Swirls at Crafts & Me

Its all swirlys over at Crafts & Me Challenge this week hosted by Karina and for this I used Jasmine Becket-Griffiths' Pearl Swirl Mermaid - seemed apt!  Papers are a swirly one from Bearly Mine which I think the blue one is a freebie one and the white is cuttlebug embossed with divine swirls so lots of swirly whirleys!  Flowers all wild orchid with added stickles glitter except the bunchy ones at the bottom which are from the works and theres tons of pearls and diamonds.  The ribbon I coloured with promarker duck egg blue to match in with everything (Tip: Buy white satin in bulk and colour!)

Mermaid is coloured with promarkers and I used quite a lot of pencil on this one.  Hope you can come and join in our swirly whirly challenge!  Thanks for stopping by :)

Would also like to enter into...

Sketch n Stash - Used sketch 10
Corrosive - Turquoise & Pink
By the cute & girly - Anything goes
Dream Valley Challenges - Flowers
Wags n Whiskers - Punches
Papertake - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything goes
Paper Shelter - Bling

Things with WINGS at Crafts & Me

Its time for a new challenge over at Crafts & Me and Amy has chose the fab theme of Things with Wings.  For this challenge I have used one of the brand new Jasmine Becket-Griffith stamps called Making a Wish and they are now AVAILABLE whoop!  Some of this range are sold out already so be quick!

Bit late posting this evening, I've got a virus courtesty of my OH who's had it for 2 weeks and lost his voice and everything.  At least he can be grumpy in a quiet way now hehe!  I'm drugged up to the eyeballs, got swollen glands the size of a small elephant and I've gone deaf lol!

Anyhow here's my version of Making a Wish.  I chose Pink & Turquoise as its one of the girls birthdays over at Postpals soon, and she likes pink & turquoise, well actually its triplets so this will be one of three!
Its a post it easel, the instructions for this are in the February 2011 issue of Craft Stamper
Papers are Papermania.  I liked the hummingbird so rather than centre my flowers I've used them as a feauture.  Image is coloured with promarkers and derwent coloursoft pencils and the background is distress inks.  I've added bling blng with sakura stardust as you can see on the 2nd pic and some sticky pearls and metallic teal nailheads. Text stamp says Spirit, I've had it forever off fleabay :)

Hope you stop on by and join in the Wings Challenge at Crafts & Me!

Would also like to enter into...

Paper Pretties - Card for a child
Alys Sunday Challenge - Bling Bling
One Stitch at a time - Make it pretty
Stampin Royalty - Markers
Paper Sundaes - Toppings (Flowers, distressing & pink)
Craft your passion - Use pink
Stamping scrapping challenge central - Pink (Also distress inks spun sugar & worn lipstick)

Monochrome at Crafts & Me

We're havng a monochrome theme over at Crafts & Me for the next fortnight.  For this one I've used a new image which will be released soon which is part of Lemon Shortbreads range of "Melody" stamps.  This one is Flapper Girl 2 and she's just as pretty as 1!  The team are also busy working on samples as Crafts & Me are doing their first show at Stevenage on 6th Feb so do pop over and say hello to Teresa and see her range of stamps including some new ones and see the girls samples in the flesh :)
This one was coloured with promarkers and artist pencils for shading.  I added a bit of a halo with pencils around her and spread out with sansador then distressed around the edges with brilliance ink in red.  Papers are print outs from Bearly Mine, very handy having digital papers as I dont have many red ones so I just print and theyre ready to go :)  Text was stamped with an alphabet set and I've added ickle butterflies from the martha stewart 3 in 1 butterfly punch and whole card finished with a couple of squirts of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer mist.  Hope you'll love the new images by Lemon Shortbread, I've seen some of the others too and they're gorgeous!

Would also like to enter into...

Papertake - Ribbons & Pearls
My time to craft - Spots & Dots
I Love Promarkers - Keep it sweet & simple
Flutterby Wednesday - Open Week
Oh Alice - Mostly Red
Cute Card Thursday - Monochrome
My Partner in Crafting Crime - New (Stamp)
Make it Colorful - Colour with Red

Some close ups below, the flower and halo

And the bangle, the centre was coloured with a clear sakura stardust pen then  added little red dots from a red sakura stardust pen.

Thanks for looking!