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Saturated Canary Cerridwen

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One of my favourite things to do is colour hair.  This is why I love the Saturated Canary images, so many of them have gorgeous flowing hair that is extremely therapeutic to get lost in colouring (with the digis I like to print them fairly large so I can do just that). I actually coloured [...]

A New Love: Lollyrot

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Before Christmas I found myself hopping around various blogs.  I am a closet Stampotique fan so I was looking at their blog and the work of their designers.  One in particular caught my eye – the lovely and extremely talented Maria aka Lollyrot.  Not only does she create fantastic cards and other crafty projects, but [...]

Some Saturated Canary Fun!

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Before Christmas I coloured up some Saturated Canary images for Angie Hunt at Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  The images are from the recent rubber release, and you can find the rubber stamps at Quixotic Paperie, along with a pre-order for the Winter CHA 2013 release! Angie actually framed them to hang in the Little Darlings [...]

Mister Penguin Is The Cutest!

Stamping Bella - Ramona Shares Her Hot Chocolate - www.quixoticcards.com




Looking through my folder of photos I was startled to see that I forgot to blog one of my Christmas cards! Tsk.  It features one of my favourite recent releases too, so I’m here to share it now! I gave this card to Paul for Christmas, because I knew he would love the adorable Mister Penguin, [...]

A Belated Christmas Post!

Whimsy Stamps - Santa and Teddy Portrait - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




*sigh* I arrived home yesterday after spending a week with family for Christmas to find that the blog posts I scheduled before leaving had failed to post. Typical!  So bear with me, I’ll be sharing those posts over the next three days to catch up. A belated Merry Christmas to you all.  I hope you [...]

Have a Sweet Holiday – Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Grace - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




Hopefully while you’re reading this, I’ll be off having a nice lunch with family.  Then, I’m going to chill out for the rest of the weekend, and hopefully do a little colouring.  I hope you’re having a similarly pleasant and relaxing time! Today sees the start of a new Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps challenge.  This week [...]

Bellariffic Friday – Poor Quinn!

Stamping Bella - Uptown Girl Quinn - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




Time for Bellariffic Friday!  I am getting quite concerned about the speed with which seem to be hurtling toward Christmas.  There aren’t many Fridays left!  I can’t believe a whole week has passed since my last post…I’ve got some serious catching up to do. Still, with today’s card I’ve ticked another off the Christmas list, [...]

Shoot For The Moon

Stamping Bella - Mabel Is Reaching For The Stars - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




Happy Saturday! I’m here today to share my Bellariffic Friday card for this week. This one is a sweet and simple card, because I wanted to focus all the attention on the adorable image – Mabel Reaching for the Stars (also available in the UK at Quixotic Paperie).   I did play a little fast and loose with [...]

SCACD Stamps Release Hop – Arctic Princess




Today sees the release of some incredible new stamps from two of the SCACD Stamps lines: Elisabeth Bell for SCACD and also the awesome Susana Loves Stamps collection. I’m joining the SCACD Design Team today for a hop to showcase the new release.  Thanks for having me, girls! You should have hopped over here from [...]

Something Wicked for TTC26

Mo's Digital Pencil - Come Hither - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




Well, I’m feeling a little less achy than yesterday, thanks to a restful afternoon.  With one thing and another I’m still a little stressed and worn out, so I’m trying to take it easy and relax.  Yesterday afternoon the dog and I retired to bed.  She snored, I coloured. Anyway, I’m here to share a card [...]

Beverly & Her Big Cake!

Stamping Bella - Uptown Girls - Beverly and her Big Cake - www.quixoticcards.com




I meant to post this card on Sunday.  Then I meant to post it yesterday.  That pretty much sums up my brain at the moment, filled as it is with lots of tedious and moderately stressful stuff.  *sigh*  On top of that, Miss Brain of Britain here decided it would be smart to move some [...]

Birthday Princess

The Greeting Farm Princess Anya 2 - available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk




This week I needed to create a birthday card for our niece’s 6th birthday.  She’s a typical 6 year old girl and loves all things princess/fairy/pink/pretty.  Hunting through my stamp collection I found poor Princess Anya #2 from The Greeting Farm sitting unloved!  Perfect. I also realised this would be the perfect colouring project for [...]

Both Classy & Fabulous!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk




So, have you been checking out the latest Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps release previews?  If not, make sure you get up to speed with what’s coming on Sunday – lots of fun stamps! Today the Krafty Girls are previewing the new Annie Rodrigue stamps, which are fabulous as always!  PLUS we have a new Krafty challenge [...]

Touch Twin Markers & More Challenge – Life’s a Beach!

Impression Obsession Stamps available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk




There’s another fab challenge going on at Touch Twin Markers & More Challenges at the moment.  We want to see some beach themed projects where you have used a colourless blender pen in some way! Since I just got some of the fantastic stamps from Impression Obsession in stock over at Quixotic Paperie, I couldn’t [...]

UKS Sponsor Hop – Colouring With Alcohol Based Markers

Some Odd Girl Stamps available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk




Today is a big UK Scrappers sponsor blog hop!  I’m excited to be taking part in what is sure to be a popular event, and am definitely looking forward to checking out the other sponsor posts. If you are visiting from the UKScrappers Sponsor Blog Hop you may have come here from PAPERMAZE.  After commenting (and [...]

Magnolia World Journal – Ice Dragon’s Holiday

Magnolia Scene Journal - Lilyrose Dragon - www.quixoticcards.com




It has been a little while since I first posted my altered SMASH journal, a couple of months actually!  Life has this nasty habit of interfering with stamping plans.  Anyway, I finally got round to some “just for pleasure” stamping and colouring recently and it just so happens that I ended up masking and stamping [...]

Fairytale Hair

Make it Crafty - Maiden with Long Golden Hair - www.quixoticcards.com




One of my favourite things to colour is hair; I love images with long flowing hair where I can really get lost in colouring.  So, when I saw the new digi release from Make it Crafty, I simply had to colour up the new (and challenging) image – “Maiden with Long Golden Hair“. I printed [...]

Off To Neverland with Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Peter Pan - available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk




Have you been checking out the awesome peeks from the new Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps release over the past week?  Sadly I didn’t manage to join in with the previews this month, but the other Krafty Girls have been showing off some fantastic inspiration.  Today is of course RELEASE DAY!  All the new stamps are now [...]

Touch Twin Challenge TTC19: It’s All About The Hair!

Some Odd Girl Stamps available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk




Now that Taika is over her little veterinary ordeal (well, just about – the stitches should come out on Monday), and my stash is more organised, I’ve been feeling a bit more creative.  Yesterday I stamped up a couple of little projects I’ve been itching to create, and spent some time just colouring.  It’s amazing [...]

Getting Creative with Dies – From Diecut to Beautiful Coloured Image!




It has been another eventful week here!  Lots of order packing, house tidying and sundry everyday things, plus our dog had a minor procedure at the vet on Friday, so she is now recovering and needing a little extra care and attention. Last weekend I finished sorting out my craft stash and storage (finally), and [...]

Kraftin’ Kimmie Preview & Touch Twin Marker Challenge!




In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new round of Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps previews going on!  Sadly I’m up to my eyeballs in boxes and junk, desperately trying to get myself reorganised and ship shape, so I haven’t been able to join in with all the previews this month, but the Krafty Girls have got [...]

Make it Crafty Digi Release Hop – Under the Sea!

Make it Crafty - Under the Sea - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




The hop is now over and the prize draws have closed.  The winner of my giveaway was Leanne! If you’re already on today’s Make it Crafty Release Hop you should have hopped over here from SANDIE’S BLOG.  If not, pop on over to ALYCE’S BLOG and get started! Today I can share one of the [...]

“No Lines” – a Tutorial and Video!




Has it really been ten days since my last post?  It REALLY doesn’t seem like it has been that long.  I swear the universe is playing tricks on me. We’ve been enjoying some gorgeous sunshine here in the UK, or rather, the dog has been enjoying it while I’ve been slaving away indoors.  Alright for [...]

Saturated Canary – Wedding Day Card

Saturated Canary - Wedding Day - www.quixoticcards.com/blog




Ok, don’t fall off your chairs,  I have a card to share!  Take a second to get over the shock… I finally completed the image I started colouring a week or so ago, which you may have caught a glimpse of in an earlier post.  I had a lot of fun colouring this one, colouring [...]

Touch Twin Challenge TTC12 – Colour Challenge!

Market Street Stamps - Pawprints on our Hearts - www.quixoticcards.com




It’s time for a challenge over at the Touch Twin Markers & More challenge blog!  This time it’s a COLOUR CHALLENGE! Our challenge colors: Don’t have any Touch Twin markers? That’s OK … for now.   Starting soon we will require using our markers, but for now you can use any coloring medium. This month’s challenges [...]