Beautiful Girl with Pansys from Aurora Wings

This week at Through the Purple Haze Challenges  we have a sketch to follow.

I had the gorgeous Girl with Pansy from Aurora Wings to use. 

I've recently discovered Aurora Wings and Mitzi's images are simply beautiful!

Here's what I've made.

The frame is from the Gorjuss Ladybird Stamp set which I picked up half price this week. I stamped it with Brilliance Gold ink pad & love the metallic sheen it gives. Some of that was burnished away when I added Spun Sugar Distress ink to the edges of the card with a sponge applicator. 

I added some pearls to the detailing.

I coloured her with my Promarkers

Skin - Copic E00, Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral, Burnt Orange with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Eyes - Sky Blue, True Blue, Royal Blue

Pansys - Purple, Aubergine, Black

Butterfly - Orange, Burnt Orange, Burgundy

Leaves - Leaf Green, Forest Green, Lush Green, Pine

I hope you like her. See you over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges x

Aurora Spring Butterfly Notebook

 It's challenge time at Digi Galore and our challenge this week was to make something that Isn't a Card! 

I make so many cards that it took a few minutes to think of something that wasn't a card, but I decided to update the cover on the Acrylic Notebook I use to store all my crafting information in.

I had the beautiful Aurora Spring Butterfly from The East Wind to use. What a beauty she is!

I printed her onto A5 card and coloured her with my Promarkers. 

I made the sky and the base of the grass using my Promarkers in my Blitzer 

(the 1990's version of Tim Holtz Spritzer). I added some grass stalks to add some texture.

The Sentiment is from the Stampin Up Define Your Life Digi stamp set. 

I thought it worked perfectly for the notebook I keep all my crafty information and inspiration.

I coloured her with my Promarkers and a few Copics. 

I just love how her eyes has been drawn - simply stunning!

Skin - Copic E00, Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral, Burnt Orange with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Eyes - Sky Blue, True Blue, Royal Blue

Dress - Purple, Aubergine, Black

Flowers - Cerise

Butterfly - Cerise, Shocking Pink*, Maroon.

I hope you like her and look forward to seeing you join in at Digi Galore.

Creativity Strikes! with Milk Coffee Stamps

It's challenge time at Through the Purple Haze Challenges and this week the theme is Creativity Strikes!

 I was given Bedtime Story to work with and decided to create a framed 12 x 12 scrapbook page illustrating some different bedtime stories. A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win some digis from Milk Coffee Stamps and as they're our sponsors this week I let my imagination run wide and added some extra images.

This is it complete - framed.

I used:

Bedtime Story

Flamenco Dancer

Tiffany in the Wonderland

Tiffany as Snow White

I coloured them all with Promarkers and cut them out on my Cougar. I inked the edges with Spun Sugar & Evergreen Bough Distress Inks

The sentiment is a freebie from Ginger's House I thought it was perfect for the image.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Looking forward to seeing your entries at Through the Purple Haze Challenges 

New Home card with Encino

Today I whipped up a quick New Home card using the Home Card  cut file and Ellen with Cake.

I thought about how people often take a cake round to new neighbours - and up popped Ellen!

This is the card front - I love how simple but how effective it is.

Ellen looks great peeking through.

When you open the card Ellen is there ready with her cake.

I hope you like it. 

Flowers with All Dressed Up

It's challenge time over at Digi Galore and this time the theme is Flowers. 

I was lucky enough to have Looking Gorgeous from our sponsor All Dressed Up . I've only recently discovered All Dressed Up and I LOVE their digis. I can see a big spend coming up sometime soon. 

The image is so beautiful that I decided to colour it and frame it, altering the frame with some Sunflowers from Samaflora

Here's a close up of the colouring in a different light 

(a nightmare to photograph behind glass so I took it out)

I used Promarkers with a few Copics 

Skin - Burnt Orange, Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush, E00 with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - E49, E29, Walnut, Chestnut, Cocoa, E23

Beads & Flowers - Burnt Orange, Orange, Bright Orange, Gold, Sunflower, Yellow

Leaves - Leaf Green, Bright Green, Forest Green

I really hope you like it. I'm off to look at the All Dressed Up store a little more :P 

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

Allsorts Challenge - Spring Blossoms

Sweet Stampin' - Flowers

Crafty Ribbons - Flower Power

Rapunzel in her Tower!

Our Challenge this week at Through The Purple Haze Challenges is to 'Try a New Folding Technique'

We're lucky enough to be sponsored by Stitchy Bear and the wonderful Kay from Hougie provided us with instructions on how to make a Pop Up Box Card.

I had Rapunzel  by Ike's Art at Stitchy Bear to play with.

I decided to extend the height of the pop up box to make it into her tower. 

I found some a printable stone wall pattern and arranged it so it filled a A4 sheet 

& printed it on both sides of the card.

Making the Pop Up Box Card was a breeze on my Hougie Board 

(I've told you many times before how much I love it haven't I? :P )

To build a bit of a scene I added black card to the back layer and hand cut a 'Tower window' to attach to the middle layer so she looks like she's standing in her tower. 

Viewed from the side you can see the different layers.

and from above you can see them even more clearly 

(they are actually straight even though they look decidedly wonky in the photo).

I coloured Rapunzel using a combination of Promarkers and Copics. I fussy cut around her and then trimmed around the bottom section of her hair so it hangs over the edge of the tower.

Promarkers:

Skin - Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral. Burnt Orange with Pastel Pink Cheeks

Hair - Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold, Raw Sienna

Dress - Copics - V04, V06, V09

I really hope you like her. 

Thank you our sponsors:

Stitchy Bear Stamps

Hougie

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

Pattie's Creations - Fancy Folds

Feeling Crafty - Anything for a Child (several people have said how much their daughters/ grandaughters would love receiving this as they'd love to be Rapunzel.)

Creative Knockouts - For a Child

Inky Impressions - Fold it

Get Well Gerlinde

A nice Clean and Simple Get Well card from me today using the gorgeous Gerlinde. from Encino Stamps.

I tried some lighter colours to go with the sentiment that was 

a freebie from Create with TLC a while ago.

Promarkers:

Meadow Green, Leaf Green, Bright Green, Forest Green

Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Turquoise, Marine, Petrol Blue

Buttercup, Sunflower

Cerise, Shocking Pink, Maroon

I hope you like it. I hope it would make anyone feeling poorly feel a little bit better.