Love is in the air!

Well no sooner is the new year over and already i'm thinking Valentines!

Over at A Spoon Full of Sugar there theme this week is 'Hearts'

I used a great sketch courtesy of this weeks Inspirational Sketches #48

This is my first crafty make of 2010 and boy did it feel good to get crafting again, sad i know but true! I used a mix of BG papers, Devil Tilda was coloured with my trusty copics, but i removed her wings as i didn't like the colour i used, and i think she looks cool without them. I hand stitched some of the edges, and used a bit of heart sequin waste too. The love word was cute out on my Slice.

♥ HUGZ ♥

Inspirational Sketches DT Call entry {rather late showing}

Well the DT call is long gone and as you can see i never made it onto the team boo hoo :O( but i still thought i'd share the card i used to enter.. i thought i'd blogged it already but just noticed i hadn't so i'm sharing it now!

This was the sketch ..

And this was my interpretation...

I am actually really pleased with the card,

I adore the BG ambrosia pad and the gorjuss image is way cool too.

Thanks for visiting, come back any time x

Club Anya VSN...ICS#16

Well i had a total blast last night.. or should i say this morning.

The Virtual Stamping Night "Luau" begin at 8pm CST!.. {2am GMT just as well i'm a night owl!} over on Paper Craft Planet {like facebook for crafters}

There were 2 challenges and lots of chat... so much i couldn't keep up!

The first challenge was to make a monocromatic card...

As you can see i picked Pink, i embossed the image with clear powder to give a different effect other than my usual black {again this is something i saw and have borrowed from Kim C her blog rocks i tell ya!} I also used some of my free flock {from a mag}.. not really tryed it b4 but think it works well on clothing to give texture and dimension.

I coloured anya with copics and also used a couple of my sakura gel pens.

I used this weeks ICSketch #16 but rotated it 90*

The ickle flowers are all prima and finished with a pink brads and jewelery beads, i love these, they really make the flowers pop.

Basic grey papers also used, along with the new core'dinations whitewash card and a strip of thick pink ribbon {another mag freebie}

I finished using some letter beads for the title.

*****

The second challenge was a to follow a fab sketch

This fab crochet flower was handmade by my boyfriends mum, bless her, i'm currently trying to learn to make them myself!! but having never crocheted b4 its taking a while lol. This card almost made itself as i just grabbed a few bits from my scrap box, i used the flower as the colour inspiration.

The image was partly coloured, so i altered a few places to match her in, again i used copics and a couple of marvy lePlume pens. { I've just found out that i won one of the fab new Anyas }.. how chuffed am i.. looking forward to stamping hula anya when she arrives!

Thank you Team Anya and all the members for a fun party.. look forward to the next!

xx Hugz xx

Double Whammy!

Today i managed to combine 2 challenges for this card

1.Secret Crafter #31 Brads or Eyelets..or both!

2.ICSketches #15

Seeing the shape immediately made me think of a fish tank, who knows why but it did, and as i had just received my new Greeting Farm stamp set "down by the pond" with the most fab fishy i though it would work perfectly.

What do you think?

I used a sheet of K&Co paper in the background to look like wallpaper, Used my Slice to cut the tank shape from some wood grain effect texture paper.

I placed a couple of sheets of blue vellum under the fishy to look like the water, adding eyelets as bubbles. Fishy was stamped with archival black and coloured using my distress re-inkers {working from a pallet and only a tiny drop of each, and some water}

I placed a piece of thick acetate over the whole tank for the glass effect, you can just make it out by the reflection of the flash in the photo, i attached this with some brass coloured big brads.

To finish i wrapped some leaf ribbon round some paper covered wire to be able to bend in place, stamped the greeting and cut it out and placed it on top of the ribbon, as per the sketch.

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I wasn't sure about the card as i was making it but it all came together nicely!

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