Pretty In Pink

We're going on of my favourites for the new two weeks at Fussy & Fancy Fridays.  Pretty in Pink :)

Instead of using an image I've dug or pretty much everything else LOL!

I've taken some close ups so you can see sections of the card I made

Here you can see a close up of the butterfly, it's a wood chi one from Scrapiniec which I've given a hint of pink to with my Copics.  The wood chip swirl (not sure who's it is) I found at Scrap and Craft.

Before I go onto the flowers I'll mention the pearl string and pink seam binding which you can find at The Ribbon Girl. 

This one is showing a variety of pink flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The pink tipped leaves I got from Lili of the Valley years ago when they still had a shop you could go into.  You can also see here some tiny silver dragonfly charms that I got from Amazon.

I my last picture you get the whole card.  The design papers which I've distressed and torn are from Lemoncraft.

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

Crafter's Castle - Challenge 6

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes optional say it with flowers

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Double D - Butterflies

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Try it on Tuesday's - Things with Wings

Sunny Day Crafting - Any Animal on a Project

Crafteezee - Summer

A Bit of Everything.....

We're sponsored this month by Through the Craft Room Door at Outlawz Sketch.  So this month is a bit of a free for all on images we can use.

First of all I'll share out sketch.  Ok so when I saw it I wasn't quite sure what to do with it.  I was in fussy and fancy mode so I do apologies there are lots of photos to follow.

In my first photo your can see some resin embellishments.  I put the flower heart down first and wanted to put the butterfly over the top.  I was having an issue making them "stick" so I ended up putting some tiny blossoms down first and the gluing the butterfly on top - woop hoo it worked!

Instead of a single tag I've double stacked.  The tags were cut using a die and some design paper from Lemoncraft.  In fact all my design papers today are from Lemoncraft.

The tags are tied together with some pink seam binding from The Ribbon Girl.  On top of this are a couple of resin doves.

You can just see in the next picture underneath the rose heart there's a heart shaped doily.

To fit in with the sketch I've made a circular arrangement of flowers.  There's a bit of a combination here that I've had in my stash for ages.

As well ask showing the 3-d effect of the flowers in this picture you can see the lace I've added which I got from The Ribbon Girl.  There are actually two different types I've layered up.  At the top of this are some sections of pearl string.

Here you can see the whole card and my fussy and fancy interpretation of the sketch.

The wedding day sentiment is a wood chip one from Scrapiniec.

The final photo shows an angled side shot so you can see the 3-d effect of the flowers.

Hope yo 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

Crafthazelnut's Patterned Paper - June

Love to Scrap - Marry Me

Brown Sugar - Wedding or Party

The Ribbon Girl - June Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes optional Say it with Flowers

Creatalicious - Anything Goes with Optional Flowers

Double D - Butterflies

Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - 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

Its a colour thing

I was up in the Lake District last week - autumn - was no where to be seen.  Everything still looked lush and green.

This is supposed to be the season of leaves falling and lovely hot colours - my favourite season :D

We've a new challenge starting today ay All Dressed Up on Facebook the theme is Autumn / Halloween

I've used something a little different to show you you can use any image, you just need to use the right colours, papers and embellies.  This one is Butterfly Kisses Girl

I've used ProMarkers and a little black polychromos pencil to colour her with.  She's been cut out with a Spellbinders die and then mounted onto some black card stock cut with a Spellbinders Die.

Here's a close up of my flower section - all there can be found at Wild orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.  The wood chip is from Scrapienic.

The shaped card has been covered with black card stock.  The design papers from Santoro and Prima Marketing.  Both of these have been distressed.

Finally I've added a couple of wood chip leaves to add to the Autumn theme and a wood chip sentiment coloured with black ProMarker (all from Scrapienic).  I've also added a few black gems.

If you haven't already seen we've announced our new Dressy girls today for both the blog team and the Facebook Team - welcome to the team ladies :D

Andrea x

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

World Wide Open Design Team - Challenge 14

Crafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean - Anything Goes

I Love ProMarkers - Flowers / Nature

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy - My Favourite Things (autumn, flowers and distressing)

The Crazy Challenge - Autumn is Coming

Crafty Boots - Autumn is in the Air

Purple bouquet

The lovely ladies at Scrapping4Fun have me as a guest designer today.  Their theme is Birthday.

I've used this little Whimsey stamp called Dolly, I've had her for absolutely ages but not had chance to use her.  So this I thought the perfect opportunity.

The image had been coloured with ProMarkers and I've used a black polychromos pencil to add extra shading.

Once cut out the image was distressed with Tim Holtz antique linen ink.  Added to this were some sprikles of Stampendous embossing enamel.

All the papers have been distressed using a Tonic Solutiolns tool.  Design papers are from Lili of the Valley and Our Daily Bread.  The image was frames with some black card stock.

Here's a close up of the flower bouquet arrangement I've added.  These were all from Live and Love Crafts and Wild Orchid Crafts.  I found the gorgeous lavender flower patterned ribbon at Crafty Ribbons.

The happy birthday sentiment was cut from some black card stock using a Spellbinders die.  The final touch some purple gems from Scrap Berry.

Hope you like my card for today

Andrea x

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

Crafty Cardmakers - Shabby Chic

Deep Ocean - Colours of Summer

Artistic Stamper - All Things Bright and Beautiful

Sparkle n Sprinkle - Anything Goes (embossing enamel)

Digistamps4joy - Anything Goes (twist dies / punches)

Polkadoodles - Ribbon or Twine

Live and Love Crafts - Sprinkles of Summer

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes with stamp & ribbons

Creative Moments - Anything Goes / twist Ribbons and / or Bows

Creative Craft Cottage - Eileen's Challenge

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

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

Everything......

Start of another month again already!  Today at the ABC Challenge our theme is E is for Everything.  

We're sponsored this time by The Paper Shelter.  This gorgeous image I've used here is The Fairy and the Wizard.

I've coloured this using my favourite colour combination (purple and blue) using ProMarkers, have a closer look - you can see through the fairy's wings :D

The design papers are from Lemoncraft and Maja Design and I've also used some white card stock.  All papers (including the die cuts from Little Darlings and La La Land) have been given a distressed look with antique linen ink from Tim Holtz.  I've also used some rhine stones to add some sparkle to the magic from the wizards wand.

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

The are some sequins, gems from Hobby Craft and a purple heart sticker from Paperchase.

My silver heart balloon was made from a charm that I got a couple of years ago at a craft fair.  I took the wire off the bottom them added lots of pearl gems to make it look like a string :D

Looking forward to seeing your creations

Andrea x

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

The Cutie Pie Challenge - So Fairy Cute

Colouring Crazy Challenge - Spring Delights

Deep Ocean - Fave Colour Combo (purple & blue)

Come and Get It - In The Garden

Left of Centre - Sparkle

Crafting for All Seasons - Die Cuts and Punches

Craft Rocket - Mythical Creatures

Petal Lu - Anything Goes

Classic Design Team - Open Challenge 1

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

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

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

Autumn Geisha

The seasons changing and soon we'll see the trees full of oranges and browns here in the UK.  This is the theme for my colouring on this card using one of my new digis Beautiful Amy from Art by Miran.

Coloured with ProMarkers I've blended yellow through to red and given her glossy black hair using Copics, black polychromos pencil and biro.

I've also added a fan to the image using a brass charm from Live and Love Crafts.

I cut black card stock out with a fancy Spellbinders die to frame the image.  then I faffed about for a long time with papers.  But most of them seemed to take the spotlight away from the image.  In the end I've just used some more black card stock and one design paper from Prima Marketing Almanac Collection.

The flowers and brass corner piece are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I've also added some black self adhesive gems.

Andrea x

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

Art by Miran - Anything Goes (40)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Warm Colours

Crafting Musketeers - Autumnal Colours