A Pink Birthday

A dear friend bought me some beautiful floral layering stamps from Studio Light and a little while ago I made her Birthday card with them. It was a great opportunity to use my Stampers friend from Be Creative to line them up and I was very pleased with the accuracy I managed. I used memento inks. The sentiment is from Hobby Art. I added some spots of glitter glue, wanting it to look like dew...might have been better with glossy accents thinking about it now 😉
As it is Think Pink week at Allsorts, it was the perfect opportunity to post it. Lynne, Audrey and I are off to Stamp Magic tomorrow and will be enjoying a crafty moment or two this evening. Hope you have a wonderful weekend too!
Thanks for looking!

Festive flowers and foliage at Stamping Sensations

 Good morning! It is the first Sunday in November and time for a new Challenge at Stamping Sensations. Our theme this month is Festive Flowers and Foliage, so show us your holly, ivy  flowers and mistletoe! Our Sponsor is a new sponsor called  'be Creative!'
Here is my card featuring 'be Creative!' Winterland papers.

I stamped the poinsettia (Penny Black) twice in versamark ink and embossed it with sparkle gold embossing powder before cutting it out and decoupaging it using 3d glue. I attached another of the papers from the pad to the front of the card and then attached the flower. I added a crafts too die cut holly spring and pearls to the flower. Finally I added the sentiment from the recent Creative Stamping magazine on a spellbinders die-cut, and a ribbon.

My second project is a tree decoration using the same papers. I used 'Jus-Cutz' scalloped star dies. I will be writing a tutorial for this very soon! The Prize is about £60 worth of fabulous goodies - feast your eyes on this!
 
                               
Now for a bit more about our new sponsor  'be Creative!'.
  have just launched a brand new range of craft products. They will be launching their new web site very soon but in the meantime you can keep up to date by following their Facebook page where you will see some of  the new products. You can also contact Gordon and Justin by phone on 01623 818910 . The products were recently very well received at their launch on Hochanda and will also be available at the NEC Hobbycraft show on 5th through 8th November. As a member of their DT I can honestly vouch for the quality of every single product!
Do pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the wonderful creations from our DT, mostly created with  'be Creative!' papers.
Thanks for looking!

More Be Creative products

 Hi There! I am here with a few more cards using Be Creative papers and embellishments. When I opened the Nature themed papers from Be Creative and saw the fish, I knew the Inkylicious Create a scene: Boating stamps would go perfectly. I added a few highlights using a copper sharpie pen (not as carefully as I would have liked. Note to self - wear your reading glasses!) If one of the men in your life likes fishing, then you definitely need this paper pad! There are some gorgeous deer and birds in there too.

My second card uses another paper pad. this one has some lovely florals, polkadots and hearts in pinks greens and beiges with a vintage feel. I topped it with a diecut (Spellbinders) stamped with Inkylicious Lazy Daisy and coloured with Alcohol based markers. The pearls, tag and buttons are from Be Creative too.

My third card is an easel card. The papers from this pad are beautiful shades of purple blue and green. At 160gsm the papers are stiff enough to not have to pre-mount them on card for the top part of the easel card. The stamp is a very old Sugar Nellie one, coloured using distress inks and a water brush. Again the tag, buttons and pearls are from Be creative too.
Are you going to Happy Stampers at Port Sunlight? If so you will be able to lay your hands on some lovely goodies, as Once upon a Stamp will be stocking these wonderful products.
Thanks for looking!

Vintage florals from Inkylicious

 Thanks for all your lovely comments about Sunday- much appreciated! I hope you managed to enjoy the show, even though it didn't get it's second airing at 11 pm. As promised here are my samples using the new Floral Etchings stamps from Inkylicious. My first uses chipped sapphire distress ink, a variety of spellbinder dies and some card candy. the damask background got used again too!

 Next up I stamped on watercolour paper with versafine sepia and coloured with distress markers and a water brush.

 This one was stamped on silk art card and coloured with distress markers. I dusted tea dye on the panel and Victorian velvet and bundled sage on the base card.

 More distress markers and silk art card, and over a piece of crumpled sprayed paper ...

 The silk art card again, and this time I coloured the stamp with my distress markers.

 Now I think this one is my favourite, in fact I am going to make another to hang on my wall! I think Dawn Bibby liked it too!

Finally another one layer clean and simple study in Versafine Olympia green.
With quite a lot of these I used the worn paint background-I will be back soon with my samples using it. I LOVE it - such a versatile stamp!
Thanks for looking!