Cheerful Monday #9 - DIY Power Girl

A special welcome to new followers, you are all very much appreciated.

The second week of Vicki's Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge: Work is Good ... and another great image from KennyK ... power girl ready to get on with the home improvements

  

Kraftcard tag layered with free magazine paper from Papercraft Inspirations

image from KennyK coloured with Copics

embellished with adhesive stickers from Prima Marketing, 

ruler ribbon and chipboard screw top

For more inspiration pop over to Vicki's blog, hope you can join us. Petra.

Ken in Samba Mood & CraftBarn Extravaganza

One of my colleagues retired, she is now a lady of leisure - lucky her! - and his time on her hands for a little latin-american adventure: Ken with sombrero in Samba mood

 

It is all edible apart from the lovely rose in his hand and the sombrero. I could not find a suitable sombrero to buy so I crocheted it myself with cotton wool. The pattern for the sombrero was based on this one. It was great fun and I might make some more - such for the fun of it!

We (this is Lucy and I) had also great fun today at the Craft Barn Extravaganza for the opening of their new premises. It is really lovely, a very nice space with lots of lights. We also had the pleasure to meet some very talented crafters giving demos - Neil Walker and Helen Chilton just to name two of them. Helen was so kind to give us two of her creations and even signed them!

 

 Wishing you a lovely Sunday, Petra.

Little Miss Muffett Tea Party Day2 - Tutorial: Inky Background Using Embossing Folders

Welcome back to day 2 of the combined release of Simply B Stamps and Little Miss Muffett! For our second day of the release we wanted to share with you fabulous inspiration and tutorials and prizes on both store blogs ...

My project displayed on the LMM blog uses an inky background created with embossing folders. I would like to share with you how to create this inky background ... a technique I only recently discovered but I am completely hooked because it is so easy and rewarding  ... and there are so many possibilities. These are the materials I used for this tutorial: embossing folder, various distress and VersaMark/Magic inks, embossing powders

Step 1: 

Ink up your embossing folder, partially or in full (this depends on your project). Make sure that the area you want to have inked is well-covered with ink to get a nice inky imprint on your paper

Step 2:

Once the paper is embossed you can 'improve it' by applying more ink by skimming over the raised areas with any kind of ink

 

including VersaMark ink. If you use VersaMark ink, just sprinkle your embossing powder over the project and heat-emboss it (right-hand image)

 

And for the adventurous (lol) double-emboss all of your paper, use VersaMark ink to ink the embossing folder, sprinkle embossing powder over the project and heat-emboss it. And do the same for the raised areas

Using one of my inky backgrounds I created this project

ink embossed background (distress inks: victorian velvet, fired brick)

paper doily inked (distress ink: festive berries)

combined with the wonderful images from SBS and LMM coloured with colouring pencils and Copics and glittered with lots of golden Stickles 

Hope you will play with embossing folders and ink and enjoy it as much as I do. For even more amazing inspiration and How To's, hop over to the LMM blog! Petra.

Little Miss Muffett Tea Party Day1 - Mad Hatter Betty & Skull Jester

This is sooo exciting .... my first post as guest designer for Little Miss Muffett ..... and this month Simply B Stamps (SBS) and Little Miss Muffet Stamps (LMMS) have joined together to bring you a "Tea Party Release!" with lots of activities  .... and lots of fun images for you!! .... and it is a Mega blog hop ....

Now let's get to the details of the Release Blog Hop and the new challenge opening up today!
The challenge that starts today has an "Anything Goes" theme.

Anything Goes Challenge

Challenge is open from April 4th through April 16th

My challenge piece - and one location of the blog hop - is a Mad Hatter Hat  featuring Mad Hatter Betty from SBS and Skull Jester from LMM. They both know how to play the game (lol)

 

Mad Hatter hat created with Prima Marketing papers 

using this wonderful template from Seeing Things

the edges are glittered with black diamond stickles

 vintage playing cards with digital images 

coloured with Copics and colouring pencils

satin ribbon and two hat pins with beads

When you read all of this, you should have arrived safely at my blog coming from Donna and her so inspiring creation .... the next hop will take you to Audrey's blog with more projects to inspire you .....  and if you have lost your way, then there is always the opportunity to go back to SBS where it all starts today! ... and remember, there are two hidden prizes in the blog hop and all you have to do is leave a comment for a chance to win!

I hope you enjoy the blog hop and all the inspirational projects. Happy Hopping, Petra.

TagTuesday #3 - M for Memories

This week's letter for Tag Tuesday is: M ... M for Memories

inky background brushed, stencilled and stamped (Prima Marketing, Eline Pellinkhof)

with various distress inks (sugar spun, victorian velvet, fired brick, festive berries)

on textured watercolour paper

darling girls' stamp from Artistic Outpost stamped with archival ink

 

word stamped (Elzybells) on transparency paper 

layered on left-over papers from EchoPark and Prima Marketing 

attached with staples

embellishments are little punched flowers from left-over EchoPark paper

layered with blingy stars and pearls

have a lovely evening, Petra.

Linked to: Simon Says Stamp and Show
Love to Create Challenge
Artistic Outpost April Referral Programme

Photosession #5 - Spring Daisy

Still bitterly cold but the sun and some little Spring flowers are out and about ..... enjoy the sunshine, Petra.

 

Daisy - Bellis perennis

Cheerful Monday #8 - Dress for Success

Vicki's new challenge over at the Cheerful Stamp Pad is all about work: Work is Good.  

  

Various layered EchoPark patterned papers, some wonky machine stitching

the stylish business woman from KennyK coloured with Copics

good luck sentiment (Elzybelles) attached with a paperclip

and a little bling 

For more inspiration please do pop over to Vicki's blog and hopefully you can join us! Petra.