Wanna win some Sweet Pea Stamps?

Of course you do!!!

Crafts and Me have just launched their brand spanky new challenge blog with 3 chances of winning, how cool's that! Here's what's up for grabs!

1st Prize- Fantasy Art Collection Plate 8 sponsored by Sweet Pea Stamps picked by random org

2nd Prize-Gum Drops Easter Stamps- sponsored by Sweet Pea Stamps picked by the D.T

3rd Prize-A5 set Art Nouveau Stamps sponsored by Lilac Lemon Designs all followers names put in a hat and a winner picked by the D.T's

Come join in the fun and become a follower of the NEW Challenge blog HERE and join us for the 1st challenge and new ones every fortnight after that.
We all look forward to seeing you there.

And here's my DT creation - The theme is Faeries or Wings

The image is a sweet pea stamp called Midnight Waiting coloured with promarkers and highlighted with sakura stardust pens. The white bit on the wings was painted with shimmerz angel wings then I sprinkled some glamour dust (crystal ultra fine glitter) The background is coloured with dark blue promarkers then I painted a thin coat of clear glaze and sprinkled glamour dust. All the flowers are also painted with shimmers fairy wings with a coating of glamour dust, this is a super sparkly card :)

For those wondering how my mind works, its a brand new challenge blog - virginal - white (geddit lol!) I also love white and splash cards, majority white with a strongly coloured image :)

Come pop over and join in the fun, you dont have to use sweet pea stamps to take part if you don't have any so its a really easy one of faeries or wings :D

Debut DT at I ♥ Promarkers!

Its my debut over at I ♥ Promarkers challenge blog today and we are sponsored this week by Willow Designs who gave us all an image to work with each. Mine was Missy.

Its a bit out of my comfort zone but nice to have a challenge sometimes lol!

The challenge this week is to use the sketch and to include swirls somewhere on your project. Pop on over as Karen has been hard at work this week redesigning, making a facebook fan page and putting our mugshots on over at the challenge blog eeeeek! I wanted to be a rebel and use Tracey Coates' eyes but she dragged me kicking and screaming tutting that she knew I'd be trouble hee hee!


So if you use promarkers then pop on over and have a play in the challenge!

And now the Steasel!

I've no idea where my mind takes me some days and on Friday it went towards a see through easel (STEasel!) I got to this as I wanted to use the fabulous new heart stamp from the "Artistic Elements" sheet designed by Tracey Coates available from The Stampman. As I'd been tinkering with glitter this week I thought back to the glitter acetate cards which were popular once upon a time so wanted to incorporate that with a more modern design (the easel) and my own spin - The Steasel.

I've stamped the image with stazon onto acetate and used a clear glaze on the back and glitters. The backing paper is one I've made myself (destructions a little further down the post)
I also used a key and a sentiment from the same plate (Artistic Elements) stamped and embossed with detail white embossing powder.

The easel itself is made as normal and pieces cut out on the back bit. I added some extra card to strengthen it. The silver dots are "Nailheads" which come as a strip you cn cut down to however many you want, I absolutely love them!

Oooh whilst I'm here, check out my teamies blog - Debbie Dolphin She's got some great designs on there and has also got the front cover of Craft Stamper mag this month with her easel card woo hoo! Well done Debbie x

And the background. I wanted a dotty one and to play with my starburst stains so I chose the Black Orchid Silver and painted a base coat of this onto a piece of card and whilst still wet I dropped some distress reinker (red brick) on it. If you vary the height you drop it at it will affect how big a circle you get.

The Stampmans new Alluring Ladies

Here's another one from the new Alluring Ladies sheet designed by the fabulous Tracey Coates available from The Stampman. I love this sheet, its so diverse and I can see this stamp becomming a favourite - So many backgrounds, so many embossing powders to play with!

I'm really in a starburst stains mood lately, not that I'm ever not but moreso! I've stamped and embossed with Midnight Sapphire embossing powder over a background I made using Mountain Lavender Gold and Frosted Forget Me Nots from the Icicle creek starburst stains set. The scrunch background is made with the same colours.
I've used baby blue eyes from the May Day Meadows set on card and then used the new Jules Jewells cuttlebug folder to make the two panels.

I've added green sparkly highlights with light and dark green sakura stardust pens and added some prima wildflowers.

I can see this one bringing me hours of fun with all the colour combos you can do :D

I made the I ♥ Promarkers DT!

I'm really chuffed to be asked to join the I ♥ Promarkers design team for their challenge blog which I applied for earlier this month :D

Its a great challenge blog that I've played all of their challenges so far and love seeing their creations and inspiration. You don't need to use any specific colours which helps us that don't have a full set (yet!) so pop along as there's still time to play this weeks challenge which is a really sweet sketch. There's some great prizes up for grabs every week from some fab sponsors!

They also have a Fan Page just started on Facebook with plans afoot so to keep up to date, join in discussions and say hello you can add it here.

Hope to see you joining in the challenges which are every Wednesday x

The Stampmans new Glamour Lady

Here's the Glamour Lady from The Stampman's new plate designed by Tracey Coates. She has a solid dress so you can have a lot of fun with embossing powders, foils, glitters and imagination.

I never know what colour mood I'm going to be in on any given day and todays mood is blue and lavender so I used my Starburst Stains from the Icicle Creek set which are a wonderfully pale collection as I wanted a strong contrast with the dress. I made a scrunch background and covered a blank card base. To flatten this out more use a wetish glue like pva or a pritt stick and push the crinkles down. I then used a piece of black card embossed with the new Jules Jewells embossing folder for the lower half.
I used the icicle creek set again to make a piece of card to stamp on, I do this by puddling the Starburst stains so just paint a base coat on of any colour starburst stain and add blots of other colours and use your heat gun to push the colours around. This will give you a nice flat surface to stamp directly onto.

I stamped and embossed the Glamour Lady with moonglow midnight sapphire embossing powder (These really are gorgeous powders!) and I've restamped the lady separately using a glue pad and added glitter, cut it out and stuck it over the embossed one. I've edged round with a light and dark blue and overstamped again with the dark blue using the fab circles you get on the plate in the corners.

On the dress I've added some feathers which come with a gem and the flap on the dress is a prima flower folded over so it sticks up a bit. I shaded the lady in with a skin toned promarker.

Hope you check out Traceys new sheet over at The Stampman as you get so many stamps in this set to use (the sentiment is also from it) and a range of styles too.

September Rhythm

I'm making my debut tonight over at Crafts and Me stamps blog so be gentle with me lol! Teresa asked me over the weekend if I'd like to join their Design Team and as you know I love fantasy and fairy stamps and Crafts and Me are the only outlet in the UK to sell the gorgeous Sweet Pea Stamps and those designed by the immensely talented Ching-Chou Kuik.

Crafts and Me are also starting up a new challenge blog next week so pop over and become a follower to join in the fun!

I've chosen September Rhythm which was the first one that caught my eye and led me to checking out the sweet pea site who pointed me to the Crafts and Me site where I could get hold of them!

I used a couple of dotty backgrounds and followed the sketch from I love promarkers this week. Image is coloured with promarkers lets see if I remember lol!

Skin - Ivory, blush, vanilla, saffron, oatmeal and touches of sandstone
Hair - Pale Pink, rose pink, cerise with a hot pink sakura stardust pen for highlights.
Tail - Soft lime, lime zest, lime green, and touches of lush green
Flowers - Sakura stardust in yellow and orange
Background - Twinkling H2O - Bashful blue

Flowers are prima wildflowers with others from stash.

Entering this into...

I Love Promarkers -Sketch & Use dots
Creative Card Crew - Going dotty
Crafty Catz - Spring
Allsorts - Spring
Secret Crafter - Spring
Crazy for Challenges - Spring