Little Outbursts of Creativity

Lawn Fawn fairies

I made this card while crafting with some of my favourite people last weekend. I was there for a full day and only managed to finish two cards. But it's just as important to sit and talk all day, right? It was a great day actually and I got a lot of inspiration and energy with me home. Never underestimate the power of crafty friends, they are truly the best!

So this card is also blogged at Design in Papers today. I really loved the Winter Fairies stamp set so I had to get the original one too, even though I'm way after everyone else. I colored them using my Spectrum Noir ColourBlends, I really have grown to love colored pencils lately. It's so relaxing to color using them. Of course I added some shimmer to the wings with Spectrum Sparkle pens. 

There's a new challenge up at Spectrum Noir now by the way. I will blog my inspiration for that later this week but you can find it on the Spectrum Noir facebook page if you want to start create right now.

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon again! 

Unicorn in a jar

I colored up the unicorn by Lawn Fawn just for fun the other night and decided to use him for a card. I built a shaker card in the shape of a jar with clouds that he could play in and used a lot of pretty gold glitter papers. I think he's super cute. My original idea was to put him into a snow globe, but I didn't have a snow globe die. 

I made this post for Design in Paper this week, I hope you liked it. I'll be back tomorrow with the winner of the $30 gift card to the Winnie & Walter shop. If you haven't done this yet there is still time to comment on any (or all five) of my October Leading Lady posts here at the blog. 

Have a great weekend!

Foil and sparkle butterfly

The reactive paint from Heidi Swapp is really fun to play with, I made a bunch of cards using foil for my posts at Design in Papers the last few weeks. This one was made with a stencil, pink foil and watercolors. The lovely stamp is by Sheena Douglass and I double embossed it and colored with Spectrum Sparkle pens. I made a bunch of backgrounds at once when I had the foil and the Minc out, and this was the last of them. I might experiment some more and make a few more. This is super fun. 

I will start working on some special projects for October soon. I can't tell you more than that I'm super excited about this. You will definitely want to pencil in a visit to the blog then because you don't want to miss this :) Fun times ahead! 

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Last week I blogged this card for Design in Papers, I made a background using the eBrush and spectrum noir, splattered it with some cleaning solution to make it a bit motley. I added dots of glue that turned to blobs of glue when adding foil on top but I kind of liked it so I saved a corner of the original background and made this mini card featuring a Mermaid by Lawn Fawn. I love those stamps <3

This card is blogged today at Design in Papers. The team got to create from the same sketch and I made a card inspired by the rectangles and circles on the sketch. It was more of a scrapbook sketch so in the end my card looked nothing like it but inspired was the operative word. I used the minc machine with reactive paint and masking tape and created a shaker. I looooooove foiling everything now. 

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For my post this week at Design in Papers I made a card using this cute Jackalope by Lawn Fawn. I colored it using SpectrumAquas and shaded with Spectrum Noir ColourBlend pencils. I kind of like that you can cheat a bit when you aren't happy with how your watercolor turned out, I reach for the ColourBlends to add some shading where needed. In this case I experimented with adding a purple-red shade on top of the pink to make the critter look even more unbelievable. 

Thanks for stopping by. Today I will also be up with my Spectrum Noir tutorial on how to color critters using Spectrum Sparkle pens. So hop on over to the Spectrum Noir blog if you want to see a video on that. Here's how the card looked when I was done with it.

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I just love the latest release by Lawn Fawn, there was so many sets of dies and stamps that I need. A few got to move in with me. Ok more than a few. But not enough, I'll probably get some more at a later time ;) Anyways. I made a card with mermaids on a golden background. I just played with my Spectrum Noir AquaTints and was making a full background to see how opaque the gold paint was. Pretty opaque it turned out. I put my mermaids on it and kept it as it was, I just splattered som silver ink on it to make bubbles. The fish are painted with silver AquaTints.

I colored the mermaids with Spectrum Noir markers and added Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens for extra shimmer. 

So it's very shimmery and glittery and pretty. I used WOW Atlantic sea spray for embossing the sentiment, because it amused me. And it's also super pretty ;) This was my creation for Design in Papers this week. Sea you soon again ;) 

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My former teamie from A blog named Hero, Lisa Stein made this super pretty card using white embossing on cork. I had to borrow that idea because I thought the card was brilliant. Mine wasn't as much but I do like the white on cork and will play some more with it later I think (mostly since I have a whole bunch of cork paper that I have no idea what to do with). 

I used stamps by Kaisercraft, they have made some lovely sets lately. I used puffy stickers for sentiment because I could not figure out what text stamp to use and where to put it. This is my creation for Design in Papers this week by the way. 

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I made this card for my Design in Papers post this week, again with the houses by Stampendous. I used them a few weeks ago and oh yes, I used them last week but forgot to share them here. So here they are again.

A rainbow city colored with Spectrum Noir markers. Splattered with some gold mist. It looks so fun I think.

Next week I will not be posting houses. I have other things prepared for you. And my sweet friend Mary Dawn sent me some super fun stamps and a wonderful cover for my misti so I really want to play in the scrap room like now. But I will sleep instead and get back to you another day. Until then, have a great week <3 

Foam stamps

 

If you are here for the WOW bloghop, scroll on down to the next post.

Today I filled in for my friend Karin at the Design in Papers blog. I've been crafting for a while now and I'm probably the only crafter who never tried foam stamps. I fell in love with these houses by Natalie Kolbach/Stampendous and had to try them. They come in sets with foam stamps, a rubber stamp and a stencil. I think the houses turned out very pretty, I used some different acrylic paints and it made the houses look like they were in a sunrise or something.

I can't wait to try the other side of the foam stamp and see what it looks like. You can expect another take on this card in the future :)

 

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Here's todays creation for Design in Papers, a flower that I paper pieced out of some patterned papers from a 6x6 pad by Dear Lizzy. I used a new stamp set by Kaisercraft that I think is super pretty. They have really made some lovely sets lately, too bad they aren't photopolymer stamps. They are a bit soft for my taste but with the MISTI it's ok to get good impressions anyways.

I used Spectrum Noir markers to shade and then I added Sparkle pens for shimmer. I think I'm addicted to Sparkle pens <3

I'll be back a bit later today with a blog hop with the new and old WOW DT. Come back in a few hours for a chance to win great prices! 

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