Fashionista Midge

Fashionista Midge

I think Midge from the Rogue Redhead Designs stamp set Bits and Pieces  might be a favorite  of all of ours, here she is in Sepia. Looking lovely and vintage.

I've embossed her on glossy cardstock with a copper embossing powder and then coloured her in with Tea Dye and Walnut Stain Distress inks, with just a hint of Victorian Velvet.

I've gone over the top with my bow and some pearl trim and pretty roses.

A true Fashionista.

Come and join the Rebel Fashionista Challenge this month.

Digital for Gecko Galz

8 x 8 Digital Creation

Here's my August creation for Gecko Galz, all digital, The August collage sheets and stamp sets are just lovely this month, pop along and check them out :-)

Details:

All Gecko Galz, except the pearls and tea roses which are Stampin' Up! created in MDS.

Baby Boy Blue

Like many of you I was pleased to hear of the safe arrival of Baby Cambridge :-)  Rogue Redhead Designs  Getting Grizzly is such a cute stamp set, perfect for a baby card. Here's one of the cuties in blue. I've stamped him with Archival Black ink on glossy cardstock and then coloured him with Promarkers. I then layered some patterned paper, ribbon and lace and finished it off with some heart brads.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Kraft CAS

I have a Kraft CAS card for you this evening, I love the simple elegance of stamping and colouring straight onto Kraft.

I just love this now retired set from Stampin' Up!  beautiful images to colour. To colour I've used Prismacolor Pencils to give real depth of colour.

I stamped another image from the set on the inside of the card but forgot to take a photo. The sentiment is from the Curly Cute set also by Stampin' Up!

I'd like to enter this over at Allsorts Challenge, where they want to see some Kraft :-)

Craft Room challenge- Heat Embossing

We had some just beautiful entries for Julia's Vintage Stamping challenge, as always you didn't fail to disappoint.

Today's the start of a new challenge chosen by the lovely Suzanne, this is what Suzanne has to say about her chosen challenge:

"I selected my theme based on the past couple of summers we have had here in the UK - which have been far from good.  I thought we may do with a bit of "heat" although if we are at present experiencing a heatwave then the theme may prove a little unpopular as the last thing we will all want is to get those heat guns out ...whoops!  However I would love to see your heat embossing on your crafty projects......"

"HEAT EMBOSSING"

We are thrilled to have one of our regular supporters sponsor this challenge; - Stamp Addicts.

Celebrate Card

I have embossed the Ferris wheel and sentiment onto Glossy cardstock, and then using Tattered Angels Chalk based spray and Dylusions Spray I've created the sky and fireworks, nice and easy but effective :-)

I'm going to enter my card over at the renamed Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge- now the Monday Challenge the theme is Celebration.

We are currently in the midst of a swarm of Earthquakes here in Wellington, New Zealand, which has been a little nerve wracking at times :(  We are all safe but our house has some damage to it's chimney. Here's a link showing the earthquakes over a period of 48 hours that have been rattling us since friday morning there have been many more since then.

So wishing you all a Safe and Happy week.

Gecko Galz Cards For a Cause

For the whole month of July, the Design Team are sharing their cards for a cause on the Gecko Galz website. This is what Leanne has to say about Cards for a Cause:


Gecko Galz is Giving back and we invite you to come 
discover all the amazing designs our design team 
has come up with to raise awareness to their favorite 
causes. When You purchase the products from your 
favorite designs this month 10% of the money will go 
towards their charity. So help Gecko Galz Give Back! 
Just press the image below to take you to the project 
and all the create for a cause projects!


Here are my cards :

Cards For a Cause 1

Cards For a Cause 2

My chosen cause is The Sisterhood, you might have seen other posts about The Sisterhood, it's a local New Zealand  cause, where Women support women in any way they can. Basically, letting women in need know that they are loved and not alone.

These cards are on their way to The Sisterhood headquarters where they will be sent out to women as needed :-)

BIG, a very delayed week 5

I'm absolutely Thrilled to have finally finished week 5 of Fearless BIG painting. I started the Fearless painting adventure many many weeks ago. in a pattern I'm determined to beat this time, as the finish approached I slowed down and seemed unable to move through week 5.

Week 5 was about painting How it Feels to be You, that was fine, and to paint the biggest we'd ever painted, that was fine too (so I thought). So I went BIG and Juicy- 4 times the size I'd been painting up till then. I started this painting in week 5.......Once I started I actually felt completely overwhelmed. I couldn't get the flow of paint quick enough on the paper. The paper seemed to demand alot of paint and the size, I was having to crawl all over the painting. I had the figure the owl and most of the background done, but the fear gremlin didn't like it.... not good enough, not this not that.
And so a big pause happened, I'd feel guilty every time I walked past the folded paper, that always seemed to be in the way! And feeling guilty being part of the Fearless Tribe, like a fraud.
Then today the urge to paint was so strong, that I just squeezed the paint on the palate and went for it.

And finally it's finished and I love it! I went over some of the previous painted bits, to brighten and add depth.

Hard to show the painting in it's fullness, here are some more:

The Owl

Red Lotus and Desert

Face

I tried not to analyse but just paint- but as I got towards the end I realised that the elements are represented as well as Day and Night, Light and Dark.

Finally to give you an idea of the size, here's a photo of the face with a pen.

Size guide, see the pen

I feel inspired now to keep going and finish BIG, with week 6 (ish) next week.

Thanks for visiting today, have a great week.