A fun trio

Look at this fun card .. featuring images from Vera Lane Studio, Wonderland Set #2 : 

These images are from Wonderland Set #2, check out the other great images in the set :

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Just a little prick !

Made a card for my teenage boys Birthday ..... lmao

All images by Vera Lane Studio

Carol singer

This weeks release from Vera Lane Studio is these gorgeous carol singers :

I made my first Christmas card of 2017 :

Meet Nurse Dee !

What an awesome release this week from Vera Lane Studio, meet Nurse Dee :

During October we are also partnering up with Serena Bee, to showcase some of her awesome new papers. I made a card :

Imagine Nurse Dee showing up at your bedside with that syringe full of red stuff !!!

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Life can be prickly ...

This weeks new release from Vera Lane Studio is Holly and Mistletoes. I have used the cute Holly girl as the main focus for my card :

These gals will be great for Christmas cards, but I wanted to use her in this way, cause yes, life can be pricky ! eeek

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' SUP ?

Oh my .. this new release from Vera Lane Studio is so great, I'm really going to enjoy these images, meet Lil' Gangstas :

I make so many cards for males, here is the card I made featuring this set :

The image is resized in word and printed. I coloured him with copics, highlights with sharpie white paint pen. The background is yupo paper with alcohol inks. Love the word : 'SUP? So fun

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Normal doesn't sound fun at all

The Lost in Space set by Vera Lane Studio is so awesome, quirky and versatile. 

I made this card :

Its a water colour background and the image is coloured with copics and white gel pen, then fussy cut. The words were typed on my typewriter. I made the crown and coloured it with copics.

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Birthday Cupcake

A new release from Vera Lane Studio, cupcakes ! Who doesn't like cupcakes ? lol

I have made a card :

These days gifts aren't cool apparently, so money it is ! I can still be creative with how the money is actually given though ... lol. $10 bill in the form of a candle :)

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You are Magic !

I made a card for a very special lady, and what a wonderful set to use, this is You are Magic by Vera Lane Studio. The trees are from another set.

The scene was created in Microsoft word, the images resized and layered, words added and printed. I coloured them with my copics and white sharpie acrylic paint pen. The ground is washi tape. I then cut the card front to size, and matted it onto green pink and then finally the white card base.

Shes a beauty hey.

Not my normal style for in this instance she was perfect.

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Sprinkle and Sparkle

A new release from Vera Lane Studio, meet Sprinkle and Sparkle : 

I  have made a card on acetate, which is super hard to photograph, but you get the idea :

Dancers don't need wings to fly

Love this adorable new release from Vera Lane Studio, Just Dance.

I made this card featuring the gorgeous dancer :

The gal is resized and manipulated in work. I coloured her with copics and sharpie white acrylic paint pen highlights. She was fussy cut. The background is acrylic paint. I used washi tape to simulate the dance floor, and edged my card in that too. The words are also from the set.

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Spring in your step ...

Isn't this the happiest and most gorgeous image. One of the lovely hares from the Vera Lane Studio set Two Hares.

I arranged the scene in word, then printed it and coloured with copics. 

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Hidden Treasures

This beautiful Mermaid set is the latest release from Vera Lane Studio. Don't you just love her freedom of body and spirit.

I have made a card featuring her, with a mixed media background of nuance powders and molding paste with a stencil. Mermaid is coloured with copics, and gel pen :

The shell is adorable isn't it ... keep watching for future releases from Vera Lane Studio.

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Breathe ... It'll be OK

Today I am sharing a card I made using this adorable image from Vera Lane Studio, this is one of the images from the Tears set. 

The image is coloured with copics, and sharpie paint pen. I added diamond glaze to the eyes, tear and red buttons. Isn't this just the most adorable image, one of my faves. 

The background is made with a piece of text paper, I added a layer of watered down gesso. Then I used my distress crayons, in grey and black to achieve the darkened border, by colouring and then smudging the crayon with my finger.  I added some elements of light beige also to the centre to pick up on the hair colour. I then used a baby wipe with a heart stencil to remove some of the colour. 

I typed the words on my type writer, and matted the card front onto a white base.

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Today I choose to be happy

Look at the little dogs face, isn't he adorable :) He is from a set by Vera Lane Studio called Rescue puppies and he is coloured with prisma color pencils. The circles are from Vera's borders set. 

The cloud is also by Vera Lane Studio ...so many clouds and other elements to be found there.

The background is made using watercolour powders, Nuance by Magenta.

The card front is matted onto a white card base. The words are from a word sticker set by Carpe Diem called Posh.

Close up of the pup :

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Sweet 16

Its my nephews 16th Birthday, so I have made this card featuring one of Tims awesome birds. I actually used my dies too, they cut so close to the image and I was able to layer the eyes, beak and wing. I don't always get the dies to accompany stamps, but I think in this case it was well worth it.

The bird is stamped on mixed media paper and coloured with water colour powders and an aqua painter brush. I made and wrote on his hat, and the background is scrap paper from other arylic paint and stencil projects. The words are from a sentiment set by Ranger also. And the ribbon from my stash. The card front is matted onto a white card base.

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Poe Appreciation Day

In 2016 the Mayor of Baltimore declared Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday, January 19th as an official city- wide Poe Appreciation Day. At the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity we thought we'd join the fun with a 5-day progressive blog hop.

Here is my card for the hop, featuring one of the new and fabulous stamps released today, this a new zentangle raven from Lost Coast Designs, dressed smartly in his hat and heading to the party : 

The raven is stamped and coloured with copics, then I fussy cut him and added a hat with a pom pom. 

The background is made using nuance powders and the new zentangle feathers stamps. 

To get the effect above I sprinkled some different colours of  nuance powders onto my craft mat, spritzed it with water and then stamped into it and onto the water colour paper. I love the colour variations. Water soluble powders are so versatile. I lightly sponged the outside of the card with black ink.

The words 'Its a Party!' are from the Party Words set.

I hope you are enjoying the hop, and perhaps feel inspired to add your own creation :)

Read more about the bop, and the new release from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda :

An InLinkz Link-up

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Aud Creatures

Oh my ... the new release from Lost Coast Designs is so cool, I am loving these new Aud Creatures.

But of all of them, this is my fave, how cool is he, featured in my card :

The awesome Aud dude is coloured with copics, prisma color pencil and gel pen, then fussy cut. There is actually a little detail from his cape that I removed because I thought the background was too fussy for it.

For the background I used some card stock that already had some colour on it from a previous project, then I added more acrylic paint with a brayer. I stamped in the background with co-ordinating colours using images from the Leonardo accessories set. Finally adding some washi strips, and the words which were typed on my typewriter.

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Wild and Free

Today I am sharing a card I made using the new release from Vera Lane Studio, The Woodland Collection set of images called Foxes. 

Fox is coloured with copic and gel pen. And fussy cut. The background is made with moulding paste, acrylic paint and a heart stencil. I typed the words directly onto the background with my typewriter. The cloud is from another set by Vera Lane Studio, in fact there are lots of clouds and other elements included in all the sets.

A close up of the fox : 

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... And a Partride in a Pear Tree

A fun Christmas Card trade at the Vera Lane Studio facebook group, here is my card featuring the new set called 'Partridge in a pear tree' : 

Coloured with copics, gel pen, prisma pencil and diamond glaze added. Background is gelli prints.

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