Keep Calm and Craft

We had a really fun image to play with from The Stamping Chef this month - this montage of Keep Calm and Craft. This was a really fun image to colour - well outside my normal comfort zone.

I coloured the image.and then use it in two ways - on a crafting T-Shirt & to update the cover on my crafting notebook.

Here's a couple of closer shots

I asked Tamara's permission before making the T-Shirt as I wanted to check it was ok with her angel policy. I scanned my coloured image and printed it onto T-Shirt Transfer paper designed for dark fabrics. The t-shirt is actually navy blue although it looks more black in the photos. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out although it did loose a lot of the detail in the scan. I love having a personalised t-shirt to wear on crafting adventures.

I used a range of bright colours from my Promarker collection:

Red, Berry Red, Burgundy

Bright Orange, Orange, Burnt Orange

Lemon, Yellow, Gold

Bright Green, Forest Green

Sky Blue, Azure, Royal Blue

Purple, Aubergine

Ice Grey 2, 4.5 and Black

Tan, Caramel

Thanks for the lovely image Tamara x

Simply Betty's Thanksgiving Little Indian

It's Facebook challenge time at Simply Betty and this time it has a Thanksgiving theme. We had a choice of  Pilgrim Corinne or Little Indian Betty. I decided to use Little Indian Betty and after a bit of thought made her her own teepee using the instructions for the Mini Pyramid Card in the Hougie Mini Masterpiece Project Book 

You can see I put the sentiment in the inside and used hook and loop spots to keep the TeePee closed.

The added challenge within the challenge was to use feathers - I used these pheasant feathers which I acquired recently.

I used my Promarkers:

Hair - Black, Umber, Walnut

Skin - Cocoa, Cinnamon, Tan

Eyes & Lips - Henna, Walnut

Dress - Sandstone, Caramel

Berry Red, True Blue

Bow and Arrow - Gold, Amber

I'd love to hear what you think x

Use Pink, Purple or Red

The challenge this week at Through the Purple Haze Challenges is to use Red. Pink or Purple. Challenge??? That's not a challenge! They're among my favourite colours so not a challenge at all to use. Our sponsor this week is Sassy Studio Designs and I had two lovely Sassy ladies to play with.

My first Sassy Lady is Jessica Rabbit Sassy. She struck me as such a strong, powerful woman that I decided to team her with a Tickled Pink Breast Cancer theme. 

The Background paper is a freebie from Link Up for Pink. I changed the writing colour from black to pink.

The Strong Brave and Beautiful Sentiment is a freebie from Gingers House  and I made the other sentiment myself. I cut them out on my Cougar & added a little sparkle with Sakura Tiara gel pens.

The card design is the Stepper Card from the Hougie Mini Masterpiece Project Book made on my trusty Hougie. From the side you can see the shape of it.

I coloured Jessica Rabbit Sassy  with my Promarkers

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Cocoa, Henna, Chestnut, Walnut

Dress - Cerise, Shocking Pink*, Maroon

Lips, Eyeshadow & a touch on the Shoes - Pink Sakura Tiara Gel Pen

I'd like to enter this to the following challenges:

Di's Digi Design Challenges - Girly

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - Shaped Cards

SeemaCrafts - Bright and Colourful November

Crafty Catz - Not a Square

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Feminine

Now as if Jessica Rabbit Sassy wasn't enough I was also lucky enough to have Valentine Honey to play with as well. This time I decided to go with 'Red'

This is another card design from the Hougie Mini Masterpiece Project Book  and one I've not tried before. As with all the Hougie projects it looks complicated but is actually very simple.

The front is a swirly digi paper I have - origin unknown. I mounted a Happy Birthday sticker on a piece of Tim Holtz Fragments and backed it with white and red card. The iridescent ribbon is from my stash and sticks to the back of the card, but is loose along the front so the card can open.

How effective is this fold? So simple yet looks so good!

I coloured Valentine Honey  with my Promarkers:

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Lips - Antique Pink

Bikini & Hearts - Red, Cardinal Red. Highlights with white gel pen

I'd like to enter this into these challenges:

Craft-Dee Bo-Z

Paper Creator'S Crafts - Birthdays

Digitally Sweet - Ribbons and or Lace

Polkadoodles - A Shaped Card - No Die Cuts

Crafty Catz - Not a Square - it is, but it isn't :P

I really hope you like my cards. I'm looking forward to seeing your Red, Pink or Purple entries over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges

Fireworks and Bright Colours at Digi Galore

I had a great time with this Challenge at Digi Galore! The theme is Fireworks/ Bright Colours/ Anything goes. As soon as I saw Frizzy Jynx in the Saturated Canary shop I knew she would be perfect! It took a while to make the picture on my head work in real life. but I'm really pleased with how she's turned out.

 I used some spotty patterned paper as a backing & added some Stickles to add to the sparkle. The backing is printed black. Unfortunately it comes out badly in the photo as it's actually a nice deep black not the strangeness that appears on the photo.

I made the sentiment myself in Craft Artist 2 and added a hint of sparkle with my Sakura Tiara pens.

The firework is a Stamp from the Stampin Up set 'New Year's Celebration' which I stamped with white Memento ink.

Here's a close up of Frizzy Jynx. I don't think I've ever used so many colours on one image but she certainly does pop now!

I used my Promarkers:

Hair - 

Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Red, Berry Red, Cardinal Red

Purple, Aubergine

Grass, Lush Green

Sky Blue, True Blue

The Promarkers on their own weren't giving the 'pop' I was after so I layered them up with extra glitter and sparkle using my Sakura Tiara gel pens & Crystal Stickles glue

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Top - Royal Blue, Indigo Blue with Berry Red & Cardinal Red Heart

 Ice Greys 1, 2,3 and Silver Gel Pen

Sky Blue

Red, Berry Red

Green, Lush Green

Tights - Orange, Burnt Orange

Socks - Ivory

Boots - Cardinal Red, Burgundy

Told you I used a lot!!!!

Come and show us your Fireworks or Bright Colour creations at Digi Galore - Anything goes and the prize is from the amazing Krista of Saturated Canary

Happy Birthday Betty!!!!

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday Dear Betty,

Happy Birthday to You.

It's Betty' Birthday and the lovely Corinne has organised a huge Birthday blog hop for her. It's a great big long hop as so many people love Betty. You should have started the hop here and come to me from Karen.

The wonderful Tamara from The Stamping Chef created this wonderful Digi just for Betty's Birthday. I decided to make something a bit different so made a banner rather than a card. I used the Haunted Banner from the Silhouette Store

A couple of close ups

And this is the lovely Queen of Halloween

I coloured her with my Promarkers and tried some different colour combinations which I'm actually really happy with.

Skin - Cocoa, Caramel, Satin with Sunkissed Pink Cheeks

Hair - Walnut, Umber, Black

Hat & Skirt - Ice Grey 3, 4, 5, Black

Eyes & Bodice - Lush Green, Pine. I added Green Tiara Sakura pen to the eyes for her shimmery eyeshadow

Shirt & Skirt - Ivory & Satin

Bat & Skull - Silver gel pen

I hope you like her Betty & hope you're enjoying the hop.

Your next stop is Dianna

That Craft Place Challenges - Sentiments

This week I'm lucky enough to be a Guest Design Team Member on the That Craft Place Challenge Blog! The theme is Sentiments and this is the card I created.

I used the Doily Easel Card cut file from Birds Cards to make the base. I added a circle cut from card printed with the butterfly paper printed from the Do Crafts Tulip & Friends CD, and coloured the edges with my Pink Carnation Promarker & then added some Crystal Stickles.

The sentiment is a freebie from Gingers House. I must admit Gingers House is one of my 'Go To' places for sentiments. She has such a range - pretty much something for any occasion. I coloured the sentiment panel with my Pink Carnation Promarker and cut it out on my cutting machine. I added some Stickles on the mat to carry on the sparkly theme.

This cute little pair are called Secrets and come from Saturated Canary. I coloured over the words on the flag, and as they didn't quite fit in the circle without being very squished I cut out a few of the flags and removed them so they had a shorter line. 

I used my Promarkers to colour them:

Girl on the Left:

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with pastel pink cheeks

Eyes - Cocoa, Walnut

Hair - Cocoa, Chestnut, Walnut

Dress - Purple, Aubergine

Fuschia Pink

Lilac

Girl on the Right:

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Eyes - Sky Blue, True Blue

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Dress - Cerise, Shocking Pink*, Maroon

Cans - Ice Grey 3 & 5

Flags - Pink Carnation & Crystal Stickles

I really hope you like it. Pop over to join in the challenge at That Craft Place as there are prizes to be won x

Delicious Doodles at Stitchy Bear - Endless Love

Yep - you've guessed it - it's challenge time over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges and this week it's a nice easy theme - Anything Goes - so come on over an join in. It's also the team Head to Head where you get to vote for your favourite DT Member's project and they win a small prize. I was amazed and honoured to be voted the winner last time with my Skeleton Tealight lantern. Thank you everyone who voted for me.

This week I had the beautiful Endless Love from Delicious Doodles at Stitchy Bear to play with and I decided to use Craft Artist 2 to create this scene.

I love the effect of Digi Crafting - you'd never believe that frame was a digital element rather than an actual frame would you? The Frame is from the Angie Hinksman 'This Christmas' Digikit and the paper is from the Vintaj 'Fading India' Digikit

The sentiment is a freebie from Gingers House. I changed the colour to white and then added some sparkle and dimension using the Sakura Stardust pen #700 and the Sakura Clear Glaze pen #800 (even at this angle it's hard to see that that frame isn't real isn't it!)

Endless Love was a delight to colour. It almost feels a little like cheating as a lot of the shading is already in the image so it takes a love of the guess work out of it. I love colouring dragons & have come up with my own favourite colour combination:

- Dragon - 

 Duck Egg, Turquoise, Marine, True Blue

Claws on Wings - Pastel Yellow,

Teeth - Ivory

Eye - Berry Red & Orange

- Fairy -

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Lips - Antique Pink

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Dress - left white as the shading on the digi looked so beautiful

Heart - Berry Red

Wings - Crystal Sparkles

Background - Powder Blue

I hope you like it - I'd love to hear your thoughts and see your entries into Anything Goes at Through the Purple Haze 

Thank you to our sponsor Stitchy Bear Stamps

Things with Wings - Emma Canning

Time for a new challenge over at Digi Galore. This fortnight the theme of the challenge is 'Things with Wings' and we're sponsored by the lovely Emma Canning.

I was lucky enough to have Taylor Bell  to play with and decided to take the theme to extremes by making Taylor Bell fly while using the beautiful butterfly paper from the Do Crafts Tulip and Friends CD.

I used my Cougar Electronic Cutting Machine to cut out Taylor Bell and to create the card blank with an inverted scalloped oval shape cut out of the middle. 

To make Taylor Bell 'fly' I cut out a duplicate of her and then glued the two halves together with two lengths of invisible thread running out of the top and the bottom.

I printed the butterfly paper on card & again used my Cougar to cut it to size & cut the inverted oval out of the middle. I then glued it to the front of the card base making sure I caught the ends of the invisible thread between the butterfly card and the card base so Taylor Bell was suspended and looked like she's flying.  I added some Stickles to some of the butterflies to add a little sparkle. You can hardly see the invisible threads so they do their job well.

I coloured Taylor Bell with my Promarkers:

Skin - Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush with Pastel Pink cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Dress - Lime Green, Bright Green, Forest Green

Wand - Cocoa

Wings - Crystal Stickles

I really hope you like her & I'm looking forward to seeing your entry into 'Things with Wings' at Digi Galore 

I would like to enter the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursdays - Sparkles
Flutter By Wednesday - Any Winged Creature