Bizzy Buzzy Bumble Bees!

The challenge over at Anyone for Anya this week is to take inspiration from this photo . . . .

I have used the creeper crew stamp 'Monday' and given her a cute bumble bee outfit! Teamed with some fabulous free digital downloads from Craftastical, it has come together to make this:

I coloured the image with promarkers, for the skin I used blush and coral, hair, boots and other greys I used cool greys 1-4, for the yellows, I used tulip yellow & gold and the outline/eyes was pastel blue.

Edges were inked with Gathered Twigs distress ink.

Swirly Whirly

The challenge over at Totally Gorjuss is 'Swirly Whirly'

I used an Anya digi stamp cut out with a nestie and coloured with promarkers. I used the 'loopy' die from sizzix for the 'Swirly Whirly' part of the challenge (and it matches the swirls on the cupcake too!) 

I used all 'old' stash for this card, the main paper is a MM booklet of cute papers, the striped paper is from a 6x6 pad. The chipboard button is from an Upcycle set I have left over from a holiday (vacation) and the happy birthdays are from a Tonic phrase roller.

Digi Image Challenge

I have caught the bug recently with printed and stamped images to colour, this particular one is from Saturated Canary.

Over at Crafty Catz, the challenge is to use a Digi Image.

I chose to use a saturated canary image called 'honey', she is a cute lil lady with a bunny by her feet! I coloured her with Promarkers, still learning to use them & the detail on these images makes some things easier and others needing the ultra fine tips!

I also had a play with some Stampin Up ribbon, I coloured it using promarkers then blasted it with a heat tool to dry it and crinkle it up. The mats were made from plain cardstock coloured with promarkers to co-ordinate with the image. The happy birthday text was added using a roller tool from Tonic that you can roll out happy birthday sentiments in different fonts!

 Thanks for looking

x

Thinking Of You

This weeks saturated canary challenge is 'thinking of you'

I used 'Honey' for the card and coloured her with Promarkers. Matted with Stampin' Up! card left over from my demonstrator days and an offcut of coloured/embossed cardstock. The pearls around the edge of the nestie are actually dressmakers pins pushed through a dimensional sticky pad!  The sentiment was printed onto cardstock, cut out and atuck on to the card, the ribbon is plain white cotton tape.

Please excuse the photographs, my little miss has borrowed the camera so it was photographed in an artificially lit room using my phone!

Here is a slightly more 'normal' one, still taken by phone but in daylight . . .

Beaded Birthday!

The new challenge over at I ♥ Promarkers is to 'bead it!'

Sounds a simple enough challenge - but its been a while since I used beads for anything and I am quite out of practice! These little beads just dont keep still!

I threaded them onto thin wire and wound it around a scalloped circle nestie, then placed the layered image over the top, trapping the beads! I used an old cardstock from a stack, maybe DCWV Nanas Nursery? and some papermania Portobello papers (loving the colours and designs of these!)

The image I used is a Greeting Farm Digi Stamp, Cupcake Anya and it was coloured using promarkers. I added the sentiment to a strip of card using one of the new Tonic 'Happy Birthday' Funky Pattern Tape. It's a great little tool, like a glue roller but with Happy Birthday in different fonts ready to just roll out!

Pirate Princess!

The challenge over at Anyone for Anya is to make a card with a pirate theme. I didn't particularly want to go down the traditional pirate route, instead going for a cute image (chibi drink) and colouring her to look like a pirates serving girl with pirate themed backing papers & Elements from Jamie Dell.

This was my first time colouring a greeting farm image, and it was so much fun! This particular image is very versatile and can be used for a different theme just by using different colours and shading in the dress and hair!

I would also like to enter this card into the current  Passion for Promarkers challenge to use Ribbons & Buttons and the Farm Fresh Challenge 'anything goes'

Whoopsi Daisy!

The new Whoopsi Daisy challenge is to use your stash!

I used a 6x6 pad and embellishments from the Upcycle collection, it was purchased a while ago for a holiday (vacation) scrapbook project and there was TONS left over! I also added some stick on rhinestones and my new fave embellishment, household pins!

Thanks for looking!