Green, Black & White - the QKD hop

December is moving on apace and I guess that, like me, your Christmas preparations are taking up much of your time!

As it's Tuesday, the Queen Kat Designs Royal Court are doing their weekly blog hop.  My project is showcased on the Whimsical Ink Sorority blog and I also add it here for my regular readers.  I do so appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog during this busy time for everyone and would like to thank my Followers for your continuing support.

We're working with a Green, Black and White theme for this week and for my card I decided to use the lovely Luna de la Mur, she was featured on a past monthly WIS kit but is due to be released singly in January - so you are getting a sneaky peek!! shhhh..... keep it to yourself though as I don't want everyone to know <>.

I used a 6 x 6 scalloped base card, some lovely moss green paper and black cardstock. I cut the black card layer with a spellbinders nestie die set and used the cut out dots as extra embellishments in the corners. Luna was coloured with Copics and Promarkers with a little Stickles and Glossy Accents added here and there. I stamped up two of the sea urchin and plant image and used only the sea urchin from the second image to add over the top for extra texture. I didn't put a sentiment on the front of the card so that it could be used for any occasion or even just a notelet to send a message to a loved one or friend.

That's it from me today, I hope you'll come back here again soon.

hugs

wynneth

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Gemini Twins are Hopping with me today

As it's Tuesday, the Queen Kat Designs Royal Court is running it's regular weekly blog hop.  My DT project is showcased on the Whimsical Ink Sorority blog as part of the hop and I like to share it on here with my regular readers.  If you'd like to join in with the hop, go to the start here and just follow the links.  I know the DT members would love to welcome you to their blogs and it would be great if you have time to leave a comment.


I did give you a sneak peek of one of the new December Zodiac Mermaids last week when I used the lovely Taurus. For my project this week I'm bringing you the other new release, Gemini

As soon as I saw these gorgeous Gemini Twins, a retro 80's theme came into my mind for some reason. I knew I had these lovely papers from the DCWV Taj Mahal pack in my stash and they were just perfect for my project.

I coloured the girls with a combination of Copics and Promarkers, adding a little Spica Glitter pen here and there. I added Frosted Lace Stickles on the clouds to give them a 'fluffy' appearance and Glossy Accents on the flower vase on top of the pillar. I created the frame, with a set of Spellbinders nesties, from another sheet of the DCWV paper, and embellished it with flowers cut from a scrap of the background paper. The pretty narrow lime green ribbon I got in Michaels when I was in the US recently and the green card is Stamping Up! Certainly Celery which I had in my stash.

That's all from me today folks, I hope your Christmas preparations are going to plan and that you  are still finding a little 'Me' time in your day to do some of the things you love - such as crafting!!!

hugs
wynneth
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Happy Hop Day !

Happy Tuesday to you and I hope it's a great one ! It's a busy time of year for most of us so I do appreciate you taking the time to join us for our weekly Queen Kat Design hops.  My DT projects are showcased on the QKD Whimsical Ink Sorority blog, but I also like to share them on my own blog for my Followers.  I do hope you enjoy today's card.

This week I'm giving you an early peek of one of the new QKD stamps being released for December, I know it's still November, but the new month is just a couple of days away, so what the heck!!!  Just don't tell Queen Kat, I might just be in BIG trouble !!So, I've sneaked in this  project using the 'uber cool' Miss Taurus - isn't she a stunner?

There's a sketch for us this week and I've twisted it half a turn clockwise and replaced the ribbon and bow with a strip of punched lace and a layered up flower.

I felt this new girl just called out for woodland/organic shades and I had this lovely card in two shades of green in my stash and I used a sheet of pale golden cream pearl as my base card.

I coloured the image with Copics and added loads of Spica Glitter pen all over her wings, horns and the flowers - it's just soooo... difficult to photograph shimmery images to catch the sparkle, but you may just be able to see a little of it if you look carefully. In reality it is very shimmery !

I used a Martha Stewart deep border punch to create a strip of pretty floral lace and added some faux pearls in the centres of the flowers with a Waco Pearl pen. The ornate corner was cut using a Marianne Designs die and I also added Spica Glitter pen to the swirls on the corner. The flower was created by layering up die cuts, with Platinum Stickles in the centre. I also added the same Stickles around the edges of each layer - I love the Platinum as it gives a very much more subtle effect than gold.

That's all from me today folks, so til next time - Happy Crafting !
hugs
wynneth
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Hopping with Happy Cupcake

As it's tuesday, there's a blog hop going on with Queen Kat Designs.  My DT project is showcased today over on the Whimisical Ink Sorority Blog as part of the Hop but I also like to share my projects on here for my regular readers.  If you'd like to do the Hop just start here and follow the links.

We have a lovely picture  to inspire us this week, lots of gorgeous Autumnal colours and these were the inspiration I took for my project.

I decided to use the lovely Happy Cupcake November release stamp, she's such a darling girl with her sweet and happy smile and, with all the foliage in the background, just perfect for this challenge.

Rather than a card this week, I opted to create a triangular gift box, this size would hold quite a few candies or a small gift such as a piece of jewellery, a silk scarf or maybe a few tealights. There is a tutorial on Split Coast Stampers for the box and they really are very simple to make - believe me!  It was my great crafting pal Lauren who reminded me of these lovely boxes recently - thanks Sweetie! I began by cutting a sheet of craft card to size before stamping a lovely branch and a leaf using brown ink, to create patterned base card from which to construct the box.

I coloured the Happy Cupcake image with Copics, adding touches of Spica Glitter pen and Glossy Accents. Using a plain circle and a scalloped circle nestabilities dies I cut out the image and the layer underneath the image. The flowers were made using a Nellie Snellen Punch & Emboss set (I'm so loving this new 'toy' of mine!) punched from pearl card and adding some punched leaves coloured with a green Copic pen.  This side view shows in more detail how the box is contructed. The green and brown ribbons which hold the box together were from my stash and I added small gold half beads to the centres of the flowers.

I hope you've enjoyed today's project so til I see you next time - Happy Crafting !
hugs
wynneth
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Queen of the Sea

It is always great to go on holiday, but do you - like me - find that it's also lovely to be home again?  I know that I really miss my crafting when I go away and I didn't even have internet access on my recent break in Spain and I had to hope that all the pre-scheduled posts I had put up here came on line at the correct times.  I think it all worked quite well and I do thank those of you who visited (and especially those who left me comments!) while I was away.  I really appreciate all my Followers and visitors who haven't yet become followers, thank you all so much.

So, for my first card since getting home, I had to get straight back into my DT work for Queen Kat Designs to be ready for today's blog hop with my post on the Whimsical Ink Sorority blog.  As this is the first week in the month of August, it means there are some newly released stamps to show you and I am lucky this month to have the August WIS Kit stamps to work with, and boy is this a fabulous kit. I honestly do think that Maigan Lynn has excelled herself with her designs for the kit this month, it is just so awesome!!!  If you'd like to see the other new stamps for August, why not do the blog hop yourself, just start here and follow the links.

The first week of each month also means we have a sketch to inspire us. I really enjoyed working with today's sketch as it is very 'clean' and neat.

Why not have a go at creating your own project using this sketch as inspiration for the layout. I think it would work well for cards, scrap book layouts, ATCs etc, etc. Just leave me a comment under this post, including a link to your project, and I'll hop over and take a look. I really love seeing what everyone is busy creating!

My project for this week is a card, and I wanted to keep the whole thing very simple so as not to take away anything from the beauty of this fabulous image. I didn't include the bows on the sketch as I felt they would be too 'fussy' for the effect I wanted to create.

I coloured her with Promarkers and added Spica glitter pen and Glossy Accents to highlight and emphasise elements such as her crown and the bubbles in the background. The lovely sparkly ric-rac ribbon was in my stash and the background papers are from the Oriental Spice 6x6 pad from Papermania. I used the lovely swirly lily stamp from the kit, stamped with Bundled Sage Distress Ink, on the layer under the image to create a matching background.

Ok, that's me done, thanks so much for stopping by today, hope to see you again soon.  Leave me a comment to let me know what you think of this amazing new WIS Kit and my project and don't forget to include a link to your own projects following today's sketch, I do promise to come by your blog and check out your creations. Happy Crafting!

hugs

wynneth

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The Icing on the Cake

Every Tuesday I showcase one of my projects using Queen Kat Designs stamps on the Whimsical Ink Sorority blog as part of the Royal Court weekly blog hop.  I also like to share my projects on here for my regular visitors to see.  If you'd like to do the hop just start here and follow the links.

The last week of each month the DT are usually given an inspirational picture to work with - this month we are doing things a little differently. We've been asked to go off and seek our own inspiration and to share what we found with you. 

For some reason I'm a bit obsessed by cupcakes at the moment!! Oh my poor hips!! I found this fabby picture in one of the grocery store magazines and I just loved it. It certainly inspired the project I am sharing with you today.

I love the cupcakes - of course - but I also like the cake stand with it's scalloped layers. These scalloped layers and the delicious pastel colours in the picture were what turned on the 'switch' in my head and my design was born!

The June QKD WIS kit is most definitely my favourite monthly kit to date, I just love everything about it and I especially love the amused expression on Cupcake's face and the yummy cupcake she is sitting on.   The "you're how old ?" sentiment just makes me smile and I can see me using this over and over again when making cards for my friends and family!  This perfect background paper was from the Sweet Nothings 6x6 paper pack by Papermania and I took my colour theme from the paper.

I wanted to reproduce the scalloped layers of the cake stand that's in my inspirational picture and used some scallop circle nestabilities to cut out layers in various shades of pink. After cutting them out I embossed them in my Cuttlebug with this sweet little hearts embossing folder before layering them up.

Cupcake was coloured with Copics and Promarkers, with small touches of Spica Glitter Pen added as highlights. The lacy border at the bottom was cut with a Martha Stewart border punch and the flowers punched with another MS punch and gems added in the centre of each one. I attached them with Pin Flair glue before tucking the sentiment in behind.

That's all from me today folks, I hope you've enjoyed your visit today, do come back soon I love to see you - til then Happy Crafting !

hugs

wynneth

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