No.1 Digistamp!

Hi all! I hope you have been enjoying the Dr.Digi's House of Stamps 7th birthday celebration on the Facebook Page? I am happy to finally post my inspo for this week and also share that the No.1 best selling digi of all time is Weekend Walter!

Here is the final Top 7!

#7 Knitty Nora

#6 Duncan Disorderly 

#5 Hole in one Hal

#4 Mobility Malcolm

#3 Dunderton Decorators

#2 Anglin' Andy

#1 Weekend Walter 

And here he is! Fully prepped for a relaxing weekend!

Here he is in the shop -

And here is my version of him - 

I coloured him with polychromos and added a few details, like stubble, hairy chest, borrowed ladies diaphanous leopard print dressing gown.... basically I had a thoroughly good time dressing him in animal prints, lol!

I used this fabulous backing paper from Making Cards Magazine (May 2019) and mounted the topper with some 3D foam tape. No embellishments this time, I thought he paper was busy enough. Added some white posca paint to the eyes to finish.

Thanks for joining me today! I hope you guessed Weekend Walter and can look forward to an awesome prize from Dr.Digi's soon! Check the facebook page to see how you got on?

Tea-L-C

Dr.Digi's retro-friday today, I wanted to get my magazine cards blogged this year so popping in with Tea-L-C, a project I did for Making Cards Magazine earlier this year, along with Tea Trolly Dolly and Perfect Sunday.

Here she is, Tea-L-C digistamp coloured with polychromo pencils on kraft card. I also used a sentiment & biscuits from the Tea Time Sentiment Set and a backing paper from the awesome Tea & Bickies Backing Paper Set. 

If you are interested in buying any of the Dr.Digi products I have used for any of the cards I made for the magazine they are also all part of the "Tea Time Set" which is only £5, so an amazing deal, it's got 9 digis in it, as well as the papers!

Because I made her for the magazine I have some additional details including pencil selections and a recipe for making the card, so here goes!

Card Recipe.

Base

• Create 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm card blank.
• Print out onto white paper the Bickie – Rich Tea backing paper from the Tea and Bickies Backing Paper Set.
• Line paper up centrally on card, adhere with double-sided tape and cover card blank. Cut off any excess.

Topper

• On the PC make a topper image (16.5 cm x 11.5 cm) using Tea-L-C digistamp and sentiment from Tea Time Sentiments Sheet. Resize elements to fit.
• Make digistamp paler.
• Add an edge on the topper before printing to make it easy to cut out straight.
• Print out topper directly onto Kraft Card. Also print on the same A4 sheet the digistamp once again, at full strength to use as a guide when you colour.

Colouring

• Colour in Tea-L-C  digi with Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils.
• Sketch in a warm brown floor surface for her to sit on also with Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils.
• Add highlights using White (0.7 mm) Posca Pen.
• Clean up any smudges and pencil dust around your image using an eraser.
• Cut out topper. Using a curved edge to guide you, cut off one of the corners. 

Assemble

• From the sentiments sheet print and cut out a tiny set of biscuits and one larger Rich Tea Biscuit (4.5 cm diameter). For a perfect circle use a round die to fit your large printed biscuit.
• Stick the Rich Tea biscuit into right hand corner of card front. Check words can be seen.
• Glue a stack of tiny biscuits to her plate and cover over the digi’s cup cake.

To Finish

• Using 3D foam place topper onto card
• Add Ranger Glossy Accents to glasses and jam in jammy dodgers. 
• Add some Neon Flamingo Stickles to the pattern on her dress.

Polychromo Pencil Guide:

Skin: 101, 129, 130, 132, 177, 190, 219

Dress; 101, 129,133, 219

Slippers: 101, 129, 133

Chair: 101, 108, 109, 177, 180, 274

Cat: 101, 108, 115, 164, 190, 199, 219, 274

Wood: 101  177, 187, 190

Thanks very much for visiting today, I hope you feel inspired to do a bit of colouring! She is a smashing stamp to colour up, plenty of texture options! Now I must go and make myself a cuppa, and be very English about things :) lol.

Day out in Landan :)

Just wanted to share a few of the photos of a super day out I had with my friends Helen and Audrey in Landan back in July! It's taken me a while to write it up, collect the photos and make the post, I'm soooo slow! :)

We figured it was pretty unlikely that we would ever get to go to the Hello Kitty Cafe in Shibuya Japan, or Hello Kitty World (Hello Kitty Sanrio Puroland),so when we heard that a pop-up Hello Kitty Cafe had opened in Landan, we jumped at the chance of going!

Hello Kitty Sanrio Puroland

Hello Kitty Sanrio Puroland)

So we caught the train to London Euston on a rather miserable soggy day and were there in no time. (Possibly due to nattering all the way there!) The train was very busy, but Euston wasn't too bad and we made our way to the British Library which we had been advised was good for cafe/people watching potential. The shop was awesome too! Unfortunately it was bucketing down by the time we had finished in the shop so we had to go for a drink (and cake) in the indoor cafe. Here are a few photos from the library that I took for instagram.

We'd planned to do the Japan Centre or Carnaby Street between the library and our 2 o'clock booking at the Hello Kitty Cafe but it took sooooooo lonnnnnng to get across London in the taxi we had to go straight there. We had awesome taxi drivers that day, helpful, friendly, rounding down the price!

The Hello Kitty Pop-up Cafe was downstairs in a cafe called Cutter and Squidge in Soho.It's only open til the 31st August so hope you've already booked if you wanted to go!

Here are Helen and Audrey before the food arrived! Innocent of the fact we were about to be overwhelmed by sugary goodness! :) We were lucky to get the best seats in the house, complete with Hello Kitty themed cushions! Here are Helen and I , modelling a couple of them!

       

Below is the menu, cutlery etc on the table. We had booked for the "tea" so we didn't get choices apart from our hot drink!

Here are some of the gratuitous food shots! There was so much! Everything was amazing. Even if it was a little odd, it was still delicious! :)

  

After not doing the feast justice at all, they packaged up our doggy bags and we popped back up to the counter to buy some Merch! I got a super exclusive Hello Kitty mug and reusable Hello Kitty landan themed shopping bag. Love them both! :) Tho I am slightly scared to put the mug in the dishwasher!

 Image from Bloomsbury Angel - https://twitter.com/bloomsburyangel

After that it was STILL raining so we got another taxi to Artbox, which had been recommended to us to buy kawaii items! It was just round the corner from Covent Garden, the final stop on our day out. Artbox wasn't as big or as packed with goodies as we had hoped for but we still got some awesome stuff we probably wouldn't have got anywhere else but Japan (please ignore the whole of the internet rather proving this statement to be twaddle.)

After Artbox we walked round the corner to Covent Garden, where it was STILL RAINING! and we popped into the central market area for toilet stop and mooch. My friend Grace's sister (Kat!) had recommended Paul's Bakery for a stop off and it was an excellent suggestion. The rain finally stopped as we walked over to it (2 mins from the central square) and we were a bit shattered by that point, (all that sitting and eating!) so a bit of very comfy Paul's luxury was just what we needed. (Thanks Kat!)

 Image from Mapping London - http://mappinglondon.co.uk

Popped to Paperchase and then straight back via taxi to Euston Station, where a very kind man (Do I sound like a nana when I say that?) allowed us to catch a slightly earlier (than our ticket officially allowed) train to go home!. I was pooped! :)

One of my favourite days ever! Thank you Helen and Audrey :)

Knitty Kitty Teapot!

Hi! Just for your amusement, here is a picture of the first ever Knitty Kitty Teapot :)

We went to The Melting Pot in Bewdley last Saturday and had a brilliant morning painting ceramics. The ladies that help you are super kind and helpful and I'd like to give them a big thank you!!! Without them this would not have been possible.