Shimmerz Blog Hop

Still hopping At This Post. You still have time to bag loads of Shimmerz paints, last day is Friday.

Trim Galore

Trim for you today with some more yummy cake. This cake is from the My Cute Stamps set Birthday Numbers and I've paper pieced it. This set is just so versatile, it has number candles that you can use instead of the set of candles if you like, it also has a ballon and this yummy cake, the sentiment is from the kit as well.

Sorry it isn't a real cake though like my last post :) That cake did not last very long I can tell you!


Materials:
Stamp - My Cute Stamps
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Paper - Papermania
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Scissors
Other - Corner rounder; trim; Button; ribbon; Cuttlebug; Nesties

It's The Shimmerz Birthday Blog Hop

Hey Guys, the Shimmerz Blog Hop has started and you can be in with a chance to win $80 worth of yummy Shimmerz products.

To get you in the mood here is my Shimmerz Birthday make:

Happy Birthday Shimmerz

So you need to start at the Shimmerz blog and blog hop in sequence through the design team's lovely Birthday Makes. Which means you should have got to my blog from Karen Taylor's blog. If you haven't then go to the Shimmerz blog to start your hop.

We are blog hopping until Friday 19th June which gives you time to hop and comment on all of the design team's blogs and then on the Shimmerz blog. Why do you need to do this? Well you remember the $80 Prize draw? To enter the draw you need to:

• Hop in order through the Shimmerz design team's birthday makes
• Comment on everyone's blogs
• Collect the 'special' word from each post
• The 'special' words will make a phrase and the last hop post will let you know what to do with that phrase!

Ok so the next blog to hop to from here is Kim Ross.

And the 'special' word from me is BIRTHDAY

Have a wonderful hop.

Materials:
Stamp - Stamping Bella; Woodware Sentiment
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - PrismasColor pencils; Koh-i-noor pencils; Shimmerz Paints Sunflower, Fire engine red, Angel wings; Shimmerz Blingz Spiced Cider
Paper - Home made Distressed Ginham
Usual Suspects - Silicone Glue; Paper trimmer; Double sided tape
Other - Ribbons; Chocolate cake LOL!

Geometric Dad

The Creative Card Crew have a Geometric challenge this week and I thought I would have a go. I needed some inspiration for some Father's Day cards and what a perfect challenge - thanks guys :)

Materials:
Papers - Basic Grey
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; Paper trimmer
Other - Cuttlebug; Nesties; Sizzix embossing alpha; Clear buttons; Copper metal sheet; Sewing machine; Thread.

It's A Party

Pencil Tuesday in your diary as on Tuesday the Shimmerz First Birthday Party Blog Hop starts and you could win $80 worth of yummy Shimmerz products. There will also be other blog candy around as well.

Just thought I would give you folks a heads-up :) More details on the way.

Tuesday Shimmerz Darez

This week the Darez is a wood Darez, the DT have made some wonderful projects with wood so go take a look at the Shimmerz blog and of course that is the place to go to enter your own lovely make.

Here is my humble wood example and it is an altered coat hook I got from one of the many 99p stores that have popped up in my region. I've used the Shimmerz Spritz Terra Cotta and Eucalyptus for this project.

Looking forward to seeing your projects.

See No Evil

Three little Monkeys playing on a card for you this Monday and I thought that this would be a good card to fit the challenge over at Creative Card Crew blog which is about 'Child's Play' this week.

These little monkeys are from the My Cute Stamps Circus Animals set and what a cutie he is.

Have a good Monday.


Materials:
Stamps - My Cute Stamps; Stamps Away Alpha
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Koh-I-Noor Pencils; Sansodor
Paper - DCWV
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Paper trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - Kraft card; Red card; Nesties; Cuttlebug

Straw For The Strawberries

Strawberries anybody? Hope you are all having a good weekend and that the weather is better with you than it is here in London.

I have some news for you, Claire and Jo over at Making Handmade Cards have launched the New Club for subscribers today and you can find it here.

There are a few fabby benefits for early subscribers:

- The 1st 200 people to join the Club will
get the Fizzy Marine eKit (worth £14.99).
- The 1st 100 people to join the Club also
get the Glam Bags 'n' Heels ekit (worth £13.99).

- And the 1st 15 people to join the Club also
get the Refresher eKit (worth £14.99)!

- And let's not forget that gorgeous
Love To Shop eKit (worth £14.99) that
you get too!

I've been lucky enough to be able to play with some of these kits and they are beautiful. Well worth a look :)



Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy
Ink - VersaFine Onyx black
Colouring - Promarkers; Copics; Marvy Le Plume watercolour pens
Papers - HOTP
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; double-sided tape; Paper trimmer
Other - Jute; Charm; Cuttlebug; embossing folder; White gel pen

Voting Day In The UK

Ok, Question for you - Is there a limit to the number of blogs you can follow?

Every time I blog hop I find more wonderful blogs I want to follow but today I got an error message saying that I had exceeded my limit of 300 blogs and needed to 'un-follow' some before I could add new ones.

Shock. Horror!

Well as you can imagine I also RSS a fair few to my google reader but it is just easier to follow isn't it? So I've been signing up through the 'follow' tool recently. I shall just have to go back to adding via RSS.

Hey ho.

Well anyway here is an experimental ATC for you. I've used a rub-on on fabric which I then distressed a touch. The background was made by some watercolour stamping onto some tea-stained (as in real tea!) card. The string is coloured with Shimmerz Spritz Truffle, Purple Passion and Shimmerz paint Lilac.


Materials:
Stamp - The Artistic Stamper
Inks - Marvy Le Plume Watercolour pens
Paints - Shimmerz Spritz and Paints
Usual Suspects - Silicone Glue; Paper trimmer
Other - Fabric; Vintage rub-on; Leaf Skeletons; Button; Tea (any excuse for a cup of tea); String

Wednesday, Oh Wednesday

Happy Snail Wednesday to you all! Here is a card for you using the lovely snail from the My Cute Stamps Little Forest Friends Kit. He is a sweet heart. Have you checked out Holly's (My Cute Stamps) blog recently? There are some lovely things on the blog including some great fabric rose hair clips. Holly has some beautiful digi-kits as well. (Oh to be that talented!)

So what are you guys all up to today?



Materials:
Stamps - My Cute Stamps
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Koh-i-Noor; Sansodor
Paper - Basic Grey
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Double sided tape
Other - Ribbon; Button; Thread; Cuttlebug; Nesties; Shaped Scissors

Our First Shimmerz Darez

Shimmerz is daring you to get funky with your Shimmerz. Every week one of the design team will post a Shimmerz Darez for you to have a go at and win some more Shimmerz products.

What a great way to build up you Shimmerz Stash and there is a fabulous blinkie to adorn your blog with. So pop along to the Shimmerz blog to join in.

So this week the Darez is Frames and here is my DT piece.

I found an old shadow box frame in a local charity shop and painted with some white acrylic paint. Some Baby's Breath Spritzing and allow to dry then I used some old peel-offs as masks for the alphabet and sprayed again with Bed of Roses Spritz.

You can see the shine from the Shimmerz at the top of the frame in the picture - Shimmerz-y :)

The DT have mades some amazing makes so don't forget to go take a look at their work.


The cute ickle kitty is from My Cute Stamps Circus Animals stamp set.

Materials:
Stamps - My Cute Stamps Circus Animals
Inks - VersaColor; Colorbox Chalks
Paints - Shimmerz Spritz Bed of Roses, Baby's breath
Papers - HOTP
Usual suspects - Silicone glue; scissors
Other - Shadow box; Thread; Peel-offs; Button

Flowers For Monday

A new week and a new card. Today's card is inspired by the 'Pretty Flowers' challenge over at the Creative Card Crew. The image is one of the Whiff of Joy Summer stamps and the papers are freebies from UK Simply Card and Papercrafts magazine.


Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Promarker; Copic
Papers - Freebies from Simply Cards and Papercrafts UK Mag
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double Sided tape
Other - Nesties; Cuttlebug; Black Marker pen; white gel pen

Gidget Gets Physical

What a beautiful Sunday it is today, the weather in London is amazing. Here today is my last guest DT makes for InStyle Stamps and I thought I would make a bookmark and a matching card for this fab Gidget image. Thanks you guys for having me as GDT it has been a blast :)

Have a lovely Sunday

Materials:
Stamp - InStyle Stamps
Colouring - Distress inks; Marvy Le Plume
Papers - Free from Simply Cards and Papercraft UK mag
Usual Suspects - Paper Trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Ribbons; corner rounder; VersaColor blue ink pad; Nesties; Cuttlebug; Pearl gems

Dies To Die For Sketch Challenge

Hey Guys, Yep it is a second post for the day, that is four posts in two days! I do not know what is wrong with me!

This one uses the fabulous sketch from Dawny P over at the Dies To Die For blog and there are some fabulous prizes up for grabs. But you will have to be quick 'coz the deadline is 31st May. I'm just working up to deadlines at the moment!

I reckon we will be back to normal single posts from tomorrow - don't want to burn myself out now! LOL



Materials:
Stamp - The Greeting Farm; Woodware sentiment
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Promarkers; Copic
Paper - DCWV
Usual Suspects - paper Trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Ribbon; Brads; White gel pen

Lots Of Summer Colours

Morning folks, here is a Summer card for you this morning using the super-cute Magnolia stamp and some HOTP papers. Hope you all have a lovely Saturday morning.



Update: Simon Says Stamp has a competition on at the mo for any of your Magnolia Butterfly range cards so I thought I might enter this :) Ends tomorrow so get you skates on to register your cards fro the draw :)

Materials:
Stamp - Magnolia
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Marvy Le Plume watercolour pens; Distress inks
Papers - HOTP
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Ribbon

InStyle Stamps Blog Hop

It is Blog Hop Time at InStyle Stamps and the theme is Get Beachy. So I thought I would do a Beach Party Invite with the lovely Ariel the Mermaid. Isn't she cute?

Did you want to win a Grand Prize from InStyle Stamps? Well hop along to the DT blogs (links below) and then back to the Instyle Blog and vote for your favourite DT project and comment for a chance to win.

If you felt like voting for me I would be forever grateful :)

You have until 11:59pm EST on Saturday, May 30th to enter, and the winners will be announced on Monday, June 1st.




So here are all the talented DT blogs to hop to:

Cathy
Jodi-Ann
Joy
Kim G.
Maria
Mary
Melissa
Michelle
Risa
Taylor
Vicky

Enjoy the hop

Materials:
Stamp - InStyle Stamps; Stamps Away Alphas; Stamps Away shells
Colouring - watercolours; Shimmerz teal, Sunflower and Blingz under the sea, Spiced Cider
Papers - DCWV
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double sided tape
other - Cuttlebug; Nesties

Enjoy The Journey

An ATC this morning and this one draws inspiration from the May challenge over at the Graphicus Blog which is all about Travel and the colour Blue. They have a fab prize up for grabs but you need to get your entry in by the 31st May!

Details: I've used distress inks and a brayer to colour the background paper which was then stamped. The bicycle image was spotlighted with a bit of Stampbord coloured with alcohol inks, stamped with part of the image and then etched to show some highlights.

I have another project for you later - What two in one day? Well this one is for the Instyle Stamps blog hop and I am really excited to show you the cute image that is being released today, very sweet.

Materials:
Stamp - Royal Langnickel; Studio G Alpha
Inks - VersaFine Onyx black and Sepia brown; Distress inks; Black Stazon
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Glue dots; silicone glue
Other - Brayer; Brads; Stampbord; Alcohol inks; etching tool

Frozen Yoghurt Rules

Hello, my name is Kim and I am a frozen yoghurt convert. Oh my word I just can't get enough of the stuff at the moment. It is frozen yoghurt right? So it is good for you and you can eat more of it can't you? Mmm, I've yet to convince David of this but I am sure that I am right, well ok so it might have chocolate in it but the yoghurt counters that doesn't it? LOL!

Anyway I digress, I have a distressed, Shimmerz Spritz New Home card for you today. I've used Baby's Breath, Bed Of Roses and Eucalyptus in this project and there is even a little sparkle on the lace. The gems you see are actually from an old bit of skin jewellery I found when clearing out the bathroom at the weekend. Waste not - Want not :)


You can see the lovely sparkle of the Shimmerz Spritz when the card catches the light, it is delightful. Have I said recently that I'm in love with this stuff LOL!


Don't forget you can win some Shimmerz over at the blog.

Materials:
Stamps - Studio G Alpha
Inks - VersaFine Sepia Brown
Papers - BasicGrey
Paints - Shimmerz Spritz
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; paper trimmer; scissors
Other -Lace; Skin Jewellery; Seam ripper; Woodware chipboard blanks; Brad; sewing machine; thread

Save All Your Embroidery Kisses For Me

It is a Wednesday Challenge over at the InStyle Stamp Blog and this week we have paper piecing as the challenge. Here is my GDT card for this week and it uses the very cute Dan and Mandy, aren't they sweet?




Don't forget to check out the other lovely makes from the rest of the DT.

Materials:
Stamp - InStyle Stamps
Colouring - Koh-i-noor; Prismacolor; Sansodor
Paper - Papermania
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - Embroidery thread; Colorbox chalk inks; Ribbons; Buttons; Nesties; Cuttlebug

Just A Shimmerz Quickie

Shimmerz paints is running a 'Blinkie Bonus' candy. All you have to do is pop along to the Blinkie Bonus blog post, choose your favourite Blinkie, add it to your blog and then pop back to the blog to comment.

It is that simple to be in with another chance to win yummy, sparkly Shimmerz products. Ends 11:59PM Mountain Time on Saturday, May 30th so go do it now before you forget!

Will be back later with a card.