Vintage Christmas at Craft Room

We had some lovely entries in our Create your own background at Craft Room Challenge, and as always it will be hard for us to pick our winners.

For our next challenge we've gone with the nostalgic Vintage Christmas, I think you're going to have fun with this one.

Vintage Christmas inspired Card

close up of Vintage Christmas

Our sponsor is the gorgeous Crafty Individuals.

Have a great week everyone, and don't forget to check my lovely teamies creations!

Spring Growth

Spring truly has arrived here in New Zealand, so cool timing for Zoe's theme at Craft Room Challenge: Seasonal Colours.

I've done some more Art Journalling, though with more actual painting than stamping, there's also some stencilling on here.

Hard to see, but there's a whole heap of writing on the pages too.

Here are the colour palettes to work from :

And our sponsor is :

Rogue Redhead Designs

I've used some of Shar's stamps on my pages :-)

Have a great week, and I'll see you next time.

Masking Possibilities

I've layered the tag with Rogue Redhead Design stamps from Behind the Scenes (music background)  and This N That and I whole heap of acrylic paint and embossing. This is might be my all time fav colour combo!

I also sprayed some turquoise glimmer mist. I've then separately stamped a Milliner Miss and a Sentiment from This N That.
Then feeling a bit cheeky I've added a Masquerade mask and some doodling.

Have a great end of the week!

Elegant Misses

Elegant Miss

The elegant vintage set Milliner Misses is the current plate of the month at Rogue Redhead designs, it's on sale for a crazy US$5!!!!! just for the month of May.

Don't miss out :-)

Floriculture Country Style

Over at Rogue Redhead Design Stamps we are celebrating the Floriculture stamp set. For my card today I've gone all country :-) and I love how its turned out.
I hope you've all had a great Easter, and not eaten too much chocolate ;-)

Enjoy your weekend.

Steampunk woman

I had a lot of inky painty fun creating this tag, I've sprayed and painted the background using a honeycomb stencil. I've dry embossed the cogs and highlights them with gold acrylic paint. Also some tissue tape highlights.

I've then stamped the woman and the boot from Rogue Redhead Design Stamps Winter Women, and  the sentiment is from This N That.

She's a pretty versatile kind of girl, isn't she!

have a great end of week and weekend.

RRD Floriculture Blog Hop

It's time for our second Rogue Redhead Stamps Bog Hop, this time the DT are featuring the Floriculture Stamp set. This is such a lovely set, and is another of my favs. For this month it's on special!

We're also featuring tags, so heres my tag:

Floriculture Tag

I've used Distress inks and acrylic paint to create both my background and the colouring of the stamps, I wanted to create a tag that was soft and feminine.

Here are the links to my fellow DT :-)

so why not pop along and give them some love.

Here is your list of links to follow:

Sharon Briss - Ill Tempered Ink

Helene Huber - Lotsa Scrap from 2amscrapper

Krisha Ogle - Krisha's Keepsakes

Vicki Robertson - He"Artful" Validation of Vicki

Debi Ryan - My Bird Flying Free   You are Here :-)  

Trisha Too - Easily Amused, Hard to Offend...

Barbara Washington - Magic Delights

Sharon Briss - Rogue Redhead Designs blog

Cute Winter Inspired Card

Over at Rogue Redhead Designs Holiday Inspiration Club this month, we are creating our own backgrounds.

I've used the snowflakes, from the cute Beatrix Potter Winter stamp set, to create my background, and I added some glitter.

Isn't that mouse just the cutest?

Carnival Dreaming

Over at Rogue Redhead designs this month the  Plate of the month is Carnival Dreams and that set is definately one of my all time favs.

I've also used Mardi Gras colours of Gold, Purple and Green which are our colours of the month at our Rogue Stampers group on Facebook- you should check that out if you haven't already.

Close up of The Lovers

Enjoy your weekend, until next time.

Winter Women in Summer......

I'm still enjoying this new release from Rogue Redhead Designs- Winter Women. It is however, Summer here in new Zealand, and the last few days we are actually seeing the sun here in Upper Hutt, I reckon it must be nudging a glorious 30 degrees today- :-)

I've been recently just dancing creating some simpler vintage style cards. Today, I'm sharing this pretty in pink card made with the new Winter Women Stamps- just adore these so pretty.

Wherever you are have a good week.

Winter Women Release Blog Hop at Rogue Redhead

To celebrate the release of the new stamp plate- Winter Women -from Rogue Redhead Designs, we're having a bit of a blog hop.

Sarah from Winter Women

Here's the details:

Rogue Redhead Designs is proud to announce its 15th unmounted rubber stamp plate - Winter Women!  With vintage sophistication, Winter Women will wow you with its fabulous and fashionable focal images, elegant elements and smashing sentiments!  Our mini background is the perfect size to adorn an ATC or add interest to a graceful greeting card.  

Winter Women is available for its introductory price of US$12.00 (reg. $15.00) until March 8, 2014!  

In addition to the great price on this new plate, we also have several bargains in the Specials section of our website and some fabulous deals among our limited availability Singles.

Want to see some amazing samples?

Join the Rogue Crew in our Winter Women blog hop!

Here is your list of links to follow:

Sharon Briss - Ill Tempered Ink

Helene Huber - Lotsa Scrap from 2amscrapper

Krisha Ogle - Krisha's Keepsakes
Vicki Robertson - He"Artful" Validation of Vicki

Debi Ryan - My Bird Flying Free ( you are Here)

Trisha Too - Easily Amused, Hard to Offend...

Barbara Washington - Magic Delights

Sharon Briss - Rogue Redhead Designs blog 

I hope you enjoy being inspired by our creations :-) would love to hear from you what you reckon to this gorgeous new stamp set. 

Simple Snow Hugs

Over at Rogue Redhead Designs blog we are sharing with you Holiday ideas, so that you can get ahead ;-)

This month we're creating one layer Christmas cards, I've made 2 cards using the set Snow Hugs.

I've stamped the main image, and then using the small background stamp, created the background. If you want to join us - check all the details at Holiday Inspiration Club.

It's a bit strange for me creating snow cards, when we finally have some hot summer weather here in Wellington, New Zealand :-)
Where ever you ar win the world, have a great week.

Lovers Tag

Carnival Lovers tag

Here's my first Rogue Redhead Designs post of 2014, so what better way for me to start a Rogue year, with The Lovers from Carnival Dreams- regulars will know this is a fav of mine.

I already have Valentines Day on my mind :-)

I've gessoed the tag background and then applied a honeycomb template to the tag while the gesso is still wet and rubbed more gesso through- this gives the raised texture. I've then sponged and sprayed for the colour and layered the Lovers.

Have a great rest of the week.

Vintage Christmas at Craft Room

Vintage Christmas using Midge

Time is scary flying by.... I'm not at all ready for Christmas :-( so it was cool to have teamie mervi at Craft Room Challenge choose Vintage Christmas as her theme, cause that meant I actually made a Christmas card.

And also cool is that Rogue Redhead Designs who I am on the Dt for are the sponsors for our challenge.

Close up of Details

I hope you're still having crafting fun during this busy Christmas time :-) and I can't wait to see what you all come up with, and don't forget to check out the DT samples cause they are all stunners this week.

Vintage Grunge

Rogue Redhead Designs

For my card today I've combined a vintage look with a bit of grunge too, don't know about you but I love how Midge from the Rogue Redhead Designs Bits and Pieces stamp set has turned out.
I've used chalk pastels to just add a little colour and highlights to Midge, I sponged the background papers, and using a honeycomb stencil I've added some texture with gold acrylic paint.

I hope you're all having a great week.

Day Dream Canvas

I've used the cool Rogue Redhead Designs  Relish Reading and the Getting Grizzley set, to create this funky bright canvas. I was inspired by a feature in the Craft Stamper magazine.

Altered Canvas

I used acrylic paints, with masks and random painting and then added some background stamps, I once again had heaps of fun creating this.