Pastel angel

I love this next challenge we have for you at ABC Challenge.  S is for Shaped Cards.  These take me ages to do but I love doing them!

We're sponsored this time by The Ribbon Girl and Lacy Sunshine.  This image is Dreaming of my Love.

She's been coloured with ProMarkers in soft pastel shares, cut out with a Spellbinders die, the edges of this distressed with Milled Lavender ink from Tom Hotlz.

Here's a close up of the flower arrangement.  This has some wood chip from Scrapienic, mixed roses, apple blossom and tulips - all can be found at The Ribbon Girl

The Design papers are from Maja Design and the lace from Live & Love Crafts

Hope you'll join in the challenge - it;s a great excuse for those of you that love fussy & fancy :D

Andrea x

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

In the Pink - Lots of Layers

Craft Rocket - Pretty Pinks

Crafty Boots - In the Pink

Worldwide Open Design Team - Challenge 15

Crafty Cats - Anything Goes (Twist of Die Cuts/Punches)

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - One for the Girls

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

Outlawz April Progressive Challenge

It's been strange to see people using my image, wonderful and so amazing - thank you everyone for your kind words about the image I created for you at Outlawz for your Progressive Challenge.

I drew this image (For Mum / Mom now available in my shop SheepSki Designs) a couple of months ago.  I made my first card with it for my mother in law for Mothers Day here in the UK and knew it would also be perfect timing for anyone that wanted to make a Mothers Day card in America.

This is the one I did for my mother in law.

She loves vintage so I did a clean simple design with some distressing.

This is what I've just made with it today to show a different style.

The image has been coloured with ProMarkers and cut out with a Spellbinders die.

To the left of the image I've an arrangements of craft gauze and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.  Your can also see some tiny silver dragonfly charms in this picture.

The design papers I've used are from Joy Crafts and they've been distressed.

Apart from some pink pearl gems I've used a white paper butterfly and a clay heart from Live and Love Crafts to finish the design.

Andrea x

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

Craft Rocket - Pink and Pearlie

Penny's Challenge - Sew Charming (dragonfly charms)

PinSpirational - Challenge 164

Addicted to Stamps - Paper Embellishments / Chipboard (paper flowers and butterfly)

Digi Choosday - Tic Tac Toe (Charms / Nature / Flowers)

The Ribbon Girl - Any Image April Challenge

Creative Crafts Cottage - Feminine

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Passion for ProMarkers - Make it Digital

QKR Stampede - April Showers bring May Flowers

Flump n Tic

So I've finally had chance to colour up Flump n Tic available on Etsy from SheepSki Designs and coloured up she's even more of a cutie!  She's also turned out a bit Dumbo with the large ears :D

I've used ProMarkers, Copics and polychromos pencils, she's then be cut out with a Spellbinders die and edged with pink ProMarkers.

The distressed design papers are from First Edition and Joy Crafts.  Behind the image you can see a Little Darlings die cut using some white card stock.  There's also a section of white card stock cut with a Matha Stewart punch.

The lace and lave flowers are from The Ribbon Girl and the silver LOVE charm used here as a sentiment is from Live and Love Crafts.

There are two different types of white flowers from Hobby Craft sprinkled down the left side and to finish off some pearl gems

Andrea x

PS if you've not already spotted it I've now got a Facebook page SheepSki Designs where I'm posting inspiration, images, sneak peaks and anyones makes using my images that are willing to share them for inspiration in my shop.  I might think about posting some freebies on there if I get enough likes

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

Artistic Stamper - All Things Distress

Crafty Time - For the Kids

Crafty Friends - For a Child

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Your Favourite Things (Pink, Flowers and Lace)

Crafting for All Seasons - TIC TAC TOE (Girly/Digi/Flowers)

In the Pink - Pearls

Petal Lu - Anything Goes

Hiding In My Craft Room - LOL!

Digi Choosday - TIC TAC TOE (Sentiment/Lace/Flowers)

Adorable creepy cute

Lizzy has done it again.  She's created some fantastic images for her new release today.

This is image 300 - you can find her on Etsy and if you want some discount to buy her or any of Lizzy's images you can quote DTANDREA10 to get yourselves 10% off on Etsy.

Check out the Oddball Art main blog page for the other images released today

I've coloured her with ProMarkers, fussy cut her then mounted her onto an oval hand cut design paper from Studio Light.  I've then mounted this onto a piece of Joy Crafts paper cut with a Spellbinders die.

This next picture is a close up of the flowers I've arranged at the left side on the card.  These were from The Ribbon Girl and Live and Love Crafts.

I've used a shaped card for this creation.  I have to cut the papers by hand because I've not got a cutting machine large enough.  The papers are from Joy Crafts, newly acquired.

My final embellishments are some cream organza rose trim, a resin miniature picture frame and some pearl gems.

Have a great day

Andrea x

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

House of Cards - Scripts and / or Colours (Script)

Crafty Cardmakers - Shaped Card

Creative Card Crew - Die Cut

I Love ProMarkers - Two Colours Only (Pink and Cream)

The Corrosive Challenge - Girls, Ladies, Women

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Crafthazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - April

Follow the White Rabbit

Tonight I'm sharing with you a newly created image Humphrey, you can find him here :D

He's been coloured with Copics and ProMarkers, cut out with a Spellbinders die. The edge of the die has been coloured with pink ProMarker.

The design papers are from Studio 75 and Lili of the Valley.  The sentiment was computer produced and had to be a Hoppy Easter with the image being a ribbit :D

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and Live and Love Crafts.

My finishing touches are a few pink gems and some tiny silver dragonfly charms which I found on Amazon

Humphrey's names after my mother in laws neighbours rabbit (he's a bit of a giant so mine is much smaller and cuter LOL!!)

Andrea x

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

Creative Craft Cottage - Lets Get Sentimental

Digi Choosday - Easter / Flowers

Deep Ocean - Easter

Come and Get It - Easter / Spring

Robyn's Fetish - Easter Cards

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes / Twist Easter

Crafty Boots - Easter

PINspirational - Challenge 161

The Crafters Cafe - Easter

Inky Chicks - Happy Easter

Hello you....

Popping up to say "hi" that's what I imagine this little cute mouse is doing.   I've coloured Nova from SheepSki Designs (yes that me, she's one of my new digis :D) with Copics.  I've also added a little black polychromos pencil to add some shading.

The edges of the image have been distressed with some Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink before mounting her onto some brown design paper.

The design papers I've used here are form Lili of the Valley and Wild Rose Studio.

The Hello you sentiment come with the stamp.  This has also been distressed with the same ink.  I've cu the sentiment out with a Spellbinders die and used some of the left over design paper for it's border.

Added embellishments are some brown gems, a tiny pink heart from Paperchase and some pink and white hortensias from Live and Love Crafts.

Happy weekend

Andrea x

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

Brown Sugar - Cute & Cuddly

Crafty Catz - Use Three Different Papers

DigiStaps4Joy - Anything Goes / Twist Add an Animal

Penny's Challenge - Feathers or Fur

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Hanging Heart

I've been busy this week, my sketching has been put on hold for the moment whilst I create other beautiful things :D

I'm showing you a couple of close ups first so you can see the flowers better.  All these were from Wild Orchid Crafts, Live and Love Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.

There are some torn scraps of paper from Lemoncraft under these.

The hear was avert cheep wooden one I picked up in a Hobby Craft.  It was red to start off with.

I've used several layers of gesso to make it white.  On top of this I've used some modelling clay and stencils for the brick wall and words.

That was then coated with another layer of gesso before I added the embellishments.

The bits I've not mentioned so far are a resin picture frame and tiny silver dragonfly beads.

I've created this shabby / vintage wall hanging for my hubby to give to his mum for Mother's Day, we know she'll love it :D

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this wall hanging into the following challenges

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - No Stamps Allowed

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Kraftin Kimmie - Februaty Scrappy Crafty

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes

CRAFT - Mothers Day - Female

Vintage Angel

And now for something completely different.  My mother in law loves Vintage and Shaby chic.  This is the card I made for her on Christmas day morning.  Everything used here apart from the Kraft card was from either Live and Live Crafts or The Ribbon Girl.

I picked a Vintage angel image.  All the design papers and die cuts were distressed with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink

I've used some hortensias, resin corners, a pin, some snowtext, a pearl gem and a crystal stem.

Here's a close up of the die cuts distressed with ink.

Here you can see a close up of the design paper I used on the top layer.

This is the first time I've ever decorated the inside of a card.

And here's the finished product.

I'm happy to say she loved it :D

Andrea x

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

2 Creative Chics - Anything Goes

Card Mania - Christmas

Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes

Come and Get It - Merry Christmas

Pile It On - Anything Christmas - Winter

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

We Love Vintage - Vintage Children

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Calla lilies and butterflies

Can you believe it - it's Christmas Eve tomorrow?  Hope everyone is ready for it :D

This is our last post before Christmas at Outlawz Sketch Challenge.  Our sponsor this month is Bugaboo giving a whopping $21 prize!

For my inspiration for you today I've got a non- Christmas card.  I've used Lily Trio which has been coloured with ProMarkers in very subtle coloured except the butterflies which I wanted to draw the eye in to look at.

I've taken a close up of a corner so you can see better what I've done.  The butterfly you can see where is a chipboard from Scrap and Craft.  I punched it out the coloured it with ProMarkers to match the image from Bugaboo.  You can also see a close up of the flowers I've used which are hortensias (Kort and Godt) from Live and Love Crafts.

This is out sketch for you today created by Sandra as you can see she's design it as a Christmas one but a most of us in the DT have produced non-christmas cards this time.

Here's my interpretation of the sketch today.  Instead of ribbon I've used some lace from my stash.  I used some chip board shapes at the top of my card from Dusty Attic.  I've then used three lots of flowers groups instead of three Christmas baubles.

Added to this are wood chip two butterflies as I described above.

The papers are from Lemon Craft and Lili of the Valley.

So that's it folks except we'd love to see you at the challenge and have a fantastic Christmas

Andrea x

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

Allsorts - Anything but Christmas

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Winged Wonders

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean - Anything Goes

All Dressed Up with Spots n Stripes

Over at All Dressed Up in the Facebook group we've got a new challenge for your for November.   This time we'd like to see your creations using SPOTS and STRIPES.

I've used Country Cow Girl which you can find on Etsy for my inspiration card for you.  The image has been coloured with ProMarkers in neutral brown tones to make a monochromatic card.

The flowers are from Live & Love Crafts and Wild Orchid Crafts and the pearlised heart pins are from Live & Live Crafts.  Here's a close up of the arrangement at the bottom right of the image.

The image was cut out with a Spellbinders die and antique linen distress in applied from Tim Holtz.  Papers are from First Edition and Tim Holtz and all have been distressed to give the card a shabby chic vintage photo feel.

My final touches are a tiny wooden heart and some pearlised gems to match the pins.

We'd love to see you over at the challenge on Facebook but if you prefer not to have a theme we also have Anything Goes Challenge on the blog.

Andrea x

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

Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Flowers

The Crazy Challenge - Vintage

Commissioned in yellow

I don't usually share my commissioned cards but I thought maybe it was about time I did.

A work colleague has asked me to make a very special card for her mum in yellow, her mum's favourite colour.  She had very specific requirements - she picked the image, requested either wood fence or brick wall background, the colour yellow, a shaped card and flowers - lots of flowers.

I decided to do an easel card because although difficult to do with the shape of the ones I have they look extremely effective.

So I set to work this weekend colouring Lilacs from Lili of the Valley.  I've done this with ProMarkers and a little black polychromos pencil for extra shading.  I've then fussy cut the vase, butterfly and bee out.

The design papers which had to be hand cut to match the card shape are from Studio 75 and First Edition.  I've also used some brown paper to give the whole card a framed look.

There's a panel on the bottom portion which can be either written on or a sentiment added whichever she prefers.  This has been done with a Spellbinders die and some antique linen distress ink.

The brown pearlised self adhesive gems are from Scrapberry's and on the bottom left there's a resin corner to act as a stopped for the easel card.

The flowers and leaves are from Wild Orchid Crafts and Live & Love Crafts.  I've taken a few shots so you can see the 3-D effect they have and how they cascade down the right hand side of the card.

So there you have it my commissioned card - know she's gonna love it

Andrea x

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

Allsorts - Nature

Wags n Whiskers - Use a Die Cut

Crafty Time - Shaped Cards

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Recipe (Pearls / pattered paper / flowers)

Polkadoodles - Favourite Card Shape

Follow Yours Dreams in Sepia

When this new image came out at the beginning of September I had a few ideas for it.  So here I am today presenting my second idea for it.

The image is called Follow Your Dreams and is now available on Etsy.

I've coloured the image in sepia tones using ProMarkers and even sketched in some clouds in the same colours in the background.  I think you can just see them in this close up.

The die is definitely a fancy one from Spellbinders - it took a while to extract the card from the die :D

Once I'd managed to do that I distressed it with Antique Linen distress ink from Tim Holtz.

The design papers which have been distressed then layered up are from Santoro Gorjuss and Lili of the Valley.  The sentiment is from one of their art pads and I've added some sepia tones to this too.

Finishing touches to this one are two different types of lace.  The one at the bottom of my card has been in my stash for a while.  The top lace can be found at Live and Love Crafts along with the white clay hearts.

Before I go I just need to remind you we have two different challenges going on at All Dressed Up.  he challenge on the blog is Anything Goes with an All Dressed Up image.  The second is Summer Colours on the All Dressed Up Facebook Group.

Hope you like my second bit of inspiration with this image

Andrea x

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

Scrapy Land - Add an Image (Spellbinders die)

Crafting for All Seasons - Layer It Up

Crafty Creations - It Takes Two (2 balloons, 2 hearts)

Digi Choosday - Monochromatic

Passion for ProMarkers - All the Trimmings

Crafty Boots - Monochromatic

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Live and Love Crafts - Photo Inspiration Collage

Come and Get It - Travel / Vacation

Just a little favourite

This beautiful image is from Small and Round called Spirals.  I decided to colour in in pink but instead of my usual pastels I decided to try a stronger colour.  All the colouring was done with Copics this time.

The image has been cut out with a Spellbinders die and then edged with Tim Holtz spun sugar distress ink.  I've also added some Stampendous embossing enamel in white.

The flowers arranged around the image are all from Live and Love Crafts and Wild Orchid Crafts - here's a close up of them.

So onto the design papers which are from Lili of the Valley.  I picked some complimenting bright pink papers with a touch of green to go with the image colours.  All edges have been distressed to give them a shabby look then layered.

There's some lace, tulle pleat, organza rose trim and flat back pearl string all from Live and Love Crafts.

My final additions were some pearl self adhesive gems and a silver butterfly bead.

Andrea x

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

Sparkle and Sprinkle - Anything Goes (embossing enamel)

Digi Galore - Summery/Bright

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

In The Pink - Floral

Creative Inspirations - Lets Colour

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle - Pearls & Lace

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Honeycomb garden

I've been working on this canvas (my fourth) all week while I was in Hawkshead in the Lake District.  For those of you that don't know it, it's Beatrix Potter land.  As well as having beautiful scenery and temperamental weather - this is the UK after all :)

I started this canvas by gluing some on Lemoncraft design paper to the canvas.  I wasn't sure at the start how much of the writing I wanted to show through so I fill the canvas.

Added to this are a resin window which I got from Live and Love Crafts and honeycomb pieces from Blue Fern Studios.  Perhaps at the end of it I should have added some bees but I didn't have them with me.  I've also used some modelling paste with a Tim Holtz brick wall stencil.

The leafy boarder edge is from Dusty Attick which was cut to fit the canvas.  I then gave everything a good going over with gesso leaving some of the writing from the design paper showing.

Here I've started to add some colour to the canvas.  At the moment I've a limited selection of acrylics and I couldn't quite get the green I wanted to I started to darken it up as you'll see it the pictures below.

I've painted everything here but the honeycomb, mainly being indecisive about what colour I wanted to paint it.  I then applied some gesso to a lattice fence from I think it was Blue Fern Studios but I threw the packaging out in the Lake District and now I'm home I can't check :)  Over the top of this I've applied some gold paint from DecoArt.

The following photos are some close ups of the completed canvas where I've painted the honeycomb the same colour as the fence.

I've added a selection of flowers from Live and Love Crafts and Wild Orchid Crafts.  The butterflies I found on Amazon as I did with the dragonfly beads.

The resin bird house was also bought from Live and Love Crafts.

Here's a close up of the painted wall and window with a selection of tiny rose buds added to the bottom right corner.

And this is my final canvas - here for you to enjoy :)

Thanks for taking a look

Andrea x

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

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Flower Delights

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes

Anything But a Card - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Layer It Up

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - Summer Days