Bailey

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Welcome all to a day full of new releases at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! Head on over to the challenge blog to check out the design team’s awesome inspiration – they did a wonderful job. ;D But here I’ll show you three of the four and here’s my first one … Bailey!


This Little Miss was was inspired by several things currently around me but the main one being my five year old daughter. ;D She is so inquisitive lately and her hair is getting long and curly. Of course, I can glorify all those details in ink, of course. ;D


I made this a simple card to give focus to the image – mainly because I printed out the image larger than normal – just some gems, lace and faux stitching and Voilà! A card. ;D Hope you like it and stay tuned for a few more projects today.

I’d like to enter into the following challenges:
Stamp Something July Digi Days (use a digi)
Wags ‘n Whiskers Challenge #57 (summertime)
Crafty Catz Challenge #89 (colors of summer)
Charisma Cardz Challenge #26

(ice cream: chocolate cherry with caramel sauce)


DT Preview: Little Miss Muffet Stamps – New Releases
Main Stamp: Bailey (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: Lime Twist (MME)

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E21, E13
-hair: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59
-browns: E41, E42, E43, E44
-reds: R21, R22, R24, R27, R29
-oranges: YR14
-greens: G21, G24, G28
-grays: C1, C3

From The Desk Of

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After watching Annika’s coloring tutorial I decided to dig out my Prismacolor Pencils and give them another try. I learned two things while watching that I wanted to try out – first to use a paper with texture (a good tooth) and second I like how she started with a lighter color first.

The coloring actually worked out easier that I expected and the blending was smooth sailing! I didn’t have to press as hard as before and no minerals were needed for blending. I had to color this one in less than 15 minutes but loved how easily it turned out.

Main Stamp: From The Desk Of (Flourishes)

The border idea is from Jen (Deconstructing Jen). Thanks! ;D

Prismacolor Pencils on Kraft Paper:

PC1031, PC1092, 943, 946, 927, PC1098, 990, PC1097, 988, 966, 968, 938, PC1068, 941, PC1084

Did you know? Grand Island is a town and an island in Erie County, New York, USA and is the largest island in the Niagara River.

[Grand Island, New York, Wikipedia.org]

Flutterby

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Just posting a fun card I made using Flutterby from Tiddly Inks – she was such a cutie-patotie that I couldn’t resist! 😀 I really wanted to work with large areas to practice some new techniques so I printed her out large. I practiced adding folds and creases with shading in the jeans. It’s going to be an upcoming challenge (hint, hint, but I didn’t say where either) so I’m working out the technique.


The paper I used was perfect because it had so many colors to choose from – yet the image is large enough that it doesn’t look to busy to me. I embellished it with a few gems, flower and chippies too. I even added Stickles to the butterfly wings for fun. Hope you enjoy it!



Main Stamp: Flutterby (TI)
Patterned Paper: School Spirit (CP)
Chipboard: Flower Leaf Swirls (MiC)

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E11, E13, E15, E25
-browns: E42, E43, E44
-yellows: Y21, Y23, Y26, Y424, Y18
-greens: G21, G24, G28
-blues: BG10, BG11, BG72, BG75, BG78
-grays: T2, T4, T6, T8

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“The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.”

[Tongue-twister, Wikipedia.org]

MiC & QP Anniversary Celebrations

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Make it Crafty is celebrating their 1-year anniversary and to commemorate this even we’re having FIVE challenges over at Make it Colourful challenge blog! This post includes three samples to get you inspired plus all the details on the celebration events going on – you don’t want to miss it!


Like I said there are five challenges going on starting today and they last the whole month long during the celebration. The theme for those five challenges are as follows:

1. Merge as many images as you can
2. The most creative combination of images
3. Rubber stamps only
4. Chipboard Only (no image)
5. Colour using the MiC Logo colours – blue/mustard/yellow and brown


I chose to work on three out of the five categories… #2 most creative combo, #4 chipboard only and #5 MiC Logo colors … and pictures will be scattered sporadically through the post. The yellow and blue text is courtesy Zoe – thanks for sharing Zoe! ;D

Make it Colourful Challenge: Chipboard Only (no images)
Gears Galore chippies (MiC) and “Sweet n Toxic” (TGF)

Make it Crafty is turning ONE!!

Woohooo – The celebrations have begun at Make it Crafty!!! We are excited today to be sharing this celebration with Quixotic Paperie, who were the very first company to take on the Make it Crafty line of stamps, laser cut embellishments and now the Make it Colour blending card.

Make it Colourful Challenge: MiC Logo Colors

Quixotic Paperie are celebrating too! It has been their two year anniversary celebrations for the month of June! To celebrate we thought, rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!


To get inspired, hop on over to the Make it Colourful challenge blog where you will see the amazing creations our fabulous DT’s have created for this event! PLUS find out all the details on how you can play along!

OF COURSE THERE ARE PRIZES!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS!

PLUS, PLUS, PLUS

There will be random winners throughout the whole month. The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.

Make it Colourful Challenge: Most Creative Combo
Sandcastle, A Time to Relax, Siren Lorelei and Butterfly Swirls chippies

PLUS there’s MORE!!

Quixotic Paperie have a little something for you too!! Make sure you pop on over to HERE to enter your name for a chance at MORE Make it Crafty Goodies!!

PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!

PLUS THERE’S EVEN MORE!!!

You’ll also receive a set of steak knives when you… hahaa ONLY Joking BUT… for THREE DAYS ONLY you’ll be able to get 40% off Make it Crafty Digi Stamps when you enter the coupon code:

CELEBRATE
(Ends June 28th)

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!!

Coriander

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It’s the start of another challenge Little Miss Muffet Challenges and this time we’re digging into the warm colors! The theme this fortnight is “Reds, Oranges and Yellows” and we want to see your creation with all those colors.


I went with a summer theme, of course, and used Coriander on my project. I tried to use 100% warm colors but a just a tidbit of green found it’s way into my coloring. But somehow that splash of color works perfectly. ;D


As a side story, I had a dream, possibly a nightmare, that I went to a HOA meeting just out of curiosity but was somehow nominated to be on a board and before I walked out they had put me in as the president. Yikes… that’s a lot to take in but hopefully this card will wake me back up into a nice summer day in the backyard! LOL


I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafting for All Seasons Challenge #2 (summer)
Anything Goes Challenge #42 (summer)
Bearly-Mine Challenge #13 (summer)
Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #19 (summer sun)

DT Challenge: Little Miss Muffet Challenge #12 (Reds, Oranges & Yellows)
Main Stamp: Coriander (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: Salt Air (CC)
Chipboard: Butterfly Leaves (MiC)
Metal Die: My Favorite Things Die-namics Sunshine

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E21, R12
-hair: E08, E07, E19, R24, R29
-reds: R22, R24, R29
-oranges: YR04, YR07
-yellows: Y18, Y38
-grays: C1, C3

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[Garbage Pail Kids, Wikipedia.org]

Update: I was a random winner at Bearly Mine for this challenge!

Go Girl Go

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It’s another challenge day at Little Darlings Challenges and this time we want to see you use your favorite colors. One of my favorite colors is pink so I had to have some of that on my card. I found some left over girlie Basic Gray paper that was perfect for the occasion.


The stamp I used was Go Girl Go and she is part of the second release of images from Love to Stamp. These care free spirited images are so much fun to color and can really be used various ways – I love using them with backgrounds but they’re also perfect to use on their own! ;D


I embellished it with a few traditional items and even dug out a forgotten ticket to use as the sentiment. I also used a few lasercut chipboards from Make it Crafty which I’m going to start calling Chippies. ;D Hope you enjoy the card and get a chance to “Play” this week!


DT Challenge: Little Darlings Challenge #2 (favorite colors)
Main Stamp: Go Girl Go (LTS)
Patterned Paper: Olivia (BG)
Chipboard: Flower Leaves Swirls and Butterfly Leaves (MiC) partially covered Petal Pink Liquid Pearls
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Ten

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E21
-blues: BG10, BG11, BG70
-greens: G24, G28
-pinks: R21, R22, R24
-grays: T0, T2, T4, T6, T8

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[Tornado, Wikipedia.org]