Sweet Stampin' - Lots Of Layers

It's Sweet Stampin' time again.  

I hope you're all enjoy the beautiful spring weather here in the UK. It's so nice to see some sunshine instead of fog and clouds.  Anyhoo, back to Sweet Stampin' - our theme this week is Lots Of Layers.  Well I don't do layers very well, so I decided to create a tag for you using my new Prima Doll.  I bought this and another PD stamp a few months but never seemed to got around to using them.  But can I say this stamp is HUGE, I had to use my Cuttlebug B place as my acrylic block so I could stamp her out.  I have to say I totally enjoyed making this.  

Here's What I did

Using this gorgeous paper as inspiration I decided to go with a lilac colourway. Unfortunately my ribbon appears blue in the photo -- I actually took 20 photos of this tag and it still looked blue.  I made my own large tag and added my paper, then stamped my sentiment onto it. At the bottom I glued a punched out border and topped it with ribbon. paper pieced her dress, The flowers, leaves and branches were die and glued into place. The dolls clothes were paper pieced and layering it up. To add a bit of interest I drew a design on the dress/hairband with glue and added some glitter. To finish off I placed my die cut clouds and punched out butterflies around the tag. I did use Copic pens to create her hair, and to add shade to the skins and dress.

Here's what I Used:

Stamp: Prima Doll #910143, Little Darlings 'Large Words'
Cardstock (CS)/Paper: White, Cream & Lilac CS, DoCrafts 'Bellsimo' Paper Pack

Copics:  Skins - E000, E00, E11 / Dress & Shoes - V12, V15, V04 / Hair - E50, E51, E53

Dies: Britannia Multi Rose, Tattered lace 'Embellishment', Joy! Crafts 'Clouds', Die'sire 'Leaf 1'

Punch: Butterfly Mini Punch, Martha Stewart Border

Other: Glitter, Candi, Gems 

We hold a weekly challenge with a fantastic prize plus a monthly prize draw for everyone who enters a card/project throughout the month. 

So why not drop by Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog and check out what my fab Design Team girlies have made to inspire you. So come on why not join in with the fun and enter your card/project into our Lots Of Layers challenge we'd love to see you. REMEMBER you must include a stamped element on your card!

This week's sponsor and prize is from Heather Ellis/Marianne Designs.

I look forward to seeing what you create.

Challenges entered:

Creative Inspirations - Lots of Layers

 

Hugs

Janine x

Sweet Stampin' - Easter

It's Sweet Stampin' time again. How's life been treating you? Are you enjoying the spring or you in the mist of the mist!!

I'm once again a happy bunny- yey, my holiday is booked along with my excursions.  My hubbie and I are going on another cruise in the middle of the year, and everyone assumes that we're planned a lovely warm weather one.....but nah!! Why be boring lol.  Nope, we're going to Alaska - we've planned to watch a Lumberjack show, a visit the glaciers, go whale watching, and visit a huskie puppy pound and go sledding with their mums and dads. So excited is an understatement.

Anyhoo, back to my Sweet Stampin' - our theme this week is Easter. 
 

 

Here's What I did

I used a 6 x 6 card base, and matted and layered it with some pretty lemon paper and doodled around the edge.  Then using my Die-namic die I cut out 2 squares (one in blue and one in green) and cut them in half, I re-joined 2 of the halves onto the page to make my sky and grass.  I stamped my 'Happy Easter' sentiment banner and coloured it with Copics and added glitter. From my brand new dies which are so sweet, I die cut a couple of pieces of picket fence and some clouds and attached them to the scene. My little Forever Friends bear was stamped 3 times, coloured with Copics, cut out and layered up. He was stuck onto my card along with the coloured and cut out little chicks. 

To finish off I die cut some flowers and plants (in reality these were made stamen and leaf dies) which I added them to the front along with some punched out butterflies. I wanted a clean and fresh look and hopefully I've achieved it..

Here's what I Used:
Stamp: Docrafts 'Spring Time', Crafty Impressions 'Spring Border'
Cardstock (CS)/Paper: White Neenah Colouring CS, Various Coloured CS

Copics:  Bear - E01, E50, E51, E53, R20, R30, C-0, C-1 / Chicks - Y000, Y00, Y17

Dies: MFT Die-namics 'Blueprint 3', Joy! 'Cloud', Tonic 'Circle Layering Die', Tattered Lace 'Embellishment Kit', Marianne Designs 'Picket Fence LR0205', Marianne Designs 'Poinsetta' 

Other: Fineliner Pen, Glitter, Butterfly Mini Punch

We hold a weekly challenge with a fantastic prize plus a monthly prize draw for everyone who enters a card/project throughout the month. 

So why not drop by Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog and check out what my fab Design Team girlies have made to inspire you. So come on why not join in with the fun and enter your card/project into our Easter challenge we'd love to see you. REMEMBER you must include a stamped element on your card!

 

This week's sponsor and prize is from Crafty Devils.

I look forward to seeing what you create.

Challenges entered:

Hugs

Janine x

Gorjuss Blue Girl

Here's pic of a new card I made using the same Gorjuss Girl as before - sorry I can't help myself she's so cute. Just as before she was such a dream to colour. Once again I had a problem lining up my new Spellbinder border dies, I WILL get the hang of them in the end. I used a 6 x 6 card base with a blue and brown theme again mainly because I just love the combo.  I made the little roses using the new Sizzix Thinlit dies 'mini petals', these are lovely but really small and fiddly to work with - so not ideal for anyone with dexterity problems.

Here's what I used:

Stamp: Gorjuss by Docrafts 'Top Of The World'

Paper: DCWV 'Linen Closet' Pad (a Hobbycraft bargain for £10), Brown and Turquoise CS

Distressing Ink: Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Tea Dye

Dies: Spellbinder Borderabilities A2 Curved Border One, Cheery Lynn Design 'Flourish Leaf Strip', (New) Sizzix Thinlits 'Mini petals'

Other: Dress It Up 'Vintage buttons', Jones Tones Glue

Copics: Skin - E11, E02, E00, E000, Pinny & Tights - E40, E41, E43, E47, Dress - BG10, BG15, BG49, Hair - Y21, Y23, Y38, E37

I've just added my card in the following challenges:

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge (Spots & Stripes)

 

Hope you like and thanks for visiting.

Why not leave me a message to say hi!

Janine XX

Oriental Bliss

I made this A5 card a few weeks ago for my mum to send to my nephew's girlfriend - Kat, to celebrate her birthday.

The colours were inspired by the beautiful paper I used from First Edition's 'Summer Breeze' pad. The photo doesn't do it justice really - I'd buy the whole collection if I could. I enjoyed making this card, but it took quite a bit of working out to get the scene right and what and where mask. I'm happy with the final product and hopefully Kat was!

Here's what I used:

Stamp Set: Docrafts Tulip 'Oriental Garden'

Paper/card: First Edition's 'Summer Breeze', Orange, Teal, Glitter cardstock

Promarkers/Flexmarkers: Aquamarine, Glacier Blue, Honeydew, Duck Egg, Apple, Orange, Forest Green

Copic: YR02, E95, E00, E11, E38, E37, 100, ER32

Dies: Cheery Lynn Design Fanciful Flourish B117, Marianne Designs Small Poinsettia

Glitter, computer generated sentiment, Tumbled Glass Distressed Ink

Hope you like it.

Thanks for visiting, why not leave me a message/comment!

Janine X

Have a Hoot

Made for my step-dad's 80th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I always find making cards for men really hard (like we all do) - he really likes owls and luckily I found this stamp set in The Range. They're so cute.

I wanted the owls to appear as though they were peering out of the hole of tree, so I stamped the owls, outer leaves and flower frame about 6 times.  I cut out circle in the same woodgrain paper and placed the owls inside it with a small piece of the brown card as the background. On top of the circle I coloured in and cut out lots of the leaves, branches and flowers that I had previously stamped to add depth. The branches were cut out using my Cricut, and the leaves were cut from a swirl die and coloured with promarkers. It took quite a bit of time to do but I was happy with the end result.  I just love dimensional cards.

This is what I used:

Stamp: Neighbourwood 'Owlets'

Paper: First Edition 'Desert Blooms'

Leaves: Cherry Lynn Designs 'Fanciful  Flourish' B117

Branches: Cricut, Cricut Cartridge '

Pro & Flexmarkers: Ivory, Putty, Pastel Yellow, Sandstone, Lemon, Sandstone, Caramel, Canary, Pumpkin, Satin, Ruby, Orange, Berry Red, Forest Green, Leaf Green, Meadow Green

White Pen, computer generated sentiment, 'Tea Dye' distressing ink

Hope you like it, and thanks for looking.

Janine X

Happy 18th Birthday Alice

Here are 2 cards I made for my lovely niece Alice who turned 18th last week, and who is off to start university life in York in a weeks time.

I made her first one using a Hunkydory kit I bought a while ago, I'm not really keen on the kit but I'm happy to say the card came out quite well.  I added glitter, gems and a sentiment.  Thankfully Alice loved it!!

I made the 2nd one for my daughter (Heather) to give to her, it's a variation on the 'Girly, Girly' card using my cricut.  The only 2 changes I made was that I cut out the '18' with my cricut and triple embossed it to give it a glossy effect, and the other was that I raised the girl and boxes up off the page with foam pads...much better me thinks. :0)

For the materials I used see the 'Girly Girly' card.

Hope you like my card creations, and thanks for visiting.