Saffire's Stamping

Good Morning and welcome to my final DT post for Craft Box. I have had lots of fun on this DT and tried out lots of techniques and mixed media projects that I would probably have never done had I not been on this DT, but this term has come to an end and it is time for me to try my hand at something new. Thank you to Anna for inviting me to join your team and for all the DT goodies too. Thank you also to Michelle, our DT coordinator and the rest of the team for being a fabulous group of inspirational artists! Anyway on to my project. I bought a pack of these kraft coloured gift bags from the Works (4 for £1) and thought I would have a go at decorating one as it is something I haven't done for absolutely ages! Everything on here except for the gesso, sentiment and ink used on it came from the April Craft Box. Recipe: Stamps: Mat Stack 4 Collection from Papertrey Ink Papers: All from April's Craft Box Inks: Perfect Plum from Stampin' Up Accessories: P

Good morning and welcome to this week's inspiration post for Whimsy Stamps. This week I  am using the adorable Penguins Party digital stamp and have combined it with the Easter Papers , Pink Pop Papers and Blue Bell Bliss Papers as well as a sentiment from Birthday Verse 4 . Recipe: Stamps: Penguins Party & Birthday verse 4 both from Whimsy Stamps Papers: Pacific Point & Daffodil Delight both from Stampin' Up, Easter Papers, Pink Pop Papers & Blue Bell Bliss Papers all from Whimsy Stamps, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Copic Markers Accessories: Gems from Poundland, Pennant Die from Verve Stamps Copics Used: Penguins - C0, C1, C5, C7, C9 Beaks & Feet - YR14, YR15, YR18 Tongue - R43 Left hat - BG01, BG05, BG07, Y13, Y18, YR04, YR07 Party Blower - V04, V06, YG11, YG13 Middle Headband & Scarf - Rv14, RV17, RV19 Right Hat - V15, V17, B14, B16, B18 Floor - T1, T2, T4, T6 Dots - RV55, YR04, Y15, B04,

Good Morning and welcome to a double DT post from me for a change. The new Craft Box arrived this week and it was full of lots of pink goodies, so I just had to use them with this gorgeous image from Ching-Chou Kuik . This beauty is Scent of Spring and she is just stunning, isn't she? Everything except for the card and pink ribbon came from the Craft Box, which has been one of my favourites so far. This card is also for Colour Crazy Challenge Week 16 Anything Goes Crafty Catz Challenge #367 Anything Goes Aloha Friday Challenge #93 In The Garden Creatalicious Challenge #113 Anything Goes Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge #378 Flowers Allsorts Challenge #412 I Spy things beginning with B - I used butterfly, blooms, brown and a beautiful image!  Recipe: Stamps: Scent of Spring from Ching-Chou Kuik Papers: Pink Pirouette & Crumb Cake both from Stampin' Up, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place, Patterned Papers from Craft Box Inks: C

Good Morning and welcome to my post for the Simply B Stamps Progressive Challenge . Each month Betty draws a new image for us to use and this month's image was just gorgeous! The theme this time was to use at least 1 piece of patterned paper, pearls and feathers. I used some old DSP from Stampin' Up and went with a red and black combo - love this colour combo for these 1920s images. Recipe: Stamps: 20s Charlotte from Simply B Stamps Papers: Real Red, Basic Black, Old Olive & Love Letter DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Copic Markers Accessories: Real Red Ribbon (Retired) from Stampin' Up, Roll Up Roses Dies 6002/0384 & 6002/0473 both from Joy Crafts, Twisted Metal Tags & Accents Dies from Spellbinders, Lace Edged Leaves Dies from Creative Expressions, Feathers from The Range, Pearls from Papermania, Square Shape Art Template from Dutch Doobadoo Copics Used: Skin - E000, E00, E21

Good Morning and welcome to my inspiration post this week for Whimsy Stamps. This week I thought I would use the Over The Moon Cow digi stamp and create a cute love card instead of a baby card, which some of the other DT members have done with this stamp. I don't do babies and only make baby cards if they are needed LOL I combined this image with the Pet Papers 2 , Pink and Blue Mix Papers  and an old sentiment set, Sun, Moon, Stars. This card is also for Little Miss Muffet Challenge #161 Anything Goes Creative Knockouts Challenge #190  Lots of Layers Aud Sentiments Challenge #178 Use A Stamps For The Sentiment Incy Wincy Designs Challenge So So Cute Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #56 Anything Goes Creative Fingers Challenge #128 Anything Goes Recipe: Stamps: Over The Moon Cow Digi stamp & Sun, Moon, Stars both from Whimsy Stamps Papers: Pacific Point & Crumb Cake both from Stampin' Up, Pet Papers 2 & Blue and Pink Mix Papers

Good morning and welcome to my DT post for the new release from Sherri Baldy this month. This gorgeous image is My Besties Beauty and totally reminded me of Cinderella running away from the ball, so I coloured her up in a traditional Disney blue dress and used my Cinderella quote which I have been dying to use ever since I bought this stamp set. My camera didn't pick it up but her dress is actually covered in lots of sparkly dots which really shimmer in real life! This card is also for Through The Craft Room Door Challenge Anything Goes Creative Moments Challenge #116 Anything Goes Creative Inspirations Challenge #273 One For The Girls Digi Choosday Challenge Week 16 Anything Goes Aurora Wings Challenge #48 Anything Goes Crafting From The Heart Challenge #155 Anything Goes Recipe: Stamps: Scan0003 from Sherri Baldy, Fashion from Joy Crafts Papers: Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Whisper White & Bella Bleu DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' UP, Super Sm

Good Morning and welcome to my DT post for the new challenge from The Paper Shelter . This week our challenge is called Sentimental, so we would like to see you use a sentiment on your project. This time I have used the gorgeous Art Deco Charme . I love these 1920s style images and would love to dress up in a flapper style fringed dress one day. I went with a red, black and gold combo and added a few feathers to me flowers as well to top it all off. This card is also for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Flowers Crafty Gals Corner Challenge Embellish It Die Cutting Divas Challenge #313 Shaped Cards Artistic Inspirations Challenge #177 Anything Goes The Ribbon Girl April Any Image Challenge A Bit More Time To Craft's Challenge #42 Anything Goes Recipe: Stamps: Art Deco Charme from The Paper Shelter, Banners from Joy Crafts Papers: Real Red & Basic Black both from Stampin' Up, Pretty Red Classics Patterned Papers from The Works, Super Smooth Car

Good Morning and welcome to my second post for the March edition of Craft Box. I thought I would do something a little different this time and used only the supplies in the Craft Box. I made three tags using the patterned papers, snipart words, glitter, glass cabochons, sparkly gems, fibres, ribbon, flowers and epoxy stickers. OK I lied, I did a little touch of lace, but that came from the Craft Box Mixed Media workshop I went to the other weekend, so I guess it still counts as a Craft Box item! And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by!

Good Morning and welcome to my DT post for this month's Whimsy Stamps Challenge . Our challenge this time is Anything Goes with an option of Spring. I chose to use the adorable Penguin Loves Watermelon . I combined him with the Mint Green Light Papers and Various Occasions 2 Sentiments . I then added lots of pretty flowers, some swirly die cuts and a few gems in the corner. Recipe: Stamps: Penguin Loves Watermelon & Various Occasions 2 Sentiments both from Whimsy Stamps Papers: Always Artichoke from Stampin' Up, Mint Green Light Digital Papers from Whimsy Stamps, Card blank from stash, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Copic Markers Accessories: Whisper White Ribbon (Retired) from Stampin' Up, Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, Fancy Oval Dies 6002/0258 from Joy Crafts, Gems from Poundland Copics Used: Penguin - C00, C0, C5, C7, C9, R000, R00 Feet & Beak - YR14, YR16, YR18 Melon - R12, R14, R17, G000, G20, G40, YG05, YG

Good afternoon. My lovely friend Bettina let me know about the DT call over at Delicious Doodles and I thought I would give it a try out, so I purchased some of these gorgeous images and made two completely different cards for the DT call. This first card uses the gorgeous Blossom and I thought I would go with my girly pink and aqua colour combo on this one. And my second card called to my gothic side. I used Gothic Fairy on this one and lots of dark and creepy bits!  Both completely different, but I love them both!  Little bit about me: I am a primary school teacher here in the UK, living with my boyfriend of just over 20 years and our spoilt little cat Miss Tallulah Zazzles (Not my name pick!). I started card making about 10 years ago when I was hunting for something to do during the school summer holidays. I started off with a cheap set from eBay containing some Sizzix die cuts and card blanks. Oh those first cards were hideous, but that was probably the best £5

Good Morning everyone and welcome to my inspiration post this week for Ching-Chou Kuik . This week I have used the gorgeous Spring Jasmine and made an extra large card, so I could have a play with my Foamiran (which I have had for ages but only used once before!). I love dimension this foam gives to the flowers and love the colours of it too. This card is also for A Gem of A Challenge #192 Ribbon and Lace A Bit More Time To Craft's Challenge #42 Anything Goes Creatalicious Challenge #113 Anything Goes World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #21 Anything Goes Inky Chicks Challenge #81 Use Purple Unicorn Challenge #20 Petal Power Recipe: Stamps: Spring Jasmine from Ching-Chou Kuik, Little Labels from Papertrey Ink Papers: Perfect Plum & Sahara Sand both from Stampin' Up, Gorgeous Soft Pastels Patterned Papers from The Works, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place, Card Base from stash Inks: Perfect Plum from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers, S

Good Morning! I am currently on holiday for 2 weeks and as yet we haven't planned to go anywhere or do anything as my boyfriend hasn't got the time off from his work, but we might manage to grab a few days out. Instead I am doing a bit of crafting, getting ahead on my DT assignments and playing just for fun! This project was a just for fun one! I had a hunt through my huge folders full of printed digis and found this gorgeous one, Amy from Sweet Escape Digis and just had to colour in that gorgeous mane of hair! It took me ages and it made my hand ache by the end, but it was worth it! This card is also for Noor Design Sketch Challenge #12 Creative Fingers Challenge #128 Anything Goes Crafting With Friends Challenge #41 Anything Goes Crafty Catz Challenge #366 Anything Goes Noor Design UK April Challenge Flowers Colour Crazy Challenge Week #15 Anything Goes In The Pink Challenge #117 Pearls Recipe: Stamps: Amy from Sweet Escape Digis Papers: Pink Pirouette

Good afternoon everyone! As much as I love being on vacation from work, it completely messes my days up as I now have no idea what day it is! I can't believe it is Thursday already and we have done hardly anything this week. We went out for dinner on Tuesday and am going to somewhere else for dinner tonight. I have been swimming 4 times already this week and will go again in the morning. Love being able to find the time for an extra few swims! Yesterday we spent the afternoon sorting out the mess that is our very small spare room, where all our clothes, shoes and other odds and ends live. I took photos of all my new shoes and my boyfriend asked the most ridiculous question I think any woman could hear: "Do you think you have enough shoes yet?!" I think the answer to that will always be the same: Never! Never ever ever! You can never have enough shoes! LOL Anyway onto my card for Whimsy Stamps digital inspiration this week. I used the hilarious Don't Laugh and com

Good Morning everyone and welcome to my first project using the March Craft Box. The Craft Box this time was a little different and very open to interpretation for what to do with the goodies, so I decided to make a love/Valentines canvas to add my wall of canvases. I try to do each one in a different colour and now have a purple one, turquoise one, pink one and a red one. Might go for a neutral colour next time. I used a mixture of goodies from the Craft Box and some from my own stash and an image from Faery Ink for this canvas. From the Craft Box I used the black and white patterned papers, "forever" Snipart, glass baubles, glitter squares, flowers, leaves, ribbon, heart charms and the resin frame, which I painted in black gesso and then with pearl stencil paste which is also from Craft Box. This canvas is also for Fab 'n' Funky's Challenge #345 Bows Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #117 3+ Layers Crafting With An Attitude's Challenge #26 Anything

Good Morning and welcome to my post for the new challenge from the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration and Challenge blog . This month our challenge is called Under The Sea, so we would love to see your sea themed projects. You can also include mermaids or sea animals which usually live under the sea, even if they are not under it in your image! I used the gorgeous Lilies Commitment in my project and made a picture frame scene using a cheap plastic frame I bought ages ago from Poundland. Unfortunately the glass in it was broken when I dug it out this morning, but that worked in my favour a little bit as it meant I could have things sticking on to the image from frame itself. The frame was originally white but I painted it with a layer of gesso to make it easier to add the paint, although I'm not really sure I needed it. I used Ice Blue Pearlescent paint and then added lots of shells from eBay and other goodies from an old Craft Box. Although it didn't come out quite as I had im

Good Morning and welcome to my inspiration post for Whimsy Stamps . This week I am sharing a newly released image with you, Bunnies Brushing Teeth . I thought this image was just hilarious and paired it up with the Vintage Sentiments set and Blue Bell Bliss Papers . Recipe: Stamps: Bunnies Brushing Teeth & Vintage Sentiments both from Whimsy Stamps Papers: Soft Suede & Chocolate Chip both from Stampin' Up, Blue Bell Bliss Papers from Whimsy Stamps, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Copic Markers Accessories: Whisper White Ribbon (Retired) from Stampin' Up, Baker's Twine from Martha Stewart, Charm from eBay, Roses & Stamens from Wild Orchid Crafts, Lace Doily Border 1 Die from Whimsy Stamps Copics Used: Left Bunny - E70, E71, E74, E77, E79 Right Bunny - E21, E23, E25, E27, E30 Inner Ears - R01, R02 Noses - C5, C9 Toothbrush - B63, B66, B69 Grass - E84, E87, E89 Sky - B000, B00, B01 And that's all fro

Good Morning and welcome to a new challenge from The Paper Shelter . This week our challenge is to make it digital, so that means we want to see you using digital images, digital papers and anything else you have that is digital. As The Paper Shelter has some fabulous digital images, I chose to use one of the new ones, Venus Flytrap . That cute little plant reminded me of Audrey II from The Little Shop of Horrors, so coloured it up in the same colours with her bright red lips! I kept the card fairly simple though as I printed the image quite large. Recipe: Stamps: Venus Flytrap from The Paper Shelter, Everyday Button Bits from Papertrey Ink Papers: Cherry Cobbler & Garden Green both from Stampin' Up, Summertime Patterned Papers from Maja Design, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Cherry Cobbler from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers Accessories: Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts Copics Used: Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20, R30 Hair, Eyeb

Good evening again! Today is the second day for the new releases from Whimsy Stamps' Digital Team and I used the adorable Penguin Loves His Kittens  and the fabulous Blue and Pink Mix Papers . I also used a sentiments from the Vintage Sentiments set to finish it off. This card is also for Crafting When We Can Challenge #141 Animals  A Gem of A Challenge #191 Furry Friends Creative Ladybirds Challenge #25 Anything Goes Scrapper's Delight Challenge #65 Anything Goes Brown Sugar Challenge #244 Anything Goes Classic Design Team Open Challenge Anything Goes Recipe: Stamps: Penguin Loves His Kittens & Vintage Sentiments both from Whimsy Stamps Papers: Night of Navy & Very Vanilla both from Stampin' Up, Pink and Blue Mix Papers from Whimsy Stamps, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Copic Markers Accessories: Very Vanilla Ribbon & Night of Navy Ribbon (Both Retired) from Stampin' Up, Gems from Poundland Copics Used: Peng

Good evening and I am almost back on track. I have a huge thing going on tomorrow and have spent all week preparing various things for it and just have the final checks to do tonight ready for the morning and then hopefully I will have more time to myself in the evenings! So huge apologies to everyone for this project being so late! Anyway this is Sherri's new release Giggle Box Img269  and isn't she just adorable?! I made a trifold card and paired her up with some old retired patterned papers from Stampin' Up. I really do wish they had released these for longer as I love the colour combo on these ones! This card is also for The Ribbon Girl's April Card Challenge Anything Goes A Bit More Time To Craft's Challenge #41 Anything Goes 613 Avenue Create's Challenge #196 Anything Goes Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends Challenge #55 Anything Goes Love To Scrap Challenge #96 Girlz Rule Delicious Doodles April Challenge Ribbon and Flowers Recipe: Stamps:

Good Morning and welcome to my new release post for Whimsy Stamps' Digital Team . This month Crissy has released so many adorable images. I am sure you are going to love them all! I chose to use Kitty Floats for today's post and I just love the look of pure happiness on his cute, little face! I went for a slightly nautical theme with some waves and fishes as I am sure Kitty would love to catch a few for his lunch! Recipe: Stamps: Kitty Floats & Magical Mini Letter Seals both from Whimsy Stamps Papers: Soft Sky, Basic Grey, Calypso Coral & By The Shore DSP all from Stampin' Up, Super Smooth Card from That Craft Place Inks: Calypso Coral from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers Accessories: Under The Sea Edge Die 6002/0330 from Joy Crafts, Ocean Corner Dies from Joanna Sheen Copics Used: Kitty - W3, W5, W7, W9, R00, R01, R02 Boat - E33, E35, E37 Sea - B00, B01, B02, B04 Sky - B0000, B000, B00 And that's all from me for this pos