December Mood Board Inspiration

Today I am sharing with you my card for the Kennedy Grace Creations December Mood Board.  Its utterly gorgeous.  Lots of blues and silver with a touch of camel to get your creativeness going.  Be sure to head to the Kennedy Grace Creations blog for lots of gorgeous projects from the rest of the Talented Design Team.

For my card I used the colour scheme of various shades of blues with a touch of camel and silver.  I also took inspiration from the decoration in the bottom left corner.  I stamped  the Beautiful Bloom Hydrangea onto a scrap of card and coloured it in pencil.  I then cut the tag placing the image where I wanted it before stamping my sentiment.  I cut another tag to place behind it in a contrasting colour.  The ribbon is threaded through the tag and tied in place with some camel coloured hemp cord.  The top tag is popped up on foam for dimension.  The final touch was to scatter some Moonbeam sequins to add some silver and some sparkle.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT's projects using the same mood board, and then maybe create something of your own.

See you back soon

Karen

xo

Peace And Harmony

Sending wishes of Peace and Harmony.  This card is another of the Japanese Dolls from the Around the World release from Frantic Stamper.  

A few days back I posted a boy version of the Japanese Doll.  There is a Paper Doll base set containing the body and various hair styles and clothing pieces to dress a girl and a boy.  Then there are sets of clothing from Japan, Holland and a few other countries.  My little girl is dressed in the kimono with a hair piece from the Japanese set.  In the set you have traditional boy and girl clothes as well as the accessories to make a sumo wrestler

My background features the new die Petite Sakura 2.  I simply die cut the flowers which is super easy as there are maybe 24 flowers on the plate of various sizes.  They are just randomly glued to the card to form a pretty and easy background.  The sentiment is from a previous release and is called Asian inspired.

These little paper dolls are really so much fun.  If you love paper piecing then these are for you.

Frantic Stamper products used

Petite Sakura 2

Paper Doll Base Set

Japanese Cloths Set

Asian Inspired Clear Stamp Set

See you again soon

Karen

xo

Anything Goes at Lili of the Valley

Its an anything goes challenge at Lili of the Valley for December.  Super easy just pull out your LOTV images and make something.  There are always great prizes up for grabs too.

The card I have made to inspire you features one of the new bear stamps called ""Flowers,  he's a very cute little fellow picking daisies on the top of a hill.  I coloured him in pencil and subtly stencilled some clouds in the background.  I popped him in behind a circle cut in some pretty yellow design paper with a fine strip of orange, then the same design paper in a brighter yellow.  Paired up with the Hello sentiment from the Teenage Girl sentiment set.  Finished off with a few yellow enamel dots.

If you haven't seen the latest release from LOTV its bears galore, alphabet bears, number bears and lots of other bear stamps including the new Greg bear, a panda, a polar bear and a koala bear.  A bear for everyone and every occasion.

Now go pull out your stamps or go treat yourself to something new and enter the December challenge right HERE.

Come back soon

Karen

xo

Konichiwa

Konichiwa, today I'm excited to introduce the new release from Frantic Stamper for December.    Its "around the World" and there are globes, suitcases and icons from some major cities.  Also part of this release is a Paper Doll set.  There is a base set with the body of the doll and a set of base hair styles and clothes.  In addition to the base set are a collection of clothes from countries around the world.  for my card today I used the Japanese Clothing set.  You can make a little Japanese man a Lady in a Kimono and a Sumo Wrestler.  Super cute with loads of accessories.

I dressed my man in his traditional clothes, check out those little sandals.  He also has a sword that you can add but I chose not to use it.

My background is created using several Frantic stamper dies.  The new Pagoda die with the Snow Capped Mountains behind.  The grass foreground is cut using a die from the Stitched Scene Builder Edgers set.  I used a stencil to create some clouds in the background and added Konichiwa from the stamp set called Asian Inspired.

These little characters are so much fun to play with and I love all the little accessories you can mix and match to create something special.

Frantic Stamper products used 

Base Paper Doll Body

Japanese Doll Clothing 

Pagoda

Snow Capped Mountains

Stitched Scene Builder Edgers

Asian Inspired Stamp Set

See you again soon

Karen

xo

Anything Goes at Southern Girls

One of those challenges we all love this time round at Southern Girls,  Anything Goes.  We have two lovely sponsors and my image comes from Lacy Sunshine.

I was going to make her into a Christmas card but I decided to use this big, as in large,  wish stamp from my stash.  I added the "upon a star" as it seemed appropriate with the star she is holding.  Now its a more generic card.  I'm not sure if it was the card or the way I stamped the wish but it didn't stamp with nice clean edges,  so I outlined the letters using a fine black Copic marker and added a few white dots with a gel pen.

The image is a digi so its printed straight onto the white card and coloured using pencil.  The stars have been glittered to add a little sparkle.  I then added 2 strips of paper to match the colours of her onesie.

So as I mentioned to finish the year, how scary is that,  Team Lou are hosting an "anything goes" challenge so be sure to visit the blog for details and to enter your creations.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Karen

xo