Thanks a bunch or two!

It’s my turn to host at Willow Sketchie Challenge and this is the sketch I’ve come up with :

The theme is Summer Florals.So anything flowery will do whether it’s the image,papers,flowers or any other floral stash item.You can take a choice of either the sketch or theme.Or really go for it and do both! You could be the lucky winner of a voucher to spend at Willow Designs too!As well as a winner (chosen randomly) there will be a hand picked Top 3 and they will receive a super cute badge for their blog.Don’t forget to stop by the challenge site and check out my fellow DT’s beautiful creations.A truly inspirational bunch.

I’ve used a super cute Walter Owl digi stamp taken from the Walter Owl digital collection by Willow Designs.He’s been coloured with FlexMarkers and fussy cut out.He’s then been shaped and adhered with 3D Glue for some extra dimension.I’ve layered up with some new Papermania Happy Days papers and new Papermania Kraftstax card from the latest DoCrafts Goody Bag along with some Trimcraft Textured card that I treated myself to – well you have to don’t you!I’ve Distress Inked the edges of the papers and afterwards pounced the edges of the card layers with the same piece of Cut n Dry.I shaped the pieces the sentiment is mounted onto,using that as a guide.I added some Blitters,the flowers,from the same Goody Bag and some Raffia Lace Ribbon plus a length of grosgrain ribbon.The Raffia Lace was much lighter in colour originally so that got Distress Inked too.I have to confess the ribbon is a little bit of a cover up job as even tho’ I’d tried hard to remember that the paper had a right way up I didn’t notice until I’d stuck the sentiment on that it was in fact upside down!!Oooopsie!Luckily I’d used wet glue and it hadn’t set so I managed to save it and just make a few  *cough* minor  alterations…

So on to some super news!The  new Walter and Winnie Christmas Stamps are available from Willow Designs to pre-order now!!The stamps can be found in the Clear Stamps section.They’re sooo cute you’ll love ‘em!

Here are some sample cards :

Supplies :

Image : From the Walter Owl digital collection by Willow Designs

Sentiment : From 3 Birds  boxed stamp set

Mediums : FlexMarkers,Frayed Burlap Distress Ink,Coffee Archival Ink

Papers & Card : Papermania Designerstax Happy Days Double Sided 12 x12 ,Papermania Kraftstax 8×8,Cherry Blossom Trimcraft Textured card 12 x 12

Adhesives : Collall All-Purpose Glue,Collall 3D Glue Gel

Tools : X-cut guillotine,Decoupage scissors,Nellie’s Multi Frame Dies Ovals 2,Big Shot,Woodware Inverted Corner Punch

To Embellish : Raffia Lace Ribbon and Grosgrain Ribbon from stash,Papermania Capsule Collection Chelsea Green Blitters 

Some challenges this is for :

Creatalicious Challenges : Anything Goes

Cupcake Craftroom : Lots of layers

Desert Island Crafters : 4.Inked edges,6.Glitter (on flowers),7.Animal(s),8.Use a rubber stamp (sentiment)

Sparkles Forum Challenges : Summer fun

Crafty Sentiments : Summertime

Jackson’s Digital Expressions : Anything Goes + Optional A Rose By Any Other Name (Use Flowers)

 LEJ Designs : Fabulous Flowers

Papertake Weekly : Anything Goes

Sassy Cheryl’s : Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown : Summertime

Crafty Bloggers Network :   Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge : Winged Things

Dream Valley Challenges : Things with Wings 

Joanna Sheen Challenge :Summer Daze  

One Stitch At A Time :  Use a Digi

Robyn`s Fetish : Distressing

The Ribbon Girls : Girlie Card 

Catch The Bug : Something to do with Summer or the 4th of July

Craftymess Challenge :  Ribbons and Lace

Di’s Digis Designs : Summertime

Poodles Parlour : Cute and /or Cuddly

Raise The Bar : Summer

Stampin’ For The Weekend :  Show us Your Style (not really sure how describe my style?Probably mostly cutesy images,lots of layers and dimension while still retaining clean lines.Oh and I’m totally OCD about colour coordination!!)

Totally Papercrafts : Use a Digi Image

 

 

Thanks for looking

Lisa x