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

Greg is a little bit shy!

Introducing Greg!!!  In this image Greg is a little bit shy, or so he's pretending to be.  Greg will feature in 4 of the new stamps as part of the Novem-bear release at Lili of the Valley.  52 stamps to be exact in this release, all bear themed.  Set your alarm clock for Friday 24th November UK time because if bears had wings I'm sure these will literally fly out of the store.

There are the Alphabet bears that I have been sharing as well as a set of number bears.  Some sentiments that go with these awesome sets and 16 other bear stamps of which Greg will feature in four.  There is a panda a polar bear and even a  koala.  A bear for every occasion.

Today I am sharing Shy Greg and his little bunny friend.  This has to be one of my favourites in the release.  I extended the door and walls up and out with black marker to create my background and take up the whole card.  The wallpaper is created by first colouring the background and then hand drawing the little flower pattern.  The wooden floor was easily achieved with a series of lines to form the floor boards.

The entire image is coloured in pencil and took me several hours to colour and get the shading right to get the dimension I was looking for.  I'm really happy with the end result and can confidently say that practice is paying off.  I could never have achieved this at the beginning of the year when I set the goal to improve my colouring with pencil as I couldn't justify the cost of copics.

Anyway here is Greg.

You will so love this release.

Remembear Friday 24th UK time!!

Bye for now 

Karen

xo

C is for Congratulations

C is for Congratulations, cute, cuddly and coming soon.  Today I'm sharing another of the Alphabet Bears coming to Lili of the Valley end of next week.  These will be available in rubber, digital and pre coloured simply print.  If you love bears then trust me when I say you will not want to miss this release as there are others as well as the Alphabet Bears.  I'll share a sneak of a stamp called shy tomorrow.

This is little C bear and as well as the alphabets there will be sentiments to go with them.  This is congratulations without the C so you'll get "ongratulations".  I placed my ongratulations behind the C with a little masking so the teddy looked like he was trying to get it into the right place.  Such a clever little bear!

I used a scalloped edge die to compliment the curve of the c.  Used a thin edge of dark brown before placing it on top of  a good old favourite, red gingham.

These little bears are so greta the possibilities really are endless.  Not long to wait now!!!

See you back tomorrow for another peep at a different Bear.

Karen

xo

You are my Amazing

Hi everyone I'm up on the Kennedy Grace Creations Blog today sharing a card with the sentiment "you are my amazing", featuring the Beautiful Blooms Sweet Rose stamp set.

This is one of my favourite KGC stamp sets.  You can make the rose as complicated or simple as you choose.  There is enough detail to even just stamp it uncoloured.  Today I coloured the actual bloom in pencil and took a fine black Copic liner and outlined the leaves and buds.  I shaded the leaves behind the main bloom in soft grey to lift the flower and left the rest uncoloured.  I actually really like this look and bonus is I really don't colour leaves that well.  Still practicing on those.  I wanted the sentiment to blend so chose a fine lined "You are My" stamped in black and die cut the amazing in a soft pink.  Its there but not overpowering the flower.

My final touch was a thin black and white stripe and a strip of pink matching the sentiment.  Usually my final touch would be sequins but not today.

Love and Laughter,
Karen
xo