Lily of the Valley - Stamping Bella

Hello! I hope that everyone is having a great week so far. We are just about to hit half term - it comes round with increasing regularity! -  and so I'm gearing up for some things to do and hoping it doesn't rain much.

I'm sharing a card I made for a very lovely crafty friend's birthday. She loves Stamping Bella and she loves the colour purple, so I decided to colour up this stamp which I've had for a while and which has been crying out for me to colour.

Perfect timing of course as the Lily of the Valley by the front steps have just started to open.

I've kept the card simple and focussed on the colouring, which I've done with Copic markers, as I need to practice for my upcoming Class Three. I have a previous post sharing how much fun I had at Classes One and Two, which you might enjoy.

Anyway, back to my card. I stamped out my Garden Girl - Lily of the Valley onto a piece of Make It Colour Blending card with Memento Tuxedo Black using my Precision Press, in case I had to double stamp, but I find rubber stamps much better than photopolymer on a first stamp, so I didn't need to.

I then started colouring her in with my Copic markers. These stamps always come with a picture of the image coloured in on the packet, so I usually take some inspiration from this and help with blending and skin tones.

I tried working on my folds and I'm quite pleased with how the skirt turned out.

I kept it simple and framed it with some Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid paper cut out with the frame from WPlus9 Sunshine Layers. I then trimmed the panel and attached it to an A2 card layered with some nice lavender card.

Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products (currently only Simon Says Stamp). If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you!

Make it Colour Blending Card 25 Sheet Pack - Marker Geek

Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers

Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Winter 6x6 Pad

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SET OF 26 COLORS 26Cdsk

WPlus9 Sunshine Layers Die

Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Garden Girl Lily of the Valley

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Wishing my friend an absolutely fabulous birthday and you all a great day! Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon.

Flower Challenge #8 - Reminder

Where does the time go? We are back with a reminder for this month's Flower Challenge which is CASE a Design Team Member!

I have CASEd my own card - nothing too complex and much the same as my previous card, except I flipped the layout onto its side and chose a yellow rather than grey surround.

I'll spare you all the details as it's made in the same way as my original card and with the same supplies, so for more details you can visit that post - Flower Challenge #8.

Thank you so much for visiting me today and I hope you are inspired to have a go at CASEing myself or one of the other Design Team. You have until 25th to link up. Have a great week!

Spinner/Slider Card with Clearly Besotted Stamps - VIDEO

Hello again my crafty friends! Thank you all so much for taking the time to watch my craft room tour and for all your lovely comments. I am loving my space and try to escape here as much as I can.

I managed to film a card making video this week showing this cute penny slider/spinner card I made with Clearly Besotted Stamps. They reopened at the end of last week with a new release and I couldn't be happier.

Onto my card:

If you've followed me for a while and watched my last card making video, this will look familiar. It's melonizing time! If you're not familiar with melonizing, or melonentierchen to give it its proper title, it's simply a silly and fun challenge to colour things to look like melons. You can follow Danie on Instagram to get more inspiration - she's the crafty lady who came up with it! 

I'll not go into much detail as my video tells more - although I confess I rather over edited to get it down to a decent length, so apologies that some of it skips a bit. I've also kept it in real time. I am still finding my feet with videos, so I hope you'll bear with me. I appreciate all your support!

And here's the video:

 
 
Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products. If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link (currently Simon Says Stamp), I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you! 

Clearly Besotted - Make a Splash	Memento Tuxedo Black	Make it Colour Blending Card 25 Sheet Pack - Marker Geek	Copic Markers	Copic MultiLiner Drawing Pen	Create a Smile Waves Stencil	Mini Distress Ink Pad - All Colours
MFT Circle Spinner Channels Dienamics	Spin and Slide Discs	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SET OF 26 COLORS 26Cdsk

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I absolutely love this challenge, so I hope you'll stop by and give it a go - it really is great fun trying to find the oddest thing to turn into a melon.

Thank you so much for watching and for your continued support. Wishing you a fabulous weekend wherever you are and whatever you are doing!

Craft Room Tour 2017 - VIDEO

Hello Everyone. Here it is, the post you've all been waiting for - a tour of my new craft room! If you're a regular reader you'll know that since March I've been working on and moving out of my old craft room. 

I did my first Craft Room Tour of my old space back in February 2016 and I have some more recent posts on refurbishing it and working on my new space:

Craft Room Goings On - An Update

Magazine Makes #6 and a Craft Room Update

I won't say much else than enjoy the tour and if you have any questions, please leave me a comment below or on YouTube and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Below are links to some of the furniture in my room. No affiliate links are used.

MICKE Desk White 105x50 cm - IKEA	ÖRFJÄLL/SPORREN Swivel chair Black - IKEA	FORSÅ Work lamp Nickel-plated - IKEA	VARIERA Drawer mat White - IKEA	BEKVÄM Spice rack Birch - IKEA	MOSSLANDA Picture ledge White 55 cm - IKEA	RÅSKOG Trolley Beige 35x45x78 cm - IKEA
BILLY Bookcase White 80x28x106 cm - IKEA	VARIERA Box Grey 24x17 cm - IKEA	Buy little home at John Lewis Peg Line Lights | John Lewis

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Thank you for popping by as always and I hope you have a great week!

Flower Challenge #8

This month at the Flower Challenge it's your turn to do some CASEing, this time of one of the Design Team's cards. You can pick whichever one you wish to CASE, just let us know in your post.

Here's my card for inspiration:

You might recognise those WPlus9 Doodle Buds. I coloured them up during the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge and finally got round to making a card with them a few weeks ago to send to a crafty friend.

The flowers were all stamped onto Make It Colour card with Memento Tuxedo Black and then coloured with yellow and grey Copic markers. I then fussy cut them all out - I really do enjoy fussy cutting. So much so because I actually forgot I had the dies to go with them!

I die cut a stitched frame from some grey card stock and adhered it to my card base with foam pads. I then spent a considerable amount of time figuring out where to put the flowers. Once I was happy I took a picture on my phone - a good tip if you want to remember a layout - and then attached the flowers with glue dots so they wouldn't be fully stuck down but still give dimension.

I added a sentiment from my Many Mini Messages set onto some yellow card stock and adhered it with foam pads. Some sequins spread out across the card finished it off.

Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products (currently only Simon Says Stamp). If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you! 

WPlus 9 Doodle Buds	Memento Tuxedo Black	Make it Colour Blending Card 25 Sheet Pack - Marker Geek	Lemon Sherbet Sparkly Shaker Selection	Copic Markers	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SET OF 26 COLORS 26Cdsk	Versa Fine Onyx Black
Clearly Besotted Many Mini Messages

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So now it's up to you to try your hand at CASEing this card, or any of the other Design Team. As always you have until 25th to link it up. Have fun!