Natalie and Amy's Challenge

Hello I hope you are all well. I have been busy with a few orders for christmas bits and pieces. I hope that you are all warm and dry this weather is really harsh this year.
I am sharing with you a card I made for the latest monthly challenge at Natalie and Amy's this week. Our theme is "Winter Wishes". So any card with a wintery or christmas feel will be perfect for the challenge.

The papers I used are First Edition - Stocking filler papers, I used a gorgeous  CC Designs Sugar Plum Angel Emma Stamp set .

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Delicious Doodles Challenge time!

Hello everyone it is so cold this week I am hoping the rain holds off as my sister is getting married tomorrow and we have to drive a long way to get there. I have been busy preparing for Christmas. I am making some felt stockings for several friends, a special advent calendar for the children and I am going to make a reef and some bunting. I am also trying to prepare for a school winter fayre and fit my own christmas cards in too!!

I am showing you my DT card for Delicious Doodles challenge this week. The theme "Something that flies" I chose to use three Delicious Doodle images for this card. Holly Fairy, Christmas Holly border and the Snowflake collection. You can find all the images in the store.

I use Craft Artist Professional to create my own backing paper using the Snowflake collection from Delicious Doodles. I then combined the Holly Fairy image and the Christmas Holly border to create one image. I coloured with alcohol pens and added some holly embellishments from My Paper Flower expert. I then added a sentiment.

I vintaged up my background on the fairy image with crackle accents which i added to the wings too.

Challenges I would like to enter are: 

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Girls only (all girlies love a fairy)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Lola with Pan Pastelled DP and Embellie

Hello I am hoping you are all well and enjoying your Monday. Today I have completed my second Digital stamp this one took ages to do as there are lots of lines but it was fun and I am just so happy to have started doing this. She is called Lola she is quite serene great for teenage girls I think xxx

Card Recipe

Alchol Pens - Spectrum Noirs

Image - LOLA

Card - DL card blanks

Design Papers - Paper Mania Bexley Black 

Pan Pastels

Iridicent spray, sentiment and card candy from stash

I had such fun making this card. I firstly made my design paper and floral embellishments. I took a design from the Papermania Bexley Black papers and gently rubbed on Permanent red shade pan pastel for my Design paper ( I fixed with a glitter iridescent spray) and Turquoise shade pan pastel for my flowers.

I coloured my image with Spectrum Noirs

Spectrum Noir Recipe

Skin -FS1,FS5, FS9

Cheeks - CR5

Hair - GB7, GB9, GB11

Clothes - GT1,GT2, GT3

            PL3,DR2,DR6

I then layered onto cardstock and embellished.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Pan Pastels - Make an embellishment (flowers made with DP tinted with Pan Pastel)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Colouring Tutorial - Creating Dinosaur Skin

Hi well finally I have taken  the plunge of drawring my own designs and turning them into digital stamps and kits. I have previously drawn images digitally but I was not happy with the results. So from now on I will be drawring them by hand and then digitally altering them.

I am just doing a tutorial on how to create Dinosaur skin using the very cute newest release at Twit Whoo Designs. He is called Santasaurus. He is inspired by my son who loves dinosaurs.

You could use this technique on all reptiles.

Tutorial Recipe

Image - Santasaurus 

Spectrum Noirs - DG1,LG1,LY2,LG3,DG1,|TN1

Crackle Accents

Tutorial

1) Colour in the image Santasaurus with LG1 in small circular motions all over to give a base for the rest of the colours.

2)Now using the chisel end of your LY2 Spectrum Noir place random strokes all over the top 2 thirds of the image.

3) Now take the TN1 and do the same as step 2 but try to put the marks in diffent places and in some places overlap the ones that you have already placed down.

4) Repeat step 3 with LG3 Spectrum Noir Can you see the layers building up in the photo above

 5) Repeat Step 3 with DG1.

 6) Add a layer of Crackle glaze over all the areas where you have coloured in depending on how thick your layer is it should take 1-2 hours to dry and it creates the effect of reptile skin. You could use in over grey elephant skin for a similar textural effect.

 7) This is an example of the finished technique.

8) Here is another example. 

I hope you like what I have done and please leave a comment if you use the technique so I can visit you and see what you have done.

The card I made with the image is a DL card. The papers and Holly are from Paper Flower Expert CD rom (My Craft Studio). The ribbon is from Natalie and Amy's. The sentiments are from Twit Whoo Designs. The punch is Martha Stewart and the twine and buttons are from my stash.

Challenges I am entering with this card are

Christmas Stampin All Year round - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - One for the Boys

ABC Christmas Challenge - Vibrant Colours

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Remembrance

Good Morning hope you are all warm and cosy and any of you at the NEC are having a great time. I am just stopping in to share with you a card made for our new Delicious Doodles Challenge. We have a theme of Remembrance this week and the DT have made some gorgeous creations to share with you so please pop over and take a look.

Card Recipe

Images - Remembrance and Sniffing Daisies  from Delicious Doodles

Alcohol pens - Spectrum Noirs

Cardstock - stash
Punch - Martha Stewart
Ribbon - stash
Stickles

I combined the two images using my graphics program. I cut away the girl from sniffing daisies and created a poppy field. I really love the image Remembrance and it is perfect for all those In memory cards that it is sometimes hard to find an image for.

I hope you can join in the challenge we would love to see what you create.

Challenges I am entering are:

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Feeling Blue
Dutch Dare Challenge - Favourite things (Combining and altering images on graphics program, spectrum noirs and poppies)
Simon Says Stamp - Thinking of You or Sympathy

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Autumn Wedding

Hi everyone hope you are all keeping well in this very cold weather. I have been busy and one of the things I have been doing is making this card for my sisters wedding which is in a couple of weeks.

Card Recipe

Images - Whiff of Joy

Sentiment - Swalk Congratulations stamp set Crafters Companion

Card stock - white card and Coredinations (Crafters Companion)

Roses - stash

Leaves - From Paper Flower Expert CD rom

Glossy  Accents Crackle glaze 

Alcohol Pens

Stardust Stickles

I kept it very simple as I wanted the images to take centre stage.

Challenges I am entering are as follows:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge -  Favourite Colour Combo

Tuesday Throwdown - Autumn leaves

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Poppy and Remembrance

Hello there I am sharing two of my favourite Delicious Doodles images in this card. I joined them in my graphics package the girl is the gorgeous Poppy and the cross is the Magnificient Remembrance.

Card Recipe

6"  by 6" Cream card blank

Black card stock

Spectrum Noirs

Images as above Poppy and Remembrance - Delicious Doodles

Stickles

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale