Tickled Pink Stamps Meets Anya Ink

This week Tickled Pink Stamps is sponsoring the Anya Ink Challenge and the TPS team were able to join the fun. The challenge is a recipe - 3 flowers, 2 buttons and a bow. It was great to join in because it gave me the excuse to ink up my sadly neglected CC stamps - you can use either Greeting Farm OR CC Stamps for Anya Ink.

As you can see I haven't made a card - I actually made a little gift bag. The bag pattern is one of the 3 bags in Becky Roberts' (Inking Idaho) Tres Chic Handbag tutorial - and soo much fun to make. I decided to make this little bag for one of my fellow MDUC DT members to pop a little birthday present in - I know she LOVES handbags and I not only got to meet her yesterday in person for the first time but it was also her birthday.

I also made her a card to match - using the same designer papers and my Tim Holtz tattered floral die for the large flower. I didn't quite manage to use the full recipe on the card - but I did get to use another of my CC stamps!

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Simply Betty Stamps Emos Go Back to School - Preview Day 1

I just love working with the Emo kids from Simply Betty Stamps - having teens in my house makes me realise how few images there are that they would like - and they LOVE these guys! Well Betty is about to release a new range of Emo Kids - it's back to school time in America so the Emo kids are heading back too! We have a couple of preview days and then we'll be running a release day blog hop on Sunday 15th, September - and knowing Betty she'll have specials and prizes on offer during the hop too!

I know they'll be more previews for you over at the SBS Blog in the meantime - check them out HERE.

For my card I've used the adorable Miller - who is looking a little confused on his first day of school - new classes and new rules to figure out. The DP I used is by October Afternoon - Report Card - perfect for this theme LOL. I'm hoping some of you get my weird sense of humour - my poor daughter just didn't GET the sentiment - but I thought it was a bit if a giggle - LOL - maybe it's becausewe call gym class PE here (Physical Education)??!?!?!?! I added my "locker key" skull charm to the card with a paper clip to keep with the theme.

I'll be back tomorrow with another preview.

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New Winner For The Just INKlined Digi

I've had to draw a new winner for the Just INKlined digital image from the  recent blog hop.

Congratulations.......

MELODIE

Please email me at
rdpam @hotmail.com
to claim the Aubery Bumblethorpe Digital Stamp

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Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #15 - Favourite Burton Film

This week my card for The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge is a little less dark than my previous ones. It's your turn to make this challenge whatever you want, take a scene from your favorite Burton film and recreate it on your project. We are also being sponsored this week by Tickled Pink Stamps and the gorgeous Kellie is offering the winner 2 rubber stamps - 80s Sookie and 50s Lilith. The DT have had soo much fun working with these gals this week - be sure to stop by the blog and see what other Burton movies the Lolita's have become a part of.

I've used Sookie to help me recreate the famously beautiful scene from Edward Scissorhands where Edward makes an ice-sculpture as Kim dances in the snow. This was one of the first Tim Burton movies I ever saw and it's story has soo many facets to explore. I used parts of the last lines from the movie for my sentiment - the actual lines are - "Before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now, I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it." It just seemed perfect for this card.

Hope you decide to come along and play too!

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Unclaimed Digital Stamp

Last week the Just INKlined DT had their very first blog hop - and I got to pick a winner of the digital stamp I used. The winner has yet to contact me so she has 48hours to email me before I re-draw. The winner of the digital stamp by Just Inklined was...

MARGREET

Please email me at rdpam @hotmail.com to claim the Aubery Bumblethorpe Digital Stamp

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An Apology Card From Just INKlined

Hahaha - as soon as I saw the faces on these guys I just KNEW I had to make an apology card - don't the boys look like they've been caught out BIG TIME - I wonder what they did to make mum look soo unamused - LOL. These are actually 2 separate images from Just INKlined - the Girafferty boys (father and son) are on the left and can be found in the store HERE and Girafferty Mum is on the right - she can be found HERE.

I found this DP in my stash and it seemed to be a great fit wtih these guys. It looks like dad may have brought mum a few flowers to help with the apology - but I don't think it worked - yet! The sentiment was computer generated. The yellow cord was tied around a bunch of yellow roses my hubby bought home for me one night - and no - it wasn't part of an apology - LOL.

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Tickled Pink Stamps Monthly Challenge #4

It's time for our next monthly challenge from Tickled Pink Stamps Monthly Challenges. Kellie has come up with a FABULOUS sketch this week - I hope you can see it in my easel card - or at least in part of my easel card - LOL. Yup the sketch is all done within the circle on the top of my card. And I've just realised the colours I've used are similar to those in the sketch - it was totally unplanned and NOT part of the challenge - LOL

Please note you can now use any stamp from any company but to be in with a chance to win the prize you have to use a stamp from a company that the Tickled Pink Stamps Store sells - This month's prize is a $50 TPS voucher. For the first 3 challenges I stuck to TPS's very own fabulous line of stamps - the Lil Lolitas - but this month I branched out and used one of Amy's gorgeous mermaids from Sweet November. Kellie still has some of these beauties instore at Tickled Pink Stamps.

My DP is from one of my Basic Grey paper pads - and the sentiment was from a set by CC Designs - a little bit of "fin" with words - hahahaha.

Don't forget to pop over and check out the rest of the amazing inspiration from the DT HERE using this sketch - it always amazes me how one simple sketch can be interpreted in soo many fabulous ways!

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Spesch Stamps New Releases

It's release day over at Spesch Designer Stamps and there are 4 new images available now. I've used 2 of them here.

This cutie is called "Birdy in Love" and I came up with a little sentiment which suited it perfectly - LOL. I used my MS corner punch to add some details to the DP and CS - it's quite a simple layout but the punched details add a great framing effect.

 And this adorable gal is called "Princess with Cake". Don't you just love that cute little puppy hoping she'll share the cake - or drop it - LOL. I used my sizzix flourish die to add some swirls to the frame. The DP is from 7 Gypsies. I've added some crystal effects to the rubies in her crown and the cherry on top of the cake.  All the golden parts of her dress have been coated with my clear spica pen for added princess glam!

Check out what the rest of the DT have done with these gorgeous images, and the other 2 new releases - at the Spesch Stamps blog.

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A Quick Apology

Hi Guys - I just wanted to apologise for being so slack lately with my blog commenting! I'm suffering some tendonitis in my right elbow and typing on the computer is making it worse so I'm trying to keep it to a minimum at the moment!

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Just INKlined meets Copic Oz

Copic Oz are running their very first challenge - and it's to colour FLOWERS! As soon I saw these beautiful poppies by Just INKlined I knew they would be perfect for the challenge. They are such majestic flowers that I decided they didn't need to much embellishment - a little lace, some ribbon and some fabulous textured CS from Cristina Re.

Since this is a Copic challenge I thought I better list my copic colours - somthing I know I should do regularly but I'm such a messy colourer - pens end up all over the place and I just shove them back in to tidy up before I remember to list the colours! And I nearly did it with this one too - oops!

Here they are if you're interested - C3, YG01, YG05, YG63, G85, G99, R05, R29 and R59

If you're looking for this gorgeous digi for yourself you can find it HERE - it's called Oriental Poppies. And Just INKlined currently have another limited time freebie you can find on the blog HERE. You'll also find a competition running with the prize being the GDT for a month which includes free digis to play with!

EDIT - i just realised I didn't mention that the "no-tie" bow was an idea I CASED from my lovely blog buddy Andrea Lowcock - the brad holds the loop of ribbon together to form the bow - how clever is that!?!?

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