Happy Birthday at Crafts & Me

Its a birthday theme over at Crafts & Me this week and turn of the dynamite digi team to host and for this I've used one of the brand new digis called Deevonne which of course is by Hannah Lynn and will be released on 1st July.

I was in a colourful mood making this as one of my orange lilies just flowered so I went with really bright colours of orange, yellow and pinks.  I also found a freebie from Bearly mine which was the colours I had in mind and went with a stars and stripes theme.

Image is coloured with promarkers and derwent coloursoft pencil.  I've also added a pic of her in progress further down so you can see how the end result turns out from the seemingly messy start!

I'd like to enter this into...

Ellephantastic - Sketch
Craft Room Challenge - Summer Birthdays
Crazy Challenge - Beautiful Women
Daisy Doodles -Stars & Stripes
Ooh la la - Summer flowers
Birthday Sundaes = Stars & Stripes
Crafty Pad - Bold & Bright
Dream Valley - Ribbon

In progress!  I started with some blush and coral on the skin and my lightest yellow (buttercup) orange (amber) and pink (baby pink)  I then blend the skin with ivory and repeat adding in more colours like soft peach and sandstone and add darker shades to the yellow, orange and pink and use the lightest to blend.

I'm off down to a bike rally for the weekend tommoz and OH has just gone down to pick my bike up then he'll be riding it back, going back down in car so he can pick his bike back up!  He's bought me a Suzuki GSX750F his mate was selling so I just need to pass my test now lol!  It'll give us time to do any work needed but here she is!  They're known as The Teapot, you can see it lol!  What shall I call her?



Spots & Stripes at Crafty Cardmakers

Evening all!  There is a fab new challenge this fortnight over at Crafty Cardmakers set by Donna who has chosen Spots & Stripes yay!  There is a £10 prize from One Stop Card Crafts up for grabs too!

For this I used an image by SUREYA from her open colouring book on Deviant Art, this one is Keicea and coloured with promarkers using my normal skin tones (ivory, blush, coral, soft peach) hair was vanilla, cocoa and umber and dress I used buttercup, primrose, mustard, gold and amber I think with some caramel in the shadows to tone the amber down.
Papers are Bearly Mine digital and the sentiment I've had forever and I think was a freebie saved for best as you do lol!

Would lke to enter into...

Totally Papercrafts - Spots & Stripes
Rainbow lady - digi
I love promarkers - anything goes
Southern girls - anything goes
Deep ocean challenge - flowers
Inspirational card sketches - sketch
Cooking it up with Katie - Sketch, yellow, birthday

Thought I'd also show this one I made for one of Ethan's friends.  Ethan chose the design and I coloured it!  Was from one of the disney free colouring pages somewhere.  I'm more used to colouring people so was a challenge for me!  For the coloured bits on mater I used denim and china blue with tea, mint and soft green, that seemed to be the closest match.  The rust-eze sign is back to front hey ho!  I also added glaze to parts of it to make them stand out more :)

 

Bee Crafty - Birthdays for little ones

Alys Sunday challege - Kids

FLASHBACK FRIDAY

HEHE Its the mean old challenge again called FLASHBACK FRIDAY!  If you've not taken part its where you post up your first blogged card of a given theme.  I think all us oldies should take part to encourage the newbies!

The theme this time is "Summer Colours"
Now I've already shown my first ones that would be summer colours for the stitching challenge (Here if you want a laugh again) so I shall go to next in line. 

I'll show a few from FEBRUARY 2008 :)

This one is from 1st Feb HERE and probably my first round card and I made a matching keyring too - go me!

They aren't so bad for a flashback so I've dug around in February some more to bring you these corkers!

This one is from 23rd February 2008 and interestingly I just did this stamp yesterday so look on post below - I think I'm a bit better at colouring now ;)

BWHAHAHA!!

Come here there's more!  My 1st Sugar Nellies!

And another Tilda - Oh dear!

All these are February 2008 - HERE if you want to see the write ups too coz theyre just as bad lol!


Also in that month I had my sexing scan with Molly Moo - She's 3 today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY PRINCESS POOKUM PIES XXX

Couple of challenges

Helloooo!  Got a couple to share today, been run off my feet the last week as both kids were sick and I've got well I dont know but my ears are ringing and I feel dizzy all the time so hopefully we'll all be right as rain soon as its the Mookins 3rd birthday on Friday so hoping for a nice weekend so she can play in the new house we got her.  She absolutely loves houses so I'm sure it will be well loved!

Having problems with pics so finding a way round it so addng them via photobucket!

First up its a new challenge over at Bearly Mine and this fortnight the theme is "Summertime"  For this I've been itching to use the bold print with the flowers on from the spring blossoms set coupled with the spots one from the spring mix set and the very summery gingham.
I've used an old Tilda stamp for this coloured with promarkers with glitter glue on the stars.

I'd like to enter into...

TOMIC - Summertime
ASFOS - Ribbons & Bows
Anything goes challenge - Here comes the summer
House of gilli - Ribbons & Bows
Ribbon carousel - colouring & ribbon
Emerald Faeries - Petals

Skin - Ivory, blush, coral, caramel, rose pink
Hair - Vanilla, cocoa, umber
Pinks - Pastel pink, antique rose, salmon
Turquoise - Pastel green, tea green, turquoise
Shadows - Cool grey 2 & 4
Punch - Martha stewart french scroll
Papers - Bearly Mine
Ribbon - ebay
Flowers - Papermania
Text - PC Printed


Also sharing this one which is for Crafty Cardmakers - The Spotlight Challenge and is or the theme "Sentimental"
For this I stamped and embossed a hero arts sentiment then cut out an oval shape (I dont have oval nesties so its a stencil)  I've framed it with tapestry stamps, I do love those, took me a while to get them to look as nice as the samples in the shops mind but persevere lol!  Kept this quite simple with some crystal sticky gems :)

Bling it on

Evening all!  Not been around much since Tuesday, too much stuff going on at the ranch with school meetings, meltdowns and the usual stuff!

Got one to show today for Crafts & Me Challenge this week which I chose as Bling it On, we want to see sparkles and bling bling.  I'm trying out a new style at the mo which is basically flat cards with few embellishment, not quite CAS or PAS but the focus is on the image like this one here.   I used a digi by Sara Burrier called Twilight Lily Fae, coloured with promarkers.  I placed the jpg version onto the digital background scene by Bearly Mine then erased the white off the wings to make it transparent (Note! If you add a PNG version over the digi background your image will be transparent so use the jpg version which is white so you can colour it!)
I've added glitter and gems to the wing and headband and glitter glue all around the edge of the card then layered onto gold holographic paper then black magic coredinations (yellow core)  Quite a simple make as I wanted to try out this style and I like how the digi background does all the work and ties in great with the image.

Would like to enter into...

Make it colourful - Blue (yay!)
Simon says stamp - distress/torn (Distressed coredinations)
Lexis - No sentiment
Bunny Zoes - Fairies
Top Tip Tuesday - Open challenge
Paper Pretties - One layer (Not sure if it qualifies as its matted?)