Blue Sports

This is the final week of the month of sponsorship by Createful Heart at Outlawz Sketch.

I'm using 1950's Roadster for my inspiration today.

I've coloured the image with Copics, but done something you're not supposed to do.  I've bleached out some of the colour with a blender pen.  I wanted to see if I could get a worn shiny look (if that makes sense).  I think I achieved it?  Anyway.......

Here's our sketch for this week.

I've used black card and design paper from Studio Light.

There are a couple of strip of ric rak to fit in with the sketch.

I've added a few wooden embellishments to fit in with a travelling theme (bought in Hobby Craft) and a wooden sentiment from Scrapiniec coloured with black Copic.

Hope you like my inspiration this week end we see you at the challenge.

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

My Time to Craft - Transport

Creative Craft Cottage - January Blues

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Try It On Tuesday's - Fire and Ice

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Berry Sweet

Practising using my Copics I've has a go at colouring some blackberries.  So many tiny berry bits, it took me ages!  I've tried to do some of them as though they're still ripening :)

This image is one of Power Poppies called Berry It they have some amazing ones.

I've created a CAS style card using some black card and design paper from First Edition.  A few Rhine stones for some bling and finally a SWEET sentiment from Scrapiniec coloured with black Copic.

Hope you like my "Berry" first attempt hee hee :D

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

The Crafters Cafe - Lots of Bling

Moving Along with the Times - Clean and Simple

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Blue Birds

It's Wednesday and sketch time again at Outlawz.  We're sponsored this month by Createful Heart.

I've used Birdhouse for my inspiration this week.

This image has been coloured with Copics.  I've cut the shape of the inside of my die cut but it was slightly too big so I've fussy cut some of it :)

Here's our sketch for this week 

I've used a Spellbinders die cut for the fancy border cut in black card.  I've used some more black card and some design paper from Lemoncraft.

The edges of the design paper were distressed.  I've then added some flat back pearl string you can get from The Ribbon Girl.  The tiny brass corner were bought from Noor Design.

Hope you like my inspiration for today and we see you at the challenge

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

A Perfect Time to Craft - Challenge 01

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - January 

Unicorn Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes

Paper Creator - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Scrapy Land - Anything Goes

Making Hearts

This is a new image called Making Hearts, its not been in my shop long.  Instead on one person making a heart with their hands I thought it would be kinda cool to try and do a boy and girl making the heart together :)

You can find this image here and get 10% off this and any other by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout

The image has been coloured with Cpics in one of my favourite colour combinations.

All my design papers and the image were distressed with a tonic solutions tool.

The design papers are all from Maja Design and I've also used a bit of black card to frame the image.

My final touches were to add some bling with a couple of sequins and gems in different purples to add to coordinate with the image.

The love sentiment is from the wedding section at Hobby Craft :)

Hope you like my inspiration today

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

DigiStamps4Joy - Anything Goes optional twist Favourite Colour Combination

Let's Craft and Create - Anything Goes option Love is in the Air

Tuesday Throwdown - Distressing

CRAFT - Love / Valentines

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe - Lots of Bling

Crafty Cardmakers - Bling's the Thing

SMILE

I created this little guy for The Ribbon Girls Mary wanted to make a sneaky card for Andrea, they got a new puppy and Mary asked me to draw a Westie puppy so she could surprise her :)

You can find Smile in my Etsy shop and get 10% off this and any of my images by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout.

I've coloured him with Copics in pastel shades, it's a white dog so I needed some subtle off whites for shading.

I've used a simple layout with pastel papers to showcase the image.  To take off some of the white of the image I've distressed the edge with Spun sugar ink from Tim Holtz.

The pink ribbon you can find at The Ribbon Girls shop, I hand tied the bow and then tied it to a strip of ribbon to go across the card.

To keep with my favourite pastels my papers are from Lemoncraft and Craft & You

Thank you for visiting today

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge 10

World Wide Open Design Team - Challenge #01

Creatalicious - Anything Goes optional Cute

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Do Al(l)-Kreatives - Everything Goes

Pearly Sparkles - Anything Goes

Try It on Tuesday's - My Favourite Things

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Sunny Day Crafting - C is for Colour It

Fab n Funky - Girly

Love, hearts & a bear

I seem to be very short of time at the moment, however, having said that I've found time to colour and make a card with a recent image :)  

This is Bear Love you can find him in my Etsy shop and get 10% discount off my images by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout.  I drew the image using my favourite hears and bears!

I've used Copics and a black polychromos pencil to colour him.

I've pretty much left him to focus of the card.  I've used some black card for framing, an off cut of Christmas paper (the stripy one) and some other Christmas paper hee hee, I know its Valentines but it just seemed to go.

Hope you like my new bear image

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Sunny Day Crafting - C is for Colour It

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Oddball Art - Feature a Creature

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Emerald City Crafts - Anything Goes

Try It on Tuesdays - My Favourite Things (Hearts & Bears)

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Creatalicious - Anything Goes with optional Cute

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge 10

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Pops of colour

I've done quite a bit of mixing monochromatic with pops of colour for this weeks inspiration at Outlawz Sketch

This beautiful image is called Bouquet of Red Poppies by Createful Heart, you can find it here on Etsy

I've been practising colouring flowers with my Copics again :)
Once coloured I cut the image out with a Spellbinders die.  To take the sharp white off the edges I distressed it with Black Soot ink from Tim Holtz.

Here's our sketch for this week

I actually used a compass to draw out the two larger circles behind the image in red and black card, then hand cut them.  This was the first time I've done this and I'm impressed I didn't mess it up LOL!  It give the image a beautiful framed effect.

I've used some more black and red card and one design paper from Dovecraft.  The design paper was also distressed with Tim Holtz black soot ink.

I've left off the extra embellishments this week to showcase the image for you.  All I've added are a few red gems and some rhine stones.

Hope you like my inspiration for this weeks and we see you at the challenge

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Die Cut Divas - Do or Use Something New

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Frame It

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin - Lots of Layers

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Paper Creator - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

Happy new home

We're sponsoring Crafty Friends for the next two weeks.  Challenge 75 is New Beginnings.

I'm joining them as a guest designer to give you a little more inspiration today.  I've used Country Cottage which you can find here in my shop.  Don't forget you can get 10% off my images by quoting SKIANDREA20 at checkout.

The image has been coloured with Copics, a black polychromos pencil an Copic liner and a white gel pen.

Framing it with some black card I've gone for a clean simple design to showcase the image.

I've added a simple home sentiments from Scrapiniec for my new beginnings card.

Hope you love my inspiration, check out the challenge for more inspiration using my images by the Crafty Friends Design Team.

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Fabrika Fantasy - New Beginning

Creative Inspirations - Something New

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes / optional twist Something New

Deep Ocean - Something New

Creative Moments - New Home

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Ike's World - New Beginnings

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Distressed

I'm hosting the first of the challenges over at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - we'd love to see your distressing for the next two weeks.

I got myself a few Hannah Lynn images around Christmas time and decided to use one of these for my inspirations today.  I've coloured Librarian Girl Tattoo with Copics using my favourite pink!  I couldn't quite get the depth I wanted to the hair and didn't want to use it so I used a little black polychromos pencil for the extra depth.

I've distressed the edges of the image with Spun Sugar ink from Tim Holts.  After that I scattered some embossing enamel around the edges of the image.

I this next picture you can see a close up of the flowers I've used.  All these were bought from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The lace you can see underneath it was my last piece of this particular one which I got from Noor Design.

The design papers are from Studio Lite.  All these and the image were distressed with a Tonic Solutions tool.

The heart bunting was cut with a Fantasy die from some paper from Wild Rose Studio.  I've added some vintage sea binding tied in a bow.  The wood chip hearts I got from Scrap and Craft.

Thanks for taking a look today - hope to see you at the challenge.  I get to pick the top three this time.

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Emerald City Crafts - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - Flowers

Noor Design - Anything Goes

Get Creative - Use Pearls or Lace

Card Mania - Monochromatic

Classic Design Team - Challenge 21

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

Cat lovers birthday

I've made Cat Nap into a birthday card perfect for cat lovers.  You can find this image in my shop here - or if you've lucky enough you can track it down as a freebie.

She's been coloured with Copics, I sketch in a feint line behind her to create a little back ground.

I've left the section with the image on long to go across the card.  She been mounted onto some design paper from Lemoncraft.

Above and below the image I've used two different types of lace to frame it.

There are a few Rhine stones to add a bit of interest and bling.  Finally there's the birthday sentiment which I got at Scrap and Craft.

Hope you love what I did with her

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge 10

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Oddball Art - Feature a Creature

Get Creative - Use Pearls or Lace

Brown Sugar - Birthday

Sisterhood of Crafters - Frame It

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Sunny Sunflowers

Hello its Wednesday again :)

We're sponsored at Createful Heart at Outlawz Sketch this month.  I've used Sunny Sunflowers for my inspiration today

The image has been coloured with Copics and a black polychromos pencil.  I've then framed it with some black card.

Here's our sketch for this week.  

I've used some more black card and design papers from Studio Lite and UHK Gallery.

I've opted to miss off the flowers from the sketch and instead add a Thank you sentiment to one corner.  This is a wood chip one from Scrapienic,

Hope you like my inspiration for today and we see you at the challenge

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Do -Al(l) Kreatives - Everything Goes

Pearly Sparkles - Anything Goes

Unicorn Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - Flowers

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Pile It On - Thank You

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes

Heart & Rose

Hmmmm blogger seems to be acting up today, don't know if anyone else is having problems.  It won't let me upload images from my Google album archive, so I've had to find a way round it to share this with you tonight.

This is my latest new release image.  I shared a sneak peek of it a few days ago.  I've not had time to colour it up :)

You can find Heart & Rose in my Etsy shop where you can get 10% off my images by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout.

I've coloured it with Copics, then used a little black polychromos pencil to add some extra depth to the image.

Creating a single layer card to showcase the image I've scattered some embossing enamel around the image.  I've added a simple wood chip sentiment from Scrapiniec to complete the card.

Hope you like my inspiration today.

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Butterfly Challenge - One Layer and or  Ultra Pink

Moving Along with the Time - Flowers

Classic Design Team - Challenge 21

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Something New

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Love this combination

January's sponsor at Outlawz Sketch is Creatful Heart - Mary is one of or design team ladies there :)

I'm using Flower Patch Butterfly for my inspiration today.

I've coloured the image with Copics.  I've also invested in some cheap glitter gel pens (I saw them in a local supermarket).  I've used the gold one around the centre of the flowers.  I also used a while gel pen.  I wasn't quite sure where I was going with this one I just knew I wanted a contrast.  Love how it came out but then I had to do a LOT of hunting in my design papers.

Here's our sketch for this week.

I cut my image out with a Spellbinders die.  I didn't like the plain background I'd coloured, so I attached it with Copic blender LOL!!

The design papers I've used are from UHK Gallery, Lemoncraft and Joy Crafts.  In the bottom right corner I've added some blue gems  and finally a Thank You sentiment from Scrapiniec.

Hope you like my inspiration for today and we see you at the challenge

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends - For a Girl or a Lady

Creatalicious - Anything Goes optional Wishes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Challenge 01

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - January

Favourite Colour(s)

We've a new challenge at All Dressed Up on the Facebook group, it runs for the month.  We'd love to see cards with your favourite colour(s).

I tend to go very girly in my card makes, so I've decided to do a guy card for my inspiration today.  I've gone for one of my favourite combinations (I have many) of black, white, grey and red.

I've used Baseball Bear, you can find him in Wendy's shop on Etsy.  I've coloured the image with Copics going for the warm greys this time.

The image was cut out with a Spellbinders die and mounted onto some red card cut with another Spellbinders die.

For my designs papers I've used black and red card, Maja Design, Wild Rose Studio and an off cut strip.

The curved black panel was cut with a Spellbinders die,  I've used some wooden star embellishments I found in Hobby Craft and the enjoy sentiment is a wood chip one from Scrapiniec.

Don't forget we also have a blog challenge you can check that out here

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Sweet Stampers - Anything Goes

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team - Challenge 29

Crafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes

Coffee Break

Happy New Year!  Wow it's 2018 hope this year is a fantastic one for everyone!

The blog challenge has just gone live over at SheepSki Designs.  I'm sharing a new image with you.  this one is called Coffee Break - based on me I LOVE my coffee (only I do not look like this!)

You can find Coffee Break in my Etsy shop where you can get this image and any other with 10% discount by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout.

I'm still learning with my Copics and wanted to have a go at some lovely pastel shades (of course using my favourite colours together pink and black), the dress has kind of come out ok, as good as I could have done with my ProMarkers at lease :)

I wanted to showcase the image to you today so I've created a CAS card.

She's framed with some pin paper from Lemoncraft.  Behind this you can see the edges of a black and white paper from First Edition to keep with the colour scheme.

I've added some pink and silver sequins, a few rhine stones and then a wood chip heart embellishment colour with black Copic.

Hope you like my inspiration for today and check out the blog challenge where there's more inspiration from the team.

If you don't already know I also have a Facebook Group here I also hold challenges, there are a few freebies in there as well ;)

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crafty Friends - For a Girl or a Lady

Crafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - Snowman, Snowflakes or Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin - Anything New (new stamp)

A Perfect Time to Craft - Challenge 01 (2018)

DigiStamps4Joy - Anything Goes twist Favourite Colour Combo

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes