A few Bows and a few Ribbons......

The Stamp-n-Doodle challenge has ended up quite girly for me this week, and I thoroughly enjoyed putting together all the colours, and is a bit of a departure from the more serene cards I have been making of late.

The image of the girl from Stamp-n-Doodle really depicts how I see a modest young girl/teenager, who has just gained that little bit of freedom to shop with her friends.

I really enjoyed colouring her, and I think I am finally gaining some confidence and dare I say it 'the knack' of promarkers. Though I have to say using the right paper helps enormously with the blending of the colours.





Card Recipe

8x8 inch white base card

Patterned papers - Basic Grey, Out of Print collection

Cricut cartridge - Elegant edges, Eyelt3 cut (pg68)

-regular shape (lilac shape) cut at 8"

- dark purple shape, is oblong cut at 5.5"

Digital Stamp-n-Doodle stamp - Chatty Teen

Distress Inks - Dusty concord, worn lipstick

Martha Stewart punch

Ribbons, plain cardstock and rubber stamp all from stash

Just a reminder of our 25% off DIGI OF THE MONTH happening right now at STAMP-N-DOODLE SHOP. Our April image will be featured all month at SPECIAL SAVINGS, so go check it out:) If you haven't visited our SHOP yet, make sure you cruise on over to STAMP-N-DOODLE SHOP - Lynne has so many wonderful digi and rubber stamped images as well as her FABULOUS line of Crafts U Print items and NEW ITEMS being added all the time! Also, make sure you check out the work of our FABULOUS NEW Tutorial DT members at THE LEARNING CENTER part of the shop.

Sunday Sketch and Stamp challenge #99

This is my card for this weeks challenge on the Sunday Sketch and Stamp blog. I'm really enjoying using the sketches at the moment, and a great way to use the really pretty Basic grey, Capella collection of papers. Also I was able to get back to using some of my favourite stamps, these being from the wonderful designs of Barbara Gray at Clarity Stamps.

 

Card Recipe
6x6" base card - white watercolour paper
backing papers - Basic Grey Capella collection
Embellishments - Flower & white flourishes, cordinating card stock stickers from Basic grey
- flourishes enhanced with liquid pearls (soft pink & white opal), faux pearls, sticky gems
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - weathered straw, bundled sage, brushed courdroy, peeled paint

To create the scene in the smallest circle (2.5" diameter)  I used a collection of miniture clear stamps from Clarity, stamping them with distress inks onto watercolour paper. Having built up the scene, I used I make up sponge and again the distress inks (see the picture for colours), picking up small amounts of ink at a time and dabbing onto the paper. The bird table was masked, so it could be watercoloured  after.

 

Thanks for taking a look.

Paradise Beach

This weeks challenge at Stamp n Doodle is ST. PATRICK'S DAY and/or GREEN and GOLD, you can use the theme, colours or both on your creation.

My Blog Hop Winner from last week was:

JOAN

who kindly participated in the hop and left comments on the blogs of all our DT members,
thank you also to everyone who played along, and left their fabulous cards on the Stamp n Doodle challenge blog.

If you would like to email me Joan at claire@cnewcombe.co.uk,  I can arrange for the digi image I used in the hop to be sent to you,

WELL DONE

 



I chose to go with using the colours this week and used the idyllic Paradise Exotic beach image from Stamp n Doodle shop

......ahhh, who wouldn't want to be walking along that beach watching the sunset ?

I wanted to keep the card simple so that the image can be the focal point.

Card Recipe

Base card - lime green 8x8" scalloped card by papermania

Basic Grey, Origins collection (sea salt)  patterned paper

Basic Grey co-ordinating stickers

Gold card stock

4 gold brads

Laser suitable acetate

Ranger Alcohol Inks - Citrus, Aqua, Watermelon, gold mixative

1) I printed the image at true size (5x4") onto laser acetate.

2) Onto a piece of smooth card (5x4") I used the alcohol inks to create the mood of the sunset beach colours, and my aim was to coincide a strip of blue and the red with the level of the sea. Instead of randomly dabbing the colours, I swiped them from left to right, flowing with the horizon.  By changing the colours and pattern of the inks, the mood of the image can really be altered.

3) I mounted the acetate, alcohol ink layer, and the gold card mat all together with 4 gold brads.

4) I cut the patterned paper from 12x12", to 8x8", according the orientation of the pattern. y placing the mounted image on the paper, it was covering some of the lovely flowing pattern - and as I am very fond of all the backing paper I have (something I'm sure you'll understand) the solution was to use a craft knife, cut around the essential parts of the pattern, and have them layer over the main image (a bit like a photo corner if you will).

5) The text was mounted firstly onto the same basic paper, then mounted again onto the reverse of the same sheet and gently nestled under the image.

6) The flourish in the top corner, and the flower next to the text are from the stickers sheet accompanying the paper collection (Basic grey, origins).

I hope this has given you some inspiration and confidence in using this type of digi image. The solid blackness can be a little intimidating - but honestly it really needn't be. Experiment and don't be frightened to use colour, or something a bit different.

Have fun with it.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and have a read.

Lace and Ribbons

This theme this week at Stamp n Doodle was LACE & FLOWERS (Any lace and flowers - can be die cuts, punches, actual lace and flowers, etc )
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Card recipe

Digital image from Stamp n Doodle, Puppy Love

White card base 6x8 inch

Background paper, handmade flowers & smal flower border sticker - Basic Grey, Capella collection

Lace - lovely surprise gift from Mum

Tim Holtz stick pin with K & Co. heart tag

Die cut flowers cut with Cricut cartridge, Mothers Day Bouquet

With the boys on half term last week, we went out to the cinema, and naturally looked in a few shops. I saw a card that was incredibly simple, but very effective, so I used that as my inspiration in starting this card and a means to do something  bit different with the lace.

The lacey panel is an ATC (artist trading card) wrapped in 4 lengths of ribbons, and then used as the backdrop for the ever so cute digital image from STAMP n DOODLE. The image of the little girl was printed twice, in brown to keep the softness of the image in keeping with the rest of the colour palette (shown below). 

One of the images was coloured with promarkers, cut out and decoupaged onto the other image.

I made the flowers using one of my favourite Basic Grey paper collections, Capella. I used the Cricut cartridge Mothers Day Bouquet to cut the flower layers.

This is the card for this weeks challenge over and the STAMP n DOODLE challenge blog.

Why not hop over and join in too. New challenges are posted weekly on a Tuesday. You can also enter the Never Ending Badge Contest to be in with a chance to win a FREE Digital Image monthly from Stamp n doodle! All you have to do is paste the Stamp N Doodle Badge (with a link back to the Blog) on your own blog and you are entered. You only have to enter once. As long as the badge is on your blog with an active link you are eligible to win!
There is plenty of inspiration on offer from the rest of the design team, who have all submitted their own amazing designs.

I have also entered this card into the following
Crafty Bloggers Network - Shabby chic
Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Flower Power
Creatalicious challenges - All about Lace
Crafts and Me - Distressed

Thank you for taking the time to come over and visit.