Miss Pinks Craft Spot

I do like the slimline cards, they give a whole new level of creativity to your designs, so naturally when I saw the Slimline sketch challenge over  at Hand Stamped Sentiments  I had to join in. I haven't played with watercolours for quite some time, I'd even go as far to say that I'm out of practice, but I persisted, and eventually had a background that I was happy with for this sketch. I used Pacific Point, Gorgeous Grape and Melon Mambo for my "circle", however, the watercolour had a mind of its own, and also created the outer elements - that's my story and I'm sticking to it! As the I lifted the colurs off the paper they faded, but still had a nice intensity, so I paired with different cardstock, being Highland Heather and Magenta Madness, things were definitely coming together. For my focal point I used the gorgeous Butterfly Beauty die, I trimmed 2 of the butterflys off so it would fit the card, then for some magic - I decided to try add Metallic Mes...

Hello crafty peeps, it's been a while since I've posted.... I've struggled a little with the conversion to work from home with my 9 - 5 job so that we can social distance. Things need to be done a little different when you don't have face to face contact, learning how to use the Teams software, and whilst it's been relatively smooth, some things just take longer, and then there are the video calls - approx 5 hrs of them on Thursday, I'm exhausted by the end of the day! I got back into my craft room this morning and tried to get come creative mojo happening, I went to a "pink" theme, that always helps - I had lots of "thoughts" and ended up with several stamp sets on my desk, butterflies seemed to be calling me. I made the decsiion to use Beauty Abounds, here's my creation: I've decided I'm going to make cards to send to keep in touch with people while we are social distancing, so the "hello" sentiment was ...

It's seems ages since I have played along with any of my favourite challenge blogs - they are a great way to get inspiration if you feel you are lacking ideas, sometimes a glance at a sketch or colour theme just "hits the spot" and your mind kick started with creativity. I've combined 2 challenges in my project today, rainbows always put a smile on my face, and the offset panel in the sketch caught my eye too!                          I started with my rainbow of colour and created a watercolour background using watercolour paper, I was quite liberal with the amount of water I had on the paper, and once my colours had blended I blotted the excess with a paper towel. I heat embossed the sentiment, then die cut the butterfly on the top of the large dies, trimming the bottom, then added Frost White Shimmer Paint to the Heather Highland die cut, then slightly offset the Basic Black die cu...

Hello and welcome to this months All Star Blog Hop, we are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from all over the world who prepare 12 tutorials each month and collate them into one fabulous tutorial bundle. Here are the designers for February to July 2019. This month’s tutorials are, as always, amazing! They all feature current Stampin’ Up! product from the newly launched 2019-2020 Annual Catalogue. With a variety of techniques there is inspiration for all, and come with both metric and imperial (inches) measurements. So no matter where you live in the world, you can purchase the tutorial and will be able to create the projects. H ere's the sneak peeks this month: Today I'm sharing an adaptation of the emboss resist technique using the Bokeh stamps from the Beauty Abounds Stamp set. I've always wanted to give the Bokeh technique a try, but I know I would fuss way too much with the positioning of the dots so when I saw these bokeh stamps I thought ...