Christmas in July - Sweet Stamps Challenge

Good morning on a very warm and sunny day here in the UK.  Its Tuesday and that means its time for another challenge over on 

SWEET STAMPS 

and our theme for this week is 

"Christmas in July" 

If you enter into our challenge you'll have a chance at winning a $20.00 spending spree  in the Sweet Stamps store.  If you use a Sweet Stamps stamp you will have two chances at winning the prize!!

For the entire month of July Stacey from Sweet Stamps is offering a whopping 25% discount on all Christmas images!! Click on the Blinkie above to check this amazing deal!!

I chose to use one of Jacqueline's Wildlife stamps thus one is called "Arctic Seals 3010" for my sample card this week.  I went quite natural this time using shades of brown's with a tiny splash of colour. 

Copic Colours 

Seals 

E35, 34, 33, 31

W7, 5, 3, 1, 0

Background

B91, 12, 01, 000

W3, 1, 0

Crafty Supplies and Links 

My Minds Eye 12x12 Christmas paper pad

Sweet Stamps - Arctic Seals 

Merry Christmas sentiment 

Nellie Dies - Rectangles 

Ribbon, metal corners, pegs and clear gems from stash.

Its a Pyramid - Challenge 19 Sweet Stamps

Good morning everyone and welcome to Tuesday one more day nearer to the weekend.. lol

We have a new challenge for you this week over on 

SWEET STAMPS 

and our theme for this week is 

Embossing dry or heat

So dust off those heat guns and polish up those embossing folders and head on over to the challenge blog to join in. 

The prize this week is $20 spending spree in the

  SWEET STAMPS ONLINE STORE 

If you enter into the challenge using a Sweet stamp image you get your name entered into the draw twice!

Onto my card for this week, I wanted to try something a little different this week and wanted to see how many stamps I could use, so I decided to try my hand at a "Pyramid Card" and boy are they easy to make! 

Click Here to go to my Tutorial Blog.  Sorry there are lots of photo's for this card so bare with me..

I have used dry embossing for this card but you can't see it very well in the photo's I used my crimping machine to create a cardboard effect on the border which I then distressed with vintage photo.  You can just see it poking out of the flowers in the photo below  The flowers I have had for ages and not used very much as they are a bit big and bulky to use on smaller cards but were just right for this card.  

I absolutely adore this stamp from Sweet Stamps they are just so vintage! and look just as good on a CAS (clean and simple) card as they do dressed up to the nines..  This gorgeous Victorian lady is called Umbrella Girl and is available only at Sweet Stamps  

Copic Colours for this stamp 

Girl - R85, 83, 81

Umbrella - Y28, 26, 21 

Background - G82, 21, 40 

Sky -  Distress inks 

Next I used a new die from Cheery Lynne called Butterfly Bundle Dimensional dies I had a bit of a problem getting these to work at first but the wonderful Stacey from Sweet Stamps send me a tip on how to get them to work.  What you have to do is emboss first (with the thin and thick rubber pads and then to cut using c plate and a metal shim (available from Sweet Stamps) The butterflies need to be separated so you can use them individually. Once I followed this they worked like a dream.  So that's my second dry embossing technique.   

Onto the next side of my Pyramid Card and I used another of the vintage stamps this one called "Watering - Can Girl" this is another of my favorites.  If you click on the link you can see another of my cards I made using this stamp in the store and gives you an idea of how versatile these fabulous stamps are!

Copic Colours for this stamp 

Girl - Y28, 26, 21

Watering can - R85, 83, 81 

Flowers - B91 

If you look closely just poking up from the flower is a fimo heart that my daughter made for me just for this card.  Its been painted with acrylics and crackle painted over the top. 

Just a closer view of those wonderful flowers and the sentiment stamp (also from Sweet Stamps) I have stamped the sentiment on all corners of the pyramid using Shades dye ink "Brownie Chocolate Delight" and is a pleasure to use.  

And finally a close up of the Watering Can Girl and the flower soft sprinkles I used.  

Wow that was a mammoth post, sorry if I lost you somewhere up at the top ;0) I had such fun making this card I just wanted to share it with you... 

Crafty Supplies and Links 

Design Paper - Papermania Scrumptious 12 x 12 paper pad

Stamps

 Available only from Sweet Stamps  

Umbrella girl 

Watering Can Girl

Sentiment - You're someone Special 

Cheery Lynne Dimensional Butterflies Die

Cheery Lynne Scalloped Circle XL Dies 

Nellie Circle dies 

Distress Inks 

Shades Dye Ink 

Magnolia Doohickeys swirl die

Card Candy 

Flowers, lace, flower soft, pearls and pearls on stems from stash 

Copic and Polychromos colouring meduims.

Well what ever you are doing today make it fun! 

Card Challenges I would like to enter 

Digi Design house - Pearls and Lace 

Make it Monday - Anything goes 

Crafty Anne's - Use more than one image

Inspire me Friday Anything goes 

Mellow Yellow Alphabet Challenge "Y"

Good Morning and a Happy Good Friday to you all!

My Brother in law and family are coming to visit today, haven't seen them in a while and we are all excited to have a chin wag and catch up.  We've hoping the weather stays nice, warm and dry! Should be a lovely day.  

Well as its Friday its time of a new challenge over on 

ALPHABET CHALLENGE BLOG 

and the letter this week is... 

"Y" for Yellow.

any card, layout or project just as long as the colour scheme is predominantly yellow..

We also have a new team member 

"Sonia" welcome looking forward to getting to know and working with you.  

 My card this week I decided to do a bit of masking, I don't do this very often because it takes so long to do but  I love the results! 

I love my Magnolia stamps but don't seem to get chance to use them as often as I would like.  They always ink and colour up beautifully.  My daughter helped me with this card and did the colouring of Tilda didn't she do a brilliant job.  I just loved the colours she picked!   I added glitter to Tilda's dress and hat and the hearts on the shutters and a tiny bit of clear glaze to the windows.  

The little birdie is a new die and stamp set from a company called "Prickly Pear" that I got the other day  while mooching around Sir Stampalot. I 3D the wing and added crackle paint to make it shiny.    I will definitely be adding the rest of the dies and stamp sets to my collection in the near future!

These wonderful feathers are attached to wire and are so easy to place, although they are a bit pricey they do look fabulous.  The beads also come on wire but I'm going to have a go at making some myself.   The film strip is from Tim Holtz and comes in the cutest little tin. The sentiment is LOTV, for the yellow circle I used Nellies Multi frames Die's and the gorgeous flowers are from Wild Orchid.  

I would like to welcome all my new followers of my little piece of blogland, so glad they enjoy my blog and I will coming to visit you all soon. 

Have a very Good Friday and remember....

Keeeppp Crafting....