Wings

Morning all, it's Friiiiiday! I must admit with everything going on this week I lost my mojo a little, but I'm bringing you some LDRS Dollhouse inspiration using Wings.

Skin: Vintage Photo

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Clothing and Wings: Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet.

I've used a Joycraft die behind her, and my embossing mat has also gone walkabout too, so I had to forgo the embossing this time.

Layers are distressed and edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Love, love, love that Prima bling!

Products Used

Wings

Joy! Crafts - Around with Butterflies

Joy! Crafts Paper Bloc - Romance

Prima Say it in Crystals - Vintage Swirl Pink

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

That's all from me today but I'll be back again same time next week. Happy crafting! :) xx

Emma - rocker card

Happy Friday everyone!

It's Linda here with my regular Dies to Die for inspiration post.  It's not often that I get some time to try something different, but I've seen a couple of my friends make rocker cards recently and I thought I'd like to have a try.

 This is how it came out.

I kept my design fairly simple as there wasn't tons of space. The strip of paper from the bottom of the paper sheet made a pretty border. I managed to fit a few flowers on one side and underneath that I added one of the lovely new polymer frames that Tracy has in stock from Scrapberry's. These come in a set of 4 and are very inexpensive. They come in plain white but I fancied mine up with a little frantage, doesn't it look wonderful?

I coloured Emma up with my distress ink and Aquatint markers and decided to give her a funky hair colour.

A few close ups for you, isn't that little frame fab?

 I used the following Dies to Die for  products to make my card

C.C Designs Make a Card # 2

LDRS - Saturated Canary, Emma

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics - 1 March

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics - 10 April

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics - 11 April

Stemmed Lily Purple and White
Scrapberry's Polymer- Elegy

Well that's all from me today, I hope I've inspired you to try something new, and I'll see you again next Friday! :) xx

Gothica

Happy Good Friday everyone. If it's a holiday for you I hope you get to spend a lovely day....I now have 10 days without work...woohoo! Lots of crafting to be done methinks ;) I also want a good sort out of all my crafting stuff, I think it's taking over lol!

Anyway I'm here today with a bit of inspiration for you (I hope you find it inspiring anyway).

I used Gothica on my card today and I fell in love with this stamp as soon as it was released, but this is the first chance I've had to use her.

I've coloured her with my distress inks, colours are listed on my blog and there are links at the end of my post to products used on my card.

I went for a Victorian Gothic look on the card, well with a name like Gothica I just had to didn't I?
Her dress has lashings of sparkle with some black stickles but I just couldn't get it to sparkle on camera. I added a clock behind her and a chandelier, I thought they really helped to set the scene.

The lovely edging on the card is made by using 4 strips of the border die on the fron and 3 on the inside. Use a fairly thick stiff card if you want to do this or it will collapse under the weight of your finished card.

I used the following Dies to Die for products:

Little Darlings Rubber Stamps Saturated Canary - Gothica

Bo-Bunny 6 x 6 Paper Pad - Serenity

Little Darlings Dies Dewdrop Circle Die

Little Darlings Dies Dewdrop Border Die

La-La Land Crafts Chandelier Die

La-La Land Crafts Steampunk Clock Die

MFT Die-namics Pierced Oval STAX Dies

Well that's all from me for today, but I'll see you here again nest week, in the meantime have a lovely Easter!

Linda :) xx

Boho Chic

Happy Friday everyone, it's the weekend soon ..wheee!! and that can only mean one thing, it's time for my inspiration piece for Dies to Die for.

Today I'm using the delightful 'Boho Chic' a Dollhouse stamp from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.

This is my first time using one of the Dollhouse collection, but it certainly won't be my last, I just love them!

My choice of which stamp to use was driven primarily by the paper, as soon as I saw this fabulous flowery MME paper that came in my DT pack, I knew which stamp I wanted to use with it.

I've listed the products I've used at the end of my post along with links to take you directly there.

I coloured her with my Distress ink Markers.

Skin: Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick.

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Outfit and Bird: Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Black Soot, Evergreen Bough, Bundled Sage

I used the new LDRS Dewdrop Circle die behind her, isn't it fab, look at that gorgeous embossing.

I thought this MFT die echoed those pinking edged circles on the paper perfectly!

The sentiment, which is also from LDRS, is framed by a Scrapberry's frame embellishment. These come in white but I colored it with one of my Copic markers, Tracy has only just got these in stock at Dies to Die for (lucky me I got to use one first!) but they should be available on the website really soon, maybe even this weekend :)

Products Used:

LDRS Dollhouse - Boho Chic

MME Market Street Nob Hill 6 x 6 Pad

La-La Land Stitched Circles Die

MFT Pinking Edge Circle Die

LDRS Dewdrop Circle Die

Memento Ink Pad - Love Letter

That's all from me, but I'll see you again next week. 

Happy crafting! :) xx

Serenade Moments for Valentines or Anytime

Morning all! Linda here.Well that's another week almost done and looking forward to my weekend again. With Valentines seemingly just around the corner I'm sure you're getting a huge chunk of Velentine's cards thrown your way to look at. So my card today which has a definite love theme and would make a perfect card for Valentine's, but also for other occasions because I steered away from the 'traditional' Valentine colours of pink and red (ok there is a little red in there, but really not enough to make a difference).

This super cute stamp is one of the Candibeans range, isn't it lovely? I'm still on my Distress Ink colouring kick...well my OH bought my a bunch for Christmas so it would be rude not too.

I've not added the colours used today because to be honest I coloured it a couple of weeks back and I've forgotten doh!

The beautiful papers are from the new Maja collection Nyhavn, aren't they just scrummy, they are limited edition though so they won't be available forever.  Lovely colours and made me feel quite summery in the middle of winter!

As usual I've inked and hand stitched all my layers.

Love that cut out heart die and the edging round the card is made from a large die cut into pieces. I used the border strip from one of the papers to make up a little sentiment banner.

LDRS Candibeans - Serenade Moments

Nyhavn - Like a Colourful Bouquet (both sides)

Nyhavn - Old Town Houses (I used the blue side)

Tonic - Love Arch Border Squares Die Set (used the largest cut into pieces behind my card as a border

Die-Versions, Whispers - Love Definition Die

Musical Note Charm

Well that's all from me for today, I will see you again next Friday with some more inspiration :) xx

I dream of Genie with the Lime Green Hair

Happy Friday everyone! Linda here.  It was my first week back at work today after my holidays (well I say week I was only in for 2 days lol) and I'm already missing my craft corner, it was really nice to have the time to really go all out and get creative.

I'd been itching to ink up this stamp for quite a while now and yeah I know that maybe genies are supposed to be all floaty and ethereal BUT, look at that funky hair? To me she was crying out to be totally edgy and cool.

I was originally going to colour her with my Copics, or Inktense pencils, but I got all these new colours for Christmas that I wanted to play with and it seems you can go bold and bright with Distress Ink and still keep that translucent delicate look, it shouldn't work, but it does.  I hope you like her.

I've added links to products used at the end of my post. 

If you want to know the colours used, please head over to my blog

Then I covered her trousers and top with Glamour Dust, which looks really lovely and sparkly, but I could not get the camera to pick it up hardly at all.

I edged my papers (these are old Glitz ones called Hoopla but you can get them in a sale bundle which is a really super deal) with Old Paper Distress Ink and hand stitched them all with Top Stitch thread and edged all the dies with the same ink and some splodges of Gesso.  The dies here are from Cheery Lynn and Little Darlings.

Finally I decorated the inside to complement the front and spritzed the whole up with some flowers, lace and ribbon and some little sparklies from my stash.

Stamp - LDRS - Saturated Canary - Genie

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels Four

Cherry Lynn - Felicity Doily

Little Darling's - Lovely View

Glitz Hoopla - From Glitz Box Offer

Well that's it from me, I do hope you liked my take on Genie and I'll see you again next week! :) xx

Breeze

Happy Tuesday everyone! It's DT Linda here with my Tuesday inspiration post and for me it really is a happy Tuesday and for once my post is not scheduled because I'm off work until Thursday, yay!  So lots of crafting time for me !

I used the delectable 'Breeze' a Saturated Canary stamp in rubber, produced by Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  Isn't she just gorgeous?  I coloured her with my Copics this time but I'm itching to colour her in distress inks too, she's so lovely to colour. If you want to know the colours I used them pop over to my blog where they're all listed for you.

The papers are by Inkido, I love them so much I had a hard time cutting them and then when I went to link them I discovered they were out of stock, horror! There are others in the range that are still in stock, very similar  and just as pretty.

I used some beautiful Prima flowers, some gorgeous pleated organza ribbon, some gold lace which is just too lovely and I managed not to cover completely, some Prima bling and a beautiful brad to hold my seam binding bow in place.  As always links to items in the shop are at the end of this post.

I added some tiny Memory Box butterflies and some Liquid Pearls to finish off my image, and my sentiment.

The sentiment is from a whimsy stamp set and has been cut with a Marianne Design set of dies that I also used the cut the circle framing the image and the aperture for the inside of the card below.

Well that's all from me today, I'll be back next week.  Until then, have fun crafting! : ) x x

Saturated Canary - Breeze	Forever Collection No. 1	Marianne Design Craftables - Passe - Partout Round	Lace Gold	Sheer/Box Pleat Ribbon - Brown	Mini Roses Jewel Tone - Blues
Bazzill Kraft Cardstock	Liquid Pearls - Platinum Pearl	Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black	Everyday Sliders 1	Prima Say It In Crystals - Embellishments - Light Brown	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain
Neenah Cardstock	Dovecraft Hi-Bond Double Sided 6mm Tape	Collall All Purpose Glue - 50ml	Dancing Butterflies

InLinkz.com

Geekin' It Journal

Good Morning you crafty lot! It's DT Linda here so it must be a Tuesday.  I'm here with my inspiration post and it's quite a simple one for me, I needed to whip up something quick as it's my other half's birthday today so I'm quite short on spare time this week.  I decided that for once I'd make something for me, so I decorated a diary that I'm using to keep track of all my DT work. Links to items in the store are at the end of the post as usual.

I used the oh so Gorgeous Crea Diem collection from Maja Design for this, it's double sided so you only need the one sheet. As this was an object that is going to be in use on a daily basis,  I tried to keep embellishments to a minimum, not easy for me if your know my work! lol

The stamp I used is called Geekin' It, a Saturated Canary design from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  I did take liberties with her and lopped the apple off of the top of her head, as I wanted the bookish look but didn't want it to look like a 'back to school' project. As this is staying with me at home, I did pop her up on some very tiny foam squares, but if it was for a gift I'd probably keep everything flat and give it all a protective coat in case it was going in a bag.

Well that's all from me today, I hope you enjoyed my simple share and that it inspired you to try something yourself. See you soon! :) xx

Saturated Canary - Geekin' It	Crea Diem - It Is Written	Classic Numbers	Prima Say It In Crystals - Mini Swirls - Romance Novel	Prima Say It In Crystals - Embellishments - Black/Grey
Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black	Neenah Cardstock	Collall All Purpose Glue - 50ml	Dovecraft Hi-Bond Double Sided 6mm Tape

InLinkz.com