Well Wishing Merbabies

I used these adorable baby mermaid stamps from Stamping Bella for the StampTV challenge Mix it up Mondays. The challenge was to create a card with a stripped background. I used my Lindy's Magical Micas to create the background and to help color the merbabies. I stamped the sentiment using my Captain Jack alphabet from Rusty Pickle. I picked up the alphabet off eBay awhile back and I'm glad I did since I found out after that the Rusty Pickle went out of business.

Also, Lindy's Stamp Gang is having a 1 day sale that ends at noon on Monday the 22nd. Everything is 20% off and they have free shipping for orders over $41! I was able to pick up a Try me Set, a set of Starburst Stains, a set of Magical Micas, and 1 lone Starburst Spray for $42. Check it out here: http://www.lindystampgang.com/

Wow! 1000 Sheets of Paper Giveaway!

This amazing lady is celebrating using 1000 sheets of paper on her blog with a super epic giveaway! Please to check it out! A Thousand Sheets of Paper

I've Been Published!

So I was checking out Crafting Ireland today. I submitted some cards and scrapbook pages for their third issue and I found one of my cards in there! I'm so excited! This is my first ever publication! Please be sure to check out Crafting Ireland and see all the other cool submissions and tutorials!

Waste Not Want Not Wednesdays: Birthday Mermaid

I came across Make it Crafty while looking at cards by other bloggers. I fell in love with their mermaid stamps at first sight. So when I had some extra cash I dropped about $60 bucks over at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design since she is a US supplier. They came in on Monday and I started stamping. This card was made with scraps of paper from my drawer except for the white cardstock I stampped on. I used the Siren of Pearls stamp for the main focal image and since I did not have an acutal seaweed stamp, I used part of a leafless tree stamp I've had lying around for while. It worked out great. I also added some bubbles using caps from various things. I wish to enter this card into Victorine Originals Birthday Card Challenge and Divas by Design Birthday Challenge.

Pathfinder Book Mark

The Free for All Friday on Stamptv this week is Bookmarks so I again used my digi stamp and made a bookmark for my Pathfinder magazines and books. I colored the white cardstock with Lindy's products, added some snowflake stickers and my character. I then laminated it and added the snowflake brads and two more stickers on the outside. I also added a little bit of ribbon on the top.

Pathfinder Folder Cover

I finally managed to get the cover for my Pathfinder folder done. For those of you who don't know what Pathfinder is, it's Paizo Publishing's incarnation of Dungeons and Dragons. When Wizards of the Coast decided not to renew Paizo's license to publish Dungeon and Dragon magazines, Paizo decided to start publishing their own adventure paths. Because the response was so great (and so many people didn't want to play 4th Edition D&D) Paizo came up with the Pathfinder system.

Pathfinder takes place on the world of Golarion, a vast and amazing planet. I love all of the countries and races they came up with. When we decided to go back to the Age of Worms campaign my friends brought all of their characters from my Rise of the Runelords campaign but I was left without a character. This character I'd originally made for an online campaign and I really wanted to play a different sort of character than I usually play, thus Ullevi Vladislava was born. She is an ice princess from the land of eternal winter - Irrisen. Like all of her kind, Ullevi is a descendant of the great witch Baba Yaga, but she also has a bit of celestial blood in her. She's not a particularly nice and friendly character. She's very haughty and actually a bit racist (as all of her kin are), but Ullevi has learned to work with "lesser" races to stop undead threats in the world of Golarion. Currently she and her companions are working to stop a real zombie apocalypse from happening.

And now on to the actual piece:
     For this cover I started with a plain piece of white cardstock and colored it with Starburst Stains and Sprays from Lindy's Stamp Gang. The large blue snowflakes were created with a Tattered Angels stencil and some Lindy's Color Shots mixed with acrylic medium. I stamped other snowflakes on with pigmented ink and embossed some crowns with a homemade mix of embossing powder. I then added the white and silver snowflake stickers before adding the title cut out with my Cricut - Lyrical Letters. The digi stamp on this was done by Kalisama on DeviantArt. I colored it with Lindy's products, acrylic inks by Daler and Rowney, and some watercolor pencils.  (I've broken down and bought some promarkers so I can do a better job with skin tones). After gluing my little Ullevi to the page I added some snowflake brads, more snowflake stickers, a gemmed swirl and some Lindy's lazer cut snow flakes colored with Magical Micas.

I really love how it all turned out. My coloring is not bad at all and the background looks awesome. Now I want to commission her to make my other characters so I can switch out the cover on my folder depending on which character I'm using!

Waste Not Want Not Wednesdays

Finally a ferret card from me. I love ferrets and own 4 of them. Most people look at me like I own 40 cats when I say I own 4 ferrets. Not sure how that ratio works out, but I think it's more like 3 ferrets equals 1 cat.

For this card I used one of my ferret stamps from Rubber Hedgehog that I got off ebay awhile back. I also used another one of my new Tim Holtz card embossing folders. I added some flowers and an embossed brad. As usual this card uses up more of my scraps. You can see some of the same papers that I used in a challenge card over the weekend. I also used a $1 stamp of some dice I found at Micheals awhile back. I love to play board games and role playing games so I had to pick up that stamp even if I hardly ever use it.

Coming up soon, probably this weekend will be a cover for my Pathfinder (DnD) folder. I finally got my prize from a contest on Devart back in December. I can't wait to to show everyone!