Flourish and Grow ~ One Layer Card

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I hope you enjoyed a lovely Easter ♥ ours was shadowed by covid, but we're all clear now Yay! and I got the chance to get into my craft area for the new anything goes challenge on the blog today...

I created a one layer card, I used the Flourishing hair stamp set along with the wonderful 3/4 view left dinky, I added a few extra curls and shaded her facial features with a little black pencil.

I got to use my newest distress inks, salvaged patina, rustic wilderness, prize ribbon with hints of saltwater taffy too.

and used the Flourish and Grow and Dinky sugar skulls for extra interest in the background.

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Thank you so much for stopping by,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative

weekend ♥ HuGs Kim x

Jointed Paper Angel Art Doll ~ Paperbabe Stamps Challenge

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We have a new anything goes challenge on the blog today and I created a poseable angel doll.

 I started with the portrait face, and opted for the closed eye's face stamp, as it had a calm feel. Her face is complemented with the flowing Celestia Hair template. 

To complete the doll I've used the Jpad body, hands, and paper brad dies.

I drew her dress using her form to create the shape, and used the small cherry blossoms from the Flourishing hair stamp set to adorn the hems.

 The layered wings I've added, also with paper brads to help them pose, are stamped from the paperangel set four times to get the layers, but they would work just as well stamped once or twice.

I added a circle acetate with glitter for her halo, simply slot between the hair layers so it would be more of a 'glow' then looking like a hat, lol.

I've used my favourite copic markers to colour everything of her in, although there is a little hint of white pen and glitter too...

and I would love to enter my project to these wonderful challenges too...

Simon says Stamp ~ Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door ~ Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers ~ Anything Goes with dies

A perfect time to craft ~ Anything Goes

Paper fun day challenge ~ Anything Goes

Pink gem ~ Anything Goes

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We have a wonderful sale on all the products that I've used, yay!

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Thanks for popping by, I hope it inspired,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative day,

Keep safe too ♥ HuGs Kim x

Beauty Tile ~ Paperbabe Stamps Challenge

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We have a new anything goes challenge on the blog today

It's been an age since I had a go at shrink plastic.

I die cut a diamond shape from frosted shrink plastic then stamped the hair flourish, used the mask to stamp the cute face. I use the wrong ink for the hair the versafine clair bled quite a bit, but thankfully archival ink for the face seemed fine. I coloured her in coloured pencil.

I used a dot stencil for the background very simply drawn in pencil and coloured the dots in copic marker. I shrank the piece down, where the colours really got intense and added a hint of gold ink to the edges.

I added the tile onto the card front, coloured an mdf word blank with posca pen and cut some flowers from the wonderful vintage doll patterned paper.

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Thanks for popping by, I hope it inspired,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative day

Keep safe too ♥ HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #125 ~ 1st SKETCH

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We have a new challenge up on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today,

In fact this sketch was the first Paperbabe stamps challenge back in August 2014 and I thought it would be fun to revisit it...

I started by creating a watercolour panel based off the sketch using the 

Flourishing Hair stamp set, the Flourishing hair template

I then stamped along with the Female Face 3/4 view Left, the Dinky Hands set. I used just four Neocolor II pastels to colour her in, the Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Turquoise Blue and Lilac. 

I colour matched a few distress oxides to stamp more flourishes, dots, drops and extras, I think I would like to try this again and add lots of white doodles, just didn't quite have the time.

 The sentiment was from the Flourish and Grow set.

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Paperbabe Stamps Challenge ~ My Quote Right Now!

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Hope you're keeping well and safe...

We have a new challenge up on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today,

 I've created a one layer card/postcard using the flourishing hair stamp set along with the female face, the head and torso templates. 

I stamped the quote using the Fun Alphabet stamp set, this quote right now is to remind me that it's all going to be ok. I'm where I'm meant to be right now, whether that's with my home life, work life and the rest hahaha!

I think it keeps you in the 'moment'. 

She has been coloured using copics, I used distress oxides for the background to give a smokey photo effect.

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Thank you so much for stopping by

enjoy a wonderfully creative weekend

HuGs Kim x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #115 ~ Picture Inspiration

Good morning, 

What a crazy and scary start to spring, it's the unexpected last day for the kiddies to be at school, Dillon will be part of history where their gcse exams were cancelled, where every child had to actually get home education. I do hope you are all well and safe. We are amongst the healthy, I still plan on working when the time allows, and the post office is still running and my sister will still be working at the local supermarket. Plus it's mother's day this weekend too ♥.

But I'm here to share my project for our current challenge over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog...

It's not a great card, I feel she is a little lost looking, maybe I'm channelling that one, but I just wanted to play with the soft colours and felt watercolour would fit the effect.

I stamped a flourish from the flourishing hair for her hair, used the mask to stamp the profile face dinky in the same ink onto watercolour card, the rough textured kind.

I stamped a single hand along the curl so she could catch the stars. Using the colours from the picture as inspiration... I used wet in wet technique of dropping in colours, and used the same palette to colour her face and hand.

 To create my polka dot background, I used distress oxides onto kraft card, then finished off with a simply stamped sentiment.

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Thanks for stopping by,

Stay safe and enjoy some creative quarantine time,

HuGs Kim x