Monday, February 2, 2015

Flower Power

I haven't managed to make many cards this weekend as I've finally got back into my Kit & Clowder colouring class and have managed to complete the first lesson on colouring skin. I can already see an improvement in what I'm doing and strangely seem to have found the advanced technique easier than the basic one- I never have done things the easy way!

After practising my skin technique, I decided to colour up one of my Polkadoodles Work & Play 2 images (florist) to have a try. I'm not overly happy with the hair but I haven't got to this part of the class yet!

Here it is made up onto a card


I started by colouring up the image using a whole host of Spectrum Noir pens. I hand cut the digi into the shape using a Kanban mat as a template and then used a slightly larger version to cut a mat from a 12x12 DCWV 'timeless textures stack' paper. I chose 2 different 'rose' patterned papers to pick out the roses in the digi. The dark one came from a 6x6 Papermania paper pack (freebie with the DoCrafts Creativity magazine) and the larger one is from a Creata A5 paper pack. I trimmed the papers slightly to fit onto the 8x8 card.

I tried out lots of different layouts before settling on this one- I liked the idea of making the smaller darker paper sit at an angle but my brain couldn't deal with it- it was much happier with a nice straight line!

The ticket sentiments also came from the Work & Play 2 collection so I simply cut them out, inked them with 'worn lipstick' distress ink and attached them to the card with a small piece of double sided tape. the top right hand corner looked a little bare so I added the 3 pale pink gems just to finish it off.

It's a bit more fussy than my usual style but still fairly CAS considering it's got 3 different papers on it!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-
The Paper Shelter '3+ layers of paper' 3.2
Creative Inspirations 'roses' 3.2
Cute Card Thursday 'stamping mad' 4.2
Polkadoodles 'flower power' 13.2
Crafts Galore Encore 'stamp/digi' 28.2
Crafty Hazlenut Patterned Paper Challenge 'anything goes' 28.2
The Pink Elephant 'photo inspiration' 9.2
Craft Your Passion 'anything goes' 8.2
That Craft Place 'anything goes' 14.2

11 comments:

  1. Awesome xx Good luck and thank you for joining us at http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/
    Sandie (That Craft Place Designer, proud DT)
    http://fairytaledaydream.blogspot.com/

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  2. Pretty card and image, thanks for playing along with the Paper Shelter lots of layers challenge, good luck, hugs, Colette xx

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  3. Lovely card with great papers.
    Thanks for playing with us at Craft your Passion
    xxx Michelle (DT)

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  4. This is a fantastic creation! Thanks for playing at Creative Inspirations! xxx

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  5. Very cute card !! Nice painting:-)

    Thank you for participating in The Paper Shelter Challenge this week. Good luck.
    Hug Lena

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  6. Great card and I love those cute sentiment tags. Thank you for joining in The Paper Shelter Challenge this time. Hope to see you again.

    Hugs, Vannessa
    TPS DT

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  7. A lovely card and gorgeous papers. They are a perfect match for the cute image.
    Thank you for joining in with the Crafts Galore Encore February Challenge "Use a Stamp or Digi Image" and good luck x

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  8. Thank you so much for joining my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper February challenge with your lovely crafting - hope to see you again soon x

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  9. Super cute! Love those sentiment tickets! Thanks for sharing it at The Pink Elephant Challenge! Hope you join us again soon!

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  10. So sweet ,thanks for joining us at Flower Power challenge http://www.polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/
    Happy crafting Susan ( senior DT )

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  11. Lovely colours and papers!
    Thank-you for joining us at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge, "Use a Digi Stamp or image" and for applying to be on our DT. We will be in touch! Denyse

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