Design Team Member

Well its official, I have been invited to join the Digital Ink design team. How cool is that?
I am so excited & hope I can produce cards as good as the other team members.
So you can look forward to seeing lots of Digital Ink stamps, go take a look at http://digital-inkco.com/
They have some gorgeous stamps in the shop. You wont be disappointed.

Calendar

I was blog hopping last night & came across this calendar which had been made by Bird Cards it is an easel card which I have added to a little bit. Firstly if you do not know how to make an easel card, then go to Splitcoaststampers
Here you will find the tutorial and measurements.
I have used papers again from stash, flowers by Prima & cream organza ribbon and used my Crop O Dile to make bronze eyelets to enable me to keep the card upright & more stable. The calendar came from Bird cards as above.

Thistle

I think this is a thistle......... I had coloured in the image ages ago & not done anything with it, anyway out it came today & I made this card. Once more it is coloured with Prismacolors. I have 72 colours & have just ordered a few more...lol. The stamp is by Elusive Images. Papers again from my stash. I have Cuttlebugged the yellow stripe paper with the Swiss Dots folder & used a Fiskars punch on the side. Flowers from Prima & the sentiment, I got from a K & Co kit I bought from QVC ages ago which has lots of these sentiments in amongst other embellishments. I also coloured it with a Prisma pencil to match the card colours.

Tilda

I had already coloured this image in a while ago with of course Prismas, so thought I would make use of it, all the papers were from my stash, some of them came free from magazines collected over time. Tore a couple of pieces to add texture & layered them on to the card. Tilda is mounted onto card, but I cut around her using fancy scissors, remember them? I have said to myself that I will make more use of what I have this year (not including images) rather than keep collecting and not using things after a while. The flowers I had downloaded ages ago from elementalpixie.blogspot.com and I reduced them in size in Word & printed them out, I then used small Prima flowers in the centre with a jewel. The sentiment is a Cuttlebug small folder, using the same card as the mount on Tilda.

Teddy Bear

Another Digital Ink Co image that I got from the newsletter. Coloured once more with Prismas & blended with Sansador. Mounted 2 pieces of thin card together to give the layered colours, green & yellow. Used paper from stash to create the frame effect & stamped with a Cuddly Buddly sentiment stamp. At the bottom, used a Glitter Girl board to give a wavy line for a border.

Cheeky Boy

I received a free stamp from Digital-Ink co as I have their blinkie on my blog, isnt he gorgeous? I thought this could be a mans slightly humorous card. I am pleased with the shading of the body, although you may not be able to see it clearly in the photo. The papers were in my stash, the sentiment I printed off Greetings Card Factory and as the backing papers has stitching, I thought I would carry on the theme and add stitching around the topper & the plain backing paper.

Digital Ink Challenge

Digital Ink have a challenge running, the first of the year and it was to create a pet or baby birthday theme using red, blue, green & yellow with a neutral colour, which in my case is white.The prize is as above, so go take a look and participate.http://digital-inkcochallenge.blogspot.com

My entry is as above, I used papers from stash, the image from Cuddly Buddly, I have coloured with Prismacolours & Sansador, mounted using a Nestie Labels 2 & a round sentiment using red,blue & green inks.