Crafts and Me Stamps

Tea, Stars and Digi Papers

2012-02-13T02:43:00.000Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing two cards that I've made using beautiful, recently released digital images (and digi paper too!) available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store.

This beautiful fairy, ready to wrap something or someone in her glorious garland of stars, is designed by Sara Burrier and named Lady of the Stars. You can find her here.

These lovely little fairies are taking some time to enjoy a break from their fairy duties. Sara Burrier designed this image named Tea and Sandwiches and you can find it here. The background paper on this card is page 4 of the digi paper pack called Forest Fairy and you can find the digi papers here. The rainbow colors of these digi papers are magical and the silhouettes of the forest details look like stamped images in varying shades of depth. You're gonna love them!!!

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You'll find more wonderful digi images and the recently released digi papers at the Crafts and Me store here. There are backgrounds, borders, angels, mermaids, fairies and all sorts of magical digis! There's a huge selection for everyone!

You still have time to add your entry to the Crafts and Me Stamps' Use a New Image challenge here for a chance to win a set of the newly released 6x6 digi papers! Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Here's wishing you a wonderful day! We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose

Golden Guitar

2012-02-12T14:00:00.002Z

Good Afternoon folks its Gina here i have another preview for you today this ones called Golden Guitar by Jasmine Becket-Griffith is soon to be released. Have you seen the gorgeous digi papers that Teresa now has in the shop i tell you they are gorgeous i have used one of them on today sample that Teresa has taken to the Stamparama show today, i've used one of the new digi papers on here too.

Not my normal sort of colour choice but wanted to try something different. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

Another preview :D

2012-02-11T08:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone I hope you are all looking forward to your weekend and that you are going to stamperama. My card today is one I made for this weeks Crafts and Me challenge. The challenge is to use a new stamp that you have not used before. I was very lucky to get my hands on one of the new releases from the Jasmine Becket-Griffith range. There are 4 new ones that the lucky people who can get to the Crafts and Me stand at Stamperama will be able to get there hands on this Sunday. I so wish I could go but am working on tomorrow :(
There will be loads of items on sale as well as these new show releases so well worth going if you can.

Now onto my card. This beauty is called Sea Star and I have coloured her with promarkers and flex markers, before adding touches of sparkle and shine with metallic promarkers and sakura stardust pens. I have coloured her in the following colours:

Skin: Saffron, Vanilla, Ivory
Hair: Black, cool grey 5, Cool grey 4, Cool grey 3
Dress: Midnight blue, Egyptian blue (flex), True blue

I have kept the rest of the card plain to show off the stamp. I have used my dreamweaver brushes and midnight blue ink to distress all the edges and used the gold and navy card to mat and layer with.

Coming at Crafts and Me.......

2012-02-10T09:54:00.000Z

Hiya Peeps,

I'm back again with a sneak preview of what is being unveiled by Crafts and Me this Sunday at Stamperama Stevenage. The image is called Scarlet Sofa by Jasmine Beckett-Griffiths and will be available to purchase from Crafts and Me online after the show depending on stock.

I have to admit my mojo was missing when I made this card. I have decided that I must of had flu, correction, still have flu. I have been unwell for two weeks now and have been struggling to talk without coughing for most of this week. With the snow falling from the sky I won't be venturing out of my house and will be praying for the rain to come on Saturday and clear it all away so I can drive to Stamperama on Sunday.

Ingredients:-

Image by Jasmine Beckett-Griffiths available from Crafts and Me

Papers by Marianne Designs

Marianne D Creatables Tulips LR020

Marianne Design Designables Punch & Emboss - Anja's Dots DS0916

Ribbon by Marianne Designs

I also keep forgetting to post my challenge cards, so here's a few I missed, Oops!

Little Red Riding Hood

Bride Flapper

Black Rose

First Snow

Hope to see you at Stamperama!

Fragile Heart

2012-02-08T11:36:00.001Z

Hi everyone, today I want to show you a card perfect for Valentines. I used Fragile Heart by Hannah Lynn. I coloured her with Copics.

And I also want to show you the card I made for our last challenge with the theme Bright Colours, for which I used Pale Rose by Jasmin Becket-Griffith.

Just a short post by me today as I am in a hurry right now. But I hope you will like what you see :o). Have a wonderful day!
Hugs, Karina

New Jasmine Becket-Griffith Rubber

2012-02-07T09:00:00.002Z

Good morning i do hope that you are all keeping warm, hasn,t it been freezing i just hate being cold i,m such a wimp,i loved taking photos when the snow was falling as this is when it looks lovely not when it turns to sludge and then freezes making it hazardous underfoot.

Now onto my creation for today !!!Our lovely Boss Teresa sent each Rubbah DT a NEW Jasmine stamp to play with and to show you.These will be showcased all this week and available to buy at the STAMPERAMA SHOW in Stevenage Details HERE If you cant make it Sunday then don,t dispair all the stamps will be available at the store during the following week when Teresa adds them to the store.

Heres a closeup photo of the Gorgeous stamp i recieved she was a dream to colour isn,t she beautiful, i,m sure you will agree.

And heres my card it,s a 5 and 1/4 inch sample card which is on it,s way to Tracy to be added to the sample book for the Stamperama show,these have to be as flat as possible with no bulky embellishments.

Theres also 30 Forest Fairy 6"x6" and 12"x12" Digital Papers as a pad available right now in the store HERE you must see these there Just FABULOUS for all your fairy creations.I would have used them on this card but have to get new Ink my colour cartridge has ran out Boo hoo!! I,m sure it wont be long before you see them on my lovely Teamies creations.

I have another card to show you which was my DT card for the current Crafts and Me Challenge #69 Bright and Beautiful.New Challenge starts tomorrow(weds)

I have used Zindy S. D Neilsen,s Beautiful Red Riding Hood available HERE

Check back to see more creations from the DT using the fab NEW Stamps.
Enjoy your day
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Happy Sunday...

2012-02-05T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning everyone I hope your all having a fantastic weekend and aren't suffering too much from all the snow and freezing temperatures, we have no snow at all here, well not yet anyway...no ice, no freezing, it makes a change because Ireland usually gets the brunt of bad weather, you never know it may miss us altogether this time fingers crossed...I have two gorgeous images to show you this time and the first is a Sara Burrier images called Casting Down Imagination, isn't she just stunning, I used a scrap of paper I had left for her and the gingham is such a soft green it suits her so well don't you think...the second card is using one of the new silhouettes called Fairy Love, its a perfect image against the deep pink isn't it...all the details of my cards are on my blog as always I would love you to visit...we are having family lunch today so I better go and prepare some vegetables...have a wonderful Sunday everyone
Mina xxx

3 to share

2012-02-04T16:24:00.000Z

Afternoon all! I've got 3 to share with you today using stamps by Crafts & Me. First up is one of the brand new digis by Sara Burrier - this is LADY OF THE STARS which is coloured mainly in flexmarkers and a little bit of promarkers. I added glamour dust with a glue pen along the string and also used the glue pen to attach tiny stars. I made this one quite simple as I wanted the full size image so printed her out at 6" tall and have attached with black, blue and silver holographic card.

Next up is MOONGLOW which I've done in a pink theme using promarkers and the white bits are all glamour dust (ultra fine crystal glitter) She's by Hannah Lynn and is one of my favs :)

And lastly this is a rubber stamp by Hannah Lynn called BIRTHDAY GIRL. I love all her frills and she was really fun to colour.

Well peeps I hope you're all managing to keep warm, get those fluffy socks on and nuggle down under the duvet which is where I'm heading now! x

Smartie Pants

2012-02-03T23:06:00.000Z

Hey Peeps!

I`m so sorry i am late...again...this seems to be the case a lot of times lately, lol. It is so hard to figure out a schedule i can live with, now that i have picked up some more hours at work, but i`ll figure it out, lol.

I have some good news i want to share with you. Last night my niese gave birth to a healthy baby boy. We are so proud of her doing it the old fashioned way, lol. Both i and My sister has 2 caesareans each so we were happy that Cecilie didn`t have to go through it. The fun part in this is that i get to tease my sister course she is only 37 years old and allready a grandmother, lol. My parents are relatively young too. Mum has managed to become a great grand-mother at the age of 57. I bet she wasn`t too happy about it at first, lol

Well...over to my card. I have used a bit more colour than i usually do for my creations. But this image screamed out for bright colours, lol. This is a brand new release by Hannah Lynn and i think it is soooo cool. She is called Smartie Pants. I just imediately fell for it when i saw it, lol. If you like it, it is available right here in the Crafts and Me store.

I tried to take a pic so you can see the "glasses". I used Glossy Accents to make the glass in her glasses. I think it turned out pretty cool.

Well that`s all from me this time. Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Please make sure to join in on the challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges. The theme is Pins. So go grab your craft stuff and join us. Good luck!

Pucker up it's Kissy Fish !!!

2012-02-01T09:00:00.000Z

Hi Everyone, how are we all? It's Karen here

Crafts and Me is having a release day today.... yep it's the first day of the month, so that means new digis for us to play with, but the card I'm sharing today isn't a newbie... heheheh tricked ya's

This one is called Kissy Fish and it's by Hannah Lynn. I've coloured her up with my copic's and I decided to use some colours I don't use often which is apricot... I thought she would look nice with some red and green, and then I gave her some black hair instead of brown!! I always do brown hair don't I ??? anyway I have some N copic's which are kinda new, so I guess that's why I've always done brown.... anyway here is my card - I hope you like it!!

So do you think she looks kinda Spanish? I dunno, maybe it's just me... but I think she does:-) On my card I have some cheese cloth which I sprayed with glimmer mist in suede - looks cool doesn't it, My lace I think is from Prima - but it could be Webster's or May Art's.... I can never remember LOL. The flowers are of course from Wild Orchid Roses, and so is the seam binding! My cameo is a purchase from ebay, and the washi tape is by Tim Holtz!! The Paper is from Basic Grey's Little Black Dress 6x6 Paper Pad!!

My next card I would like to show you, is Crafts and Me, Exclusive, Nature Fairy... I made this one for the Pink and Sparkly Challenge that I was the host for, I hope you enjoyed it as much as me:-) So anyway here she is, hope you like this one too!!

I changed the black silhouette to pink in my photoshop, but then I smothered her with Glitter, she looks so sparkly and pretty!! Crafts and Me have some awesome glitter here

My Paper is from My Minds Eye, Chevron.... is so hot right now have you seen it everywhere??? It's like everything I've been looking at from CHA is all got some sort of chevron in it!! COOL!!! Anyway I've made this one kinda plainish, so there is only a little flower and cabochon, with some string. The Pom Pom trim is really cute, and the strip of paper is a little scrap that was floating about on my desk at the time so I stuck that on too!!!

Anyway, I hope your all keen as for the new challenge which will be starting soon....

Ok that's it from me, seeya's next time:-)

Hugs

Karen

xxxx

Kissy Fish and Aliah

2012-01-31T10:20:00.003Z

Morning Luvlies!! Carol here and today it's my turn to share some inspiration with you. For my first card I have used the lovely "Kissy Fish" digi and she is available from the webstore here. My second card is for our challenge blog which this week is "Pink and Sparkly". You still have about nine hours left to enter if you haven't already lol. I used the beautiful "Aliah" available here. More details on my blog. As always both images have been coloured in with Copics.
Thanks for stopping by. I do hope I have given you some inspiration and that you'll join in with our challenges and come back here daily for some fab inspiration from my fellow teamies! Lotsa luv, hugs xxxxx

Celebrating Rubber- and Digi-Style

2012-01-30T01:44:00.004Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing a few cards that I've made using some of the amazing digital and rubberstamp images available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store.

Teresa carries a wonderful selection of Sweet Pea Stamps and you can find this lovely New Year Celebration set by Ching-Chou Kuik here. This fun rubberstamp set includes this beautiful celebrating fairy image AND four sentiments: Celebrate, Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary and Best Wishes.

The elegant, winged lady, sitting atop her pedestal while butterflies flutter around her, is designed by Rachel Anderson for Sweet Pea Stamps and is named Sunrise. You can find this rubberstamp image here.

This sweet summertime rubberstamp image, designed by Elisabeth Bell for Sweet Pea Stamps, is named Kiki with Dolly and you can find her here.

You can find this beautiful Sara Burrier digital image named Autumn here.

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You'll find more wonderful digi images at the Crafts and Me store here. Go ahead . . . pop over there and take a look at all of the digital images that Teresa has added to her store. There are backgrounds, borders, angels, mermaids, fairies and all sorts of magical digis! With nearly a hundred digital images to choose from there's bound to be something for everyone!

You still have time to add your entry to the Crafts and Me Stamps' Pink and Sparkly challenge here for a chance to win some delish Crafty Ribbons! Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Here's wishing you a fantastic day! We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose

Lady of Opal Book Mark

2012-01-29T11:56:00.001Z

Good morning folks its Gina here i haven't got much to show you today owing to hubby burning his hand the beginning of the week and then baby sitting duties lol.Anyhow i will show you this book mark i made a couple of weeks back using one of the digi stamps from the shop this one is called Lady of Opal she is one of my favourite digis you can get her HERE.

Well that's it from me for today, oh don't forget there is still time to enter our current challenge the theme is Pink and Sparkly you'll find the challenge HERE.I hope you have a lovely day whatever your doing.

2 ways with pins

2012-01-28T14:36:00.003Z

Hi everyone I have 2 creations for you today the first is a card and I have used the gorgeous stamp from the Crafts and Me Sara Burrier range called "The Leap" available HERE the I have then coloured with promarkers and added sparkle with sakura stardust pens. I have inked all the edges to give a more distressed look. I have added some ribbon, flowers and pins to finish it off.

For my second creation I have made a bag charm using a big nappy pin :D For my main image I have used the fun Hannah Lynn "Alice Lost" image. I stamped her in Hydrangea stazon (you can get different colours of Stazon HERE) Then used my heat gun to shrink it down and put it on an eye pin with some beads before attaching it to the pin. I think I will be making some more of these it is a great way to use up odd beads and charms.

I hope you are all having a good weekend and don't forget there is still time to join the current Crafts and Me challenge which is pink and sparkly.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Believe

2012-01-27T08:00:00.000Z

Hi,

Can't believe its Friday again but I am rather glad that it is. Did my gym session again last night and don't I know it this morning. I must do more mat exercises rather then the CV and then I won't keep aching as much as I do. Mind you I haven't had the time lately, too many things going on. Oh well, you learn don't you.

Today's card is using another stunning image from Zindy Nielsen at Crafts and Me. She is called "Believe" and I have for a change I got my pencils out and coloured on kraft cardstock.

Gorgeous papers are by Pion.

Isn't she beautiful.

I think my photos would look better in daylight. Have a good weekend everyone.

First Snow in Pink

2012-01-26T05:57:00.004Z

Hi Everyone! It's Angela here and it's my turn to share with you today my newest creation. Today I have a card using one of Zindy Nielsen's images called "First Snow". Sorry my pic's are so bright but with that bright pinks and the way my lamp hit's it, it is so bright. I tried taking out the contrast but then the image lost most of it's true color. The image is bright in real life.. I used copic colors RV29, RV25,RV04.RV02, RV19, I think that was all the colors I used on her coat.

I used some older Basic Grey Christmas/Winter paper, Wild Orchid Crafts Roses, Pearl pins, Spellbinder die and Sizzix Corner dies, thick lace doily, Proverbs saying, wide ribbon, and a gold and pearl center button.

I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs:)

Angela

Red Riding Hood

2012-01-25T11:49:00.000Z

Hi everyone, hope you're doing fine... better than me, as I am fighting with a bad flu since four days which doesn't allows me to do anything, not a tiny little colouring or glueing some papers togehter... nothing... I cannot remember feeling that aweful lately, just lying around, watching some TV and sleeping. Well, luckily I worked ahead with my cards and can show you a new one today nevertheless. At least I manage to post it, when I cannot do anything else.

Well, the card I show you today I made with this gorgeous new image by Zindy Nielsen called 'Red Riding Hood'. Well... mine is more Blue Riding Hood :o).

And I also want to show you my card I made for our latest challenge where we asked for using Pins. I used another fabulous image by Zindy Nielsen called 'First Snow'.

Well, wish you a wonderful day now! Thank you so much for your visit!

Hugs, Karina

Art Deco Couple

2012-01-24T09:00:00.000Z

Good Morning, Trish here today, i would like to show you 2 cards the 1st one using one of the Crafts and Me Art Deco stamps.This one is called Art deco Couple, it,s out of stock at the moment but it,s available HERE on the Art Deco Sheet #1 which is a set of four of the Art Deco stamps,so if you,ve not got any of the Art deco ones yet this is a great buy as you will receive four stamps for the price of three.
It,s white on white ,only the image is coloured i love making these cards they look so fresh and beautiful.

My second is my DT card for the current Crafts and Me challenge Use Pins.
I have used Jasmines Pale Rose available HERE

Today is the last day of the current Crafts and Me challenge #67 Use Pins,you have untill tonight to enter.
Enjoy the rest of your day whatever your up to!
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Show samples with Janna Prosvirina

2012-01-23T15:03:00.000Z

Hi everyone Vicky here today. I'm so sorry I'm late my head is in the clouds & I totally forgot about my post...............really my blog should be Thicky Vicky lol.

Anyway I will push on. I'm showing you a couple of card front that I have made ready for the show. These have to be 5 1/4 inches & flat........yeah me & flat dont go together very well at all.........I'm trying to learn tho lol.

Anyway here are 2 by the artist Janna Prosvirina & I finally got to ink these beauties up....

First up we have Belladonna

Isn't she gorgeous & I loved colouring this one especially her dress.

Next up we have 'Black Rose' & she really is so easy to colour I think she was my quickest ever coloured image lol............well for me as colouring takes me ages lol.

I love the wings on this image. The flower is now removed, it was just placed on for photo shoot lol.......like I said flat is hard to do lol. These stamps are larger than normal which makes them fabulous to colour in Of course both these stamps are exclusive to Crafts & Me Store only.

Dont forget our current challenge of Pins there is still time to enter my lovelies.

Well I'm off now for any more info on any of these creations check out my blog here.

Thank you from Teresa & all the DT girls for your continued support it really means a lot you are all fabulous.

Tatty bye & huge hugs to you all

Vicky xoxoxo

Fayette

2012-01-22T09:00:00.001Z

Good morning everyone and happy Sunday to you all, I hope your all having a fantastic weekend, its my turn today to show you something new from Crafts and Me, its from the new range of silhouettes and this fabulous fairy is called Fayette, shes so easy to use too, just print and make your card, perfect for any 'in a hurry' cards or you can make her as elaborate as you would like...I just teamed her up with some beautiful Prima papers...all the details of the papers etc are on my blog...have a fabulous Sunday
Mina xxx

New Silhouettes

2012-01-21T21:32:00.000Z

Hey peeps!

You might have noticed that we are stocking some new digis exclusive for Crafts and Me. Silhouettes. These are just gorgeous and i never knew they could be so versatile until some of my teamies showed what you can do with them. I decided to make a quick and easy black & white card. These images are perfect for this type of card i think.

For my card i have used Fayette Fairy digi stamp. I think this is my favourite of this range.

I also want to show you the card i made for the Christmas bumper challenge. I am totally amazed by how many that entered the challenge. And soooo so many fantastic creations. I`m just happy it`s not gonna be i that has to pick a top 3, lol.

The image i have used is called Kissy fish and is designed by Hannah Lynn. I have coloured her with ProMarkers.

Well, i don`t have much else to show you, so now i`m gonna bake a cake. My youngest daughter turned 4 year this last week, and tomorrow my inlaws are coming to visit and to celebrate her birthday. So i`d better tidy up the place a bit too, lol. Also don`t forget to enter the Rubbah team challenge over at the challenge blog. The Rubbah girls have really created some amazing samples for your inspiration. Also i will be back together with Carol on wednesday to just before the new digi challenge goes live, to announce the winners for the last couple of digi challenges. Hope you all are having a lovely weekend!

Fairy Love Just for You

2012-01-18T10:00:00.000Z

Hi Everyone, Hope your all well. Today I am showing you a new cool Digital Stamp from Crafts and Me. This one is called Fairy Love and is available now.

So it's a Silhouette... and you may have noticed that mine is white... Yeah.... cool huh... you wanna know how I did it?? easy actually... but first take a look - I hope you love it as much as me!!!

Ok so this is how I turned the black fairy love silhouette into a white one.... first of all I went into my photoshop and fiddled a bit... I was trying to change the colour there, but I didn't figure it out... so... what I did instead was flip the image... then I printed it out on some white card. Then I carefully cut her out... Hey Presto!!! when you flip the paper over - she is now white!!! heheheh I then chucked on heaps of sparkly glitter, and then had a look through my masses of off cut papers... (I really need to use them) so I found what I wanted and set about making the card!! Glued on a Prima Butterfly some pretty Kaiser and Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers, cut a tag and stamped on a sentiment, and to pretty it up tied on an Angel Charm!!

My next card i want to show you, is my last Challenge card that I did for the Bumper Christmas Challenge - did you enter?? I think everyone did from the amount of entries we had!!

So this one is using Twilight Lily Fae I love this one, with the lantern, so pretty. I've coloured her up with mostly my G copics and I did her wings with the Mint Atyou Spica Pen... I sure do love my sparkles - if you hadn't noticed!!! Anyway this one is kinda plain, as I wanted it to be all about the image:-)

Thanks for looking and I hope you have had a great start to 2012. For us we have finally started building our new House... so it's all systems go there. Hopefully it will be finished in about 6 months or so, which means that we will be moving in the middle of our winter... joy... but it's going to be so wonderful, I'm getting my very own proper Craft Room - YAY for me:-)

Anyway till next time, take care

Hugs

Karen

xxxx

Moon Glow

2012-01-17T12:21:00.004Z

Good Afternoon all! Carol here, apologies that I'm a little late posting but I needed to defrost my fingers after getting in from the school run lol! Isn't it bitter out today brrrr? Anyhoo onto my card for today and I decided to use the gorgeous Moon Glow who is available to purchase here. I've always wanted to try and colour one of these beauties in with non traditional hair colours and after seeing her pic on the webstore I thought I would just give it a go. As always I have coloured my image in with Copics. The colours I used are E34, E32, E000, BV04, BV02, BV00, E00, E11, R20. For more details please feel free to pop by my blog. Lotsa luv, hugs xxxxx

Simple Note Card Folder Set with New Silhouettes

2012-01-16T00:28:00.032Z

Crafts and Me Stamps
Digital Silhouette Images

Hi there! This is Rose sharing a simple note card folder set that I made using the amazing digital silhouette fairy stamps that Crafts and Me Stamps has recently released. They're beautiful images that can easily be resized to provide wonderful consistency within a card set that's perfect for gift giving! What a fabulous way to share handwritten notes with magically enchanted cards.

To create your folder, cut a 12x12 sheet of heavy cardstock to 11" x 8 1/2" then with the long side of the paper horizontally, score a vertical line at 5 1/2" and 6". Scored another line 2 1/2" above the bottom edge. Make a mark with a pencil along the bottom edge of the cardstock 1/2" on each side of the vertical scored lines. Line up the 1/2" mark with the outside intersection of the scored lines and draw a line. Cut along the diagonal lines and remove the center too. Here's how the outline of the folder looks now:

Score and Cut Folder Outline

Pencil mark 3" above the bottom scored line of the folder at 3/8" from each outside edge and each center score lines. Punch a 3/16" hole over each of the pencil marks and set 1/4" large eyelets with the backs of the eyelets facing the inside of the folder. Fold at the score lines to form the folder and crease each fold with a bone folder for a nice, crisp crease. Add a 2" length of super strong 1/4" redline tape to the outside vertical edges of the flaps only. (Do NOT adhere tops or diagonal edges of flaps.) Here's how the folder looks now:

Add eyelets for threading ribbon

Adhere the folder flaps to the bottom outside edges. Using a 30" length of 5/8" satin ribbon, begin to thread the ribbon through the eyelets. First through the top of the right side of the front cover (ribbon shows inside folder), through the underside of the left side of the front cover (ribbon shows outside of the folder's binding edge), through the bottom of the left side of the back cover (ribbon shows inside folder) and finally through the top of the right side of the back cover. There's enough ribbon to hold A2-sized cards and envelopes in place when they're inside of the folder and to tie a nice big bow on the outside of the folder's side.

Completed folder ready for decorating

Now your folder is ready to decorate!!!

I've used Fairy Friends to decorate the folder cover . . .

Fairy Friends

This card shows my use of Fairy Love . . .

Fairy Love

Here's a view of Fairy of the Holly . . .

Fairy of the Holly

This is Fayette Fairy . . .

Fayette Fairy

Here's a view of Nature Fairy . . .

Nature Fairy

This view shows a coordinated collection of note cards with the folder using the five gorgeous newly released magical silhouette images . . .

Crafts and Me Stamps Silhouette Images

This project comes together pretty quickly as there is no additional coloring medium needed for the images. The printer does all the work! This note card folder set is alot of fun to make, it'll be a great handmade gift and it's handy to have a few cards ready when you need them yourself.

Here's wishing you a magical day! We're so glad you stopped by for a visit!

~ Rose

Red Riding Hood

2012-01-15T12:57:00.001Z

Good Morning folks its Gina here with you this morning i hope that you are enjoying your weekend its nice and sunny but chilly here in Essex.Anyway i best get on with it before my internet goes down again its driving us mad lol.Here's a card i made using one of Zindy Neilsen stamps this ones called Red Riding Hood you can get her HERE at Crafts and Me, now I'm not very good when it comes to colouring red but i think i'm getting a little bit better at it seeing i don't do it very often lol.

While i'm here don't forget our challenge HERE there's still time to enter and the theme is nice and easy Anything goes.

Right well i'll be off now before my internet goes again. Have a lovely day whatever your doing.

Analinda by Vanessa

2012-01-14T20:12:00.000Z

Good evening all! I have a lovely customer creation to show you tonight by Vanessa who has been a guest designer for us recently too.
Have only just had time to get on pc tonight, seems I've been go go go since I opened my eyes this morning, surprised I'm not like a rake by now!

Anyways I'm here now and here is a beautiful creation to share using the digi image ANALINDA by Hannah Lynn, please do visit Vanessa's blog to check out her other lovely designs too.

First Snow

2012-01-13T08:00:00.001Z

Hi Crafts and Me Fans,

It's my turn to show you what I have created using this beautiful image by the new designer Zindy Nielsen called "First Snow". This image would suit Christmas as well as Winter birthdays or any winter ocassional card for that matter.

Lots of texture again from me, snowtex and a helping of distress crackle paint too.

My favourite Tim Holtz on the edge snowflake die was itching to get another outing, lol. I added a second layer of gold snowflakes too.

Have a good weekend Everyone.

2012-01-12T04:26:00.000Z

I hope everyone is having a great 2012 so far. I am trying my hardest to stay caught up this year and at the same time just have fun with what I create or do in life. My Biggest goal for this year to try my hardest to stay away for STRESS.

Today I have a card to share with you using "Catching Snowflakes" by our new artist Zindy S.D. Nielsen.

Her is a close up of this beautiful Winter image.

Here is a list of the supplies I used.

Paper- Echo Park

Me and My Big Ideas Snowflake Chipboard

BoBunny Flower ribbon

Silver wide ribbon

EKSuccess Big Snowflake border punch

Spellbinder Die behind image

Foam tape

Bead Wedding Sprigs

Copics used

Skin:YR0000, YR00,E000,E11

Dress: B01,B00,B000 and B0000

Coat:B0000, B000,B00,B01,B05, B23

Snow:W00,W1,C0,B000 and B0000

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

Hugs:)

Angela

Believe

2012-01-11T12:02:00.001Z

Hi dear Crafts and Me friends, Karina here today. My first post in the new year... hope everyone had a good change of the years and were able to spend some lovely and relaxing days off. Did you made some intentions? Mine are to watch what I eat and to lose some grams... I guess those are the most made intentions each January, after days eaten way too much over the celebration days.

Have you already seen our new artist Zindy Nielsen? I am sure you have, as she has such gorgeous images. Today I want to show you a card I made with one of them called Believe. I love this image so much. And it is useable for so many occasions I think.

I coloured her with Copics and the papers I used for the background are from Basic Grey Little Black Dress.

Here's a close up of the image

Our big Christmas Bumper Challenge is still going on at the Crafts and Me Challenges, you still have some days to take part at it and to get the chance to win one of the several fabulous prizes by different sponsors. If you haven't yet take a look and join us.

Have a magical day!
Hugs, Karina

Tealight card featuring First Snow/Zindy S.D. Nielsen

2012-01-10T09:00:00.003Z

Goodmorning Crafts and me fans, i hope you are all well and i guess a few of you are like me have eaten too much (chocolates,cakes,and all things fattening ) and are now going to embark on a keepfit and more healthly eaten plan. Well i will be next week once i,ve finished my jelly beans lol!!

Today i will be showing you the Tealight card i made for the Crafts and Me bumper Christmas challenge. Actually i made 3 different ones using the same image, One of the Exclusive to crafts and me Zindy S.D. Nielsen rubber stamps this ones called First Snow, she is a dream to colour.
I,ve posted a few photo,s taken at different angles.

Inside

I followed a tutorial Details are on my blog Here.

You still have another week to enter the Bumper challenge which is Anything goes it ends 17th January at 8pm.
Have a fab day
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Zindy Nielson

2012-01-09T10:42:00.000Z

Hi everyone hope you have all had a fabby weekend. I have 2 cards to show you today that I made for christmas with Crafts & Me fabulous new artist 'Zindy Nielson' her images are sooooooooo beautiful!!!

This first card I made for my eldest son & his girlfrind, well now fiance as they got engaged on christmas day.

This is 'First Snow' & the walt disney movie 'Beauty & The Beast' inspired me on this card as this image reminds me of Belle when she is playing out in the snow with beast....it was my sons favourite movie when he was 2 years old, that & jungle book lol.

Here is the close-up of her, isnt she so pretty!! I really enjoyed colouring this image, she is a pleasure to colour!!!!!!!

This one was done for the current Crafts & Me Challenge & was a christmas card for my step-mum.

This is 'Catching Snowflakes' & I coloured the ground to make it look as tho the snow hasnt quite covered all of the grass so you can just still see tufts of it peeking through.

Both of these fabulous images are by Zindy Nielson & are exclusive only to Crafts & Me Store.

Why not pop yourself over Teresa has a sale on until 18th January so go on grab a bargain before its too late!!

For more details on my cards visit my blog here.

Well thats all from me my lovelies, thank you so much for stopping by

huge hugs to you all

Vicky xoxoxoxo

Happy Sunday...

2012-01-08T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning everyone I hope your having a wonderful weekend and that you had the best Christmas and New Year...Its my turn, Mina, to show you some lush Crafts and Me images today, but I just noticed I used the same image as the fabulous Mona...oops sorry Mona...the top card is by the fabulous Hannah Lynn and is called Kissy Fish, I love the way Hannah Lynn draws hair, don't you...I love colouring it even more...the bottom card is by the hugely talented Sara Burrier and is called Dusk, this one of my all time favourite Crafts and Me images...she is adorable and brilliant for any occasion...all the details of my cards are on my blog as always...I will leave you to enjoy your Sunday...have fun
Mina xxx

Runaway Princess

2012-01-07T23:03:00.001Z

Hey Peeps!

Happy new year to you all! It`s my first post here at this blog this year and i`m starting with a beautiful image by Hanna Lynn called "Runaway Princess". Isn`t she a total beauty? She is to be found right here.

I have kept my card clean and simple to get the main focus on the image. There is a lot going on in there, so i didn`t think i needed too much embellies.

I also want to show you the card i created for the last digi challenge. This is also a Hanna Lynn design. And the image is called Kissy fish. It is available here. Here i tried to make some kind of christmas creation in untraditional colours, but i`m not sure it works, lol. Anyway, i hope you like it.

Don`t forget to enter our big bumper challenge over at the Crafts and Me challengeblog. A LOT of yummy prizes are up for grabs. Also, Teresa is having a new year sale in the shop. You can make a great bargain on some stamps. And it is not only seasonal stamps. So be sure to visit. I`m surtain you will find something you`ll love, lol.

NEW YEAR SALE GRAB A BARGAIN

2012-01-03T15:51:00.002Z

TO ALL CRAFTS AND ME CUSTOMERS

NEW YEAR BUMPER SALE NOW ON THROUGHOUT THE STORE WITH MANY STAMPS REDUCED IN PRICE,

NOT JUST CHRISTMAS STOCK.

GET YOURSELF A BARGAIN WHILE STOCKS LAST MUST END 18TH JANUARY.

Thank you to all my lovely customers for your custom throughout the year 2012.
Teresa x

Happy New Year to everyone

2012-01-02T19:40:00.004Z

Hello Everyone,
I want to wish all my friends out there in blogland a very Happy New Year with good health and happiness to you all. I hope you had a lovely christmas too!

I also want to thank my fantastic team of girls for all their support, work and dedication to me and the Crafts and Me store this year, I couldn't have managed without them. Thankyooooou girls the best team in the world!!!

I had my first Grandson Alfie, born on the 18th of December so I have had a full line of baby washing nearly everyday. How can a baby so little have so much washing lol! his tiny clothes airing off on the banisters too! He needs a big wardrobe already.

I appologise for the digi's being a day late this month.
I thought we would have some silhouette digi's this month, I am very interested to know if you would like to see more of these in the store.
Please leave your thoughts here for me to read.

Here is a peek of this months digi's available Here

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO CRAFTS AND ME FRIENDS

Love and big Hugs,
Teresa xx

Sara Burrier's Casting Down Imaginations

2012-01-02T00:40:00.000Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing a card that I made recently using one of the amazing digi images available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store.

This beautiful fairy by Sara Burrier is named Casting Down Imaginations. She's spreading some love as shown by the dainty hearts flowing around her. I laughed at myself as I was drawn once again to reach for my red Copic colors. Really? Red? Still? I thought I'd be done with red by now. Nope. Not yet. LOL!!! You can find this lovely fairy here.

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You'll find a wonderful selection of magical digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.

Ooo . . . check out the Crafts and Me Stamps challenge blog and add your entry to the current "Anything Goes" bumper challenge here. There are so many super prizes that you won't want to miss! The amazingly talented Rockin' Rubbah design team already provided some jaw dropping inspiration there. Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for some new Dynamite Digi additions.

Wishing you a fabulous day! We're so glad you stopped by for a visit!

~ Rose

Happy New Year From all of Us at Crafts and Me

2012-01-01T09:30:00.004Z

Good Morning folks its Gina here i hope you are all well i have a couple of makes to share with you today.

Used Anna Marine Franceska Available HERE isn't she beautiful.

For my card i've used one of the Gorgeous new stamps from Crafts and Me its available HERE this one is called First Snow and it by our new designer Zindy Nielsen i love it.

Image used is First Snow Available HERE at Crafts and Me i love this image she's beautiful and doesn't she look different just by using a different colour i told you i like this one lol.

Any how that's it i would just like to wish you all a Very Happy Healthy New Year From all of us at Crafts and Me.

Happy New year!!

2011-12-31T08:12:00.000Z

I want to start by wishing you all a very happy new year and I hope you all have a lot of fun tonight seeing the new year in. I did hope to have a brand new card to show you but have had a nasty cold and lots of running round familly to do so I have my card that I made using one of the brand new Zindy Nielsen stamps called Red ridding hood available HERE for you. She is on offer at the moment as well for newsletter readers with 10% off the already great price. I have coloured her with pro markers then mounted her on foam pads so she stands out a bit from the rest of the card. I have torn the DP to give the white distressed edge .

Close up

Don't forget that there is still time to enter our mega challenge over at the Crafts and Me challenge where anything goes and there are loads of chances to win prizes from our brilliant sponsors.
Huge new year hugs to you all

Amy xx

New Rubber Image

2011-12-29T23:09:00.001Z

Sorry, I am running so late, but my stamps just came in yesterday so I was trying to get a new image colored up. After I finished her I was so tired that I couldn't keep my eyes open to finish my post for today.

This is one of our New artist "Zindy Nielsen's" new images called "Believe".

Isn't she just so beautiful?

I colored her with copics.

Paper: K&Company DP, Yellow and Kraft CS

Dies: Quickuts flourishes (2 different dies), Sizzix hinges

EKSuccess and a Martha Stewart Border punch

Aqua tulle and yellow Basic Grey brads

Here is my card from our last challenge

using Digi image "Blessed" by Sara Burrier

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and may the New Year bring you much joy. Be safe and have fun this New Years.

Hugs:)

Angela

Clematis

2011-12-28T09:32:00.000Z

Hi everyone, Karina here today. I hope each one of you had a wonderful Christmas time. Now just few days to go and we'll have the Changing of the Years. As I had quite some busy days lately I only have to show you one card today. It is the one I made for our actual Christmas Bumper Challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges. You still can join until the 18th January. We have the theme anything goes and you can enter up to 3 times for getting the chance to win one of our wonderful prizes donated by our generous sponsors.

I used this gorgeous image called 'Clematis' from our fabulous artist Janna Prosvirina again. She is so much fun to work with and fit so many occasions. I coloured her with Distress Inks and added some decent glitter to her wings.

Here's a close up of the image:

Now I wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!

Hugs, Karina

Wishing you all a Wonderfully Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T09:00:00.001Z

Just a quick post from me to wish you all a Happy Christmas Day, I hope
your having a wonderful day with your loved ones and the Big man in the Red Suit was
good to you...I only have one card to show you today and its using the amazing Moon Glow
from Hannah Lynn...stunning isn't she, I used her for a Christmas card...I wont
prattle on as I'm sure you have loads to do...all the details of this card and others
is on my blog as always
Mina xxx

2011-12-24T10:14:00.000Z

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Here in Norway we are celebrating Christmas day today, the 24th. I was scheduled to work for a few hours today but my sweet boss managed to find someone that wanted to take my shift. So now my day isn`t going to be so stressful after all.

I am sorry but i haven`t had the time to make a new creation for today`s post, so i thought i would show you some of my previous makes for Crafts and Me. I have selected a few creations that are my favourites of my Crafts and Me makes.

The first card i want to show you is the card i created for the last digi-challenge. Since i wanted to show off this gorgeous image a little better i went for a 8x6 inched card in traditional Christmas colours. The image is called Poinsettia and is available here.

My second card i posted her in the shop blog a while back. I think this is one of my fav Sara Burrier images. She looks truly divine. She is called Twilight Lily Fae and she is available here.

This 3rd card is called The Talisman and is a card i created for the "lace" challenge back in august. I just love the colour combo of this card. You can find this super sweet image here.

My last card today i created for the "Use a digi" challenge. The image is called Lady of Opal and she is available right here. I noticed i only had picked cards using Sara Burrier images, lol. Well...she is my fav artist, so it isn`t so strange anyway, lol.

Well...now we`re soon off to my mother in law. Usually we are celebrating Christmas at home but since i originally was going to work today we had arranged to go and visit my hubby`s mother for Christmas. Lucky me don`t have to slave over the stove either today, hahaha. I wish you all, and especially my fabulous team mates and Teresa, a very merry Christmas. I wish for you to get a lot of crafty stuff under the Christmas tree, lol!

When you have the time there is still plenty of time to enter our big bumper Christmas challenge. The theme is anything goes. And there is a yummy lot of 6 prizes up for grabs!!!! Isn`t that magnificent? Hop over to the Crafts and Me challenge blog and join in on the fun.

Well, that`s it from me. Untill next time...

Christmas Miracle and Morning Glories

2011-12-21T09:00:00.000Z

Hi Hi Everyone!! Well not long to go now, and Christmas will be done and dusted for another year! Can you believe it? GOSH I know I just said this recently, but where has the year gone.... I guess I have been so busy running around with Ruby's Doctor's, Paediatricians, Eye Specialists, Physio Therapy and the most wonderful early learning teachers in the world.... I guess the world didn't stop LOL and I have been busy also designing our dream house and trying to keep myself relaxed with my crafting... gosh, I have been busy when I write it all down like that!!! no wonder the year has flown by for me!!

So this is my last "shop" post before Christmas, so I would like to wish you and your wonderful families a safe and very Merry Christmas!!!!!

So anyway, back to the crafty goodies.... this week at Crafts and Me, I am showing off a cool Digi stamp called Morning Glories and it's by Sara Burrier. This image has been around for a while, but this is my first time in colouring her up. I love this image, I think it's really beautiful, so here she is, I hope you love her as much as me:-)

I have coloured her in some YR copic's to give her a kinda golden looking dress. I have coloured her wings in the gorgeous Atyou Spica pen in Buttermilk, yum yum and then used the gold pen to darken up some of the bits on her wings, they really do shimmer and sparkle in real life!! Just a shame the photo doesn't show it off properly:-(

The flowers she is sitting in, I've coloured with my favourite R copic's - 81, 83, 85 and just a touch of 89. My paper is from Kaiser Craft, and the pretty butterfly is from Prima. The flowers are Kaiser Craft and Wild Orchid Crafts,the seam binding is from Wild Orchid, and the Lace I think is also from Prima.

My next card I have to show you is my Challenge card from Last week. It's Christmas Miracle, by Hannah Lynn. If you click on the link you will find the image in it's whole form.... (oops, I kinda chopped a few bits off the bottom, serves myself right for not paying attention to what I was actually doing!!!!!....) Anyway here she is:

Pretty huh? My papers for this one, are from Kaiser Craft (I just love there 6x6 paper pads) My lace is from Prima, I love Prima, there is some Stickles of course, which are available HERE, my cute tag is from K&Company and I have added on some Purple ribbon and some scrummy twine. My Pin is from Maya Road, and I've jazzed it by adding some more pearls and crystals to it... because you can NEVER have too many right? Well I think so!!!

Now you certainly do not wanna miss out on the new challenge #66 It's Chocka Block full of Gorgeous and TOTALLY amazing prizes and your in for a treat with it too, it's actually extended over Christmas so now you have MORE time to create MORE brilliant stuff and add it in, to increase your chances of taking home (or getting posted) a wonderful prize from the generous sponsors!!! I can't wait to see what you all make!!

Anyway, again Merry Christmas Everyone:-)

Lots of Cuddles

Karen

xxxx

Little Curls and Angel Rays

2011-12-19T00:14:00.001Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing two cards that I made recently using images available at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store.

I made some time to use this lovely Little Curls rubberstamp image designed by Elisabeth Bell for Sweet Pea Stamps. You can find her at the Crafts and Me store here. Anticipation for the "BIG" day is just making this little girl crazy and she can't wait to see what kind of wonderful present is in that box. She knows she's not allowed to touch it so she stretches her toe, testing how close she can get without actually touching it - LOL!!! It won't be too much longer now!

You may have seen this card at the current Crafts and Me Digi Team's "Christmas" challenge. I've used Sara Burrier's Angel Rays digi image on this multi-layered, textured card. You can get your own Angel Rays image here.

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There are more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.

Ooo . . . and don't forget to hop over to the Crafts and Me Stamps challenge blog to add your entry to the current Digi team's "Christmas" challenge here. Crafts and Me Stamps is offering THREE digi stamps to a randomly selected entry. As they say, you've got to be in it to win it! Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Wishing you a wonderful day! We're so glad you stopped by for a visit!

~ Rose

Some Gorgeous Customer Creations

2011-12-18T09:30:00.001Z

Good Morning folks its Gina here with you this morning i don't have anything new to show you as i've not been to good the last few days i have coloured one of the new stamps in but not made anything with it yet so i thought i would show some of our customer creations.

Alison with this gorgeous card.

kaos with this beauty.

Dianne with this gorgeous creation.

Don't forget our current challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges HERE

Thank you so much for your continued support.

First Snow !!!

2011-12-17T09:34:00.003Z

I was so excited yesterday as when I woke up I got my first snow of Christmas! It did not settle as it was too wet but it was nice to see. Now we are just back to the rain lol :D
For my card today I have used this gorgeous new image. She is one of the brand new stamps just released yesterday over at Crafts and me by the incredible Zindy Nielsen, she is called First Snow. Make sure you sign up for the news letter if you want to get 10% off the whole Zindy Nielsen range which is now available HERE.

I have coloured her with the following pro and flex markers:
Skin: vanilla, dusky pink
Hair: Walnut, henna, cinnamon
Cloak: Lush green, flex marker charteuse, pastel green

For the rest of the card I have used some Marianne D's dies for the pine branch and the snowflakes. I have inked the edges of all the stars with versa magic midnight blue and also inked the background with it.

There is still time to enter the current Crafts and Me challenge which is Christmas and you have the chance to win a great prize so what are you waiting for :D

I hope you all have a great weekend and want to wish you all a very merry Christmas.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Introducing our new artist Zindy Nielsen and her beautiful images

2011-12-16T20:35:00.006Z

Good evening everyone and a Merry Christmas to you all from us at Crafts and Me,

I am back at last after losing internet and email access from changing telephone and broadband suppliers, I have been far from happy as I was promised it would not affect my internet.
I would like to thank all my customers who carried on ordering with these problems going on.

On a much happier note we have just foumd out my Daughter Christy after having her scan is having a baby Boy next year, so I will be a new Nan to two beautiful Grandson's I have already got two girl Granddaughters, so two of each.

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We are very lucky to have the lovely artist Zindy Nielsen joining us exclusively here at Crafts and Me with her beautiful images of Females and fantasy, made into deeply etched red rubber stamps.

Here is a little Bio and picture from Zindy introducing herself to you all, folowed by the images

My name is Zindy Stine Desirée Nielsen. I live in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark.

I have been drawing on and off since I was a little girl. It wasn't till I was in my early 20's I realized this was what I wanted to do with my life.

I love everything drawing especially fantasy and emotive motives, anything that speaks to me. I mainly draw females, portraits and occasionally cats.

I am very inspired by my emotions and always have been. Especially sadness and love as those are the most powerful emotions to me. I also find inspiration in nature and music.

I love to work in many mediums, such as ink, colour pencils and pastels but my favourite medium is without a doubt charcoal as you can achieve such softness and darkness with it.

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Best Wishes,
Zindy

Catching Snowflakes

Believe

First Snow

Red Riding Hood

I am sure you will love them as much as I do, pop over to the store HERE to purchase.

Teresa x

Christmas Belladonna

2011-12-16T09:00:00.001Z

Happy Friday Peeps,

Well it's only a week to go until Christmas and I am nowhere near ready. I'm planning to get the decs up this weekend and catch up with my best mate with a couple of drinks and boy do I need a night out. I still have some shopping to do but am aiming to head out late tomorrow afternoon hoping that everyone would have gone in the morning. Wish me luck.

I have made a few chrsitmas cards using the Fairies from Crafts and Me. I've used traditional colours. The fairies seemed to have been a popular choice for Christmas this year and I can see why, isn't she a beauty.

Ingredients:-

Image Belladonna available HERE from Crafts and Me

For all other details please visit my Blog.

Sharing A lot of Digi image cards

2011-12-16T02:32:00.001Z

Hi everyone. I am running late showing my creations. I have 4 cards to share with you and they are all using Digi images from Crafts and Me.

This first one is a digi by artist Hannah Lynn called "Runaway Princess". This image has so much in it that I probably forgot to color something, but regardless I am happy with it anyway.

For this one I used and image by Sara Burrier called "The Blessing".

This one I used another digi image by Sara Burrier called "Autumn". I love this image. I think she is just gorgeous.

This is the card I created for out late Rubber DT challenge. But I didn't use a rubber image instead I used this gorgeous digi image by Sara Burrier called "Lady Of Opal".

I can't believe this year is almost over. My craft time has been so little her lately so I tried to keep my creations simple and let the image and coloring take center stage.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.

Thanks so much for stopping in and checking out my creations today.

Hugs:)

Angela

Christmas is all around

2011-12-14T10:51:00.001Z

Hi everyone, Karina here today. I hope you are doing fine and am ready for Christmas. All preparations done? Not many time to go anymore... where has the time gone. It feels like the last weeks passed by like a jet... :o)

Lately I was so much in the mood to create Christmas cards with image which are not christmassy. And this was so much fun. Today I want to share two of them with you.

The first one I made is with one of my most favourite Sweet Pea Stamps image called 'One and only heart' by ching-chou kuik's. I coloured the image with Distress Inks. The papers I used are from Simple Stories. I love how it turned out. I haven't use that much embellies as I usually do.

Here is a close up of the image.

The second card I show you today is the one I made for our last challenge at Crafts and Me Challenges. We had the theme Winter / Snowflakes. I thought why not create a card in non usual wintery colours? And with a non christmassy image as well. I love the result.

For this card I used the image 'Night Blossom' by Janna Prosvirina. I coloured her with Distress Inks as well and added some Stickles on her wings. The papers are from Rico Design. I already had it for quite some time and finally used it.

Here a close up of the image as well. Where you can see the glittery wings any better. The Snowflakes die is from Whimsy Stamps.

Now I wish you a not to stressy final spurt to Christmas and hope you can enjoy a lightfull advent season.
Have a magical week!
Hugs, Karina

Merry Christmas

2011-12-12T16:13:00.000Z

Hello peeps I'm running soooooooo late today........this christmas malarky has got me doolally......can you believe we have less than 2 weeks!!!!!!!!! ARRGGGHHHHH.......yep I'm starting to panic!!!

Anyway altho I have a lot of crimbo stamps & images I like stamps that can be used ALL year round....not just for certain occasions. So this year I've been using every day images as well for christmas cards.....having a bit of a play & to be honest I think you could prob use most images for most occasions.

Here is Hannah Lynn's 'Vanessa' wishing you a Merry Christmas

Sorry for the shine at the top.........had trouble taking pics!!!

I coloured her in red to make it look like a little santy outfit lol........I've still to add a sentiment but I cant decide which one & who its going to lol. I've used no designer papers on this at all.

Kept everything white & glittery to reflect winter & snow but with a touch of red to represent father christmas lol.

I also did a christmas card for the current challenge here using another none christmas image.

The challenge is 'Winter Snow/Snowflakes'

This beauty is 'Turn To Hesed' by Sara Burrier & I coloured her with distress inks to give a softer look.

You could actually rub the ink off the eye mask & instead place a small snowflake above her hand.....I did mean to do that but forgot..........head is like a sieve!!!

So there you have 2 christmas cards using none christmas images.

There is still time to join our current challenge & then wednesday our dyno digi girlz will be back with another fresh fab challenge.

Hope you all have a good weekend thanks so much for stopping by us girlies really do appreciate it

Hugs to all Vicky xoxoxoxox

Happy Sunday...

2011-12-11T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning everyone I hope your having a fantastic weekend and have a wonderful Sunday planned...we are off for a mooch in town and to buy a few last bits and pieces for Christmas, I'm just about sorted after that, I just need to persuade someone to do my food shopping for me (good luck with that I think lol)...its my turn today to show you some of the stunning new digis available at Crafts and Me...I love this beautiful Christmas Miracle image don't you, amazingly gorgeous and perfect for any occasion I think...my other card is using the gorgeous Angel Rays, she is a beautiful angel and I love the little scene behind her, its so cute...I coloured both my images with distress inks and of course I used loads of glittery stuff for them, I don't seem to be able to resist any glitter at all...well I will leave you to enjoy the rest of your weekend...have fun and if you have time I would love you to pop by my blog
Mina xxx

Christmas Miracle by Hannah Lynn

2011-12-10T22:26:00.001Z

Hey peeps!

Finally i`m here with my card for the day. Way, way too late. So sorry about that. It has been a crazy week and i got home from work a few hours ago. I also worked late last night too so i am feeling pain in bodyparts i didn`t even knew i had, lol. My hubby is just laughing at me an thinks i whine just like an old hag, lol. But just wait, lol, what goes around, comes around, hahaha.

I am really getting a nice collection of Christmas cards now. And more i`ll make, lol. The image i have used is called Christmas Miracle, and is one of the newest releases in the shop. The design is by Hannah Lynn and is available right here.

Just real quick i also want to show you the card i designed for the last digi challenge over at Crafts and Me challenges. The image is called Casting down imagination and is designed by Sara Burrier. Isn`t she a beauty? She is also available in the shop. Just follow this link.

I hope you all are having a great weekend. Hopefully you are not like me...waiting to the last moment to finish my christmas presents. I am totally hopeless in that department. Every year i say to myself that i will start early but guess what? I NEVER DO, lol.

Also...don`t let the chance get away from you to enter the Rubbah Girls` challenge over at the Crafts and Me challenge blog. If you don`t want to participate, you at least have to hop over and get blown away by the insainly gorgeous creations my teamies have come up with. I was totally stricken by all the beauty.

Well, that`s all from me, folks!

Happy crafting to you all!

Fa, La La La the Angels sing....

2011-12-07T09:00:00.000Z

OMGOSH the count down is on isn't it? I can't believe how fast this year has gone, it feels like it's only really June or something, but so glad it's not weather wise, it's starting to really warm up around here!!!

Today I have to show you a new release image from Crafts and Me. This lovely Digi is called Casting Down and it's by Sara Burrier. You can pick one up by clicking on this HERE link:-)

So I have made another Christmas card, I counted them up and geeze I only have 16.... oops, thought there would have been a few more than that, but lucky I don't have to send out that many - so I should be ok in that department!! So here she is, a beautiful angel singing fa la la la- well I think she is anyway!!! I hope you love her as much as me:-)

I have coloured her in my RV copic's as I wanted her to be in a slightly softer pink than what the R's give you. Her wings are covered in Atyou Spica in Clear - gosh I love those pens!! and the raised parts of the wings is Liquid Pearls. I have also given her hair a touch up with the Gold Atyou Spica Pen. My Fa La La La paper is by Jillibean Soup, and I've used some Kaiser Craft flowers along with some Wild Orchid Crafts. I had to use some stickles, so that is around the image!! LOL My sentiment is from SU, and I have also used some creamy lace and some cheese cloth to soften the card a bit.

My next card I have to show you, is also by Sara Burrier, this one is called Poinsettia, I used this card in the challenge: Pearls and Swirls... I really love this one too:-) You can get your Poinsettia here

I've coloured miss poinsettia in some gold's mostly they are Y Copics with a little bit of E35 to golden/darken it up. Her wings are of course smothered in Atyou Spica in Gold and Clear!! There is some more stickles on my sentiment which is by Dark Room Door, again there cheese cloth, laces, and wild orchid craft flowers and my Paper is by Websters - YUM YUM

So there is still time to enter into our challenge's, I can't wait to see what you girles have made:-)

Till next time (well right before Christmas actually - Christmas Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve LOL)

Cuddles, Karen xxxx

2011-12-06T14:25:00.003Z

Good afternoon fellow crafters!! Carol here, hope you're all having a good week so far and it's not too cold where you are as it's freezing here in Worcester. Apologies for my late posting but better late than never eh lol?! The first card I have to share with you today is using this gorgeous digi image by Sara Burrier called Gpepper tree and is available to purchase in store here. I decided to go relatively CAS, just using a MS border punch, flat backed pearls made into some swirls and a rather large flower.The second card I'm sharing is the one I made for our current challenge which was chosen by me and is "Pearls and Swirls". You still have roughly five hours to enter so why not join in with us? The digi I have used is called Miss Mirabelle and she is available in store here.

For both these cards I have coloured in the images using Copics. Thank you so much for stopping by. I do hope my cards have inspired you to wanna check out the fabulous digis available in store and join in with our challenges here every Wednesday. Lotsa luv, hugs xxxx

Some Enchanting and Angelic Temptations

2011-12-05T02:27:00.000Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing a few of my recent Copic-filled images.

Hannah Lynn has created this beautiful digital image, exclusive to Crafts and Me, named Kathleen and Summer. You can find these sweet mermaids here. I found this image to be much like a hidden picture page as I found more and more items as I colored along . . .

This fabulous Caron Vinson rubberstamped image by Sweet Pea Stamps is named Fall Masquerade Fairy and I've used her with autumn colors. You can find her here. She'll look stunning decked out in any color combination . . .

You may have seen this carry all box at the current Crafts and Me Digi Team's "Pearls and Swirls" challenge. I've used Hannah Lynn's Christmas Miracle image on this fun project. You can find her here.

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There are more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.

Hop over to the Crafts and Me Stamps challenge blog to add your entry to the current Digi team's "Pearls and Swirls" challenge here. Crafts and Me Stamps is offering THREE digi stamps to a randomly selected entry. That's a fantastic way to take a chance at adding some of these fabulous digi images to your collection! Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Wishing you an enchanting day! We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose

Art Deco and Lady of Opal

2011-12-04T09:30:00.000Z

Good Morning folks its Gina here with you this morning i hope you are all well and having a good weekend mine would be if our internet hadn't played up so much during the week now i'm playing catch up again lol.

Any way i have a couple of things to show you today the card i made for the last challenge so you may have seen it already.

Used Art Deco Lady With Fan

Now this you haven't seen its a note pad which i really must post off and i just love this image too i think she is so sweet she is called Lady of Opal you can get her HERE at Crafts and Me.

Well that's it from me today folks i hope you have a lovely day.

Angel at my side

2011-12-03T11:20:00.000Z

Hi everyone I hope you are all having a great weekend and are not feeling too rushed with Christmas now so close. I can not believe how quickly the year is going!!
I have a card for you today using the very pretty Molly Harrison's The gift stamp available HERE, the paper is from Memory box's Tinsel pack availableHERE and the pearly hearts are also from Crafts and me and you can pick them up HERE 50 of them for just 60p! I have coloured this beauty with the following promarkers:
Dress ; Maroon, Berry red, Lipstick red
Skin ; Vanilla, Saffron
Star ; Pine
Wings ; Pastel beige
Hair ; Umber, Burnt sienna, Cinnamon
You can get you promarkers from HERE.
Don't forget there is still time to enter the current Crafts and Me challenge which is pearls and swirls.

Hugs to you all

Amy xx

A Fairy Christmas

2011-12-02T08:39:00.002Z

Hi Everyone,

I'm chasing my tail again, nothing new. I am now seriously looking forward to Christmas. My house is a mess and my dining table is covered with cards being packaged up for a craft fair on Saturday. I have orders to fulfil and not enough hours in the day. Can anyone help, lol?

Today's card is a commissioned card, basically my customer wanted me to create a Christmas Card the same as my challenge card but using the Crafts and Me Belladonna image. I'm not too good at recreating but hopefully you'll think these two look alike..... if not I'm in trouble. I apologise for the photo I will replace when I'm home in daylight. I have used Belladonna available HERE to create this Christmas Card.

And here's the challenge card that prompted the order, using the "Bride/Flapper" Art Deco image available HERE.

You can see this one was taken in good light. Roll on Christmas and my new ott light.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Into the Word

2011-12-01T05:03:00.002Z

Hi everyone. It's my turn to post and show you what I have created. This will be a fast post as I am just now finishing helping my kids with their homework. My youngest is really struggling and she has gotten so far behind that has so much work to redo and finish that I could make a book out of it. I am sorry I have been MIA here lately, but she has been taking up all my time. I work full time then come home and I have to be a teacher, well that is what it feels like as that's all I do anymore.

Enough about me, let me get to my creations I have to share with you.

This first one is the card I made from my Mom for her birthday. I love this image and wanted to make a card a little different than I normally do as this card measures 9 x 4.5. I even sewed on it, something I don't do that often. I used a digi image for this one called "Into The Word" by Sara Burrier and you can find her HERE.

This is the card I created for our last Rubber DT Challenge that Karina hosted " Shabby chic/Vintage

I used a rubber stamp by Hannah Lynn called "Frosted Rose".

I think this card with all the colors and paper design screams Shabby Chic, don't you?

Well I am off to get myself in bed as I am about 6 hrs behind UK time. I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs:)

Angela

Night Blossom

2011-11-30T08:58:00.002Z

Good morning peeps, hope everyone is fine out there and enjoy the advent season. I had a busy week although I had some days off. I went to a fair for three days over the weekend to sell my cards. So this needed quite some preparations. But from now on I will take it relaxed. I don't have that much Christmas preparations to do which is really fine.

Today I have to show you just one card. It is one of my own favourite cards I ever made. I really like everything on it which happens not that often :o). It is the card I made for our last challenge with the theme Shabby Chic and Vintage. I love this theme and it was me who has chosen it this time. And I am really satisfied when I saw how many of you joined us. Thank you so much for your participation!

I made this card with one of the newest images by the fabulous artist Janna Prosvirina. She is called Night Blossom. Isn't she a true beauty? I love her so much, as each and every other image by this artist as well. I coloured her with Distress Inks. The papers are by Pion Design.

Today we start with a new challenge. So just take a look and join us. We always love to see what you create.

Have a wonderful week and a peaceful advent time.

Hugs, Karina

Melody Wishes you and Flapper melody 2

2011-11-29T09:00:00.000Z

Good Morning ,Trish Here Hope you are all well .I have 2 cards to show you today both using Lemon Shortbreads Melody stamps which are now at a Lower price.

The 1st one is Melody Wishes you.

The Fab Pink and Black Papers are from Crafts and me and are available Here and also the Pink Ribbons Here

My 2nd card is my DT card for the current Crafts and Me Challenge Vintage/Shabby Chic a new challenge starts on wednesday so hurry if you havent entered your creation yet.
I have used Flapper Melody 2 details are on my blog

Have a fab day
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Happy Sunday...

2011-11-27T08:00:00.000Z

Good morning everyone its my turn today (Mina) to show you some of the grogeous new digis from Crafts and Me today...I hope your all haveing a fantastic weekend and are not suffering from this terrible gale and cold we are getting...both my cards are using amazing image from Sara Burrier and the first card is using this amazing The Blessing...I printed her once on acetate and once on watercolour card, I mounted some glitterboard behind the acetate and coloured my image on the watercolour card with distress inks, cut her out and stuck her over the acetate image to give her a 3d effect (well hopefully anyway well thats what I was aiming for lol)
my second card is using one of the brand new December release digis and this beauty is called Casting Dowm Imagination, I coloured her again with distress inks and glittered her wings...although this image could be used for any occassion (wouldnt she be perfect for Valentine with all those hearts) I used her for a Christmas card and think she works great for christmas cards...all the information on these and many more cards and projects are on my blog as always...enjoy the rest of your day and keep warm
Mina xxx

"Autumn" by Sara Burrier

2011-11-26T09:00:00.000Z

Hi sweet peeps!

Mona here. I was going to show you one of the new releases that are due on dec 1st but my printer is out of ink, so i had to use one of the ones i allready had printed out. I have used one of the previous releases by Sara Burrier called Autumn. Available here. But since we are in the middle of the Christmas preparations i have made a Christmas-card. So i coloured this gorgeous image in Christmas-colours instead.

The chipboard snowflake is a Dusty Attic chippie which i`ve painted with gesso and blinged up a bit with Stickles Icicles, available here.

Well that`s all from me this time. Hope you`ll have a great weekend. Don`t forget to come and play with us at the challenge blog. There is still time. Happy crafting!

My Grandaughters Creations!!!!

2011-11-25T20:20:00.010Z

Good evening everyone,
Sorry my post is late today, I want to share with you a few of my two Grandaughter's card creations. Yes, they have the crafting bug too lol!

First of all I will show you Chloe's card who is twelve, Chloe made this card for me for my birthday using a Hannah Lynn unmounted stamp, the papers Chloe has used are the Black/Purple pad from Personal Impressions Here in the store

The next card is made by Jayd my eldest Grandaughter who is 16, some of you may remember Jayd from our stand at Stevenage in August.

Jayd has used the tutorial designed by Trish which you can find in the classes section HERE on the store.

The stamp used is Craft and Me's own unmounted stamp called Petal Melody HERE in the store for £4.25

The backing papers are the Black/Purple pad by Personal impressions
available HERE in the store

Jayd's next two cards are Tealight cards that have been made using Vix's tutorial HERE in the store classes section.

Jayd has used digi stamp Natalie by Sara Burrier H ERE

Jayd has used digi stamp Aliah by Hannah Lynn H ERE

Both Jayd and Chloe have used Promarkers available HERE in the store

Will Crafts and Me fans please leave my Grandaughters a comment.

Don't forget we have our new challenge for you to enter, the theme this week is
Shabby/Chic vintage where you can win some lovely Ribbons

Teresa xx

The Blessing by Guest Designer Lydia

2011-11-24T09:20:00.001Z

Whow times flies when you have fun. That also at this blog. Thank you all for the sweet and love and words here and on my blog
This is my third card for this great blog . I have choose for The Blessing digi
Of course I have coloured with my copic markers. The paper from a paperstack Lost and found available in the store HERE. With the silhouette I have cut the circle behind the image. The leaves and the lave made with a die.
And with white paint I make the snow dots on the image and in the Netting.

Hugs Lydia

A Fairy on a Mushy!!!

2011-11-23T09:00:00.000Z

Howdy!!! Today I have another Crafts and Me Digi image to share. I coloured this one up the other day in like a rusty red colour... it was NOT nice, so anyway I chucked that one and started again, this time with RED Copic markers, YAY finally have an R22 in the house... I have been missing this one, since my other one ran out, and well as you might be aware, the refills are no-where to be had... grrrrrrr so a new marker was needed.

Anyway I coloured the mushy using R22, R24, R27, and R29. I tried to make it so that the white dots were lighter around the edges, almost like they were glowing, and the middle parts of the mushy a big darker... but anyway it's looks OK, but I think I need to try again at some stage:-)

Oh I forgot to tell you about the image - it's called GPepper Tree and it's created by Sara Burrier. I just love how cheeky she looks eating her bits of mushy with her little pink tongue poking out!!! So here she is, I hope you love her as much as me!!!!

I did some dotty grass around the base of the mushroom and the little ones, because I can't do wispy looking grass!!! and I used Once Upon a Spring Time Papers by Graphic 45, so perfect for fairy's, oh and the paper does have little post marks on it, so I carried that forward using the postmark stamp a bit around the image. My flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, there is a heap of Stickles which you can get HERE, and of course a few half pearls available HERE.......

I also wanted to mention that Teresa has been fiddling with the postage rates and is now offering an awesome price for Europe and International Customers... check out the details by clicking on postage rates!!

Don't forget about the Crafts and Me Challenges which are up and running HERE, This is my card that I created for the Simples Theme (don't use many embellishments) using super awesome Moon Glow by Hannah Lynn. I absolutely love this one's hair, and I'm rather pleased with how she turned out *I'm giving myself a pat on the back* anyway her she is, I hope you love her too:

So go on get creating, we are super keen to see your creations, so add them into the challenge blog - who knows you just might win!!!

Till next time
Karen
xxxx

Christmas Miracle - New Digi release coming December 1st

2011-11-22T11:05:00.004Z

Good Morning fellow crafters! Carol here, this morning and I have a card to share with you using one of the brand new digis called Christmas Miracle who will be available to purchase from December 1st. I have coloured her in with Copics and used some glamour dust on her wings. Also just wanted to let you all know that Teresa is having a MASSIVE SALE on the website at the minute. She is offering all InStyle stamps for £2.99 so do go and grab yourself a bargain over here. Another card I would like to share is my card I made for the current challenge of "Simple". Here I have used Autum, who was a dream to colour and is available on the website here.
Thanks for stopping by, I do hope you have enjoyed your visit and will pop back again tomorrow for some more sneak peeks of the new digis. Lotsa luv, hugs xxxxx

A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That . . .

2011-11-21T00:24:00.008Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing several Copic-filled images that I’ve been having a lot of fun with. There is no real theme to the cards I've included here. I've dabbled all over the place. It's good to change things up a bit sometimes and I feel like I've been stuck on Christmas red since late August - LOL!!!

This photo shows a rubberstamped image that Elisabeth Bell designed for Sweet Pea Stamps. Teresa carries alot of the Sweet Pea Stamps line and you can find this sweet Little Curls image here. Isn't this little lady just adorable?

Speaking of adorable, take a look at this Mercreature rubberstamped image by Lisa Victoria! You can find this fabulous Sweet Pea Stamps image here. The snow globe that this mercreature is holding is left blank and you can fill it with whatever your heart desires. How cool is that?!?!

Talk about cool . . . You'll need to step away for some cool air after dancing a night away like this elegant Art Deco Couple. Teresa carries a fabulous line of eclectic 1920's art deco rubberstamps that are appropriate for many occasions. You can find this handsome couple, full of lavish plumes, here.

You may have seen this card at the current Crafts and Me Digi Team's "Simples" challenge. I've used Hannah Lynn's Kissy Fish image on this side open card. You can find her here. This beautiful image carries itself well without a lot of supporting accents. Keep her in mind for your loving Valentine wishes too!

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What's that I hear you say? You want to see Christmas red. LOL!!! Well, alright then. Here's a sneak peek at a soon-to-be-released digi image that Sara Burrier has designed named Poinsettia. I've used this beautiful fairy to decorate this Christmas cracker box . . .

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You can find more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here. Very soon you'll see stunning new Hannah Lynn miracles and the Sara Burrier Poinsettia and imagination images. Keep your eye out for them! And, if we're very lucky, the rest of the Digi Team might give us a sneak peek at more of them this week.

There's still time to add your entry to the current Digi team's "Simples" challenge here. Crafts and Me Stamps is offering THREE digi stamps to a randomly selected entry. What a great way to get your hands on some fabulous new digi images!!! Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Wishing you a fulfilling day! We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose

Belladonna and Clematis

2011-11-20T09:34:00.001Z

Good morning folks i hope you are all well and having a fab weekend, only five week to Christmas now lol i thought i would just pop that in for you:)

Any ways i'm off out in a minute for i'll get on with it i have a couple of cards to share with you today both of them have beautiful images my Janna Prosvirina the top one is Clematis isn't she gorgeous you can get her HERE and the bottom one is called Belladonna but unfortunately she is out of stock at the mo.

Dont forget our Challenge HERE and the Theme is Simples! so nice and easy for you.
Well thats it from me enjoy your day whatever your doing, i'm off christmas shopping, bye for now.

A clean and simple Saturday

2011-11-19T16:45:00.003Z

Hi everyone :D
I hope you are all having a good weekend and you don't have a stinking cold like I do :(
I am sorry to say that I just have the one card for you today and I have kept it clean and simple to fit with the current Crafts and Me challenge. If you haven't taken part yet get over there now as there is a great prize up for grabs and your card should be nice and quick to do as the challenge is to keep your creation clean and simple.
For my card I have used the gorgeous stamp from Hannah Lynn called Winter green wishes available HERE from the brilliant Crafts and Me. In case you are looking at this from out side of the UK there is now even more reason to buy from Crafts and me as there is a new lower postage rate so go ahead and fill your basket :D
I have coloured this beauty with promarkers and then added some sparkle with stickles. I have then mounted her on foam pads and then on gold embossed card before putting on the card.

Glamour

2011-11-18T09:00:00.002Z

Hiya Peeps,

I have used one of the gorgeous Art Deco Stamps from Crafts and Me called "Glamour" available HERE. I got some gorogeous Graphic 45 paper from the recent Show at Alexandra palace which compliments this image well I think.

And here's my challenge card using the fabulous new artist Joanna Prosvirino called Black Rose.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Not a lot to share

2011-11-17T04:24:00.000Z

Hi Everyone, I don't have a new card to share with you as I thought I had one more day till my post. We have been busy with kids homework, Destiny's car wreck and we just found and bought her a new car. We just need to put new brakes, wind sheild wipers, and a few small things before we let her drive it. I will be driving it to work today to see how it drives on longer trips.

All I have to share with you is my Challenge card from last week, as my other cards are not finished yet.

I used Janna Provirina's rubber image called "Belladonna" , which is currently out of stock at Crafts and Me Stamps.

Well I have to run and hope to be back to normal next week.

Hugs:)

Angela

Janna Prosvirina

2011-11-16T09:58:00.001Z

Hi everyone, Karina here today to show you some inspiration I made with the gorgeous images by our new artist Janna Prosvirina.

The first one is 'Black Rose'. I wanted to look her like a forrest elve, sitting on some bushes and leafs. So I also kept her and her surrounding in brown and green tones. I stamped her with brown ink and coloured the image with Copics. The background paper is from Basic Grey's Scarlett Letter.

The second card I want to show you today is made for the last challenge over at Crafts and Me challenges, where we asked for 'Happy Birthday'. I used beautiful 'Clematis' for it. I coloured her with Distress Inks.

Today we started a new challenge with the theme 'Simples'. Really quite challenging if you use to make cards with lots of embellies. You should give it a try. We look forward to see what you make.

Have a magical day!
Hugs, Karina

Pretty Pendants and Sweet Selina

2011-11-15T09:00:00.001Z

Good morning all you crafters out there,dont the days just fly by.
It,s my turn to show you a couple of cards using the Fabulous Crafts and Me rubber stamps.
My First is a sample card which is to go in the sample books that our lovely Tracy makes for Teresa to take to the Stamperama shows( I think the next ones in February)These have to be as flat as possible so the embellies are minimal.

I have used Heaven and Earths Pretty Pendants available Here I decided to give her some wings, I used a Marieanne Designs Decorative Elegance Die (Unfortunately these are out of stock at the moment but you can opt for an email from Teresa when they are available). To make the Wings i cut two pieces then cut off the curlyends which i didn,t need and used these around the sentiment so no waste, i hate throwing anything away lol!!

My Second card is my DT card for this weeks challenge from the Rockin Rubber Team which is Birthdays you still have untill tomorrow eve to join us.
For this one i used Hannah Lynns Sweet Selina available Here

For all you Europe/International Crafts and Me fans Teresa has now introduced a new LOWER postage rate
Check Here For Further details.

Enjoy your Day
(Hugs)
Trish (-:

Christmas with Hannah Lynn by the sea............

2011-11-14T10:19:00.000Z

Hello how are you all? Hope you've all had a chillaxing weekend. I REALLY need to get a crack on crimbo cards & I went into the hobbit & found this image. I coloured her & glittered her& the poinsettia's just before my break but then completely forgot about her........so here she is now finally on a card.

This is 'Christmas Eve Mermaid' by the fabulous Hannah Lynn exclusive to Crafts & Me Store, I coloured her the same colours as Hannah had for hers.

Instead of decorating the inside to match the front I have lined the back with another sheet of card so it feels as strong as the front.....the fronts always feel stronger cus they have so many layers on them. I've then added a sheet of thick paper & part-stamped the image & then added a sentiment.

I coloured her with Copics..........not sure of colours tho. The sky I actually forgot about til I had made my card & then last minute I stuck my finger into some 'Metallic Rub-On' & rubbed it in the background.

This is the card I did for our current challenge 'Birthdays' which you can enter here.

This is 'Orchid Of The Night' by Molly Harrison........this is my fave Molly stamp I just love it!!!

This image is a Sweet Pea stamp & its 'Love Is Gone' by Ching Chou-Kuik this is my fave Sweet Pea stamp. This image was requested for an Anniversary card for a man to his wife as she fell in love with this image when she saw me colouring it.

This is the card I made........she loved it so much she cried bless her!!! Wooden heart I painted with white paint then added a touch of crackle glazing.

All other details on my blog here.

There are new shipping charges over at the Crafts & Me Store which you can check out here.

Well thats it from little old me, thanks for popping by peeps huge hugs to you all

xoxoxoxox

Happy Sunday...

2011-11-13T08:00:00.000Z

Good morning everyone, I hope you have something lovely planned for today, we are having a family Sunday lunch...I love those kinds of days dont you...all the family together, chatting away over a mountain of food...perfect...Its my turn to show you some of the stunning digis from Crafts and Me today and my first is using one of the new November digis, isnt this amazing Autumn just stunning, I coloured her with Distress inks and glittered her, using her for a Christmas card, she works well for it dosent she
The next one is the one I made for our last amazing Digi team's challenge, this amazing image is another Sara Burrier digi and is called Perched at Dawn, I coloured the bird as a robin for Christmas too...I love this stunning image and again I coloured with distress inks...all the details are on my blog as always and while your there I have some mega candy to celebrate my 3rd blogaversary and your welcome to join in with it...I will leave you to enjoy the rest of your Sunday...have a wonderful day everyone
Mina xxx

Moon Glow

2011-11-12T21:01:00.001Z

Hey Peeps!

Finally...Here i am with my post for the day. Waaay overdue, lol, but that`s how it goes when life gets in the way, lol. I have used the gorgeous image "Moon Glow" designed by Hannah Lynn. Look at that amazing hair. These images are such a joy to colour. She is available right here. This image is one of the brand new november releases put up in the Crafts and Me store at nov 1st.

Closeup of the image.

I also just wan to show you real quick, my DT card for the last digi challenge. This image is called "Gpepper Tree" and is designed by the über talented Sara Burrier. I just looove her images. I gave her a bit of a shabby chic look, and i was fairly satisfied with the end result. This image is available right here.

I would also like to inform you about where you can find information about postage and delivery. All information you can find under the information tab in left sidebar in the online shop: Delivery and Return Here is the link. Please note that Europe and international customers postage is set to £3,45 If you are wondering about anything, our lovely boss Teresa is available to answer any question you might have. Here is also the link to the contact form. So please just ask if there is anything you are wondering about.

Don`d forget that the Rockin` Rubbah Team has a birthday challenge going on over at Crafts and Me challenges. So please feel free to come and join in on the fun. The girls on the DT has really outdone themselves this time. Their creations are fabulous eyecandy if i might add.

Hope you are enjoing your weekend so far. And i wish you all the best for the rest of it too.
Happy Crafting!

2011-11-11T11:15:00.005Z

Good morning everyone,
First of all I would like to thank everyone who entered to be our Guest Designer for a month, It was lovely to see your creations on your blogs. But unfortunately there can be only one winner.
In the previous two posts there are georgous creations from our new digi d.t Karen and Lydia our monthly GDT.
Now for store news!
We have a new artist joining us next month, so keep visiting back to see the d.t's creations using these georgous new rubber stamps.
We have some more IDEAS in the pipe line which when ready I am sure you will want to have but my lips are sealed for the moment sshhhh!
Now I would like to show you some wonderful creations from Crafts and Me Crafters.

These two cards are made by Katerina Baird, these are her first attempt at stamping and card making I think she has down a great job don't you!

Hiding rubber stamp by Molly Harrison HERE

Rose of Fire rubber stamp by Molly Harrison available HERE

Don't forget we have a new challenge and a great prize up for grabs over on the challenge blog here the theme is birthday's a nice and easy one.

Teresa x

Introducing our Guest Designer Lydia

2011-11-10T09:00:00.020Z

Good Morning all! I'd like to introduce you to our Guest Designer Lydia who will be coming to play along with us for the next month including showing her beautiful designs here and taking part in our challenges.
Please leave her a comment below to welcome her to the team and I hope her designs inspire you :)

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Hi, my name is Lydia, I live in the Netherlands together with my husband, little daughter and two dogs.

I was starting 10 years ago with scrapbooking and a few years ago to make cards. Now make more cards than scrapbook pages. I really love to stamp and colour.

The base of my card is cardstock, I use design paper and distress the edges. Under the image I use a Tim Holtz sizzix die Swirl. The flowers were white but colored with the airbrush and copic markers.

The images is Miss Mirabelle and is colored with copic markers. the background I have also colored with copic markers, I make spots with the brush nip of the marker

Bring a lot of spots together with different colours so you will get the background.

The Blessing

2011-11-09T09:00:00.003Z

Good Morning everyone,
Today I want to introduce you to our very talented new D.T Karen,
Karen will be on the digi team as from today and every other Wednesday, where you will see Karen showing you what you can make with our lovely range of digi's.

Here is a little bio from Karen:

Hi Hi Everyone!!! My name is Karen, and I'm from Australia. I live on the central coast of Tasmania, (the little Island at the bottom of the big island). I am 35 and married to a lovely husband, Leigh, and we have 1 baby girl - well she has just turned 2 so I guess she is a toddler now:-) Her name is Ruby!!! I started scrapbooking about 7 years ago to record and hold the precious memories of our Honeymoon in Europe and other travelling adventures we have been on! Then when Ruby was born in 2009, I started to make some cards, and really found that I love stamping and colouring in with Copic's, after a long battle with Distress Inks and Watercolour Pencils!!! I love to craft with awesome stamps, and I'm a sucker for gorgeous ribbons and flowers and bling and pearls... and my major, major, weakness, has to be patterned Paper - Oh dear!!! LOL

I took an adventure into Blog Land one day and got a wee bit lost (almost 2 years ago).... but I have made some life long friends which whom I treasure, and now I am here for another crafty adventure and to make some more blog buddies:-)

Cuddles

Karenxxx

Now onto Karens 1st post.

All Crafts and Me fans please welcome Karen to the team.

Teresa xxx

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G'Day everyone!! My name is Karen and I'm from Australia... This week is my very first post for Craft's and Me, and boy I have something I think is a little bit special to share with you all!!

As you are aware, there was a bunch of newbie Digi stamps that was released last week.... anyway I have used one by Sara Burrier, called The Blessing, which of course you can get your mitts on HERE. I've also added on the cool circle from the Christmas Embellishments Set which is available HERE....

I was able to merge the two together on Photoshop which I must say I think I'm pretty clever in doing as my Computer skills???? I don't really have any!!! ... anyway once I got it printed I started colouring, and then the idea struck on how to display these gorgeous images....

It's a 6 x 6 Chippy shadow box that I picked up at a paper craft show about a month ago. I've painted it white and then once it had dried, I got out the Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle Paint and gave it a good going over with that... it looks really cool in real life... sorry if the pic's don't pick up all the details. I've also added a few glittered up die cuts and some flowers, a bit of seam binding in the corner with a Pearl Bling Buckle on top... can't really see it that well... My snow on the image has been created with some Ranger Liquid Pearls... awww so pretty!!

Well as this is my first ever post as a new member of the Design Team I don't have a Challenge card to show, but the Challenge is up and running and this week's theme is Birthday's so please get your entries in, I can't wait to see what you guys are creating:-)

Till next time
Cuddles
Karen

Tutorial - Treat box card/Tealight candle card

2011-11-08T11:37:00.001Z

Morning all! I have a little tutorial for you today for a really easy make especially if you're looking to make a lot in a short time. With Christmas fast approaching these are a lovely little gift you can make plenty of in a short time. There are further ideas at the bottom to customise it for your taste but as I'm making a lot of these for charity I simplified it :)

You will need:

1 piece of card 9" by 4" (approx 228mm by 101mm)
1 piece of card 5 1/2" by 5 1/2" (Approx 140mm by 140mm)
1 piece decorated card just under 3" by 3" (approx 73mm by 73mm)
4 glue dots
Glue Stick
Papers to decorate

STEP 1 - Take your piece of 9"x4" card and score it at 4" and 5" on the inside then score your 5 1/2" x 5 1/2 card and score it on the back around each edge at 1/2" and 1 1/4"

STEP 2 - After you've scored your square card you will see little squares formed, trim these as shown (NB see pic for red cut line)

STEP 3 - Fold in your box as shown below and secure the flaps with a glue dot - I have tried numerous glues and they dont work very well so a simple glue dot will hold it nicely.
Trim the opening of the box by snipping the corners.

STEP 4 - Decorate as desired then on the bottom of the box use a glue stick along the flaps and glue this onto your card base. Take the small piece of decorated card (Slightly smaller than 3"x3") and glue the back, slide this into the bottom of the box and secure.

STEP 5 - Fill your box with goodies! I have used scented ikea candles which fit nicely.

And this is the front using part of the new ANGEL RAYS digi

FURTHER IDEAS!

You can make your card base larger if you wish, simply readjust the measurements. I make them 4 x 4" as you can get 2 card bases out of 1 sheet of A4 at that size

Add a layer of acetate on the inside of the box if you wish to fill with items that might fall out

Don't cut a hole in the top and decorate the top of the box so that it has a nice surprise inside

I also use ready decorated card, here I've used one I made with moonshadow ink as the boxes are quite fiddly to decorate with patterned paper and if you use patterned paper on the top before die cutting make sure your glue is completely dry or it may tear or slip!

You can use plain card for the box and simply spray with GLIMMER MIST for some sparkles.

I use 3" x 3" images on the fronts, this is very easy to do with digi stamps and you dont have to use the entire stamp (also saves time if you've lots to do!)

If you have lots to make do them together in stages so cut all your bases then score them all as it saves looking back repeatedly for measurements if youve the memory of a goldfish like I have!

Hope you like this and if you have lots to make for an event for example then I highly recommend them. I think the Elizabeth Shaw mints fit as well (8)

It's a Fairy Christmas . . .

2011-11-07T00:21:00.002Z

Hi there! This is Rose sharing three Copic-filled digi images that I’ve been having a lot of fun with.

This photo shows a recently released Lady of Opal image by Sara Burrier. I've attached her to the inside of a shaped window card so you can get a peek at her through the window. You can find this lovely fairy at the Crafts and Me online store here. Can't you just feel her sending peace and well wishes through her gently drifting flowers?

This gatefold card showcases Sara Burrier's Lady of the Field all decked out for the holidays! You can find her here. Who said faeries don't celebrate the holidays? The woodland creatures can't wait!

You may have seen this card at the current Crafts and Me "Let the Music Move You!" challenge. I've used the warm Christmas Fireplace image on this easel card. You can find this image here. It's a beautiful image that can stand by itself. This Christmas Fireplace will also make a wonderful background image with the addition of another focal point image.

You can find these and more newly released digi images at the Crafts and Me store here.

There's still time to add your entry to the current Digi team's "Let the Music Move You!" challenge here. Crafts and Me Stamps is offering THREE digi stamps to a randomly selected entry. What a great way to get your hands on some of these magnificent digi images!!! Visit the Crafts and Me challenge blog again on Wednesday for a new Rockin' Rubbah challenge.

Wishing you a magical day! We're so glad you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose

Two New Beauties

2011-11-06T11:07:00.003Z

Good Morning folks its Gina here with you this morning i hope you had a good bonfire night and are enjoying your weekend.

I'm here to show you a couple of my recent makes using two of the new stamps my our new artist Janna Prosvirina on this one i've used Night Blossom you can get her HERE isn't she beautiful.

For this one i've used Black Rose and you can get her HERE and isn't she beautiful too i just love these new stamps and i'm sure you will too.

Well that's it from me i hope you like them! oh and don't forget our Challenge HERE and theme is let the music move you, anyway have a lovely day whatever your doing.

How does your garden grow?

2011-11-05T16:06:00.004Z

Just in case this is your first time here for a while there is a brand new artist that has joined Crafts and Me the incredible Janna Prosvirina. I just had to use her gorgeous Clematis stamp for my card today (Grab her HEREwhile you can as she is selling fast). I have coloured her with promarkers and added some sparkle with sakura stardust pens. If you are looking for more inspiration using these new stamps just check out the previous posts from the rest of the DT as we are all just slightly hooked on them :D

This second card is my card for this weeks Crafts and Me challenge which is to be inspired by a song. I have used the beautiful digi by Sara Burrier called Celtic Angel available HERE. I have coloured her with promarkers. I was inspired by the Robbie Williams song "Angels".

I hope you are all having a good weekend and that you have a fun and safe Bonfire night for any of you celebrating tonight.
Huge hugs

Amy xx