Make a Wish

I thought it was time to get inky again, so inspired by the DT designs at Lavinia Stamps I created a card for their latest challenge - Add a Flower.

For this project I used Ink Dusters, Adirondack Inks and Tim Holtz distress inks.

I started by laying down some Sunshine Yellow, then I went over it with Pool, which gave me a lovely green.

I stamp the fairies and creeping ivy branch in Black Versafine.  I used the weeping willow stamp around the top edge in Tim Holtz Shabby Shutters, which I also used for the mini flowers.
For Foiliage around the bottom I used grey versa fine ink.

I finished by adding some fine green glitter to the flowers to add a little sparkle.

The sentiment is an inkylicous stamp and the paper flower is a Marianne die.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Lavinia Stamps - Add a flower
Tuesday Throwdown - Things with Wings
Lady Annes Challenges - Wings
Lady Annes Stamp Challenge - Anything goes
Sparkle n Sprinkle - Glitter
That Craft Place - Things with Wings
Sparkles Forum - Fairies & Butterflies

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #100 - Winged Things

Welcome to our latest challenge (woohoo, which happens to be our 100th), hosted by Viv ,who has chosen the theme Winged Things. 

Viv would like to see Winged Things. Something with wings as a major focal point. Not a tiny butterly charm, or a small bee in the corner of an image, the wings need to be obviously part of the focal point. Fairies, angels, LARGE butterflies, birds etc. would qualify. Please check out my teamies for some more inspiration.

I have used an image by Saturated Canary called 'Sweater Socks', she is just adorable and I have  coloured her with a mix of Flex and Promarkers.

It took me a while to find a purple combination I was happy with but finally I found orchid, Wild Orchid and Purple worked nicely together, my other attempts have been binned!!!

I cut her out using a fancy blade on my trimmer and layered onto different shades of purple card, which is from The Paper Mill.

The backing paper is First edition "Spring Drop'.I added a rose from Wild Orchid Crafts and some flowers from my stash which I added gems to.

The ribbon is 2 small left over bits that I tied together.

Finally I added some swirls cut with a memory box die, and Spellbinders butterfly to which I added some pink and blue ink with my ink dusters.

Come and join in the fun at Crafty Cardmakers and you could win some of the goodies below from our sponsors.

We are sponsored by 
CRAFTS AND ME

with three digis of the winner's choice from their great range

AND ALSO BY

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line.

 

Challenges I would like to enter are:-

Sparkles Forum - Fairies or Butterfly
That Craft Place - Things with wings
Southern Girls - Make Believe
Addicted to Stamps - make your mark
ABC Challenges - V for Very Cute
Designed to Colour - Anything Goes
Lady Annes Challenges - Wings

Crafty Cardmakers - Snow & Ice

The latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers is hosted by Josephine, who has chosen the theme of 'Christmas Snow and Ice'.

As the hot weather draws to a close, Josephine would like to see us preparing for Winter with some Christmas Snow and Ice!

Your creation must include either a representation of snow or ice, plus a Christmas theme in order to qualify for the Winner or Top 5 slots

For my card I merged 2 digital stamps 'Jackie Frost' by Tickled Pink and A free Snowglobe by Nicola Perry

I coloured the image with a combination of Flexmarkers & pro markers in a combination of blues and lilacs.

I mixed some Frantage with glitter and melted it around the edges ( I think most of it ended up on the floor) then I cut the image out. I added a  Merry Christmas stamp by inkylicious using Black Versafine ink.

The large flourish/snowflake is a memory box die and the the smaller ones are an old punch I have.  All the gems and pearls are from my craft stash.

I coloured some ribbon with promarkers to match my colour theme and and filled a tiny glass vial (so cute from ebay) with glitter and tied it along with a metal snowflake to the edge of the card.

We are sponsored by

DI'S DIGISTAMPS

with a $10 GIFT VOUCHER

and 

HOBBY ART

with these two gorgeous stamps:-

Archie and Pals

Bertie The Snowman 

I hope you like my finished card, i must say I love the blue and purple together.  I hope you will come and join in our challenge.

Thanks for Stopping by

Challenges I would like to enter are:-

Chrismas Card Challenges - Something New(Stamp & Little Bottles)
Glitter N Sparkle - Anything Goes
The Glory of Christmas - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Things with Wings
Fashionista - Christmas
Creative Creations - Christmas
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Anything Goes
Christmas cards all year round - September Challenge
Sweet Pea Stampers - Fantasy
Christmas Blog Challenge - Add a Charm

Anastasia

Over at Make it Crafty, Zoe is having a Design team call for the Facebook fan page.

If you havn't visited before, check it out, it is full of lovely ladies sharing their beautiful work and always ready with advice

As ever I left it to the last minute to decide to enter, mainly due to all the fab entries that are already there, but after much indecision I have plucked up the courage.

Anyway,I decided to go out of my comfort Zone for this one and coloured up 'Anastasia', who I have long admired, but not had the courage to colour and boy she is tricky and a lot of work - but tremendous fun.

I also decided to do brunette hair, as I normally stick to lighter colours and teamed this with my two favourite colours to work with Orange and Teal.

It took most of the weekend to colour and I have only just made it before closing time!!!

I hope you like her, I know I am really pleased with the end result.

Thanks for visiting.


Challenges I would like to enter are:_

Make it Crafty - Facebook DT
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes
Just Hanna - Bingo (Pearls, Flowers, Pins)
7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes - Twist Markers (Promarkers)
Crafty Sentiments - Make it Girly
Creative Creations - Bingo (Sentiment, Image, Pearls)
paper Playtime - Pearls
Paper Nest Dolls - Shaped
Colour me Creative - Anything Goes

Toes in the Sand

the latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers is hosted by Lin, who has chosen the theme Fun in The Sun

In the hopes of encouraging the sun to shine for longer than 5 minutes, Lin would like to see something relating to the summer fun, so that might be holiday related, or something in the garden, basically something you might do outdoors when the sun is shining that's fun, clean and legal!!

Please ensure your card meets the required element to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot.

I have used a gorgeous image called 'Toes in the Sand' by one of our sponsors Saturated Canary, Krista's image are always such a treat to colour.

  I coloured with promarkers and actually decided to colour in the background, which I don't normally do, now I know why, I found it so difficult to blend.  I was also trying to go for a sunkissed look, think I got more sunburnt!!!!

I framed the image with a left over negative cut (Cricut Storybook) and then mounted onto Orange Papermania card.

The surfboard was a free clipart I found, which I merged with some more clipart Palm Trees and a Hibiscus flower

The die cut seashells and Hibiscus were also cut using my Cricut 'Lifes a Beach' Cartridge.

We are sponsored by 

SATURATED CANARY

with 2 of their gorgeous digis 

and

SIR STAMPALOT

with this fabulous prize:-

I look forward to seeing all your creations :)

Challenges I would like to enter are:-

Pink Gem - Punch it Out
CMC Copic Challenge - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Bold & Beautiful
Alphabet Challenge - Newest Stamp
I Love Promarkers - Summertime
Crafts 4 Eternity - Summer Sun
Quick Quotes - Summer
Crafts Too - Summer Days
Paula Holifield - Summer Sun
Rose Blossom Garden - Summer (Cricut)
Cards Galore - Bingo (Flowers, Die Cuts, Summer)

50 Shades....

I decided to try a couple of new things this weekend.
Firstly I coloured my image using only shades of Grey, I used an image by Saturated Canary which very appropriately is called 'Grey Tie'

I also tried to do the no line technique, although I don't think I faded the lines enough in word, even so, I still found it one of the most challenging projects I have done so far and it also the longest time I have spent colouring an image.

I hope you like the results.

I used Promarkers Cool Grey 1 - 5  & Black, also Ice Grey 4 & 5 for the Tie/Panties - I couldn't resist adding a little China Blue for her eyes :)

I layered the image on some glittery silver card - both cut with Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals and added some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts a tiny heart hat pin and some flat backed pearls around the edge of the scalloped die.

Challenges I would like to enter are:-

Dream Valley Challenges - Monochrome
That Craft Place - Monochrome
Saturated Canary - Set your Creativity Free
Totally Gorguss - Hot Hot Hot
The Cupboard Trilogy - Monochrome
Milk Coffee Challenge - Colouring Skills
7 Kids Challenge - Anything Goes - Twist use markers
Creative Creations - Monocromatic

Crafty Cardmakers #97 - 1,2,3

Our latest challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is hosted by Elaine who has chosen the theme '1,2,3'
who would like to see projects with 1 image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments.

I used a digital stamp called 'Rock Star' by one of our sponsors this week The Paper Shelter.

Every good Rock Chick has Funky "Rock" hair, so I went with Purple and thought this would look great teamed with Emerald Green.

I coloured her with Promarkers and then layered her onto Green Cardstock and first edition 'Spring Drop' paper.

The music backing paper was a free digital download from Mygrafico which I printed onto purple velum.

I added a couple of tickets I stamped and cut out, some musical notes I have had in my craft stash forever, 3 little purple flowers with a green sparkly gem in the centre and finally some green feathers that were left over from my wedding favours!

We are sponsored by 

THE PAPER SHELTER

with a $20 gift certificate for their fabulous store

and 

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line.

I look forward to visiting your blogs to see what you come up with.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Creative Creations - Anything Goes
Digi Sketch Challenge - Anything Goes
Lacey Sunshine  - Hand Coloured Image
That Craft Place - Its a Girl Thing
Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything Goes