Tuesday 22 July 2014

New DT, new digis!

Hello from a very sunny Glasgow, it has been an exciting few days for me. I have been lucky enough to see the Commonwealth Baton weave it's way around my fabulous city twice, and one of the carriers was a distant relative too! And I am delighted to announce I am now part of the My Whimsical Little World DT wooo hooo!!! I am so looking forward to getting my pens out and getting colouring.

This week the new releases are Beach Wagon and Happy Camper. I coloured up Beach Wagon, and used some super bright digi papers to go with it.

Ingredients
Echo Park Digi Papers
Memory Box Dies
Sarah Hurley Sentiment Stamps
Coloured with Pro and Flex Markers

Thank you for visiting me on my first post for My Whimsical Little World and would love if you could pop by my teamies blogs to see what they have created; Angie,  Karen, and Paola.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Crafty Calendar  - Summertime Fun




Tuesday 8 July 2014

It's time to celebrate!!

And what better way to do it than to make beautiful things to commemorate it. The Sarah Hurley Designs challenge is 4 years old this month and we are hosting a Celebration Themed Challenge.

I decided to make a baby card for a complete change! I am loving the different styles of journalling cards Sarah has over at the Silhouette Store and used the Baby Journalling Card as the main focus of the card. I stamped some tiny clusters of stars from the Doodle Doll Stamps and stamped them round the card with VersaMark ink then clear embossed them. I distressed the card using Worn Lipstick and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks. I cut an extra journalling card, and removed the baby word, distressed it with Black Soot DI and placed it on the chevrons. I popped the journalling card onto some 3D foam to give the card some dimension.

I used the Chevron Background Stamp, which I inked with lilac and pink pearlescent Brilliance inks, then covered with clear embossing powders and heat sealed it. Such a great look for not an awful lot of work. I really love inking this stamp up with different colours, it always looks great for a large background.


Ingredients
Brilliance Inks
Distress Inks
Clear Embossing Powder

I really hope you can join in with our Celebration Challenge this month. See you soon, Carol x

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Baby
CCC Digi Creations - Digi/wet or dry embossing (journalling card is a digi file)
Savvy Handmade Cards - Reach for the stars
Cute Card Thursday - Reach for the stars

Thursday 3 July 2014

Card for a first birthday.

Another wee quick post from me tonight, this time it's a card I made for a wee boys first birthday.  The brief was the phrase "Love you to the moon and back" with silvers and greys as the colours.

The trusty cameo was used for this.




I personalised it with the wee boys name.

Hope you like this.Carol x

Brace yourselves, it's catch up time!


Whoops, I've been very naughty and forgotten to blog a couple/few of my makes, so hold on tight there are going to be a few blogs posts coming your way!

My first one is the card I made for my Sarah Hurley DT Showcase, and I am really getting to grips with my Cameo and used that to make the main feature of this card.


I used the Cellphone/Mobile Phone file from Sarah Hurley, and picked a journalling card from an add on from AFOMFT Kit. I made my background using a speech bubble stamps from an AFOMFT Kit and the words come from Everyday Sayings Stamp Set. 



Ingredients
Speech bubble and Phone "screen" from  AFOMFT kits 
Memento Inks

I hope you like the card, full details are over on my post on the Sarah Hurley 365 Blog. x