ATS&M Blog Hop – Sponsered By Nicecrane Designs

Morning, morning!

How exciting and what a lot of fun!!!

The first ever blog hop over at Addicted to Stamps and More.

There are 8 wonderful prizes from our sponser Nicecrane Designs up for grabs.

To see what prize has been allocated to my blog please see further down the post.

To see the full details of the blog hop, to join in the fun and to be in with a chance of winning a prize please go to the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge blog.

I have been working with this Nicecrane Designs image sheet which is currently a freebie being offered on the Addicted to Stamps and More challenge blog HERE. 

Thank you Iganacio Molina of Nicecrane Designs for your generosity.

Ok, before I start with my projects that I have made for the blog hop, this post is heavy with photos.  If anyone has any questions regarding any of my projects and how I made them, please feel free to add them in the comments box and I will get back to you asap.

All images have been coloured using inks from DIs and felt pens. Please click on any of the photos to enlarge.

My first project for you today is one of my favourite images off this sheet.  I have used the little boy image which I think looks like a young Lord Byron.  I think I shall call him Lord William for now.

This card was inspired by Great Expectations and Pip.  I was thinking about Miss Havisham being locked away in her house.

I used a die and an embossing folder to make the door furniture.

The small circle bolts on the hinges are just circle scraps from a tag  die cut.

This is the second card using the “Lord William” image.  This time I resized him and made him slightly smaller.

Just a little close up.  This young man has a beautiful face.  It wasn’t until after I had photographed these that I thought maybe a fob watch would have worked nicely as an embellishment.

I really think you can go both ways with this image, either vintage or steampunk.  I would really like to know what you guys think.

For my next card I used this sweet image of a nursing mother. This image would be great for Mothers Day, New Baby, First Birthday, Christening invites…. oh, endless uses.

A little close up

The colour choices made for this card were really to do with the pretty papers I wanted to use.  After I had made it I did think pastels would have been pretty.

For the next two cards I used the same image. One printed in black outline and one printed in brown.  Just experimenting really! lol!

For this card I chose these colours because I wanted to see what it would look like as a sort of vintage Christmas Card.  I think it could pass.

I used some dies to make the rose flourish and popped a wooden button in the centre

Just a little close up photo. I love the detail on this, especially the little bird.  The butterfly is made from a silcon stamp out of my own stash.

I used the same image again on the next card but just changed the colours.

I used dies to make the swirl and flower flourish.  Again the butterlies have been made using a silicon stamp from my own stash.

Ok, for my next project, I am going to be honest with you.  I have yet to learn how to resize the images exactly to fit the dies that I have in my stash.  Anyway,  I coloured this image in (which was an absolute delight to do so) and then thought ugh!  So the only die I could find in my stash was an Arch die.  I used it upside down to make a sort of pennant.

When I was making this I did think this could be used for Easter.  Ok, bear with me…. The little basket and the lady’s Easter bonnet.  Anyway, with that in mind I used pretty yellow spring flowers for my embellishments.  One tip:  I frayed the chunky cord at the ends so that it would lie flat when I attached it.

I have made this in paper and card but it could easily (as most things can be) be made with fabric or even wood using Taps paper for your images.  Just a thought.

BLOG HOP

This is the exciting part!!!!!!!

The Nicecrane Designs image sheet that has been allocated to my blog as a prize for the blog hop is this one…..

Yey!  I love it, I love it and want it.  How cute are these images.  They have a really nice vintage feel about them. Who ever wins this, is in for a treat!!

BLOG HOP PARTICIPANTS BLOGS

Kylie

Florence (you are here)

Sandie

Caz

Nonni

Deepti

Danielle

Starting hopping and good luck everyone.

Start off at the Addicted To Stamps and More challenge blog, leave a comment on the ATS&M blog and visit all the participating blogs in order.  If you go out of order, no probs just start at the ATS&M blog and work your way through.  Please, you must leave a comment on the ATS&M blog and each of the individual participating blog to enable you to be in with a chance of winning an amazing prize.

Each participating member of the ATS&M DT have a picture of the image sheet which is up for grabs on their respective blogs.

This is going to be so much fun.  If you do not use digi images yourself but you have a crafty friend who does.  Please contact them and let them know about the blog hop. The prizes are gorgeous.  I wouldn’t want anyone to miss out on a chance of a prize.

Happy Hopping and have lots of fun.

Florence xx

A Mans Card – ATS&M Challenge #46

Morning everyone

This weeks Addicted to Stamps and More challenge theme is Anything Goes.  Thats right folks your craft projects can be anything you would like.

To see full details of the challenge, the wonderful inspirational pieces by the DT and to join in the fun please click on the ATS&M link above.

For this weeks challenge I have gone for a quick and easy card.  Ooops to be honest I don’t even think there is any stamping on this one.

I went with a legal theme for this card, using some paper with a copy of a conveyance on, pin stripe papers, and some green legal tape. I used dies to cut out the red frame (which has also been embossed) and the penny tharthing.

I trimmed to size all of my paper pieces and mat and layered these including the green conveyancing tape.  Rather than trying to tie a bow with the tape.  I attached a single piece and then took  another little piece and tied it with a knot.  A bit of a faux bow.  I attached the frame to the c. paper and attached this embellishment with foam tape.  I attached the penny tharthing with tiny pieces of foam tape and lastly added the peel offs in the corner.

Our wonderful sponsers for this weeks challenge are Whoopsi Daisy

Thank you to everyone who joined in last week’s challenge we hope you will join in again this week.

Just a reminder.  If you like your CAS cards.  The new Addicted to CAS challenge can be found HERE.  The challenge code word is Birthday and is being hosted by our lovely Kylie.  You still have plenty of time to join in.

A bit of a heads up guys.  Keep an eye out on the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge blog tomorrow the 23rd.  Something exciting is happening.  We hope you will be able to join in.

Thank you for calling in.   Always great to have your company.

Happy Crafting.

Florence x

There Be Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden

Hi everyone

A busy week ahead for posting.  This is the first of three posts  that I have scheduled.  I have been busy doing some DT work with some more of the wonderful images from Nicecrane Designs and have to say I have enjoyed every minute of it.  There is something very therapeutic about colouring images.

Ok, who loves fairies?  If you do you will enjoy these images.  Don’t take my word for it have a look for yourself.  These are the images I have been working with.

All of the cards have been made in the same way.  I just printed the black and white images off on to cardstock and then coloured them in.  I used inks from felt pens and DIs using a damp paint brush.  I then just mat and layered the cards and added embellishments.

To use the ink from the DIs, just pat the ink pad onto a plate or a piece of plastic and there is your ink.  You really do not need much. The same applies to using ink from felt tip pens.

For the first card I used one of my favourite image off this sheet.

As this was such a wonderful image I kept the embellishments to a minimum.  The little bird with the glasses and the top hat reminds me of a sort of whimsical steampunk character so I thought I could get away with a few cogs and sprockets.  Can you see the little fairy just peeping through the leaves at the bottom of the image.  Soooo adorable.

You can see her a bit better in this photo above.

These images are so beautifully detailed.   The little butterfly is a silicon stamp from my own stash.  There are some lovely butterfly images available at Nicecrane Design please click on the link to have a look.   An even better idea, click on the search box on Nicecrane Designs website and type butterflies.  I have just found some yummy images I hadn’t seen before!!

This was the most fun image to colour in.  It isn’t until you start colouring these images in that you notice all the tiny detail.

I left embellishments off this card because I am sending it to a friend in the post.  I don’t really think it needs anything.  I did score the white card at the top to balance out the image.  I thought it needed something there.

Ok, just one more.

I love the little toadstool dressing table on this.  How cute is that!

If you like Nicecrane Designs as much as I do please keep an eye on the Addicted to Stamps and More challenge blog this week!!  I wouldn’t want you to miss out.

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed your visit.

Happy Crafting

Florence x

ATCAS challenge – Birthday Card

Morning everyone

 Over at Addicted to CAS this weeks challenge code word, chosen by the lovely Kylie, is Birthday.  Lots of scope for this one.

To see full details of the challenge, the fabulous inspirational pieces by the DT and to join in the fun please click on the above link.

This is my little DT piece I have made.  I went for “Birthday Dress” for this weeks project.

I started off with a piece of white card stock.  Using some green ink, I stamped Birthday Wishes across it, just until I was about half way down the card,  and trimmed it to size.

I rubber stamped my main dress image onto white card using black archival ink.  I coloured it in using some ink from my felt pens and a damp paint brush and cut it out.

I punched a piece of white card stock with a fancy board punch and then trimmed it to size.

I then just mat and layered adding the floral board and the peel off.  The dress is attached with some thin foam tape. The tiny little dots in the bottom right hand corner are the scrap from the peel offs.

This weeks challenge is being sponsered by Bugaboo Digi Stamps

We hope you will join in the fun again this week with the challenge and look forward to seeing your projects.

Happy Crafting

Florence x

I am so excited – Nicecrane Designs

Hi everyone

I am so excited I could burst.  As most of you know I am a rubber stamper but last week I was introduced to the charming Ignacio Malino and his products at Nicecrane Designs .  My head has definately been turned.  They are the most exquisite digital images I have seen.  I spent hours looking through ND’s online store and fell in love with the products to the extent that I said to Ignacio “Gi’z a job”! lol!   So you can imagine how pleased and flattered I was when he said yes.

I have not stopped crafting with these  images  (Ref The Charming of M – L.A. Attwell CS) since I purchased them.  I just wanted to share a couple of the cards I made using these black and white images.

This is one of my favourite images….so far!  I printed off the black and white image (never thought I would say those word) and coloured it in using some inks from my felt pens and a damp paint brush.  I then just aged it slightly with some distressing ink.

I used some dies to make the flowers and leaves and just added a little D. ink around the edges to age them.

All that was left to do was to mat and layer all of the pieces.

The image sheet I used is this one.

Here is my second card off this particular digi sheet

Isn’t she such a darling!  Again, all I have done to make this card, is print the image out, coloured it with ink and a paint brush.   I stiched my image onto some green backing card.  Again using dies I cut out the flower and leaves to make the floral embellishment.

I cut out some pretty papers and just mat and layered.  I then added some buttons which I have attached using diamond glaze.  Ok, before anyone tells me, I need to alter the tension on my sewing maching!!  I was just too excited and having fun with these to start messing about with it.

Nicecrane Designs are based here in Cadiz in Southern Spain.  To see the full range of  their products please click HERE.  Seriously grab a cup of coffee before you visit because there is so much eye candy to see.   One tip I would like to share with you is that, when you are looking,  if you see an image you like make a note of the category it is under (ie., the above image is under Famous Illustrators) and also the relevant page number.  Makes life a lot easier when you go back to have another look at the image.  This isn’t a complaint but there really are  so many to choose from you will not be able to decide in one hit!!

You can also see Nicecrane Designs Blog HERE.

I hope you like the above cards and would love to have your company on this adventure of mine.  It think it is going to be a lot of fun.

If you already use Nicecrane Designs products, and have the time, please call in and say “hello”.

Happy Crafting

Florence x

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #45

Morning everyone

This weeks challenge at Addicted to stamps and More is a photo challenge.  The challenge is to use the photo (as shown below) as your inspiration for your project.  You can take any element from the photo or the photo as a whole as your inspiration.  To see full details of the challenge, to see the wonderful inspirational pieces by the DT, and to join in the fun please click on the link above.

Here is my little DT piece for this weeks challenge.  As soon as I saw the photo I thought of this rubber stamp image with the garden shed and the sunflowers on it.

I stamped my image onto white coated card stock using black archival ink and coloured it in using ink from my felt pens and a damp paint brush.

I made a frame out of some pretty papers using a die.  I used a fancy boarder punch on some more pieces of pretty papers and then just mat and layered it onto my base card.

Just to share – Rubber Stamp used:  Impression Obsession – Gary Robertson Design.

Photo Inspiration for this weeks challenge

This weeks challenge is being sponsered by Whoopsie Daisy.

Thank you to everyone who played along with last weeks challenge.  We hope you will join us again this week and can’t wait to see your projects.

Thats all from me today.

Take care and Happy Crafting.

Best Wishes Florence x

Two cuties – Addicted to Stamps and More #44 Challenge

Hi everyone

This weeks challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More is Addicted to CAS #44.  To see full details of the challenge, the wonderful DT pieces and to join in the fun please click on the link above.

Not so many entries for the colour challenge last week.  Where were you all.?  Ok, who had a party and forgot to invite us?? he he!!

Back to this weeks ATS&M challenge.  I have made two little cards for this weeks challenge.

For my first card, I was thinking about the little photo booths, y’know the ones where they take pass port size photos and you usually pull funny faces at the camera.  Did you ever go in those as a child.  They seem to take ages to go off.  You wait, and wait and then just as you move to see what the problem is the flash goes off and takes a close up picture of your nose or in Maria’s case nostril hair!! lol!

I took a piece of black card and punched three squares equidistant apart.  I punched small holes down each side of the card.  I then placed this over a piece of white card stock and drew in pencil around the squares to give the stamping postions on the white card.  I stamped my image at different angles and coloured them in.   I then just mat and layered.

This is my second card and which I am dedicating to our lovely boss Kylie  who does an incredible amount of work, in her own spare time,  behind the scenes to bring these challenges to us.  So this ones for you my little Koala-Lumpa!! he he!

This stamp is so old.  I have had it for….emmm,  must be over 18 years .  It was one of the first stamps I ever bought.

I stamped onto coated cardstock using black archival ink and coated cardstock and coloured the image using a damp paint brush and some ink from my felt tips.  I added some little lines of grass, using an archival micron pen,  just to ground the Koala.

Stamps used: wood mounted acrylic – Koala Swag  – Stamp IT (WA).  The script is from Joanna Sheens Holly Pond stamp sheet. Little butterflies – Chocolate Baroque.

This weeks Addicted to Stamps and More challenge is generously being Spondered by Whoopsi Daisy.

We hope you will join us and have some fun with this challenge and we can’t wait to see all of your projects.

Don’t forget the Addicted to CAS code word Rainbow challenge is also running at the moment and you still have plenty of time to join in that if you have not already.

A huge thank you to my blogging friends who have been leaving comments on my blogs lately.  You know who you are.   You are so very kind.  I will be around for a catch up asap.  Pop the kettle on.  I will bring the cake!!

Tat tar for now.  Happy Crafting everyone.

Best wishes Florence x