Masquerade Mixed Media Girl ~ Paperbabe Stamps

Good morning, I hope the sun is shining where you are, I would go out and enjoy it but my son and myself are full of a summer cold yuck!

Anyway I just wanted to pop by and show my latest project for the

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge

 Well, I took the challenge quite literally and gave my mixed media girl a lacy mask using Folk fabrique stamp set, I painted the face in acrylic before stamping the doll face, I then masked the eye area before stamping the little images in black ink.

I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to tease you with my Paperbabe Stamps Mixed Media templates (coming soon) teamed with the ever popular Doll Face stamp set. I am so excited about these templates, they make creating beautiful faces so easy, they will include the hair for those who struggle with drawing that.

Paperbabe Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project below for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20. So hope you get the chance to join in!!!

I'm also adding my project to some other challenges:

crafting with an attitude ~ Freestyle/fantasy
stamps and stencils ~ anything goes
southern girls challenge ~Starry Starry night
crafty creations challenges ~ anything goes - no foolin
papertake weekly ~ anything goes, no rabbit in mine sorry.
creative moments ~ anything goes/anything but a card

Can't believe it was Maoleidigh's birthday last week, we had the day out feeding the animals, she just loves animals...

Bless her with her pirate outfit on for her whole birthday celebrations... and she took a real shine to this little feller awww

Dillon joined in too, loving the ears on this one, they were very hungry mummies and enjoyed every morsel.

Thanks for stopping by have a wonderfully creative weekend, hoping to share some of my life book pieces with you next week... energy permitting lol,

HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #2 ~ Picture Inspiration

 Today is the next challenge over at the Paperbabe Stamps blog...

We have a picture for inspiration and wait to you see the amazing projects from the team to help jumpstart your creativity...

I went for a little folky play, the picture inspiration just seems to lend itself very well to folk fabrique Stamp set, 

I needed an anniversary card and thought of cramming the folk images into a heart. I placed my heart die under my acrylic block (stamp press for this occasion) then fitted the individual images into the shape.

I love the mirror images in the set, they really help with this sort of stuff!

So, this is just my worksheet test piece to plan my layout and colours, I will keep it somewhere to recreate one day(when I rediscover it while tidying up my workspace).

The colours... they really aren't my usual palette, love the turquoise, blues but purples are challenging... I went with it!

 I stamped the images for each colour I've planned, 

removed some stamps, then replaced some, 

and continued in this manner till I had completed my heart shape.

I felt the heart although there, was really asking for a little help, so...

I Die cut the heart from double sided sticky sheet (the glue one, not the tape one) then ever so carefully laid it over the stamped image phew, bit tricky. I left the backing on to add some distress ink to define the heart.

It is for an anniversary so I covered the sticky heart with glitter. 

I used Happy thoughts stamp set to fit on the die cut banner, the 'together' sentiment is stamped inside.

and here's the close up of the twinkly sparkliness, is that not very yummy?!!!

This card was so easy to make that I made four (as I was stamping so that it was one colour at a time etc etc... talk about mass produce and proper sized cards too, I just need to add different sentiments.

I do hope you pop along and have a go at our Challenge,

Have a wonderfully creative day!

BiG huGs Kim x

Craft Stamper Take it Make it Challenge July

Good morning I thought I would share my project for July`s

Craft Stampers

Take it Make it challenge

and the technique for this month is . . .

Embossing Powder Resist

 Technique: Heat emboss an image/design onto your project, then apply colour over the top with inks/watercolour paints. The embossing powder will resist the inks etc, and the design will show through.

I stamped my peacock from my Folk fabrique set (coming soon)

I used the body on the left to represent a peachen and the one with a tail on the right for the peacock.

I stamped them together using perfect medium and wow clear fine embossing powder.

I then went in with my paintbrush loaded with water and used a few twinkling H2O's. The sparkle in real life is yummy! I've tried to capture it but it doesn't work well in photo.

The sentiment is from my Just Because set, I simply heat embossed in white powder on black card.

There is a fantastic prize for this challenge, so be sure and check out all the details on the main blog HERE.

Be sure and pop by the main blog to check out the stunning creations the rest of the team have created, just click here.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you get the chance to join in, you have until the 23rd July and you can even have your winning card published in the Craft Stamper Magazine. 

Have a wonderfully creative day
BiG HuGs Kim x