CYP #81 - Crafty Sentiments - Use Kraft Paper

I can't believe another week has flown by... I've been so busy that my crafting time has taken a hit. I did enjoy having some craft time Friday night to work on this adorable image from Crafty Sentiments for our current challenge over at Craft Your Passion Challenges. It's an easy one this week - just use kraft paper on your project. Here I decided to try my hand at using my Prisma colored pencils on kraft paper again. I'm liking the results and feel like I am finally getting the hang of it a little bit. With some more practice I might actually use them more often.

So come join us at Craft Your Passion - it's a great challenge and a chance to win some fun prizes from a wonderful sponsor.

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

Make it Monday - #60 - Linky Party
Charisma Cardz Challenge - #42 - Embossing
Southern Girls - #30 - Stripes and Polka Dots
Fab'N'Funky - #95 - Distressed or Torn

CYP #77 - Color Combo - Lauretta's Digis

Our challenge this week at Craft Your Passion is all about the color combo! The original colors are brighter than my choices, but that's because the bright green, yellow and black didn't suit my image. I chose to use lighter tones of them to help set the mood on this simple and sweet card. The image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps. I brushed in a light cloud background, colored her with my Copics and added some shimmer paint to her wings. The shape is cut from a Cricut cartridge and the sentiment banner is hand drawn. I finished it with a bubbly yellow bow! Simple but beautiful!

Come join our challenge this week for a chance to win some great digi prizes.

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

Make it Monday - #56 - Linky party

Paper Sundaes - #88 - Anything goes

Southern Girls Challenge - #28 - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and I hope today is an awesome day for you!

Just dropping you a line...

I've loved this adorable set from Stampendous for a while now, but have never put them to the ink pad until this card. I got a wonderful RAK from my bestee with a small dollar type stamp in it that had the sentiment "Just dropping you a line..." and I knew I had to put it with these great fishy images. The fish bowl is actually stamped once on the background and once on a transparency. Then I colored the transparency very roughly with a blue water colored Copic. On the background I stamped the castle and bubbles on the bowl image. Then the fish were stamped and cut out separately so I could toll and pop them off the background a little. Then the transparency was laid over the background to give it the "bowl" look. When I went to take a photo of it all, the transparency just wanted to reflect back at me... So, I'm not sure you can really see the effect, but trust me... it's coolio! The papers are a fun set from GCD Studio's called Canta. Fun colors and a little bit of a whimsical feel, just what I was going for.

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

Karens Doodles - Use two images on one card

Southern Girl Challenge - Bring Out Your Inner Child

Deep Ocean Challenge - #3 - Cards

Everybody Art Challenge - #149 - Shapes

ColourQ - #92

Thanks for taking a looksee!

Adorable Little Bear

I've gone flower crazy!!! It's been so much fun creating my own flowers - last night (I didn't sleep much btw) I put on a season of 24 and just started playing. I've made several different types, still working on some others. This card came together somewhere about episode 12! LOL. I got this freebie cute little bear stamp in a magazine package from The Wild Ones... Isn't he just too adorable? I used the Mojo Monday sketch that seemed to fit this image really easily. There were no design struggles on this one at all. I colored the image with distress inks, although it looks just like Copics this time around. I punched the image with a large scallop punch, added hand-stitching and bling and it was done before I could see how Jack deals with the huge mess CTU is faced with this time, hehehe!

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

MoJo Monday - sketch #196

Southern Girls Challenge - #21 - anything goes

My Mums Craftshop Challenges - #10 - See Spots

Cute Card Thursday - #169 - Birthstones

The Paper Shelter - #18 - Punches & Dies

Make it Monday - #42

JustAdd Ink - #72 - Coloring

Thanks for lookin'!

Giving Destress Ink's a Try...

Recently I discovered the amazing technique of coloring stamped images with Ranger's Distress Ink. It might not be new to everyone, but it is new to me. I have a drawer full of these awesome inks, so today I decided to give it a try. It took a couple of messed up images to finally get one that I liked, but now I'm in love with the look. I think it's such a different style than I'm used to with my Copics. I love the difference and it really seemed to fit the look I was going for today. I added some modeling past to the edges of the image, then stipple brushed some inks on to it. In fact, most everything on this page has been stippled with tea dye ink to tone it down. The flowers are handmade because I didn't have any in my stash that matched the color scheme. I like the way they turned out as well. Tip: It's always nice to be able to match your papers and making your own gives you that freedom. I am really thrilled with the way this one came out!

I would like to enter this one in the following challenges:

Pollycraft Monday - #97 - use ribbon and flowers - design team call

Just Add Ink - #72 - color something

Southern Girls Challenge - #21 - anythign goes

The Paper Shelter - #18 - punches and dies

Top Tip Tuesday - #38 - Open - tips

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Free and easy

Have a great day!!!