Coloring @ Inspired Stamps

Good mornings all :) 

Being Thursday means it is time for an

Inspired Stamps 
 card :)

This week we were asked to focus on our favourite coloring medium ... 
Being honest, coloring is not one of my favorite things to do so ... 
I thought I would take the challenge and use color to focus and highlight one of my favorite silhouettes stamps from Inspired Stamps - Be Still Silhouettes

To create the spotlighted circle, I used watercolor ink and droplets of water to give the ink texture.

The girls have all been coloring up a storm this week!
So be sure to pop on over to the

 Inspired Stamps Blog 

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Thursday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Be Still Silhouettes

Paper(s) -   White Cardstock.
Tools - Staz On - Black, Stampin Up Bashful Blue ink

Embellishment(s) -Ribbon, Bling, butterfly sticker.

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Spring @ Inspired Stamps

Mornings dear friends :)
Today, the Inspired Stamps girls and I are
crafting my second favorite season ...

Spring!

I really do love this season for the opportunity of playing with pastel colors and today the mood took me to gorgeous purples and the scripture from the Inspired Stamps, Be Still Silhouettes.

 I am utterly in love with the Stampin Up Square Lattice embossing folder at the moment (craze I am going through lol) and today I have mixed it up with a Spellbinder die from the Amazing Paper Grace kit club.  A few little butterflies from the Ek Sucess Butterfly border punch, a touch of ribbon, flower and some pearls all finished off with a light ink distress. 

I have been very fortunate to have a peak preview at what the girls have made for this week and there is some yummy samples over on the Inspired Stamps Blog, so be sure to head on over and have a looksie too! 

 Inspired Stamps Blog

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Thursday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Be Still Silhouettes

Paper(s) -   Kraft Cardstock, White Cardstock
Tools - Amazing Paer Grace Dies, Stampin Up Sqaure Lattice Embossing Folder, EK Sucess Butterfly Border Punch. 

Embellishment(s) -Distress inks, Purple Ink, Kindy Glitz, Bling from stash, Feather, Flower from Stash

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Shine your light - Play Time :)

Peek-a-boo people :) 

Popping in quickly to share a card that I had been itching to

 make all week but only tonight got the time to sit and play! 

To help inspire me a little more with the 'Try' the C&S look,

 I am playing along with the adorable color combo theme this week at 

Less is More!

It is a delicious combo that I just could not pass up lol and I think this would have to be my favourite C&S card by far yet!  And Ssshhhh I am really getting a fondness for this style sssshhhh

So here we go .... 

 

 This is the Inspiration pic and colors I played along with. 

Just delicious hey?  See why I just had to play along :)

 

 A side view. 

 Close up of the focal point and sentiment.

 

My camera doesn't do the butterfly justice :( 

 It is coated with clear kindy glitz and just shines and sparkles beautifully. 

I really do love the simple elegance of this card and so happy with myself that I still managed to combine all the things I love with the pearls, ribbon, bling and a little touch of distressing on the butterfly and yet still managed to make it C&S with lots of 'white space'.  

Anyways my good folks, it is way past this Cinderella's bed time as she has to work in the morning so I am going to love and leave you till laters :) 

Thanks for calling past to see me :)

Till next time ....

Recipe -
Image / Sentiment - Amazing Paper Grace - Just Rite Stamps

Paper(s) -  Kraft,.White Cardstock, Bella Pink Glitz
Tool(s)- Spellbinders Large Squares, Spellbinders Small Squares, Spellbinders Les Papillions Butterflies

Embellishment(s) -  TH Tea Dye Distress Ink, Sepia Archival Ink, Ribbon (stash), Stampin Up Antique Brad, Flourish with a bling (Rose pink flourish), Embroidery thread, Clear Kindy Glitz, Kaisercraft white pearls. 

Challenges this creation is entering with the help of the Feline Playful Girls:

Less is More - Week 109 Color Combo Sat E1/- C5

Flutterby Wednesday's - #230 Open Challenge Wed 

Addicted To Stamps and More - Clean and simple Wed C5

Word Art Wednesday - Encouraging Sentiment Wed  

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Scripture @ Inspired Stamps

 Mornings all :)

Wow! The weeks are just flying by! Where does time go?

Here we again on Thursday and I have another

Inspired Stamps 

card to share with you all :)

This week it was free play! Love those! And I thought I would do exactly that ... play!  I have had the adorable Love Is set from Inspired Stamps sitting on the side of my desk itching to be played with since forever.  The verse in this set is just amazing and it is one of my favourites and I really do just adore the last verse of this, so ... today was a play with some masking!

 Love never fails ... I don't know what it is about this line, but my heart just stops, reflects and feels soothed. Again, I am playing around with my style :$  One of my new years resolution was to attempt more C&S cards and really try this style out, I still love the shabby / grunge look and the loads of embellishments though and it always find a way or part way in somehow lol.     

All the girls on the team are sharing creations today so please do drop by

 Inspired Stamps Blog 
and share some love with them!

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Thursday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Love Is 

Paper(s) -   White & kraft Cardstock,
Tools - Dry Embossing, Die cuts.

Embellishment(s) -Twine, Flourish with a Bling pearl flourish, Prima flower.

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Easter Card Set @ Inspired Stamps

Mornings dear friends :)

Inspired Stamps 

Is really on the ball this week and the girls and I are hopping to inspire you all to get ready for the next celebration of the season ...

Easter!

I must admit, this is one season that usually gets neglected and overlooked in my house and this year Easter is even earlier than normal being the last weekend in March.  So what better theme than to focus our attention on some Easter sets and that is actaully what we are doing this week!

I think that one of the reasons I can easily overlook this season is as I don't have many Easter stamps :( But alas I let my mind wonder to the season of spring and it didn't take long for an idea to pop into my mind using the Flower Buds stamps from Inspired Stamps.  These adorable little flowers remind me of violets and just sing spring to me!
 

 The set together .

Close up of card 1

 Close up of Card 2

Close up of Card 3

 All together again :)

Have you noticed a habbit of late?  I am really trying my hand at C&S!  I do love the look of C&S but in my own cards and attempts at C&S I have never felt like I have ever done the card enough justice nor have I ever been entirly happy with the end result.  One of my new years resolution was to attempt this style more often and as I do more and more of them, I think I am beginning to get better at them.  Mind you ... For a card with such minamal compaired to my normal over embellished ones, C&S seems to take me twice as long as I constantly question myself and every step! lol

This was a really fun set to put together though!  To use the one image in 3 very different ways was challenging and rather rewarding when I was finished.  I am still amazed at the variety of looks and styles you can achieve this way.  The flowers have all been stamped and white embossed and then colored with water color pencils.  For card 2, I stamped and colored an extra flower and toiled it up to make the flower deminsional.  I do love them all, though card 1 with the 3 flowers along the bottom is really hitting a soft spot with me :$

As always, the Inspired Stamps girls have some inspiration to share with you too! 

So please do drop by the blog and see them!

You won't be disapointed with sets they have to show you.

 Inspired Stamps Blog

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Thursday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Flower Buds

Paper(s) -   Kraft Cardstock, Scraps Cardstock
Tools - Spellbinders Scallop Squares & Large Squares

Embellishment(s) -Distress inks, Water color pencils, white embossing powder, ribbon, bling.

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Scripture @ Inspired Stamps

Good mornings beautiful people!

I am popping in this week with a card for

Inspired Stamps 

This week the team have been given free play with some

Scripture

Over the past few weeks I have raided my stash of cards that I keep on hand and was in urgent need of a Thank You card so Mojo and I jumped straight into it this week using one of the sentiments from the Thank You set from Inspired Stamps.
  

I have not played with my Shilouette Cameo in forever so I had a play and made the gorgeous card base with the leaves edging.  I also cut the leaves from the Cameo as well.  I raided my scraps stash for the cardstock pieces on the front, added some stitching, a Stampin' Up bradto the largest leaf, scattered some red pearls and a touch of a few wire scroll vines and wella, I was done and happy :)

Don't forget to pop on over to the

 Inspired Stamps Blog 
and see the gorgeous works the girls have got for you!

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Thursday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Thank You

Paper(s) -   Kraft Cardstock, Scraps Cardstock
Tools - Shilouette Cameo

Embellishment(s) -Stampin' Up Antique Brad, Red Pearls, Wire

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Mojo's Silver Lining

Good morning folks :) 

I've been fortunate to get a moment to myself of late, 

so I took the opportunity to play along with some of my favorite challenges! 

The Shabby Tea Room has a gor-gor-gorgeous inspiration picture this week and the challenge is Aqua, Brown and a touch of silver.  When I saw this pop up on my blog roll on Monday I just could not resist and had to play along....

So I played :)

 

 

Ohh I had so much fun making this, so much so, that I crafted way past my curfew and I did not want to get out of bed this morning lol But ... It was sooooo worth it! :)

I am absolutely in love with the square lattice embossing folder from Stampin Up at the moment (I don't know why? I just am!) and I am also going through a craze of inking my embossing folders so I had to do that too with Versa Mark Sky Blue ink.  The sentiment along with the dies are from of the Amazing Paper Grace kits that I have again stamped in the Sky Blue and also heat clear embossed and distressed the edges with TH Tea Stain.

I really had no plan of attack with this card, I kind of just crafted and let things go where ever they went.  So for the silver lining of the challenge, I first decided to add some metallic silver stitching around the edges and as the card came together the silver butterfly charm made its way into the card and then the glittered silver sprigs in the flower embellishments.  

I am not sure why, but I had the brain wave to grab a bobbin and decorate it as well in the same style.  And for the little dust collector it is, I think it is a perfect trinket to go with the card.  Mojo seems to have found his groove again so hopefully I will be back soon with something else new to share :)

Fair winds and following seas till then xx
And thank you for sailing in to see me today!

Recipe -

Stamp(s)- Sentiment - Amazing Paper Grace Kit

Paper(s) - White Cardstock

Tools - Spellbinders - Amazing Paper Grace Kit, Stampin Up Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Versa Mark Sky Blue Ink, TH Tea Stain Distress Ink.

 Embellishment(s) – Flowers / bling / metallic thread / Ribbon / Butterfly all from stash. 

  
Challenges this creation is entering with the help of the Feline Playful Girls:
Addicted To Stamps and More - Vintage Wed E1/- C10
Inky Chicks - Mother's Day or Birthday Tues E1/3
Deep Ocean Challenge - Letter "B" - Birthday, blue, brown, bling, butterfly,  bobbin, bow, blooms Tues
ABC Challenges - All Stitched Up Mon E1/3 C10
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Metal Mon E1/-
The Shabby Tea Room - A Silver Lining Mon E1/-
Sugar Creek Hollow - Metal Mania Sat  E1/3
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Things with wings Sat 
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More Love @ Inspired Stamps

Good mornings beautiful people!

I am so sorry I have been so absent from my blog of late :( 

Unfortunately sometimes life just gets in the way and crafting and blogging just has to take a back seat until one is back on the rails and in full swing of things again. 

While there is still some fine tuning to do, I think I may have found the perfect balance of life, working and 'my time' to do some crafting. 

Mojo also seems to have returned from his rather long absence too!  

So we have a card to share with you today! Woo Hoo! 

Being that Valentines day is on our door step!  This week at 

Inspired Stamps 

we are putting our focus on 

'Love'

Today I have used the Love Is stamp set from Inspired Stamps.  I just adore this set! And I have an idea brewing on how to use the gorgeous scripture that comes with this set too!  

I do appolagise for the poor quality of my photo today and the lack of photos.  I thought I had photographed this card, Hmm well I had taken one pic! And then I got distracted with fecthing the kids from school and absent mindedly popped this in the post to my mum before finishing the shoot! *doh* yeah! I have been having a few days like that lately lol 

The Inspired Stamp girls and I would love to share the love with you too! 

They all have some la la licious cards up on the

 Inspired Stamps Blog 
So please do drop by and share some love with them too :)

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Thursday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Love is 

Paper(s) -   White Cardstock, Black Cardstock
Tools - Spellbinders - Fleur De Lis Sqaures & dies form November 2012 Kit by Amazing Paper Grace.

Embellishment(s) -Stickers, Red and black Bling, Ribbon and button. 

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Love @ Inspired Stamps

Good Mornings all :)

Appologies for my slow start to this new year,
Christmas, family and friends are all still in full swing of celebrations around here!
(yeah still!)   And things won't actually fully return to 'normal' till the last guest leaves on January 25th! 

I did manage to find just a tiny moment to make a card for this week for

Inspired Stamps 

This week, we were asked to focus on
'Love'

Being pressed for time, I feel I have cheated by going for a clean and simple card this week :$
But oh I do love how gorgeous it looks!

I could not resist using the gorgeous resin rose from Hanmade Halo and with the pearls and the so sweet sentiment from the Inspired Stamps - Love is Set.  I am still having a love affair with the Fleur De Lis Sqaure, they make a very elegant and classy card, I think anyway. lol 

The girls have all been busy this week too!
So do pop on by the

 Inspired Stamps Blog 

Thank you for stopping into see me today and sharing my Inspired Stamps creation with you!
I look forward to sharing another with you next Tuesday :) 

Happy Crafting till then! 

Recipe -

Stamp(s) - Inspired Stamps - Love is 

Paper(s) -   Hammed white cardstock
Tools - Spellbinders - Fleur De Lis Sqaures

Embellishment(s) -Resin rose - Handmade Halo, Pearls - Flourish with a bling

Challenges this creation is entering with the help of the Feline Playful Girls:
Make My Monday - Die cuts / Punches Mon C6 E1/1
Sugar Creek Hollow - Winter White Sat
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Santa's Candy Winner

Good morning and Happy New Year folks! 

My greatest apologies for the lateness of this post :( 

It is Murphys' Law if it can go wrong ... 

it will go wrong and hi ho that was the end of 2012 for me lol

Anyway .... That is a long story and a new laptop later :) 

Today I have the greatest pleasure in announcing the lucky winner of the 

 Santa's Candy!

Thank you so much to everyone that played along!

I asked Mr Random to pick a lucky number for me ...
And he pulled from his lucky hat ....
The number ...

27... Nat from CraftyNats

Congratulations Nat!
You have won Santa's Stocking full of all these goodies!

£25 voucher to Halo Handmade

My Favorite Things - Let it snowflake Die

 Decorative Elements Set from Sweet Stamps

 $10 Gift Voucher from Raspberry Road Designs

8 Packets of my favorite Prima flowers including -

 Flower Frilllies in Plum, Orchid & Wine, Caravan in Sultans Robe & Morrocco Red, Medicci Flowers in Plum , Baroque Blooms in Plum & Zazl in Lilac

Total value over $100 worth of goodies! 

Nat, if you could please email me at thenavywife@y7mail.com and I shall arrange the postage of your prize and the gift vouchers.

Thank you again to everyone that played along. 
I look forward to continuing my crafting journey with you all in 2013.