One of a Kind

The first card is for There She Goes sketch challenge #78.
The second card is for the Annabelle Sketch Challenge + bling.

The first one was also for the last Papercraftstar photo inspiration challenge, where I used the colours from the photo to inspire me and the Tuesday's Throwdown #22  "anything goes', but I was too late for both of them!

I have used SU DP's and a piece of Co'ordinations card which I lightly sanded. The sentiment comes from the SU set One of a Kind, but the image is a Crafty Individuals C1 - 193. I used Momento Rich Cocoa ink, used a Copic for the pink breast and sponged the edges of the SU oval punch I used for the sentiment. I then added a piece of greenish ribbon and mounted it all on SU kraft card, and it's done.

This card is using the papers from a Papermania set called Silent Night. The image and sentiment are from WMS set Nutcrackers.  I have added some ribbon and some green sprinkles for bling! The image is coloured with Copics after being stamped in Memento ink Rich Cocoa on cream card. 

It's a rainy day today but warm - not as rainy as the mainland I hear, but still a bit wet. We had 1.2 cm last night and it is drizzling as I speak. Had my first seen huntsman in the house Friday night - yuk! He/she was lively and BIG.  Poor John had to get out of bed and get on a stepladder and remove him/her from the bedroom! Time to call the spiderman to come back and make sure they desist from entering. 

Clean and Simple Challenge

Am I too late - hope not!

Clean and Simple FTL#112 sketch challenge
There She Goes TSG #77 Colour challenge - green, black and orange
Annabelle stamps - "Say it in - black and white" challenge

I used a background paper from DCWV All Dressed Up, some ribbon, the stamp set from TSG called Art is the Window and a Prima flower.  All mounted on SU orange card. I stamped the sentiment with SU Craft white ink and didn't get a really clean print with it - it looked OK before I embossed it and the bird with clear embossing powder. I will go back to Versamark I think for this type of thing. 

This is a Flourish stamp set called City of David and the sentiment is from a WMS set. I stamped it on black card with Craft white SU ink - very juicy - and then embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I then added some ribbon, pearls and mounted it on a shiny white bazzil and then on a black and white background paper before putting it onto a white commercial blank. The ribbon is sparkly and the embossing also sparkles but the photograph does not show that properly. Poor camera work - sorry.

Another Father's Day Card

Am running late with this one, but want to enter it into There she Goes Sketch Challenge TSG#67.

I made this by simply following the sketch outline, after I stamped the 'Dadisms' several times onto a piece of SU Mellow Moss card to use as a background. I used the Cuttlebug and a Nestabilities Circle to cut out main image.

Things I used:

Card:  SU Mellow Moss and Whisper White, blank made from Tempting Turquoise

DP:  Pink Paislee -Spring Fling Collection

Stamps:  There She Goes - Dadisms

Ink:  Memento black for images, and Rich Cocoa for text

Other:  Coloured in Copics,

There She Goes Watercolour Challenge #66

There She Goes Watercolour Challenge #66

I have some great TSG stamps, but I had this digi image from Mo's Digital Pencil, already coloured with watercolour pencils and an aqua pen when I was experimenting with colouring techniques, so decided to clean it up out of the stash and use that. I added some Smooch blue and yellow to the car, and used that - along with some SU Pacific Blue ink , to colour the number, which is hand drawn and cut from some Tim Holtz grunge paper.  I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the Happy Birthday on the background card, and to cut out the label using Nestbilities Label 4. I popped the number up with some dimentionals.

 Brr, it's turned cold - wish it would rain!