Some bunny loves you...xxx

Happy Monday lovely friends, hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday!

I'm here today with some cute bunny love!

This gorgeous image Woodland Bunny is by Lee Holland for Whimsy Stamps.

I decided to take the plunge and colour him/her Copic 'no lines' technique!  I'm not confident with critters at the best of times so yes, this was a challenge but I am really happy with how he/she turned out!

The gorgeous papers and embellishments are from the wonderful store -  

The Ribbon Girl

...and here we are, a super cute Woodland Bunny...

Ingredients from 

The Ribbon Girl

Lemoncraft Gossamer Blue 6x6 Paper Pad 

White Cheesecloth 

25mm Pale Blue Sheer Ribbon 

5mm Pearl Ivory Flower Trim 

Natural Button Twine

Daisy Flower Charm 

15mm'Rosa Bianca' Guipere Lace

Ivory (off white) Carnation  

Ivory Rolled Rose Kort & Godt 

Miniature White Blossom 

10mm Blue Open Rose 

10mm White/Pink 2-tone Open Rose 

20mm Ivory Open Rose 

8mm Sparkle Flatbacks

Other Ingredients

Woodland Bunny by Lee Holland for Whimsy Stamps (Dies To Die For)

Memento Ink Pad in Desert Sand 

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

Copic Markers

Lawn Fawn Big Scripty Words Stamps (Dies To Die For)

Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Big Scripty Words Dies (Dies To Die For)

Archival Ink in Cobalt

Cosmic Shimmer Glue

Stix 2 Double Sided Tape

Medium Leaf Punch by Woodware

Inks Used 

Copics -

Woodland Bunny W0, W1, W3, W5, E04, R11, R00, E30, E31, E33

Ground, YG11, G21, G24

Background BG01, B00, B000

Thank you for visiting,

happy crafting!
from Sue...xxx

...and remember to pop straight to
The Ribbon Girl
to look at the wonderful DT inspiration - there's still time to join in the challenge fun!
...and then straight to 
The Ribbon Girl Store
for some essential retail therapy!

You are so sweet...

Good Morning everyone, 

hope you are enjoying a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend.

I'm here today with something sweet made with gorgeous goodies from wonderful
Dies To Die For

Did someone mention cupcakes! (-:

Ingredients from Dies To Die For
Stamp - Stamping Bella Tiny Townie - Sammy Is Sweet

Dies - Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts - Small Cross Stitch Rectangle

Your Next Stamp - Heart Banner

Papers - My Favourite Things - Hearts & Stripes 6x6 Paper Pad

Other Ingredients
Make it Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)
Memento Ink Pad in Tuxedo Black
Copic Markers
Copic Glitter Pens
Wink of Stella Clear Brush Pen
Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Copics -

Skin V20, E00, E000, E0000

Hair E50, E31, E33, E29

Frock T5, R59, R56, R85, RV34, RV32, B29, B24, B23, B21 

Dots - Blue Copic Glitter Pen 

Underskirt - Clear Wink of Stella

Frosting C3, C1, C0

Thank you for popping by

Happy Crafting!

love from Sue...xxx

Don't forget to pop straight to the Dies To Die For inspiration blog to look at the lovely DT creations there, and then straight to Dies To Die For for some essential retail therapy!

To bee or not to bee...

Hello everyone!

I'm here today as part of a super fun blog hop in honour of the beautiful bee! We want to support bees and to raise public awareness of the importance of bees and apicultural products. 20 May is declared World Bee Day by the United Nations (UN) and the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association has just been started to further support bees.

This hop has been arranged by my lovely blogging friend

Milka Gubo

We are celebrating everything bee-ish!

Milka has managed to find some fab sponsors for our hop and there are lots of prizes!

Here are some of the fab prizes you could win...

Crafty Sentiments Designs; 3 digital images of winner's choice 
Create a Smile; 25€ Gift Certificate to the store 
Gerda Steiner; $15 Gift Certificate to the store
Happy Little Stampers; $20 Gift Certificate to the store
Jane's Doodles; 3 (in stock) stamp sets of winner's choice
Kitty Bee Designs; 1 digi of winner's choice
Lawn Fawn; $20 Gift Certificate to the store

Little Miss Muffet Stamps; $10 Gift Certificate to the store
Me! 6x6 Paper Pad
Milka; Jane's Doodle Daisies Stamp Set

Paper Smooches; Bee Mine Stamp Set

Sasayaki Glitter; 1 digi of winner's choice
STAMPlorations; $20 Gift Certificate to the store

Uniko; Clear (in stock) Stamp Set of winner's choice

14 prizes will be given away to 14 winners. For your chance to win, all you have to do is hop along blogs of the participating designers and leave comment on each blog hop stop. You can enter the giveaway until Saturday, 27 May (12 AM, CEST +2 UTC). Milka will announce winners on her blog on Wednesday, 31 May. Winners have to confirm prizes in a week. Unconfirmed prizes will be redrawn.

I couldn't resist these gorgeous HoneyBear Stuffies by Stamping Bella...

This is a wonderful image!  There are bees, bears, honey, and a Winnie the Pooh sentiment!

You can say aaaahhhhh! <3 

Now, this is the important bit!

Here is the blog hop order, if you have come to see me first you need to go all the way around the list of blogs until you are back with me!

There are some fabulous designers taking part so pull up a chair, grab a coffee and start hopping!

There's a real buzz about this don't you think! (-;

Milka Gubo

Zrinka Beric

Birka Reinitz

Neha Bhatt

Kaja Vezensek

Tina Pavlovic

Sue Hastead (That's me so you are now here)!

Beverly Brown

Amy Tsuruta

Kathy Curry

Samantha Mann

Sonja Kerkhoffs

Ingredients

HoneyBear Stuffies by Stamping Bella (from Dies To Die For)

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

Memento Ink Pad in Tuxedo Black

Tonic Rectangle and Scalloped Rectangle Layering Dies 

Victoria Park 6x6 Paper Pad by Lillybee Designs (from Dies To Die For)

Whimsy Stamps Honeycomb Die (from Dies To Die For)

Collall All Purpose Glue

Copic Markers

Bears E30, E31, E34, E35, E37, R01, R02

Honeycomb Y23, YR23

Honey Pot B21, B23, B45

Branch and leaves, E44, E79, YG13, YG25, G94

Background BG10, BG70

Thank you for popping by.

Happy crafting and happy hopping!

love from Sue...xxx

Sparkle and shine with Copic Glitter Pens...

Hello everyone!

I'm here today to tell you something about Copic Glitter Pens and show you an image that they help to colour beautifully!

If you love sparkly shiny things then these gorgeous pens are just for you!

Copic Glitter Pens are available in 24 colours which are sold in two sets of 12 pens. 

The pigment-based archival ink is transparent and can be used over other pens and the beautiful subtle glittery effect is produced by micro glass flakes which really reflect the light. 

The important thing to remember about Copic Glitter Pens is that they must be stored lying down otherwise the teeny tiny glass flakes will sink to one end of the pen and clog the nib. This is different of course to Copic Markers which can be stored anyway up.

I absolutely love these pens.  The nib is really fine which makes them perfect for colouring the tiny details some images have.

I have put together a tutorial where I have used the glitter pens to colour a lovely image by Stamping Bella - Giftabella.

I stamped the image on Make it Colour Blending Card with black Memento Ink and selected my Copic colours.  You can see that Giftabella has an armful of presents with some fine details which are perfect for colouring with Copic Spica.

I coloured the image with Copics and left the tiny details until the end to colour with Copic Glitter Pens.  I chose five glitter pens to go with the Copics I have used - Lipstick, Turquoise, Orange, Pink and Clear.  (The clear pen is my favourite because you can use it over the top of any colour).

I carefully coloured the fine details of the image with a Copic Glitter Pen.

...and I coloured over some of the Copic colours with the clear Spica pen.

This is the image when I had finished colouring it and adding the lovely glittery details with the Copic pens.

I had great fun making this card and here is the finished design.

and this picture shows how sparkly the Copic Spica Pens are and just how they can make an image shimmer and shine!

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.  It would be great if you could try this technique and show your cards to us at Copic Marker Europe on Facebook.

To find us just follow the link

HERE

Copic Markers - 

Skin V20, E00, E000, E0000

Skirt & Shoes BV08, B69, B66, BV13, B63, B60

Gifts BG09, BG49, BG45, BG15, R59, R56, R45, R14, RV66, RV17, RV55, YR09, YR07, YR04, YR14, Y38, Y35, Y32

Ground W5, W3, W1

Copic Spica Glitter Pens -

Lipstick, Turquoise, Pink, Orange, Clear

Other Ingredients

Giftabella by Stamping Bella

Make it Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

Memento Ink Pad in Black

MFT 6x6 Paper Pad Dots and Stripes Brights 

Lawn Fawn Stitched Oval Stackables

Whimsy Hand Stitched Rectangle

MFT Stitched Labels

(all from Dies To Die For)

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Copic colouring!

love from

Sue...xxx

Chrysanthemum Collage...

Happy Sunday lovely friends...

I'm whizzing by today with a gorgeous card made with a beautiful Memory Box die from 

Dies To Die For

This card is one of a set I made for our Tracy for Die Cutting Essentials magazine.

The card design is something a bit different for me and I really loved making it!

Here is a little tutorial for you which describes how I made the blended background and put the card design together.

 1. Create a 14.5cm x 17cm card blank with the fold at the side.  Create a panel of purple card the same size, fix it to the card blank and set aside.  Cut a strip of polka dot card 2.cm x 16cm, and a piece of white hammer card measuring 12cm x 16cm, set aside

2. On a piece of white card measuring 10cm x 14cm blend the Tim Holtz Distress Inks in an ombre effect light to dark, Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves. Set aside.

3. With the Chrysanthemum Collage die cut the panel of white hammer card set aside earlier.  Fix this card panel on top of the ombre effect card.  Using Onyx Black ink stamp the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner of this panel as shown.  Set aside.

4. Fix the strip of polka dot card and the card design to the front of the card blank set aside earlier as shown.

White card

Hammered white card

Polka Dot Card 

Purple Cardstock 

Memory Box Chrysanthemum Collage Die

Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad in Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves

Versafine ink pad in onyx black

Sentiment from Mama Elephant Pix's Favorites

Collall All Purpose Glue

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Crafting

love from Sue...xxx

Don't forget to pop straight to the Dies To Die For inspiration blog to look at the lovely DT creations there, and then straight to Dies To Die For for some essential retail therapy!