Back on track

I have had a chance to have a really good browse round everyone's blogs today and update my self on the crafty scene, and i must say i am astounded by the quality, and beautiful cards and paper projects i have found, i hope i find everyone in good health and are enjoying our typically British weather four seasons in one day, so i thought i would take the opportunity to preview what i have been up to, although the final show for the art and design course is only weeks away and i should be working on my final essay(2000 words) and my final projects, i miss my paper crafts and all the new goodies that are being released this month.

The stamp is boho chic by simply sassy which is available at Funky kits, coloured with my promarkers satin ivory and vanilla for the skin tone, and pear and olive green for the trousers and pastel pink and cerise for her top, i have not really looked for any challenges that this fits in to as i have so much more cards to show and hope these will fit in to a catergory,  hope you like it.

Simply convenient

Having started my design course and investing in a new sketch wallet and other drawing goodies, I thought I would doll up my case and matching tote with my favourite of all stamps Simply sassy pillow talk I have used her a lot even though I also purchased delicious and love a latte and sugar pip, this one was the one I chose to jazz up my bag.

The case and tote are made of a paintable canvas which I primed with artists gouache and then a layer of titanium white acrylic paint but not before masking off the area I wanted to stamp in I then stamped my image with Stazon black and water coloured with whispers brush markers and sealed with crafters companions clear spray varnish I must admit I went a bit crazy with varnish and it made the stazon bleed a bit but not too noticeable unless you look closely, I'm please with the result as it is the first time I have tried stamping on canvas, I finished off my edges with cosmic shimmer glitter glue, I have since die cut some flowers out of felt and attached these with eyelets.

And as usual a close up for you x

Thanks for looking see you soon x

Colour match challenge

Well I knew this one was not going to be easy but I am going to give it my best shot, the simply sassy design team this week is lead by Elaine and she has asked us to recreate the colours in this image, but not using the same image, MMMM I thought, so here’s Elaine’s image

Beautiful colouring and I'm probably thinking she has used copic’s to colour her image so no matter what I think I will not be able to get my shades as close as I would like and hence the challenge

And here’s mine

I myself have used my pro-markers  along with my prismas to try and recreate at least the same blended effects, you can get a better close up by clicking the image if you like, hope you like it, well done Elaine your blending is beautiful.

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Pretty in pink

Its been such a busy week for me August is full of birthdays, and I also have a few in September, so I have kind of kept my head down crafting, I hope I get chance to show you a few later on in the week but for now, this post is mainly for the Make it colourful challenge this week where the theme is Pink , so here is my entry, which I thoroughly enjoyed doing, oh and while I'm here well done to the winners of last weeks challenge where the theme was use dark skin tones, all I can say is I should have consulted my colour guide for my pro-markers, so here is my entry for this week

And a close up of the coloured image

Colours used were, Baby pink, Putty, Cerise, Pastel Pink, Sun kissed Pink, Antique Pink, Rose pink, Carnation.

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Crafting for all Seasons Dt Call

I'm writing this post for the Dt call at Crafting for all seasons, I love my craft, and work with a lot of mediums not just card ink and paper. Crafting for all seasons is  an excellent blog that hosts some exciting challenges use the link above and head over and have a look they have some wonderful design team members, who also have some very inspirational blogs which I find has helped me try new things all the time, they also have some wonderful sponsors, some of which I already use and I am  very familiar with, and I hope this reflects in the projects I am posting for the call hope you like them.

Here’s the first, stamp is Simply sassy, papers are paper mania, die cuts are Marianne creatable, ribbon is satin seam binding from Stampin up, charm from my stash.

This is Nellie Snellen Stamp, using a spot light teqnique, coloured with prismas, as a one layer card, also including some of my own sketching.

My third card is a twisted easel, with TGF miss Anya, she has been coloured with pro-markers, and mounted on to a punched layer with my own embellishment's from my stash

 

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And then there were three…….

Well am I cutting it fine, the submissions for Sugar Nellie Simply sassy GDT spot closes in 20 minutes and, me as always do not like to be late for the party. Here for my final project I have a simple door hanger it will probably end up on my daughters door by this time tomorrow, but as I was short of time CAS again, using Boho Chic, I used pro-markers to colour her in, colours were Lavender, Lilac, Tan, Vanilla, Ivory, Cool greys 1,3,5.

And a close up,

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Simply beautiful

I cant believe my luck when I was visiting my favourite blogs that i should stumble across a DT call for Sugar nellies Simply sassy blog oh my word I nearly jumped out of my chair, a chance to join my favourite designers, with such awesome stamps, so I counted my first card pillow talk as my first entry and here’s my second showing a completely different style, I have left it CAS, and just used pearls and ribbon for this card I have also used for my sentiment film strip greetings and die from whimsy stamps which fitted perfect as she is sassy and fabulous,

And as always a close up for you

 

Pro-markers used  Pumpkin, Bright Orange, Peach, Soft Peach, Tan, Sandstone, Ivory, Vanilla, Prisma’s  cardinal red.

 

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by

Simply Sassy

Artist and creator of  Simply Sassy stamps Krista  has totally got me hooked, her artwork and images are so different and to cool for school that I had to get my hands on a couple to have a play and play I did, I had so much fun, colouring these as they are so expression able,  and they take on their own personality that each one you could actually fit them to some one you know. I created this card using Pillow talk, link there for you, and I absolutely loved it now I never normally do this but I could not wait to colour the image and I started with the theme reds and hot pinks which really worked well, I used pro-markers crimson, lipstick red, hot pink, and cardinal red, skin tones I stuck to vanilla, saffron and ivory and for her hair I used cool greys 1,3,5 and black and here's what I came up with

And another view,

And a close up for you,

I would like to enter this in to the following challenges

Craft you Passion: Anything goes #69

Make it Monday: Anything goes #48

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