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Benson Bear - one of Crafty Sentiment Designs gorgeous digi images.

Benson Bear

Benson Bear was born early 2013, he started out life as just two digital images but has already grown to 5 - such a cutie we all love colouring him up so much.

He is so versatile too.

You can find Benson in the store here and keep a look out am sure he will be joined by many more soon!!

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And we are showcasing 3 gorgeous new digi images ...

Love:

This gorgeous Benson is coloured with my pens, and then I cut him out, and coloured and cut an extra set of hearts.  I love this red and kraft combination - great for Christmas, Valentines, and just for the fun of it!!  I die cut the loopy circle, and added a circle of kraft, before popping Benson onto 3d foam pads and adding him.  I then popped the extra set of hearts on to 3d foam pads and added them.  I love my gingham ribbon, especially this red, so a big bow was in order!!  Finally I added the flat backed pearls, which were colored using noe of my red pens.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments 

Sentiment: Fiskars

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers:Embellishments: die cut doily,  ribbon, pearls,

Tools: Crafty Sentiments Loopy Circle

 Challenges:

Creative Inspiration - sent with love
Simon Says Stamp - have a heart
Ready Teddy Go - love is in the air
Without Words - I love to love
Charisma Cardz - love
DutchDare - be mine
Papercrafting Journey - love
Card Crafters Circle - love is in the air/valentines

Thinking of you

Benson is coloured with my pens, and I simply added some pink to the flower,  The dp is from Pink Petticoat and I used a patchwork embossing folder with white cardstock.  I added some pink organza ribbon and some lace, and a layered flower.  The sentiment is from a Fiskars set I have.  Finally I added some pinky pearl dots around the image.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments 

Sentiment: Fiskars

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers:Embellishments: lace,  ribbon, pearls,

Tools: Dienamics layered rose

 Challenges:
Incy Wincy - add texture 
Ladybugs Craft ink - pink + 1

Easter

How cute does Benson loook peeking from behind that huge egg?!!! Benson is again coloured using my pens and I cut him out using my nesties circles.  The dp is Nitwits Promises and I simply added some twill, pearls and pearl dots around the image. 

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments 

Sentiment:

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Nitwits Promises

Embellishments: ribbon, pearls,

Tools:

 Challenges:

Crafts and Me - favourite colour combination
Flutterby Wednesday - open
Stamp and Create - spring is coming
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon
Forever Friends - animals, butterflies or birds

 

Crafty Sentiments Challenge

 This week's Crafty Sentiments Challenge theme is Valentine's.

I used these 2 fab images from the January release, they look very chic Italian!  I coloured them with my pens before cutting them out.  I love the red, cream, kraft colour combination, so I simply used left over Christmas papers matted onto kraft cardstock.  I added a heart embossed panel and some gems.  The sentiment and die are from Crafty Sentiments.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments 60s fashion and Cool Tobey

Sentiment: Crafty Sentiments Love Word Art 1

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Echo Park Very Merry Christmas

Embellishments: red gems

Tools: Crafty Sentiments Vintage label, Spellbinders oval nestibilities, Sizzix heart embossing border

Challenges:

 Stampavie and more - love

Creative Stamp friends - With hearts/valentines
My Mum's Craft Shop - valentines
Dream Valley- valentines
glitter and sparkle- valentines
Crafty Calendar - love and marriage
Incy Wincy - Love is in the air
Songbird - Hopelessly Devoted to you
OhlalaCreations - Love story

Cutie Pie - Valentine

Creative Craft - hugs and kisses

Fab n Funky - Valentines or hearts
Paper Pretties - valentines
Allsorts - Valentines
Totally Gorguss - love
One Stop - love is in the air
Craft your passion - my Valentine
Creative Creations - it must be love
Love to Create - feeling the love 

 

Rosie and a bit of gingham

 I coloured the image in using my pens and then added the doilly.  I love the simple lines of this sketch, and it really helps focus on the image and the gorgeous gingham papers.  I rolled flowers and added pearls  to their centres, some ickle pearls in a swirl, lace and some twine.

 Supplies: 

Image: Sugar Nellie Rosie

Sentiment: LOTV Everyday Grungy Messages

Colouring medium:copics

Skin: EOOO EOO E11 R20

 Hair: E70 E71 E74 E77 E79

Clothes: B32 34 37 39, R22 24 27 29

 Papers:  Farmhouse Fairskies

Embellishments: rolled flowers, pearls, lace, twine

Tools: Marianne Creatible Chinese rose

Challenges:

Sweet Stampin - pearls and swirls

Addicted to stamps - pearls and swirls

Challenges for everybody - anything goes

Glitter and sparkle - girls are made of
Flutterby Wednesday - open
Incy Wincy - add texture
Divas by Design - winged things

Make it Monday
The Sugar Bowl - anything goes

 

Perfect Poison

 I am a bit Valentine card-ed out .. I have made a few for my friends and their partners to give!!  So my husband is getting a very different kind of Valentine!!

She does look like she is cooking up a LURVE potion doesn't she!! I coloured her using my pens, and then followed the sketch from Little Miss Muffet.  I added som twill ribbon, pearls and a couple of vials tide together with twine.  I put some teeny hearts in one of the vials and added a charm heart.  Finally the sentiment ... hope hubby likes it LOL!!

Supplies: 

Image:Kraftin Kimmie Perfect Poison

 Sentiment: LOTV Everyday grungy messages

Colouring medium: copics

Skin: E000 E00 E11 R20

Hair: BV20 BV23 BV25 BV29

Clothes: R32 R35 R37 R39 C2 C4 C6 C8 M0

Papers: Farmhouse Fairskies, Funky Hand polka dots

Embellishments: Twill ribbon, vials, twine, heart charm, flat backed pearls

Tools: 

 Challenges:

Kraftin Kimmie - love is in the air

Little Miss Muffet - sketch

Sweet Stampin - pearls and swirls

Addicted to stamps - pearls and swirls

Challenges for everybody - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp - have a heart

Glitter and sparkle - girls are made of

Make it Monday
Craft your passion - my Valentine
Creative Creations - it must be love
Creative Stamp Friends - with love/Valentines
Cutie Pie - Valentines
Forever Friends - anything goes
Fab n Funky - Valentines or hearts
One Stop - love is in the air
Love to Create - feeling the love

 

Crafty Sentiments February Release

Its time for Crafty Sentiment's February release - and we have got some absolutely fabulous stamps to showcase you.  I couldn't choose a favourite one, even if I had too!!  

Today I am showing you Springtime...

Isn't that dress fab!!!  I coloured the image with my pens, and added stickles to the butterflies.  Now I know this isn't my colour, but I just love these papers, which Lisa from That Craft Place sent me in a DT package ... and they are perfect for this spring image.  I used some mulberry flowers, and I added punched paper flowers and card candi to them, and a pearl pin.  I punched lots of butterflies and added pearl detail to them.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentments Springtime

Sentiment:

Colouring medium: promarkhttp://www.thatcraftplace.co.uk/ers and copics

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair:  E51,E53,E55,E57

Clothes: RV13,RV14,RV21, bright green, lime green, soft lime

Papers: Bazzill Vintage Market place

Embellishments: punched and mulberry flowers, ribbon, card candi, doily, pearl pin

Tools: Martha Stewart butterflies punch, woodware retro daisy punch

 Challenges:

Challenges for everybody - anything goes

Glitter and sparkle - girls are made of
Flutterby Wednesday - openDivas by Design - winged things

Basic Grey Challenge

 We have a really easy theme for this fortnight - your favourite - it can be stamp, papers, embellishment ... anything really that is your favourite.  Remember you must use a Basic Grey product.

OK so my favourites are ... the papers, the image, Crafty Sentimetns designs, gingham, those die cut flowers - pretty much everything on this card LOL!!!
I coloured this Benson Bear image in using my pens and then used my deckled nesties to cut him and the mat out.  I added ribbon, lace, diecut flowers, pearls, a wee diecut banner and a bow. The sentiment was created from 2 Clearly Besotted stamp set and put onto a banner die cut.  I am really loving my diecuts at the moment - amazing what a bit of decent storage does for you!!

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments With Love

Sentiment:Clearly Besotted stamps

Colouring medium: promarkers 

fur: cocao, caramel, sandstone

Balloons: demin blue, duck egg, cool aqua, amythest, orchid, lavendar

dusky rose, coral, sunkissed pink

Papers: Basic Grey What's Up

Embellishments: gingham ribbon, lace, flat backed pearls

Tools: Memory box pennant banner, Dienamics Layered rose, dienamics shaped tag

As always, our wonderful sponsor,  Simon Says Stamp is offering one lucky winner a fab $25 shopping spree in  the Simon Says Superstore, just think of the goodies you could treat yourself to with that !! 

(Please note: This is a voucher code that entitles the winner to a $25 saving off their order in Simon Says Stamp, P+P charges will still apply unless the conditions are met to earn free P+P, please check here if you would like to see these conditions)

Challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - happy birthday

Crafts and me - favourite colour combination

Digital Tueday hearts
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

Crafts and Me - favourite colour combination

Forever Friends - animals, butterflies or birds
2 Sisters - hearts
Fab n Funky - Valentines or hearts

Creative Stamp friends - With hearts/valentines

 

Crafty Sentiments February release - Quiet time

We are continuing to showcase this month's Crafty Sentiments stamp release - and it is such a fab release.

This cutie is called quiet time ...

 Having coloured her in using my pens (and experimenting with doing darker skin tones), I cut her out using my nesties.  The layout is simple, and I added a layered flower, seam binding and bow, and some pearls that I coloured with my pens to match the clothes.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Quiet Time

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: copics 

Skin: E11,E13,E15,E17

Hair: E70,E71,E74,E777,E79

Clothes: Y00,Y02,YO6,YO8, gold promarker, BG11,BG13,BG15,BG18

Papers: MME Bluebell

Embellishments: gold seam binding, flat backed pearls, paper flowers, brad

Tools: Spellbinders oval nestibilities

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - favourite colour combination
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

 

Crafty Sentiments February release - Lets Dance

Its another peek at the fabulous Crafty Sentiments February release today ...

This is Lets Dance and isn't she gorgeous?!!  I love the garland in her hair.  She is coloured using my pens and then I did a stippled background for her.  The dp is machine stitched and I created the flowers using a die, adding pearls to their centres.  Finally some extra pearls and gingham ribbon.  

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Lets Dance

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: raw sienna, gold, mustard, pastel yellow, primrose 

Clothes: soft mauve, lavendar, orchid, amythest, ginger, apricot, oatmeal

Papers: Basic Grey Plumeria

Embellishments: die cut flowers, pearls, ribbon from stash

Tools: Dienamics Mini hybrid heirloom rose

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Forever Friends - use ribbon or lace 
Bearly Mine - anything goes 
Craft room - make your own embellishments 
Stamp and Create - spring is coming
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

 

Lazy Days - Crafty Sentiments February Release

Today I am showing you Lazy Days from the February Crafty Sentiments stamp release ...

 Isn't she gorgeous?!  I teamed her up with one of the accessory stamps (its on pre-order at the moment) to create a spring day, lazy scene.  The iamges are coloured using my pens and then a created a cloud background using broken china distress ink.  I kept the card simple, just using 1 peice of design paper, and adding some cheesecloth and jute for textures, and a layered flower and some die cut clouds.

We lost our beloved Miffy not long ago, and Ellie was devastated as Miffy was her cat, and only 4 years old ... so I made this card for her, to try to cheer her up.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Lazy Days, Crafty Sentiments Kitty on a wall

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: copics

Skin:E000,E00,E11,R20

Hair: YR20, YR31, YR23, YR24

Clothes: R20,R21,R22,R24, BG70,BG72, BG75, 

WARM GREY 1,2,3,5

Papers: Basic Grey What's Up

Embellishments: jute webbing, cheesecloth, paper flowers, pearl brad

Tools: Memory Box puffy clouds

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes 

 

Cute Card Thursday Guest Design Card

I am really honoured to have been asked to Guest Design for Cute Card Thursday during February.  The them this week is Love Struck ...

 I used this gorgeous Crafty Sentiments stamp, Two hearts - don't they look so in love, gazing into each other's eyes?!  And its on offer at the moment, in the shop.  The image is coloured using my pens, and I cut it out using my nesties.  The dp is from Bella Carta, and I simply added some embossed, decorative corners, and some flat backed pearls.  The sentiment is from the Love word Art set, which is also on offer at the moment, and I added some flat backed pearls.

 Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Two hearts

Sentiment: Crafty Sentiments Love Word Art 1

Colouring medium: copics

Papers: Bella Carta Beautiful Moments

 Embellishments: flat backed pearls

Tools: Dienamics corner die, Sizzix embossing folder, Spellbinders circle nestibilities

Challenges:

Sketch Saturday - sketch

My Time to Craft - Love is in the air
One Stop Craft - anything goes
Sweet Stampin' - love is all around

 Stampavie and more - love

Creative Stamp friends - With hearts/valentines
My Mum's Craft Shop - valentines
Dream Valley- valentines
glitter and sparkle- valentines
Crafty Calendar - love and marriage
Incy Wincy - Love is in the air
Songbird - Hopelessly Devoted to you
OhlalaCreations - Love story

Cutie Pie - Valentine

Creative Craft - hugs and kisses

Everybody Art - hearts

Oldie but a goodie - red and pibk

Party time Tuesday - love and romance

Cards and more - love or Valentines

Inky CHicks - Valentines or anniversary
Fab n Funky - Valentines or hearts
Paper Pretties - valentines