Right Shed Fred

By fabulous coincidence Dr.Digi released this super gardening stamp just when I had in a commission to make a gardening card! I love it when that happens! This is Right Shed Fred.

I coloured him with polychromo pencils on kraft card. I love colouring wood at the moment and try and sneak it in to everything, so a shed was pure joy!

Here he is in the shop:

Here is my version of him:

Background paper is also from Dr.Digi's this time, it's part of the Seedings Backing Paper Set.

I colourised the backing paper to just be shades of green, but from the original colour scheme I cut out two of the flower pots to use as embellishments in the corners too. Font is ACME Secret Agent.

I added a few background plants to add to the gardeny feel! And a snail, can you spot him?

Thanks for joining me today! Why not check out the shop for more great gardening images?

The Look Out

I had a fab opportunity that I would like to share with you today, a little play with this super newly released image from Sweet November Stamps! Thanks Amy! I thought she would be lovely to colour up and she definitely was! She is called "The Look Out".

Here she is in the shop, tho the tail comes as a separate digi so you can place it wherever is suits you for your card:

And here is a close up of my version:

I'm a little bit obsessed with the coastal landscape and critters so added in a few rock dwelling friends for her.  

She is coloured with Faber Castell Polychromo pencils on kraft card. Doing a diaphanous rainbow tail really challenged my skills!

Font is Delinquente Demo. Background paper from Making Cards Magazine (July 2016). Bling from Shimelle and the stash. Quote thanks to André Gide.

So pleased to have got the opportunity to colour up this stunning image from Sweet November Stamps! I love doing mermaids, one of my fav things to colour. Make sure to pop the shop and check out all of their fabulous stamps, super high quality and gorgeous to colour up.

Ye olde projecte

Another project from history that has finally been made! This is a set of vintage illustration stickers for me to use.

A long while ago, probably 2012, I purchased a number of 60s and 70s childrens annuals and picture books that were extremely badly damaged and about to be chucked (from a charity shop). I then decided that they would make an awesome collection of stickers some time in 2014, lol!

Unfortunately I couldn't tell who the illustrators were in most cases, or the names of the books even, most of the pages were loose, but these days I would have probably spent a longer time trying to work out what bits went with what books because now I make my own images, I know that the origins of artwork is important.

Anyway, if I happen across any of these artists whilst browsing vintage children's book illustrations I will be sure to pop back here with suggestions of where these fabulous designs came from. Now I am happily giving new life to these things and will use them on my crafty parcels for some time to come, better than ending up in a bin? (These aren't the actually book pages, they are scans of the originals, before you worry about me cutting books up, however destroyed.)

Thanks for looking at something different. I actually have a huge amount that would make great stickers, and thanks to my friend Helen a lovely new sticker machine and cartridges with which to make more and more and more and more......

....I love stickers :)

When we can return to a salon....

Hi everyone! Back with Deirdery in a pre-covid lockdown salon mode! This digi is from Dr.Digi's House of Stamps and is called Salon Deirdery.

She is coloured with polychromo pencils on smooth kraft card.

Here she is in the shop:

And here is my version:

I decided her dog Dolly had a blue rinse too! Obviously using pet friendly vegetable dyes though :)

Did you know Dr.Digi does amazing backing papers? For this card I used one of the Tartan set. I downloaded it and printed it straight out on my normal printer, zero hassles!

Once I'd printed it out I stuck it to a 7" x 7" card blank. The topper is 3D foam mounted onto the card. 

Thanks for joining me today! Dr.Digi's has loads of papers to download and it's defo worth a look as they are only £1 per set!

My First Scrapbook!

Hi All, just wanted to share a personal lock-down triumph that has occurred in my craft room! I have finally finished my scrapbook and it only took me.....7 years! lol.

This was a lovely day out with the whole of my partners family and I thought would be easy to scrap! At the time I wasn't aware of exactly how much time might be needed for a twenty page 8"x8" book.  I loved doing it though, I am not sure if it's very obvious which pages were made in 2013, and which were made in 2020 but my style has changed rather a lot. Because it's been on the back-burner for so long I had collected lots of themed items as the years went by and it was great to finally add them to some fun photos from the day.

I would like to thank my friend Nancy for her top tips on digitising my scrapbook, I didn't fix every problem but thanks to her the photos all came out ok.

Here it is, click on any pic to enlarge it. I have obscured faces rather than ask everyone's permission to show them, I suppose some privacy is sensible.

Scrapbook for my MIL's 80th Birthday (Feb 2013)

on the Severn Valley Railway with all the family. 

Inside Cover. (There's an envelope with the spare photos in glued here).
Some Out-takes	Some Out-takes
Some Out-takes	Back Cover. The End.

My fav movie.

Sharing a card today that I made for one of my besties. We both love Ghibli movies! When I saw this super kawaii "My Neighbor" stamp from Stamp Anniething I had to purchase it! (Doesn't happen much, I am trying to use my stash items, not get spendy on line, lol!).

This digi is called "My Neighbor" and was fabulous to colour up!  And I couldn't resist this sentiment to go with her. (Font is Grilled Cheese BTN).

Here is what the digistamp looks like in the shop:

And here is my version of her:

Isn't she cute? I added few sparkly gems from the stash and then 3D foam mounted her onto a 7x7" card base. I wanted some grey and red (eighties?) style striped for behind her, so recoloured one of the papers from the Dr. Digi's Sepia Stripes Collection and printed it out.

I think this is the first Stamp Anniething image I have coloured and I am very impressed with the quality of the digi and how much fun she was to colour. TBH I didn't realise how many digital stamps they had for download.

I have been loving the work by my crafty friends Mindy , Barbara and Cathy, and was particularly inspired by a card Cathy made using this stamp!

Why not check out the Stamp Anniething shop to be seriously enabled?