Riley

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Welcome to another New Release day at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! I’m excited to show you four new images this week starting off with this one, Riley. Head on over to the challenge blog to see more inspiration using this image and Iris May Hatter too. ;D


I created this card as a class for my church group and wanted to go with something simple yet eye catching – so I used bold colors and large sized embellishments to do the trick. We’re going to print out the image with different color shirts so we can focus on the card making rather than coloring. So I hope it goes over well. ;D


My inspiration for this image came when we were out camping the other week – The kids spent lots of time in the park area swinging and what else was I to do? I wasn’t in the mood for swinging so I whipped out the sketch book at went to town. Hope you like it and head on over to the challenge blog to see more New Release Inspiration!

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:
Bearly-Mine Challenge #14 – Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenge – red, orange, yellow
Crafty Hos’ Challenge – warm colors
The Pixie Cottage Challenge – ribbons
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central – simple

Mix ‘n Match with Tiddly Inks & Make it Crafty

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Make it Crafty and Tiddly Inks presents… a Mix ‘n Match Release! I’m so excited about this joint release I’m almost paralyzed witting about it – I don’t even know where to start! LOL So there’s details over at Facebook and a Release Page that has everything you need to know plus more sneak peeks… and a fun game of I Spy!


“It’s finally time to release the big Mix n’ Match collection from Tiddly Inks and Make it Crafty! Together they have been craftily plotting behind the scenes for months (making us drool in anticipation) to bring you a fabulous collection of Steampunk creations with a Victorian theme! You’ll find little steampunk houses, bits and bobs background scenes, flying contraptions, gorgeous characters and the finest selection of digital papers!

We could send you on a little hop, but they are getting a bit boring… so we knocked our heads together and thought up a game to play instead! ‘I SPY’ with my little eye… … hmmm what do you spy?? Well to find out, head on over to the Release Page where it all begins!! (Plus 15% off new release images for a week!)”


Here’s my creation and another page in the summer journal. My journal is about 5″ x 8″ and has been an interesting size to create with – in some areas I have more room to play around and my style has certainly been leading towards the scrap side of decoupage.


In the background I used Steampunk Flying Machine from Make it Crafty and went with a color scheme I thought would be realistic for that time period – coloring metals such as black cast iron, copper, brass and steel. Then the paints and fabrics were more muted colors to coordinate with the metals. For the sky, I added just a few clouds.


In the foreground I used Owlette from Tiddly Inks and colored her with the same muted colors except for her hair. There is something about orange-red hair that goes perfectly with a green dress! On the dress, I created lots of folds and pleats and bult up the ink so much that I over saturated the paper – luckily for me, that ended up making it looked like crushed velvet, a happy mistake I can live with!


Update: I totally forgot to include a close up picture of the awesome Flying Machine!! … and I’d like to enter this project into the Simon Says Challenge – Anything Goes.


Hope you enjoyed the release and my inspriation for you today! Happy stamping and good luck with the I Spy game!! 😀

Wind Surfer

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Today starts the 3rd challenge over at Little Darlings Challenges and this time the theme is to use “Buttons and Brads.” Now, don’t look too closely at my project because I totally messed this one up and used grommets, eyelets and dew drops instead – yikes! I had mixed up my challenges and did another “Summer” project which was the theme for Challenge #2. ;D


This is a second page in the scrap journal I have for this summer and my project uses Wind Surfer from Love to Stamp. I also had some postcard cut outs from K&Co (I think) which is where I got the beach tent and summer sentiment. I also used the Sunshine die from My Favorite Things – I love it in felt.


I’m going to have to start thinking about rebinding the journal because with four pages it’s already getting pretty bulky. However, I haven’t a clue where to start but I’ll keep going until something comes to mind. It’s been fun to flip through it and see each of the pages so I can’t wait to see it filled up! Hope you enjoyed the project! 😀

Aisha

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It’s another Tiddly Inks Tuesday and we have another challenge for you and the theme is “Reel Me In.” We want to see creations that are create a card inspired by a Scary or Summer movie. To tell the truth, I got as far as a “movie tie in” and forgot to pay attention to scary or summer! So, ah hem, this one is my “Summer” move tie-in. LOL


The movie is actually a YouTube video named “Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)” and my inspiration can be found at 2:35 in. It has always been in my mind since the first time I saw this image from Tiddly Ink, Aisha.


If you’ve noticed, this is actually not a card but a page in my spiral bound notebook – my scrap journal for the summer. I got tired of decoupage and painting and thought it would be easier to fill the book with my cards and instead of pasting in a card I decided to create it directly onto the page. 😀


Here’s a close up of the image Aisha. I had fun coloring her clothes and of course couldn’t resist adding a few more pleats. So come along and play in the “Reel Me In” challenge and have a happy coloring! 😀

Toasting Properly

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Remember all those hints I’ve given about coloring pleats and folds in clothing? Well, today’s the day! It’s another challenge with Make it Colourful and our theme this week is none other than to… create folds and pleats through coloring! 😀


Here’s a close up of some of the folds I created in the dress. I like to start with my darker colors and work towards the lighter ones. The darkest color I lay down serves as a guide for the fold – so I guess it’s kinda like cheating. LOL But give it a go and see how it turns out for you.


Our challenges is sponsored by Magnolia-Licious which also have lots of images to practice this technique with. 😀 The images I used on my project was Toasting Property from Tiddly Inks and Flying Balloon Chair from Make it Crafty. It’s an unusual combination, I think, but I like how it turned out.


I embellished with a few elements keeping with a black and lavender theme but also snuck in another page from the dictionary – this one was semi checked for bad words though I still didn’t take the time to *every* word. Ha. But I guess that is what would make it interesting – especially for this card!


I didn’t write down any details on the colors and papers this time around but I used the upper V’s for the lavender and the “N” Neutral colors. Here’s a closeup of the main image. I colored her with Gray hair thinking of my Mom – she’s on vacation right now and enjoying life, of course.


Hope you liked it and come on over to play in our challenge this round – it’s a fun technique to learn. Happy Stamping and stay tuned for next week’s combined release of Make it Crafty and Tiddly Inks!

Acronyms

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Up until now, I used acronyms when I listed the stamps and papers that I used.  However, I’m now listing the stamps using the companies full name so my acronym list is no longer needed.  I’m just posting this here so I don’t loose the list in case anyone needs to reference it.

Rubber Stamps & Digis:
BnW = Belles ‘n Whistles
CAS = Clear Art Stamps
CAH = Crissy’s Art & Heart
CCD = C.C. Designs
DPD = Dustin Pike Doodles
EB = Elisabeth Bell Designs
EOD = Elizabeth O. Dulemba
ISS = InStyle Stamps
KD = Karen’s Doodles
KKD = Kenny K Downloads
L&F = Ladybug & Friends
LotV = Lili of the Valley
LL&L = Lil Lolita & Lil Lads
LMMS = Little Miss Muffet Stamps
LTS = Love To Stamp
Mag = Magnolia
MiC = Make it Crafty
MD = Meljen’s Designs
MO = Mo Manning (was MMS)
P = Pergamano
PMS = Paper Makeup Stamps
S = Stampavie
SB = Stamping Bella
SBS = Simply Betty Stamps
SCRS = Sparkle Creations
SK = Sarah Kay
SN = Sugar Nellie
SOG = Some Odd Girl
SU = Stampin’ Up!
TGF = The Greeting Farm
TI = Tiddly Inks
TSB = The Stamping Bazaar
WnW = Wags ‘n Whiskers
WoJ = Whiff of Joy

Decorative Papers:
BG = BasicGrey
CC = Cosmo Cricket
CM = Creative Memories
CP = Crate Paper
DCWV = Die Cuts With A View
JS = Jillibean Soup
K&C = K&Company EK Success
K*I = K*I Memories
MM = Making Memories
MME = My Mind’s Eye
TPCS = The Paper Company Studio
TPS = The Paper Studio