Bon voyage

Hello.

Ive finally got round to inking up the Bon voyage set from Lawn fawn.

This card was very simple to make but was fun too.

Ive just coloured the outline of there clouds with a blue pro marker.

The planes were stamped coloured cut out and the stuck on using foam pads to raise them up.
Thanks for looking.

The Kindness Of Zinnias

A bunch of flowers for you all today and this is my DT make for Make The Day Special. The flowers are from the Flourishes range of beautiful stamps these ones are the Zinnia Kit. 

I've fallen in love with colouring with greys, you can get all sorts of effects with greys, they are so useful. I used a bit of watercolouring with the ZIG Art and Graphic Twin Pens to colour
this make.

The pop of yellow really jumps at you doesn't it?

The lovely sentiment is also from the Flourishes Zinnia kit.

Hope you have a day touched with kindness.

Kim

Create Beauty

I bought myself an A5 sketchbook the other day having seen some of the fabulous art journalling around and wanting to have a go at some of the techniques.
I've decided to just use my book as a "play book" and just fill the pages with whatever I feel like at the time LOL!
This first page I made using a mix of watercolour crayons, watercolour pencils, stamping and pens.

The "Create Beauty" stamp from Unity's Just Be You set was stamped using Stazon on watercolour paper and then coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils. I also used the "make something" stamp from Unity's Better Somewhere Today set stamped straight on the page along with the birds from Unity's Brave Girl set.

It may not be perfect but I had fun LOL!!

Materials used:

watercolour pad

Reeves watercolour crayons, Derwent Inktense pencils, Glimmer Mists,

Unity stamps (as above)

black Versafine ink, black Stazon ink, Versamagic ink

sequin waste

black and white gel pens.

Type it.....

Ah. The weekend is here. Bliss.

I've been playing around with my new Paper Smooches 'Alphadot' set some more and seeing which of my existing stamp sets it works with. I think Lawn Fawn's 'Just My Type' is a perfect match. Between the two sets you could pretty much come up with a sentiment for any occasion: 

I coloured the typewriter image with promarkers, stamped the sentiment, embossed, cut out and attached to the card. 

 Have a great weekend, 

Special friend

Hello.
My card for today uses the Flourishes strawberry set. I stamped straight onto my card blank and used watercolour pencils to colour. My first time using these pencils to colour so I think a but if practise is needed.

Clinging To Memories Of Summer

Hello! Hello! I have no idea what kind of weather you're all experiencing at the moment, but I've been surrounded by grey, miserable rainclouds for the last few days - and I must apologise because they're seriously affecting my ability to take a good photograph of my crafty makes!



I've been clinging to my memories of summer for as long as possible by using Admit One from Lawn Fawn's Summer Release. Though if you're hankering for some autumnal projects, may I suggest that you take a peek at the rather delicious Autumn Release now available?



My sentiment is created using the super cute ticket stamp (which is set to be an all time favourite) and I've also used two of the sentiment stamps that came with the set. It's fairly easy to mask of individual words with a couple of Post-It-Notes and you end up with a whole new sentiment!

Here's a picture of the set, so you can see the original sentiments -

To add a little bit of 'pop' to the card, I've also added the larger of the two pinwheel stamps that come with the set, colouring it with Pro-Markers to co-ordinate with the spray ink on my card base.

Et voila!

Look Back In {Ippity} - Last Chance Sale

How about a 'Look Back Tuesday' post?

The reason why I thought I would do a little skip and hop down memory lane is that there is an

{Ippity} Stamp Sale

going on over at the {Ippity} Inspiration Blog and I know this is the Make The Day Special blog but I thought that stamp connoisseurs like yourselves would want to know about this last chance to get gorgeous stamps sale! Emily is one of the only distributor of {Ippity} in the UK and she is moving on and will not be stocking this range any more. 

So I thought I would show some makes where I've included some {Ippity} stamps just to remind you of the awesomeness of these stamps LOL!

So get a cuppa and a biccy and enjoy!

First up is this card from August 2010 using the {Ippity} What Matters Most Kit

Ooo then what about these mushrooms from one of the first stamp sets I got from Emily? They are from the {Ippity} Because Of You kit and I used them on an Alice In Wonderland Altered page in April 2010.

Then we have the fabulous bird on the fence stamp from the {Ippity} Totally Happy kit used on this card from September 2010.

I always did love the stamps from the {Ippity} Moon Beams and Heart Strings Kit, you can see the stars in this make from March 2010.

Then there was this card from March 2011 which uses the wonderful {Ippity} Gurnsey Gingham stamp as a back drop to the Unity Suzi Blu You Are Loved (not {Ippity} I'm afraid but still a must have!

This {Ippity} Gurnsey Gingham stamp is now £2.75 I mean come on! Think of the creative possibilities! I'm a bit of a Gingham junky!

Then there were the cute Fishys from {Ippity} Fishy Philosophy used here in March 2010.

The next to show is another April 2010 make and used the {Ippity} Simply Home kit with the {Ippity} Moon Beams and Heart Strings kit.

Ok one last one, I've got a bit carried away but just thought I would show how versatile these stamps can be with this Christmas make from 2010 using the {Ippity} Totally Happy kit which was a Summer release but I've given it a Winter spin with some embossing powder and turned the bird into a Robin.

Don't forget to check out the stamps yourself and get them whilst you still can, all of the releases are listed by release date in the sidebar on the {Ippity} Inspiration blog.

Catch you next week

Kim