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Copic Colour Challenges – Black Hair, green, pink & purple

April 25th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 5 Comments »

I finally added some new colours to my collection this week and as I mentioned in an earlier post, I am so caught up in colouring that I don’t get around to making the cards. However this time I decided to take on some copic marker challenges.

My green (YG03),  pink (R81) and purple (V12) were the closest colours I had for the challenge over at ‘Copic Colour Challenge‘ who are challenging us to use YG00, RV13 & V91. I found it a good mix of colours and not often colours I would grab to throw together so thanks for the nudge girls. :)

I did of course add additional colours for highlights and shading.

I also followed the challenge over at ‘Copic Creations‘ who are challenging us to Copic Black Hair Coloring.

I used my first ever Kraftin’ Kimmie stamp. I find these to be so quirky and couldn’t wait to get my hands on one when I first saw them.

I decided to try something different with the background today and took the colours from the outfit and created a ‘star burst’. Using a ruler I lightly flicked along the edge of the ruler to get the straight feathered lines. I was reasonably happy with the result. :)

With the colours quite vibrant, I ended up creating a bolder card than normal. I must admit I had been hanging out for a reason to use these papers from KaiserCraft. I was obviously feeling bold the day I bought them! hehehe

To tie in her old fashioned clothes with the funky paper and bold colours I added an old fashioned looking brad and hung a cute bag charm given to me by my friend Maria to fit in with the charm challenge over at Stamp Something this week.

I hope you have enjoyed my bold creation today!

Take care and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Zoe xxoo

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100 Followers – Surprise gift

April 18th, 2010 | Posted in: News | 7 Comments »

Wow! I have been waiting for this day and I must admit I didn’t realise it would come so soon! I started this blog on the 1st of January this year and made a promise to myself that if I ever reached 100 followers I would pick a follower and give them a surprise!

I just can not believe how many wonderful people I have met in just the last few months. The friendships I have formed and continue to form mean so much to me.

Then come all the wonderful people who leave their comments and feedback and many of you who follow my blog on a regular basis. THANK YOU!

I have some very exciting news coming up soon but I can’t share it with you just yet. I need to put a few more wheels in motion but I am bursting at the seams wanting to tell you and I am terrible at keeping BIG secrets. However for now I must… :(

The 100 Follower Surprise!!!!

I jumped over to Random.org and the number 80 was picked. So I counted through the followers and it turns out that SHIRL from Craftee Guiri is the winner of this little surprise pack. It’s a few goodies that I love. I hope you enjoy them.

Shirl, please contact me via the contact form in the right hand bar with your contact details and I will get this little pack off to you.

Again, thank you to all my followers and those who post comments on my blog. You all help to bring a smile to my face everyday.

Take care. Hugs,

Zoe xxoo

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Please note: Because this surprise is for one of my followers; if I don’t hear from Shirl within the next few days I will be drawing another follower to receive the surprise gift.

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We’re so ‘Charming’ at the Townscrapper

April 3rd, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 8 Comments »

Another week comes to an end as many of us take some time to spend with our family, find some time for ourselves or even hide in bed and catch up on lost sleep. Gotta love Fridays!

This week at The Townscrapper we want you to ‘CHARM’ us with your home made or stashed charms. The girls have put on a beautiful display of creations for you to check out this week.

I decided I would sneak one in tonight to share with you as well.

This is ‘Zeke‘ and he will SOON be available from Phebe at The Townscrapper. I just think he is soooo funky. Lola and Zeke are the coolest kids on the block and well I think they pretty much explain that themselves. Just check out Zeke’s stance…  How typical is that these days!!  lol

I grabbed some Cozmo Cricket paper I had stashed away and stuck it to black c/s and wrapped chain around them and attached my cap charm.

Zeke was coloured with Copic Markers on Gina K c/s and then mounted onto the background.

Here is a close up of Zeke.

Don’t forget that you can win yourself one of the first released exclusive Victoria Case stamps just by adding a charm to your project and joining in on the fun! Jump over to The Townscrapper blog to check out what the team have come up with.

Have a great weekend!
Zoe xxoo

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Introducing Victoria Case stamps!!!

March 5th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 13 Comments »

We are very excited to announce this week that
Phebe from The Townscrapper
has been working behind the scenes with the very talented
Victoria Case
to design a new series of stamps exclusively available from The Townscrapper!

Victoria Case has been illustrating for over 25 years and we are so happy and excited to be able to bring her gorgeous designs to you on rubber!

The design team have been lucky enough to have a chance to play with these stamps and I must say that they are an absolute dream to colour and are very versatile.

There are six stamps in the first series with a mixture of boys and girls to get your creative juices flowing.

It’s also FRIDAY’s CHALLENGE time

Of course it’s Friday today and so there is a challenge as well! This weeks challenge is “WARM WEATHER“, spring, summer, warm weather activities, bright colours, flowers – wherever your imagination takes you!

Somehow I think I might have missed the bright colours memo, but I do have birds and butterflies!! hehehe

Meet Sophie and her Birdiful birdies!!!

Coloured with my Copic markers on Gina K card stock.

Sophie also comes with the sentiment “You are so birdiful”

This week I was so happy when I received a vintage swap from my good friends at the Scrapboxx. The girls are so creative and I had a wonderful time arranging the embellies to create this vintage style card this week.

I added a birdie brad and I had a little birdhouse charm that worked so well with the birdiful theme.

CONTEST WINNER!

We’ll also be announcing the winner of the contest we have been running leading up to the big unveiling.

Make sure you head over to
The Townscrapper challenge blog
to see what all the amazing design team have created to show off the
new range of stamps by Victoria Case!!!

I would like to share this design with the following challenges this week:

  1. Lexi’s Creations – Anything Goes
  2. Crafty Creations – One Colour
  3. Totally Gorjuss – Something for mum
  4. Simon Says Stamp – Mother’s Day / Girly
  5. My Time to Craft – Just for mum
  6. Flourishes Timeless Tuesday – Scallops – could be stretching it this week ladies – but the lace is scalloped. :)
  7. C.R.A.F.T. – Mothers Day / Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I am sure you will love the Victoria Case stamps as much as we do. Phebe is currently working on her online store but you can contact her via info@townscrapper.com or by phone at 519-882-0623.

Take care and I hope you have a fabulous weekend.

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Rocking Horse Birthday Card

February 12th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 48 Comments »

Hi all, hope you have had a great week this week!

It’s my nieces 1st birthday coming up and I wanted to make something special. I was looking around SquiggleFly for some cute images and came across this rocking horse. I had one of those snap moments where an idea just clicks and so I purchased the image straight away and began to put my idea into action.

I tinkered about with an idea for the rocking assembly and then designed it up on my computer.

By pushing the pendulum the rocking horse and night scene rock back and forth. It works better when you actually rock the card itself. I think I need to increase the height to reduce some friction.

Here is a video of me showing it working. I even left a snippet of me being embarrassed at the end so you can see the creator behind the scene! hehehe

I used October Afternoon pp to create my bedroom scene and coredinations pink and turquoise cardstock.

I changed the colour of the digital image to a medium grey before printing so I wouldn’t have a harsh black border. I coloured the image with copic markers and then went around the edge of the cut out using the same colours. I designed the night scene on the computer and again coloured with copic markers using a light blue around the moon and stars for a whimsical effect.

I then designed up the elements for the scene window and room and assembled it all together. I haven’t yet decided if I will turn it into a card or possibly add some string so it can be hung.

I had a few challenges in mind as I created my layout, selected my papers and embellishments this week.

  1. MojoMonday – Sketch
  2. Papertake Weekly – Sketch
  3. Embellish Magazine – Ribbon, turquoise, brown and pink
  4. Lexi’s Creations – Spotted or Striped
  5. Kaboodle Blog – Spots and Stripes
  6. Creative Belli – Ribbons
  7. Inky Impressions – Charms
  8. Paper Play Challenges – Birthday for someone special
  9. C.R.A.F.T. – Digi Colouring
  10. Stamp Something – Something Cute

Thanks for stopping by and a special thank you to each an every one of you who brighten my day with your comments.

Take care

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Love is in the Air at Humble Pie

February 6th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 23 Comments »

This week’s challenge over at Humble Pie is ‘Love is in the Air‘ which would come as no surprise considering Valentines Day is just around the corner.

All the people who entered the flowery challenge last week received a surprise in their email – A digi of the newest Humble Pie character ‘Angel Maggie’. See what I created with her here. We would love to see your creative juices using Angel Maggie, but of course not a requirement to join in the humble fun!

This week the winner will receive the cute little Dusty stamp. For details check out Humble Pie. We look forward to seeing what you come up with this week!

The inspiration for my valentines card…

My inspiration this week came from memories of being in love as a teenager. I don’t know about you but friends and I would doodle all over our school diaries about our latest love and collect any momentos we had received, found or even snipped! (I remember even saving a lolly wrapper from one boy I ‘loved’). hehehe

I began with the ‘Maggie in Love’ stamp – exclusively available from The Town Scrapper – which I made 4 prints. I worked out which areas of the stamp I wanted to project and coloured those areas all the same with copic markers. I then cut all the sections out and using silicone and the papertole technique I created the depth I was after which you can see better in this close up image.

Then I designed up a pattern I wanted to use for the background on the computer and printed it out to use as my template to cut the different patterened papers. I have used October Afternoon – Sleep Tight & Pat-a-cake, My Minds Eye – Bloom & Grow collection and Just dreaming collection.

I stuck all the pieces to another sheet of card and then using stranded cotton added the stitching.

I stamped and doodled loving things as I would in my diaries and added little bits of ribbons and the button as cute momentos.

I drew the clouds on the paisely paper by My Minds Eye, inked the edges and added the eyelets as a decorative touch.

Finally, I added a cluster of ribbon and charm to represent snippets of hair I had taped to pages in photo albums. I am sure you are all going to think I was crazy now!! lol I probably am.

Must admit it’s rather funny looking back through some of the diaries I kept from those years.

There are many challenges using similar themes this week:

  1. Lexi’s Creations – Valentines
  2. Creative Card Crew – Valentines
  3. Lili of the Valley – Valentines
  4. Stampin for the weekend – Valentines
  5. Paper Play Challenges – Love Notes
  6. Stamp Something - Love Somethings
  7. Papertake Weekly – Love Actually
  8. Sophisticats Challenge – Love
  9. By the Cute and Girly – Love (got your name right this time girls! sorry)
  10. C.R.A.F.T. – Love / Valentine
  11. Charisma Cardz – I love you
  12. Inky Impressions – Charms
  13. The Pink Elephant – Pink  (Ellas Birthday – Congrats girls!)
  14. Cute Card Thursday – Spots and Dots (have used spotty and dotty pp)
  15. One Stop Craft Challenge – Make it personal (I think this fits in with my memories of collecting keepsakes of past boyfriends)

So after reading my inspiration for this card, did I manage to get you thinking back to your first little crushes?

Did you doodle all over your books and keep little momentos? Would love to hear that we were not the only ones!

Hope you are having a gorgeous weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

Take care,

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Welcome Angel Maggie to Humble Pie

February 5th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 41 Comments »

I am so excited for Humble Pie Stamps as today they are releasing a new character to their range of stamps – ‘Angel Maggie’.

She is currently available as a digi exclusively from Humble Pie and as a bonus surprise this week, every person who enters the flower challenge by end of Thursday will receive a digi of Angel Maggie free! You still have time to enter so get cracking!

When I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of Angel Maggie, I instantly fell in love. Then once I had printed her out and began to colour I knew I would be using this little chicky many times. She is such a breeze to colour and the possibilities for different shading are many.

I have slightly modified Maggie by hiding the bottom half of her body. Check out Humble Pie to see all the creative designs the designers have put together.

I wanted Angel Maggie to be the star when I showcased her so I have attempted an elegant clean card. I think she would be perfect for my Mother-in-Law (who I adore).

She would also be fantastic as a valentines or card for someone you love.

I coloured Angel Maggie using my new found and loved Copic Markers.

I traced over the areas I wanted to glitter with an embossing pen and sprinkled powder glue (hot set powder) and heated. Once melted I sprinkled on Crystal glitter from the Martha Stewart range.

Finally I finished the card with an array of flowers and added a fairy charm.

This card fits into the following challenges this week:

  1. Lexi’s Creations – Valentines (Although I am considering giving her to my MIL I definitely think she could also be given as a Valentines card. hehehe)
  2. Creative Card Crew – Valentines
  3. Paper Sundaes – Valentine
  4. Papertake Weekly – Love Actually
  5. Sophisticats Challenge – Love
  6. The Cute and Girly – Love
  7. My Time to Craft – Fairy Folk (Charm)
  8. Your Next Stamp – Charms
  9. Inky Impressions – Charms
  10. Secret Crafter – Hearts

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you are having a great week and have had a chance to have some fun crafting!

Take care, be healthy and most of all live life and have fun doing what you love!

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Cute Birthday Card

January 12th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 8 Comments »

Howdy, thanks for dropping by.

It’s a lovely sunny day today and somehow I am managing to function on just under 5 hours sleep, no idea what woke me.

Anyhow, I have a cute birthday card to share today created for both the Just Magnolia Paper Pleating challenge and The Pink Elephant Birthday challenge.

I recently bought two skin shade Copic markers and I have been trying to get the hang of them. It seems that my lighter colour E00 doesn’t flow too well at the finer end which is making it difficult to blend with. The darker colour E02 flows perfectly so I might mention something the next time I am at the store.

After colouring in with the Copic markers I was a little unsure what to colour the rest in with as my water colours turn out much lighter. Turns out, using coated paper I could use standard markers (textas for us Aussies) and simply layer it and layer it to get the shading. So that’s what I tried with Tilda here.

It’s not as perfect as using blending tools but from a distance it ain’t too bad.

Using ‘Core Dinations’ card I followed the paper pleating technique and then cut the tops to look like a fence and finished off with a sanding.

I drew the gate on the back and cut it out and sanded the edges and then inked the areas where a shadow would generally appear to give the gate some dimension. I then added the hinges from my stash.

I finished off using some clear stickers for the sentiment on more ‘Core Dinations’ card stock that I sanded and distressed. Then added some brads to hold the little charm that says “Follow your heart”.

Card Ingredients:

  1. Magnolia Tilda Stamp
  2. Basic Grey – Sugared™
  3. Core Dinations – Brown and Blue
  4. Papercraft Sentiment Stickers
  5. Brads, Charm, hinges
  6. Copic Markers, Regular Textas
  7. Coated card for stamp

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Crafting

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