Pink and black, a new favourite

It's time for our next sketch at Outlawz Sketch.

We've no sponsor this month, so I've chosen to use Miyabi from Aurora Wings for my inspiration.

The image has been coloured with Copics.  I've cut her out by hand and framed her with design paper from Maja Design using a Spellbinders die.

This is our sketch from 7th February to 5th March.

 

The rest of my design papers are from Maja Design and 13 Arts.  I've also used a strip of ribbon from my stash.

Thanks for popping by for a look today, we hope to see oyu at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Creations in Pink - Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge  - Vogue

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Challenge 2

Creative Inspiration - Anything Goes

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

World Wise Crafters and Colourists - Anything Goes

Vintage White

This is the last image for the month from Aurora Wings our sponsor of the month over at Outlawz Sketch.

I've used Clara today, you can find her here.

The image has been coloured with Copics.  I wanted her to have a white vintage styles dress and I've achieved this using warm greys.  The pop of colour has been given to the nutcracker toy she's holding.

Around the images I've scattered some white embossing enamel.

The edges of the image and all my papers have been distressed with a Tonic Solutions tool.  The image has also been distressed with Vintage Photo ink from Tim Holtz to take away some white.

Here's our sketch for the next two weeks.

My design paper is from Maya Design and I've also used some dark red card.

Behind the image your can see some cream satin ribbon edged in gold.  I've finished it off with a wooden sentiment from Hobby Craft and a tiny wooden holly embellishment that I found at the bottom of one of my boxes ;)

Thanks for popping by for a look today, we hope to see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Creative Sketchy Girls - Make a Christmas Card

Dream Valley - Add a Sentiment

Incy Wincy - Use Something Metallic

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Challenge 1943

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes optional For the Girls

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Scorpio

Well the last two weeks went my in a flash, this is my second lot of inspiration for Outlawz Sketch using the awesome Aurora Wings images.  The one I'm using today is Scorpio Sprite.

The image has been coloured with Copics.  The edges of the image distressed with Vintage Photo ink and a Tonic Solutions tool.  Around the image I've also scattered two different colours of embossing enamel.

Here's our sketch for the next two weeks

I've used design papers from Studio Light and Lemoncraft, all of these have also been distressed using the Tonic Solutions tool.

To keep with the zodiac theme I've added a couple of wooden stars, then I added a birthday sentiment from Make It Crafty coloured with Copics to match the design papers.

Thanks for popping by for a look today, we hope to see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Cute n Crafty - Anything Goes

Classic Design Team - Challenge 10

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Anything Goes

Teal Roses

Our awesome sponsor for October at Outlawz Sketch is Aurora Wings!

I've chosen to use Weeping Rose for my inspiration today.

The images has been coloured with Copics.  I had to do it in a bit of a rush (I got a bit behind with my hols last week) so I've given it a colour wash and added lots of texture to the petals.

Here's our sketch for the next two weeks

I found the perfect design papers to go with the image.  They're from Studio Light.

I've also used some black card.  I tried to add the embellies as per the sketch to my card but it just kept taking it away from the beautiful image and gorgeous design papers.  So I decided to go plain without them for this time :)

Thanks for popping by for a look today

Andrea x

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

Pammies Inky Pinkies - Challenge 1939

Morgan's ArtWorld - Challenge 10

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

Worldwide Open Design Team - Challenge 9

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Blue & Gold Wedding

Honoured to have been invited to be a guest designer at Crafting by Designs this month, where the them is anything goes.

For my inspiration I've chosen to make a wedding card using Wedding Couple from Aurora Wings

The image has been coloured with ProMarkers and polychromos pencils.  Making a CAS style card as this is going to be handed round work for signing I've just doodled a border with pen.

The image is mounted onto layers of black card stock and blue glitter paper.

The embellishments are a couple of sequins and some rhine stones to add some bling and a wood chip sentiment from Scapiniec coloured with blue ProMarker to match the image colour scheme.

Thank you for having me ladies :)

Andrea x

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

Sweet Stampers  - Add a Sentiment

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Sparkles - Love

Aurora Wings - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends - All that Glitters

Glitter n sparkle - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes 

Snappy Birthday

This is month we're sponsored by Aurora Wings at Outlawz Sketch.  I've chosen to use Venus Flytrap Sprite for my inspiration today

She's been coloured with ProMarkers and polychromos pencils.  Hand cut she's then been mounted onto some black card cut with a Spellbinders die.

Here's our sketch for today

I've used one design paper from Lili of the Valley, some red and black card stock, so the card has lots of layers.

I printed the Snappy birthday sentiment at the same time as the image and cut it out as a strip instead of using some ribbon.  My only embellishments are two silver bee charms.

Hope to see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Classic Design Team - Challenge 10

Crafyhazelnuts Patterned Paper - January

Card Mania - Layer It

Fabrica Fantasy - Happy Anything

Sasayaki Glitter - Colour Green

Sweet Stampin - Dies & Punches

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Winter Elf

Hmmmm... this may not be my last Christmas card.  I seem to have gotten into the swing of making them!

I've used Winter Sprite from Aurora Wings for my inspiration for the new Outlawz Sketch Challenge this week.  We've sponsored by Aurora Wings for January.

I've used Copics and polychromos pencils to colour this, adding some snowtex and tiny silver snowflake charms.

Here's our sketch for this week

I've used design papers from Maja Design which were distressed.

The sentiment I added is from Scrapienic, added a glitter wooden snow flake to fit in with the theme and some pearl gems.

Hope to see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Aurora Wings - Winter Wonderland

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Add Snowflakes

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - January

QKR Stampede - Snowman or Snowflakes

The Sketchy Challenge - Christmas

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes / Christmas

Dream Valley - Christmas

Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes

Christmas Card Challenge - Anything Goes

The very last one....

This is our last challenge at the ABC Challenge and for my final one I'm sharing my creation with Stars the image from our sponsor Aurora Wings.

Our theme this time is V for Varied which mean you can share with us anything at all :D

Coloured with Copics, ProMarkers and polychromos pencils I've created a night scene.

The starry background was created with some embossing enamel.

Just a plain CAS card this time, single layer mounted onto the card.

We'd love to see you join us for our last challenge

Andrea x

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

Glitter N Sparkle - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafting Musketeers - Anything Goes

Doodle Pantry - Anything Goes

Creative Ladybirds Creations - Anything Goes

Classic Design Team - Challenge 9

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Mistletoe Fairy

Second week of our December challenge at Outlawz Sketch.  We can use any image this month and I've chosen to use Mistletoe Fairy by Aurora Wings. She's been coloured with ProMarkers, then cut out and framed with some red card stock.

Here's our sketch for this week

I've used red card stock, design papers from Maya Design.

Embellishments are some white paper flowers and wooden holly leaves cover with silver glitter.  I've also used some pearl gems.  All can be found in Hobby Craft.

Hope to see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Butterfly Challenge - Challenge 68

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Christmas Time

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas

Crafty Boots - Christmas

Aurora Wings - Winter Wonderland

Passion for ProMarkers - Mega Christmas Challenge

Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes Christmas Colours

Left of Centre - Fantasy Christmas

Come and Get It - Christmas

The Ribbon Girl - Card Challenge

Christmas Bear

This is my second creation for The Crazy Challenge as a Guest Designer this month.  Tier challenge theme this time is Christmas.

It gave me a REALLY good excuse to use this cute little bear from Di's Digis called Snuggle Christmas

The image has been coloured with Copics cut out with a Spellbinders dies and edges with Antique Linen ink from Tim Holtz.  He's been mounted onto a circle of red card stock before mounting onto design papers from Maja Design.

Additional elements on this card are some tiny pom poms for snow balls, some silver snowflake charms for falling snow and a Marry Christmas sentiment I got from Hobby Craft ages ago.

Hope you love my inspiration for their new challenge

Andrea x

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

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - November

Doodle Pantry - Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Animals

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Sparkles - Christmas is Coming

Double D - Traditional Christmas Colours

Winter Wonderland - Snow is Falling

Addicted to Stamps - Die Cuts and / or Punches

Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes

Golden wedding

I was lucky enough to win the GDT spot for Fussy and Fancy for their Anniversary / Wedding themed challenge and if you've read their GDT post you probably know a lot more about me now. 

For those of you that haven't read the post I work full time as an accountant, am a member of 4 design teams and for one of those I run the Facebook Group for them to help out as well.  I'm a dancer and badminton player (although injured at the moment which helps with crafting time!)

To top it off I now draw digital images which I sell in my shop on Etsy SheepSki Designs and have just started a Facebook group SheepSki Designs Digital Stamps with a challenge.  I have no design team yet so I'm doing all this myself at the moment! 

Soooooo...... onto what I've made for the lovely ladies at Fussy & Fancy

  I've chosen to use Wedding Couple from Aurora Wings for my inspiration card.  The image is just so beautiful Mitzi is so talented and I didn't have time to draw an image :D

I've coloured this image with ProMarkers I find they blend out really well to give a softer look than when I use Copics.  I've done her dress in pale golden colours using Vanilla & Ivory in case you wanted to know.  Scattered around the edges of the image are some pearl dots created with Dovecraft 3D Pearl effects.

Here's a close up of the main flower section.

The heart chip board is from Blue Fern Studios.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and Live and Love Crafts.  I also got the lace from Live & Love Crafts that you can see behind the image.

At the bottom of the card is a piece of organza rose trim which can be bought from Wild Orchid Crafts, Live & Love Crafts or The Ribbon Girl.

There are also some tiny delicate pieces of flowered chip board.  They come in longer strips with stems but I cut these down to just the round flowers, they're Dusty Attic chipboard.

There's a resin corner at the to right which you can just see peaking out form under the flowers.  The Mr & Mrs sign is from Scrapiniec which I found at Scrap & Craft.  I've also added a few pearl gems and the tiny heart at the right of the card if from the Blue Fern Studios piece (I didn't want to waste it and it fit in with what I was doing)

Finally the design papers I used were from First Edition and Joy Crafts.  All have been treated with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo distress ins (Tim Holtz) and they've also been distressed.

Apologies for the long post and if you've dropped off but there's a lot to this card :D

Andrea x

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

Paper Creator - All About Flowers

Paradise of Stamps - Wedding

Crafts & Me - Anything Goes Optional Shabby Chic

Crafting Musketeers - Weddings

Left of Centre - Distressing

Come and Get It - Weddings

Addicted to Stamps - Flowers

The Ribbon Girl - June Card Challenge

The Corrosive Challenge - Lots of Layers

Aurora Wings - A Touch of Class

Spring Garden Geisha

It's the 15th mid month and time for another ABC Challenge. Our Challenge this month is F for Fancy Folds.  We're sponsored by the amazing Aurora Wings.

For my inspiration for you today I've created a easel card using two of Mitzi images Miyabi and Pansy Corner

The images have been coloured using a combination of Copics, ProMarkers and polychromos pencils.  All three images have been fussy cut to mount onto the card.

I've used a similar shape card and cut it down in size by hand before distressing the edges and them using some milled lavender ink for Tim Holtz.  You can see this better below.

Here's a close up of the flower arrangement on the bottom of the easel.  The flower are all from Wild Orchid Crafts. You can also see a close up of the tiny silver dragonfly charms I've used.

You can also see the pale purple gems I've used at various point to embellish.

These are pictures of the full card at a couple of angles so you can see the easel better.

From the final two photos you can see I've cut a rectangle for the bottom section and also distressed it before adding the flower arrangement.

Looking forward to seeing your fancy fold cards

Andrea x

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

The Artistic Stamper - All Things Distress

Crafty Cardmakers - Shaped Card

Butterfly Challenge - Fancy Folds and / or Fuchsia

The Ribbon Girl - April Card Challenge

Polkadoodles - Floral Frenzie

Allsorts - Purple Passion

Classic Design Team - Open Challenge 1

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean - Spring is in the Air

Crafting Musketeers - Spring is in the Air

Pink Hibiscus

This beautiful image is Hibiscus Spirit from Aurora Wings, our wonderful sponsor for March at the Outlawz Sketch Team.

This image has been coloured with ProMarkers in pastel shades, then I've added some depth with polychromos pencils.

Cut out with a Spellbinders die, I've added some pink ProMarker to the edge of the die to soften the bright white of the card.

Here's our sketch for today

The design paper is from Santoro and the scalloped edges lace is from Live and Love Crafts.

I've flipped the sketch for my inspiration card and added some hemp string and some white paper flowers.  The flowers I coloured with ProMarker as an experiment.  I was happy with the result so used them here :D

Hope to see you over at the challenge where we offer an extra prize if we get above 35 entries!

Andrea x

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

Dream Valley - Girly

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Sparkles - Make It Girly

Art by Miran - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girl - Any Image

Aurora Wings - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

What a shock

Hee hee - here's a card I've made using a card for my brother in law for his birthday :D

It's called We Are No Evil from Aurora Wings.  Mitzi is sponsoring us at the Outlawz Sketch team for this month.

I've coloured this image using a combination of Copics and ProMarkers trying to make the owls different colours.

Here's our sketch for this week

I've kept the design paper natural earthy colours to go with the image.  Instead of buttons I've added some black gems.

The sentiment was made out of some glitter letters :D

Hope you like my inspiration for today

Andrea x

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

Crafty Time - Birthdays

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - All About Birthdays

Moving Along with the Times - In the Garden

Simply Create Too - Be Funny / Make Joke

QKR Stampede - Add a Sentiment

Robyn's Fetish - Square or Rectangle Cards

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes / Twist Bird

Aurora Wings - Anything Goes

Beautiful wings

We're using beautiful images from Aurora Wings for our challenges at the Outlawz Sketch team for March.  The image I'm using here for my card today is called Shades of Blue and has gorgeous wings.

I've used ProMarkers to colour the image then added a few blue sequins and gems to add some sparkle.

This is our sketch for today.  For my inspiration I've flipped it onto its side and instead of using some ric rac or ribbon I've just used a different coloured design paper and distressed the edges of it.

The design paper I've used are from Lili of the Valley and First Edition.  There are a couple of teal flowers which I got in Hobby Craft and my for you sentiment is from Lemon Craft.

Hope to see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Card Mania - Polka Dots or Stripes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Flower Power

The Ribbon Girl - Spring/Easter or Anything Goes

Aurora Wings - My Favourite Season (Spring)

Digi Choosday - Easter / Flowers

QKR Stampede - Add Some Sparkle

The Crazy Challenge - Flowers

Lovely lady

It's a while since I've coloured this beautiful image - Woman with Gardenia and Pearls from Aurora Wings.  Since we're being sponsored by Aurora Wings at Outlawz Sketch this month I though it was an ideal opportunity to colour her again :D

I've done her in very soft pastel pinks using ProMarkers, cut her out with a Spellbinders die then mounted her onto papers from Santoro Gorjuss.

Here's our sketch for today, I've pretty much kept with it today.  Adding a small white flower at the bottom right and a sentiment from a Lili of the Valley Art pad at the top left,

The die I used is a Memory Box one and the tiny stars I've added are left overs from a Spellbinders label.  I save all the punched out bits just for occasions like this :D

Hope to see you over at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends - Floral

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Something for the Lady

Digi Choosday - Ladies Ladies Ladies

Paradise of Stamps - Card for a Girl  / Woman

Creative Inspirations - Pretty Projects

Allsorts - International Women's Day