Shaker mermaid treasure mix

If you have not seen yet Sweet November Stamps have come out with some new shaker/ sequin mixes! This is one of them called Mermaid treasure mix. and as you can see, as well as the gorgeous sequins there are also loads of adorable little tiny mermaids in it!

To make this card I used the brilliant Sweet November Stamps digi stamp called Mutiny highseas. For the background I used a clear stamp from the Guppies stamp set.

I used the following copics to colour her and the background:

Skin: E33, E11,E00

Hair: Y28, Y26, Y13

Tail and red feather: R89,R37, R35

Top and hat: W9, W7, W5, Y08

Bottle: G28, G14, E39 (cork E84)

Water: BG01,BG000,B02,B00

Sand: E43, E42

Seaweed:G28,G09,YG03

Urchin: R24,R22,R21

Fish and starfish: YR16, Y18

Coral:E71, E70

For the actual shaker frame I used Heffy Doodle stitched square dies and extra thick acetate. Then foam tape to give the gap between the coloured in back ground and the acetate window. 

The sentiment is from another of the Sweet November Stamps clear stamp sets called Lynn.

I am entering this card for the following challenges: 

A place to start - Anything Goes

Crafting happiness - Anything Goes

Jan's digi stamps - Anything Goes

Make My Monday - Summer

Lil' patch of crafty friends - Anything Goes

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Huge hugs

Amy xx

I'd love to sea you again

I can not see a lobster without thinking of the Friends TV show..."You're her lobster" anyone else do the same?

I just love this super cute little stamp set from Create a smile called Sending Sunshine. I just couldn't resist pairing him with the stitched circle dies from Heffy Doodle and making the card into a shaker card using the Heffy Doodle foam sheets along with the thick acetate. I could die cut the same circle out of the foam and the acetate so that there are no little gaps in the foam making my shaker super secure.

For my shaker elements I used the new sparkle mix from Heffy Doodle called Covesea. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 Beyond the Blue - Glitter and sequins

Colour crazy challenge - Anything coloured goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

I love your heART

 

I am so excited to be taking part in the Heffy Doodle Fan hop 2021 over on Instagram.

There are so many incredible creations from all the people taking part so if you haven't seen them you can join the hop from the very lovely @jasmincraftymakes 

For my card I have used some of the new Heffy Doodles release. The pencil heart is a die set and I used it to cut both the pencils and the window in the front of the card. I coloured the pencils with copics as shown in the picture below.

I used the Pandtastic pandas stamps to stamp all over the front of my card blank and left them uncoloured so that the heart stands out more. The sentiment is also from this stamp set and I stamped it onto black card before embossing it with white Wow! superfine embossing powder. I couldn't resist stamping 2 of those little pandas so that they could be both on the inside and outside of the card. I had to trim one of his legs just slightly so that they lined up but I don't think you can tell :D

I hope you are having a good day and thank you so much for taking the time to look at my make :D

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Huge hugs

Amy xx

Scene building

This is my next creation for the Altenew Educator Certification Program. This time I have taken inspiration from the Seasonal Scene Building class. This is card I was inspired by the lesson on shaker cards and how they can enhance a scene. I started by masking around the edges of a card blank and then doing some ink blending with 3 shades of blue Altenew crisp dye ink (Dew drops, Aqualicious and Teal cave). 

I don't know about you but shaker cards always make me smile so I wanted a happy sentiment I used a sentiment from the Build - a - flower: Poppy stamp set. I used the fact it is a clear stamp and so flexible to curve the sentiment so it echo's the shape of the flower. I then stamped it straight onto the ink blending I had done.

Next I made a frame using some stitched rectangle dies and stuck it to a piece of acetate. I trimmed the acetate to fit the frame before using two layers of foam tape  to pop the frame up away from the card and give space for the glass seed beads and Wow! Embossing earth sparkles glitter that I wanted to use.

To finish it off and make my scene I wanted to have a flower coming up at the front as if it was growing onto the card. I did something a bit different with this one and mixed up my sets so that the flower had a long stem and I felt a nice shape in the corner. So the stem and leaves are from the Build-a-Flower: Poppy set while the flower itself is from the Build-a-Flower: Hawaiian Coral set. The stem and leaves I left just stamped in the Altenew crisp black ink while for the flower I used just two more colours so that it pops from the blue and they are Pinkalicious and Fresh Lemon.

I hope you are all having a great week and staying safe.

 I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Mod squad - Flowers

Paper funday - Spring has sprung

Shopping our stash - Plant life

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Huge hugs

Amy xx

Drop it like it's cold

 

 I am so excited to announce this new release from the amazing Sweet November. Amy Young is so clever with her art and I feel very lucky to be the only other store to stock her stamps. This release is another 2 stamps sets that have a lot of fun snow people dancing and some little critter friends with them. There is also a digi sentiment set to go with them and while stocks last if you buy both stamp sets from the Crafty Purple Frog store I will send you the sentiment set for free!

This release could not have been better timed for me as yesterday we had a load of snow here and I made my own snowman in one of the fields :D

 

I am sure you aren't here for a weather update though so here is my first card that I have to show you for these sets. I used the Drop it like it's cold stamp set and one of the digi sentiments. Of course the snowman had to have an action wobble so he can actually twerk. 

 

I coloured him with Spectrum noir tri-blends and inked up the ground with some Distress ink. For the background I used one of the new Time For Tea Designs stencils called Nordic Star with some more Distress ink and inked through the stencil with the Time For Tea Designs beautiful blender brushes. To finish it off I have added some sparkle with double sided tape and then poured some Wow! Hammerhead shark earth glitter on to the tape. This glitter is brilliant as it is environmentally friendly! It is made from a plant rather than plastic.

If you like to craft and like what is for offer in the Crafty Purple Frog Shop then why not join the new FB page? I have just set it up and would love to make a nice community from around the world of crafters helping, inspiring and supporting each other. If you want to join us please follow THIS LINK. 

I hope you are all keeping warm and safe. I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything colouring goes

Creative Fingers - Anything goes 

Patties creations - Anything goes

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Bastel-traum - An interactive card

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes

Le Annes world 101 - Anything goes

Love to craft - Anything goes

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Huge hugs

Amy xx

Winter Fun

 

 Happy bank holiday to you all :D 

I hope you have had a lovely crafty Christmas so far. It is nearly time for us all to move out of 2020 and I can't wait to get the new year started. What are you all hoping to do more of in 2021? 

I want to be able to do more crafting and making time for me. Fingers crossed it works. 

On to my cards for today and I love this stamp set so much I couldn't resist doing a couple of cards with it. This is Life's Ups and Downs stamp set and you can make this adorable little interactive seesaw! It is so easy to do all you need is a brad/ split pin to make it work :)

That is all from me today. I hope you all have a great new year and I will see you in 2021 :D

You can still get 10% off any order at Time For Tea Designs by using my code T4TAMY10

Huge hugs

Amy xx

This new Time For Tea Designs release is snow much fun!

Happy Saturday everyone! Wow! What a week this has been. Have you enjoyed seeing all the new release?? What are your favorites? And who got their orders in yesterday? I am so excited to see what you all create :D

Lets be honest, if you have seen all the new items you would know that I was never going to be able to resist these cute little penguins for long and they work so well with the new display card die I had to team them up :) I started by die cutting the card base and then decided which layers I wanted to use with it. I love that this looks so 3D but folds flat to fit perfectly in a C6 (6"x 4") envelope. I used a beautiful blender brush and a mix of blue print sketch, mermaid lagoon and tumbled glass distress oxides to do the sky in the background and add some depth to the snow.

I coloured all my little penguins and the up with copic markers and then stamped out coloured up some of the little trees from the winter background stamp set to go with them. The sentiments are from the new sentiment strip sets. To just finish it off I added some nuvo drops around which add some glitter and texture to it.

 

 I hope this has made you smile and that you all have a great weekend. Don't forget if you want to grab these little guys or anything else from the Time for Tea Designs store you can use my code T4TAMY10 to get 10% off your order.

 

Huge hugs

 

Amy xx 

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges: 

Coulour crazy challenge - Anything colouring goes

Crafty catz - Anything goes with a twist of outdoor pursuits

Creative fingers - Anything goes

Pattie's creations - Anything goes

Winter Wonderland - Festive things with wings

Time for Tea Designs Sneak Peek day 1

This is Amy back again for the second time this week to share my make using some of the amazing new November release from Time For Tea Designs. First off just check out this adorable little door! Isn't it so cute! Its called open the door. I knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted to add a little brad as the door handle. I used the brick wall stencil with a beautiful blender brush to add some tea dye and vintage photo distress oxide ink to give the bricks a two toned effect.

Then what is more perfect to be the other side of the door than this caroling mouse from the new caroling critters stamp set. You might also notice a couple of other little things like the paper and some sentiment strips that you will see more of later in the week ;) 

There is just so much to show you this week so I hope you are ready for it and don't forget to watch out for the FB lives with the lovely Jo as well so you can see even more of each of the new products. They will all be available from Friday and if you like a bit of a bargain don't forget you can use my code T4TAMY10 to get 10% off your order at the Time For Tea Designs store.

Thank you for reading this and check out the FB page to enjoy the rest of the sneak peeks :)

Huge Hugs 

Amy xx

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 2 Crafty critter crazies - Anything goes

A Bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes 

Crafty Animals - Anything goes (must include an animal) 

Time for some Pandamonium!

 I am so so so excited this is my first project as DT for Time For Tea Designs so please be kind :) I felt like we all needed something bright and happy with everything that is going on so what better than a panda with googly eye?? OK so I went one better and it's not only a panda with googly eyes its also on an action wobble!! I couldn't resist. 

This adorable set of stamps are called Pandamonium Party and in my personal opinion they wont fail to make people smile. I added a tiny bit of shade around their white bits with a light grey triblend marker, Coloured the hat and the balloons with more triblend markers before adding some sparkle with a crafters companion sparkle pen. To make the balloons look shiny with some glossy accents. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all and then added the hats and balloons before fixing on their googly eyes. 

 For the background I used my time for tea beautiful blender brushes and some distress oxide inks to make this colourful background (I used Wilted Violet, worn lipstick and antique linen) before then adding sparkle using some pineapple delight glacier paste with the starry sky stencil

The squares behind them I cut using the quilted square nesting dies. For the solid square I wanted to add some texture so embossed it using another time for tea stencil called say cheese so the black has some slightly raised spots on it. The sentiment is from the stamp set and the rectangle that it i stamped on is from the coordinating dies. I heat embossed it in white embossing powder to stand out and match with the black and white of the pandas.

 I hope this has given you all a little smile and that you are all staying safe and well.

Huge Hugs

Amy xx

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 2 Crafty critter crazies - Anything goes

A Bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes 

Crafty Animals - Anything goes (must include an animal)