Glamour & roses!

This week at Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge, 

we are going with a Colour Palette of

Blue, Yellow & Green

and our sponsor is Concetta Kilmer

I coloured her using my favourite Prismacolor pencils and added a few highlights to her hair with a metallic blue gel pen.

She was fussy cut leaving a little border, before being popped onto dimensionals.  The background paper is from Julie Nutting "Belle Vie"

Happy Crafting!

R is for Resist

I am honoured as Queen of Snark, to be a guest on this new challenge at 

the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

'R is for Resist'

I chose a new (and unused) stamp that I bought only recently using the words as a resist on the background.

I stamped the words a number of times over the background using Versamark and clear embossed them.  I then took my piece of card outside as it was a lovely day with no breeze, and spritzed it with Heidi Swap 'Color Shine' sprays in 'Teal', 'Mint Green' and 'Chartreuse'.  Using a tissue, I rubbed over the words to remove the colour from the sprays.

I stamped Alice on white cardstock with 'jet black' Archival Ink and coloured her skin, hair, apron and stockings with Prismacolor pencils, adding shading as needed.  I left her newsprint dress uncoloured.

I popped Alice onto dimensionals to give her a bit more emphasis, however before doing that I cut her legs off and glued them directly onto the background.

The background was given a black mat before attaching to white card

(not pink as it looks in the photo - hmmm .... not sure why that is - oops!).

Stamps

Carabelle Studios - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

Happy Crafting!

Hair Do

I've been keeping a secret for the last little bit, but now I can reveal that I am very excited to be a part of the 

DESIGN TEAM  at WICKED WEDNESDAY ATC CHALLENGE!

The theme this week is 

"Hair Do"

and our sponsor is SLS Lines.

I started by colouring her body with Prismacolor pencils in a couple of different skin tones.  

Her hair is coloured using metallic pencils in tones of purple and a fuschia pink, with the smaller details of the stars & moon in silver and the sun in yellow.

The background is a blend of Distress Inks with a mask covering the image.

Happy Crafting!

Bloom

I needed to send a note to a distant friend recently, so quickly whipped up this card.

Of course, part of the reason it was so quick was because I used an printed image from a sheet of 12 x 12 watercolour card.

ADORNit - Art Play Paintables - Be Awesome

There are 12 images on each sheet and all you need to do is cut around the border, colour and mount on a card, tag or whatever takes your fancy.

I used a purple card base, a black mat and a torn piece of handmade paper before adhering the coloured bloom image on top.

Easy Peasy!!!

As the card was purple and would have been both hard to read and write on, I added a white insert and wrote a little note to my friend.

Happy Crafting!

Awww .....cute!

Just because I could, but with no particular person in mind,

I decided to make a couple of baby cards using some freebie stamps that I found in a box when I was looking for something else.

Aren't they cute?

I started with this one, however before I started colouring the image, I looked through my stash of cardstock for a neutral baby colour and found this lovely green.

I tried to keep the colour palette neutral so it would be suitable regardless whether it would be for either a girl or boy.

Both cards were stamped with 'jet black' Archival Ink and coloured with Prismacolor pencils.

Happy Crafting!

Wedding #2

'Hello' on this beautiful winter's day in Sydney.  

Far too nice to be indoors so this will only be a quick post.

This is the second wedding card I made for my friend who has been invited to a couple of weddings in the next few months.

I came across a layout recently that I really liked the look of and thought would work well with this gorgeous heart, so with a little bit of tweaking, this is my finished card.

I did however, cheat a little bit because it's not stamped but is from a watercolour sheet of images, so all I had to do was cut around the border and add colour where I wanted.

I used metallic gel pens to colour the flowers and the word being careful not to smudge anything!  Once dry, I matted it with gold cardstock.   Another piece of white cardstock was also matted and some gold thread wrapped around both layers with the stamped sentiment included.  Two pieces of gold washi tape were added before the heart image was popped onto dimensionals.  The sentiment also has a dimensional under it to keep it at the same level.

I was really pleased with how this turned out and my friend was thrilled with both the wedding cards.

I also added another little tag with the same stamped image as before but this time stamped in black with gold detail added [which I forgot to photograph].

Stamps

Stampin' Up! - Occasional Quotes

Watercolour Image

ADORNit - Art Play Paintables - Love You

Happy Crafting!

Wedding #1

I was recently asked by my BFF if I could make a couple of wedding cards for her.  Of course, I said "yes" and so I got playing over the weekend.

Without a particular colour specified, I decided to go with classic gold as I don't think you can go too far wrong with either gold or silver for a wedding.

I inked up the stamp using Versamark and embossed it with fine gold embossing powder.

A gold mat was laid under the white and some gold thread was wrapped around both layers which was finished off with a simple knot.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed in the same manner as above.

The insert also had words embossed in gold

[but silly me forgot to take a photo of the inside]. 

As an extra bonus, I added a little gift tag, also gold embossed and with a piece of gold thread attached.

Stamps

Visible Image - heart INKognito

Stampin' Up! - Heard from the Heart

Carabelle Studio - Love

I'll be back again tomorrow with the second card.

Happy Crafting!