Fuzzy Love

Today I'm joining the DT ladies at SheepSki Design with their Facebook inspiration.  The optional theme is THAT LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE, the challenge is open until 19 February.

I've used Fuzzy, you can find him here in my shop where you can get 10% off all my images by quoting SKIANDREA10, he's been coloured with Copics and then I've fussy cut him :)

The background behind is a section of textured card which has been distressed with some Walnut Stain ink from Tim Holtz, I've also scattered a little embossing enamel.

The design paper is from First Edition and I've finished the card off with a single red heart and a wooden LOVE sentiment which I got in the wedding section from Hobby Craft.

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

Andrea x

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

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

Pearly Sparkles - Anything Goes

Get Creative - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Pile It On - Land Animals

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge 22

Valentine Bears

I'm honoured today to be a guest designer for Paradise of Stamps.  Their theme for this month is Valentine's Day

What better way to celebrate with one of my new cute images Fuzzy Friends.  I've added a Valentine sentiment at the time of printing so I could make a CAS card to focus on the image.

You can find Fuzzy Friends at my Etsy shop and buy them with 10% off by quoting code SKIANDREA10

The bears have been coloured with Copics.  Keeping it simple they've been mounted on some red card stock appropriate for Valentines.

I've not used any embellishments on this one.  The border was doodled with a biro to finish it off

Andrea x

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

Winter Wonderland - Spring Fever Sunshine, Flowers, Romance

Dream Valley - All About Love

Creative Inspirations - Cute Critters

Di's Digi Design - All About Love

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Simply Made

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Love Love Love

Introducing Fuzzy :D

This is the final week of our favourite sketches at Outlawz Sketch team.  We're sponsored by Through the Craft Room Door this month.  A lucky winner will in a years subscription to the magazine.

This is my final inspiration image.  We didn't have any to work with so I've drawn a few for this challenge which the design team have been using.  This one here is Fuzzy.

Now if you're interested in having him here's your chance.  Everyone who enters the challenge through January (including DT) will be put into a draw and one lucky person will win him. 

The image you can see here is coloured with Copics, has been cut out with a Spellbinders die and distressed with antique linen ink from Tim Holtz.

I've used some red card stock and design papers from Lili of the Valley in lots of layers.  There's also a sentiment from one of their art pads.

The only other thing I've used is some red satin ribbon with a hand tied bow.

Come and join us see if you ca win this lil guy :D

Andrea x

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

Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Creator's Crafts - Anything Goes

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Something New(new digi)

Stamping Sensation - Anything Goes with a Die

Our Crafty Corner - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Ribbon or Lace

Come and Get It - Round Things

Look in the right place and there be freebies :D

When I started drawing images back in January 2016 I never thought I'd be where I am now.  As soon as I opened my shop on Etst Cara swooped in and asked me to be a featured digi artist for Through The Craft Room Door Magazine.

This is all very strange and still doesn't seem real.  I've not a particular style as such (what's new).  I'm still playing around (a few animals, a few cuties, bit of fantasy, girls and some dancers) hmmmm... and still not sure where I'm heading.

A couple of people have mentioned starting a challenge blog and Facebook Group - should I, should I not.  It's all seems a little daunting still to someone who has very little time to do what she's doing now.  As well as working full time I'm already on blog challenge teams!

So back to Through The Craft Room Door.  In the subscribers area in the magazine there are three digis which I've given as freebies, you can see them below.

As there's only me, I've no Design Team the ladies at Through The Craft Room Door kindly helped me out and have made some real stunning creations with my images.  I'm so in awe of what they've produced!

So here's my first bit of inspiration with one of my images.  This is Fuzzy, he was one of my first drawings and is based on my own grizzly :D

I made him into a CAS style card.

The second one I have to share with you is of Flutterby.  I made this mixed media canvas for my mum for Mother's Day.

I ran out of time to make a new creation with my Fuchsias but there's the original drawing on my journal page.  And there's an old card in the Outlawz section on my blog menu.

If you'd like to know what I've used to create the card and canvas with, please pop along and join the lovely ladies at Through The Craft Room Door - it has a list of all my colours and materials.

Oh yeah and if you've got this far without getting bored / falling asleep / or going puh! so what - I might as well tell you there are a couple of Freebies on my Facebook page

Andrea x

Fuzzy

Fuchsias

Flutterby

Hello cutie

This is the last week in the month that I'm sponsoring Outlawz Sketch.  The image I'm using for my inspiration is plain and simply called Bear.  You can find him here in my Etsy shop where you can get 10% off all my images by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout.

I've tried to make him as fuzzy as possible using Copics, adding grass and then used my white gel pen to add the white flowers.  I've hand cut the oval shape and cut the black card framing him with a Spellbinders die.

Here's our sketch for this week.

I've flipped the image round and used a plain square instead of sectioned pieces.  The dots are enamel and gems.  Instead of the centre section I've added a Hello sentiment from Make it Crafty coloured with Copics.

The design papers are from First Edition with a left over off cut of green in my scraps :)

I've also used a little more black card for framing.

The only other extra I've added are a couple of silver dragonfly beads.

Hope you like my inspiration for this week and we see you at the challenge

Andrea x

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

Cardz 4 Guyz - Into the Woods

Di's Digi Design - Creepy or Cute

Scrapy Land - Anything Goes

Sunny Day Crafting - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Pearls and / or Gems

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Shop Launch

The following images are available as black and white digi's to buy in my newly opened Etsy shop SheepSki Designs.

Thank you to everyone who's supported me in this scary new venture over the last couple of months.

Andrea x

Annabell

Fuzzy

Lucky

Fuchsias

Strappy Sandal

Emmy's Breeze

Selene

Amazing recovery

For the people that know of me this was another experiment.  For those of you that don't I constantly experiment trying new things/ideas when I've got time with my DT commitments.  This one nearly went horribly wrong BUT I successfully managed to recover it and I'm actually very happy with the result!

The digi I've used here is Poppies from Make It Crafty.  As I wanted to do it in water colours I took some of my thinner water colour paper and put it through the laser printer.  Well that kind of worked, some of the ink speckled up the card but I knew you wouldn't be able to see it once I'd disguised it with paint.

I tried a new technique on this one and used some masking fluid on the image.  I created a kind of fuzzy background that gave the hint of other poppies - fab that turned out well.

Then ooops - as I rubbed the masking fluid off the toner came off with the masking fluid.  There was only left a vague hint of the beautiful poppy digi left!!

So I took my iPad and looked up photos of poppies for some inspiration.  So then end result may not look exactly like the digi - but it's as near as I could get it.

Keeping the image CAS to showcase my water colouring I just used some back card stock and some black self adhesive gems to finish it off

OK who want to see me make a mess of something else :)

Andrea x

Crafty Cardmarkers and More - No Patterned Papers

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafting for All Seasons - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Fair and Square

Blue

I've got a little extra DT inspiration from Oddball Art for you today.  This creepy cute bug is image 283 - you can buy him and other Oddball images with 10% off by using my code DTANDREA10 :D

I wasn't sure what to do with him at first.  After colouring him blue he sat in my file for a couple weeks until I had a brainwave to make him into a CAS card.

He's been coloured with ProMarkers then fussy cut to mount onto the card.

The sentiment was printed onto some plain card stock.  I've used a blue ProMarkers and a blender for the fuzzy blue look around the image.

There one piece of plain design paper from Lili of the Valley and I've used a couple of blue sequins and some blue and clear gems to finish the card off.

Hope you love my buggy card :D

Andrea x

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

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Paper Creator - Anything Goes

Creative Ladybirds - Anything Goes

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Things with Wings

Crafty Creations - Monochormatic

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

I Love ProMarkers - Anything Goes 

Beary Merry Christmas

It time for our next Christmas challenge at Outlawz (check it out here).  You can make anything you like as long as its Christmassy :)

I've used an image from OddBall Art by Lizzy Love.  I'm not sure Lizzy has a shop anymore sadly.

I've coloured the image with Copics trying to make the bear look soft and fuzzy.

I've used some design paper from my stash to match the reds of the hat, heart and pencil.  Nothing else for this one, not even a sentiment to add :)

Thanks for popping by, hopefully see you at the challenge

Andrea x

One of my first

For the month of January at Outlawz sketch team we're being sponsored by Through The Craft Room Door - a place I'm familiar with being a previous design team member :D

The only problem we had was we've no sponsors images to use.  So I decided to see if I could create some.  I'm happy to say I managed it and the design team will be using some of them throughout January - woo hoo!

You may not have seen this one before unless you've seen my sketch page on my blog or are a friend on Facebook.  A while ago I painted some fuchsias on a journal page.  So this was one of the ones I tried to replicate in digital format.  It's not quite the same but I'm happy with how it came out.

I've coloured the image with ProMarkers and cut it out with a Spellbinders die.  I then cut some purple design paper with another die,

The papers are all from Lili of the Valley and the sentiment (also coloured with ProMarker) is from one of their art pads.  

The ribbons were from my stash and I can't even remember where I for them from.  Finally the purple gems are from Scarp Berry's.

We'd love to see you over at the Outlawz challenge where one luck winner will get Fuzzy my bear image

Andrea x

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

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Something Old Something New

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Come and Get It - Something New

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

The Crafters Cafe - Square Cards

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

Another World

This tiny little Fairy Cottage is from another world, one of my imagination.  The image is called Buttercup Cottage, you can find it here in the SheepSki Designs shop on Etsy.  Where, if you quote SKIANDREA10 at checkout you can get 10% off all images in the shop.

I've created this for the CHALLENGE inspiration in the SheepSki Designs Facebook Group, always anything goes with one of our images with an optional twist of FLOWER POWER this time.

I've created a single layer card colouring the image with Copics.  The background a fuzzy green and yellow to match the buttercups.

There's two colours of embossing enamel sprinkled around for sparkle and fairy magic.  The sentiment is made up from Tim Holtz Stickers.

Thanks for popping by for a look today, we hope to see you in the Facebook Challenge.

Andrea x

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

Cardz 4 Galz - Backgrounds

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Flowers

Passion for Markers - Add a Sentiment

Double D - Flowers

Unicorn Challenge - Flowers

Get Creative - Flower Frenzy

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes optional Say It with Flowers

CRAFT - Anything Goes

Worldwide Crafters and Colourists Challenge 5

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes

 

Sleep Tight Little One

This is the latest image I used for my guessing game in my SheepSki Designs Facebook Group to win the image.  It's called Sleep Tight and features Fuzzy :D

You can find Sleep Tight in my Etsy Shop and get it with 10% off by quoting code SKIANDREA10.

I've used Copics, ProMarkers and polychromos pencils to colour the image.  

I wanted to keep the image as the main focus so have made a CAS card.

The sentiment was done at the time of printing.  It's mounted onto some Kraft card and I've used a biro to edge the image with.

Hope you like my inspiration with my new image

Andrea x

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

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - Clean and Simple

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Crafty Addicts - Add a Sentiment

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes

Art by Miran - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Hoppy Birthday

This new image Sebastian was named by Frances Casados in my latest Facebook Game.  You can now find Sebastian in my shop on Etsy and did you know if you quote code SKIANDREA10 you can get 10% off my images :)

This image was coloured with Copics, polychromos pencils and white gel pen.  As I was colouring it I managed to get some ink on the background so I decided to expand the background to make it look like long fuzzy grass - ooops :D  I did this using Chameleon pens and polychromos pencils.  I actually quite like how it turned out.

Creating a simple CAS card, I've used some Kraft to mount the image onto.  Borders have been doodles with a biro.  the sentiment was created at the time of printing.  My only embellishment are a few olive green gems

Hope you like my inspiration for this new image.

Don't forget to check out my DT call for my Facebook Group and DT call for my new SheepSki Designs Challenge bog

Andrea x

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

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

A mermaids tail

For the month of January at Outlawz we've picked our favourite sketches from last year to be used as our sketches for this month.  This one was picked by Pat.

So I then had to decide what image to use with it.  As I've just got into digital sketching I decided to see if I could draw something.  This is what I came up with - she's called Selene (after the Greek Goddess of the Moon).  The hardest part was trying to make the tail look like it was connected to the body underwater - still not sure if I've achieved it 100% - LOL!!

I've coloured Selene with ProMarkers and Copics, added a little black polychromos pencil and biro to her hair and some DecoArt glitter (which I've had forever) to her tail so make it look like she's got shiny scales.

Hopefully I've got enough shading in there to give the water some depth as though part of her tail is under water.

The image and design paper (from Lili of the Valley) have been distressed .

I've added in some sections of pearlised beading to follow the sketch and some flower sprays.

We'd love to see you over at the challenge.  Everyone who enters will be included in an extra random draw to win my Fuzzy Bear image :D

Andrea x

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

Crafty Time - Make It Sparkle

Sparkle n Sprinkle - Anything Goes

Crafter's Cafe - Square Cards

Crafty Friends - To Use Something New (new digi)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

That's Craft Place - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Something Old Something New (DecoArt Glitter/New Digi)

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Release the Glitter

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

New Release Images

Had a bit of time so I was able to create a batch of images to release all are Valentines and Fantasy Themed

You can find them in my Esty shop click here - I also have a discount code you can use SKIANDREA10 to get you 10% off

Hope you like them x

Floral Heart

Valentine

Fuzzy Friends

Faye

Fantasy Romance

Emmy's Breeze

Today is the third challenge of the new year at Outlawz Sketch team.  We've got Cara sponsoring us and offering the winner a subscription to Through The Craft Room Door magazine.

We had no images to use for this month and could pick what we wanted to use, so I decided to see if I could draw some.

This image here is called Emmy's Breeze.  I created this digital drawing just for this sketch.  I wanted her hair blowing in the breeze with a cascade of flowers floating through the air.

I've coloured the image with Copics, hand cut it so I could leave some strand of hair outside the oval shape and distressed the edges with antique linen ink from Tim Holtz.

For the month of January our design team also got to pick out favourite sketches from last year.  This is the one I picked.

As you can see I've twisted the flower embellishment around and left everything else as the sketch.

The design paper is from Wild Rose Studio, I've used some pink satin ribbon from my stash, some tiny pink and brown flowers to compliment the image from Hobby Craft and two enamel flowers from Diamante Crafts which I seem to have had in my stash forever.

In addition to the fantastic prize from Cara I'm also offering my Fuzzy Bear image as a prize for the January Sketch challenges, everyone who enters will be put into the draw at the end of the month.  He's not for sale yet so if you want a chance to win him you know what to do :D

Andrea x

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

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Something New

Live and Love Crafts - Something New

Inky Chicks - Anything Goes

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Something Old Something New (Enamel Flowers, new digi)

The Ribbon Girl - Any Image

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes / Twist of Elegant

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes