Catching snowflakes

We've a brand new challenge starting on the blog at Oddball Art today the them is Christmas or Winter Holiday.  

I've done quite a few Christmassy themed cards lately so I thought I'd do a winter scene for my inspiration card.  I've used Image 173 of this little cutie trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue.

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She's coloured with ProMarkers and Copics and then I've fussy cut her out to mount onto the scene.

I've used one design paper from Lili of the Valey.  The snowy hills have been created using a Spellbinders die and the trees with a Marianne Crafts die.

The die cuts have been distressed with Tim Holtz antique linen ink.  I've also used some grey Copic to create some shadows and some snowex to give the card some texture.

My final additions to this card are some tiny silver snowflake beads and a couple of reindeer dress it up buttons

Hope you like my inspiration and we hope to see you over at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Let It snow

Robyn's Fetish - Add a Christmas Die Cut

QKR Stampede - Snow Scene

Brown Sugar - Buttons

Creative Knockouts - Winter Wonderland

Fab n Funky - Snowflakes

Mega pink birthday

It's sneaking up to Christmas and we have our new challenge over at the ABC Challenge - the last one before Christmas eeek are you all ready?

Our theme for this time is X is for Xtreme sponsored by Marianne Design and Stamp & Create.  For this challenge we'd like to see bold bright colours in your creations :D

I've chosen a Marianne Design from Don and Daisy called Pirouette.  I can't remember using my hot pink Copic much so I thought I'd use it.  If you look carefully at the image you can see I've added a little reflection into the ice, along with some DecoArt glitter.  The image has been cut out with a Spellbinders die then edged with pink and I hand cut a piece of black card to go behind it to frame it.

The design papers are from Wild Rose Studio and Lili of the Valley and I've used some black card stock.  The fancy border has been created using a Martha Stewart punch.

Added to complete the card are some black gems, a sentiment from a Lili of the Valley art pad coloured with pink and some paper flowers from my stash.

We'd love to see you over at the challenge with your bright creations

Andrea x

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

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Sparkle and Shine

Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Die Cuts and Punches

The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes

Tiddy Christmas

This has got to be the cutest girl reindeer double I've seen.  The image is a Tiddy Inks one called Reindeer Games.

I've used Copics to colour the image and love the rich tines that they've produced.

I've kept the design clean and simple just using one design paper behind the image layer from Maja Designs.

The sentiment is a chipboard one from Hobby Craft which I've coloured with red Copic and I've finished the card off with some red gems.

Although I'm not brilliant at producing them myself yet I do love CAS cards.

Andrea x

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

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes / Twist of Christmas

Inky Chics - Merry Christmas

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Keep It Simple

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends - Christmas

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Without Words - Feeling Festive

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Apre Ski

This fun image is from Marianne Design - Don & Daisy Winter DDS3326 in case you're looking for it.

I've coloured mine with ProMarkers then fussy cut him out.  There are some sticky dots at the top behind the image to raise him slightly to add some dimension to the card.

I ended up creating a scene for him with some mountains in the background.  These I very roughly sketched out then added a bit of grey, white gel pen and glitter to.

This is the finished card.  You can see the whole of the backdrop now.  The glitter I've used is a DecoArt loose one (and I got covered in it LOL!!)

The sign stack you can see to the right of the image is fussy cut from a piece of Christmas design paper from Craftwork Cards.  I've also used some sticky dot on the top half of this to give some dimension.

A perfect card for your budding little skiers :D

Andrea x

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

ABC Christmas - Y is for Youngsters

Creative Inspirations - All Wrapped Up

I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Winter Wonderland

Papertake Weekly - Fun Fun Fun

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes

Christmas shoes :D

These beautiful Christmas shoes are an image from our current sponsor, Bugaboo at Outlawz sketch team

I've used a combination of Copics and ProMarkers to colour them with and some black polychromos pencil for extra shading.

Here's our sketch for today which I thought would be a fantastic one to do a CAS card.

The design paper is from Maja Designs.  I've added some doodles just like the sketch and used some black self adhesive gems at the corners.

I've added a sentiment to it which is made using a Spellbinders die with a little black heart gem.

We've love to see you over at Outlawz

Andrea x

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

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas

Crafty Friends - Christmas

The Pencil Case - H = Heartfelt

Allsorts - Clean and Simple

Winter Wonderland - Holly & Ivy

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

Crafters Cafe - Use Die Cuts and Punches

Without Words - Feeling Festive

Floating away

This image has a title which make you thing of anniversaries or Valentines - it's called Love is In The Air from All Dressed Up.  I chose it because I though it would make quite a good leaving card.  I've been using quite a few with suitcases on but am now starting to run out of ideas.

So if anyone can give me some more inspiration for leaving cards let me know - or tell people at my work to stop leaving LOL!! 

The image has been coloured with ProMakers and I've sketch some clouds into the background.  I've cut the image out, distressed the edges then mounted it onto some plain white card stock.

The design papers are from Lili of the Valley.

As this card is going to be passed round work I've kept it fairly free of embellishments just adding some blue self adhesive gems.

The new job sentiment is coloured with ProMarkers and is from a Lili of the Valley art pad.

Right people at work stop leaving - LOL!!

Andrea x

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

Petal Lu - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Scrapping4Fun - Anything Goes + Digi

Art by Miran - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Crafting by Design - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Just a day at the beach

Not quite the holiday she's expecting I would say - LOL!!

This image is from Saturated Canary called Beach and has been coloured with ProMarkers.  I decided to do one in non-traditional colours for a change and make it really girly :D

The image has been cut out and the edges distressed.  I've them added some embossing enamel to make it look like it's snowing.  I've then mounted it onto some plain white card stock.

Design paper are from Maja Desings and Lili of the Valley in colours to match the image.

Added to this are some glitter letters to make up the snow sentiment and a couple of glitter stick on snow flakes.  Some pink gems, a snowman dress it up button, some white pom poms for the snowballs, grey Copic for the motion of the in air snowball and some snow tex.  So what actually looks like quite a simple card has a lot of bits to it,

Hope this kind of weather stays away - don't fancy fighting with snow anytime soon!

Andrea x

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

Digi Choosday - Winter Birthdays

Crafting for All Seasons - Brrr.. It's Cold Outside

Get Creative - Holidays

Ikes World - Ice and Snow

Paradise of Stamps - Snow

I Love ProMarkers- Winter

Crafty Catz - Let It Snow

Sweet Stampin - Snow Time