(Kn)OWL(edge) with The Stamping Chef

I had this adorable image from The Stamping Chef to colour for this 

week's challenge at Through the Purple Haze Challenges.

I adored (kn)OWL(edge) when Tamara released her and have loved colouring her.

I decided to combine this challenge with the Colour Palate Challenge at Kit and Clowder. It was part of the 4,000 Members party - and wow what a party it was! If you're not a member yet it's well worth joining - all sorts of colouring and merriment going on over there & the classes Alyce has are brilliant. 

This is the colour palate I was using as inspiration.

The theme at Through the Purple Haze Challenges is Stitching Real or Faux so I used my sewing machine to add texture to the tree. I used three different coloured threads, but unfortunately didn't think the colour the base of the tree in until afterwards so some of the contrasting colours of the threads was lost. I'm pleased with the effect.

This is what I created.

Here are some close ups.

I coloured her with my copics

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, with R20 Cheeks

Hair - N9, N7, N5, V09, V17, V15

Eyes - B21, B24

Glasses - B02, B05

Tshirt Top - B00, B02, B05

Vest Top - BG10, BG11, BG13

Shorts - BV13, BV17, BV25, BV9

I tried to add some texture to Mr Owl while colouring.

I used Copics E41, E42, E43, E44, E47

Glasses - B02, B05

Beak - Y15, Y17, Y35, YR23

The brackets are from an EK Success punch.
The tree is E23

I created the background using copics in my Blitzer hand airbrush tool (basically the same as the Tim Holtz Spritzer but it's something I've had since I was a kid in the 90's). You put the pen in and squeeze the bladder and a fine spray of ink comes out. I love the effect it gives for backgrounds.

I created the mount by spraying black card with Cosmic Shimmer Sprays

 to echo the shimmery flakes in the inspiration photo.

I really hope you like my creation. Come over and join us at Through the Purple Haze Challenges with your stitching on your cards.

Challenges entered:

Kit and Clowder - Colour Palette

The Stamping Chef Challenges - Anything Goes

Bingo with The Stamping Chef

The challenge this week at Through the Purple Haze Challenges is sponsored by The Stamping Chef and involves a bingo card. 

We had to choose a line - either horizontal, vertical or diagonal and include all of those elements in the card. I chose the middle horizontal line.

This is what I created with Rockabilly Boom who I love!

Lots of fun and colour in this one. I started with a plain black piece of card and spritzed it with various Cosmic Shimmer Sprays. It's a bit difficult to catch the shimmer in a photo, but it's really pretty and looks a bit like outer space.

The sentiment is from the Silhouette Store and I cut it from glitter vinyl I bought in the sale at Hobbycraft. Again it's difficult to catch the glitter on the camera, but trust me it shines.

I added the 'flames' from the back of the rocket using metallic gold thread and a leaf pattern on my sewing machine. 

I coloured Rockabilly Boom with my Promarkers and mounted her on black foam dots. 

Skin - Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral, Burnt Orange with Pastel Pink cheeks

Lips - Antique Pink

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Swim Suit - Turquoise, Marine, Petrol Blue

Rocket - Ice Grey 3,4,5. Red, Berry Red, Cardinal Red, Burgundy. Yellow, True Blue

I really hope you like her. Don't forget to pop over to Through the Purple Haze to join in the Bingo fun. 

Happy Birthday Tamara!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday Dear Tamara!

Happy Birthday to You!

xxx

Today's a very special day! The wonderful Tamara - the amazing talent behind The Stamping Chef - celebrates her birthday! Now Tamara doesn't seem to enjoy her birthday so a certain Miss Betty of Simply Betty Stamps  decided to organise this surprise birthday hop for her and designed the gorgeous Rockin Birthday Cutie for her :D Tamara I hope you're beaming from ear to ear by seeing all the love for you. 

The hop started at the Simply Betty Blog  and you should have arrived with me from Kerrie-anne 

I was chatting to Tamara the other day and telling her about my friend's tradition of deleting the pesky first number off the front of our age and celebrate a much more fun birthday. As a result I'm wishing Tamara a very happy 4th birthday :P :P :P 

I decided to try one of the fun pop up cards that have been spreading around the Facebook craft groups. 

When you take the card out of the envelope it's flat and very plain looking.

But when you take it out of the envelope magic happens and the card opens up into a free standing pop up box!

This angle gives you a peek of the pop up base.

I've only tried this style of card once before and love the amount of depth you can create.

I designed the balloons myself by combining an oval and a triangle in SCAL3 and cutting them on my Cougar. I coloured them with my Promarkers and attached them to thin strips of acetate cut from plastic packaging so they looked as if they are floating.

Looking from above you can see how two slats are added to the inside to give different places to mount the balloons.

From the side you can see how much depth this gives to the embellishments.

I used this clear sentiment stamp from Fiskars which I thought was appropriate.

Here's a close up of Rockin Birthday Cutie, my balloons and my cheeky 4th Birthday celebration.

I really hope you've enjoyed my creation. Your next stop on the Hop is Floss

Here's the complete blog hop list x

SBS: http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/
Corinne Jones: http://wishuponascrap.blogspot.com/
Rachel Gillham Http://www.promarkerprincess.blogspot.co.uk
Christin Myhre http://www.christinmyhre.no
Vicky Fortier http://crafting-vicky.blogspot.ca/
Kerrie-anne Brown http://cardsbykerrie.blogspot.co.uk/
Lucy Gregg Www.loopylass2010.blogspot.co.uk
Floss Crabbe http://crabbiescards.blogspot.co.uk/
Summer Hills-Painter http://1craftypainter.blogspot.com/?m=1
Trish TheDish Sakulich http://scrappintillthecowscomehome.blogspot.ca/
Katya Bess http://www.kattyxotica.blogspot.com/
Irene Chapmon Sherman http://irenescardcreations.blogspot.com/
Vanessa Bland http://slightlytwistedbutterfly.blogspot.com
Louise Mann http://louisescraftycards.blogspot.co.uk/
Sheri Scraps http://Mammasscrappin.blogspot.com
Celina ScrapVamp Matthews http://ScrapVamp.blogspot.com
Michelle Petersen www.ladyofleisureink.blogspot.com
Emily Shroom http://emilyshroom.blogspot.com.au
Jill Hogg http://cuddlyscraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk
Kay Mowat http://kaym74.blogspot.com
Jackie Randolph http://papermoments.blogspot.com/
Darcy Schroeder http://craftingwithdarcy.blogspot.com
Tanja Charles: twistedteecrafts.blogspot.com
Veronica http://www.artbyveronica.blogspot.com/

Keep Calm and Craft

We had a really fun image to play with from The Stamping Chef this month - this montage of Keep Calm and Craft. This was a really fun image to colour - well outside my normal comfort zone.

I coloured the image.and then use it in two ways - on a crafting T-Shirt & to update the cover on my crafting notebook.

Here's a couple of closer shots

I asked Tamara's permission before making the T-Shirt as I wanted to check it was ok with her angel policy. I scanned my coloured image and printed it onto T-Shirt Transfer paper designed for dark fabrics. The t-shirt is actually navy blue although it looks more black in the photos. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out although it did loose a lot of the detail in the scan. I love having a personalised t-shirt to wear on crafting adventures.

I used a range of bright colours from my Promarker collection:

Red, Berry Red, Burgundy

Bright Orange, Orange, Burnt Orange

Lemon, Yellow, Gold

Bright Green, Forest Green

Sky Blue, Azure, Royal Blue

Purple, Aubergine

Ice Grey 2, 4.5 and Black

Tan, Caramel

Thanks for the lovely image Tamara x

Happy Birthday Betty!!!!

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday Dear Betty,

Happy Birthday to You.

It's Betty' Birthday and the lovely Corinne has organised a huge Birthday blog hop for her. It's a great big long hop as so many people love Betty. You should have started the hop here and come to me from Karen.

The wonderful Tamara from The Stamping Chef created this wonderful Digi just for Betty's Birthday. I decided to make something a bit different so made a banner rather than a card. I used the Haunted Banner from the Silhouette Store

A couple of close ups

And this is the lovely Queen of Halloween

I coloured her with my Promarkers and tried some different colour combinations which I'm actually really happy with.

Skin - Cocoa, Caramel, Satin with Sunkissed Pink Cheeks

Hair - Walnut, Umber, Black

Hat & Skirt - Ice Grey 3, 4, 5, Black

Eyes & Bodice - Lush Green, Pine. I added Green Tiara Sakura pen to the eyes for her shimmery eyeshadow

Shirt & Skirt - Ivory & Satin

Bat & Skull - Silver gel pen

I hope you like her Betty & hope you're enjoying the hop.

Your next stop is Dianna

Sweet Summer

A very early start for me today as I was awake at 4am for no apparent reason! When it got to 6am I gave up trying to sleep & got up, so crafting started early! It's hardly a hardship with lovely images to play with though.

This week's challenge digi at The Stamping Chef's Facebook Page was Sweet Summer. I again combined it with the inspiration photo from Just Inspirational Challenges.

Here she is

I again used the 'sunkissed' skin tone I tried last week - cocoa, cinnamon & tan with rose pink cheeks.

Her dress is sky blue, azure & true blue with arctic blue on the under skirt. I thought this along with the sentiment tied in nicely with the inspirational photo.

Her hair is buttercup, yellow & canary - nice and summery.

The sentiment is from Ginger's House

I really hope you like her & would love to hear what you think x

I would like to enter her into Paula Holifield Crafts Summer Sun Challenge

Happy Birthday to us! Happy Birthday Digi Galore

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday Dear Digi Galore!

Happy Birthday to You!

Wow can you believe that Digi Galore Challenges is a year old! Where on earth has that gone! I've been luckily enough to be on the Design Team right from the start and can honestly say its been a pleasure to be part of such a great team :D I've had a ball & hope everyone has enjoyed following and joining in too.

Now to celebrate our birthday we've arranged an amazing Blog Hop with the whole of the DT involved. 

Pop by to Digi Galore to start the Hop. Don't forget to join in - we've got amazing sponsors and some incredible prizes so come along & join in. 

This is the list for the Blog Hop 

Digi Galore

Erin

Kelly

Shell

Trish

Kelly M

Lucy  - that's me! You've made it this far so keep going!

Lisa

Louise

Laura

So now onto the cards I made. Unfortunately 2 of the DT members are ill at the moment (Get Well Trudie & Sandra) So I had 4 digis to play with!!! All from amazing artists. So here they are:

Sponsor: The Stamping Chef
Digi: Howdy Baby

I love The Stamping Chef's Cheeky Saucy Ladies

The Sentiment is from Ginger's House I use her free sentiments regularly - they add so much to a card.

Sponsor: Bugaboo

Digi: Happy Birthday to Ewe Trio

The fun easel card was cut on my Cougar using the Doily Easel Cut File from Birds Cards

I made the sentiment myself by adapting the Happy Birthday to Ewe one that came with the digi.

Sponsor: Digital Delights

Digi - Singing Sally and Tiered Cake

Sentiment - from Create with TLC

Promarkers used:

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush, Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold

Dress, Shoes, Roses & Sentiment - Cerise, Shocking Pink*, Vermillion*

Underskirt - Rose Pink

Cake - Tan, Caramel

Lush Green, Pine

Sponsor - Beansie Doodles

Digi - Musical Amanda

I'm pleased with this as I managed to master a few things I can't normally manage - Lace, Embellishments & Patterned Paper :D

I made the sentiment myself

The Paper is from the Fancy Pant's Beach Babe 6x6 stack

I used these Promarkers:

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush,  Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Cocoa, Henna, Chestnut, Walnut

Dress, Shoes & Earphones - Salmon Pink, 

Well there you go - that's the end of my contribution. I've had loads of fun playing & hope you enjoyed it too.

I'd love to hear what you think so please leave me a message before you hope in to Lisa 

Don't forget to pop back to Digi Galore to enter - the theme is Anything Goes and the prizes are AMAZING!!!!

Surf's Up!

A summery themed card today using this week's challenge freebie from The Stamping Chef Facebook page. I happened to look at the Just Inpirational Challenges blog and thought their colour inspiration this week would work very nicely with the digi

This is the colour palette for the challenge:

and this is my card:

I think I've tied all the colours in nicely :D

The paper was from a 6x6 stack from Fancy Pants Designs called Beach Babe. The background is a bit yellower than it appears in the photo.

The Sentiment is from Create with TLC

I ventured away from my normal Promarker skin tones this time as I wanted this Surfing Babe to have a lovely tan so I used:

Skin - Cocoa, Cinnamon, Tan, Rose Pink Cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Costume - Cerise, Shocking Pink*, Vermillion*

Surf Board - Sky Blue, Azure True Blue

- Lemon, Yellow, Canary

Edit: I'm very proud to say this card has been awarded Top 3 in both challenges I entered it into:

In The Spotlight - The Stamping Chef

Just Inspirational Challenges

A Raver and an inspiration photo Challenge

I've made two cards today - both for challenges.

The first is inspired by the photo on the Just Inspirational Challenges challenge

As soon as I saw it a digi I own from Jellypark called Girl in a Bee Costume popped into me head  so I made this card :D

The sentiment is from Create with TLC  and the background digi paper is from Sassy Designs

I'd like to enter this into the Just Inspirational Challenges Challenge

Edit: 30/7/12 - WOW how exciting I got picked as Top 3 for the Just Inspirational Challenges :D Thank you so much! I'm over the Moon!

By coincidence the sponsor for the Just Inspirational Challenge is The Stamping Chef & that's who my other digi is designed by. 

I'm a Raver is for the Facebook fan group challenge. 

I used tulip yellow, sunflower, Gold & raw sienna for her hair

and cerise, shocking pink* and maroon for her outfit.

The sentiment is again by Create with TLC