Supergirl Flies!

Hi there and Happy Good Friday ! Hope you are all good and for those of us in the UK I hope you have a great long weekend.

Today I have a really fun card to share with you today using lots of lovely Mama Elephant goodies ….. and some movement too.



The galaxy sky I created with Kuretake Gansai Watercolours and added this behind a polaroid die cut from kraft cardstock using Mama Elephant ‘Polaroid Fun Creative Cuts’. The superhero girl is from Mama Elephant ‘Tiny Heros’   , I coloured her and fussy cut her out and added her to the end of a strip of acetate I attached the strip of acetate to the kraft frame using a split pin under the stamped shield so that the supergirl would fly across the sky. The card layers were cut using Mama Elephant 'Basic Die Set'.

For a little clip of the movement go to my blog

I would really love to know what you think of my card!

I hope you have a beautiful day and I will see you again soon.

Hugs Lydia xxx


     

Photo-bombing a Photo bomb!

I know I promised a video showing all the different uses for our new foils, but we had so much new product in store on Thursday night that I have spent the whole weekend packing your orders so the video will have to wait as they do take a while to put together (especially when you're working out how to do them as you go!)

So for today I thought I'd show you an idea I had for the new Photo bomb stamp set from Mama Elephant.   This is a great stamp set and I can see it being used for so many different types of cards - the "from all of us" is a really useful sentiment too.  But my first make with it, I saw something that meant with a little effort you can take it one step further and photo bomb the photo bomb - let me show you what I saw....

Firstly I stamped the large image onto 300gsm cardstock - not brilliant for blending but I managed t get some OK colouring with copics.  I framed it with the polaroid fun die that has frames to fit all the images in this set and turns them into instant old style photos.

What I saw though was the little girl in the middle was kinda photo bombing her own shot and with a little effort I thought we could make her "pop" right out of the photo....

So I did a little selective inking - well actually I inked up the stamp as selectively as I could and then used a damp cotton but to wipe off all the ink below the girl I wanted to pick out.  I did this on the 300 gsm card again for strength for the pop out.  What you have then though is a little girl with two arms and one hand but its a very easy shape to draw the left hand freestyle with a copic liner and then use the pen to extend her dress too.  I coloured her and cut her out and left a long tab of card in the middle of the dress to be the mechanism to have her pop.   The little arrow that comes in the polaroid die helps point out what needs to be done.  To put it together you just need to carefully cut around the hairline of the 3 characters below her with a craft knife and then insert the tab through the slit you made making sure the extra hand is hidden behind the blond boys head.

For the sentiments I used the lovely new smile die from Mama Elephant and then for an extra surprise used the little "Hi!" from the stamp set on the girls dress making sure to stamp it low enough that it's hidden before she pops out.

NEWS FROM THE STORE:

•  We have received new releases and restocks from Mama Elephant and Altenew this week.  Quite a few of the Altenew items are already showing as out of stock - many of those were due to the fact that we didn't actually receive any!   Despite having our order in since late January, we have been having HUGE problems getting hold of everything we wanted so I finally gave up waiting and just grabbed what I could.  I will try again for the items we missed when I see they have them in stock themselves.
•  We have some restocks from Waffle Flower - including the very popular Pattern Play which has been out of stock since Jennifer McGuire featured it on her blog last month.  We also got their new release so as soon as it goes live in mid-April you can grab it here too :-)
• The latest release from Neat and Tangled will be in store on Monday.
• We will be getting the new release from Reverse Confetti in the next week or so.
• Paper Smooches latest release and massive die restocks will be here in early April.
• SugarPea Designs have also been having a few issues with their suppliers but I hope that they will finally ship their last release to us in a week or so.  We are hoping to iron out supply issues from their May release onwards so we can get it in store quicker for you!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend - see you next week!
Tara

Bright Blooms

 

How great has the colouring week been so far?!?!? I have learnt some good tips from the lovely ladies that I may give a go at the weekend.

I decided to colour some big blooms for my card this week....

I have used the fabulous sunflowers from Lawn Fawn 'Our Friendship Grows' . These flowers are so fun to colour up! For the petals I used YR04 and flicked out from the inside , I then went over these flicked lines with Y17 taking this colour further into the petal. I then went over the whole petal with Y11 to blend out the colours more.
For the centre I used E37 around the edge and then E35 all over the circle to blend.
TIP: If wanting to add spots and dots wait a little while for the colouring you have done to become dry... this way the colours will not blend as much so the spots will be visible.

 To finish the card I used the large frame from Mama Elephant  'Polaroid Fun Creative Cuts' and for the sentiment I used Lawn Fawn 'Violet's ABCs'.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx

   

Getting snappy

My favourite thing from the recent Mama Elephant release was the new polaroid die set as it reminded me of a Christmas gift I loved - a camera that took mini instant photos (you know the way we did before digi!) you could turn into labels.   So for my project today I'm replicating that look with the smaller of the dies in the set.

I die cut 3 frames and then drew around one lightly on some copic colouring card before stamping 3 of the characters from Mama Elephant's In My Heart set - I deliberately picked images that didn't quite fit and stamped them at different angles for interest (also we all know its impossible to get a kid to stand still for a photo right!)  Deliberately cropping images is a good way to stretch your stamps and get a different look.   Once coloured I trimmed them and layered on the frames and then filled the picture with glossy accents for the full-on polaroid look.  Some DP, washi tape and a sentiment from the same stamp set was all that was needed to pull it together into a finished card.

We have an order in with Mama Elephant for their new September mini-release and restocks on some from last month.  Some items were out of stock though so not everything will be back this month but I will keep getting everything back as soon as I can so don't panic!

NEWS FROM THE STORE:

We have big news today, as I can finally reveal the successful applicant from our recent DT call, and without further ado, I am really pleased to say that our new team mate is the very talented Julia Altermann who will be joining us all the way from Germany - our first overseas DT member!

You've probably seen her around on Facebook and on our challenges already as she's been a regular and enthusiastic contributor but if not then you can check out her personal blog here http://just-one-more-card.blogspot.co.uk/    I'm not going to say too much more about her just now - she can introduce herself to you on Saturday when she has her first project to share......    Please do make her welcome.

New Releases and Restocks:

We have some new Paper Smooches goodies which will be in store in a day or so (this is not the brand new Christmas release - sorry but every brand is releasing so many things just now its hard to keep on top of them all.  That will be coming in a couple of weeks)

The Avery Elle Christmas release is on its way and includes storage pockets, the new inks and all the paper pads.

The WPlus9 latest release is coming too - along with some restocks but again they don't have stock themselves on some of the popular items like both Flora and Fauna sets but again I will keep trying to get the back with each new order I place so they will be back eventually.

We have an order in with Altenew who are just waiting on a delivery and should be shipping to us in the next week or two so all their oos products will be in stock by early October. 

We will be re-ordering from Lawn Fawn this week so all the oos items from the new release will be coming back soon.

We'll be getting the lastest Hero Arts Christmas release in a couple of weeks too along with restocks on the ink pads - just waiting for restocks to arrive.

That's it for now - see you next Sunday!

Tara