You're Turtley awesome!

Seriously, how adorable are these little turtles?? I am so in love with them. They are from the Kraftin' Kimmie Turtle-y awesome! stamp set. I have coloured them up with copics before adding them to the circles that I die cut using Heffy Doodle's stitched circle dies using foam pads. 

The sentiments come with the stamp set and I have heat embossed them with Wow's super fine white embossing powder. The blue strips I hand drew the stitching around them and then added the Stix2 foiled which is from the pick & mix pack. To do this I used some stix2 double sided tape to create the nice straight line. The gems and sequins are from the new Heffy Doodle Pixie Hollow Sparkles pack.  

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 Kraftin' Kimmie - Colour it up

All sorts - Summer

Critter Crazy - Anything Goes with a critter

2 sisters on the blog - Anything Goes

Challenge Up your life - Tropical

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Amy xx

Stretch your stamps and use them with shrink plastic

 

This is such a fun and easy thing to do which stretches your stamps. You can use them with shrink plastic to make little charms which can then be added to jewellery or key rings etc. 

To create this bracelet and earrings set I stamped the super cute Merwees set 2 onto some frosted shrink plastic using Kraftin' Kimmies hybrid ink. I let that dry before then using coloured pencils to colour the mermaids on the rough side of the shrink plastic.  

Next I cut them out making a round bit above them so I could make a hole to be able to attach a jump ring (a little circle of metal wire) to so it can be fixed onto my bracelet or whatever I want.

Lastly you need to use your heat gun to shrink the plastic down. The plastic will shrivel up and fold in all kinds of ways so it is good to have a stamping block to hand the flatten it with when it has stopped shrinking. Another tip to stop the little image flying away when you blast it with a heat gun use tweezers or a pokey tool to put through the hole and hold the image in one spot on your heat mat as you heat it. Then just put the jump ring through the hole and you are good to go.

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge - Anything Goes

Lil' patch of crafty friends - Anything Goes

Di's Digi Designs - Anything but a card

We love 2 create - Anything mixed media goes

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Amy xx

Turtley Awesome

  I have definitely been feeling the summer vibes with the hot weather we have had here in the UK. And I made this card using the turtles from the Turtley Awesome stamp set as they just scream summer to me :D I coloured them up with copics before putting them on with some foam pads to add a bit of dimension. 

For the back ground I did some tone on tone ink blending and then did some more inking through the She sells sea shells stencil to give another layer and pattern to the background. I used squeezed lemonade, mustard seed and Fossilised Amber distress oxide inks for my stencilling. I used an oval die to cut in the middle of  my inked panel to create a frame that I used for this card and I used the oval on another card that I shared last week :D 

The sentiment is from the Heffy Doodle Pebble sentiments and die cut with the pebble add on die. I stamped in Catherine Pooler Tiara ink. I also used the Tiara ink to colour the strip of card so it perfectly matches the card. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Pammies Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

Use Your Stuff - Summer Fun

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Amy xx

Summer feel

 I have definitely been feeling the summer vibes with the hot weather we have had here in the UK. And I made this card using the turtles from the Turtley Awesome stamp set as they just scream summer to me :D I coloured them up with copics before putting them on with some foam pads to add a bit of dimension. 

For the back ground I did some tone on tone ink blending and then did some more inking through the She sells sea shells stencil to give another layer and pattern to the background. I used squeezed lemonade, mustard seed and Fossilised Amber distress oxide inks for my stencilling. I used an oval die to cut in the middle of  my inked panel to create an oval for this card and leave me with a frame that I can use on another card. I sprayed the card blank with Salvaged Patina distress ink stain. The seniment is a combination of the sunshine die from Heffy Doodle and a hello stamp from Sweet Dixie's Big sentiments set.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Anything Goes

Challenge up your life - Beach Time

Unicorn Challenge - Summer Time

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Amy xx

Shake it up

 

For the first time in ages I have had a go at a shaker card. The shakers bits are all from random things I have picked up off of e-bay over the years and decided to put together for this. I ink blended a background with Blueprint sketch, broken china and tumbled glass distress oxide ink. Next I used the Kraftin' Kimmie snowflake kisses stamp set as well as some clear sparkly embossing powder to add a bit of sparkle and texture to it. To finish it off I used some gold embossing powder and a sentiment from the Holiday wishes stamp set to make the sentiment stand out from the background. 

I used some acetate that I cut to the same size as my inked panel and added foam tape all around the edges of it. Before sticking it to the inked panel I used an anti static bag on the inside of the acetate and then put my chosen shaker bits in it. To hide the tape I die cut a the scalloped slimline frame from the Falalala die set and stuck it on the front of the window.

The adorable mouse is from the Cool critters stamp set and coloured him up with copics before attaching him to the front. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' - Create your own background

Gem of a challenge - Anything goes

Dare2BArtzy - Christmas in July

Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas in July

The Holly and Ivy - Anything Christmas goes

Ike's World - Christmas in July

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Amy xx

A fairy new release

 

Seriously how adorable is this new release from the amazing Sweet November?? I am so in love with the super cute fairies from the Falling into fairwees clear stamp set. I coloured this cutie up with copics and then put her on an action wobble to pop her up from the card and give her some movement :D

The sentiment is from the Time for tea Speech bubbles stamp set and I stamped it in grey Catherine pooler ink before using the coordinating speech bubble dies to cut it out. The stencil I used for the back ground is also from time for tea designs and has the best name ever....tropic like it's hot. I inked through the stencil using the amazing super soft Time for tea beautiful blender brushes and kraftin' kimmie hybrid inks. 

To finish it off I added a variety of nuvo drops to add some sparkle, shine and texture :D

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes 

The happy craft challenge - Anything goes 

Love to craft - Anything goes

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Amy xx

New release and give away time!

 It is time for another super cute clear stamp release from the amazing Sweet November Stamps! They have brought out 2 stamp sets again. One is a collection of witches for halloween and the other some fairies that are perfect for autumn. 

Seriously how cute are these???

I have been lucky enough to get an extra set of the witches so I am doing a giveaway over on my instagram @craftypurplefrog so be sure to check it out. The giveaway is open worldwide so everyone can join in.

Here are some cards I have made with the adorable witch set :D

For this first card I used the brilliant bats and moons stencil from Kraftin' Kimmie to emboss the orange card. I think it gives it a great touch of texture.

I used another Kraftin' Kimmie stencil for this second card called Ghoulish ghosts and inked through it with goblin green and charming chartreuse inks.

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes

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Amy xx

My first Christmas card of the year

I can't really believe I have made a Christmas card already and in this heat! This Kraftin' Kimmie Fox really spoke to me though. My Nan's maiden name was Fox so they are kinda a special animal for me :)

This little dude is from the Furry Holiday Wishes stamp set and the sentiment comes from the same set. I coloured him up with the following copic markers:

Fur:YR27, YR68, YR15 + E41 on tip of tail/ under chin

In ears: YR61

Jumper: G7, G14, YG03

Shorts: C9, C7, C3

Candy cane: R59, R29 + B00, B000

I wanted the fox to be the standout of this card so kept the background quite simple. I used the starfall stencil from Heffy Doodle with some Golden Era Nuvo Glacier paste on some dark blue card stock then tore a piece of white card to give a sort of snow mound for him to be standing on. For a little bit of extra sparkle and dimension I put in a few sequins.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

The Holly and the ivy - Anything Christmas goes

A place to start - Make your own background

Artsy stamper - It's a guy thing

Path of positivity - Furry or feathery friends

Fab n' Funky - Christmas

The paper Girls - All about boys

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Amy xx

Bookworm

Other than crafting I don't think there is anything else I would rather get lost in than a book. I love the way you can be transported to another place. What are your favorite books? I always like recommendations so hit me with them :) 

I think my favorites are  Philip Pullmans "Dark Materials" trilogy. I can not tell you how excited I am that the BBC is doing an adaption of them on at the moment. It is so much better than the film.

Anyway onto my card. I made this one at the Crafty Purple Frog getaway and we were lucky enough to have Kraftin'  Kimmie and Trimcraft donate our little group some very yummy goodies to use over the week. 

This stamp set is called "Girl Power" you get two great characters in the set as well as some fitting sentiments. I have made something with the other girl as well so watch this space :) 

I coloured my bookworm with the following tri-blend markers:

Skin: Fair Skin Blend

Hair: Ice Blue Blend

Jumper, glasses and trousers: Ice Grey Shades

Shoes and top: Bright Pink Shades

Bag: Dull Green Blend and Light Green Blend

Book: Red Brown Blend

Ground: Red Brown Blend

The paper is from First Edition and was part of some samples that Trimcraft kindly sent us. The paper are called wonderlust and this one is foiled and stunning. As normal for me to finish the card I added some nuvo drops to add a bit of dimension and texture.  

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Kraftin' Kimme - Anything Goes