Red and love

For the February challenge at Patties Creations, we  are challenging you to...

"use lots of red!"

I used 'candy hearts jar'

and knew I wanted to make this for my hubby.

That's why I used kraft card as a base. 

The image was lovely to colour with my promarkers and spectrum noir pens. 

I embossed a piece of kraft, then inked and 

backed it on red. 

I diecut the "love" and stamped "you."

The finishing touches were to emboss the edges and 

add some doodles with a white sakura pen. 

(The heart and the stitching around the edge.)

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

AAA cards - love - 20 Feb
Addicted to stamps - love - 20 Feb
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 19 Feb
Pile it on - hearts on fire - 20 Feb
Hiding in my craft room - red, pink and one other colour - 12 Feb
Simon says stamp - the colour of love - 9 Feb

A shaped card

Glitter and Sparkles challenge this fortnight, is...

"anything but a square or rectangle card."

So, I made  a shaped card... fit for a friend's little girl 

(well, she's not so little now! She's 10!)

Her name is Hannah - so I carefully created this H shaped card.

I used the lacy sunshine image - Rory Fae.

Colouring her with my promarkers and spectrum noir pens,

I sat her on the beam of the "H" 

after I had covered the shape in paper and inked the edges. 

I also added a a little, stamped "happy birthday"banner

(stamp sentiment and hashtag from lawn fawn.)

and some diecuts - the bow and the hanging "10"

The butterflies are punched with my Martha Stewart punch.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Brown sugar - atg - 2 Feb
Colour crazy challenge - atg - 15 Feb
Crafty catz - atg - and ladies card - 2 Feb
Creative fingers - atg - 4 Feb

Gold and silver

Glitter and sparkle have a great challenge to 

link up with, this fortnight...

"use gold and silver."

I had real fun with the Kenny K image - Vikki Lee Vicious...

With the new alcohol markers I got for Christmas,

I coloured her with mainly gold and silver tones. 

I experimented with her hair - figuring, in that outfit,

she would have wild hair!

I finally got round to using the star die I bought in Canada, last Easter!

(Cutting it in gold and silver)

I also used a new embossing folder - also bought in Canada.

The sentiment was also from a new teeny set of alphabet 

dies, which I bought recently, in Hobbycraft.

I ripped the edge of the spotty paper, to give it a bit of a"wild" look, too. 

Vikki is on 3d foam, so pops from the card slightly.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative corner - atg - 19 Jan
Creative fingers - atg - 20 Jan

Making memories - atg 1 Feb
Polkadoodles - atg - 20 Jan
QKR Stampede - cas - 20 Jan
Thats Crafty - silver n gold - 27 Jan
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 1 Feb
Passion for promarkers - add some bling - 17 Jan
Through the craft room door - atg - 17 Jan

Carousel horse

Our January challenge at Patties Creations has started!

We challenge you this month, to...

"use an animal image" on your card.

What a great first challenge of the year!

Here is my card:

I used "carousel horse"

and made it into a card for my Hubby's Aunt -

who is going to be 70 next week.

With my new promarkers and spectrum noir pens, 

I experimented with the colours of the horse, and I think it seemed to work!

I used my new spellbinders die, which I cut on my bigshot,

and snipped off the top, so it replicated the saddle on the horse. 

I inked the edges of the papers and added some tiny

white dots along the blue card,

with my white sakura pen.

I finished this card about 10 mins before Hubby's aunt 

arrived to see us at our new house!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Feb

Dies R Us - atg with dies - 13 Jan

Sparkles - happy birthday - 15 Jan

Pile it on - celebrations - 15 Jan
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 30 Jan
Crafty creations - atg - 19 Jan

Crafty gals - use something new - 11 Jan
Love to scrap - atg - 1 Feb
Oh la la creations - feminine - 16 Jan
Crafty awesomeness - atg - 1 Feb
Classic design team - atg - 1 Feb

2017: A new beginning...

Happy New Year!

I'm back with a card I made for our new challenge

at Glitter n Sparkle -

"new beginnings!"

I love A Day For Daisies and was thrilled when I knew they were our sponsor this week...

I used the image "dandelions in a mason jar."

and printed it alongside a sentiment which I typed.

I coloured this image carefully, as 

I wanted the jar to look like glass. 

I got a load of promarkers and spectrum noir pens for Christmas

from my Hubby, as I needed some new pens...

I love 'em!

So... I no have many more colours to use...some 'darks' and 'pastels' too,

as well as new flesh colours, which I was desperately in need of.

I used pastel beige and one of the pastel greys to

colour the dandelions. 

The finishing touch on the mage was to add a shadow along the bottom.

I embossed around the image and

matted it on some paper and embossed around that piece too.

A touch of glamour dust around the inner frame and a 

Martha Stewart punched butterfly

finished off this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafters cafe - monochromatic - 14 Jan

Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Feb

CCC digi creations - add butterflies - 13 Jan

Scribbles designs - new - 16 Jan

Allsorts - something new - 7 Jan

Crafty friends - atg - 13 Jan

My time to craft - something new - 30 Jan

Brown sugar - atg - 6 Jan