Halloween-StampingDragonStyle

 

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.  Hope your day is going well? 

Don't know what your weather is like but here in the West Midlands it is raining cats and dogs. Good day to stay in and craft - hee hee

My post today is a DT sample for our new challenge over at Stamping With The Dragon Challenge which is Halloween.  Now I don't celebrate or even like Halloween so this is my very first halloween card I have ever made.

Shopping List

C5 black card
Orange pearlescent card
Backing papers - Spooky Night
Digi stamp - Jiggy's Pumpkin
Spellbinders - basic lattice die
Marianne die leaves
Dienamics swirl
Copics - G21 | G28 | G29 | YG00 | YR02 | YR04 | YR07
Pearl moon guilding wax
versamark pen
WOW white twinkle embossing powder
Clear embossing powder
black versafine ink
Clarity alphabet stamp

I matted  my backing paper from Spooky Night selection onto a black card blank, I have also distressed this around the edges..  I then used my versamark pen to draw a spiders web coming out of the top left hand corner and embossed it with the WOW white twinkle powder.  Hopefully you can just see this.

Using spellbinders lattice die I cut some dark green card and placed that onto my backing paper.  I also die cut the swirl using a dienamics die.  My wording was stamped using the clarity alphabet stamp, black versafine ink and clear embossing powder and then cut out and placed onto my card.

Jiggy's Pumpkin digi stamp was printed out and coloured using copic pens.  Cut out, shaped and placed onto my card.   The leaves were die cut using a marianne die and green card finished off with some pearl gilding wax.

I do hope you like my first halloween card.  Thanks for checking out my blog and do pop over to the challenge here.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -
Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care. See you soon.

Hettie Jamming

Hi guys how are you all today?  Hasn't the weather turned nasty.  Gosh I wish this rain would go away, hate the rain I have to admit. Well I have just had a lovely weekend crafting, I actually had 4 days off in a row which was nice, got a good start on my christmas cards but I refuse to start putting them on here until November.  Don't you think christmas starts a little early, our garden centres are already starting to put the decs up and we haven't even got bonfire night over and done with. 

Well my post today was made as an order for a 21st birthday.  Now I have made a few for this customer so I had to come up with something different especially as I was making two for the same person, always difficult.

The image is one I have used before and shown on here actually, Jamming Janice from Mo Manning stable, a lovely image and so ideal for the younger generation.  My topper was coloured in with copics, die cut with a spellie die and I made a faux die to mat and layer.  My sentiment was printed out, die cut and inked up.  The flower is spellbinders too as is the flourish.  You know me and my flowers/flourishes, my trade mark I think hee hee.

The background was made with some music stamps from Dimensions, embossed with a music embossing folder and inked around using spiced marmalade from tim holtz.  All finished off with cosmic shimmer glue dots.  I think I am getting better at those now, more evenly spaced, practice is certainly the key.

Well I happen to know Hettie was pleased with this card and hopefully she had a lovely birthday. Hope you like it and thank you for popping in.  Take care and see you soon.

 

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

Challenges 4 Everyone - No 31 Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - Challenge 54 Add Some Orange

2 Sisters Challenge - Challenge 165 Anything Goes

CMC Copic Challenge Group - Anything Goes

Inkspirational - Challenge 41 Anything Goes

Circles - Stamping Dragon Challenge

Hello crafters and followers.  Are you having a good day?

My post today was a challenge for me as I am not known for doing shaped cards and my Stamping Dragon DT challenge was 'circles'.  So I decided to go hybrid and use Craft Artist.

My shopping list
Digi Stamp- Circles Floral Flame
Backing Papers from Lemonade Paper Pack
Serif Craft Artist 2
Sizzix flourishes
Spellbinders Sun kissed Fleur stamps and die.
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - tea dye
Copic Ciao - Y02 | YR04
Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder - Tropic Yellow Lustre

I started with blank 8x8 page and the imported my two backing papers, placed on of them onto my page and stamped out my circle.  I them imported the digi stamp, used the cutout facility to cut out the centre of the digi stamp and when I was happy with that I then converted my digi stamp into an intelligent frame.  This meant that when I imported my photograph I could just drop it into my digi stamp frame.  Before I placed my photograph in I did change the colour of the frame.

My 2nd backing paper I used to punch out a couple more circles, roughened the edges and placed them behind my digi stamp frame.  I then printed it all out onto card and cut around the circle.

I used my copics to do a bit of colouring around the edges of my digi stamp and frame plus the butterflies.  Placed it onto a 8x8 card and cut around that too. I was then ready for my embellishments which are the spellbinders sunkissed fleur stamps and die plus the cosmic shimmer embossing powders all topped off with sizzix flourishes in brown card.

Thank you for checking out my blog and don't forget to visit and enter the challenge here.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -
Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care. See you soon.

For My Mom

Hi there, how are you all, well I hope?

My card today was made specially for my Mom's birthday which is today so HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM you are the best. 

I daren't tell you how young she is, she can still clip me around the hearhole!

The image is from Mo Manning and is a digi stamp coloured in with my copics.

I have die cut using a spellbinder, labels  28 which I inked around with antique linen distress ink.  I cut a faux nestie for a mat.  The flower is a die from Xcut, daisy one.  The flourish I cannot remember which company that was from, sorry but I did by it from the Stamphut I think.  The embossing is an embossalicious 8x8 folder from crafters companion.

 

Thank you for stopping by and for any comments you choose to leave, they mean such a lot to me.  Take care. 

 

 



Last Rays of Sun-Yellow

Well crafters and followers, today is my very first DT project for Stamping Dragons Challenge - Last Rays of Sun.

When I applied to be a DT I didn't think I would be chosen so I never actually looked at the website or designs.  When I was chose, after getting over the initial shock I quickly went to look at the designs.  Boy are they gorgeous.  Quirky and different is how I would describe them and definitely beautiful designs.

Thing I like about a digi stamp is the versatility.  I can have any size I want. Now don't get me wrong I also love stamps but I will admit to their limitations in as much as they are one size.  With this digi stamp I took it into my serif craft artist programme, reduced it in size and then changed the colour to both yellow and purple, used the stamp mode and created my own backing paper too.  See definitely versatile.

So for my card, my shopping list is: -

C5 centura pearl card blank
piece of purple card
yellow 6x6 co'ordinations card
couture creations embossing folder - One World
spectrum noir pens - DG2; DG4; CT1; CT2; PL5
Digi Stamp - Fancy Floral
spellbinder labels 10
serif craft artist 2
yellow dotty ribbon
distress inks squeezed lemonade | milled lavender
brilliance dew drop ink pad - sunflower yellow
clear embossing powder
glossy accents

I have started with a C5 centura pearl card blank, followed by a piece of purple card which I pricked around the edges.

I coloured my main image using spectrum noirs then cut it into a square, rounded the corners, distressed the edges with some distress inks squeezed lemonade and matted that onto my yellow co'ordinations.  I have decoupaged the flower and finished it off with some glossy accents.

I then ran my backing paper, which I have designed myself using my serif craft artist, the digi stamp and stamp mode, through my GC using the One World embossing folder, I did have to extend it.  I distressed the edges using squeezed lemonade and milled lavender distress inks.

I then finished the card off with a yellow dotty ribbon and a sentiment die cut using my labels 10 spellbinders die and cutting a faux mat.

I do hope you like it and don't forget to hop over to  Stamping Dragons Challenge - Last Rays of Sun. and enter.  Good Luck.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -
Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care folks see you all soon.

Red Daisies

Good evening fellow crafters and followers.  How has our Sunday gone?  Mine has been lovely, started with an unusual lazy lie in followed by sunday lunch and a pleasant afternoon with hubby and mum and now a lazy evening waiting for Downton to return.  Back to work tomorrow - yuck.  Good job these weekends come around quickly - tee hee.

Well my woodburner is installed, my new blinds are up and my lounge is now getting back to some kind of normality.  Two doors to replace and we will be all done, thank god.  It has been worth it though.

My post today was made for a friends birthday.  Cream and red card do go so well together.  Daisy Swirl stamp from creative expressions using one of their lustre embossing powders.  The background is stamped using fire brick distress ink as is the spellbinders flower.  The little flowers were made using a tonic punch and the swirl is also a spellie.  The background has also been embossed using a couture caustic embossing folder I think.

Hope you like it.  Thank you so much for stopping by.  Until next time do take care.

I have entered this card into the following challenge:-

Hiding in My Craft Room - challenge 116 Lots of Layers

Celebrating Sara & Steph Marriage

Good evening crafters and followers.  I do hope you have had a good day.  Hasn't the weather changed?  Phew, positively chilly.  Roll on Friday when, hopefully, my woodburner will be fitted so we will be snuggly warm from then on and hopefully have cheaper heating bills. 

My card tonight was made for my neice and her partner who got married earlier in the year in America.  Steph is American and has been very brave by coming to live here in good old England, but then she loves my neice and I can understand that.  Not that I am biased or anything.  I do wish them many years of happiness.

I have to admit I was a little nervous when making this as it is the first same sex wedding card I have done but I was really pleased with it although my photograph leaves a little to be desired.  Sorry.

I began with a C5 centura pearl card, matted another piece of card on after pricking around the edges.  I then embossed another piece of centura pearl card using a lovely swirls embossilicious 8x8 folder.  In fact I have used centura pearl card completed.  The two hearts are stamps from a creative expressions set of wedding stamps which are delightful.  I used a cosmic shimmer lustre embossing powder.  They have been matted onto a d-lite which is matted onto an xcut heart die.  The flower was made using stamps from Chloe.  I stamped and embossed onto parchment finished with a pearly and two swirls from spellbinders also diecut in parchment.

Finally a little personalisation using clarity alphabet stamps and some WOW silver glitter embossing powder.

I do hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it.  Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog and for any comments you choose to leave.  Take care folks.  See you all soon.