Anything but square!

Here is my last card as Guest Designer for Tickled Pink Stamps. I have enjoyed my short stint among the talented ladies at Tickled Pink...thanks for having me Kellie and DT!!

I do hope some of my clever readers will join in with the latest Challenge, which is...

Anything but a square

 
My images are both digital stamps from the   Lil Little  set of stamps, check them out HERE

                                               This sentiment is also from Tickled Pink Stamps

My card base consists of three circles layered and sewn together, then I simply scored the circle at the 3/4 mark, and decorated. Pretty simple this time around.

Hope your weeks going well.

Happy creating to you all

Spots and Stripes

Spots and Stripes is the theme for this weeks challenge at theTickled Pink Challenge Blog

I have used the  recently released Lil Little Lad Frankie on my card. How cool is he!!

 The sentiment on the card front is also from Tickled Pink Stamps, it is part of a set of Digital Sentiments designed by the talented Cheri, especially to go with the Lil Little series of image stamps.You can find them here.

 Here is a close-up look at my spots and stripes.

 Thanks for looking and I do hope you will join in the fun at Tickled Pink Stamps, the prize this week is one rubber, or two digital stamps of your choice from Tickled Pink . Remember you must use a Tickled Pink Image, or Sentiment on your card, Wilfred is a free bee, so head on over and 'pick him up' today!

Happy creating Everyone

Lil Little Lolita

Check out the latest new stamp at Tickled Pink.

This month I get to be a Guest Designer again, lucky me!

 Because I always tend to make cards I thought I'd go for a change and use this lovely stamp on a little bag.

 The challenge element this week is to use a doily on your creation

 When the little bag is opened it looks like this....

 If you want to have a go at making one yourself then you can find instructions at Inkido Blog by clicking here.

Thanks for looking and remember to stop by Tickled Pink Stamps for inspiration and lots of yummy stamps!

Be Enchanted by Tickled Pink stamps!

A few days ago I received an email from the lovely Kellie just reminding me that I was a guest designer at Tickled Pink stamps for the month of July...and wouldn't you know it...I'd totally forgotten.

Anyway, I pushed panic to one side, along with the large pile of work I was wading my way through at the time, and got straight to work.

 The Challenge this week at Tickled Pink Stamps is to use flowers on your project, along with a Tickled Pink image. I love flowers, so luckily I did not have too much bother coming up with this design...

Hope some of you will take up the Tickled challenge.

Did I mention that there are stamps to be won?? Check here for details

Tickled Pink with Bobbi

Bobbi is the name of the stamp I received from Tickled Pink to work with today. I decided to go with a simple colour combo, in keeping with a 'tom-boy' theme. I really struggled as I always over-do and just love to add flowers! So, here is my no flower take on Bobbi....

 The challenge this week at Tickled Pink Stamps is to add texture to your card, so I tried to keep this in mind and created plenty of texture using cardboard, paint, clay, tulle, feathers, paper ribbon and textured Bazzill.

 ...oops, and stitching, I almost forgot about that.

 

Because I really, really felt a need to add some flowers somewhere I made another card...

 There is heaps of texture on this one...

...and my flowers

Thanks for looking. Hope you can join in with the challenge. The prize up for grabs is a choice of 2 Digital, or one rubber stamp of your choice...and what a choice there is, check out the Tickled Pink Stamp collection here.  To see some scrumptious cards, using this image of Bobbi click HERE

Im a Pinkette...for the month!

This month I get to be Guest Designer at Tickled Pink stamps, which I am , well, tickled pink about of course! This is the card I made using one of the soon to be released Pinkette Lil Tom Boy stamps.

Check out the blog to see the rest of the clever Design Team's wonderful cards. And join in with the challenges if you dare, Kellie always has wonderful stamps to win!

Check out the latest issue of Paper Chase, I have created a couple a cards, that are in the magazine, that also use tickled Pink Stamps. I'm addicted to them!

Christmas Card Challenge # 2

Its only April and already I've made Christmas card number two! Thanks to Tickled Pink Stamps for the 'kick start'.

 This months Christmas Card Challenge was 'Bells'. I already added bells to last months card so I had to come up with something different this time around. This time I have used three small bells,two of them are looped them together with a gold  ring and secured  in place with a brad.

My image is called Lolita Evie, she is on special at the moment, so if you like her grab her over at Tickled Pink Stamps now.

 I have used Webster pages paper to make my card and done lots of cutting and layering. I have also used rub-ons and gold paint and glitter to jazz up the tiny bells

Thanks for looking.

Now, I really need to get on with some Scrap booking, must say I

 have been a little slow in that department lately.

Duntroon's Autumn ...on a card

At last I managed to finish my card for the Guest call over at Tickled Pink Stamps.

Below is the sketch for this challenge.

I decided to use my all time favorite paper for this one, hence part of the reason my card has been so long in the making...my favorite paper is hand made rusty paper. The 'recipe' to make this was given to me by my crafty friend Kristi. You can find the instructions on my blog HERE ...Click on the sixth photo down in that post to enlarge the image, that way you will be able to read the instructions.

I had a play around with the sketch and turned the required elements around, just a little bit!

I decided to cut out my image ,called Pinkettes Pippa, she is a new release over at Tickled Pink Stamps, and place her onto perspex which I backed with tulle. This way I could avoid covering up my rusty paper too much.

 I wanted my card to reflect the autumn colours that are all around us here in Duntroon at the moment. So behind the perspex rectangle I have an embossed image of wintry looking trees and I have added white lace to image the snow that is on our surrounding hills. I still have some bright yellow daisies in my garden, so I have added them to my card as well...well added some fabric daisies that look pretty much like the real thing.

.... without any more woffle here is the inside .

Thank you once again for popping by.

Good luck to everyone who has entered the Guest Challenge ( I will be needing loads of luck, and a miracle to get anywhere with this one!) Check out the gorgeous entries here at the bottom of the post.

New Pinkette's

Check out the very cool card Sketch provided by Emma for this weeks Pink Challenge at Tickled Pink Stamps.

 Kellie has some gorgeous new stamps available, and if your super fast you can purchase them in Digi form.

Of course I just had to purchase two of them...and latter the same day I  purchased the other two in the set of four.  I simply could not help myself!

Anyway...on with the sketch, I have used Lil Pinkette August on  my card, and I have used copics (for the first time) to colour her lovely little face, legs and hands. 

 I Know they say "blue and green shouldn't be seen", but thought I'd risk it and put these colours together anyway.

                                                                    ...inside my card....

 ...and a close up peek of the details

 Thanks for looking.

Tickled Pink Stamps have a Christmas challenge on as well as a Guest call, why not challenge yourself and have a go!  details are here for the Christmas Challenge

and  here for the Guest Call

Pink Challenge #14

Challenge #14 at Tickled Pink Stamps is...Pink!

I've been so busy tring to keep-up with life these past couple of weeks that I have missed the last two  challenges, so this afternoon I decided to get busy a create a 'pink ' card.

By the time I had this finished its was almost dark, so my photo is not wonderful, but here it is anyway....

...and here is the same card the next day, I was not happy with it so I have added and made a few small changes.

Tickled Pink have a Guest Call running at the moment, to be in with a chance to win this spot all you have to do is create a card using the sketch below, and a Tickled Pink Stamp.

Click on the sketch to go to the web site and check out the details.

Good Luck to all who enter :-)

Off the Scrap Desk

This weeks challenge at tickled Pink is one to get you thinking! It is called 'Off the scrap desk' and the challenge is to embellish your card with items that are not intended for card making.
I must say that I found this one really tough, as there is not much that I have NOT stuck on my cards at one time or another. Eventually I turned to the outdoors, as I often do if I'm stuck for ideas. Always in nature there is inspiration of one type or another, you just have to open your eyes and look around!

This is what I took back inside with me, an empty drink tin, from the back of our son's truck, a handful of acorn ends and tiny cones.

 ...and I also picked up a hunk of chicken coup wire, don't ask me why. I just thought it looked useful!

After a whole day of fiddling around I finally come up with this....

 I made the leaves by cutting out shapes from the tin can and carefully rolling the sharp edges under. I coloured the tin (and the chicken mesh) with Alcohol Inks. The little acorn ends made perfect little flowers, I just glued a small beads in each one.

 From 'off of my card making desk' I also used string, corrugated card,and craft wire, but these are items that I have used before. Check out the stamps on my card, I just had to use more that one! The sentiments, little boarder, swirl, and heart are all part of a set, called Pink Valentine Sentiments, from Tickled Pink Stamps. These stamps are awesome to use, and they leave a lovely fine imprint (just check out the word 'love' on the little hearts) There are no high pieces of rubber to leave messy smudges on your work either. Check them out!

Molly Mittens is a rubber stamp as well, and also from tickled Pink stamps, like the sentiments, the rubber is cut nice and deep so you get a lovely clean, crisp and fine impression every time you stamp.

I'm not sure that my colouring has done Molly justice, but I will keep tiring to improve. practice makes perfect, well, that's what my Nana use to tell me anyway. Sure hope she was right!

Now I'm going to have to put aside card making for a week or two as I received my NZ Paper Chase brief today, and I am also supposed to be illustrating a book for a friend.

Don't forget to take a peek HERE to check out more 'takes' on this challenge, and join in if you can!

Black and White with One

This weekend was a little slow on the crafting front, but I did manage to get a card on the go for the latest challenge at Tickled Pink Stamps. This time around  I challenged myself to keep this card uncluttered!

My sentiment clips off, I have my cards up to date at the moment (thanks to the on going Tickled Pink Challenges, and ever increasing choice of exciting stamps), so just in case I'm in need of a card for something other than a birthday I can simply unclip my sentiment and replace it with another one.

The challenge this week is to use black and white + one other colour only.

This sweet image is called Mollie Mittens with Flower you can purchase her, and her friends here.

I'm happy to say that at last I have Pay-pal sorted!

Tickled Pink have a Blog Hop on, show casing the new release Lil lad stamps. You really do not want to miss these, they are totally yummy! If your after the chance to win stamps, or just want to liven up your creative juices be sure to check this blog hop out, you will not be disappointed!