What's at the bottom of your garden ?

I'd like to think that we had a fairy or two at the bottom of our garden but we actually have a compost bin and lots of weeds ! Never mind, it's unlikely but I can dream.

This is Gracie,one of the Fairy Flutterfly's from Polka Doodles. I stamped her on to watercolour paper and coloured her with watercolour paints. She is mounted onto glitter card and finished with Glamour Dust.I tried to keep the colours delicate but as usual it all looks different on the computer.

The papers are Sweet Blooms from ColorBok. I embellished the design with 2 ribbons,3 punched butterflies, and I added a butterfly charm. The sentiment is from Craftwork cards.
I would like to enter the following challenges with this card :
1. Cute Card Thursday Challenge 55 - A sketch
2. Crafty Creations 107 - At the bottom of my garden lives ..
3.The Creative Cottage 33 - Fabulous Florals
4.The Pixie Cottage 58 - Sketch or Something Cute
5.Polka Doodles Week 8 - Stashbox Stamps and Extras
6.CES Challenge 25 - Flowers and Flutterbys
7.Paper Sundae 58 - How Charming
8.Creative Inspirations 100 - Stripes

A Special Friend

I am still learning how to colour in with various mediums and I alternate between my few pens and few pencils but I very rarely feel I have done a good job. I actually find it very difficult. However,when I received my prize from Sketching Stamper I knew I would have to try harder to achieve a modicum of success. This is the result with the Sketching Stamper image called "On the phone".

You are probably thinking "That is very brown !" Well obviously it is and I think I have over done it a bit but I wanted to follow a few challenges. One specified Chocolate as the colour and the other Monochrome so that is why this design came about as it has.

As you can see I made an easel card mainly because I haven't made one for a while but I also thought that the image, which is quite big, needed a design that would allow room for embellishments. The papers are from Polka Doodles Cd Sundae of Seasons and the sentiments from my stash.

The close-up shows my colouring (don't look too close please) done this time with Copics. I paper pieced the dress and her hair band and added one of my hand made flowers to her shoulder which I thought was quite fashionable (Is it ?). I added 3 flowers that I punched with a Martha Stewart flower punch from the scraps of papers that were left over.
I am daring to enter this card into the following Challenges :
1.Polka Doodles week 7 - Chocolate
2.Stampin for the Weekend Challenge 4 - Monochrome ..
3.Totally Paper Crafts 54 - Do it with Digi's
4.Creative Card Crew - Friendship
5.Rainbow Lady's 140 - Use something from a CD
6.Phindy's Place 43 - Monochrome

Happy Birthday Little Man

Last week-end I did something I don't do very often - no I didn't down a couple of bottles of Red nor did I scoff a full box of Chocolates ( or anything else editable !) No, it was much better than that - I bought a craft magazine because it had a super set of free stamps from Molly's Blooms.You have probably seen the magazine and stamps. Anyway,it gave me the inspiration to try and do something with them.Here is my effort :

To start with I chose some of my favourite papers from Polka Doodles Not for the Girls Cd and then I coloured the stamped image of the boy with Promarkers to coordinate with the papers.I am still learning how to colour in images successfully and I veer mainly from using Watercolour Pencils to Promarkers or even a mixture of both. I can spend hours practising but most of my efforts sit in a box and never get used on a card.Some are okay but inspiration fails when I come to using them but this time I managed to come up with this design.

 

To complete the design I used coordinating glitter card and ribbon,used Glossy Accents on the balloon and layered paper and card stars to add dimension. I'm not totally,100%  happy with it but I do love the colours and the little man is very,very cute.

I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges :

1.Creative Card Crew - For Men

2.Allsorts Challenge 87 - Male / Boy

A win and an invite.

Just a little post to say "Hello" and to let you know that I have been busy - looking for my 'Mojo'. After a thorough search I think I know where it might be and when I finally manage to get the little blighter out of it's hiding place I will give it a good shake ! (Please don't report me !!)

Now, I have 2 pieces of news to share with you.

First, I was surprised and delighted to read on My Time To Craft Challenge Blog that I had been chosen to join their Design Team with Dee from deesdesigns. I have never been on a DT before so I hope they are gentle with me. Thank-you for the good wishes I have had already.I will share more when there is more to tell.

Second, I got another 'lift' when I read that I had won 3rd place at Polka Doodles with this recent card :
Thank-you to Nikky and to her team for being so generous.