Candy

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I thought I would change it up and give some stamps away this week.  These are NOT used, they are NEW and still in the packaging.

The usual drill, just leave a comment and I‘ll draw a winner at the end of the week

Just wavin’ to say hello

I’m back … again!  Good grief, get totally carried away Bev!  This was a super quick make, I love these vintage looking images from Noor! Design.

I’ve heat embossed the Paper Art elements with Frantage Old Silver, LOVE the look you get, from paper to metal charm lookalikes in a matter of seconds.

 

I’ve used the All at Sea paper pad, the browns in the flowers work so well with the blues in the pad.

I’ll be back on Friday with another card, till then have a fabulous week.

 

Polka Dott

I’m still playing with some of my favourite older stamps, this one is Polka Dott from Whimsy Stamps.  She really is the sweetest little thing

Coloured with markers and pencils this time, I’m thinking I prefer the ‘pop’ the pencils give my colouring

Skin: E11, 00, 000, R20
Hair and Basket N5, E17, 15, 13,11
Peach: R02, 01, 00, 000 Venetian Red Polychromo Pencil
Hat & dungarees: E43, 42, 41, 40 Warm Grey 70% pencil
Apples: N5, YG03, 00, 0000
Leaves: N7, YG67, G20
Grass: YG67, E17, YG63, G20

I used a few different dies on this one, which I have listed below

 

Love my new border die

So, the products used are:

Whimsy Stamps Polka Dott stamp
Lemoncraft Miss Olivia paper
Dies: Noor! Design 0390 Butterfly Die, Joanna Sheen Isobel Lace border die, Cheery Lynn mini fanciful flourish die
Embellishments all from Wild Orchid Crafts:
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER MAGNOLIAS QVR-028
MIXED PEACH/ORANGE/WHITE MULBERRY PAPER WILD ROSES 1¼" (30mm) QVR-011
WHITE COSMOS DAISY STEM FLOWERS MKX-119
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER SWEETHEART BLOSSOM FLOWERS MKX-336
MIXED COLOUR MINIATURE GARDENIA FLOWERS MKX-198
PALE PEACH MULBERRY PAPER OPEN ROSES MKX-018 (I used 10mm and 15mm sizes)
MIXED GREEN SELF ADHESIVE PEARLS - ⅕" (5mm) MKX-494
MIXED GREEN SELF ADHESIVE PEARLS - ⅛" (3mm) MKX-502

Candy winner

This week’s candy winner is

 

Sylvie (Gibmiss)

 

Congratulations Sylvie, please email me your address so I can get your die set posted off to you.

 

I have loads more candy to give away so keep checking back

More candy

No more comments please - candy is closed and winner has been announced

Morning!  I’ve still got lots of stuff to give away, so to continue on with the candy here’s a die set from Marianne Design up for grabs.  Just leave a comment and I will draw a winner on Friday

You keep me anchored

Smthing a bit different today.  It’s my DT card for Noor! Design and this one pushed the boundaries I can tell you.  It’s also (sort of) got me out of the pink phase.  When I first saw the stencil I had no idea what to do with it, but ended up having a total blast playing and really love how this turned out.

 

 

Now then, I coloured this image absolutely ages ago, so can’t remember the colours.  However I think these are what I used:

Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20
Hair: E44, 42, 40
Blue: N5, BG75, 72, 70
Green: N5, YG03, 01, 00, 0000
Shells, seahorse: E33, 31, 30

 

 

The leaf shape is on the stencil, love how it works with the flowers and still keeps the sea theme.  I used the new Dutch Doobadoo Wavy Mask to create the bubbles, they look awesome peeking out behind the flowers

 

 

I’ve had such fun with this month’s release – it pushed my boundaries and kept me away from pink!

 

PRODUCTS USED FROM WILD ORCHID CRAFTS:
MIXED BLUE OPEN ROSES MKX-074 – 25mm and 15mm
MIXED GREEN TONE MULBERRY PAPER COTTAGE ROSES QVR-049 - 25mm
MIXED GREEN OPEN ROSES MKX-075 - 15mm
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER GYPSOPHILA FLOWERS GST-225
VINTAGE SEAM BINDING RIBBON – AQUARELLE MKX-493
WHITE PEARL DROP TRIM MKX-611
FLAT BACK FLOWERS GST-167

Back tomorrow with more candy

 

Picked Sweet

Seeing as I dug out some of my older papers that I was terrified to cut in to last week, I decided to revisit some of my favourite images as well, and Picked Sweet from Whimsy Stamps is the first.  I had forgotten just how much I love Elisabeth Bell’s work …. my bad!  So, I had a good old play in my craft room yesterday.  I ended up making a couple of cards, it’s amazing what I can get done when I plug the iPod in and listen to a book whilst working.  The day just flew by, and it’s a win because I don’t feel guilty sitting with my nose in my Kindle all day. 

I used the delish Anna Griffin papers again, the same papers as my last card just a different colour way.  See, I told you I had a problem ha!  Ugh the card looks skew whiff, it’s not – it’s the pants photographer.

Coloured with copic markers and I even dug out a few pencils for this one

Skin: E11, 00, 000, 0000, R20
Hair:E50, 53, 55, 57
Burgundy: R59, 56, 85
Pink: R83, 81, RV000, 0000 and light mahogany pencil
Plant Pot: E18, 15, 13, 11
Grass: G20, YG63, 67, 93, 95

Delish flowers, lace, seam binding, pearls and chipboard from Wild Orchid Crafts (products listed at the end of the post).

Love this chipboard sentiment

And a peek at the inside

Products used:

Stamps: Picked Sweet from Whimsy Stamps, Papermania alphabet stamps
Dies: Noor! Design 8 point die, 0032 Vintage Flourishes Leaf Die, La-la-land Crafts filigree corner die
Paper:  Anna Griffin
Embellishments all Wild Orchid Crafts:
LARGE MIXED PINK MULBERRY WILD ROSES 40mm (1½") QVR-025
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER WILD ROSES 1¼" (30mm) QVR-014
ROSE PINK MULBERRY PAPER OPEN ROSES MKX-008
MIXED GREEN MULBERRY PAPER LILY FLOWERS MKX-133
WHITE GUIPURE LACE MKX-276
VINTAGE SEAM BINDING RIBBON - SIAM PINK MKX-485
WORD TAGS CUT OUT SET
MIXED PINK SELF ADHESIVE PEARLS (SET B) - ⅛" (3mm)

Candy winner

The winner of the garden bench die is

Sam Smithard.

Congratulations Sam, please email me your address to claim your prize.

 

I’ll be back with more candy later on today

Whimsy Stamps April Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 2 of our April Rubber Stamp and Die Release.  Over the next 3 days we will reveal NEW red rubber stamps/stamp sets and dies . They will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from selected Whimsy Stamps retailers on Wednesday.

Today we are excited to show you the brand new Art by Mi Ran, Krista Heij-Barber, Sentiment Stamps and Dies, and my card today features the delicious Sew Special Package stamps and matching dies.

I trimmed the dress form die cut with a scrap of flower lace.  Just that tiny bit totally va-va-voomed the form

A close up of the gorgeous spool stamp and die.

You can see the depth of the lace on the dress form better in this shot

 

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

Maya Go
Louise Roache
Ellie Stover
Lizzy Smith
Natalie Dever
Debbie Eastman
Bridget Curnow
Bev Rochester (me!)
Iris Wiechmann

Retirement card

Phew, I’m going great guns – it’s either feast or famine with me lol.  A card on Sunday, one this morning, and another to come this evening.  Sheesh, I need a holiday to recover ha!

So, for my Noor! Design DT post this week I decided to make a blokey retirement card , aren’t they just so darn difficult to make but with the new Card Art templates it made this a doddle.

I embossed the Nautical Paper Art with Frantage embossing powder.  LOVE this effect.

More heat embossing

This was really fun to make and so quick and easy too

 

Catch ya later today

Collecting Sea Shells and some candy too

Please scroll down to the end of the post for the candy deets.  Last week’s winners were announced in the previous post.

I love this Stamps Happen Collecting Sea Shells stamps.  I have had it for years and think this is only the second time I have inked it up.  When I found this I decided to mooch through the obscene amount of papers that I have, and I mean obscene.  I frightened myself when I realised just how much money I have spent on this hobby over the years.  Anyhoo, I found a box of Anna Griffin papers that I kept for stroking (as you do!) and nope, not gonna be doing that any more.  So out they came and I didn’t even shudder at the thought of cutting in to them.  I also used one of the plain blue/grey papers from the Sea Shore pad which I ran through the die cutter in an embossing folder then sanded for texture.

Coloured with copic markers, I used:

Skin and hair: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20; E49, 59, 57, 53, 50
Dress: N5, NG75, 72, 70’'; C1, 0, 00
Sand: E33, 31, 30; W7, 5, 3

 

I used one of the Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art templates.  Love these, they are such a doddle to use as well.

 

Isn’t that organza trim just divine?  Light and frothy and perfect for a seaside themed card.

I coloured the lighthouse with copic markers (W7, 5, 3, 1) after die cutting

A close up of the sentiment stamp and the Greyboard sentiment

 

Products used:

From Wild Orchid Crafts:
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER MAGNOLIAS QVR-028
MIXED BLUE/AQUA/WHITE MULBERRY PAPER WILD ROSES 1¼" (30mm) QVR-012
MIXED BLUE OPEN ROSES MKX-074
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER OPEN ROSES MKX-013
40 PASTEL COLOUR FORGET ME NOT FABRIC FLOWERS MKX-332
WHITE COTTON LACE MKX-423
WHITE ELASTIC ORGANZA RUFFLE TRIM MKX-300
MIXED GREEN SELF ADHESIVE PEARLS - ⅛" (3mm) MKX-502
MIXED GREEN SELF ADHESIVE PEARLS - ⅕" (5mm) MKX-494

From Noor! Design UK

 

And now for some candy, again as before just leave a comment and I will pick a winner later this week

Winners

I’m soooo sorry I didn’t get back with the winners till now, things have been a bit hectic.  So without further ado, the winners are:

The door hanger – Denise Bryant

The die – As.I.Do.Rodos (Ginny)

Congratulations ladies!  Please email me with your addresses

Back later this evening with more candy

Nautical and Shabby and more candy too!

Please scroll down to the bottom of the post for the candy details.

I’ve a couple of Dutch Doobadoo MDF projects to share today, a calendar using the fab Ship’s Wheel and just because I have to have me some pink I also decorated a door hanger.

I painted the wheel with gold acrylic paint, then a coat of crackle medium then finished off with white acrylic paint.  I added a brass 100 year calendar to the centre (this puppy was MADE for the wheel!).  I got the calendar here

The embellishments are from the new paper art.  These are fab!  I embossed these with Old Silver Frantage embossing powder.  I love the look this gives, and totally transforms the paper art.

For my next project I went so totally PINK!  I used the gorgeous Vintage wood papers from Noor! Design

Butterflies, flowers and gesso added to the shabby chick look I wanted for this.

Wild Orchid Crafts products used:
PALE PINK MULBERRY PAPER CHRYSANTHEMUMS MKX-202
PALE PINK MULBERRY PAPER OPEN ROSES MKX-005 15mm size
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER OPEN ROSES MKX-013 15mm and 20mm size
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER CARNATION FLOWERS MKX-104
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER HEATHER STEM FLOWERS MKX-379
BEAUTIFUL LADY OVAL CAMEO - 20mm (¾") x 28mm (1¼") GST-041

 

And now for the candy!  There are TWO prizes up for grabs, the die below and also one of those fab MDF door hangers.   I’ll pick two winners from the comments in a couple of days, so if you fancy a whirl just leave a comment below.

Candy winners

The three winners from the first round of candy are:

Wendy Thompson

Carole Pollard

Denise Bryant

Ladies please email me.  Wendy you get first choice, so once I have that I will email Carole for her choice.

Candy–dies up for grabs

I’ve taken a few days off work so decided to try and sort out my stash.  I have found so many duplicates you would not believe!  So I’m going to give away stuff over the next few weeks, just leave a comment and I will draw winners for these three dies on the weekend.  The dies will be allocated to first come first serve, so if you claim your die first you get first choice, and so on.

The dies up for grabs this time are:

Whimsy Shapeology Slider 2 die

Crafty Sentiments Banner set 1 dies

And Sizzix Sizzlits Flower set 4

A little fairy for the Noor! Design Challenge

Yep, I’m an official member of the Noor! Design UK DT – how cool is that?!  It’s my first day on the DT and I join with the April Challenge, which is Anything Goes, so seeing as I am majorly into fairies at the mo, I dug out one of these adorable Pergamano fairy stamps.  I’m almost certain it’s by  Marina Fedotova, the artist that did the Sugar Nellie, Nellie Snellen and Scrapberry’s stamps.

Apologies in advance for the picture heavy post.

Loving the delish papers, they are from Noor! Design and are linked at the end of the post along with the other products I have used from Noor and Wild Orchid Crafts.

Copic colours used:
Hair: E57, 55, 53, 50
Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20
Pinks: RV95, 93, 91, 000, 0000; G46, 43, 40

Love the cameo frame, it started life off bright pink so I doused it in white gesso.  That stuff covers up anything   Did you spot the new little organza flower?  Yum!

A closer look at the doily die

I popped a couple of feathers behind the flowers.  I inked the edges with Bundled Sage DI.

And a peek at the inside.

Wild Orchid Crafts products used:
OVAL CAMEO FRAME MKX-271
Mixed Colour Fabric Embellishments GST-097 (these are the little organza flowers I mentioned)
BABY PINK BEAD BERRY SPRAY CLUSTERS GST-153
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER MAGNOLIAS QVR-028
MIXED PINK MULBERRY PAPER COTTAGE ROSES  (25mm size)
ROSE PINK MULBERRY PAPER OPEN ROSES MKX-008 (20mm size)
MIXED GREEN OPEN ROSES MKX-075 15mm size
MIXED PASTEL COLOUR MULBERRY PAPER TULIP FLOWERS WITH LEAF STEMS MKX-212

Noor! Design UK products used: