New images at Tiddly Inks

It’s always a good day when there are new images at Tiddly Inks, and you won’t be disappointed with these cuties!

Today, I wanted to share this darling one called Poppy Pixie.  This was a fun one for me to colour because most of the detail is in the flowers and background, as opposed to on the little character.  I wanted the little pixie to pop out a bit, so I decided to go with a dark colour for her hair, and then accent that with the ribbon.  Copics were my tool of choice for this card, and the image was coloured to match the Pink Paislee Soiree paper.

The sentiment is hand lettered, although I wish I had used a thinner pen.  I think overtakes the cute image a bit!

Anyway, you really need to go and check out all the darling creations with these new digis Inks over at the Tiddly Blog.  I actually have two more card over there too (these images we so cute that I couldn’t stop colouring them), and although I will share them her at SCS a little later, go ahead and take a sneak peak!

Have a great Tuesday, and thanks for stopping by!

She’s got wings and she knows how to use them!

Good morning everyone!  It’s Saturday, and here at SCS, that usually means I get to share some inspiration for the weekly challenge at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!!

This week our hostess is Sheri and her challenge is FLOWERS!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp that features flowers in some way! So in the image itself, in the patterned paper, add flower diecuts or flower embellishments!! Woohoo! We love to see flowers!!

For this little card, I decided to draw in my flowers!  I love this cute stamp from KKS’s “Pretty Little PIxies” set.  There is actually a really cute single flower stamp that goes with this cutie, but I thought it would be fun to make it look like she was growing a whole garden, complete with a sentiment.  She’s a pixie after all – and they are magical little beings, aren’t they?

We are ALSO sponsoring the challenge over on the Kit and Clowder online colouring community!!! Their challenge is WINGS so if you create a card featuring FLOWERS AND WINGS, you can enter it into BOTH challenges for DOUBLE the chances to WIN!!! How awesome is that?  So, go check out the wonderful creations by our Krafty Girls and special Krafty Guests featuring this week’s challenge and head over to the Kit and Clowder online clolouring community for their challenge!! We’re sure you’ll be inspired!! Then join us, play along and you could WIN!!

Thanks for stopping by!

This card has been linked up in the:

- Allsorts Challenge – Spring is Coming

- Fantasy Stampers Challenge blog – Spring Colours.

Everything is coming up….flowers!

It’s release week at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps, and that means that I get to spend the next few days teasing you with sneak peaks of all the great stamps that will be available this weekend! So let’s get to it!

When I think of Kraftin’ Kimmie stamps, I usually think of the adorable characters that have come to grace so many of my cards.  But when I first saw this new release called “Flowers Feed The Soul“, I knew that some of these beautiful blooms were going to get a lot of crafty time in my scrappy space!

Today, I mixed together the stamp that to me, looks like a strawberry blossom with some of the great paper from Doodblebug’s Fruit Stand collection.  I really wanted to bring out the bright, bold colours to contrast with the pretty bloom, so I layered a bunch of different patterns from this collection.  Finally, I finsihed off the stamped image by colouring it up with my Copics (a lot of times, I actually colour my stamps after I have the card layout finished so I can really match up the colours). I did consider adding a bit of ribbon on there too, but lately I have been trying to create cards that are a little more mail friendly (and by “mail friendly”, I mean friendly on my pocket book).

Make sure you check out all the other amazing creations that the Krafty Girls have concocted for the sneak peek – you might find some fruity fun along the way too!

Thanks for stopping by!

I took the challenge!

For each flower, I started by cutting each out from the ribbon strand, and then using some Alcohol Inks to add a bit of dimension into the middle of the flower.  Once that was dry, I added a combination of Distress Stain and Distress Inks to what I wanted to be the “petals” on each bloom.  Once dry, I actually also got out my Copic Markers just to add some highlights down at the base of the petals – they worked so well!  I finally dragged a bit of Distress Ink in Walnut Stain across each to give them a bit of a weathered look.

Once I was finished with the flowers, I tackled the leaves.  These have a bit of a suede feel to them, so I simply used two colours of Alcohol ink, added a few drops to each leaf, and then “smushed” them up (I know, I am so technical), in my hands until the ink covered the whole leaf, front and back.  I then took a Paper Smooches stamp with the word “Thanks” and used a coordinating Distress Ink to stamp the work on each leaf.  I didn’t want the stamp to be too obvious – almost so that from a distance, the leaves would simply look like they had some veins on them.

Finally, I grabbed some white silk ribbon, inked them up and created a few rosettes and a big bow to coordinate with the leaves.  I also used my Copics to do a bit of doodling on the bow.

But, you know it wouldn’t be a true Scrappy Canuck project unless it was interactive, right???  As I was attaching a few of the flowers to the wreath base, I added a circle flip tab underneath to include some of the things I am thankful for.  It you look closely, you will see three flowers that flip-up to reveal a little reflection from me underneath!

Now, I wonder how many brave visitors I will have in my home that will actually try to find the messages!

So there you have it – my entry for this month May Arts Ink It challenge.  I can’t wait to see what everyone else came up with too!