A penny black cutie

Can you believe I managed to get two cards done and posted within 2 days?? It's been sooo long since that happened.

I've been playing some more with my new derwent coloursoft pencils, this time I used one of my old Penny Black stamps (Bee happy). I just cannot tell you how much I love these pencils and I now I want to get ALL of them.

I've used the sketch from "The sweet stop" challenge blog, but flipped it.
Papers are from Stampin up. I did some machine stitching with my janome mini on this card.

Since I didn't have any rust colored ribbon, I ended up running a piece of card stock through my paper crimper (which I haven't used for soooo long) to get a little bit of texture. Flowers and scallop border were done using Martha stewart punches, the oval is done with a SU punch. I've added tiny sticky pearls to the flower centers and some stickles glitter to the bee's wings and flower centers on the Designer Paper.

My card also fits these challenges:

• All sorts (theme summer days)
• Penny Black @ All sorts (theme: a burst of summer)
• Fussy and Fancy (theme: stitches, scallops and sparkles)
• Speedy the cat (theme: punches)

Thanks so much for visiting me today. Hope you liked the card. I already have another image colored, so hopefully I'll be able to be back with another card very soon!

Have a great day,

A flower for you

This week was my birthday and I treated myself to some new goodies to play with! I just love being able to choose some of my own birthday presents!!

One of the things I got is a new "popcorn the bear" stamp set. So so cute! I also have been wanting to try the Derwent coloursoft pencils ever since I "met" Anne-Marije. Her coloring is just amazing. You have to check it out!

I didn't really need another form of coloring since I own a lot of copics and prismacolor pencils (and watercolor pencils and pastels). These are very similar to prismacolor pencils but I think their lead is a lot softer (IMO) which made it so easy to blend with gamsol. And they are so much easier to work with (for me) than copics. I only got the pack of 24 pencils but will be ordering more of them individually.

So here is my card using Popcorn the bear colored with Derwent coloursoft pencils.

I kept it pretty simple, just used a pretty paper from Bo Bunny (I think), some stickles glitter and a ribbon for embellishing. Card base is Kraft card stock from stampin up.


Thanks so much for visiting me today, hope you liked my card!!

Have a great day,

DTC #67 - A sketch challenge

Happy Tuesday everyone and thanks for visiting my blog today!

Today's challenge over at Digital Tuesday, chosen by the lovely Lora, is a sketch. And what a fun sketch to work with!!

I used an image from Phindy's Place. I just love the cuteness of it.
It's been colored using copics and a white prismacolor pencil for highlights.

Designer Paper is from Stampin Up (retired).
The sentiment is also from a retired stampin up set. I embellished with some paper flowers, flourishes and leaves, sticky pearls and a touch of glitter here and there.

My card also fits a couple other challenges:
Phindy's Place challenge (theme: embossing)
Stamp Something (theme: recipe -1 DP, 1 ribbon, 1 image)
Totally papercrafts (theme: swirls and pearls)

We have a brand new sponsor this week - Bella Studio digital designs. Be sure to check them out, their images are so cute!! And one lucky winner gets to choose 3 digis from them. Hopefully you'll get a chance to play!! All you have to do is make a card using the sketch provided and of course don't forget to use a digi.

If you have some time be sure to also check out the rest of the DT's gorgeous work, some of them using digis from our sponsor!

Amy
Anne-Marije
Anneke
Kristine
Lora
Lorraine
Maria
Michelle
Sandy
Shelly

Have a great day,

DTC #66 - A color combo

Another week has gone by so quickly and here we are again with another fun digital tuesday challenge. Our hostess this week is the lovely Kristine and she has chosen a color combo as our challenge.

RED WHITE and BLUE

You can make anything you like - a card, scrapbook page, altered item, bag etc. It doesn't have to be patriotic. Anything works as long as there is a digi somewhere on your creation. I think these colors work GREAT for masculine cards.

My card uses an image that my husband drew, "at sea", it's available for $2 in my etsy store.

It's been colored using copic markers. Designer Papers are from my stash . I did a little bit of distressing and tearing on this card. The sentiment is from Stampin Up.

Our sponsor this week is My Grafico, they are giving away one of their many fun sets that the winner gets to choose and 30% off an order to one lucky winner. Hope you'll all play for a chance to win!

Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team's gorgeous cards too!

Amy
Anne-Marije
Anneke
Kristine
Lora
Lorraine
Maria
Michelle
Sandy
Shelly

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog this week. Hope you're all doing GREAT!