Miss Pinks Craft Spot

I'm definitely out of sorts at the moment, try as I might, I've not been getting any daytime inspiration, and then when I'm trying to go to sleep I suddenly get ideas..... not a good thing when I've started a new roster that has me at the office 2 hrs hours earlier than I used too before my return to work after my COVID19 work from home period. I've been looking at the Hippo Happiness set for days, I was focused on the butterflies... then last night I just started stamping, I wasn't sure about he card I started so I put it to one side and then things came together and this gorgeous card was created - I couldn't be happier! There are so many "hero's" in this card - the combination of Gorgeous Grape with Magenta Madness is just STUNNING layering with the Stitched Stars die cuts while a little fiddly looks amazing too, and lets not forget the cute little guy in the middle! Here's a close up o...

Hello and welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Su Mohr. You may be familiar with her blog Aromas and Art - what a wonderful combination!  As special guest we have the task of CASEing (Copy and Selectively Edit) one of Su's designs, I was all prepared and then I saw this wonderful creation and I changed my plans! The theme for Su's card was "All that Sparkes and Shines",... you had me at Sparkles! I immediately knew that the Magical Days stamp set form page 37 of the 2018 Occasions Catalogue would be broken out of it's packaging, along with lots of bling. I saw shimmering clouds and a glittering Unicorn on a Magical Day, and decided to make a shaker card - it's been ages since I made one of these, they are so much fun. I used the new Shimmery White Embossing paste (pg 13 Occasions catalogue) for my clouds, they turned out beautifully and embellished with Silver Baker's Twine (also pg 13). Stampin Blends were perfec...

Hello everyone! I'm back today with the monthly Ink it! Stamp it! Design Team blog  Our theme this month is our "favourite retiring bundle" and I can' wait to see what the rest of the team has to share with us. It's a bitter sweet project for me today, as I absolutely adore the Magical Day Bundle and are sooooo sad to see it go - my daughter has already told me I must keep it for her and it's not to go in my retired for sale box, and how cute is this, she has drawn up a number of designs for herself to create with this bundle as I was making this project! The Magical Day stamp set bundles with the coordinating Magical Mates Framelit dies , and when purchased as a bundle you save 10% . Today I'm featuring a rainbow Unicorn I decided that as I'm saying goodbye to this bundle, I may as well also feature retiring colours in my watercolour rainbow: Rose Red Peekaboo Peach Daffodil Delight (not retiring, all the yellows ar...

The sun is out the birds are chirping, and for the first time in almost a month we have heating in our house, oh what a beautiful day!  Even with the sun out, there is still a chill in the air, so with the heating on I organised my craft area and got ink to paper.... well, lots of ink, a rainbow of colours in fact! I used a sponge dauber to apply the ink to the stamp, starting with Lovely Lipstick at the top working my way down to Gorgeous Grape at the bottom.  I used the Stamparatus to apply one colour at a time, and then where needed touched up the blending to have a nice transition of colours. I also stamped the edge of the card base using the "swirly stamp" before layering the unicorn image, and repeated the process on the inside of the card too. Thanks for visiting today, I hope you enjoyed viewing my project. Stay tuned for more inspiration and tips this month. If you live in Australia and don't already have a demonstrator I...