Butterfly Magic

Today I'm sharing a very simply styled card to showcase this image Butterfly Magic.  I'd seen photos of huge moths and butterflies and thought it might be fun to try and recreate something like this in a digi image.

You can find Butterfly Magic in my Etsy shop - check out the bottom of my post for a 20% discount code off images in my shop

I've coloured the image here with Copics, ProMarkers and polychromos pencils.  I wanted the butterfly to pop so I've used some bright oranges and reds.

Once I'd finished the image I cut it large and distressed the edges with ink from Tim Holtz (black soot) and a Tonic solutions tool.  The image has been mounted onto some distressed black card.

Added to this just to add a little more interest are a few rhine stones, two silver dragonfly beads and I've also stencilled the word beauty in black soot ink onto the card.

This has been created as part of the inspiration for the Passionate Paper Creations sponsorship event for this week :D

Check out their Facebook Group here where you will find a code for 20% discount

Check out their Blog here

Andrea x

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

Pile it On - Animals and / or Spring Garden

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Sparkles - Four or More Legs

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Include and Animal

Fairy Tale Challenge - Things with Wings

Addicted to Stamps - Animals

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Dog Walker

Good morning :D

This is the last week with our sponsor All Dressed Up over at Outlawz Sketch this month

For my inspiration for you today I've used one of Wendy's newer images Spring Walks.

The image has been coloured with ProMarkers, Copics and polychromos pencils.  The edges of the image were distressed with antique linen and vintage photo from Tim Holtz.

For the oval framing I've drawn round the inside of a Spellbinders die and hand cut the image.  I've then used the die to cut some Kraft and mounted the image on top.

Here's our sketch for today

I've used design paper from 13arts and some left over scraps from cutting papers down to size.  I've also used some more Kraft to frame the whole thing.

I opted to leave out the ribbon from the image as I didn't want to cover it up.  Added to my strips of paper are some tiny white paper flowers which I bought in Hobby Craft.

The Life is Good sentiment is a Scrapiniec one which I've coloured in a similar shade to the design paper.

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

Andrea x

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

Pile It On - Animals and  / or Spring Garden

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Sparkles - Four or More Legs

Oddball Art - Mother Love / Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Include and Animal

The Ribbon Girl - Use Any Image

Addicted to Stamps - Animals

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Movement

If you've not seen this image before it's called Flamanco.  I originally did a water colour painting with this image (years ago) so when I started drawing again I recreated it from the painting.

This is one of my images you can find in my Etsy shop that shows movement in the image.  I just love the flow of material in this dress!  Its also a good one to pratice folds, so far I've coloured it two different ways.  If you've joined me from the Passionate Paper Creations and Friends Facebook group you'll have a special discount code to get you 20% off my images - check their banner ;)

There will be lots of inspiration from my fab design team ladies and also Rhea's lovely ladies. Also make sure you check out their blog this week where there will be some more inspiration

So how did I create this..........

I've used ProMarkers, Copics and polychromos pencils to colour the image with.  I cut a large square around the image then doodled a border.

Design papers I've used for this card are from Lili of the Valley and 13arts.  I've also used some black card.

The DANCE sentiment was cut out from the same purple design paper using a die cut set from Sizzi.

My final touch for this card was to use one sequin and several rhine stones.

Hope you like my first inspiration for this week

Andrea x

As well as providing inspiration I'm going to enter this into some challenges detailed below to hopefully advertise the sponsorship event this week :)

Simply Create Too - Must Use a Digi Stamp

Crafting When We Can - Black, White and a Splash of Colour

Brown Sugar - Use Sequins

The Crafty Addicts - Use Die Cuts

Morgan's ArtWorld - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Glitter N Sparkle - Anything Goes

1920's Elegance

Here I am today sharing with you my new image Grace, she's kinda based on a 1920's flapper.

You can find her in my Etsy shop and get her along with any of my other images with 10% off by quoting code SKIANDREA10 at checkout

Grace has been coloured with ProMarkers and I've also used a black polychromos pencil to add depth to the shading to the very back of the dress.

I have some label dies and I used a large one of these to cut her out with.  I then chopped the sides off to give it a straight rather than curved look.  I found I didn't have any suitable inks to distress the edges so I used ProMarker around the edges instead.

I wanted to make an Art Deco style card so this was a bit fiddly with lots of strips of left over design papers.

The design papers are from Maja Design and Lemoncraft.  I chose ones that were similar colour to the image and the background design paper.  The left over strips were cut down to the same size to go at either side of the image.  To get the curve at the top and bottom I used the curve of the image to draw a line on the strips and then cut them with scissors.  Lined all up together gives them an Art Deco look :)

To finish off I added a BIRTHDAY sentiment in Art Deco style.  The original sentiment from Scrapienic says happy birthday I just cut it down and then coloured it with brown ProMarker.  I then added a few bits of bling with rhine stones.

Thanks for taking a look today

Andrea x

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

Paradise of Stamps - For Someone Special

The Crafty Addicts - Use Die Cuts

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe - Birthday

I Love ProMarkers - Girls Birthday

The Crazy Challenge - Birthday

QKR Stampede - Birthday Cards

Allsorts - Vintage Style 

Just a small bouquet

Hello lovely people, today being Friday is the new challenge at Fussy & Fancy Fridays.  It's my teams turn this time with a theme of Flowers.

I suppose I could have used one of my images for this BUT it gave me a perfect excuse for playing with al my beautiful flower embellies :D

This is a close up of the bouquet, you can see a combination of paper and fabric flowers making up this floral display.  The flowers were bought from the Ribbon Girl, Noor Design and Wild Orchid Crafts.

The teal ribbon I've had in my stash for ages and is from Santoro.  I tied a very messy double bow (hee hee) you can't see how bad it was because its disguised by the flowers.  I really need to get something to help me with these or learn how to do them properly by hand!

You can also see by the picture above I've used some pearl gems an doodled a border.

This is a shot from the side so you can see the 3D effect of the flowers.

Behind the flowers you can see some laser cut woodchip frames.  I got these from Scrap and Craft, they have some beautiful ones in stock at the moment.

And finally my distressed design papers 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

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes optional add some flowers

World Wide Open Designs Team - Challenge 22

Double D - Flowers Galore

Crafty Cardmakers - Floral Profusion

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Duplicity - skulls roses and butterflies

Yes I know it's not the normal glam / cutie / flowers etc. but if you look in my shop there are a couple of skulls around.  This image is called Duplicity and you can find it in my shop on Etsy.

As always you can get 10% off all my images by quoting SKIANDREA10

Today is my hubby's birthday.  It's been a while since I've drawn a skull for him.  I don't want to get too predictable and every time we (him and me) have an event to celebrate I do it with skulls.  That's why there's been JD & Coke and then Otters :D

So I thought he was overdue.  I'd seen some artwork where people had drawn skulls which were made up of other objects, hidden by objects or they form part of it - so...... I decided to see if I could draw something along those lines.  Drawing this I obviously HAD to be sneaky.  I'm not sure if he's caught glimpses of it but hopefully he's been too busy with work and his playstation LOL!!

I've coloured it mainly monochrom with only the rose in colour to add maximum impact.  A rose for my love on his birthday.  I've used Copics and polychromos pencils to do this with.

There are no sentiments with this I just wanted the art work to have maximum impact.  I've distressed the edges and mounted it onto some black card.

He is definitely going to love this one :D

Happy Birthday Allen!

Andrea xx

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

Dream In Darkness - Anything Goes

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes optional add flowers

Just for You

This beautiful little image called For You is available from All Dressed Up.  They're our sponsors at the Outlawz Sketch Team for May.

I've used ProMarkers and a little black polychormos pencil for this one.  The edges of the image have been distressed with peeled paint ink from Tim Holtz.

Here's our sketch for this week

I decided to keep with a general green theme using design papers from Maya Design and Joy Crafts.  Instead of using a die cut for the square shape I decided to go with some flat back pearl trim.

The butterfly I left off (mainly because I forgot it was on the sketch LOL!! Don't tell Sandra :)

My ribbon is a double layer of flowered organza from Crafty Ribbons.

Hope you love my inspiration for the sketch challenge for this week.  See you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Creative Ladybirds - Anything Goes

Paradise of Stamps - For Someone Special

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Simply Create Too - Must Use a Digi Stamp

The Ribbon Girl - Use Any Image May

Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes