Introducing Lilith

Kraftin' Kimmie has gone off on her own adventure and started a fabulous new stamp company called what else but Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. This here is Lilith and she is one of 4 from the Moonlight Whispers range.
I have stamped Lilith in Black stazon ink and coloured her with my all time favourites Prismacolor pencils.
The base card is white with with red layers of bazzill cardstock. The Designer Papers are from Kaisercraft. I finished the card off with some paper flowers in grey and black with little red rhinestones in the middle.
I hope you like what I have done.
Kraftin Kimmie Stamps are available in Australia from Stampin Stuff. I am very pleased to say I am the Stampin Stuff Design Team along with the fabulous owner Amy and another very talented lady called Vicki.
Click on their names to check out their Blogs.

Until next Time
Inking of you All
Michelle

Going Green...recycling that is

This weeks High Hopes Challenge #48 is all about recycling. I have used Elmer the Elephant for this card. I think he looks great in any colour.

Elmer has been stamped and then embossed with Black Brilliance Ink and clear powder. I have chosen to colour him with Twinkling H2O's. It's a shame the shimmer of these paints doesn't show.

He was then cut out and mounted on a 'SU chocolate chip' oval cut out using the nestabilities.The designer papers this week are from Scenic Route Paper Inc.

My recycled embellishment is actually the ring pull from a soft drink can, as you can see I made it into a buckle to thread the ribbon through.

I am having so much fun using my High Hopes Stamps.They are fabulous to colour.

Until Next Time

Inking of you All

Michelle

Mum's Garden

Hello everyone, Today I am showcasing another great set from Annabelle Stamps. This is one of the most versatile sets I have seen and it is a dream to colour in. It's called Mum's Garden. Now for my card.

I have stamped and embossed with sparkly powder, 3 separate images. (There are 12 in this set, making it great value for money.) I have coloured today using my Twinkling H2Os. 'Twinks' are fabulous watercolour paints that shimmer. The more paint you use the stronger the shimmer becomes. For more information on how to use these gorgeous paints click HERE.

It is a shame that the photo doesn't show the shimmer very well but in real life it looks fantastic.

Once coloured and left to dry the card was then put together with co-ordinating designer papers from Junkitz. 3 brads were used as embellishments and all put together on a cheery orange card.

Until Next Time

Inking of you All

Michelle

My 1st High Hopes Design Team card

Here is my first card as a Guest Diva on the High Hopes Design Team.This card was made for this week's High Hopes Blog Challenge #47... Lots of Layers.


For me this is a really significant leap in the card making arena. As most of you know I am absolutely in love with this range of stamps as they are such a joy to work with. I have so many ideas running through my head at the moment all of which involve colouring of course.


Today's card features the stamp Crystal Snowlady. She has been stamped in Black Stazon on watercolour paper. I have coloured her in using a combination of watercolour pencils and crayons.

The card is from Bazzill, while the designer papers are from Imaginesce. In all I have used 6 layers, the smaller red piece has dots that are too small to see.

For the finishing touches I used glittery snowflake buttons on top of the 'snowflake flowers' and added 2 swirls made with the 'wave swirl' punch.
I hope you have enjoyed looking at my first 'official' card.


Until Next Time
Inking of you All
Michelle

MORE really good news

Times are changing in my life right now and things are going from strength to strength. My stamping talents have been recognised worldwide and today I have some MORE exciting news to share with you all.
I am so please to announce I am now on the Design Team for Stampin Stuff.
Stampin Stuff is owned by a very talented Australian lady called Amy Wegener. Amy is also an integral part of the High Hopes Design Team.
You have probably seen several of Amy's High Hopes cards featured in Australian Stamping and Cardmaking magazine.
Another very talented lady called Vicki Brunner is also on the Design Team. Vicki has a great blog called Creative Considerations. It really is worth a look. Vicki does lots of great layering with her cards.
I am really looking forward to working with these very talented girls.

WOW! My really BIG news

I have just about the most exciting news ever. I have been given the honour of being a Guest Diva on the High Hopes Design Team. WOW, WOW, WOW!!!
I will be participating in their High Hopes blog challenges, and basically designing lots of fun cards to share with you here on my blog. I will be doing this from now until Christmas. The 'Diva's' have all been very welcoming and I can't wait to start creating along side of them. The talent amongst these girls is amazing. I have put a link to each of their blogs in the right hand side bar. Be sure to go and check them out.

With all this wonderful design team work I will be updating my blog on a very regular basis, so keep checking back.
I will have some more exciting news in the next day or two.

Until Next Time
Inking of you All
Michelle

Baby Elephant

Today I have made a baby card made using one of Magnolia Stamps's relatively new animal stamps. As you can see this is the Elephant, my other favourite is the Lion.
The elephant was stamped and embossed using Brilliance black ink and polysparkle (clear powder with glitter) embossing powder. Today I chose to watercolour using my Lyra crayons.
I then proceeded to cut him out and layer onto the purple oval then the green scalloped oval (both card colours from Stampin Up). I then layered using designer papers from a DCVW (boy) Nursery 12"x12" Paper Pad.
To finish off I added a few kaisercraft and prima flowers with rhinestones in the centre.
The Magnolia stamps are available in Australia at Heavenscent Crafts.
Don't forget to all my local Canberra stamping girls, Heavenscent Crafts is coming to town and it's now only 3 weeks away.
Everyone is welcome to the sale on

Sunday 25th October

12 noon until 4.oopm

Senior citizens centre

10 Watson Street Turner.

I will be there helping out Deb so come along and say Hello.

Until next Time

Inking of you All

Michelle