Sheepski Designs Challenge Reminder

Hi all

Today I thought I would quickly share my latest DT inspiration for the current challenge over at Sheepski Designs Blog and to also remind you that you still have time to enter

The theme is Your Favourite colours

Here is my creation using Butterfly Curl

My favourite colours are: Blue, Purple, Pink and Black so I have incorporated all of these by water colouring the Butterfly Curl digi in Blue, Purple and Pink. The card base has been done in Black and Pink.

I love the butterfly curl digi which Andrea has designed. I have also included a few Petal Lu flowers, sequins and a bit of a bling trim on the base.

You can enter the challenge HERE and you have until 31st May 2018 

I look forward to seeing all your entries 

Butterfly Bliss Easel Card

Hello lovelies.

Today I have a new creation I have been working on to share with you all, I have to admit I absolutely love how this piece turned out and I am sure you will all get some beautiful inspiration from this piece.

Here is what I have been working on "Butterfly Bliss"

Here are some more pictures of this beauty of a card complete with various little gift boxes.

One last picture of the whole card.

The gift box which is situated in the card at the top can be removed from the card.

For this card I used the following products:

Visible Image Large Butterfly Stamp

Visible Image Own Kind Of Beautiful Stamp

Visible Image Butterfly Inkognito Stamp

Distress Oxide Inks

Purple Card Stock

Thick Whisper White Card Stock

Pool Party Card Stock 

Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper

Eastern Palace Designer Series Paper 

Soft Sky Ribbon

Window Sheets

Fresh Fig Ribbon

Bow Builder Punch

Simply Score Board

Stampin' Trimmer

Paper Snips

Tombow Glue

Glue Dots

Gift Box Punch Board

I hope you have enjoyed taking a look at this beautiful card I have created, I am sure it will give you lots of inspiration.

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations Challenges - Anything Goes 

Crafty Gals Corner Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Purple Paradise

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes (must feature a creature)

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything Goes

The Crafters Cafe Challenge - Shaped Card

Crafty Animals -  Anything Goes 

Flutterby Bright

Hi all

Today is NEW challenge day over on the Sheepski Designs Facebook Group as always the theme is Anything Goes.

So for my inspiration piece this month I wanted to do some mixed media art and I have used the lovely Flutterby digi stamp

So here is what I have been busy creating

To create this mixed media canvas the products I have used are as follows:

Canvas

Flutterby Digi Stamp 

Distress Crayons

Dylusions Ink Sprays

Dylusions Stencil

Texture Paste

Brick Wall Stencil

Kaiser Mists

Indigoblu Metallic Paint

Stickles - Star Dust 

I hope this canvas has inspired you for this months challenge and I can not wait to see what you do. Don't forget you can use my code SKIKELLY10 to get a discount on your digi's from SheepSki Designs 

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Simple But Effective

Hi Crafters

Today I wanted to share with you all a simple but effective card, this is to show that you do not need loads of craft supplies.

This card was done with only very minimal supplies which are all Stampin' Up!

For this card all you need are the following: I have linked each product which will take you to it on my store.

Whisper white Cardstock (make into any size card you like)

Watercolor Wings Stamp Set 

Ink Pads - Colours Used are Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay and Dapper Denim

Aqua Painters

Tombow Glue

Acrylic Block

So there we have it a simple but effective card, I love how these colours work together.

I have some exciting news to share with you all very soon and it is something for all you and will include Stampin' Up! products, keep a look out for that blog post VERY soon.

My Stampin' Up Store

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Playing With Vellum

Hello all :)

Today's post is as you can guess from the title about playing with Vellum, now I have never used vellum before and after watching one of Jennifer Ever's videos on You Tube where she did some beautiful Vellum Butterflies I just had to give it a try.

So here they are 

I used the following products:

Vellum

Spectrum Noir Markers 

Black Embossing Powder by WOW

Versamark Ink Pad 

Visible Image Large Butterfly Stamp - left butterflies

Recollections Stamps - middle and right butterflies

Heat Tool

Stickles - Diamond and Star Dust

Do Crafts Pearl Effects 

I love how these turned out, I will admit I was a little nervous with how they would turn out especially with using stickles on them but remembered that Jen's turned out beautifully and low and behold so did these, I left them over night to dry and then fussy cut them out.

I intend to use these on different projects so keep a look out for those and I am sure you will recognise them when you see them.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Own Kind Of Beautiful ATC

Hi all.. Me again with another ATC to show you all..

I have been watching a fair few You Tube tutorials and Demo's the passed few weeks and been making notes of techniques which caught my eye and that I would love to try so I thought I would try one of the techniques on an ATC.

The technique i chose to try on this ATC was the watercolour stamping technique with Distress Inks... So here it is

I absolutely love how this turned out as I was so nervous in trying it just in case I misted too much water onto the stamp etc - Hence why I tried it on an ATC ;) I also did my watercolour stamping BEFORE doing the background as I wanted to try out the awesome Distress Micro Glaze.

What did I use to do this piece?? Here is what I used:

Watercolour Card

Distress Inks 

Mini Mister

Visible Image Stamps - Own Kind Of Beautiful 

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders - Firework Burst ( I highly recommend this one the colours it throws off are awesome one of my favourite pixie powders)

Distress Micro Glaze (another fantastic product)

Memento Ink

If you have not tried watercolour stamping with the distress inks yet - I highly recommend giving it a go and maybe do like I did and do it on an ATC size piece first.

I was so chuffed with the outcome of this piece that I will definitely be re-creating it again with more detail and stamping on a larger piece, so keep a look out for that.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX