Who can resist a donkey!!!...

Hello friends,

I'm trying to catch up with all my blog posts so here is card I made a while ago for a lovely friend of mine.

I have a real soft spot for donkeys! <3 (Be honest - who does n't)???

This card is made with the gorgeous 

Stamping Bella - Donkey Trio Stuffies Rubber Stamps

Stamping Bella - Mail Chick Rubber Stamp

MFT Die namics Stitched Fishtail Frames

Ink On 3 Blackout Hybrid Ink Pad

I used my favourite card for pencils - Bockingford Hot Pressed, coloured this cutie with Faber Castell Polychromos and cut him/her (?) out! (:

To create the background I cut a 10cm x 13cm rectangle of Bockingford card and blended Distress Oxide Inks in Scattered Straw and Worn Lipstick over it.  I also splattered it with water and Perfect Pearls to create texture. 

I then used the largest Fishtail die to cut a piece another piece of Bockingford and fixed it to the background.

I cut out a fishtail banner die... (Your Next Stamp - discontinued - but any small die would do, you could adapt this bit)!... and stamped the sentiment from

Stamping Bella Mail Chick

in black ink onto it.  I fixed the sentiment to the card design as shown, along with the donkey!

Be sure to have a look around our

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

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to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by!

Happy crafting

from Sue...xxx

Happy Chanukah...

Hello friends,

I hope you have all had a restful and merry holiday time!

I made this card for some lovely friends of mine, it gave me such joy to make this and send it to them!

I learned quite a lot about Chanukah in the making of this card too which was great!

Ingredients From

Dies To Die For

Stamping Bella - Teeny Tiny Townie Chanukah

Stamping Bella - Teeny Tiny Townie Chanukah Cut It Out Die 

MFT Die namics Stitched Rectangle Frame Dies

Mama Elephant Slim Tags Trio Dies

Ink On 3 Hybrid Detail Ink in Black

Concord & 9th Neutral Glitter Pack

Star Dust Stickles Glitter Glue

Be sure to have a look around our

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

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to engage in some essential retail therapy!

There is free shipping on all orders between now and midnight on 2nd January! 

Thank you for popping by!

Happy crafting

from Sue...xxx

Cool Christmas...

Hello Friends!

Well, I don't now about you but I have given up pretending that I'm not fussed with Christmas because truth is I am having such a lovely time making Christmas cards! /-:

In fact I'm having such a fab time that today I have made two!

Ingredients from Dies To Die For

Stamps - My Favorite Things - Cool Christmas

Dies - MFT Die namics Inside/Outside Stitched Square Stax

MFT Die namics Stitched Traditional Tag Stax

MFT Hybrid Ink Pad in Extreme Black

Papers - MFT Candy Land 6x6 Paper Pad

*Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Christmas Paper Pack 

*(Currently out of stock but there are lots of other gorgeous Christmas papers you could use)

To make this card I stamped and masked the image and first created the background with Distress Oxides

Chipped Sapphire, Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio 

The image is coloured with Copics and Polychromos

Car - BV23, BV20, Dark Indigo and Black

Snowmen - Cold Grey iv

Hats and scarves are a selection of reds, greens, purples

The snow is a white Signo Uniball Gel Pen

This tag/card is coloured with Polychromos - I didn't note the colours but it is a simple selection of reds, greens, purples

The snow is a  white Signo Uniball Gel Pen

Finally I added a red velvet bow with silver bells - pure Christmas indulgence! (:

Be sure to have a look around our 

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and pop to then to 

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Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 

love from

Sue...xxx

Unicorn Background!...

Hello Friends,

Happy Thursday!

It's Sue here today with a really fun tutorial involving Copic refills and shaving foam and some gorgeousness from 
Dies To Die For!

I have seen marbling tutorials before but they have always been with different colouring mediums so I thought I would see what happened when I tried it with Copics!

I got really excited when the technique worked and my card ended up with a beautiful marbled pattern!  (My craft room smelt lovely too for a while from the shaving foam)!

The items I used for this marbling technique are
a foil tray, a can of inexpensive shaving foam, glossy photo paper, Copic refills B34, BG13 and V15, a wooden skewer, a plastic ruler, baby wipes.

I sprayed the foam generously onto the foil tray...

then I added drops of Copic refills...

  B34     

BG13  

V15

Then I used a skewer to swirl the ink around in the shaving foam...

until it looked something like this.

The next steps are the exciting part!

I press the card down, glossy side down, into the foam, press quite hard until the foam squeezed out of the side of the card.

then I held the card by the corner and rotated it 360 degrees across the top of the foam.

Still holding onto the corner, I lifted the card off the foam.

I used a ruler to scrape the excess foam off the card

After a few minutes I wiped the card with a baby wipe.

You don't need to throw the foam away, you can add some more ink and repeat the technique several times until the foam has all gone.

This background made me think of unicorns, so, here is the card I made with it.

Ingredients used from
Dies To Die For
Stamps - Stamping Bella - Set of Unicorns
Dies - Stamping Bella - Set of Unicorns Cut It Out Die
My Favorite Things - Die namics - Stitched Circle Frames

*New* Whimsy Stamps - Grass and Cloud Edger Set

Embellishments - *New* Your Next Stamp - Watermelon Party Sparkly Gumdrops
Other - My Favorite Things - Hybrid Ink Pad in Cement Grey

Other Ingredients

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes - Marker Geek

Glitter Card by Crafter's Companion

Copic Markers

Manes - V17, V15, V12, RV55, RV63, RV52

Wings - B66, B34, B21

Horns - All of the above plus BG57, BG11, BG10

Unicorn bodies - W2, W1, W0, W00

Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 

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!

                                                                                        

Miss You...

Happy Saturday everyone!

The sentiment on this card is quite fitting today because I do miss you!  

I have been away from the blog for a couple of weeks - flu thing - *rolls eyes*

I am back today to show you some 

Whimsy Stamps

gorgeousness in the way of a beautiful DoveArt new release image

Fantail Goldfish

and a brand new stencil

New Sprinkles Stencil

I love this little fish - I thought the sentiment suited him/her perfectly with the downturned mouth and tail!

Ingredients from 

Whimsy Stamps

Stamps - Fantail Goldfish

Ocean Journeys Sentiments

Stencil - New Sprinkles Stencil

(UK Peeps you can buy from Dies To Die For)

Other Ingredients

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

MFT Extreme Black Hybrid Ink Pad 

Copic Markers

Clear Copic Glitter Pen

Distress Oxides in Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers

MFT Die namics Stitched Circle Frames

Archival Ink in Cobalt Blue (Sentiment)

Glossy Accents

Copics - 

Background - B00 and Colourless Blender

Fish - YR09, YR04. Y19, Y15, E81, T5, Copic Clear Glitter Pen

Be sure to pop to 

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 
Whimsy Stamps 
to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by,
happy creating, love from
Sue...xxx

Clever Owl...

Happy Thursday everyone!

I have something a bit different to show you today.

This card is one of a set I made with some lovely 

Dies To Die For 

goodies

last year for Making Cards Magazine.

I stamped a gorgeous background stamp, heat embossed it and then painted it with distress inks; then that done, I die cut the painted panel to create the owl design.

Ingredients from Dies To Die For

Stamps - My Favorite Things - Wavy Coloring Book Background Stamp

Your Next Stamps Heartfelt Sentiments Set

Dies - Poppystamps - Clever Owl

Die namics Stitched Circle Scallop Frames

Other Ingredients

White card

Watercolour Card (I use Canson Hot Pressed)

Clear Embossing Stamp Pad by Emboss

Frantage Aged Gold Embossing Enamel for Stampendous

Seedless Preserves, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet, Chipped Sapphire Distress Markers by Tim Holtz

Water brush

Frayed Burlap Distress ink pad

Onyx Black Versafine ink pad

Gold Pearlescent Card

White Hammer Card

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Creating

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!