Mami Doodles Card

After my news yesterday - about my new DT spot with Mami Doodles I decided to share a card with a Mami Doodles digital image.  I had this little girl coloured with copics but hadn't done anything else with her.  I cut her out using my new nesties by Spellbinders - Curved Rectangles.  I added some Papermania Ribbon, cut layers from my favourite cardstock at the moment - Bazzill Dotted Swiss Cardstock in two colours, matted and layered.

I think this could be used as a Birthday Card for a young girl, or a thank you to a little girl - options are endless really.. love this digi.  It is available here.  Have left it sentiment free for the moment.

Thanks so much for peeking.  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Mami Doodles Design Team Announced

Doing the happy dance.  Delighted to be able to share the secret and let you know that I am now part of the Mami Doodles Design Team.

The ultra talented and wonderful Elisa (who is my Paperplay Challenges DT friend) creates amazing digital images and kits and asked me to come on board.... I am absolutely honoured to showcase her amazing creations.

Thank you so much Elisa. Here are some cards I have shared previously which I made using her wonderful images.

So much fun to work with these wonderful images.  Elisa is releasing a new image on Thursday so be sure to check her blog on to see what the new Design Team have created with her new release.  There may also be a challenge with a chance to win a digi!. 

My fellow Design Team mates are

Jackie

Lily

Vera

Rachel

Sarah

Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to watch out for some more fab cards using the wonderful Mami Doodles digital stamps/kits. 

Week Three - The Royal Battle - "the scrapbook page"

So Week Three on The Royal Battle over The Greeting Farm and the challenge is to create an 8x8 or 12x12 page layout.  Kathy was the one who had the task to create this week and she absolutely knocked it out of the park.....

She enlarged the hot air balloon stamp by TGF and coloured it (as magnificently as only she can), created a wonderful stitched patchwork scene for the land below.  She had a photo of herself and her family in a hot air balloon... how perfect was that? 

Up close detail - Kathy added amazing stitching to the balloons... and the beautiful colour on the cloud edges... just perfect.

and then she added the banner/sentiment - "Life's greatest moments".  I think this 12x12 scrapbook page is so much more than just a Layout... it is most certainly a labour of love and a stunner in my book.  Fantastic Job Kathy.

If you like Kathy's amazing LO - we would love your vote.  You vote by leaving your comment - and each person has three votes but I don't think you can give us three (hee hee!).... just one would be great though - click here to vote. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and woohoo to The Dream Team of Kathy, Fika and myself.  We REALLY appreciate your comments/votes.  Thank you.  Hope you are having a great weekend.

Spring Kit from All That Scraps - you could win it!

Kellie Winnell is celebrating 100,000 blog hits and is offering this amazing Spring Kit from All that Scraps as candy.  Okay, so if I won this I would be just soooo happy ... it includes 8 swiss pixies, 6 accessory stamps and 3 Spring Sentiment..... woowhee... sooooo cute.  The chance to win this wonderful candy will close on 23rd April at midnight and the winner announced the following day.  Pop over here to be in with a chance to win.

My DS has gone off sailing this morning... yes, ... I know.... still a tad nippy if you go into the cold Atlantic!!!  but he was smiling and happy ... so off he went... all well and truly geared up with the appropriate wet suit etc.  Brrrr brrr... don't fancy it myself .... oh to be 8 again!

Our entry has been submitted by Kathy for Week 3 ... wow, she will just knock your socks off.  I will post it here tomorrow when it is up in the Gallery over on The Greeting Farm and will again be asking you for your votes.... go Dream Team.... go!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Birthday Card

Made this 30th Birthday card using a digital image from Tiddly Inks Digitals.  Christy Croll is an amazing artist and has started her own Paper Craft Planet group where she shares some of her wonderful images to it's members as freebies.  If you like her images you should pop on over and join up - click here.

I coloured with copics and then added the recipient's name, age and a little Happy Birthday to the card the girl is holding to personalise it.  I stamped a Papermania Happy Birthday stamp on the cream cardstock and clear embossed it, hand stitched the edge with embroidery floss and matted in a red circle.  The pp is from Cosmo Cricket - Early Bird range.

Thanks so much for peeking, hope you have a wonderful day and a great weekend too.

Paperplay - "Happy Shiny People"

This week's Paperplay Challenge is set by Julie.  It is to use a "person" stamp/image, but it must have gloss, shimmer or sparkle on it. This week's challenge is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.  So to be in with a chance to win $15 store credit from this wonderful Company be sure to take part in the challenge this week.

I incorporated the "sparkle" in the gems on the top of the crown cardbase.  I also added glossy accents to his boots after I took the photo - will try and upload a fresh one later today.  I used the digital image - Prince Ian from The Greeting Farm, I found a crown template online, cut out on cardstock, used some machine stitching to adhere two bands of red cardstock to the crown.  Coloured Ian with copics, and used a strip of acetate to have him dangling in front of the card.  The sentiment is printed using a font called CK Newsclips.  A freebie font available here.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you will play along with Paperplay this week.

We are through!!! Roll on Week Three

Great news... we are through... yipee..... we have made it through to Week Three of the Royal Battle over on The Greeting Farm.  This week the challenge is to make a Scrapbook Page (either 8x8 or 12x12).    There are now 25 teams battling it out.  Woot woot to the Dream Team - Kathy & Fika and little ol' me!.  Fika created a stunning card for last week's challenge - way to go Fika.  If you haven't seen it - click here.

Now... onto a card.  I made this card using the Hero Arts Large Cupcake Cling stamp.  Stamped it on white cardstock and cut out with a slight border.  Then stamped on brown cardstock and cut out without any border.  Printed off the Friends Definition stamp that is a digital freebie here and stamped the cupcake again over the printout.  Coloured with copics and stickles.  Printed the heart image on red cardstock and created a pull out message.  Instructions on how to do this are available on this Hero Arts video by Shari Carroll right here.    Stamped a cupcake image on red cardstock with versamark and used clear embossing powder.  Added machine stitching around the edge (the sewing machine does not like stitching through the embossed surface!).  Forgot to take a photo with the sentiment tag pulled "out"!...oopps!

Thanks for peeking.  Hope you have a great Wednesday.