Roller Derby

Roller Derby  

I couldn't believe it when my two favourite digi stamp designers teamed up to have a competition together. The competition consisted of TSC and Simply Betty providing a Roller Derby image, unfortunately as it is only a week long comp I decided realistically I'd only have time for one image. I choose Bettys image because, well she was my fav :-) The condition was just to use black, hot pink and lime green in the card.

I knew in my head what I wanted to do and I think I got there eventually, although in hindsight which is a great thing I would have used black card for the base. I used my cameo quite a lot for this card including the stepper card as I wanted to add my vinyl text to some acetate.

 I used patterned paper from my scrap pile which is huge,and coloured the image with promarkers. The skull and ribbon also came from old stash and I added some black gems for continuity. 

I really hope you like it.

Its difficult to see but I deconstructed Bettys image slightly in the software to cut the helmet, knee/elbow pads and skates from the same vinyl. It took a bit of work and was very fiddly but I think it looks well. 

Miss Maggie

Shes not sure what to make of her award, she came 9th out of 22 dogs which wasn't bad for a dog who did no training. The dog that won is off to a Crufts qualifier!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges please:

http://thestampingchef.oo.gd/Gallery/index.php?/categories/flat
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-21.html
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-51-anything-goes.html

Surfs up

Surfs up

The stamping chef very generously gave us this image for a weekly challenge, I don't often enter TSC challenges simply because the week is over before I've had a chance to do the image justice but I just loved this one so much and had the perfect paper and embellishments.

I used my silhouette cameo to create a stepper card in blue card and the image and sea was coloured using pro-markers. I used a cut/emboss swirl die I bought in a sale (it was reduced to £1.99, what a bargain) to create the waves, The sentiment was a freebie stamp I got last month free with a magazine and the paper was also a magazine freebie some time ago. The georgeous embellishment is part of a set I bought a few years ago in a craft shop on holiday in Holland. 

I love how the surf board turned out

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-

http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/challenge-139-anything-goes.html

http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/belli-challenge-175-summer.html

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/designers-choice-challenge/dcc731-water-element/

http://pollycraftchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pollycraft-challenge-4-lisas-challenge.html

Thanks for popping by 

Kathy xox

Whoop whoop I won my first blog challenge

I won my first blog challenge over at Milk Coffee with my St Patricks Day card, I was so surprised I could have danced around the room and I got to choose 3 free digis from their shop. The wonderful thing about the blog challenges (also my purse may suffer a little) is all the amazing digi artists I didn't know existed.  I chose 3 of Milk Coffees Tiffany digis  as she's just so adorable although I may need to go back and get a few more because they'll all so lovely.

The image I won the challenge with was a freebie from the Stamping Chef, another artist I discovered recently from the Netherlands (not far from where my uncle lives). This is an image she shared for a colouring challenge called Culinary Claire, the winner of the challenge had her image added to the blogs banner, pop over and have a peek it looks amazing http://thestampingchef.wordpress.com/. I'm going to make this image into a card for a good friends birthday in May so watch this space.

Im already half way to finishing this weeks challenge over at the stamping chef :-)

Thanks for popping by xox

First St. Paddys day card

This saucy little Irish girl was a very generous freebie from the stamping chef  on the condition she was made into a card for St. Patrick's day.

She was so much fun to colour with my promarkers and I wanted to make her the main focus of my card. I made the frame using my cameo silhouette (frame purchased from the silhouette store) and some green glitter card, it was so easy to do and took a matter of minutes. To finish off the card I used a very lightly patterned green paper (after some hunting in my stash-I really must sort my paper out) for the background and coloured some white card candi with my gold promarker to match the coins in her hat.

Over all I'm happy with how the card turned out and am going to pop it into the post today to a dear friend (thankfully its not a bank holiday on Monday in England or it would have been late!)

I'd like to enter the following challenges please:-

http://notrealstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/st-patricks-day.html

http://thestampingchef.wordpress.com/

http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.co.uk/ this challenge is called Sham-rock around the clock, love it :-)

http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

http://7kidschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Here is Miss Maggie enjoying Crufts last week 

An Irish Blessing

May you always have walls for the winds,

a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,

laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,

and all your heart might desire.

Happy St Patricks Day xox