Sketch Saturday/Cute Card Tuesday

What a busy weekend! We're a bit partied out as we went to my neices 2nd birthday party yesterday and a christening today. I did a bit of colouring whilst I was staying with my parents on Friday night and this image was one of them. Winter Mimi is one of Janets new designs at Pink Gem Designs and she is so sweet and lovely to colour. I've used Papermania DP and cut my snowflakes with a Sissix die.

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A new challenge

I wanted to make a card for one of the girls at Thomas's nursery who is leaving on Friday. I thought my Sarah Kay stamp would be perfect so I've made a card for this weeks Stamp with Stampavie challenge which was a lovely sketch. I've coloured the image with Prisma pencils and used pink chalk to shade the background. I like the subtlety of chalk which I can't seem to achieve with distress inks - need to find some good distress ink tutorials I think! The DP is from My Minds Eye and I've added a satin bow and Prima flowers.

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A funky card!

This card is for two challenges; Papertake Weekly (snowflakes) and Saturday Sketchers. I bought the white embossed snowflake paper from the Craft Barn last winter but this is the first time I've used it. All the other papers are DCWV. I've coloured my Spiral Whisper funky snowgirl with Prisma pencils and added a bit of stickles for some bling. My snowflake embellishment is a Sissix die with an X-cut flake punched from glitter card on top.

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Magnolia vs. Stampavie

This is my first entry for the new combined challenge blog. The card didn't turn out as well as I had hoped though - I'm not sure what it is but it just doesn't seem very 'balanced'. I coloured Lily & Milo with water colours for a change and the DP is Sandylion. I couldn't find anything to make a scalloped edge that looked right for the image so I had to leave it off!

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Friday Sketchers

The sketch for this weeks Friday Sketchers was a challenging one for me! I struggle when there are lots of layers and it takes me ages to choose the papers and card. I don't have a natural eye for putting different patterns together so sometimes I think the card can look a bit messy. I'm pretty pleased with this one though! I've coloured Tilda with my Prisma pencils and I was a bit more sparing with the colour this time to try and get a better depth of shading. All the papers are Basic Grey Euphoria which does make it easier to use them together and I inked some of the edges with burgandy versacolor. The rest of the 'ingredients': Large brad - Basic Grey, small brads - Lasting Impressions, Prima flowers, Quickutz photo corner.

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Papertake Challenge/A Spoon Full of Sugar

It's my neice's birthday at the weekend so this weeks Spoon Full of Sugar challenge - to make a card for a child - is just perfect! I love using pink and brown together and I've used the sketch for this weeks Papertake Challenge. Milly looks so cute in her pink coat and holding her pink balloon! All the cardstock is bazzil and the paper is Basic Grey. The balloon is a Quickutz die and I punched a hole just under her hand to thread the string through.

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Couldn't stay away!

Well my craft room is still a mess and my bedroom hasn't seen the paint brush yet so I had to sit amongst the chaos to make this card! I've used this weeks Friday Sketchers layout to make another Christmas card. The image is Little Claire Designs and I've used Prisma pencils to colour it. I've put some diamond Stickles on the the umbrella, snowflakes and elephant to add a bit of sparkle. The background is a piece of lilac metallic card which I stamped using Staz on and then embossed with a sparkly powder. The paper is from the DCWV Christmas Stack which I edged with Amethyst Versa color ink and the snowflakes are Sissix and Xcut.

Apologies for the dark picture but its a miserable day in Kent today. But I'm off to a Christmas Craft Fair this afternoon so that should brighten my day!

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