Make it Crafty is recruiting...

Hi all, no card to show today, but I wanted to let anyone that is interested know that our beloved leader at Make It Crafty (Zoe) is having a DT call, woo hoo!

This is not for the Design Team at the colouring challenge, Make It Colourful, but for the store, so you don't have to be a top colourist or copic whizz - it's for anyone that uses and loves Make It Crafty products and would like to help promote the rubber stamps, chippies and 3D kits. I can tell you this would be a great DT to be on, not least because Zoe is a lovely lady and a fantastic boss, plus the products are absolutely fantabulous!

You can read about the DT call HERE.

Will be back in a couple of days with a project......here's a sneaky peaky:

Bye for now!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Hi all, and Happy St Patrick's Day to you! I never mark this day usually or make any cards but I had to make this card, not for a DT project, but just because I wanted to use this new image. It's by Crissy Armstrong and it's called Young Leprechaun. I thought he was really cute and wanted to have a go at colouring him. I'm a bit off my stroke with colouring but I'm trying to keep my hand in, lol.

I merged him with a couple of background digi stamps from Make It Crafty: the Rainbow Dandelion and Petals & Palings (which is one of my all-time fave images).

I used copics as usual, and an off-cut of some Papermania paper. The leafy die cut was a gift from my friend Jean, the bow was made from some fabric from my friend Elaine, and the fabric-covered brad was in some candy I won from the wonderful Kevin. I downloaded a celtic-looking font from Dafont.com to make the sentiment, and just added a few gold sequins to complete it. I tried to include some gold in the image and embellies because the Irish flag colours are green, white and gold/orange.

I haven't entered any challenges for absolutely ages, so I'm gonna put this in a few:

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Add a sentiment

Fab N Funky Challenges - Luck of the Irish

Inky Impressions - You're my pot of gold....use gold and bling (gold flower sequins)

Just Inspirational Challenges - Photo inspiration (I chose the St patrick photo)

Just Some Lines - Spring Cleaning - at least 2 items over 6 months old (actually everything on my card is over 6 months old, the paper is a couple of years old and I've had the sequins for years! lol)

Kaboodle Doodles - Show us some green

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - St Patrick's Day

Sassy Cheryl's Challenges - Wearin' of the green

Simon Says Stamp - A bit o' green

Sweet Stamping - Use lots of green

Wags N Whiskers - Luck of the Irish

Have a great weekend all, and happy crafting!

Animals at Sundays With Crissy

Hello all, I have my DT project for Sundays With Crissy to show today. This month the theme is Animals, so get out your animal images and join in!

Crissy has the cutest little fawn image, called Newborn Joon, and I thought I'd give it a go. I was a bit nervous because I do find animals more difficult to do, but this one was actually much easier than I thought once I got going. It's coloured in copics, and I used the E10's family as they gave a lovely red-brown set of shades which was perfect for a little baby red deer. In keeping with my kinda-new-years-resolution to use some of those neglected unloved shades, I chose a previously unused red violet (RV29, teamed with some reds) for the neck ribbon and bow. 

The card is very Clean and Simple, just some nice paper, a die cut circle and a little ribbon. The paper is Prima Annalee, die cuts are Spellbinders Lacey circles, Nestabilities Standard circles, and the ribbon was recycled from a chocolate box.

Going for the Clean and Simple look

If you fancy playing along, you have till 31 March (noon US time) to upload. Hope you come and join us this month. Happy crafting!

Happy Birthday at Sundays With Crissy

Hello everyone - can you believe that it's February already?! Seems like only a week ago that we were stressing to finish Christmas cards in time to catch the post!

Anyhoo, on to my card today.....the theme this month at Sundays With Crissy is HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and I chose this lovely image by Crissy called Love You Sis because I've been wanting to use it for ages. It seems a perfect image to use on a card from one sister or friend to another. Using Paint.Net, I merged it with the fence image (Petals & Palings from Make It Crafty) and coloured it with Copics. The pinks are a little outside of my comfort zone, but I had to justify buying the RV63 and RV66 last year by actually using them at last! And as it turns out, I quite like these shades now as they're not as candy-pink as the lower-numbered Red Violets tend to be.

 

 

Images: Love You Sis, by Crissy Armstrong

Petals & Palings, by Make It Crafty

Colouring: Copics and Polychromos

DPs: Prima Annalee and Papermania

Metal corner: Wild Orchid Crafts

Computer-generated sentiment

Flowers, centres and doily from my stash

If you'd like to join us in the challenge this month, pop over to the challenge blog and upload your project. There prize for one lucky winner is some digis of your choice from the talented and super-lovely Crissy.

Thanks for dropping by today, I'll see you soon; in the meantime Happy Crafting!

Just to show I haven't been completely idle...

Hello bloggers! I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that has been leaving comments for me whilst I've been away, even though I couldn't visit or leave comments, it touched me that you'd still drop by, and kept me going while I was feeling so poorly. I'm still taking it easy, but glad to be colouring and crafting again. I am NOT glad to be suffering a messy work area once more, I did like having a nice clear dining table, he hee.

Anyway, following Chrissy's post recently where she was asking about what Kraft papers were light enough to go through a printer, I promised her I'd try my Kraft and tell her the results. Well, as I'd test-printed some images, I thought I'd at last get round to experiment with colouring on it. This was my first attempt, using the lovely Summer Dreams by Make It Crafty. I used Faber Castell Polychromos (I only have about 30 shades at the mo) without any blending with Sansodor, and I quite like my first go. I find some of the pencils nice and soft, some are very hard and scuffed the paper up on the hat ribbon. I might have a go with Prismas next, although I only have a handle of pencils. Hope you likey:

Here's a quick card I made using this image and some scraps of paper which happily matched the colours in the image. Not sure what I think of this one, but I'll definitely be colouring on Kraft again:

Will have a DT card to share in a few days....till then, happy crafting!

Can't leave comments

Hi everyone, I've been trying since last night to leave comments on your blogs, but I haven't been able to leave any. For some reason, Blogger freezes on me each time I click the comment button. I notice there have been some changes while I've been away so maybe it's a glitch with the software. Just wanted you to know that I'm not ignoring my blogging buddies, and I'll continue to visit to look at your work even if I can't leave some love.

There is sooooo much to catch up on, you've been VERY busy, lol.

Beat The Mid-Winter Blues

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! I hope Christmas was good for you and that you're ready and raring to get crafting after the holidays. I've been doing a bit of gentle crafting myself and made this easel card for our challenge this month at Sundays With Crissy. The theme is Beat The Mid-Winter Blues, and it can be interpreted however you like - whether you want to make a summery card, a card in blues, or whatever the theme means to you. There's lots of inspiration throughout the month over on the main challenge blog.

As soon as I saw the theme I knew I wanted to use this image by Crissy - she's called Beach Baby Jayme and I just love her! So fabulous and she really makes me smile☺ She's coloured in Copics (the first time I've picked them up in weeks, it felt strange to be using them again), and I used the colourless blender to dab onto the green colouring to make her dappled froggy skin. The sentiment is by Digis With Attitude, although I don't know if it's available any longer, and I added some flowers and ribbon trims to finish it off. I hope you like it.

I'm getting round to visit everyone bit by bit, so I'll see you soon. Have a good weekend.