Stamping Bella Callista loves to Craft

I was colouring this image at a playday when Kelly said it was her favourite Stamping Bella image, so I decided to stop and colour it later and make it into her card.

Its a huge image and quite complicated to colour so it was done in stages. I knew the paper I was going to use so matching the colours was easy.

I have used retired card stock as it matched the colours perfectly, I kind of hope that stampin up re-release this colour as part of their main colours as its so pretty.

Ingredients
Image: "Callista loves to Craft" Stamping Bella
Paper : "here is happy" MME
Card: "raspberry Ripple" retired Stampin Up In colour
Dies: Blueprints 20, 13 and small scalloped circle stax all from MFT, Crealies inside out stitched circles.

Copics
Skin - E13, 1,, 00, 93
Hair - E55, 57, 59
Paints and Crayons - R27, YR07, Y15, YG23, G16, BG15, B24, BV13, V17, RV09, R85, 100, C7, E59
Teal - BG18, 15, 13
Gold - Y26, 23
Red - R89, 39, 56
Blouse - BG13, 11, 10
Ground - E43, 42, 41
Grey - N3, 2, 1, 0

Blue Pram

Phew almost finished the third birthday cards, only one more to go. I coloured this one at the same time as "another Purple Pram" I wanted to use the same papers and didn't want to have to match the colours again.

I'm still liking the colour scheme, I was going to use the turquoise to mount the card instead of the grape jelly but the letters didn't show up so I stuck with the original design and colours.

Ingredients
Image: "twins at two" Mos digital pencil
Paper: "promises" from Nit Wit
Card: "grape jelly" from MFT and "tempted turquoise" from Stampin Up
Dies: xxl stitched square and inside out circles both crealies, small scalloped circles from MFT, stitched hillside borders from lawn fawn, alphabet soup from memory box and numbers from papertrey ink

Copics
Skin - E21, 00, 000, 93
Hair - E55, 57, 59
Pram - B04, 02, 01, 00, W8, 6, N4, 2
Top - V17, 15, 12, 01
Trousers - B01, 00, 000
Ground - W3, 2, 1

You're Out of this World

This is the other version of the card I made earlier in the week, I have been enjoying making multiples of cards, I have the supplies out so why not just use them I say.

Not much else to say except I enjoyed it and I am increasing my stash of made cards nicely.

Ingredients
Image: "The Blimps" Woodware
Moon : dustin pike
Galaxy: Black soot, peacock feathers, wilted violet and picked raspberry distress inks
Stars: Heidi swap white spray and picket fence distress ink
Dies:

Colours
Moon - N6, 5, 4, 3, 2
Alien - Aegean, Cyan, Pear and Lime all Promarkers

To Infinity and Beyond

I decided I wanted to try and make a galaxy background, I wasn't sure which inks I wanted to use so I made two, I will have the other card to show you in a few days. I have to say that I enjoyed making this background much more than I thought I would, I do need to invest in some white paint though as it didn't seem to matter which method I tried none were white enough.

I tried cutting a circle for the alien to stand on but it looked lost so I remembered I had bought a digi planet from Dustin Pike eons ago and for once I was right I did have it. The hardest part was getting the size right and then I coloured with my copics and all done.

Ingredients
Image: "The Blimps" Woodware
Moon : dustin pike
Galaxy: Black soot, peacock feathers, wilted violet, twisted Citroen and picked raspberry distress inks
Stars: Heidi swap white spray and picket fence distress ink
Dies: blueprints 13

Colours
Moon - N5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Alien - Aegean, Cyan, Pear and Lime all Promarkers

Crazy Dogs number 2

This is the second card I made using the crazy dogs, even though I made the card a while ago it still makes me smile. It's amazing how different the cards look even though I used the same layout on each.

I went a bit darker on the colouring on this than I wanted but he still looks ok.

Ingredients

Image: "crazy dogs" Tim Holtz

Sentiment: "mixed media 8" Tim Holtz

Card: "steel grey" mft

Dies: Blueprints 2 and basic stitched lines both MFT

Background Stamp: "diagonal stripe" stamped in "black liquorice" mft dye ink

Copics

Dog - E59, 57, 55, 53, 31, R20, 00, W8

Tongue - R35, 32

Collar - W8, 6, YR23

Bowl - R27, 24, 14

Crazy Dogs

I have made six of these cards but I'm not going to show them all at the same time, mostly cos I'm not sure if the recipients check my blog. I was inspired by Nichol Spohr, she made a card with the background stripes and the plain panel and I thought it was a fab clean and simple layout and absolutely perfect for guy cards.

This dog reminds me of my friends, he's not crazy but he is funny and he constantly drops a ball at you feet so I made this for him. My friend not his dog lol. I wish there was a chihuahua in the set but maybe the next set will have one instead lol.

Ingredients

Image: "crazy dogs" Tim Holtz

Sentiment: "mixed media 8" Tim Holtz

Card: "pacific blue" Stampin Up

Dies: Blueprints 2 and basic stitched lines both MFT

Background Stamp: "diagonal stripe" stamped in "black liquorice" mft dye ink

Copics

Dog - E47, 44, 43, 42, R20, W8

Tongue - R35, 32

Collar - B26, 23, YR23

Ball - Y17, 15, 13

Mega Mini Remix

I'm a fan of Sandy Allnock and her crazy colouring although some of her colour combos do scare me a bit, she did some cards previously where she coloured different skin tones. I used to do this a lot but recently I seem to reach for the same pens so I pulled out the greeting farm mega mini set and decided to try a few different combos, I really liked the ones I'd made so I thought lets get them on a card.

I do seem to be on a roll/stuck in a rut with the three Polaroids on a card thing, but I will admit to really liking it and it works so well for smaller images. I might try something different but if it ain't broke why fix it lol.

Ingredients
Image : "Mega Mini Remix" The Greeting Farm
Sentiment : "label maker" mft stamps, inked with "plum pudding" , "raspberry fizz" and "Hawaiian shores" inks from Papertrey ink
Paper : "color splash" emboss resist pad from Recollections, inked with "plum pudding" , "raspberry fizz" and "Hawaiian shores" inks from Papertrey ink
Dies : "polaroid frames" and blueprints 15 all mft

Copics
Sending Girl - E53, 510, 50, T9, 8, 7, 6, 4, V17, 15, 12
Special Girl - E17, 15, 13, W8, E49, 59, BV15, 13
Hugs Girl - E11, 00, 000, E99, 97, 13, RV09, 04

Mini Bots Again

Yet more images from the colouring challenge and a design I've used before to boot. I tried a more monochromatic look and the delicata ink makes the circuit design look more metallic. 

Not a lot else to say on this one, it was fun to make and as its a tried and tested design pretty quick too, it does of course help already having the images coloured and ready to go, I kind of wish i had coloured the outline black instead of leaving them white, but there is always next time.

Ingredients

Image and Sentiments: "mini bots" Clearly Besotted

Dies: "polaroid frames" and blueprints 2 both MFT

Stencil : "circuit" Brett Weldele inked with Silvery shimmer delicata ink

Copics
Bots - N9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, R24, B24, Y15

Stinkin cute

I rarely make a card for fun without anyone in mind but this is just such a card, I still don't know who will receive it but I enjoyed making it which is the most important thing I suppose.

I am almost at the end of the colouring challenge images, hooray I hear you say lol. But if I've calculated right another has already started or will be soon so this is something I am going to continue doing. I have enjoyed making cards with already coloured images and trying new ways to make them different too.

Ingredients
Image : "skinkin cute" lawn fawn
Sentiment : as above
Stencil : "chevron" simon says stamp
Card : 'hawaiian shores" Papertrey ink
Dies : Blueprints 24 from mft and crealies inside out circles

Copics
Skunk - T7, 6, 5, 4, 2, 1, R20
Grass - YG67, 17, 25, 03

Super Sized Birthday Again

I have used this set a few times now but this is the first one I've added googly eyes too. They move quite a bit and give it a more fun feel. This is for someone who adores McDonalds, I had lots of different ideas in mind but I went with a fun one rather than a serious one.

Ive used pretty much the same layout as last time, only difference is the images are cut and layered rather than masked and stamped directly on the paper. I was going to use action wobblers too but that would have been a bit much.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment : "Happy Meal" Your Next Stamp
Dies: Blueprints 24
Stencil: "small checkerboard" from MFT, cherry crisp ink also mft
Google eyes - stash


Copics
Fries - R29, 27, 24, 14, Y38, 35, 32
Soda - R29, 27, 24, 14, E27, 25, 23, B23, 21
Burger - E35, 34, 31, 30, 29, 25, Y38, R29, 24, YG25, 03