Hip Hip Hip Hooray

The Sun has got his hat on and he's coming out to play

Well my last post of the lovely Weather Girls for now

I have used the fabulous VIP collection which enabled me to use sentiments and extra emellishments (umbrellas)

find all the different sets over at JMC Designs

I have had an absolute blast colouring up Julia's brand new stamps I am so pleased she asked me

They really are totally fun

This time round I have used Cloudia Storm

I have coloured using Distress reinkers refils 

and used posca pens for doodling

All that rain

Thank you for stopping by today!

before I finish this post be sure to join 

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There will be lots of fun, news, competitions, parties!! 

If it never rains ~ JMC Designs

What a beautiful day here the sun most definatly has his hat on today and come out to play

A lovely family BBQ is on the cards later with a glass or 2 of Pimms

I am here today sharing with you brand new releases from a brand new company

My friend Julia has opened her own Etsy shop

It's got some lovely quirky images 

Pop across and take a nosy

JMC Designs

I have used the VIP bundle which includes the Flower and Sentiment

I distressed the edges and used Distress Oxides on the backfround

I used a random stamp and stencil

The beautiful fun flower was coloured with Distress Ink refils and then I used Posca pems for detail and doodling 

before I finish this post be sure to join 

JMC's Crazy Craft Hive on Facebook

There will be lots of fun, news, competitions, parties!! 
I shall be back later with another make using JMC's Design Digi's

Word Up Weekend ~ Stampotique

Happy Weekend Everyone

Here today to share with you my Word Up Weekend card for Stampotique

Pop over to our Facebook Group , It's completly full of fun, Love and colour (and of course amazing stamps and Artists)
For my card this week I have used the lovely stamps from Stampotique

Marsha I totally adore her

For a change I colored her using Polychromo Pencils (I definatly need more practise)

I love the sentiment you can find that on Phrase Cube 2

For the background I used Distress Oxides

I have also used Texture cube 1

and I have also used Honeycomb background stamp

Thank you for stopping by

I would like to enter this into

Creative Artiste Mixed Media ~ Anything Goes

Time Out Challenges ~ To Be Funny

Life is like A Rainbow ~ JMC Designs

Life is like a rainbow I love that!!

This is my 3rd post for today I hope you will hop back and read the other 2 then you will see exactly where I am at and what I am up too

Basically my friend Julia has set up her own business JMC Designs

She has a super, super talent for drawing 

So here is little ol me with my 3rd make using Julia's Designs

This is a card topper that I have made (another will be shown tomorrow)

I distressed the edges slightly something I used to do religously but haven't for some time.

I then used Distress Oxides on the background splashing around with water ,added a few random stamps and colored the digis using Distress Ink Refils

before I finish this post be sure to join 

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There will be lots of fun, news, competitions, parties!! 
I shall be back tomorrow with more makes using JMC's Design Digi's

I would like to enter this into
Creative Fingers ~ Anything Goes
Creative Moments ~ Anything Goes
Fab 'n' Funky ~ Sunny Summer

ATCoins ~ JMC Designs

Did you see my earlier post at 1.00 today if not take a sneak peek back

It will tell you all the news of my Friend Julia's new company

JMC Design's

This time I am sharing with you a small set of ATCoins

Using various elements from the new collections

I do love making these coins you can add so much

Just look at that flower 

There are 4 quirky flowers

I have used various stamps and stencils to build my coins

I coloured the elements using Distress Ink refils and used Distress Oxides on my background

before I finish this post be sure to join 

JMC's Crazy Craft Hive on Facebook

There will be lots of fun, news, competitions, parties!! 
I shall be back at 5.00 with another make using Julia's lovely goodies
See you then

Some Days You Just have To Create Your Own Sunshine ~ JMC Designs

Oh Wowser have I some exciting news for you!!

My lovely friend Julia has set up her own company I am so uber pleased for her

We worked together in another life so I am sooooo pleased to be a Dream Team member

Although I am not fully Fledged I shall be dipping my toes in where I can

I love to colour and these images are perfect in every way

The rest of the Dream Team are lovely too so its an absolute honour to be invited along the journey

Anyways enough of me 

You can find Julia's brand new shop here

JMC Designs

I have a few things to share with you today and over the weekend so keep those eyes peeled

My first share is

She is called Sunshine and Showers 

She can be purchased as a single Digi or as a set, she is so beautiful as is the others

The sentiment is soooooo perfect and then there is Mister Sunshine keeping an eye on things super sweet 

You must pop to the store and see all the different bundles available

So I coloured up using Distress Ink refils and I used Distress Oxide Inks on the background

A few little random stamps and a few squiggles to finish

before I finish this post be sure to join 

JMC's Crazy Craft Hive on Facebook

There will be lots of fun, news, competitions, parties!! Did someone mention party?? 

I must be off before I am late 

Thank you for visiting 

I would like to enter this into

As You Like It ~ Favourite Summer colours

Yellow always makes me feel sunny and I love to see red sky at night , light blue clouds a perfect Summers day

Aud Sentiments ~ Anything Goes With A Sentiment

Fab 'n' Funky ~ Sunny Summer

Honey I shrunk The Campervan ~ Colourific

Happy Colourific Thursday 

Am here to share with you today my Travel Journal page 

I had tons of fun with this using the

Campervan Stamp

Eeek how small did it shrink!! Perfect for my project though

Watch my little slide show for full details

Thanks for stopping by

I Would like to enter this into

Crafting Happiness ~ Use a Sentiment

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Not a card

Pile It On ~ Transportation

TTCRD ~ Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments ~ Anything Goes With A Sentiment

Word Up Weekend ~ Stampotique

Happy Weekend Everyone

Here today to share with you my Word Up Weekend card for Stampotique

Pop over to our Facebook Group , It's completly full of fun, Love and colour (and of course amazing stamps and Artists)
For my card this week I have used the lovely stamps from Stampotique
Safina 
3 Daisies
Sentiment ~ Peace and Love

I coloured up Safina and the Daisies with Distress Ink Refils 
Using Distress Oxide ink in the background matching the same colours

I used a little glossy accents to the Daisy centers
And some small speckles of Nuvo drops to Safina

Stamped out the sentiment and added some colour
Doodled a border and my card was good to go
I love how Safina has turned out so much so I have another card in the making
Thank you for stopping by today

I Would like to enter into

Lavinia World Challenges ~ Anything Stamped

Aud Sentiments ~ Anything Goes With A Sentiment
Crafting With An Attitude ~ Anything Goes
Simply Create Too ~ Lots of Flowers
Allsorts ~ Soft Pastel Colours
Challenge Up Your Life ~ Tic/Tac/Toe Blue~ Blue Flower~ Water -Colour
My Time To Craft ~ Water Colour

Pizza Box ~ Colourific

Happy Colorific Thursday to you all

I am here today to share with you a gift box in the shape and opens like a pizza box 

(hmmm I always wonder about Pizza boxes being square and Pizza's being round and not only that we cut them into triangles to eat.....Yes I really need to get out more....)

 don't forget it's

 free delivery when you spend over £5 UK
Check out the store here
For todays make I used
Say it With Flowers (contains 8 stamps)

and
Art of Life (contains 4 stamps)

Pizza box or not I was going for the classy look and I always think Black/White fits the bill.
So I cut my box using black card stock and cutting a layer of white for the top panel

I stamped my flowers and sentiment
Painted the leafs and dotted around them

Then I used the wonderful nuvo drops
Crystal Drops - Gloss - Ebony Black
I love them they really shine

Thank you for stopping by today

I Would like to enter this into
Addicted To Stamps and More ~ Anything Goes
Creative Moments ~ Anything Goes
Ike's World ~ F is for Fold

Wings Are A Thing ~ Stampotique

Excited muchly , this is my first Challenge post for Stampotique

Such an amazing DT I am so proud to work alongside them.

Some Important places of Interest for you

There Challenge Blog here

(Would love to see you join in and come visit your blog

You can use any stamps and you may win a great prize)

Check out Pinterest here

Instagram here

You can find the store over here

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This time the challenge is

Add Wings or Create With Wings

And Now I was feeling in an orange mood

Orange is the color of joy and creativity. Orange promotes a sense of general wellness and emotional energy that should be shared, such as compassion, passion, and warmth. Orange will help a person recover from disappointments, a wounded heart, or a blow to one’s pride.

I used some Gesso  on a canvas board and then coated using dylusions ink spray ~ Squeezed Orange.

I used a ray stencil on which I used Pinflair Gellitex I love the sparkle this gives (although hard to pick up with my little camera)

I used 

Background Stamp's  ~ Splatter Blob

                                         ~Texture Cube 1

I also used some sequin waste and random bottle tops

The main stamp The Queen of Everything ~ I adore her, she comes with the sentiment 

She has one set of wings but as the challenge was about wings I gave her two more sets

I coloured her using Distress Ink Refils and used some nuvo drops on her crown

So What are you waiting for

Don your Wings and come and join our Challenge

Thanks for stopping by 

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Crafty Sentiments ~ Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread ~ Anything Goes
Stinkin' Inkers ~ Its a Colourful World
Dream Valley ~ Summer Colours
Crafty Cardmakers ~ Not A Card
Ellibelle's Corner ~ Summer Colours
Moo- Mania ~ Here Comes The Sun

Word Up Weekend ~ Stampotique

Happy Weekend Everyone

Here today to share with you my Word Up Weekend card for Stampotique

Pop over to our Facebook Group , It's completly full of fun, Love and colour (and of course amazing stamps and Artists)
For my card this week I have used the lovely stamp
Snowy ~ Stamp Artist Kira Nichols (UK order here)
Mushroom Forest ~ Stamp Artist Janet Kelin
Octopus Quotes ~ Stamp Artist Arwen McCullen

I colured up with Distress Reinkers and used Distress Oxides for the background
Using some random stencils for the background
The sentiment is part of one of the Octopus Quotes


Thank you for looking today

I would like to enter this into
Aud Sentiments ~ Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Moo-Mania and More ~ Here comes The Sun
A Place To Start ~ Stencil Me In
Crafting With An Attitude ~ Anything Goes
Lavina World ~ Stamps
Stamping Sensations ~ Show Your true Colours
QKR Stampede ~ Anything Goes

Happy Christmas with Pinflair

Happy Friday and Happy Christmas

I have been super busy lately making up samples for todays

Pinflair show on Create & Craft with the lovely Jo

who will be on your screens at 1.00pm ~2.00pm

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The whole team have been busy little Elves and had a wonderful time with lots of fun along the way

This will be a long post so why not grab a Hot Chocolate, a Gingerman Biscuit and soak up Christmas.....

Lets start with the Pinflair Shrink Wrap Collection

WOW simply amazing 

Just pop around your bauble , into freshly boiled water (taking lots of care here) using some tongs - and voila after seconds you have an amazing bauble

I have never used this shrink wrap I was absolutly amazed how easy it was and how stunning it looked

I also used some Puff Paste on this

Here is a trio I made , making them little gift boxes how nice would these be to give to friends

There are so many different designs , I really am thinking Teachers gifts here

I made the little boxes from Kraft card and added in some rafia also using this too tie the boxes also.

Making some little tags and adding some tiny bells

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Keeping on with the shrink wrap they also do sleeves!! Eeeks you can decorate your own wine bottles how cool is that 

I did not have any wine bottles to hand but I did have a little liquore brandy bottle (quite partial to a drop of Brandy! and it is Christmas after all)

I cut the wrap down to fit

A table decoration was born

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My next make was using a Poly ball

I covered this in Puff Paste and left to dry

I already had a circular poly frame so I made some Poinsetta flowers and covered it

I then Painted up the little deers from the Pinflair MDF Embellishment kit. For the paint I used

Pinflair Liquid Buff-It every crafter needs this in there life!!

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Then I played with the Pinflair Bauble tree

I was so , so in love with these

The first one I used Pinflair Liquid Buff-It and painted it , I think I may of used Emerald Green

I then used Gellitex through a star stencil, this was a little hard to see in the photo, but promise its there

I added a little tinsel and some silver stars 

For the base I used  Puff Paste as it was quite a big coating I left to dry over night

I used those scrummy reindeers that I used in my previous project  from the Pinflair MDF Embellishment kit.

I then decorated my Bauble using Pinflair Shrink Wrap Collection and added lots of gemstones for the extra sparkle

I added some little lights which also sit inside the bauble it looks so twinkly at night.

My other tree I did for some strange reason I do not have a seperate photo of it 

Again I used Pinflair Liquid Buff-It  to paint and used  Puff Paste to edge around and do the base. I also used the Pinflair MDF Embellishment kit for the smaller tree's and sign . I used a few random baby pine cones that I had in stash and just added a smidge of snow to each.

I made and added a matching Bauble as before

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For my final make I call it random, Using lots of bits and pieces from the kits and of course lots of snow

I love the tree's I can see them as lovely little place names at the Christmas dinner table

I hope you have enjoyed my makes and will manage to catch the show

I love working with the Pinflair team there so creative and the products are super duper wonderful

Thank you for stopping by

I Would love to Enter 
CRAFT ~ Christmas
Crimbo Crackers ~ Anything Christmas
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge ~ Christmas
TTCRD ~ Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart ~ Anything Goes
Creative Fingers ~ Anything Goes
Jingle Belles ~ Santa or Helpers (Rudolph is there)

Felicity

Happy, Happy Thursday

I have something super special to share with you today

Chatting to Julia the owner of 

JMC Art & Design 

I asked if it would be possible to have a digi stamp for my Granddaughter Felicity.

She replied it would be quite quirky, fine by me

So I sent her a random photo of Felicity and 3 of her favourite loves

Cats she adores cats

Art she loves all forms of crafting

Writing she is at present writing a book which with help is hoping to get published one day

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And then it arrived to say I was gobsmacked would be under estimated

It had Felicity all over it 

The face was definatly her - The hair I always plait her hair before school!!

Even the tee shirt with flowers she owns several like that, cats ears she has those too

It really was as if Julia knew her ~ I promise they have never met!

Another great love of hers is Garden Centers she adores looking at all the lovely plants, she is often helping Grandad weeding and watering and of course has her special own patch at ours, so I wanted to incorporate those as well without making it over fussy.

Julia will be launching her brand new company very, very soon

I am sure there will be oodles and oodles of fun lovliness

I would highly reccomend Commissioned Digis

I was utterly in love and she needed to be turned into something special

After a little thinking I decided on a shadow box something I have not made in a while.

I coloured Felicity with Distress Ink Refils, keeping to colours she normally wears

How ever did Julia know she had cat ears???

I used my trusty BnM's paper to cover ~ This pack was called Grandmas Garden very apt!!

I did a little paper piercing too on her apron and skirt.

Colouring a few scrabble squares to spell out her name

Once finished I cut of more paper flowers /leaves and shaped those to give a lovely 3d dimension

I can't wait till Felicity finishes school and I can show her

I know she is so going love this and want to borrow it for her bedroom

Thank you for stopping by

I would love to enter this into
Fab 'n' Funky ~ June Blooms
TTCRD ~ Anything Goes
Crafting from The Heart ~ Anything Goes
Make My Monday ~ Lots of Flowers