Sunday 5 April 2009

Inner Beauty

Hay there blogland, I know i have listed this place as a haven for the sweet and true but i just had to share with you my very first card featuring one of my very own Minxy Art Stamps.
I was lucky enough to receive an Imagebox for christmas, so i can now happily design & make my very own stamps. I hadn't really had time to actually do that until now, but a cracking competition run by Nikki over at Dew Drop Craftz gave me the kick up the bum i needed to knock a set or 2 out.
All you have to do to enter is to make a card using your own stamps and show a pic of both {more details on her blog}
so here is my Pandora card...

and here is my Pandora stamp set

Now as you may see there are a couple of subtle changes with Pandora's face, after making the stamps i decided that she needed some work on her eyes and a fringe {which for times sake i just drew on} I coloured her using copics

I used a sheet of "rockstar" paper by DCWV, stamped sid the spider, then stamped the smaller skull onto a circle of textured black card, which i scuffed & coloured the edges of. I lay several ribbon and lace strips and used the larger skull to create an embellishment, i finished the skull with a tiny amount of distress stickles on the eyes.

I would very much love your opinions of these stamps, i know they're not the cutest in the world !! but i like em, and hope you do too {they may be launched for sale soon in limited numbers!}

Thanks for visiting, come back soon.

xx hugz xx

7 comments:

Wacky Jacky said...

Hi Nicky - wow! I just love your new blog and your stamps are great. Especially like Pandora's eye's - you clever lady. Well Done!! xx

Angelnorth said...

Quirky! Love the flower eyes on the smaller skull stamp! Bet these would be popular with teens!

Nikki said...

Glad to see the box coming into use.. and in such a great set of stamps :)

Thankyou for entering..
Nikki x

Hels Sheridan said...

:O)) You know me hun, I have that hate to love "cute" stamps...same as you I guess....but how fab you have made your own designs...loving them to be honest and that girly is cute but not too cute....IYKWIM!! Gr8 idea to have a separate blog too! well done hun and hugs x

CraftyC said...

Love your stamps Nic, think I need a set to demo for you LOL. Great card and carry on with those cute creations!
Clairex

Claireabelle said...

Fab stamps Nicky, well done!
x

Tracey said...

Fab Nicky, am loving those stamps, I want some. Fab new blog too.