This week over on Inspiring Inkin there was a colour challenge and how good they were! So right for the time of the year, prehaps I should have been downstairs with the hubby instad of in the bedroom crafting LOL! However I was drinking a glass of asti that he bought (half way there!) These colours go so well together - I know that I more often than not overlook using basic grey and automatically go for black I assume this is just what we grow accustomed to and never really give it a second thought. 
The challenge over on the Forever friends blog this week was quick and simple. I decided to quickly colour an image using my SU! ink pads and an aqua painter. This is a great technique if you have no other methods to colour near you - simply depress the ink pad lid onto the pad and then reopen the ink pad. You can then pull the ink onto your aqua brush and colour the image, to build up the colour on the image simply add more colour to the brush. Once I had completed the image I mounted it on pixie pink card stock after inking the edges of the image and then again onto whisper white rounding all the edges of the image. I made a card blank from pixie pink card and added some Forever Friends DSP in similar colours to the card stock. I stamped the sentiment straight onto the DSP. The colours I used to colour the bear are more mustard very light as a base and then again in creamy caramel. I added some darker shading to the edges of the bear.
This weeks challenge over on Simon Say was pink and brown - looking at the challenges about at the moment I am sensing a theme with the colours that we are seeing! So far this card I decided that I was going to use a penny black stamp with cats - they are easy to colours brown! I have coloured them using polochromos and sansador. I don't have any of these but my friend does so I borrowed hers. I then double mounted the image on pixie pink and chocolate chip card from my SU stash . I inked the edges of the card blank with chocolate chip also SU using a dauber. The sentiment I used was hero arts and I have stamped that in pixie pink ink rounded the corners and inked the edges. The DSP I have used is also SU and from a retired set that I have - I love spots at the moment and have been searching out papers wirth them on! I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - any comments appreciated Debbi x x x
This week there is a great colour combination challenge on here I love these colours together and I don't think that I have entered this challenge before 'PINK, BROWN,, CREAM and TOFFEE' How great do these colours look together?? I have used a penny black stamp that I have coloured with my pro-markers I have then mounted this on regal rose and chocolate chip cardstock. I have rounded the corners of the image too. I have used a sentiment from the SU stamp set Fresh Cuts and then again double mounted this and rounded the corners I also inked he edges. I have used a sheet of DSP from my stash that I have had over a year and not wanted to cut it up - how often do we feel like that?? I finally inked the edges to the card in regal rose. This is not a colour that I use very often, but I love the subtlety and will be using it again! I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - any comments are much appreciated Debbi x x x ps I apologise about the smudge on my picture too - lens had a baby fingerprint on!
This week challenge on the Forever Friends blog was to create a cheerful happy card with a twist. i had created this card I love the bold blue and the shocking pink together!. I then added some lime green card as my twist... The card blank is white I have used a blue and white spotted DSP as the background and rounded the corners of this. I have then double matted the image with both brilliant blue and pink passion cardstock. The image is painted with SU water colours and I have accented the balloons with glitter gue and glossy accents. I have rounded the corners of the image and the matting. I have then added a strip of white ribbon and the sentiment that is hero arts and have again double mounted this and rounded the corners. I have also added three buttons the the bottom right of the card. I loved doing this challenge bright and cheery is right up my street and I love this image of the bear - this is definately one of my favourites. I hope you like my card and thanks for looking - Debbi x x x
One of the recent swaps I was involved with on ILWS was an inspired by the new catty swap for Stampin' Up! This was back when the catalogue was released of course but I have only just got around to snapping a picture of the swap I completed - I decided upon my favourite set to use Winter Post but then looking at the card I had to create decided that I had picked the hardest card in the whole catalogue to recreate - I kept looking at the card and for many days did not get anywhere so I decided to break the elements of the card down - firstly I cut all the cardstock to size and then the DSP. I had to use a sheet from a retired set as I didn't have ant DSP from the current catalogue that was anywhere near the shade that I needed (oopps the DSP was from Ski Slope) Once I had done that I cust all the very vanilla cardstock to size and began the stamping - I have to use several stamps a total of five from the set as you will see and there were also several inks I used Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Brocade Blue and Old Olive. The edges of the card were distressed also.
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ple complete. Check out the galleries today if you get chance there is some amazing work being showcased. For my card I used one of my favourite colour combinations tempting turquoise and black, they are so stiking together. I have stamped the image from the SU stampser Whimsical Wings in staz on and then inked the edges of the image. I then mounted the image on tempting turquoise cardstock that I had stamped randomly with the flower outline from the same stampset. I added a border of black cardstock and three white card candy mounted on dimensionals. You cannot see it very well on the picture but I have also used a copic glitter pen on the bird in the main image. I hope you like it...
olour ink and one colour cardstock - no embellishments. For this card I decided to use circle circus (this was the stampset we were given at convention last year and I haven't really used it) I used pretty in pink to randomly stamp a sheet of whisper white, I then mounted this on a border of DSP pink flamingo which was double mounted on a contrasting piece of regal rose cardstock. For the main image I used the same stamp punched it out added a larger punch and then punched out a piece of the DSP with a scallop. This is then mounted on whisper white and again regal rose. I also inked the edges of the card blank with pretty in pink. I hope you like it. 
al, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Regal Rose and Cameo Coral. So for this card I mounted a piece of Bashful Blue on to a card blank then created a border using coral and pink glitter DSP then added a strip of yellow DSP and a corally pinky ribbon. I added three buttons to the right and left of the card and added a sentiment stamped in pink, mounted on pink DSP, then on green card and then pink. I stamped a forever friends image quickly (very quickly coloured this with my pro markers mounted this on regal rose and certain celery cardstock inked with old olive. I hope you like the card.
allenge was to use the masking technique and then add an element to what you produced that was recycled. I managed to find a keyring out of a cracker off the dining room table and for the second card I added for this challenge I found some christmas wrapping ribbon in the bin - not the normal bin I might add, the recycling. So for the first card I masked the heart punch and daubed then all over a card blank I then had a piece of whisper white and daubed the smaller heart to that. I attached the keyring using some ribbon with hearts o
n and then double mounted this on real red cardstock. I cut out some DSP with the word love on and mounted that on real red card and the added that to the card blank. I also added three hearts covered in glossy accents to the side of the card. I hope you like this card.
