Spots & Stripes

This fortnight at Southern Girls we want to see projects with "Spots and/or Stripes". Our 2 lovely sponsors are Little Claire and Dtsart

For my card I have used a cute image from Little Claire called VW Campervan. I had an ulterior motive for picking this image....it's the other half's birthday in a  couple  of weeks time and he loves our VW van so what could be better?

The paper is MME that I've had for soooo long, still trying to use up some stash!  The washers (well it IS a guy's card!!!) are from a hardware store, coloured with alcohol inks and finished with glossy accents.  

I'm entering this in Deep Ocean Challenge- more than 2 colours

and Tuesday Taggers- Lots of layers

It's Zoe's Birthday!!!!!

We thought it would be fun to share the excitement of today and as a fun way to get everyone involved we have a surprise for you!!  Check out this image especially drawn for Zoe by Little Miss Muffet Stamps which features a Sweetheart dress for any occasion with a festive Gumnut flower sun hat.  The Zoe Hatter image will be available as a freebie for today only in celebration for Zoe's Birthday!!  How cool is that?!  If you want to play along, just email Barbara at ForgottenScraps@gmail.com and as long as it's September 27th anywhere in the world then the offer is still open!!  Share you're creations in the MiC FB Group too - we'd love to see what you make!

Happy Birthday Zoe !!!!!

It's A Boy!

A  quick card from me this time, my hands are sore ( recovering from building a fence!!!!!!)  so I didn’t really feel the love from my copics! LOL!

A good friend is due to give birth sometime in the next 3 weeks so I thought it was time to make a card for her. They’re expecting a boy……just hope its right or there’ll a baby girl wearing a lot of blue, and a tiny leather jacket and very cool kiddie boots that were presented at the baby shower a while ago…..hehehehehe!

This cute image from MIC is Mother and baby. I had to laugh when I saw the hair being pulled, every time I pick up one of her poodles, he pulls my hair with his teeth.  Good thing he is adorable or I might take offense!

I don’t normally do clean and simple cards, this is as clean & simple as I ever get . The paper is Kaisercraft and the gorgeous chippie frame is another of Zoe’s little masterpieces of cutting, just perfect for finishing off the card. I tucked the image in behind the frame at the bottom and popped it out up the top and it looks quite effective IRL!

MIC products used

 Mother and Baby digi stamp

Ornate oval frame chipboard

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to our blonde dork aka Brodo Waggins, Brodie Wagglebum , Dick , Doofus and the list goes on. Yes the idiot is 4 years old today and No , we don't expect great changes in his maturity levels, yet!!!!!

Where to start?

My Mojo has gone on holiday, I just couldn't even think what I could share with you all this week!  There is cotton wool in my head.....arrrgh! Must be something to do with the crazy spring weather we've been getting. We've got gorgeous warm sunshine now, half an hour ago it was  hail. There was a huge dump of snow on Mt Taranaki last night, it 's looking magnificent !

Luckily I have a pile on my desk with half-started images and untouched images and orphans....unloved, unused and abandoned!!!!!   and I  found in this mega-huge pile some previous merges I had done and never got around to colouring. What could be better than Sophie day dreaming in Paris?  And pencil colouring on kraft too, something I have really begun to enjoy .  I played around a bit with the skin colours this time and can honestly say I've no idea what I used! LOL! She looks a bit sunburnt  I think.....

The paper is Prima Romantique, perfect for Paris of course.

The Background is the Ivy, window and wall from the paris elements  collection, and I've placed Sophie on a chair which can also be found in the Paris street cafe elements. I merged these images in Microsoft Word , so easy to do with Zoe's fab images as she spends so much time making them user friendly in this way. We LOVE YOU ZOEEEEEEE!!!

MIC crafty products used:  Paris Elements Digi Collection

Sophie day Dreaming digital stamp

Flowers

Morning everyone! Time for another challenge at Southern Girls and we want to see flowers. Now how easy is that? The sponsors this time are LOTV and Dtsart.

On my card I've used a LOTV stamp called Pom Pom.  These images are just so cute, I've never been able to resist them.

The large flower I made using hand dyed crinoline , with a sizzix die, held together with a brad.

I'm entering this in Fashionable Stamping  Challenge- anything floral/ handmade flowers and no digis allowed

Flower Power

Aren’t these new images from Make it Crafty just the coolest?   I had to colour one up this week just cos! Spring is on the way here and I just felt like a colour explosion was needed….LOL!

  And I got to use my  new washi tape for the first time. The butterfly I coloured first with copics then polychromo pencils .   Melody I coloured with copics but sorry I forgot to write down colours.

 The paper is Crate Paper Restoration and I thought it was ideal,

MIC products used

Melody Digi Stamp

 Swirly Corners chipboard

Spring Swing Butterfly chipboard

I'm entering this in Totally papercrafts - Zesty Summer Colours

Canvas

Take a blank canvas and slap on some stuff and voila! Pretttttttty! LOL!

I decided last week to have a play with some of my purchases from Senz and made some resin flowers with the Easy Cast resin and molds I bought.  What to do with them? I just happened to have a blank canvas sitting there waiting to be plastered with stuff so off I went. First some gesso, and some texture paste, sprayed with glimmer mist and splattered with some alcohol inks, laid on some muslin , textured with a piece of jute and left to dry. Maybe I should've left the colouring till it was dry cos is took ages...but I'm too impatient!  hehehehe.....

Then I started layering on resin and paper flowers, a couple of shells, pearls and viva pearl pens, then prayed all with more glimmermist.

Next I  added some MIC chipboard dragonflies, flourishes and of course the gorgeous  bird and birdcage.   These I coloured with a mixture of alcohol and metallic inks , and glimmermist.

Messy and lots of fun!

Make it Crafty products used

Chipboard  Exotic Flourish

Dragonflies

Leaves from Swirling Trees

Oriental Bird

Water Play

Good Morning!  Its a new challenge over  at Southern Girls and this fortnight we want to see projects that relate to water.  And we have 3 fabulous sponsors, Marianne Design, Delicous Doodles and The Paper Shelter.

I've use a gorgeous image from Delicious Doodles called Marina.  I've coloured with copics, paper is prima Fairy Flora , and other embellies from my stash. I love this ribbon, had it for AGES!!! but this is the first time I've used it , and its perfect for underwater! 

So hop on over and check out the DT's gorgeous work and come and have a play with us! 

I'm entering this in Waste Not Wednesday- Use your neglected stuff - paper and ribbon

Creative Card Crew- On the beach/under the water

Twisted Tuesday- Anything Goes

Creative Mondays- Water

Another new cutie from MIC

I try to pick my papers first, before starting my colouring, it makes it so much easier to match up, and I have SOOOOOO much paper I need to use! LOL! A recent trip to a papercraft expo saw me being very restrained and I only bought one 6 x 6 paper pad . That has to be a record for me!

I decided to use one of the gorgeous new girlie digi stamps from MIC, Girls Flying Kite.

The colours I’ve chosen match the papers ( MME) and embellies I picked from my stash.  I coloured first with copics  then added more shading with my prisma and polychromo pencils .  The chipboard embellies are also MIC and I’ve decided I have to stop hoarding them and use them on everything I make cos I LOVE them!  And Zoe has been busy designing more gorgeousness for us to play with…….watch this space!

The  result is definitely NOT clean and simple!!!!

MIC products used

Digi Stamp- Girls flying kite

Chipboard leaves from Swirling trees

chipboard corners from Swirly Corners

Senz

We've been to Hamilton and we're home again, absolutely knackered ! 

Day one was up at 5am, picked up at 6am-ish...Trace was late.... hehehehe. Picked up the other two and off we went. A day shopping at The Base, and Chartwell and this is what the car looked like!  Needless to say we got to the motel, had showers and put our jammies on and vegied after repacking the bags a bit. Day 2 was breakfast at a cafe, then SENZ!!!!!  Woohoo! Crafty shopping!  I was very restrained, buying only stuff I NEEDED!!!!   No flowers,and only 1 paperpad as I've vowed to use what I've got, which will probably last me forever anyway....LOL. And yes the car was jam packed on the way home.

 And look who we met at Chartwell...Sid & Scrat!  We made Marise pose with them so we could compare bellies (she is pregnant.....!!!) and I'm probably going to get in trouble for posting these pics! 

Now for something REALLY exciting……Bricks!!!!!

Hi again everyone! Hope your day( or night) is going well wherever you are.

Have you checked out the gorgeous new fairytale images available at MIC yet?    I saw the castles and the the dragon and thought it was time i had a play with colouring some brickwork, as so many of the background stamps have some brickwork in them. Sound boring? Well, it was quite a challenge for me as I like to finish things fast and this wasn’t ever going to be fast!

I concentrated on the bricks in this image for the purpose of practice.  Unfortunately the light in my room wasn’t brilliant so there is a yellowish tinge to parts of the image, please ignore this! I have used warm greys over the whole area though it doesn’t always look like it!

Starting with WO and W1, I laid down some colour , choosing to have my light source from the top left.

Next was some W2, and  W4, dotting the colour .

Here I came in with W6 and dotted the areas where I wanted most of my shading.

I then blended it back in a bit with W2

Some more W6 for shading

Now, laying down W2 and W4 in my shaded areas on the rest of the image.

Dotted in some W4 and W6

Now some heavier shading with W8 in the darker areas and blending in some more with W2.

The dragon I quickly coloured with greens, yellows and yellow greens (See image below) . The sky I dotted with B0000, B000, BV20 and B60.  There are some practice bricks to the right of the image that I played with before starting  the main image. By dotting the ink, it gives the effect of texture and this is also a useful technique for filling in large areas of background.

I hope you found something useful in this and hope to see you all racing off to colour some BRICKS now ! Yay! LOL!

MIC stamp used is Dragon Ruins Digi stamp

Pearls!

The new challenge over at Southern Girls is to use Pearls. How easy is that?   We have two fab sponsors this time around, Delicious Doodles and Fred She Said.   The image I've used is called Emma & Rosey from Fred She Said, and yes, there is a doggie in it! How unusual!

The papers are from my long stored stash.....MME I think.....!!! The pearl centre of my flower was given to me, thanks Trace!

I'm entering this in My Time To Craft- raining Cats & Dogs

Have you had a play with these gorgeous shadow box frames yet?  This is my very first go and it was so easy to put together, Zoe, you're brilliant!   I've never bothered making my own, seemed like too much trouble, and now I don't need to ....LOL!

I painted the pieces with gesso which dries quickly ( yes I'm impatient) , glued on the DP and edged with distress ink , before I put the bits together and glued and it went smoothly !!!!!!!!!!! Usually I lose a piece of something and find it later , glued to my jeans.....hehehehe!

The image is Lizzie with Gift and I printed her onto kraft then coloured with polychromo pencils. I did this months ago when my pencils first arrived and she's been sitting looking at me saying  "Do SOMETHING with me!!!!"  The frame around her is the Circle flourish frame which I coloured with Distress Stain then stickled.  The paper is Websters Pages that has been sitting in a pile for years.....yes, I've decided i need to USE some of my stash instead of hoarding it.  

MIC products used

Square Shadow Box

Lizzie With Gift

Circle Flourish Frame

Dragonflies Chipboard

My Dream.....

Oh to have got a puppy for a present!  Never happened to me but I wished all my life it did!  Had to go out and get my own in the end...hehehehe.   Well, Zoe gave us the CUTE image to play with, I had to play with it of course!  I also added in the background, the 3 seater couch and the magazine table from the Beauty Salon collection that was released with the recent Hollywood release.

Copic colours used:

Hair E13 E17 E19 E29

Skin E000 E00 E11 E21 R20

DressY000 Y21 Y23 Y26 Y28 R01 R02 R05 R08 R39

Dog E31 E33 E34 E37 E51 E53 E55 E57

Bow YG23 YG61 YG63 YG67

Box YR23 YR24 YR27 YR31

Table E31, E33 E34 E37

Bowl  YG03 G20 YG61 YG23

Couch G20, G21 G24 G82 G85

MIC digital stamp - Melissa's Surprise Puppy

Hollywood 3 seater

Hollywood magazine table

Mic Chipboard-Flower Leaf Frames

Things with Wings

Once again, we have three fabulous sponsors for our challenge over at Southern Girls.  Delicious Doodles, Marianne Design and Bugaboo.
 I've use a Marianne Design stamp -Snoes with Bird for my card, these images are so cute!

Paper is Websters Pages, and I cut a bird out of part of the sheet to pop onto the cage.  The ribbon is from the Funkie Junkie, leaf die is a Marianne Die and the birdcage is a TH die.


I'm entering this in Whimsy Inspiration- Things with Wings

Make it Crafty/Simply Betty release blog hop

Make it Crafty and  Simply Betty Stamps are really excited to be bringing you the combined  Hollywood Release!

Simply Betty Stamps has a range of characters  from Betty Monroe, through to Action Chris the movie director!!

Make it Crafty has a range of  background scenes perfect to switch and match with your famous characters!!

 

Now you should have arrived here from Cyndi, if not, check out the full list for todays blog hop at the bottom of this post. I have here my card using SBS Christian The Dark Hero  and MIC Hollywood sign which I've cropped to keep things in proportion...though I realise the Hollywood sign is actually MUCH bigger! LOL!

Of course we are  going to have heaps of fun with this theme and June 1st & June 2nd we will  be showcasing our stuff and then June 3rd we're bringing you a fun guessing  game... Will you be able to guess the movie??  We'll be giving you some  clues to help!!

Join us for the two  inspiration days and leave a comment along the way for your chance to win a  selection of new images.

  There will be FOUR  winners each day receiving a surprise character with matching background digi  stamps.

Then on June 3rd, guess  6 out of 12 movies correctly and you will have a chance to win:  

Grand Prize

  A DVD Movie of your  choice
  PLUS the whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release images.

Second Prize

The whole collection  of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release!

Can't wait?!!

  But we know some of  you just can't wait so both Betty and Zoe are offering you 25% off
  their Hollywood collections between June 1st and June 3rd!

Click Here for Simply Betty Stamps & Click Here for Make it Crafty!

We hope you have lots  of fun with us this weekend!!!

Barbara
Colleen
Betty
Cyndi
Viv         You are here!!!!
Alison
Jenn D
Suzi      
Beccy
Lelia     
Carole