Art by Miran Challenge 41

Hi everyone,

What glorious weather we are having here in Perth lately, I can smell Summer in the air. Hooray! The warmer weather makes it so much easier to craft so I have been having some fun colouring up some fabulous Art by Miran images. I fell in love with the image I am showing off today as soon as I saw it. Her hair is just mesmerising.

Here she is;

This beauty is called 'Flower Flourish'  and I felt that she was just crying out for some fiery red hair. I had forgotten how much I love this hair combo. She really is the star here so I decided to keep my card fairly simple just with a few DCWV Citrus papers and of course some pretty gems.

I hope your crafting is going well this week, hubby is away for the weekend so I am going to get plenty of colouring in.

Happy crafting everyone.
Cheers Nicole

I wish to enter the following challenges;
Crafting for all Seasons - Layer it up
Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesdays - Anything Goes/Bright
Through the craft room door - Anything Goes
Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes
Love to Scrap - Do a Double up

Art by Miran Challenge 40

Hi there,

I hope you are all well, I am feeling fabulous as the sun has been shining and I can see the first glimpses of Spring. My card for you today is using the gorgeous Art by Miran digi stamp Flutterby. I love her fabulous wings, if I were a fairy these would be my style of wings.

Here she is;

My colouring was inspired by this months technique class challenge from Kit and Clowder. I am enrolled in both the skin and hair class as well as the clothing class so I thought I would combine both topics in my colouring this time. I have used the streaks lesson for her hair and the sheer clothing lesson for her dress. The dress is supposed to be a pink sheer layer over a deep green under layer, I am fairly happy with the result for a first time effort at both.

I hope you like this pretty lady as much as I do. Make sure you check out other fabulous creations from the super talented team over on the ABM challenge blog. Happy crafting everyone

Cheers Nicole

Art By Miran Challenge 39

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a lovely week. It has been raining a lot here lately, we need it a lot but I do love the sun. I'm so looking forward to some warmer weather. I find it much easier to craft when I am warm and the kids are outside not bugging me.

Anyway onto what I have been up to with my crafting. Today's card is for my daughters flute teacher as my daughter is really loving her flute lessons. I think she is doing great but I am probably biased. I have used the lovely Art By Miran stamp called Serenade. She is so peaceful and pretty.

Here she is;

I actually had a different plan for this card however I picked up my RV's instead of my R's to colour so I had to totally change my plan. I found these fab Prima Botanical papers that I got as a magazine freebie in my stash and all was well again.  I don't normally use so many flowers but I just had to add them to this pretty girl. I wanted her to have a tranquil meadow feel. I hope you like her.

I would love to see what you have been up to so get crafting then enter ABM Challenge #39.

Cheers Nicole

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Crafty Sentiment Designs: AG
Papertake Weekly: To Die For
Through the Craftroom Door: AG
Crafting from the Heart: AG
Craft Your Passion: AG
Love to Scrap: AG
The Paper Nest Dolls: AG
Penny's: AG

Art by Miran Challenge 38

Hi there,

I have had another play this week with one of Mi Ran Jung's fabulous images. I really just can't get enough of them.  I have used Mia this time and teamed her up with some of my favourite Echo Park Paradise Beach papers.  It is Winter here at the moment so this card made me feel all warm and beachy, just lovely.

Here it is;

I had a bit of fun with my dies this time around, I have quite a few and I am sure they all feel neglected. I used a combination of My Favourite Things (brown stamens), Memory Box (Chloe Stem) and Elizabeth Crafts Dies (flowers). I love mixing about the papers to make flowers that really stand out. They are fairly simple however I think they were just enough to finish off my project.

I hope you have been having some fun in your craft room lately and you are able to play along with us this time around at Art By Miran.

Cheers Nicole

Art by Miran Challenge 37

Hi folks,

I hope you are all well and enjoying some fabulous crafty time. I have a cute little card to share with you today as my inspiration for ABM Challenge 37. When people ask me what my style is I can't really answer as I love to do all different styles. For this card I decided I would make it fairly simple, well that is until I made a mistake putting it together and spent longer fixing it than it took to make the rest of the card. I thought this image called Friday Girl is quite sleek and sophisticated so I wanted to make my card sleek and pretty.

Here it is;

I have used some pretty Echo Park Head Over Heels papers this time, I just love the colours in this collection and I finally got to use this fab Film Strip die collection from Kaisercraft. I wanted her colouring to be subtle but still pop so I have used a lot of white patches this time which is something I find somewhat difficult. I find that these digi's really push me to challenge myself with my colouring and so far I am pleased with the results.

I would really love for you to join in our challenge this time around, I really enjoy coming and visiting all of your lovely creations. Thanks for dropping by.

The challenge I wish to enter are;

TBA

Cheers Nicole

Art by Miran Challenge #36

Hi everyone,

I am so excited to share my first official post for the Art by Miran Design Team. I am over the moon to be a part of this awesome and superbly talented crew. I still can't believe that I get to work with these beautiful images all the time, yay!

For my card today I have used the oh so beautiful Flo, she is a rubber stamp that you can find in the Art by Miran Collection at Whimsy Stamps. I just thought she is so pretty and that she would go beautifully with the Echo Park papers that I had been saving for a special project.

Here she is;

The papers I used were quite vibrant so I decided to keep my colouring fairly subtle so I went for my favourite peach blend ( E00, 000 & 93) and I am quite pleased with the outcome. I feel that with any of the ABM images I get to challenge my colouring skills and they are a delight to work with.

I hope that you will join us this time for our Anything Goes Challenge and we would also love for you to pop in to the Facebook group and check out the Progressive Challenge as well as our Anything Goes Facebook Challenge.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to come see you soon.

Cheers Nicole

Inky Impressions Embellish It

Hi crafty friends,

I hope your week has been wonderful. I have to admit that I have not been crafting as much as I would like lately as it is too cold in my craft room at night and I don't like the cold. It is too easy to snuggle on the couch with a blankie so I have promised myself that I will do some crafting and stop hiding behind the blankie. That's the plan anyway. :)

The theme this week at Inky Impressions is to Embellish your project. Now I love to add pretties to my card but I decided to keep it to a minimum this time to show you that you don't have to use a mass of flowers etc to make your card pretty, you just need to place them strategically to achieve your desired effect.

Here is my card;

You can find both the image and the sentiment in the Inky Impressions shop where you can also find so many more fab images. I would love for you to head over to the store and check it out . I do hope you will join in with us this month with our Embellish it theme. Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers Nicole