Flowers and Fairies...

You know when you buy a stamp plate and you love it, but you haven't used it for ages? I am like that with all my Crafters' Companion fairies stamps. I decided that I liked this little fairy and wanted an excuse to use her on a project! The fairy, sentiments, butterfly and flowers are all from the 'Lavender Fairy' plate. The flowers were tricky to line up and overstamp, but I think they came out ok in the end. I think if I had used a stamp without a definite line at the bottom it would have been much easier! The outlines were all embossed with black detail powder and the colour was applied using watercolour pencils. A touch of Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles 'Fairy Daydreams' finished the card off, along with some stickles in the lavender. I will enter this card in Lisa Bakers' challenge this month - 'Spring Watercolours'.

Cute and Simple Christmas Patchwork

This month in Lisa Baker's class, we were making small square cards and 'patchworking' the images together. Both the stamps are from Woodware I believe, and have been stamped several times in onto various Christmas papers. We have cut thee pieces all out and then put them back together. Some Stickles to add some glitter etc. and away you go... The different layers and textures are quite 'Scandinavian' once all put together.

Mermaid fun!

Although my blog has been a little quiet of late, I promise I have been busy! I do need to post more regularly though... This is the card I made for my husband's birthday using stamps I bought at the Ali Pally show from Creative Expressions. I have stamped the scene masking as I went, and coloured using Promarkers. The tail of the mermaid has been glittered using lots of Stickles. It is quite liberating doing funny cards; I may have to add to this range...

Alien fun!

Love these guys; smiling aliens! These fellows are from Creative Expressions. There are lots of alien themed stamps and accompanying images to enhance them. I have chosen 3 of the characters to be my toppers and also used a sentiment from the range as well as a large ship stamp to use in the background. The men have been coloured in shades of blue using Promarkers and their features highlighted using pale blue and white highlights using Liquid Pearls. This was made for a 7 year-old's birthday. I had lots of fun with these; the beauty with aliens is that there are no rules!