FTH October Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on this month's From the Heart Stamps blog hop.

Our theme this time is "Think Pink"

As you hop along, please leave a comment on each blog.
One random commenter will be selected on each blog to win an image of choice from the FTH store.
And additionally, one commenter on the From the Heart Stamps blog will be selected to win a $15 gift voucher to the store!

If you have arrived here from Jessica, you are in the right place, if not, why don’t you start at the From the Heart Stamps blog, so you don’t miss anything. The full hop list is there too.

Here is my card...

Here's my card recipe:
Image: Hamlet PigWit Icing on the Cake.
Sentiment: 'Happy Birthday 653F' by Catslife Press Rubber Stamps & 'friend' die by Clearly Besotted Stamps.
Spotty Paper: Fancy Pants 'Beach Babe'.
Colouring Medium: Promarkers.
Other Supplies: Die-namics Flowers & Leaf trio die, Die-namics Party Banner die, Xcut scalloped circle die, Cuttlebug embossing folder 'Mini Monsters Companions', card candi & pale pink lace ribbon from stash.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Creative Inspirations - lovely lace
The Pink Elephant - anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - make it feminine
Crafty Little Fairies - Only one DP
ABC challenge - U for unique (anything goes)
Crafts Galore Encore - Trick or Treat (I've gone for a 'sweet' project)
Cute Card Thursday - spots & dots

Now, please head over to Kathy's blog to see her beautiful card.

Thanks for hopping with us today.
The hop will end on Monday October 6th at 6am, EST.
Winners will be posted on the From the Heart Stamps Blog on Wednesday October 8th
Good luck, and happy hopping! x

Anything goes at LMM

It's time for a new challenge over at Little Miss Muffet.
and this time, we have another easy one for you. Anything Goes!

I've used one of the New Releases on my card, this is Jack Follow The Leader, a digital image from the Pollycraft range.
As it's a scene, I wanted the image to be large, so I kept it as the main part of the card. I've coloured the image using promarkers.
The sentiment is by Pink Petticoat
The striped paper is by Fancy Pants (Beach Babe), thanks Faye xx
The droplet border is a cArt-Us die.

The other Little Misses have made some beautiful creations, please visit the challenge blog to see what they have made.
And remember there's loads of inspiration on our facebook group too :)
Happy Crafting! xx

I'd like to enter this card at:
Papertake Weekly - ohhh so cute
Crafty Little Fairies - May: in the garden
Crafts Galore - anything goes
A Random Fan - anything goes
I Love Promarkers - anything goes
Creative Inspirations - birthdays

For Laura

It's the 1st of May, May Day, and today is my younger daughter's birthday.
Laura has a mischievous little cat named Jynx, so I decided to use this Cat with flower digi image by Motivet and try to colour it similar to her cheeky little kitty...

I don't know where I got this beautiful green floral paper from originally, I found it in my paper drawer, it must have come out of a pad that I had at one time though. If any of you know where it came from, please leave a comment and let me know, thanks.

UPDATE: Thanks to Faye, I now know that the paper is by Fancy Pants, from the Beach Babe collection, this sheet is called 'sand dollar'... Thank you Faye! xx

I embossed the cream piece with a grass embossing folder that I had free with a craft mag. The pretty white border was made using Stampin Up's eyelet border punch.
'happy birthday' has been cut using word dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps. The sentiment is also from there too (For Everyone stamp set).
I cut out an arched banner around the sentiment so that it would frame the outside of the image, then added punched flowers and crystals on the opposite side to finish.

Happy Birthday Laura Jayne (Flissy) xx

I'd like to enter this card at:
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Paper Makeup - For a Special Lady
Creative Card Crew - Girly

If you'd like to see the card that my son gave to his sister for her birthday, it's HERE.

Foster Fawn & friends

Happy Thursday everyone, fancy crafty shopping? Yes? well there's some fab new rubber images released today over at Little Miss Muffet to get your inky fingers on ;)
The collection, Forest Friends, is perfect for this time of year and includes the most adorable little characters, Rachel, Sabina, Stuart, Trevor, Orlando, Quella, Rosa, and here's Foster Fawn...

SO sweet eh? and is a dream to colour too ;)
If you've seen the new release, you may notice that I have also used butterfly, dragonfly and mushroom images too to create the whole scene for this card.
I started by positioning all the images to where I wanted them, then sponged in the sky. Using the images again to lay on top, coloured with promarkers. Foster got extra layers which I adhered together with glue (rather than use foam pads) for more subtle layering...

I created faux stitching with a paper pricking tool and then used a thin marker dragged over the holes.

I've used that gorgeous green floral paper again that I don't know the name of ;)  However, the spotty piece I do know, it's by Dovecraft.

 UPDATE: Thanks to Faye, I now know that the green paper is by Fancy Pants, from the Beach Babe collection, this sheet is called 'sand dollar'... Thank you Faye! xx

The scalloped border is from a cArt-Us die. I added a few gems for a touch of sparkle.

Finally, I added the sentiment which is actually a close match for my deer card, and was found on a small sheet of sentiments that were free with a craft mag.

You're going to love this collection of cuties. You can also buy Zabel, she had been previously available as a digi but can now be found in rubber instead :)

You can see more examples of Foster, Rachel and the gang by popping over to the LMM challenge blog to see the lovely creations made by the other Little Misses.

By the way, there's still time to enter our current challenge of paper piecing too ;)

Happy crafting!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Sweet Stampin - create a scene

Papertake Weekly - a/goes (option: use 2 stamps)

Passion for Promarkers - birthdays (incl a sentiment)

thanks for looking xx

Just had to buy...

A few days ago I came across this card on Viv's blog and instantly fell in love, not only with the image
( I already own the stamp set, it's called summer by the sea by Stampin Up) but also the stunning way the image was framed.
So an impromptu purchase was made as soon as I found out the die's name (Thanks Viv).
If you are also wondering what the die set is called, it's Leane 005 Frame Curve by Lea'bilities and this is the largest in the set...

The image is called 'Blossoms' and is from Beccy's Place. I printed it out 3 times, coloured it using promarkers and cut out and layered it up. Finishing with a couple of ivory flatback pearls to the 2 largest flowers.
The sentiment was computer generated and punched out using SU's word window punch.
The beautiful green floral backing paper was sitting in my drawer shouting to be used, I cannot for the life of me remember where I got it from, but there's a good chance it's a craft mag freebie, if anyone knows, please let me know, thanks, I have a few more sheets of it and would like to know who it's by incase I need to buy more.

UPDATE: Thanks to Faye, I now know that the paper is by Fancy Pants, from the Beach Babe collection, this sheet is called 'sand dollar'... Thank you Faye! xx

The cream coloured spotty paper beneath the image and inside the card is from my Kanban Male Backgrounds CD, I altered the colour to one of the designs to get this pale shade before printing it out.

I'm loving this card! I shall give it to my friend next month for her birthday, we've known each other for 36yrs this year, we lived in the same street as kids, then years later we both moved back into the estate, and she is my neighbour once again, with us both living in the street next to the one where we grew up in.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Beccy's Place - march challenge
Scrappy Frogs - green
The Pink Elephant - green
Papertake Weekly - 1,2,3 (1 sentiment, 2 pearls, 3 layers of flowers)
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes (Happy Birthday CCT)
Wags n Whiskers - go green
ABC challenge - J for just as you like (anything goes)


update 20.03.13 - Thank you Ella & the DT xx