The Little Stamper

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Lili's Little Fairies - 1,2,3 challenge

It's time for another challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies and this time the theme is one image, two papers and three embellishments.

For my card I've chosen one of the beautiful bear images from LOTV and used my alcohol pen 'dotty' technique to give him a furry appearance. I picked my papers first and then coloured the image to match, which I always find easier than doing it the other way around.

Finally, I have opted to use three 'types' of embellishments in the form of ribbon, candy dots and a gorgeous little pearl heart.

I hope that you will all come and join in the fun or, just hop on over to look at all the lovely inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Sharon x

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Sketch Saturday challenge - sketch number 239

Sketch Saturday have a challenge this week where you can choose one of your favourite sketches......well choosing just one sketch is hard enough, but in the end I went with this one as I liked the CAS look.

In an effort to make some sort of start on my Christmas stash I decided to grab this lovely Humphreys Corner stamp and print a matching paper from the coordinating CD rom.

I had such a lovely time colouring this little guy in, and the little pile of presents which come as part of the set, make an excellent embellishment I think.

Not much to say about this card as it really is that simple, but here are a few challenges that I would like to enter:

http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-7-anything-goes.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-219-new-baby-card-for-child.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-12.html
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/anything-goes.html
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/christmas-presents.html
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/week-264-with-loves-rubber-stamps.html
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-71-color-inspiration.html
Make it Monday

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

Monday, 24 June 2013

All of a Flutter

Over at the Flutterby challenge there is a lovely sketch this week, and I had one of those rare moments when i could visualise exactly what I wanted to do with it. I know exactly which stamp I wanted to use and even which paper I wanted, and this is the result.

The stamp is a little cutie from Lily of the Value, which is actually made of 3 small circular stamps with the little bear peaking out.

As you can see I have coloured each one with my alcohol markers and use a nestie to cut a mount for each one, which I then edged with glitter ........(confession time - I wasn't planning to do the glitter bit, but I got a mark on one of the mounts which needed to be 'disguised')

Secondly - the lovely backing paper is from the Bearly Mine Floral Fantasies set and I think it works perfectly with the butterfly theme.

So that's my card for today and here are the challenges that I would like to enter:

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/week-203-theme.html
http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/flutter-by-wednesday-245.html
http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-11-always-anything-goes.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-12.html
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/anything-goes.html
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/june-challenge.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/mim-146-with-cc-designs.html

Well that's me done for today I think!

Off now to immerse myself in an episode of Corrie!

Bye for now.

Sharon x

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Popcorn Birthday Smiles

I really loved the Popcorn range when they came on to the crafty scene, and I lovingly collected every single stamp that came out. Sad to say though, they have sat in my craft cupboard untouched for a long time now. But, since my two great nephews came along, suddenly there was a very good reason to get them out again and this is a card that I made for the oldest's 1st birthday.

The original sets of stamps are pretty huge and, as a result, you can easily fill up an A5 size cards without adding too much extra.

I had a lovely lime colouring this image in with my alcohol pens and using one of the lovely sentiments which came with the stamp. The lovely backing paper is also from one of my Popcorn CDs and as per usual, I picked the paper and then coloured my image to match it.

Well that's about it for this card except to say that there were some final embellishments added, after this picture was taken, in the form of sticky little chocolate finger prints and a little distressing around the edges from a one year old's new little teeth - lol!!

Here are some lovely challenges that I would like to enter today.....

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-176-animals.html
http://pollycraftchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/pollycraft-challenge-1-anything-goes.html
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-173-anything-goes.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-219-new-baby-card-for-child.html
http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/special-anniversary-of-lacy-sunshine.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-12.html
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/anything-goes.html
http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/cute-and-cuddly.html
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/mim-145-with-bugaboo-stamps-and-dt-call.html

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Flowers Galore at Bearly Mine

It's time for a new challenge at Bearly Mine and this week the theme is Flowers Galore, so of course I just had to grab my Floral Fantasy set of digi papers to play with.

Now on these papers some of the floral designs are actually quite big and I wanted to make them much smaller, so I imported the into my Serif program, resized them to 6 x6 inches and what you see is the result. This was really easy to do so I would thoroughly recommend the investment if you like your digi papers as it open up a whole new world of creativity, and it save of ink because you can print different papers on to one sheet in the size that you want.

As per usual I picked my papers first and then coloured my image to match and this time I chose a cute little digi image for Di's Digi Designs, which I thought continued the floral theme. Did you spot the little hedgehog.........isn't he a cutie?

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Cookie Love

Well here in the UK it was Father's Day today which means it was time for me to get cracking with three male orientated cards.

The first one was for my husband and I wanted to use this lovely digi set from Bugaboo which I had picked up quite some time ago, in anticipation of this occasion.

You can get the cookie boy on his own, but I opted for the set which included the matching cookie papers too.

I imported everything in to Serif and resized it all to fit a 6 x 6 card and then coloured the little boy with promarkers, adding a little bit of decoupage for the giant cookie and the boy's hair.

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Lilis Little Fairies - Get Well cards challenge

It's time for a fresh new challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies and this time it's to make a Get well Soon card.
This is the kind of thing that you always need in a hurry, so it's a handy card to have as a fallback in your stash.

For my card I have used one of the stamps from their last release and teamed it up with some lovely papers from my NitWits digital collection.

The die with the get well sentiment is from Crafters Companion and I have finished it off with a scrap of ribbon that I found in my stash. A few punched flowers and job done!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will join us over at Lili's Little Fairies for this great challenge.

Sharon x