Flowers and Butterflies......

.......are on the way in the form of some lovely new stamps from Sheena Douglass. They will be released on Saturday at 3pm on Create and Craft and there are some lovely big, and I mean big butterflies, and some lovely funky flowers. Here's one of the samples I've made for the show.....

Be sure to tune in and see the rest of the Inkoids samples and to watch Sheena's dems.

Donna xx

A simple little tag....

....with quite a bit of sparkle for this weeks Creative Expressions piece.  I decided to create my own little 'crystal' perfume bottle for this tag. First of all though I added a little gilded border using the Scented Border stamp, some flake and glitter glue and Summer Meadow gilding flakes.

Then to create my 'crystal' bottle I stamped the Art Deco Delight perfume bottle onto a piece of heat resistant acetate and embossed it in white, then backed the piece of acetate with some double sided adhesive sheet and cut out the bottle.

Now I peeled off the adhesive backing and covered the sticky side with Iced Snow Glitter Jewels, pressing it well onto the adhesive and then shook off the excess........

 ....which left me with a sparkly 'crystal' bottle.

Then I simply stamped the sentiment and glued everything together adding a little ribbon to trim.

See you all next week,
Donna xx

A Wise Old Owl....

....for my weekly That's Crafty piece, full details of stamps used etc are on the That's Crafty blog but here's a quick pic........

Have a lovely weekend :)

Donna xx

New Challenge Site......

....That's Crafty! Challenge blog launches today with it's first theme of 'Anything Goes'.  The challenges will run for 2 weeks, a winner will be picked for each challenge and they will win a £20 voucher to spend at the That's Crafty! online shop.........and there's certainly lots of goodies to spend it on!!

So for my piece I've gone a little bit oriental and used Sheena Douglass's Oriental Lanterns stamps. Started off by creating my background by blending Peacock Feathers, Wild Honey and Pumice Stone Distress Inks, spot of faux bleaching, some background stamping with stamps from the Ageing Beautifully set and leaves from the Lanterns set.

Then I stamped some of the smaller lanterns directly onto the background and coloured with wild honey distress ink. 

Then stamped the three larger lanterns onto some card coloured with Wild Honey and embossed them with gold embossing powder. 

They looked very 'flat' though so added some shading with Rusty Hinge and Pumice Stone Distress Ink and then covered the whole lantern with embossing ink and embossed with clear powder. 

Then it was just a case of assembling it all and adding a greeting from the 'From the Heart' words set.

Don't forget to check out the challenge blog and join in the fun.......remember there's a chance of winning a £20 That's Crafty! voucher.

See you again soon

Donna xx

Spring is on it's way.......

Well morning all, time for another play with some more creative expressions goodies.  The DT team have been given a selection of Sue Wilson single stamps to play with this month.

This week I’ve chosen the ‘Thank you’ stamp to play with, although actually I've only used part of it. I stamped the flower part of the stamp three times, cut it out and coloured it in with alcohol markers; once coloured I mounted them onto some yellow card.

Then to create a background for my card I used the Spellbinder’s Fancy Lattice die cutting out in some white card before layering it onto some more yellow card and then mounting onto a white card blank.

Then I stuck the flower panels in place using glue gel to add some dimension (you could use foam tape if you prefer), added a little ribbon loop behind the middle panel before sticking down.

 I stamped a sentiment, mounted and applied it under the floral panels, then added some ‘pearls’ round the outer edge of card with Golden Pearl Cosmic Shimmer PVA.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon

Donna xx

Be warned .......

....you're going to need sunglasses for this one!! This month the theme over on the Country View Crafts challenge is Paper Chase...........basically anything goes as long as your project is a paper based one.  Well for my first piece for this challenge I reached for the new Tim Holtz Jumbo Tattered Florals die along with some Cosmic Shimmer sprays and Dylusions sprays........and the result........this subdued little number!!!!

The base for the wreath was created from some really thick card that I simply cut to shape with a craft knife before gluing on the flowers.

Donna xx

Joie de Vivre....

.....A stamped tag for the That's Crafty blog today, pop over there for full details.....but in the meantime here's a little peek......

Donna xx