Daydream Believer

You can tell how long I have had this stamp set, it has been retired and rereleased by Kraft Kimmie and I was still too scared to colour it, so I put on my big girl panties and just did it, the card kind of evolved on its own and I like the result. Sometimes organic card making is the way to go lol.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment : "girls just want to have fun " kraftin Kimmie
Dies : cloud stax (retired) from MFT
Paper : "isabellina" bobunny free set

Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, 93
Hair - YR15, 18, E09
Pjs - C4, 3, 2, 1, 0, R85, 83, 81, blender

Creative Stamping Car

After making the camper van card I decided to use the car from the same set before I put it away. I'm not overly happy with the finished result but I thought I would show it anyway.

I think the bit I'm least happy with is the map section, I wasn't sure what to do and I think it shows lol. Also I used the wrong cardstock so the colouring isn't as blended as I'd like lol. Gosh I sound like a right grump, I have been enjoying making cards again and I guess not everyone can be as I like it and I shouldn't loose heart just because it didn't go as I wanted. Basically I'm saying put your big girl panties on Amanda and just get on with it lol.

Ingredients
Image and sentiment : creative stamping 54
Dies : a2 rectangles and square stax both from MFT

Copics
Car - B06, 04, 02, N4, 2, Y15,
Ground T5, 4, 3
Sky - BG11, 10
Map -YG25, 03

Creative Stamping Camper Van

My friend Kay recently showed a card on instagram using a Mama Elephant polaroid die and it gave me an idea, what if I made the van image into a photo, now my polaroid die is too small so I made my own using a large rectangle and large square, even if I say so myself it looks just like one lol.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment : "creative stamping 54"
Dies: square stax and A2 rectangles both from MFT


Copics
Van - R89, 39, 37, N3, 1, 0, blender, B0000, 000
Sky - B0000, 000, 00
Sand - E37, 35, 34, 31
Sea - B39, 37, 34, 12

Absolutely Brilliant

I bought this stamp way back when, in fact I think it was when it first came out and I bought it to make a card for this person too lol. I have finally coloured it up, it was a labour of love as it took a while and I had to redo it once too. I have been overstamping with versa fine clair and it really makes the image pop but when I re-stamped this image the first time it wasn't quite in the right place and it left a shadow so this time I decided I wouldn't do that and risk ruining it a second time lol.

The sentiments are from Whimsy Stamps, I visited their retreat in Orlando in June. I didn't attend the retreat but Faye was teaching so as I was in the area I popped in to see her and of course buy some stuff too lol. I bought a set of sentiments called"cheeky" and they suit the british sense of humour so well, of course I didn't know that they weren't being released until August as several friends wanted to buy them lol.

Not much else to say except I hope she liked the card and had a lovely birthday.

Ingredients
Image: "Best friends" Robertos rascals for CC designs
Sentiment : "cheeky" from Whimsy Stamps
Paper : "black and white basics" from MFT

Copics
Grey Lady - E000, 00, 11, 93, T6, 4, 3, 2, BG18, 15, B99, 97, N2, 0, 8, 6, blender
Red Lady - E13, 11, 00, 93, 15, 08, 09, RV02, 04, 06, 09, 69, N8, 6, 5
Ground - W4, 2

No Prob-llama

One of our very good, ok best friends have three Alpacas and as soon as I saw this set from Creative Stamping I knew I was going to make his card using it. I have tried to make the colours match each of the Alpaca's and even made one slightly smaller than the others, of course this meant I had to cut off the bottom of the card lol.

The stitched mod rectangles have had another outing, I was addicted to these dies earlier this year and that may start again now lol.

Ingredients
Images and Sentiment: Creative Stamping
Stencils: "mini clouds" MFT
Inks: "tumbled glass" Distress ink
Dies: " stitched mod rectangles" from MFT
Card: "dark indigo" from Papertrey Ink

Copics
Duke - E59, 57, 35
Barney - E30, 31, 34, 35
Tarquin - E47, 44, 43, 42

Arteza Water Pens

So I finally bought the Arteza Real brush pens, my good friend Kathy spotted them as a lightning Amazon deal so I had to buy them didn't I lol.

This is my first time using them and they look ok, not my best colouring but it could have been worse, I haven't even swatched them yet so choosing the colours was an experience although the boxes they arrive in help immensely with that.

Images : "Merci beaucoup" from Clearly Besotted
Sentiment : " say it in style" retired Clearly besotted
Dies : Blueprints 29 and set 2 stitched a2 rectangles from MFT
Card : " hibiscus burst" papertrey ink

Stamping Bella Nancy

I saw a card made with this stamp and probably even these colours on my trawls through Blogland, I am sorry I can't remember who made it and gave the inspiration, if you know who please let me know as I like to give credit for my inspiration.

This stamp was a joy to colour and once I had made the card I couldn't seem to stop making this design, I like the clean and simple style, of course that means that any mistakes are amplified lol.

Ingredients
Image: " Nancy" from Stamping Bella
Sentiment: "sentiment staples - birthday mini" from Papertrey Ink
Paper: "newspapers"
Card: Recollections from Michaels 110lb white yardstick
Dies: Blueprints 15 from MFT and Crealies XXL inside out circles

Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11
Hair - E59, 57, 35
Trousers - N8, 6, 5
Cup - R59, 56
Chair - E44, 43, 42, 59, 57, 35
Newspaper - N4, 3, 2, 1, blender