Paper Craft Sale

NEW DATE Sunday 6th Feb 2011, 11AM - 3PM. FREE entry, Old People;s Welfare Centre, Nottingham Road, Arnold. Nottingham. Loads of bargains and Stampin' Up! Make and Takes too.

November 30, 2010

Spotty Dog

Brr could it be any colder here? We've had more snow and it's still snowing so a snuggly day indoors is the order of the day for us. I'd share a photo but I'm not venturing out to take one! Yesterday I showed you my latest creation using Spotty Cat from The DigiStamp Boutique and today I'm sharing Spotty Dog:






















I created the card in a similar way to Spotty Cat by printing him directly on to Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake card and layering on Marina Mist. I shaded him with a mix of Copics, white gel pen, Galaxy markers and pencil crayons. I think I've got a bit better on the Copic shading on coloured card now. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! Something Sweet and I've added a strip of patterned paper and a large eyelet, tried to avoid using ribbon! Here's a close up:
















I'm really enjoying colouring and printing on something other than white card and have some Christmas cards planned for tomorrow.

Hugs
Victoria
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November 29, 2010

I thought I saw a puddy cat

Oooh it's getting harder to take photos now the days are getting shorter, I need to get ahead of myself so I can take a load of photos in good natural light. Not much chance of that tomorrow with the snow forecast we have here!

Anyway, onto the card and all that. Love this new image of Spotty Cat which you can get your paws on over at The DigiStamp Boutique right now.






















I printed Spotty Cat directly on to Crumb Cake card and then shaded her with Copics for the natural furry look and then a pink Galaxy marker for the spots and flower and highlights done with a white gel pen. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! level two hostess set Longfellows and the pink card and ribbon are Pretty in Pink. Finished off with a pawfectly pretty border using a Stampin' Up! punch. I'm going to do something similar tomorrow with the Spotty Dog I think!

I lurve how DigiStamp Boutique images go so well with my Stampin' Up! supplies, makes life so easy for me!

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Victoria
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November 26, 2010

Craft Fair Saturday

Just a quickie to say if you're out and about in Nottingham tomorrow, please pop by and see me at the Arnold Methodist Church Christmas Craft Fair. It's next to the market and is open from 9.30 -2.30.


Be lovely to see you

Hugs
Victoria
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November 23, 2010

A little bit of Hoot and Hootie

Oooh have you seen these new little cuties from the Digi Stamp Boutique? Introducing Hoot and Hootie - if you love them too, grab them whilst they are on offer!


















I seem to always colour my digi images in so thought I'd try something a bit different. This idea actually came to me whilst I was lying in bed at about 2am and I had to get up to write it down in case I forgot the next day! I would have too! I printed the images on to Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake card and layered on Real Red. Then I simply coloured in small areas of the images instead of the whole thing. I've used Stampin' Up! white gel pen and red and green Galaxy Markers - they're ideal for working on coloured or dark card.

This is my favourite of the collection - both Hoot ad Hootie together:























Here's Hoot looking all hopefull with a sprig of mistletoe!























And again Santa'd up!






















I like this effect so no doubt will be trying some other images out this way too.

Hugs
Victoria
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November 22, 2010

Cupcake Fairy

At Cupcake Challenge this week our theme is to use fairies or a panto theme. I got stuck with the panto theme so went with the cutie fairies instead. I've used Tallulah from the Digi Stamp Boutique, isn't she so sweet? I've shown you a close up of the image on my card so you can see her in detail and also the sweet border sticker too. It's from the Love Stories Scrappin Kit by Stampin' Up! and I thought the wording was perfect for this challenge. It was a challenge to use as I printed and coloured Tallulah and then stuck the border sticker down. Had to cut round by hand - eeeeeeek!






















Here's the full card, all elements are from teh same Scrappin Kit:
























Hope you like her. Pop back tomorrow to see a set of fabbo Christmas cards using one of the newest sets of images from the Digi Stamp Boutique.

I'm off for a latte now, we traded in our clubcard vouchers yesterday and got a Tassimo machine, a new vacuum and still have vouchers left. We were supposed to get a new landline handset as ours has about had it, but the man at Tesco gave me the wrong vouchers and then refused to swap them. I won't type here what I said to him as I wasn't very polite!

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Victoria
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