Paperbabe Challenge - Picture Inspiration - Design Team Project - Junk Journal

Hiya and Welvome to my Blog thank you for visiting today

 

 I hope your summer holidays are in full swing and you're enjoying the outside and fun family days...

 

This fortnight we have a summery Picture inspiration... for challenge #99:

Summer Fun...

This picture so reminds me of summer

You can create anything inspired by the picture...
Use the image or colours as your inspiration

Paperbabe Stamps Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20*

 

Here is my Design Team Project for the Challenge 

I picked out the colours and stripes from the Inspiration Picture as the background for my Junk Journal Page all about the Holiday i took my youngest two children on all by myself last year we travelled by train and was such a lovely holiday fun of Beachy fun and loads of memories made

 

 

I created a Junk Journalling Page using colours and stripes in watercolours inspired by the Inspiration Picture using the Profile Right Dinky Stamp Set and the Curly Fringe hairstyle from the Profile Left Hair Templates flipped over to face right.

I coloured her using Copic Markers on smooth cardstock which I then fussy cut and fixed onto the page using wet glue.

 

I added journalling of our memories using a fine permanent marker

Lots of seaside themed elements mixed in with an essex coast postcard as we visited Frinton-on-Sea where we stayed in a bungalow for a week, we also went to Clacton-on-Sea where we went on the pier and visited the souvenir shops and Walton-on-the-Naze where we had dinner at our favourite seaside fish and chip restaurant. We have little rules and laws we invented as traditions to follow while at the seaside; hot doughnuts, ice-cream at the beach and fish & chip suppers are part of these must do things

I am still very new to junk journalling but after looking at so many wonderful ones on google images I just had to have a try 

I hope you will visit the Paperbabe Stamps Blog to see the gorgeous projects from our lovely Design Team and of course our lovely Kim

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects in the linkup!

Challenge ends: 16th August at 10am

Thank you for joining in!

Hunkdory Products - Projects & Review

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A few weeks ago I received an email from a lovely lady at Hunkydory asking if I would like to review my choice of products from the Hunkydory Website... how exciting and I jumped at the chance. Below is a photo of the lovely Hunkydory Products I chose and of course I had to pick Stamps... I am a bit of a Craft Stamp Addict so how could I not and plus they are Polymer eeeks my fave kind 

A Festive Family Christmas 8x8 Paper Pad

For The Love of Stamps - Carolling Cuties

For The Love of Stamps - Christmas Rose Lantern

For The Love of Stamps - No Place Like Home

For The Love of Stamps - Bee Happy

For The Love of Stamps - Delightful Decorating

The first thing I did when I received this lovely parcel of goodies was a little happy dance because they are all so lush.

The Paper Pad is lovely with smooth papers of the same quality that we are so familiar of from Hunkydory Kits. I was a bit gutted that they are all double sided as I would love to be able to use every single design rather than one side being hidden on projects but they are colour co-ordinated which makes matching up a lot easier and would be great for projects where you can see both sides.

I then opened the stamps and got hit by the familiar polymer smell so sos lush and one of my fave smells in the world of craft. The quality of these stamps are really exceptional, easy to remove from the backing plastic and ready to get stamping straight away. The etching of the detail is perfect. I've experienced some bad polymer stamps in the past that have ripped as I've taken them off the backing to use which is quite disappointing when it happens, I have also had some where the details are lost or where the lines are not smooth and even... so I was personally very impressed by these from Hunkydory For The Love of Stamps. Each stamp impression was clear and crisp. I tried Memento Ink for using with my Copic Markers and Versafine for using with my watercolours and both of these inks worked very well with the stamps.

I could not wait to get stamping so I created a journal page using the 'There's No Place Like Home' set and a 7x7 card using the 'Bee Happy' set

I teamed the 'There's No Place Like Home' set with some other Wizard of Oz themed stamps from my own crafty stash to create this Art Journal Page. I love the little tree's so so cute. The sentiment 'There's No Place Like Home' is one of 3 sentiments in the set... you also get 'Congratulations' perfect for new home projects and 'From Our House To Yours' which is a lovely sentiment perfect for sending cards to loved ones or neighbours. I love the silhouette theme to this set which I thought was perfect for art journalling.

The Honeycomb stamp was very easy to line up so i stamped it muliple times to create corners, I love the little Bee's there are 3 sizes in the set. The sentiments are lovely, the little words match up with the larger 'Bee' so you can create a sentiment that suits your own card or project. I teamed the stamps up with a circle template and distress inks. The smudging you can see on my card is from my own mistake using dye ink on pearlescent cardstock... I should have used a permanent ink like Stazon... this was my own error and nothing to do with the stamp quality, I used a heatgun to dry the ink but the smudges were already there... note to self use stazon next time.

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For my next projects I teamed the Christmas Themed Stamps with the Paper Pad, I got my Copic Markers out to colour the images to match the colours in the Papers

I stamped the Lantern onto smooth cardstock suited to my Copic Markers, I then stamped a border using the Christmas Rose and tiny Snowflake stamps. I loved colouring in these beautiful images, I picked out colour combinations that matched to the backing paper I chose from the pad. These stamps are going to be lovely to use for my Christmas Cards this year. I love how many stamps were in this set along with different size roses and sentiments. 

The 'Carolling Cuties' are so lovely and because they are mostly individual you can create lovely groups of carollers, there are some cute dogs and a cat too which are so so cute... The sentiments are lovely and are musically themed to match. I adore the little street lamp too. I also love that you get little Musical Notes that you can stamp randomly. 

I could not resist making added details with the Holly and the smaller Rose from the 'Christmas Rose Lantern' set... I fussy cut them, shaped the roses from the back using a ball tool and layering up in the corners. 

As you can probably tell I had a lovely time creating with the lovely items from Hunkydory and I can not recomend them enough... I will definately be putting in an order soon for more stamps from the 'For The Love of Stamps' collection

Thank You so much for stopping by and checking out what I have been creating I cannot thank Hunkydory enough for giving me this oportunity 

Krafty Hugs

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge Picture Inspiration

Hiya and Welcome to my Blog

Today a New Challenge begins over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog 

and the theme is a Picture Inspiration

You can create anything you like Inspired by the Picture above, the colours, the flowers anything that inspires you and have fun

Paperbabe Stamps Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project below for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20*

 

Here is my Design Team Project that I created inspired by the flowers & some colours in the picture  

I have created this card using some of the New Face Stamps & Templates that will be available to buy in the Paperbabe Stamps Esty Shop this Saturday 8th June, I chose to use the Portrait Face Stamp with closed eyes, New Freckles Stamp, Long Loose Wave Hair Template along with the Portrait Neck & Shoulders Template... I stamped the face onto watercolour card then traced the templates using a pencil, then I lightly drew a sweetheart neckline top with straps, I also stamped the New Dinky Rose Stamp into her hair... I coloured her using watercolour pencils which I then painted over with a watercolour brush. I created a landscape card using backing papers and mirror board. I layered up with paper doilies. I added mulberry paper roses and fabric flowers using my hot glue gun, I then added some cute little butterfly diecuts and some pearls

I hope you will join in with the Challenge and please do visit the Paperbabe Stamps Blog to see the Beautiful Creations from the Design Team and our Kim

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects in the linkup! on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog

Thank you for joining in!

A Little Look at What I Have Been Making

Hiya and Welcome to my Blog

Today I am sharing with you some of the Projects I have been making using the New Products from Paperbabe Stamps that will be available in the Paperbabe Stamps Etsy Shop this Saturday 8th June

I have been loving getting creative again in my Kraftroom after having a long break due to a few personal circumstances, but Wowser with such lovely goodies I have really enjoyed making again

First I wanted to show a few Ladie's I have created using the New Dinky Size Face Stamps, the New Dinky Neck & Shoulders Templates, & the New Hairstyle Templates... before they were turned into finished projects

I had a lot of fun mixing up the Templates and Stamps and then colouring them up using watercolour paints, watercolour pencils and of course my fave medium my Copic Markers

Then I wanted to share with you one of these pretty Ladies all finished as a Birthday Card

I used the New Dinky Size Rose Stamp to make a flower for her hair and some layered up Flowers at the corners... she kind of looks like a Spanish Sinorita with her flowing dark hair. I chose to keep the rest of the card simple with a rose patterned paper and a Happy Birthday greeting using an older Paperbabe stamp set but one of my absolute favourites the Birthday Wishes sentiment stamp set

I really hope you will visit the Paperbabe Stamps Blog over the next few days as there is a lot of fun stuff coming up, a New Challenge begins tomorrow Friday 7th June and also we have a mini Blog Hop on Saturday 8th June for the when New Release's will be available in the

Paperbabe Stamps Etsy Shop

Thank You so much for visiting my Blog today... come back soon to see more Projects by me now that I have gotten my Krafty Mojo back 

Krafty Hugs

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge Anything Goes

Hiya and Welcome to my Blog... Wow its been so long since I last made a project as I had a lot of personal stuff going on

Today a New Challenge Starts over at Paperbabe Stamps Blog and the theme is...

 "Anything Goes"

so create anything that you've always wanted to try!

Paperbabe Stamps Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project below for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20*.

Here is my Design Team Project for the Challenge

I used an MDF Portrait Board from my own stash and I created a Half Face Portrait in the Big Eye style that I really love

 

  I created an MDF Portrait using the Mini Portrait Head & Torso Templates, the Mini Wavy Centre Parting Templates and the Mini Female Face Stamp Set with watercolours. She also added vellum butterflies using the Butterfly Pieridae Stamp Set with embossing powder and a heat gun.

First I painted both MDF parts using White Gesso

I then used some of the Portrait Templates from Paperbabe to draw the Face, Torso and Hair, I then added her facial details using the Mini Female Face stamp set. I painted the background using a light bluey grey watercolour, I used watercolours to paint her face, torso and hair.

I added a bubble effect to the background using black and white acrylic paints and some bottle lids and pen tops for the different size bubbles.

I used some clear embossing ink and a mixture of embossing powders in Blue, Pearl and White around the edges of the MDF boards, heating with a heat gun.

I used the Butterfly Pieridae stamp set to create the butterflies on vellum, the pink colour was from a distress ink and then i used clear embossing ink and white embossing powder, I cut them out and glued to the portrait, I cut a wing off of one butterfly so it looks like it has its wings folded

Please visit the Paperbabe Stamps Blog to see the Gorgeous Projects from Our Kim and the Design Team

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*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects in the linkup! over on the Paperbabe Blog

Challenge ends: 7th June 10am

Thank you for joining in!

Take Time to do What Makes Your Soul Happy - Paperbabe Stamps Challenge 'Picture Inspiration' - Midway Challenge Reminder

Oh my Gosh! Has it really been 4 months since I last posted on my Blog? Wow! That was a serious break I had, but I do feel a lot better for having been away for a while. Sometimes we all need to take a complete break from everything to clear our heads and reflect. I had a rough few months with medication changes and accepting my new life as a single Mum again for the first time in 12 years. It has been difficult at times especially getting my head around my financial situation and having to be there for not only my children but adjusting to being the only adult in the house again, having to be both good cop & bad cop well I'm sure many of you understand how that goes. But here is to my fresh start, I have been making a few pretties over the last week and finally enjoying my Kraftroom again at last.

Today I would like to share with you an Art Journal Page I made for the Paperbabe Stamps Blog Challenge I was late getting my project made as I am a little rusty, so this is a Midway Reminder to get your creative hands busy and get making for a chance to win some amazing Paperbabe Goodies!!!

Paperbabe Stamps Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project below for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20*.

The Challenge for this Fornight is a Picture Challenge where you take inspiration from a photo, either the theme or the colours from within it - the Beautiful Picture chosen for this Challenge is below...

I love the shades of Teals and Oranges in this Picture so I chose to use those colours within my

Journal page

I especially loved the brighter Teal so i picked this out for the hair of the girl I created using the Gorgeous Mixed Media Portrait Stencils & the Female Face Stamp Set.

I drew her first using the template which I traced around lightly using pencil, I then watercoloured the background using colours similar to those in the Challenge Picture. I then stamped the details of her face using the Female Face Stamp Set and the Matching Eye Templates (except her eyelashes I stamped those once I had finished painting her), I used Tumbled Glass & Broken China distress inks to stamp the colours of her eyes. I painted her skin, hair and lips using acrylic paints.

I then picked out some Beautiful Art Quotes & Sentiment Stamps (Best Version of You, Your Sparkle, Dont be afraid to Sparkle, Nothing can Dim, Take Time), from the Paperbabe Stamp range for most of the Journaling around her, I also added a few by hand.

This is the first painting I have done for quite a while that hasnt ended up in the bin, I actually enjoyed spending the time to bring her to life

Please do visit the Paperbabe Stamps Blog for more Inspiration from our Kim & the Design Team

Thanks you so much for visiting My Blog today, please leave me a comment so I can return the love 

Krafty Hugs xx

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog

in the linkup!

Challenge ends: 20th July 2018

Paperbabe Challenge - Anything Goes - Mayleedee Wonderland

Today Begin's another Fortnight's Challenge over at Paperbabe Stamps Team Blog
 
It's one of our favourite ones... Yay!

"Picture Inspiration"

so create anything that you've always wanted to try!

as always please include one paperbabe stamps product, HAVE FUN, and

You are welcome to combine with other challenges provided it's as similar to this as possible.

Paperbabe Stamps Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project below for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20*.

Here is My Design Team Example for the Challenge

I Created my Card using 'Mayleedee Wonderland' Red Rubber Stamp and the

'Take Time to make Your Soul Happy' Sentiment Red Rubber stamps both from the

Paperbabe Etsy Shop. She coloured Mayleedee using colours to co-ordinate

with the backing papers she choke and then paper pieced her apron

from one of the same backing papers.

A Close Up of Mayleedee Wonderland

So I hope I have inspired you a bit into joining in with the Challenge it really is a lot of fun and the prize is Amazing!!

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects in the linkup! over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog

Challenge ends: 30th Mar 2018

Thank you for joining in!

Paperbabe Blog Hop - Wonderland Mixed Media

Good morning!

If You have arrived HERE from
Terri
Then you are in the right place in the Hop line up but if you only just arrived here then please do find the Hop List in this post and start from the beginning so that you havent missed any of the Gorgeous Projects from the Design Team & Guests. You will then also be in with a chance of winning the Blog Hop Prize

I'm delighted today to announce our blog hop celebrating Paperbabe Stamps BRAND NEW Alice Collection Mixed media Release! 

These are already available in the shop...

 Five wonderful new Characters including two animal sets to add to your collection, join us for tons of inspiration, and a giveaway as well!

To add extra fun to our blog hop... we are offering up a prize! 

of the whole Alice collection to one lucky winner.

Here are the details:

• A winner will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the designer's blogs and the PaperbabeStamps Blog to win. 
• Just leave a comment on any of the designer's blogs listed below or the Paperbabe stamps blog for your chance to win! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight on Monday, 26th Feb to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paperbabe Stamps blog on Wednesday, 28th Feb to see if you are one of our lucky winners. 

Here's a sample from me...

I created my project into my A4 Art Journal using the Alice templates and the Mini Female Face stamp set. I then coloured her using a full set of Crayola pencils. The background I created using various Paperbabe stamps, watercolours, distress inks and handwritten quotes from my copy of Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland. My Copy was printed in 1920 and has all the orginal artwork and poetry by Lewis Carroll.

Today, we’ve enlisted some super talented designers to inspire you with ideas on how to use these beautiful new stamps and templates! Hop along for lots of fun and inspiration!

Here is the entire blog hop line-up so you don't miss a single stop...

Kim

Chris

Delphine

Terri

Kerrie

Keren

Tracey

Lozzy

Alysha

Beata

Paperbabe Stamps

Have fun on the HOP!

Thank You so much for visiting my Post Today on my Blog for the Paperbabe Stamps Blog Hop

Krafty Hugs xx

Paperbabe Challenge - Dots Theme - Dillon Hatter

Hiya and Welcome Back to my Blog

Today I am sharing with you my Design Team Make for this Fortnight's Paperbabe Challenge over on the Team Blog

The Theme this fortnight is Dots, you can interpret this in any way you choose and if you enter over on the Team Blog you could WIN up to £20* of Paperbabe Products

Here is a Picture of what I created for the Challenge using 'Dillon Hatter' as my main focal point

I used a page from an old dictionary with some interesting words on which I fixed down onto the fancy card blank using Decomache Glue, I then inked through a Dotty Template using 'Milled Lavendar' and 'Seedless Preserves' Distress Inks. I love this template because it has many different sizes of Dot so you can really build up details. 

I stamped 'Dillon Hatter' onto plain white cardstock and coloured him using coloured pencils, using colours to match into the spots on the small piece of cardstock I used as a layer over the background. I love how he turned out because 'The Hatter' always wears such outrageous outifts

I stamped some words from the 'Just Because' Sentiment set all separately because you can with Our Kim's clever designing skills so you can make up sentiments to your own needs as the words you want to use  you can't alway find in the normal sentiment sets around on the high street. I spelt out. 'Just BECAUSE you make me smile' and this card I've made to give to my Boyfriend.... We have only been together since early December but he does make me smile every day.

I stamped the 'Curiouser & Curiouser' sentiment from the 'Mayleedee in Wonderland set, just because I love it... I am a huge Alice fan and all the quoted from the book inspire me daily which is when when i changed my name by Deedpoll last month I had to add 'Alyce' in as my middle name 

I added more spots using the Tiny 'Dot Clusters' from the 'Birthday Wishes' set and black ink.

To finish I just had to fussy cut 'Dillon Hatter', matt&layer all the pieces, ink the edges and then piece it all together.

I really like how the card turned out and I hope my Boyfriend will like it too as I am giving it to him today when I go away with him for the Weekend... this is becoming a regular thing now that we stay at each others houses at weekends because I live in Harlow and He lives in Frinton-on-Sea, both are in Essex luckily but still a long old trek to see each other each week... and of course I prefer staying at his as its so close to the Sea. The sea air has always made me feel so much better from when I was really young to now.

Paperbabe Products used in my Project:

Dillon Hatter - Red Rubber Stamp Set

Mayleedee in Wonderland - Red Rubber Stamp Set

Just Because - Clear Stamp Sentiment Set

Birthday Wishes - Clear Stamp Sentiment Set

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects in the linkup! on the Team Blog

Challenge ends: 16th Feb 2018

Thank you for joining in!

Thanks You so much for visiting my Blog Today, please do come back again soon as I will be making again more often now that I am finally under the right treatment from the doctors so my enthusiasum for making things is returning!!! Best News Ever!

Krafty Hugs xx

Paperbabe Challenge 'Picture Inspiration' Ultra Violet - Design Team Post

Hiya and welcome to my Blog - It has been a long time since I have posted anything here as I have had a few medical issues but all is good now so I am back and what better way to come back than with a Brilliant Challenge with Paperbabe Stamps

This Fortnight the Challenge is a Picture Inspiration Challenge, you can create anything you like inspired by the pictures below or the colours, any project you like but please do link up on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog for your entry to be entered for a change to Win up to £20* of Paperbabe Products

So, it's time to create anything inspired by the picture... this years colour is ultra violet so 'Our Kim' thought it would be fun to use. Use the picture or colours as inspiration!
As always be sure you use at least one paperbabe stamps product in your creations, and HAVE FUN

Here are some pictures of my Design Team Project for the Challenge

I was inspired to create my Favourite Character from a very famous DC Comics Movie 'The Suicide Squad' - 'Harley Quinn' I just love her so much. I created her using Templates and Stamps all available from the Paperbabe Etsy Shop

Female Portrait Templates 'Head & Torso' & 'Wavy Bunches' and 'Female Face Stamps'. Her untra violet roses background was made using 2 of the roses from the rose border stamp set and the 'Your Sparkle has not gone unnoticed' quote stamp 

watercolours were used for the roses backgroundwhich I built up using an older set from Paperbabe Stamps - the Roses Border set of red rubber stamps

I wanted to show that you dont always need the most expensive pencils available to create a shaded hair look so i used a set of 12 double-ended (so 24 colours) of Crayola Pencils that i got cheaply in my local Supermarket 

I am really happy with how the project turned out

Here is another close up of her pencil coloured hair - I love how using a black pencil under the colours adds some depth and texture to her hair

We would all love to see your entries in the challenge - so go get those craft materials out and ready to play, have fun

The challenge post will go live on Paperbabestamps blog on

Friday 19th Jan at 10am(UK/gmt).

you will have 2 weeks to enter your Beautiful Projects over on the Paperbabe Challenge Blog

 http://paperbabestamps.blogspot.co.uk/

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects in the linkup!

Challenge ends: 2nd Feb 2018

Thank you for joining in!

Thanks you so much for visiting my Blog today

Krafty Hugs xx

Thanks for visiting today, I hope you had a wonderful Halloween 

Over at Paperbabe Stamps Blog we hope you can find a moment to join in with this fortnights challenge which is a lovely and fun...

"Anything Goes"

I know it's a favourite...

so create anything that you've always wanted to try!

Paperbabe Stamps Challenges are open to everyone...

As usual you are welcome to combine with other challenges.

Please be sure to link your project below for a chance to win Paperbabe Stamps Gift worth up to £20*

Here are a few pics of my Design Team Inspiration Project for this fortnight's challenge

*So, if you use Paperbabe Stamps in your projects you have the chance to win £20 of Paperbabe Stamps, otherwise the prize will be £10.

Please enter your fabulous projects over the Challenge Post!

Challenge ends: 17th November 2017

Thank you for joining in!