Shelly's Images - All tied up - to do

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This week we are getting all lovie!! - except me - who never does what she is told with digis (he he he)

This layout is a sheer accident - I grabbed an A4 sheet - scored it and - disaster!!  I must of cut a strip off the edn to use for something else.

Hay - Hoe - a new card fold was invented!!

Not going to waste it - so the design is on 2 levals.  The key on the ribbon and brad part are on the underneath section - and the heart and message are on the upper section - neat eah?

The heart is inked and shaped to give it a lovely 'bump' - and the lock is cut out and raised too.

Love my accident

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Yours

kitten xx

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Do You Stack Up? - #57 - Anything goes

Hey everyone!

Welcome to a new challenge at Do You Stack Up?! This week ANYTHING GOES…. ANYTHING!!    Go and ransack your stash cause this is the perfect week to use those things you have forgotten about. 

For this week we have three great sponsors:

Crafty  Individuals

 Stamp Fairy

Stamp &Create

Stamp and Create is an online store based in the USA with worldwide shipping. We carry many stamp designs including Magnolia, Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, The Greeting Farm, Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber Stamps, Whiff of Joy, CC Designs, Whimsy Stamps, and more. We have a Product Spotlight sale each week with one select stamp company or category are on sale up to 25% off. We also have a Monthly Challenge and Weekly Candy on our blog.

 

We hope you have a

Happy Crafting Time and

share your precious creations with us!!

 

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This little huni would make a fab 'well done' card as well as a love type one.  It is Stamp Fairy - Teddy.  I love the look on his face!

I cut a window in my card and mounted the image from the back using 3D foam to get the distance from the front, to give it more of the 'looking up' idea.  I have also glazed his nose so it's beautiful and shiny.  The paper is wonderful - it's so bright and colourful

Yours

kitten xx

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Life - chill pad

Ok - that's it - leaving home - fidget and I have found our dream home.  We can sit in the sun - I can have a swim - clean and neat - easy to look after

- you can all visit any time ;-)

Yours

kitten xx

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Shop talk - buzzy bee

Seriously silly fun!

I am knitting these as a soppy Valentine gift - got a few greetings in mind for the rest of the year too

Hand knitted soft bee to hang with tags - can bee personalised

£2.50 - in the SHOP now


Yours

kitten xx

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Day off

monday is kitten's day off

Yours

kitten xx

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Scrapper's Delight

I have a new Angel image for you to day - from Janice over at Scrapper's Delight.  You know me - I am not a 'cutie' people person - but I really do love the Gothic look that Janice gets into her drawings.

The wings are a neat trick I use sometimes.  Go over just the outlines with a fine tip metallic pen - this one is gold.  It gives you a light feathery look that is really pretty

Yours

kitten xx

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Gecko Galzs

Here is another in my occasional series of images from the Gecko Gals collections.  I have the Chinese set - you get 50 in each set - yes 50!!!!  So I will be on this gig for a while yet!

I don't often do soft and delicate - but I am really pleased with the way the colouring has turned out.  I Used the Copic B9xs with a dash of the palest Rs.  It is such a dream-ie image I thought the sentiment was perfect for it

Hope you like it


Yours

kitten xx

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Shelly's images - Designer's choice - Text Me

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We got to have a free choice again this week - this is the very first image I ever had of Shelly's - way before I started on the team.

This week we have to add some text.  That's not tough for me - I always add text - part of my trademark.

Hubby said it is one of the nicest cards I have done - so how's that for praise

Copic coloured  with all the E7xs - the heart has a coat of glaze on it and really stands out.

You can get the doggie HERE   and he is only $1 this month so grab him quick

 

 

Do join us with this weeks challenge on the BLOG

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? #56 - Ribbons

Hey everyone!

Welcome to a new challenge at Do You Stack Up?! This week is all about RIBBONS!!    We all have yards and yards of those yummy things on our stash.  So let’s take them out and give them some good use. 

For this week we have four great sponsors:

Crafty Sentiments
 Winner's choice of 4 images 

The StampingBoutique 
 Winner's choice of 5 images 

Dearie Dolls 
 Winner's choice of 4 images 

The Ribbon Reel

We hope you have a

Happy Crafting Time and

share your precious creations with us!!

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I chose this teacher image from Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps - I thought it was a bit diffrent.  The card / pouch is a diper fold that I made an inner to slide in and out.
The ribbon flowers are dead easy.  Take a length of wid ribbon - fold in half - run a running stitch along the fold - gather it up and swirl the flower round to make a nice shape - and ust the thread to over sew at the base to keep it all in place.  I glued on with silicone and put a button in the middle

Yours

kitten xx

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quick kissie

Quickie shout out for the freebie of the month on Scrapper's Delights

It's a lipstick - kiss - image - - - but you know me - - let's corrupt it for a Valentine's days card!!!!

I put the kiss image into my Publisher - and made it big enough to use on a 6" square card - then the magic - I changed the colour to a strong pink - how cool is that!!!!


The image is matted with red - and the letters are cut on the Cuttle bug

- how cool is this

Yours

kitten xx

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My guy

My palace guard dog really does love his veggies.  He stands under my feet when I do the dinner just waiting for the scraps to come his way.  His all time favourites are the cores out of the cauliflower and broccoli - he is just nuts for them.

He carries them off tot he corner of the dining room and chops away for ages.


Yours

kitten xx

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Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

Yours

kitten xx

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Scraper's Delight

Scraper's Delights

I said to Janice that I was doing the Valentine archer and she said - 'that's my faverate' - ok Janice - NO pressure there then!!!!

Hope you like what I did with her

I had the idea for the topper first - the embossing at the side and the ribbon - so I did all theat first - then I dug in the scraps box for something that pinks and reds with out being too heavy.

The colouring is Copics - really pleased with the hair.  Still not all that good at heair - but this worked out great.  New colour combo - the E9xs are an aubun look

Yours

kitten xx

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Saturday - In the Shop today

New in the shop today - darling little note books with a gel pen

This is a new line - 4" square note book, hand covered in a quality patterned paper - bound with a wire hinge tied with loads of matching ribbons - plus a mini scented ink gell pen tucked into the hinge
ALL hand made from the cut and paper wraped covers to the individualy hand cut pages - bound with a wire coil

All for just £3.50 each
loads of patterns listed - and more to follow - if you would like a special colour / theme - just ask - can be done

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Shelly's Images - Designer's Choice

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Hay - we free range of the shop to pick what ever we like this week - talk about a kid in a candy shop!!!

In the end I settled for this wonderful little boy star fishing


There is loads of occasions that you could use this - and you know me - always an extra one for the boys.

This time I made a picture - A4 in size.  I made the digi bigger - and changed the colour to a light blue.  The original idea was to scribe over the printed image, but when I was playing with spacing it fitted really well into the curve if the moon.  I left the image totally plain and added a few silver stars round the fishing pole - then stamped a silver swirl at the bottom and added a couple of cut and embossed stars.

Do join us with this weeks challenge on the BLOG

Yours

kitten xx

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Do You Stack Up? #55 - Patterned Paper

Hey everyone!

Welcome to a new challenge at Do You Stack Up?! 

This week we want to see PATTERNS!!  

Whether you use patterned design paper or create your own,

 we want to see your colourful creations. 

This week sponsors:

My Little Shoebox Surprise Goodie Bag 

Copic Marker Scrapbooking 6 Copic Ciao Markers (North/South America)
Martha Stewart punch (rest of the world) 

Happy Crafting!

We hope you play along 
and share your precious creations with us!! 

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• Our DT would love to leave comments on your blogs, please remove word verification to make this process easier (see right side bar for a how-to guide).
• Only 3 entries per person per Challenge.
• Make sure to link back to this challenge and mention it on your blog in your blog post.
• No back linking.
• Entries that do not fit the requirements will not be eligible for Winner or Top 3.
• Mr. Linky closes at 2pm on Wednesdays.

I had a cute little wowl from Copic Marker scrapbooking.  We have always called them wowls in our family - no idea why.

I bet You would never think of Copic Marker's site to get digis! - I have had several from them during my time on DYSU and they are just super.  Really good quality and very colour-able - I guess being 'Copic' friendly they understand about colouring.

ANYWAY
- my wowl-ie

- wooo says that you have to use an image as a wooole item!!! (sorry - drifting again ;-) )

The moon is part of the digi - but I cut it out and added it separately.  the flowers are punched to match -

- Copic colouring - with the cute-ist owl pattern scrapbook paper that has been sitting in my off ice for at least 3 years just waiting for this image
Yours

kitten xx

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New site

Weel - not quite new - but an old love that I have just re-discovered

Do you know Grace - paper Grace 

Seriously - I loved her works a couple of years ago - wow has she grown and developed falling in love all over again

Guess that's a school girl crush ;-)

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Life

I have been so brave - I wall papered one wall in my bed room in my little flat.  I got the wall paper for something silly like £1 a roll when Focus were selling up - but not had the nerve to have a go.  It's years since I did any wall papering.  I did paste the wall instead of the paper and it helped make the job a lot less fiddly and messy.

It looks really super - not sure I want to do loads of it though

Yours

kitten xx

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Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

Yours

kitten xx

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And more

Several people have asked me to make up my poems as cards.  It's something that I have resisted because it means scanning it in and I do try to avoid modren convenience.  But as I am using digital images more and more I thought I would - with the promise that nothing is ever altered in the scan from the original.  Some calligraphers scan into photo shop and 'tidy up' - what's the point int hat?

So here is my first card of the Inner Peace poem

It is something that will be in the shop and I will keep topping up.  They will still all be different bacause it depends on what papers I have in the office.



Yours

kitten xx

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More calligraphy

Guess I am on a roll here.  This was a recent commission for someone who has been very poorly (but getting better!).

This is this the rough workings so you can see all the lining up.I usually work a piece 3 times before the customer gets it.  The first gives me a rough idea of the line spacing and layout - the second gives me a chance to tidy and 'hone' the spacing (that's usually the copy that goes to the customer for final approval) - and the third is the (hopefully) final piece.

Bet you thought I just wrote it out!!

Yours

kitten xx

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Shelly's Images - Snow Bear - Roll 'em

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This is a fun challenge - get 2 dice and roll them 3 times to get 3 numbers

2 – Ribbon/Trim/Twine or Lace
3 – 3 Layers
4 – Kraft Paper
5 – Distressing
6 – Embossing
7 – Ink/Mist/Paint
8 – Brads, Buttons or Bling
9 – NO Patterned Paper


I got
2 – Ribbon/Trim/Twine or Lace - the baker's twine
5 – Distressing - all the edges are distressed
7 – Ink/Mist/Paint - the pale green base is misted with blue, the red has whire paint dabbed on it, and the bear is coloured with Copic inks

Do join us with this weeks challenge on the BLOG

Yours

kitten xx

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Do You Stack Up? - #54 - Pink

Challenge #54 is all about

PINK

 

Our sponsors are :- The Stamps of Life Winner's choice of 2 stamps sets

Since I was sent a 2 stamps from Stamps For Life - I thought I would make 2 cards ;-)

I chose background stamps for a change so that I could practise my inking and collage techniques.  Isn't it great to be usiny wild colours again - yummie

The first is fairly straight forward - stamped and decorated.  I cut the card shape with an nestabilities die

Then I got more ambitious.  I stamped the background in 3 different colours - embossed with clear holographic powder - then die cut to get the heart shapes.

Yours

kitten xx

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Calligraphy piece

Now that Christmas is over I can show you a commissions I did

It's a beautiful poem - and a new one to me.  I was so cross with myself as I had to re-do for a spelling - will I never learn!  The second copy was not as good as the other - there you go - that's what hand inked is all about.  I will do it again I think - just for myself because it's so pretty.

You know - I look at all the studies that Monet did of his lily pond and I think how could he do 12 paintings of the same?  Yet give me a poem to scribe - I will happily do it and re-do it over and over again.  Guess his button was lilys - mine is letters


Yours

kitten xx

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Tuesday - Invite range re-launch

Here's a laugh for you.  I pulled the party invite range from the shop a while ago while I decided what to do with it.  Now I have decided to get a scrapbook as a sample book and paste in the ranges on pretty scrapbook papers - each style on a page - you know like the big wedding stationers sample books.

Anyway - I picked up an album for £8 in Cutting Edge Crafts sale (these guys are so good, fast and reliable - and no postage)

Then I picked up loads of scrapbook papers from David over at Craft Obsessions (such a nice company to deal with)

- I dug out all the old plans and samples
- -
- -
- and I am going to have to re-make the whole lot!

- my scribing hand has improved/changed so much in the past 3 or so years it's quite different.

This project will keep me playing for weeks ;-)

Now my poor little head is exploding with new ideas for designs - will show you when I start to get a grip on it all

Yours

kitten xx

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Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New thing!

Have you seen those huge vynal stickers that you put on the walls?  They has some in Home Bargains the other week when I was mooching about.  I thought is would be fun for the flat bathroom to add a bit of interest.

I got the London one - I use to love spending time in London.  It sits alond the short tiling over the bath and it really looks super

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk