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Thursday 28 July 2011

...Cicely at Halloween


ED - yep I completely appreciate that there are lots of folks who don't celebrate Halloween, and yep there will be vintage chicks for other occasions, such as holidays and birthdays and St Pat's, you know there'll be a St Pat's chick!!!! but yep, there will be every-day girls too that may be good for birthdays etc. Cheers for asking Cassandra!

Good morning! I'd like to introduce you to someone. Her name is Cicely and she's a little vintage chick. I have been asked, and asked, and asked again for images to colour, and Cicely is the first in a little series of vintage girlies for folks who like to colour...or not, as we will see tomorrow. I'll be previewing a pair of little Halloween sets for the next few days up until the 1st August when the DT begin the August SOAP event.

I'm leaking these two sets early, they will be available on the 1st of August, but if you like them, you'd best get in quick, I'll be suspending shipping on the store for two weeks from 4th August while I take some family time before school starts again.

This year I wanted something a little different for Halloween, and so I decided to draw a couple of little vintage inspired sets featuring girls. I'm 'leaking those sets a little earlier than their planned September release, well, because I couldn't wait to show you!! lol. Cicely and her little friend Gracie, who we will see tomorrow, are chic 20's style girls.

 We'll have some more Halloween fun for you in the main September release, but I was just so excited about these, people for colouring are something we don't have a lot of, and I sure hope you like them as much as I do.


My main card today shows Cicely, stamped in Memento rich cocoa ink, together with a little bat stamp and some magic bubble bursts, you can stamp these as you wish, they are little accessory stamps. My copic skills are basic, but I would so love to see what some of you ladies would do with this image. I'm not so wonderful at blending, but even I managed to get a nice glow on the pumpkin by using that colourless blender to lift out some of the yellow that I had used to colour the pumpkin eyes and mouth, neat trick.

I love the vintage look of the font used for the supporting sentiments - Boo! is one. Do you like the little star circle die cut - it's one of Spellbinders new release dies!! isn't it perfect for Halloween?? OOh and the  chevron edge...drool, Spellbinders new edgeabilities!! I am in heaven, such a terrific range of dies!! More about these in tomorrow's post!!

The Cicely at Halloween set is a small set which packs a lot of punch, it has 10 separate stamps comprising, one main girl image seen here on this card, 5 supporting motifs including the cute bat, or hamster bat as my girls have named him, an easy circular tag image, and 3 sentiments.

My second card is a bit of fun, very simple, but making the most of just two stamps - a sentiment from Cicely at Halloween, and a larger bat from Gracie at Halloween, more about that set tomorrow. My girlies think the star shaped aperture looks like a mouth full of spikey teeth, just about to munch the bat...I suppose that's appropriate! lol.

Orange card stock, well sponged with Tea dye distress ink. The aperture is backed with pinked circles cut with the Spellbinders pinking circles dies. Bat stamped in Memento and coloured, truly horribly, with copics, you'll notice there's no close up of this so's you don't have to be offended by where I went wayyy over the lines...



Sure hope they tickle!!

36 comments:

  1. I stayed up especially to see your post (8am your time is only midnight my time!) Cicely sure is a doll, and I can't wait to see Gracie!! Love the cards you made: you'll have to show us how you cut the aperture on the second one. I get the part where you used the pinked circles for the spiky insides of the opening, but I'm not sure how you did the clean finished edge. Hugs!!!
    (And tell your girls that I love how they describe the "hamster" bat!! LOL!!

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  2. Oh Claire, these are just gorgeous!! I love the vintage style of the little girl, so Enid Blyton! Love your colouring here too, I'm all excited and we don't really go in much for Halloween here lol! Wonderful!

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  3. I love cicely!!!!! Wow,wow wow

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  4. She is divine but is she adaptable for those of us who don't observe Halloween (ie Australia).

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  5. CLAIRE! You have surpassed yourself (and that's hard to do!)I love Cicely(fantastic name) and can't wait to meet Gracie too. I hope you have lots of other scenarios for them because they are the best stamps I've seen in a long time. Love the 1920s vintage look.
    Angela

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  6. Fabulous little vintage image Claire and two great cards!

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  7. From now on bats will be known as hamster-bats - they are very cute :-)

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  8. Hi Claire!

    These are great!! I especially love your second card, the pumpkin card! ;-) It looks great , pretty in orange!!! Very, very nice!!!

    Hugs, Wendy

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  9. love the images, your cards really glow!!

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  10. Oh WOW, Claire! WOW! She is so adorable! What a fun idea for a series, and I love how unique it is! So different from your other sets AND any other Halloween set that I have ever seen! Can't wait to see Gracie...and more!

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  11. AAAWWWW!!!
    (that's a scream)
    I love her! She is BEAUTIFUL!
    I LOVE vintage children...most especially for the Holidays...it just seems fitting...and she is GORGEOUS!
    Beautiful card...
    and then that aperture bat...
    STUNNING!
    So borrowing that creatively genius idea!
    Love them and can't wait to see more! :)

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  12. Can't wait to see the full set of Cicely. So cute. Love the 2nd card you made. Can you share how you made the star shaped aperture? Die? Xacto knife?

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  13. gorgoeus cards!! beautiful coloring!!

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  14. Totally fun!!!
    I'm not much of a Halloween maker sadly (noone I know would appreciate a spook-ridden card! Pah - what do they know!). I think Cicely (and dare I say Gracie too?) would make for some *stunning* nostalgic festive ideas ;)
    Hint, hint!! I'd happily pre-order a festive version based on today's peek, hehe!
    Rx

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  15. Oh my cicely is so so so cute! Congrats to you on another fab set :)

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  16. Love the orange sponged card with the bat peeking through.

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  17. Two great Halloween cards Claire! love Cicely with her jack-0-lantern and that cut out is nicely spooky on the 2nd!!

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  18. Claire - she's gorgeous!! Love the little bat too. Just love the orange card too - the toothed aperture is fab!

    Can't wait!!

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  19. Claire, I LOVE this and I am so excited that my "Something Different" contest guess was RIGHT!! Hah! I knew your love of Hallowe'en and I thought that eye belonged to a cute little witch, LOL!!! I can't wait to see Gracie, because Cicely is absolutely charming!

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  20. I have always been so "AFRAID", good word for a Halloween image, of coloring in people. This new stamp set has changed my mind. I love this girl. Honestly, looks just like a picture I saw of my grandma who really did have that same exact haircut back in the
    20's. I think I am going to make a personal challenge and learn to color just based on this image alone. The bat is icing on the cake.

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  21. I absolutely adore Halloween! I am always looking for fun Halloween products that are new & unique. I love the girl. And I love the colors you chose for this card. Can't wait to see the rest!

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  22. Fab colouring - love what you created and love this vintage girl! So cute..... great job on this new set. Think it will be a huge success.

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  23. You are just ... AMAZING! There are times when I didn't realize I needed a stamp until you shared what you created and then of course I NEEDED it too! Cecily is fantastic! Can't wait to see Gracey.
    And your cards are superb as always.
    Giggling due to being tickled ;)

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  24. I love these, Claire -- I've kept peeking back just to see if you'd give in and show us early!! YAY! Will love to welcome these precious stamps into my studio!!

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  25. Very cute Claire! Look forward to seeing Gracie!

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  26. Claire, I think you did a beautiful job coloring!! YOur card is AWESOME!! I especially like the detail on the scarf. I love the vintage image with the accents around the wand and the font. I can't wait to order a set!!

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  27. Your bat let me creativity fly, http://homemadecardsbyerin.blogspot.com/2011/07/boo.html

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  28. I can't wait till Aug 1 gets here. Got to have Cicely and know I will have to have Gracie too!

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  29. I adore Halloween, my daughter even has her birthday on October 31st! I always decorate my house and send cards to friends and family. But it's not much celebrated over here.
    I love both cards. cicely looks like a good friend to have around.
    Eveline.

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  30. She's so precious! I love her penache. So unique! I also need that batty bat and to know how you created that aperture...need I say need. ;-) this is exciting stuff indeed!

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  31. OMG, Claire--Cicily is so adorable! Now I can hardly wait to meet Gracie. Our granddaughter's name is Gracie so Cicily's friend must be adorable too. Love how unique and amazing your set is! And those little bats--this will be such fun!

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  32. oh... love your little cicely and can't wait to see gracie... will be checking first thing in the morning!!

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  33. What's so awesome is that this is so not the typical halloween image - I love it!!! And how fun to colour. I think you did a great job, I am not sure why you're so modest! What a neat concept, Claire!!!

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  34. Gorgeous!! I love her and her little hamster bat friend! :) I will definitely have to put my Copic training to practice now!! Well done, my friend!

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  35. Claire, I LOVE what you've done with Cicely! Your coloring is exquisite!! And your framed bat...how clever is that!! LOVE it!!

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  36. oh this is amazing. i can't wait for the whole series of lil girls! and your cards are amazing! including the bat getting munched...lol :)

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