Mort had a line-up

Howdy Peeps!!

I know!! Two posts in one week! I daren't even whisper 'welcome back, Mojo' incase I scare it off again!!

I've been looking forward to the next stampotique designers challenge, such inspiring cards from the DT and with such fun images! I was really pleased that my card came together so easily, and suprisingly quickly too. (Well for me anyway, I am a tortuously slow crafter!) It's not often that a card in my head translates so easily to paper!



I stamped up Mort first using a stamp positioner then masked them all off. I sprayed and spattered Inkilicious sprinky Capri Blue over the top of the images and abstract foliage underneath in tumbled glass. I then used a digital number stamp in broken china & the barcode stamp in chipped sapphire. Mort was coloured with distress inks and the sentiment is computer generated with my new favourite font, Kiddy DB!!

I would like to enter two challenges this week

Stampotique Designers Challenge (obvs!!) "Twins" (Use the same stamp multiple times)
Simon says Stamp & Show "Anything Goes"

Thanks all so much for looking,

Speak to you soon!

Nikki xxx

Fathers Day Digi Freebie

Howdy Peeps!

I'm quite excited to show you this card today, I'm quite proud of it you see. Not because of any radical design or detail I grant you but because of what I did with the digi.

And what did you do? I hear you ask, well...

Firstly I played on my photo editing software to turn my monster's smile upside down (I needed a grumpy monster you see, for reasons which will become obvious when you see the card!) and then... I made my own digi stamp!! Oh yes fellow bloggers, that Father's Day sentiment is made from my own fair hand, no small feat for someone as technically challenged as I! My final triumph is that at long last I have worked out the difference between images, layers & selections on my software...Yay!! :D

So, without further ado let me show you my card, I doodled bags under his eyes and hairs on his stomach to make him look even more like my beloved...lol!!



For the freebie Digi in its unaltered state go to Pollycrafts here such a shame they've closed down, but then I've noticed a lot of challenge blogs have done so recently. For lovely clear instructions on how to write text in a circle go here. But if you want to use mine feel free, it's quite small so you may need to resize it to suit...



There are a few fathers day challenges on at the moment so I would like to enter my card for the following

Cards for Men - Fathers Day
One Stop Craft Challenges - Fathers day
Dream Valley Challenges - For that Special Guy

Also...

Incy Wincy Designs - More than one Digi
Craft your Passion - Anything Goes

I hope you like my card, and if you did please comment, it makes me happy! :)

{Hugs}

Nikki xxx

Still doing cute...

Hiya!

Yes, I'm still doing cute, at least for the time being anyway. I think little girls cards should be all pretty & sparkly & cutsie, don't you?

This one is for a friend's daughter whose party we will be attending on saturday, I volunteered to make the cupcakes. I'm a bit worried about how the icing will turn out, I haven't really tried piping before!!

Anyhoo... here is the card, using the very first digi stamp I ever bought... it's a favourite of mine for that very reason, not least because the proceeds of the stamp went to a very special cause which you can read about here



I would like to enter this card for two challenges

Sweet Stampin' would like to see your favourite stamp this week...
and Top Tip Tuesday would like sparkles

Thanks for visiting and {GREAT BIG HUGS} with extra frosting if you comment too!! ;)

Nikki xxx

Bright one for the Boys

Hello!

A card today...

I wanted to have some of the base cardstock showing through the inked layers this time, I quite like the 'white bits' - funny how the same can't be said when applied to sunbathing!! (of which I have been doing rather a lot lately)...

The splats are bingo dabbers, Sam brought home a splattery picture from nursery recently, "How did you do that?" says I... Cue a trip to the poundshop the very next day, lol! Yes, I know you can do it with distress stains, but I haven't got any of them, and bingo dabbers? Well, no prizes for guessing how much they cost!

I'm entering this card for two challenges

Simon Says Stamp & Show - One for the Boys
Stampotique Designers Challenge - Bright Colours

So thanks for visiting & {GREAT BIG HUGS} with a cherry on top if you comment too!!

Laters!

Nikki xxx

Dylusions Tag

Boo!!

Yes I'm back, with another tag no less, still trying to perfect my inky background techniques & playing with my lovely dylusions stash!

Had lots of fun with this, of course I am heavily influenced by the hugely talented Dyan and Kate Crane which I imagine is fairly obvious lol! I will put this onto a card blank later for a special friend's birthday, she is indeed a 'Top Chick'!!

I am entering my tag for the challenge this week at Simon says Stamp & Show which is Anything Goes.

"...you gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky?"

Well do ya?

I was doing a bit of research before adding the wording to this weeks tag & came across lots of inspirational words about luck. I'd thought of the Dirty Harry quote first but soon discovered it's so not how I remembered it!

I also smiled privately when I read, "I'm not lucky, I deserved it." said by Margaret Thatcher. I can just imagine those words coming out of the Iron Lady's lips!

I settled on Samuel Goldwyn however, short, to the point & so so true!!

I've used my Octopode Factory Lion again, this time sporting the St Patricks day freebie kindly provided here.

I'd like to enter this tag for the following challenges

TOFF - Boys will be Boyz
Crazy 4 Challenges - Green

Everything but the kitchen sink...

Oh my, I really went to town on this one!! You know how it is, there's something new you want to try & boy did I want to get my money's worth!!

Hmmm...having used 3 cliches in less than three lines of prose I think I'd better just reveal what's been floating my boat keeping me busy (is that one?) lately...

My set of dylusions stencils finally arrived so I've been getting inky & painty & quirky & generally having a whale of a time!! (oh God, make it stop...)

A selection of some of the products I used are included in the pic & the adorable lion image is a rubber stamp from the Octopode Factory...

Thanks for looking!!