Make My Monday #105 - Colour Challenge

Hi all,

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday Challenge #104, This challenge has been chosen by ME, TeeHee.... And my challenge is going to be a colour challenge! Here's my card...

This gorgeous stamp called "Endless Potential"  is by an Australian Company based in South Australia, called Uniquely Creative, They are a new favourite of mine LOL.

Anyway here is the colour pallete I choose

Were in Spring here in Australia, and I just love these colours and flowers LOL

I stamped the image in black waterproof ink, as I wanted to try out the Arteza real brush pens. (very similar to the Zig real brush pens for watercolouring)  There is a slight difference between the Zig and Arteza mainly the size of the brush tip and Arteza have a few more colours.

The Sentiment is by Clearly Besotted, I really love that font!  I've added a couple of gems to the middle of the flowers and a wee bit of sparkle to complete my card!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, on the Make My Monday Blog, and I do hope you are inspired you to take part!

Hugs

XoX

Alex Syberia Designs

Hi all,

Well if you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen all of my sneak peaks that I have been teasing you with... (sorry not sorry LOL)

The very talented Alex Syberia, had asked me to produce some cards made with her new designs and I jumped at the chance to work with her designs, she produces the most amazing floral digital images!
So please check out her etsy shop here.

So the wait is over... here are my creations...

Sneak peak day 1 - coloured with Arteza water brush markers, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Sneak peak day 2 - coloured with Prismacolor pencils, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Sneak peak day 3 - coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils, MFT Sentiment

Sneak peak day 4 coloured with Prismacolor pencils, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Sneak peak day 5 - Coloured with Mission Gold Watercolours, MFT Sentiment

Sneak peak day 6 coloured with Prismacolor pencils, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Phew that's them all!

Hope you like them!

And don't forget to take a look at all of Alex's other gorgeous designs too!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

XoX

Make my Monday #103 - Dance

Hi all,

It's Monday, so that means its a new challenge over on the Make My Monday blog and this weeks theme is Dance, chosen by the lovely Sue! so please head over and take a look at the DT cards and maybe enter a card or two yourself!

It's a been a couple of weeks since I last posted anything, I am still, not feeling 100% and on top of the vertigo, I am suffering with other issues too.. (insert sad face).

Anyway back to my card, so the theme was dance, and I had done a little online shopping as you do when you're ill LOL, and I recieved my parcel from Clearly Besotted, and I knew I had to colour these cute little hippo's up from the Twinkle Toes set, with my Prismacolor pencils!

I've some twine and sequins just to finish the card off and mounted it on some pink cardstock!

Hope you like the card and don't forget to pop over and take a look at the DT cards and enter the challenge too!

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs
XoX

Clearly Besotted - Pop Up Plushies

Hi all,

I'm back today with another card for you, this time it's a dreamy scene... featuring four of the pop up plushies by Clearly Besotted..(you know I love Clearly Besotted!!)

I coloured four of the animals with my Prismacolour pencils and fussy cut them out.

The background has been stenciled using the Wendy Vecchi - Make art station,  with the cloud stencil by MFT, in Dried Marigold, Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar and Victorian velvet.  I added some splatters of white/silver (905)  and gold (906) starry paints by Kuretake, and while it was still wet I dusted it with glitter using my Ranger glitter duster.

I cut four slits in the clouds and slit where the paws are in the images and slotted them in, and adhered them with some foam tape,  so they appear to be peaking from over the clouds.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set in Insulation Pink by MFT, and cut it out with the Neat and Tangled Skinny Strip dies, and popped it up with foam tape.

All that was left to do was to find some paper and sequins that matched LOL

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like the card!

hugs

XoX

It's the weekend with Clearly Besotted - Magical Plushies

Happy Friday to you all!

The weekend is here! YAY... so on my desk today is the Magical Plushies set from Clearly Besotted, I have quite a few sets from Clearly Besotted, as I just love their sentiment sets and the cuties LOL..

Ive coloured this one with my Prismacolor Pencils, and even though this is a real small image, there are around 15 layers of colour on it...I like to go lightly and build up, so the colouring and blending look seamless...(well I try too LOL)

Who doesn't like a unicorn... right..

He has a halo cloud of milled lavender distress ink around him, and I achieved this by covering him with a die cut cloud and then going over it with the distress ink, then removing the cloud and I then went over all of it.  This leaves a very faint cloud image, so that he looks like he's sat in the cloud.

(hopefully you can see, so hard to get the light right for that photo)

In the second photo, you can see his golden unicorn, that was created using a starduct gelly roll pen.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

1. Less is more Challenge #400 - Small Images
2. AAA Cards CAS Game #145 - One Image + Optional Twist Positivity

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

hugs

XoX

It's Just One of Those Cards....

Hi guys,

So I'm back today with "Just one of those cards!" and what I mean by that is I just love it..and it's one of those that I could make again and again...

Its a masculine Christmas card... but it just has a certain something... Ok I'll let you judge for yourself..

It wasn't hard to do, but it just has a certain something about it... so I've die cut a stitched panel out of gold and Kaisercraft paper from the Christmas edition pad, and then I've used a Stitched Hillside Borders by Lawn Fawn.

I stamped the sentiment from the Sweet Little Sentiments by Clearly Besotted.  

Two tags from a nesting set, one in black and one in Vellum (sshhh it's actually wedding vellum but you can't see the hearts)

The foliage die cuts are from Stampin Up and some I had in my stash and the Stags head was a free stamp and die set but any would do and that's all there is to it!

I think it's a great masculine Christmas card, this arrangement but a different image would also work for a feminine card too! (I'll let you know when I've done one LOL)

I'm going to enter this into a couple of challenges :-

The Male Room - Challenge #115 - Christmas In July

Crafty calendar challenge 

Cute N Crafty Christmas - Challenge 15

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully I've given you some Christmas Inspiration ho ho ho,
hugs
XoX

CAS Christmas Card

Hi all,

So this morning, I have tried to do a no line colouring with the Fade out ink by Ink on 3.. I've also attempted to do bear fur too...(yes don't get too excited ...you haven't seen it yet LOL)

I saw that AAA CAS Cards, had a new challenge and I thought I would join in.. so I've made this card for the challenge.. CAS Game #144 - Maxi White Space + Optional Twist Christmas In July

Im also entering into the following too

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Christmas In July - EDITED I got a top 3
Addicted to stamps and more CAS
Cute n Crafty Christmas Challenge 15

He's part of the Humphreys corner set - Hello Rudolph and I must admit I haven't used him, in a very long time..he may be one of my oldest sets LOL..  The sentiment, is a new one called Laugh out Loud Christmas by Clearly Besotted, I really love their sentiment sets!

I've Copic coloured my little guy and I've stamped around him with VersaMark Dazzle and Picket fence distress inks, just for a little extra bit of interest! Hopefully you can see that in these photos.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

XoX