Safari sogood!

This is my card for the Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge 62. They had a sketch to follow and the first of the DT's cards set me thinking about animals. I didn't have any whimsical animals, but I remembered that a little while back I had filed away some paper and thought at the time it would be perfect for a jungle card. (Yes I am that organised, I file things in alphabetical order, or in the case of craft the paper is in colours, then patterns, etc. etc. In fact I spend hours organising and less time crafting, or so my DD jokes with me).

I also had a nice set of jungle animals and plumped for the elephant for the centrepiece as he looked the best one to fit in a circle, apart from the Zebra, and there isn't any colouring in a zebra.

Obviously a bunch of flowers would have looked silly alongside the elephant so I plumped for more jungle animals made with shrink plastic.

A little while back I was going to get rid of these stamps, but I can see a future for them. They should make nice cards for men, instead of the usual beer, scantily clad ladies and motorbikes.

The elephants were coloured in with Derwent pastel chalk pencils, and the same for the shrink plastic animals. Certainly makes a change from my colour of choice, purple. After all whoever saw an elephant with a purple hairdo. In fact are there any animals that are naturally purple in colour?

TW

Friday Sketchers Challenge

This is my entry for the Friday Sketchers' Challenge no 62. They have great sketches every week to inspire you. The colours are a bit clashy on this card, but somehow it appeals to me. Modest I know, lol !

Most of the cardstock comes from K&Co's Urban Rhapsody, except the largest of the label mats which is something from my stash I inked to match. In fact I inked quite a bit around the edges, including the flowers, to get the colour I was after.

The two lovely ladies are a Wild Rose stamp, and the flowers are from my stash, as is the smidge of ribbon.

I coloured the girls in with lyra aquacolours. I had to cut them out as I had an accident around the inside of their necks which I just couldn't correct. I still have not found an ideal card for stamping and painting with watercolours, and occasionally I get a sort of pilling on the card, which is what happened around the inside of their necks here. I was furious because I had mostly finished at that point, so I thought what the heck, use it anyway. I think they look better with the contrast colour showing behind and between them anyway. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I find hair difficult to do at the best of times but with watercolours it seems so much more difficult.

TW

Hellooooooo is there anybody there?

I know I didn't post for a while as the ME had gotten on top of me again, but I seem to be posting to a black hole right now. If you are reading this, please leave me a comment so I know I am not alone.

Here is my entry for the Colour Create Challenge 23. The theme is blue and white with an optional extra of vintage. Vintage didn't speak to me so I just went for the colours.

This is the other Hope and Grace stamp, from The Greeting Farm. These are little cuties. My Daughter came past whilst I was colouring and said 'you love those big heads don't you Mum!'. She is coloured with prismas and sansodor, the stamp that is, not my Daughter, she is just coloured with love.

The papers are from my stash, not sure whose they are as they were just loose sheets. The flower was a combination of chipboard coloured with glimmer mists, a K&Co paper flower and a paper rose in the middle. The butterfly is a stitching peel off on some tiny print paper. The girl is matted onto two blossom mats, and there are two different ribbons/fibres from my stash.

I found this quite difficult keeping to just the two colours, kept wanting to add some more colour in, and also matching it all was more of a challenge with just two colours as well.

TW

Hope and Grace

I made this card for the Mojo Monday Challenge #96.

The papers are Basic Grey Wisteria. Just love those colours. It's that purple thing again. The stamp is from The Greeting Farm Hope and Grace. Not sure if she is Hope or Grace.




I coloured her in with prismas and OMS and matted her onto core'dinations cardstock cut using my nesties scalloped and inverted circles. I wish they would make them a bit larger. They never seem to be quite big enough to get a decent sized mat behind the image! The ribbon is some strange yarn I bought a while back....... I'm guessing it was the colours that attracted me.


TW

Same day ........ another card

Thought I would share a card I made for a forum member over at Craft Telly which hopefully meets the challenge at Charmed Cards Blog. There is some delicious candy on offer of copic markers and what girl could resist trying to win some of those.

So here she is, a gorgeous stylish lady coloured in with prismas and OMS, from the 'Girls About Town' range of digital stamps. The fact that she is coloured in similar colours to the original artwork is purely coincidence, as any shade of purple is my favourite colour. In fact I have to pull myself away from all the lovely lilacs and mauves or they would be on every image I colour in. The patterned paper is DCWV perfect posies, the lilac mat is core'dinations embossed with the bug and the handbag charm was from my stash.






This is the first ever digital image that I used and apart from the obvious, such as unable to emboss, it gave me just as good a result as traditional stamp and ink and I enjoyed using it.


TW

I'm on a roll

I decided I should put a couple of posts up as I have been neglecting this for too long now.

I thought I could share with you my el cheapo version of ribbon storage! I realise it does have some drawbacks, such as how on earth I can dust it without knocking it flying, it certainly can't be vacuumed or the ribbons would disappear; but this way at least I can see them and it might encourage me to use them more as they have been even more neglected than this blog.

Anyhow this is it......... two lengths of net curtain wire, a couple of rings to secure it to the wall. Two LARGE cup hooks screwed into the wall and some curtain pole clips for net or voile curtains and voila el cheapo ribbon display/storage unit.

If I had realised I would be doing this I would have organised that back wall a little differently so that the ribbons were not dragging over the hooks for the other storage items, but hey ho.

Whilst I am sharing, I made this for an elderly lady my Daughter cleans for.


No idea why I find it impossible to make a 'quick' card, but having matted up the gorgeous 20s/30s lady could I find anything that went with her. Then I was flipping through the DCWV Garden Party stack and that gorgeous sheet of rose edged card just popped out at me.

Problem solved.

It was appropriate too, as this lovely old lady was born in the 1920s, so the lady was her era.

TW

Stampavie Challenge

I feel terrible. I haven't posted on this blog for 6 weeks. If anyone out there is reading this I am sorry if you have been looking and found nothing!

I have been busy with life and shifting some crafting excess from my stash.

Finally I am at last able to sit down and do some crafting and I couldn't resist the current challenge from Stampavie. The challenge was to make a card with at least one stampavie image, and as many flowers as you want. I chose 'Giving Shelter' which in itself has a large flower on it.

It has been coloured with prismas and OMS and matted using nesties and some gorgeous Basic Grey papers. I did some faux stitching (only because my sewing machine is way too big to cart into my craft room or even to be honest drag out the cupboard just to stitch a few bits) as this seems to be all the rage right now. The flowers are mostly from the K&Co Paper Flowers stack with a couple of gorgeous paper roses.



I enjoyed this as the Rachelle images are just so cute and I had great fun deciding which colours to use. Who says you can't have a green ladybug!

TW