Up in the air

Hello lovely people,

Gosh, Friday has rolled around again and so I am here as usual with a Dies to Die For DT card using one of my newest MFT acquisitions, from the April release.

Yep, I couldn't resist another stamp set featuring cute animals, this time combined with hot air balloons!

My little framed scene was coming along nicely until I realised I needed something as a sky background, which was a problem because I am not very confident at creating sky/clouds as a background.

After faffing around with some DP which didn't feel quite right, I finally conceded that I was just going to have to put on my big girl pants and colour a cloudy backdrop with my Copics - eeeeeek!!

I used some cloud dies as a template and after all that worry, I am actually pretty pleased with how it turned out :-)

As you can see, I added the foreground balloon with foam pads and I also stacked up the letters apart from the very bottom section which rests on the frame...yep, that was quite fiddly to do!

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the thumbnails at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

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Copic colours;
Pink: RV83/85/19
Purple: BV01/04/08
Turquoise: BG53/57/49
Cat: W0/1/2/3/4

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;

Up in the Air - My Favorite Things	Up in the Air Die-namics - My Favorite Things	Dots & Stripes (Confection) - My Favorite Things	Blueprints 29 - My Favorite Things
Stitched alphabet - My Favorite Things

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The bunnies are back!

Hello lovely people,

If you haven't seen or heard about this yet then let me fill you in...the LOTV Ideas to Inspire blog is back - hurrah!

On top of that, some of the best loved LOTV  images are coming back too, including a couple of the gorgeous bunny stamps.  So, I thought I'd use one of them for my Design Collective card today.

This bunny was the first ever LOTV stamp I bought and he is just as adorable now as he was when I bought him :-)
I did a little paper piecing again on the balloon and cupcake.

Card recipe;

Image: Balloon bunny - LOTV

DP: Vintage baby - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Dies:

Copic colours;
Bunny: W00/0/1/2/3/4
Ears: R0000/00/01

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That's a lot of hair

Hello lovely people,

A big thank you for the lovely comments on my last blog post and it's nice to know people are interested in what I'm up to!

A few people commented on how tidy my crafting space was, so let me tell you that it only looks like that when I have just finished a project and tidied everything away ready to start the next one.  When work is in progress the desk is barely visible because I like to surround myself with all the bits and pieces I might use!

Today I do have a card to share with you, and it's a 'just for fun' card because I really wanted to use this fab image and yes, it's *those* papers again...I love these so much!

I thought I'd do a bit of hair colouring practice...ha ha, I'm not one to go for the easy option...
...several hours later I was pretty chuffed with the results :-)

Even if I did accidentally colour bits that weren't actually hair on the left hand side - ooops!  It looks ok, so I'm not too worried.

I didn't feel like 3D flowers would really work on this design so I had a dig around in my box of dies and found these cute cloud dies which I hadn't used yet, and then the word die which just looked so sweet layered on top - ahhhh, so nice when it all comes together :-)

Card recipe;

Image: Chasing Nova - Make it Crafty

DP: Summer crush - Maja Designs (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Dies: Hellow words - Paper Smooches, Puffy clouds - Memory Box, Old Swedish lace - Magnolia Doohickeys

Ribbon: from stash

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E53/57/59
Dress: B52/BG72/75 & B0000/000/52
Butterflies: R20/32/22 & W10
Ground: W00/0/1/2/3

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am entering;
Papertake Weekly (animal magic - mine are butterflies)
The Ribbon Girl (anything goes with an image)