Stamp your mark with Southern Girls!

Time for a new challenge at Southern Girls and we want you to stamp your mark!  We want to see stamping on your creations, traditional stamp and ink or digital, either will do.  Pop on over to the blog for all the details and inspiration from the Design Team.  We have 2 great sponsors again this round.

I used a digital image from Kinda Cute by Patricia (one of our sponsors) with some stamp and ink in the background.  So easy to combine both methods in one card.  Coloured using pencil and even a little stencilling in the foreground and the sky.  I made the hive into a Christmas tree for fun.The image is called Santa Bee and although I'd like to bury my head in the sand a bit longer ... Christmas is coming!

Look forward to seeing your entries.

Come back soon

Karen xo

Monsters are in store!!

Its time for a new release at Frantic Stamper and its all about Halloween and Autumn.  There is the cutest little set of monsters who are really trying to be scary but not quite carrying it off.

There are three little monsters in the set.  For my first card I used the new Big Dot Stencil with Distress oxides to create the background and die cut one of the little monsters.  I die cut his spots and eyes again using scraps so I could add a little dimension to him.  A few accents are added with white gel pen and a black fine marker.  He is popped up on foam but I glued both his hands down so they don't get caught.

The sentiment is stamped from the monster sentiment clear stamp set also part of this release.  I then cut it out using the long speech bubbles die from the May release.  It is also popped up with foam tape.

The card is backed onto a piece of matching card stock with some enamel dots as a finishing touch.

This next card features the other two monsters in the set.  Again I cut their eyes and spots from scraps  to give them some character.  This card is Halloween themed which shows the versatility of the die set.  The background is cut using the new Diagonal Striped Panel.  This is a great way to create your own design paper.  I just simply cut it dark green and backed it in a brighter green.

Using the Retro Label Maker Halloween stamp set I stamped three sentiments in different colours and cut them out popping them up on foam tape.  I then die cut a little spider from the New Treat Bag Topper, its one of the little accessories included in this set.  The whole card is then backed on black card.  Such a fun little set!!

Hers a list of the Frantic Stamper products used

Monster Fun Die set

Diagonal Striped Panel die

Long Speech Bubbles die

Spider from Treat Bag Topper

Monster Sentiments Clear Stamp Set

Retro Label Maker Halloween Clear Stamp Set

Dig Dot Stencil

If you want to check out the whole release pop to the store HERE.

Entering this into the Challenge at JFF Stamps Challenge for August

Stripes.

See you soon

Karen xo

See me Roar!!!

Well actually you won't often see me roar and I don't expect this cute little tiger roars very loud either.

Its some time since I sat and coloured and made a card just because.  I have to say it was very pleasant.  I have been practising colouring fur so chose this image from LeeHIllustrations available on etsy.  Its super cute and when I started colouring it without doing the face I was unsure whether it was a child dressed as a tiger.  It so easily could be coloured that way.  May have to do another version.

The image is coloured in pencil.  Its not a quick process but its satisfying.  The background is done using distress oxides and a fern leaf stencil.  Its subtle but thats what I wanted. The grass is also coloured in pencil.

My design is simple.  A die cut circle from some green card stock which I stencilled using the fern leaf again.  The sentiment is popped up on foam and I added a few green sequins to finish it off.

The circle die and tropical leaf stencil are both from Frantic Stampers own brand.

I have to say he's somewhat cute!!!

I'n popping this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge

use a Die/Punch

See you soon

Karen

xo

Mermaid wishes and starfish kisses

Today I am sharing a card featuring a cute little image available at LOTV.  I posted a few days back about Digital Stamp Boutique having a new home at Lili of the Valley and this is one on the new images just released.  She is called Mermaid Daydream.

I went with what I think as classic mermaid colours purple, aqua and orange.  Don't know if they really are but this is the colour of mermaids in my mind.  The digital sentiment is printed straight onto the background.  I coloured and fussy cut the mermaid and sand along with the little fish and popped them up slightly on foam tape.  I then drew in the little bubbles.

I used a piece of purple cardstock to back the card.  Purple seemed to give the best lift to the image.  She's a cutie and there are several more little mermaids available in the LOTV store now.

Im popping her in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Fun in the Sun Challenge 

See you back soon

Karen

xo

Time for a new Southern Girls Challenge!

Yes its time for a new Southern Girls Challenge.  This round its a tic tac toe challenge.  We have lovely sponsors and I used an image from A Day for Daisies called Hepburn Dress.  Its just such a classy image.  Pop over to the blog for all the details.  I used the line white, stamp and ink.

I chose the sentiment You are Strong, You are Beautiful, not only because its perfect with this image but because I made this card for a friend who is about to undergo aggressive radiotherapy.  It just seems so appropriate on so many levels.

She is coloured in pencil and I went for grey with a blue undertone because I didn't want a soft colour I wanted a stronger colour but not black.  If that makes any sense at all.

We love seeing all you creations so look forward to you joining the challenge.

Thanks for your visit.

Karen

xo

Lili of the Valley welcomes Digi Stamp Boutique

If you are a fan of Digi Stamp Boutique you'll be thrilled to hear they have been welcomed into the Lili of the Valley family.

This from Lili of the Valley

"Sally Ann Hancock, owner of Digi Stamp Boutique, has built up a great following for her beautiful digi stamps over the last ten years - and we're not surprised! They really are so endearing, cute and useful for so many occasions. Sally Ann now wants to concentrate on designing, rather than the job (and stresses) of running a business which we totally understand. We were delighted when she asked us earlier in the year if we would find a home for her precious images here at LOTV and of course we said yes! We will be launching some of Sally Ann's beautiful new designs on Tuesday 10th July like this super sweet little mermaid and hippo, as well as the vast majority of DSB's catalogue too! So now you will have even more to choose from!"

You'll have to pop back to see the mermaid or head over to LOTV but here is a card made with one of the new little Hippos. The image and sentiment are printed directly onto the card and the image is coloured with pencil.  I added a few polka dots to the present and stencilled some bricks in behind to create a wall.  Finishing touch is a few enamel dots.  He's such a little cutie I just love his sweet little face.

I'm in the process of making  card using the Mermaid, you'll love her, so pop back in a 

day or so for another look.

See you then

Karen

xo

Bitty summer postage stamps

I had fun with this die set of Bitty Summer Postage Stamps from Frantic Stamper.  It contains a heart, a star and a sun in a little postage stamp frame.  So many uses for this set either together or apart.

I cut the set several times in different colours to be able to mix and match them to form the background of my card. You could use the shapes by themselves or the stamp frame separately.  I chose to use both and popped the shapes up on foam for a little dimension.  The sentiment is from a new set called Retro Label Maker, loving this style of sentiment.  It is stamped in reverse so the background is coloured and the words the colour of the cardstock.  This die set would be a great little set to have for that little extra something that you sometimes need to finish a project

See you again soon

Karen

xo

Frantic Stamper products used

Bitty Summer Postage

Retro Label Maker Sentiment clear stamp set