Welcome!

Hi and welcome!  Hehe.  I have been having another play with the new release from Heartcraft Paper.  Seriously I am having fun!

The advantage of using digi images you can resize what you like, but more of that later.  

First step was printing out the main image.  I printed out 4 onto one piece of A4 cardstock.  That way it printed a nice size for the card.  The trick to using copic markers is to find your light source.  I am no expert, but I love to play with them.  The following photo's show the colours used.  

Then came the job of fussing cutting.  Lucky I luuuuuurve to do that!  lol  No, really I do love that!  

While I made the background, my little building on the rocks was having a rest.....

The background I used the Mixed media card from Tim Holtz.  My favourite for using Distress Oxides.  

First layer of colour.  

Second layer. But I did find it too bright so I sponged a little white over it to dull the brightness.   

Now with the banner I resized the Hogwarts to match the size of the Welcome to.  Then I hand drew a banner a couple of times so I could cut them out and layer them so it looked realistic (well sort of).  

Once this was done it was just a matter of sticking everything together.  I know it is a very simple card but the building on the rocks is the main feature and I didn't want to detract from that.  I am sure there is a little fan out there that would love this.   I know I would!  

You can get these images from Heartcraft Paper.   I just love some of those cute images she has.  And she is adding more all the time!  

Till next time..... 

We Are Open!

Heartcraft Paper Challenge No.1

Hi and welcome to my first official post for Heartcraft Paper.  

I am so excited to be part of this awesome DT (can you tell?  lol)  Anyhoo.  Back to business.  This is our grand opening challenge blog hop.  You will get to see what everyone has come up with.  How can you not love that!  

Mine today is the ever true hearted Harold.  I will post a how to on the Distress Oxide background in a couple of days.  My camera has decided to have a tanty (tantrum).  Luckily I got the photo of my project done first.  I have only started playing with digi images the last couple of months and I have to say....I love them!  You can change the size to suit your project, you can print out as many as you like (without getting inky fingers) and just love the convenience of them.  

Here is Harold in all his glory.  

The card size is A6.  The cardstock for the background is Tim Holtz Mixed Media cardstock (oh I love this stuff soooooo much!).  I used Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke and Black Soot (yep no blue....that is the oxide illusion.. ).  And I used a cloud stencil I made to do the clouds.  I printed out the image after eyeballing the size I would need.  Coloured him and his buddy with my Copics.  And the sentiment is a Kindred Stamp image.  

Harold and his little flying buddy are part of Heartcraft Papers opening release.  All links below for the store and for the blog hop.  I hope you enjoyed my little project.  

Till next time......

Laura

Marcia

Patricia

Carolina

Rianna

Judy

Me (your here)

Andrea

Tina

Denielle

Varsh

And Heartcraft Paper if you would like to start all over again, hehe.  

Sneak Peek

Just a quick sneek peak to get you all excited!!!  

I had so much fun making this.  Cannot wait to show you all.  July 3 I think is the big day....

Till then.......

Some Exciting News

I have some exciting news.  A new digi stamp company is opening up on July 2, 

Heartcraft Paper

Did you see me?  I am so excited to be part of this awesome team.  Cannot wait to share some upcoming projects.  So stayed tuned.  

Now to get back to work!  

Until next time......

Putting My Supplies To Good Use

Finally!  The countdown is on.  I have been stocking up on my pop culture stamp sets to make some cool projects.  As it will be my first time out I didn't go too crazy, ok yeah I did!  Using one of my favourite stamp companies, Kindred Stamps, I have some unique creations to sell.  Better go as I still have a lot of work to do.  

Until next time......

Little Aussie Trio

I'm baaaaack!  LOL Told you I was going to be sharing a bit more often.  Todays share is from Beth Duff Designs .  It is one of the many digital sets she has.  This one is Australia.  And since I live here I thought I would have some fun with this one. 

 

First I printed off the images needed.  I did end up printing 2 more of just the koala so I could colour the leaves and cut them out to use on the other 2 cards. 

 

The square frame is from Memory Box.  The bokeh background is actually an old SU paper (I know I cheated!  Hehe).  I did pop the sentiments (Clearly Besotted) and the patterned paper.  When I say pop I mean I used foam mount tape.  Pop sounds so much better than "now use your foam mount tape" lol. 

 

The card bases are 3" square.  So little notecards for just that little something extra.  I sponged some blue ink onto white card to use as a background.  The frame and the card are SU Crumb Cake.  Very Australian colour combo I reckon. 

 

 

 

And here is the final result.  A trio of cuties.  Will make cute gift cards for some presents I think.  I have also shared this blog post over on Beth''s blog also. So now there is no reason not to see these cuties...lol.   

 

Till next time......

My first Ink Road Stamp

Hello!  I am back from the depths of my craft room.  I didn't realize I had not blogged in so long.  I have been very busy creating behind the scenes on a few different projects.  Hopefully, now, I will have some time to start sharing all my makes. 

I am so excited to share with you 3 projects I have made using my very first set from  Ink Road Stamps or if you are in Australia (like me!) you can order yours through Dawn Lewis    This set is called The One With All The Stamps.  I had some fun with this one.  It is an ode to a certain tv show that was popular a few years back.  I wonder if you can tell from the projects which one it was. 

 

This first project is my favourite.  And I am sure this looks familiar to you in some way.  I downloaded a font that matched the title of the show and changed it up so the word suited my project (great tip you don't have just the right font in your stamp stash).  Without actually removing any stamps from the packaging I inked up all the sentiments with versamark and took my grey cardstock to the stamp (rather than the other way around).  Leaves a softer look (which I like), than bold patterned papers.   Coloured the "couch" the right colour ( I done my research lol) and stamped out a simple b'day sentiment for underneath. That is card No.1.

 

 

Had a little play with my oxide inks (once again).  Salty Ocean I believe.  Using a small alpha die set I die cut out the I's and Y O U and also die cut some hearts out of red card.  Stamped out the images from the stamp set.  Coloured and cut out then just adhered the lot to the front of the card.  If you look at the mugs and watch the show you will see they match!  I know!  I really do thorough research...lol.  That is card No.2

 

 

And for my last project I made a trio of cards.  It may be a little hard to tell from the picture but the purple rectangle in the middle of the card is actually recessed.  I tried to just keep it simple and make the sentiments and images the focal point.  Please tell me you can tell which show it is. I ran with the purple and yellow theme due to the bottom card being part of the set (seriously have you guessed yet?  LOL ) Considering I have had my stamp set less than 24hours I think I did well (I hope so!). 

 

I plan on getting more of these Ink Road Stamps.  They are unique and quirky.  Just like me!  :-) 

 

Till next time.......