Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Fabulous Father's Stamptacular Challenge :-)



I made this card for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge whose theme this week is 'Fabulous Father's'




Heidi at Simon Says Stamp
very kindly sent me this fabulous set of Simon Says Clear Stamps OWLS AND BRANCHES Exclusive Set



Doesn't the 'Dad' look concerned about his little fledgling :-)
I coloured the images with Prisma pencils and blended with odourless spirit. The background was made using distress inks and stamped with the branch from this set. The flowers are Prima ones, also from Simon Says Stamp.

The 'Dad' is stamped onto an inked grungeboard die cut shape. I also used a skeleton leaf and a swirl cut out on my cricut.
I used Basic Grey and brown coredinations papers.

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

Funky Fairy's Challenge 21 # Christmas !! :-)

I am sitting here writing this with my A/C on ! It's red hot here and not exactly 'Christmas' weather ;-) I made a promise to myself at Christmas to make at least one Christmas card a week starting in February ! Well that didn't happen ! But at least I have one ready now !! yay !!
The theme on the Funky Fairy's Challenge is to make a card or creation with Christmas in mind. You have to use at least one Funky Fairy's Papercrafts download to enter. They have some wonderful papers to buy in the store or you can go to the Blog of Inspiration and find some lovely freebies too :-)




I treated myself and bought the Lets Get Traditional set, it was a difficult choice tho because they have some lovely Christmas paper downloads. I am sure I will be using these alot though, many of them I can use throughout the year too,,, bargain !! :-)



The image is a Penny Black Jolly Xmas Kitty. I bought this to use last Christmas and never inked it so I just had to use this one :-) Isn't it CUTE !! :-) As you can see I glittered almost everything ! I didn't have any white glitter card so I made me own :-)




As you can see I decorated the inside too :-) The sentiment comes with the download pack along with loads of other images. I can't recommend this set enough it is FABBY !!
The DT have done some wonderful creations for your inspiration so please go and see them :-) We love coming to see what you have made so please join in The Funky Fairy's Challenge!

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x x

Simon Says Let's Celebrate :-)

This week we have a very special celebration on the Simon Says Challenge
. We are helping Heidi celebrate the first birthday of the Simon Says Stamp Blog

We would like you to make a card or creation with a first birthday celebration in mind. My celebrations always start with a Gin and Tonic !!! :-)

On Sunday we will be having our first blog hop YAY !!! :-) Heidi has very generously given us all candy to give away AND she will be adding surprise bling too so make a note on your calendar to join us :-) It will start at 4pm CET on the Simon Says Challenge blog but I'll be back with more details later in the week :-)

The design team have made some wonderful cards to inspire you and as an added bonus we also have KENDRA joining us in our Designer Spotlight :-) Kendra is a fabulous designer on the Simon Says Stamp Brand Design Team. She has a fabulous blog too which you must go and see. Please leave her a comment when you visit too :-)



As you can see I chose to use a fabulous House Mouse stamp, this one is called 'Splish Splash,,,, a citrus bath :-) I coloured the image with copics and 3D'd it




I also decorated the inside using Mudpie Mouse' he is just soo cute eh !



The papers are Stamping Up, I added st,ickles to the centers of the fruits, I also used a little coredinations for layering :-)The flowers were plain white Prima ones which I sprayed with orange glimmer mist.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Clear Stamps SIMPLY THE BEST SENTIMENTS Exclusive Set which are only available in the Simon Says Stamp store

I followed the fabulous sketch on the Friday Sketchers Challenge
they have some fabulous DT cards for our inspiration too !! :-)

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x x