra challenge

September has five wednesdays so Gingersnap have done an extra challenge for this week, the challenge is to combine two or more of the previous challenges (there is a list)

I combined
GC18 happiness
GC13 tags
GC16 ribbons
GC24 stars

The challenge is once again being sponsored by the stampsmith so I have chosen to use a stampsmith image from the oh baby plate. There is a beautiful stampsmith stamp to be won, so go take part!!

gingersnap creations/stampsmith challenge: stars

The Gingersnap creations challenge site are teaming up with The Stampsmith again this week with the theme "stars". We are still in movie month on gingersnap, so I used this image of the good witch from the stampsmith's wizard of oz plate, to make this tag.

So make your star themed art and post your link on the gingersnap blog for the chance to win a Stampsmith stamp

gingersnap creations: black white and silver

This week at gingersnap the theme is black white and silver, it's still movie month and the challenge is being sponsored by the Stampsmith again. so I made my DT piece to fit in with all of this.

what a DT day!!

where do I start?

Well today is my day again on the Paperartsy blog and I got to play with my favourite sheet from the new PaperArtsy christmas stamps. This fairy is adorable. Check out the paperartsy blog to see all the ways I used the stamps.
And don't forget, there's stamps to be won over there!





Also my stampsmith DT and gingersnap creations DT work combine, as The stampsmith is sponsoring the blingy challenge at gingersnap creations this week and I made this card with The best shoes in the world from the Wizard of oz plate.
So go take part in the Gingersnap challenges, there's stamps to be won there as well!

Stampsmith month on Gingersnap Creations

This month The Stampsmith are teaming up with Gingersnap Creations to bring you a series of challenges where you can win Stampsmith products.
I have the enormous honour of being on both The Stampsmith and Gingersnap Design teams, so here is the piece that I made for the first of these challenges with the theme "movie stars" using an image from the Stampsmith's "kiss me you fool" plate.

Somewhere over the rainbow

The theme at Wednesday stamper is dogs. I decided to use this image of dorothy and toto from The Stampsmith, to decorate a notebook. I hand drew the rainbow again.
(is it just me or does toto remind you of Spit the dog?)

I am also entering this as a second piece or Gingersnap's rainbow colours challange.

groovy baby!

I have made this ATC for TMTA's Flower Power theme, Wednesday stamper's Paisley theme and for the stampsmith blog.
The paisley stamps are from a stamps away set, that I have had for ages

TMTA friendship

I made this for the TMTA theme using an image from the Stampsmith

winter wonderland

The theme that the winter wonderland challange, is winter wonderland!!
I made this using a stampsmith image, the music image is by river city rubber works and the words are by Paperartsy.
I have coloured the image with coloursoft pencils and blended with sansodor

saturday's workout and secret crafter

The Saturday's Workout challenge is peeled paint backgrounds. Which I have done using two shades of green acrylic paint. I have made this ATC using the sketch from The secret Crafter challenge. The main image is from the stampsmith's "Isn't she Lovely" plate. so I am featuring it on the stampsmith blog.

stamp something

The stamp something challenge is butterflies, bugs or other winged things. so I made this card using a stampsmith image, which I have also put on the stampsmith blog.

I felt this image was just crying out for a caption!

The bee is from a seeDs set, and the letters are studio g.

TMTA and wednesday stamper

The Wednesday stamper theme is dream and the TMTA theme is the moon, so I have combined them to make this ATC with a stampsmith Image, which I have also featured on the stampsmith blog

I am also sneaking this onto the created by hand, stars and moon theme

violin card

My eldest son is leaving primary school this week (obviously I had him very young ;) ) and I wanted to make a card for his violin teacher, so I used this lovely image from the stampsmith. I see the lots to do theme is collage. I think most of what I do could be described as collage, so I am entering this for that theme.
I have also put it on the stampsmith blog



also this week at the forever friends challenge we have the theme pink and blue and a flower or two, and this is the card I made for that.