Avast, Me Hearties!

Avast, Me Hearties!!!!!!!

It’s time for another challenge with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.

This month it is my turn to host the challenges and I have again taken my inspiration from the “September Holidays and Special Days” site.

Did you know that Sunday 19th September is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! So my challenge to everyone this week is to create a pirate themed card. If you don’t have pirate stamps think of what a pirate uses eg. ships, eye patch, parrots, treasure, treasure chests etc. i think you get the idea.

The hardest part of this challenge for me was in deciding which pirate stamps to use …. I seem to have quite a collection of pirate stamps. I just can’t resist them! I ended up deciding to go with a couple from Kraftin’ Kimmies Stamps which are some of my newer acquistions!

The scene in the background is a stamp from Starving Artistamps, I stamped this first and colored it in using my copic airbrush to color my sky and sand. Then I added the two pirates and treasure chest which were stamped on separate card and added to my card using foam tape.

Here is the inside of my card, I stamped the barrel, skull & anchor stamps from Magnolia stamps on the bottom left hand side of my card. And also added my favorite pirate sentiment … from The Cat’s Pyjama!

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Tosh
• Charlene
• Cindy
• Joanne
• Shirley

Stamps: Billy Blyth; Captain Scurvy, Pirate Sentiments – Kraftin’ Kimmies Stamps; Beach Scene – Starving Artistamps; Barrell, Skull & Anchor – Magnolia Stamps; Shiver Me Timbers Sentiment – The Cat’s Pyjama

Paper: White; Black; Red

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

CCEE - Ahoy There!

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I had a fun one demoing at a local papercraft show, it is fun to be able to catch up with all those stamping friends I have made over the years.

It is time for another challenge with my CCEE Stamper friends. This week the challenge is a sketch challenge which you can see below.

I decided to do something a little different today with my card, instead of using designer paper or plain card for the left panel I decided to have a scene. I stamped the Scene panel from Starving Artistamps onto my panel and colored it with my copic markers. I stamped the pirate on my other panel and then lined it up with my scene and drew in the areas for the sand, sea, mountains and sky to match the scene.

I attached the treasure chest to the area where the circle is shown on the sketch ... this was for a sentiment or embellishment. I did tweak the sketch a little as adding the ribbon to my card where it is shown on the sketch would not have looked right being that my panel was a scene ... so I added the sentiment lower down, which is kind of the same shape as ribbon would have been ..... well almost *wink*

Don't forget to visit our CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the teams creations. Why not play along too ... don't forget to place a link in the comments section of our CCEE blog so we can see your wonderful creations.

Recipe:
Stamps: Doodlefactory Tropic Backdrop, Buck Eye Bob & Sentiment - Starving Artistamps; Waves - Print Blocks
Paper: White; Black; Tempting Turquoise - SU
Other: Black Ink; Tempting Turquoise U Ink; Treasure Chest Button; Label Tag Die; Foam Tape; Copics

Knightrone!

Happy Monday everyone!

Once upon a time there were a group of 8 stampers who called themselves the CCEE Stampers ...... hehehehehe ..... I just had to do that!

Well as you know Monday's mean challenge time with my other CCEE Stamper friends and this week we have another CNFS (Catchy Name Featured Stamper) challenge ... this is one of my favorite challenges that we do each month as someone selects the name of somebody over on SCS who has a Catchy User name. We then create our cards around their name and send them the card. This month it is my turn to pick someone. Can you guess who it is hehe!

Yeap you guessed right! It is Knightrone aka Jessie Rone. For this challenge the instructions were that we must use something to do with KNIGHT's not nights on our card.

For my card I actually CASED a card I created a number of years back for a friend. The inspiration for that card came from something I saw in a Stampers Sampler mag and I knew as soon as I saw it that I had to figure out how to make something similar. This isn't a card I would want to make too often as it has numerous complicated cuts & folds in it, but I did enjoy doing this one for Jessie.

This time round I did update my card a little by using a different Knight & Princess ... these are one of the Doodle Factory stamps by Starving Artistamps.


Don't forget to visit our CCEE Stampers blog to see what the other girls came up with this week. You can also see the details on how you can play in this challenge if you wish.

Recipe:
Stamps: Doodle Factory Fantasy Set - Starving Artistamps; Bricks - Stamp It (Aust); Ivy - Lucy's Stamps; Font - Karen Foster Snap Stamps
Paper: White; Purple
Other: Black Ink; Slate Adirondack Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

More Chocolate!

Hi, I am back again!!!!

If you read my post I did earlier tonight for my sketch challenge card for the SCS sketch challenge, you might remember that I said originally when I started this I was going to use the larger chocolates in the Sweets & Hearts set from Starving Artistamps. Well I hadn't just stamped them out and I also cut all the layers and put them all together before deciding that the card would be too big doing it in the format as per SCS.

Well those chocolate pieces were sitting on my desk and so was my earlier card and I decided to see it they would fit if I flipped the sketch using the same card sizes as my earlier one ... they did so I thought rather than waste those chocolate pieces I would make it into a card.

So this one is the same but different to the one I posted earlier ... I actually think I like this one better using the bigger chocolates.

Recipe:
Stamps: Sweets & Hearts - Starving Artistamps; Sentiment - Stamp It (Aust)
Paper: White; Blush Blossom, Groovy Guava & Close To Cocoa - SU; Neopolitian Digital Paper - Gina K
Other: Black Ink; Square Nestabilities; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Cocoa Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Chocolate!

Hi everyone!
Chocolate ... who doesn't like chocolate ha! My card today is for this week's sketch challenge over on SCS.

Wow do those images need to be small for those square because otherwise you end up with a massive card!

I used the chocolates from the Sweets & Hearts set from Starving Artistamps. I originally stamped out the larger chocolates but once I had layered these the card was going to be way to big, so I used the smaller chocolates in the set instead.

I love the new digital papers that Gina K Designs has been given away this week ... check out Gina's blog if you would like to download it.

The chocolate sentiment I used on the outside of my card is actually this who stamp that I stamped on the inside of my card. I just masked off the bottom portion when I stamped it on the front of my card.

Recipe:
Stamps: Sweets & Hearts - Starving Artistamps; Sentiment - Stamp It (Aust)
Paper: White; Blush Blossom, Groovy Guava & Close To Cocoa - SU; Neopolitian Digital Paper - Gina K
Other: Black Ink; Square Nestabilities; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Cocoa Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Fairy Tale Princess Shadow Box

Here is another shadow box I created recently using the Doodle Factory Fantasy stamps by Starving Artistamps.

Sorry about the blank panel where the sentiment should go, but I just received a stamp set from one of the DT's that I belong to that I just HAD to use on this card because it works soooooo perfectly with this theme ... unfortunately it isn't due for release until July so I can't post it on my blog just yet. I didn't want to wait 2 months to share this card with you as probably by then I would have forgotten I hadn't posted it.

Recipe:
Stamps: Doodle Factory Fantasy - Starving Artistamps
Paper: White: Pomegranate - SU; DP - DCWV
Other: Black Ink; Pomegranate SU Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Pink Brads; Corner Rounder; Score It Board; Spica Pens; Foam Tape

Once Upon A Time!

Yesterday I posted a card that I did for a challenge with my fab/sassy friends, the challenge was to create a card fit for a Princess. Last week I discovered a set called Doodle Factory - Fantasy available from Starving Artistamps which I thought would be perfect for this challenge .... as I had been looking at some of these stamps for a while and kept putting off purchasing them, I finally bite the bullet and ordered a couple of sheets. I had hoped that the stamps would arrive before I had to make my card for yesterdays challenge .... but on Tuesday when they hadn't arrived yet I went with plan B ... which until I had seen these other stamps had actually been plan A anyway.

Of course these stamps turned up yesterday after I had already uploaded my card. Of course I had to play with this new set and I decided to also do Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch which you can find at Poetic Artistry's blog.

I used my long rectangle nestabilities to create the scallop layer of the main image. The sentiment was created using my Karen Foster Snap stamps. I stamped the castle on my white card and the princess on a piece of scrap white, cut out the princess and layered her on my castle piece using foam tape. The Pink areas of the castle & the lavender areas of the dress were both colored over with my clear spica pen to add a touch of sparkle. I also added 2 purple gems to the princess' dress.

Recipe:
Stamps: Princess & Castle from Doodle Factory Fantasy - Starving Artistamps; Karen Foster Snap Stamps; Cloud - Mostly Animals
Paper: White; Elegant Eggplant & Pale Plum - SU; DP - Papertrey Ink
Other: Black Ink; Celeste Blue Impress Ink; Elegant Eggplant Grosgrain Ribbon; Purple Brads; Long Rectangle Nestabilities; Clear Spica Marker; Purple Gems; Foam Tape