Thank 'Crunchy' it's Friday! Inspired By:

It's time again to share the piece I made for this weeks PaperArtsy challenge after being inspired by all the fun uses Helen Chilton came up with for PA's 'crunchy' wax paper.
I've had a pack of unloved 'crunchy' for about 6 months + with no clue as to how to use it..
But not any more... Thanks to Helen x

 I tried most of the techniques {minus the ironing} and made a little sampler card.

I just received the Lynne Parrella 007 stamp plate, which was a prize win {YEP you can win stamp'age peoples, so why not be inspired and join in too.} I had to get the main image from the new plate onto the card as I just adore her, {the original image I did have ready got the boot lol} She was coloured with watered down fresco paints.  I also used one of the feathers from the new plate too. Other stamps used were: Eclectic #6 & Wings #1.

So now I know how to use my crunchy, hopefully it won't be unloved any more!
Thanks for stopping by..
Till next time..

Stay Inky

A Snazzy Challenge

It's time again for a challenge over on the Snazzy's DT Blog
The theme this time is
'Spring Colours'
One lucky winner will get an Echo Park (Spring Collection) prize along with some small co-ordinating ink pads.
 For my piece I worked with the very beautiful Prima 'Almanac' Papers on a kraft coloured card.

 I just used lots of the elements from the different papers cut out and arranged.
The only add on's were a smidge of rock candy crackle on the eggs, some rock candy distress stickles and a prima art tile. {all available from Snazzy's}

As you may be able to tell I photographed the card when we actually had 'spring like' weather lol
This isn't my usual style but it was lots of fun deciding what elements to use and how to place them, and I am really pleased how it turned out, so much so that I also made a scrapbook layout, but i'll share that another time.
So dust off the wet and windy blues and think spring fresh, I look forward to seeing your entries.
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Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Leftovers..

All month I have had the totally to die for new 'Wonderland' papers by 7 Dot studio to play with as part of my Snazzy's design team pack.
Today is my final project over on the TEAM BLOG
here's a quick peek

But alas with projects comes scraps, and it being such nice papers I couldn't bear to throw any of them away so instead I decided to make leftovers card.
Basically you use up all your little scraps on a card and it comes out something like this...

I also used a couple of the wonderland diecut elements and a couple of mini TH paperclips.
{all available from Snazzy's}
Thanks for stopping by: Make sure you hop back on Sunday as I have a little CANDY up for grabs.
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Happy Mother's Day Mummy

This is the card I made that I couldn't share until today

And it just so happens that I can still enter it for this weeks Pan Pastel Challenge as although it was made for last weeks, and then I realised I couldn't blog it or my mummy would see, this week the PP theme is to 'Add a Flower', and i've plenty on this card so it fits perfectly. 

>>><<<

I just want to send all my love to my mummy today and to wish all my blogging chums who are mummy's a very happy day too xx

Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Playing with Pastels

Pan pastels that is... 

This week the theme over on the PP Challenge Blog is Girly/ Mother's Day and that was just the inspiration I needed to whip up this little creation.

Pan pastels are so highly pigmented and vivid in there colour and work wonderfully over a versamark stamped image, creating a beautifully blended finish.
This is my card for my partners Mum.. I can't share my Mums one as she reads my blog. lol
I'll have to share that one after Mother's Day.
I'm also entering this card in the Simon Says challenge as they also have a mothers day/special girl theme
Thanks for visiting x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Quick UIU Card.

Hay peeps, just a quickie today, I was going to share the other tags I had made but i've not photographed them yet. So instead i'm sharing this little UIU card.

It was made using free papers and embellishments out of a card making mag

That's your lot today, see told you it was a quickie.
But i'll be back soon with the tags..promise x
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

Man that goes by quick!

Truly I do not know where the days fly away to.. Has it really been a whole week since I was last here.. SHOCKING
Anyhow today I thought i'd share a men's card I did

And i'm entering it in this months 'MEN/All things male' themed Artistic Stamper Challenge
Right i'm heading off out so catch ya again soon xx
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

I Give Up!

OK so I just about managed my first week back to work, a little sore and out of shape but thats to be expected, Right!
What I didn't expect was to get struck down by the cold from HELL that pretty much wiped me out for the rest of the week! Can you believe it!
What's a girl gotta do to have a healthy day round here. I mean cm'on!
So as you may of guessed I haven't managed any crafting, which totally sucks,
I'm totally getting withdrawal symptoms!
And you probably are too, if you keep stopping by to find no art,
So not to disappoint you all again I managed to find this little card that I made but hadn't blogged yet.

Looking at it now it would probably make a great leaving card, especially for someone who's emigrating or something! {at the time I was just playing, so a happy accident you might say}
Here's hoping this week will run a little more smoothly and I actually managed a little inky action!
So until then
Stay Inky
♥ HUGZ ♥

Bad Blogger!

You'll have to forgive my sporadic blogging of late, I decided to go ahead and have signed up for a locally run craft fair, So I am frantically trying to get enough stock made so my table doesn't look bare lol 

That and trying to get my knee back fighting fit with lots of gentle exercise!

The poor blog is taking third place at the moment.

So in the mean time I thought i'd share this simple little card so you're not looking at an empty space!

I've used stampotique's Portland backed onto a simple paint stamped and washed background.

I'm also sorry if i've not made it round to your blog, once i'm a bit more prepared for the show i'll be hopping on by to say hi for sure xx
Stay Inky
♥ HUGZ ♥

Hard to Resist!

Yesterday I had another fun skype play day with Alison.
This time we picked The Stampman's challenge which is a 'Resist Technique'.
I had seen this very cool tutorial on HeroArts.com so we both set to work following the video instructions.
I actually brought the hero arts leaf cluster stamp with the prize money I won from the 'anything tim' challenge.

I pretty much used the same colours as the original but some stamps had to be substituted as I didn't have them! Good excuse to buy more I reckon lol
The phrase is Penny Black, and the background lines are Tim Holtz.
I backed the image onto another piece of water colour paper that I had used to soak up the inks from my walk and wiggle stage, perfect as the colours were obviously matching.
Then the whole thing was mounted onto a kraft coloured card, and finished with a bit of lace and some prima flowers.
Why not go check out Alison's, She used different stamps completely!
Stay Inky
♥ HUGZ ♥

Make a wish!

The Gals over at Just for fun have a month of shapely challenges, 

The theme this week is 'circles'

I created mine with the bottom of a mini bottle and black paint.

I lightly washed some diluted black around the circles.
I thought they looked like dandelion stems {or like I call them wishes} so I drew on stalks
I stamped and cut out moon girl and sat her on them for a focal point to the card.
And finished with the wording.
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Well I'm having a lovely time in London, It's lovely getting a chance to spend time with my mum and dad, The weather is totally gorgeous which I'm hoping will last all weekend.
Have a fab weekend whatever your doing and if your at the BSSBS show and spot me, please do come and say Hi
Until then Stay Inky
♥ HUGZ ♥

Shades of Blue!

Here is just a quickie card i made for the
Happy Daze 'Shades of Blue' challenge being held on facebook HERE
If your looking for my woyww post.. it's just below this one!

I used some of Tim's new air travel stamps and the young sailor is by paper artsy.
♥ HUGZ ♥