Ooh La La!

Good afternoon happy bloggers and I hope you are enjoying the weather as much as I am.  In North London it was quite dull this morning but the sun is blazing now and it has gotten hot again - not warm but hot!!

You will likely know how over the moon I was to get my new Simply Sassy rubber stamps ttrhu my letter box the other day.  They have been inked and waiting to be coloured in so here is Ooh La La!  I just adore them all and want to get all the older ones too now!!



I coloured her using my PMs (hoping to get some colouring pencils to see how I get on with them but need advice on which ones to get you lovely ladies out there pls), mounted her onto pearlised blue paper that I embossed using a fab funky folder from Papermania, then mounted that onto a Nellie Snellen Oval Die embossed with the same folder.  The red backing paper is from The Works (a massive pack of handmade that I got ages ago for 99p) and the blue dotty is from my stash.

You can see that on top of her stamped rose I actually added a small red rose that was left over from my son's wedding stationary last year (knew they would come in handy at some time!!) and I think it looks fabulous!

The side-on view below shows the depth of that stunning blue spotty ribbon and the ruby red rose.

I am entering this one into the following challenges~

I Love Promarkers Anything Goes;

Tip Top Tuesday Open;

Ribbon Girl Red, White & Blue;

Simon Says Emboss It;

Sunday Sketch & Stamp and

Incy Wincy Designs Bright & Bold.

Ingredients:~

Ooh La La rubber stamp from Funky Kits;

PMs ~ Ivory, Blush, Dusky Pink, Pastel Pink, Caramel, Cinnamon, Sandstone, Pastel Blue, China Blue, Poppy, Ruby, Moss, Cool Grey 1 & 4;

Papers, ribbon & sentiment from stash;

Nellie Snellen Oval Die & Papermania Embossing folder used.

Hippie Chick

I bought a few new stamps from Funky Kits last week and thought I would share a card I made using Hippie Chick - I think I have fallen in love with them as they are so REAL!

I coloured the ever so cute image with my PMs and inked the edges with Distress Ink Tattered Rose; the DP is from My Minds Eye I think and the flowers and gems are from my stash.

This close up shows how bad my colouring is.....ooops gone over another line!

Ingredients:~

Hippie Chick rubber stamp from Funky Kits coloured with PMs~ Blush, Ivory, Satin, Dusky Pink, Cool Grey 1 & 2, Sandstone, Caramel, Ruby, Rose Pink, Duck Egg & Pastel Blue;

Papers from My Minds Eye range I think;

Gems and flowers from stash.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

The Sugar Bowl Challenge 51,

Ribbon Girl Challenge 4 and

Stamp Something Anything Goes.

Mr & Mrs Foxglove

We have a lovely bright day here in London but it is very cold - to be expected seeing as its midway thru October!  Today's card is the first I have made using these fabulous Whiff of Joy rubber stamps I won recently - they are such good quality so I would say to anyone thinking of purchasing them to go ahead.

Using Mr & Mrs Foxglove, I stamped them on to Rymans' Smooth Card and coloured them with my good old PMs, layered the image onto red card and stuck it down onto fabuloud dark green leather-look textured paper.  I used a contrast striped paper in both horizontal and vertical to make the shapes fro the right-hand side and put them thru my Dotty Papermania Embossing Folder, mounted them onto green and red card and stuck down.  The flowers are made from the same card using Marianne's Florals and I stitched the middles with green thread in X shape.

I am using the new Editor thingy but not too sure about it - I suppose its like everything else that changes - nobody likes the new!!  When the Docrafts site changed there was uproar but it seems that most people have come to like it now after they made a few changes to suit members. 

This card is for two challenges ~ Ribbon Girl's Red & Green and Sketch Saturday.

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Ingredients:~

Mr & Mrs Foxglove rubber stamp from Whiff of Joy coloured with PMs ~

Hair ~ Caramel & Cinnamon;

Skin ~ Ivory, Blush & Pastel Pink;

Clothing ~ Moss, Marsh Green, Pear Green, Ruby & Poppy.

Papers from Papermill Shop and My Minds Eye;

Used Papermania embossing folder for textured dots on striped paper;

Sentiment made using cheap alphabet stamp set from The Range.

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One Cool Cat

What on earth is happening to the weather - summer returned yeaterday and today it is raining cats and dogs here.......just have to suffer it I suppose as its the one thing we can't control (please everybody don't be offended by this statement as I am well aware of global warming etc and I do the BEST I can to help fight it but it takes more then me!!!)

This first card for today is for 3 challenges - 1 of which is new to me adn to Ribbon Girl - The Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge No1; FabnFunky 'Quote Me Happy' No 41 and Charisma Cardz Anything Goes Challenge. Now I have no idea what this shape of card is called but I used my Ultimate Pro - something I spent a lot of money on ages ago and have hardly ever used but hey presto - it came in useful.
I coloured in this cute freebie from Bugaboo and matted and layered him on orange and black card (had to ask Graham's help with measuring the front triangle - its great having a mathematician in the house), added sentiments and ribbon. I also used my paper crimper to jazz up the black under the ribbons.

I inked the edges of the image rectangle with Archival Ink to soften it up a bit.

Ingredients:~

Freebie 'Cool Cat' from Bugaboo some time ago (do pop along as she has Freebie every Friday and they are fabulous) coloured with PMs~

Honeycomb, Pumpkin & Spice;

Black & Cool Greys in 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5;

Papers from The Papermill;

Inked edges in Whispers Archival Black Ink;

Ribbons from stash;

Sentment I made myself using Croobie font.