24 hours of scrambling.....

Over the weekend the Hero Arts Flickr group held a series of 90 minutes scrambles starting from 6.30 CDT Friday in the States~ which converted to 1.30pm on Saturday here in Auckland.  I was supposed to be decluttering the craft room... but got a bit side tracked... So I managed to make a few cards...

Part 1 from Hannah was to use Green



Part 2 from Judy was Christmas Thanks



Part 3 from Rachelle was a Get Well card with some twists...Create it for a child, incorporate a button, or/and include at least 3 textures.  I went for a button



Part 4 from Marcy was to use a punch or die cut edging but only on the edge of the card.

Part 5 from Cecilia was glitterly and sparkly but NO gold or silver.

that took me up till after 10.30pm by which time I was exhausted but had 5 cards done and the desk in room was all tidied up.   So this morning I missed a few scrambles as I slept in... till almost 9.00am  ~ so managed part 11.  This was Barb's challenge to use 3 different patterned papers.  I actually managed two cards!  and was half an hour late starting....

For more details feel free to visit my Flickr photostream here

Missed the final scramble as we went out Christmas shopping.... got quite a bit done.

Thanks for visiting.

Dawn

A pink and girly Christmas.....

that's what Michelle at work wanted in a special Christmas card for her daughter.  So I went straight to my favourite digital site to find the perfect image... yes another Mo's Digital Pencil image... and I found exactly what I wanted here.



I printed out Christmas Fairy Holly and coloured her with Copics in pink colours.  I added some Sakura Gel Pen to the bells on her dress and the snow globe.  I fussy cut the image.  I searched through my piles of paper to find some pink patterned paper and added to some really bright pink card ( looks a bit red here in my photo) I also cut a eyelet circle from the same card.  I cut a white circle and embossed with a snowflake folder.  I added some of the Sakura pen to some of the snowflakes.   I added a sentiment from Kaisercraft.   I added some white faux stitching around the pink circle.   When I took it into work this morning... Michelle was over the moon... she just loved it.  It's such a joy when you make something and the person is enthralled with it.   I admit I was very happy with the results of this one too.

Are you going to take in the 24 hr Scramble over at Hero Arts Flickr group this weekend?  There is going to a be a 90 mins scramble every two hours starting 6.30pm CDT Friday  ( that's 1.30pm Saturday afternoon for me)  so there'll be a time to suit everyone!  I'm hoping to do a few over the afternoon, evening and on Sunday morning.  Should be great fun.

Dawn

Fussy Cutting....

I did this with one of the images I coloured a few weeks ago.



This is a Mo's Digital Pencil image called "Little Elf Mim"  available as a digital image at Mo's  and in rubber at Penny Black.  I have the digital image and over the long weekend a few weeks back, I coloured it with some Copics and then did the fussy cutting.. slowly and carefully!  I ran a dark grey Copic around the edge to hid any white bits that I missed.  I added the PP to the cream card stock, after I had added some gold pen edging.  The lovely red PP oval was cut with a Spellbinders Floral Oval die.  I stamped the sentiment directly onto the oval before adding Mim.

I took some of my cards to work and this one was one of the first to go!  So I've started colouring a few more Mim's to make it again.  I managed to sell 16 cards!  I must admit I sell them cheaply... for way less than it actually costs to make them! but as I enjoy making them, selling at any price is a bonus.

I've got another Mo's image to colour up tonight, as I got a order from one of the woman at work for a "girly" Christmas card for her 3 year old and I found the perfect image over at Mo's.

Thanks for popping by today..  I really appreciate all your lovely comments. 

Dawn

One image, three cards......

On Saturday at stamp group, I coloured.  And coloured and coloured..... I had printed off Mo's "Shall I play for you"  and I coloured it and made 3 different cards.

My first one

I coloured this in with Copics and fussy cut it.  I did a similar design to an earlier card I made.   I cut some PP with a Wonky Rectangle die.  I edged this piece with a gold pen.  The sentiment is from Hot of the Press, embossed with gold powder.  Not very happy as the detail didn't come out so sharp as I'd have liked.

My second one

Again coloured with Copics and fussy cut.  The card base is already pre printed with the die edging.  I added some PP, a Spellbinders die cut oval and the little preprinted panel from a Hot of the Press paper pack

and finally



This one was coloured with Distress inks.  The card I used bobbled a bit, but it gave a bit of texture to the painting.   The sentiment is from Kaisercraft.  The holly die is from Cheery Lynn and the flowers are from Rosie's Studio.

So three different looks with one image, so different colouring mediums and different colour schemes.

Hope this gave you some inspiration.  I'm really enjoying using these beautiful digital images from Mo's Digital Pencil .  You can visit her Dream Team and see some incredible inspiration


Dawn

Vintage Tags

Today it's the start of a new challenge over at Mygrafico.  We will be posting every two weeks and the challenge this time is "Anything Goes"   The team got to choose what sets they want to work with over the next few challenges.  I chose a great Vintage Tag set by Lindsay's Stamping Stuff

I decided to make a square card.  

I used a variety of PP from a Christmas pack by My Mind's Eye.  I printed out the label and added a touch of colour with some Copics.  The beautiful green ribbon was in one of the prizes I won recently.  It really finished the card off together with the gorgeous enamel dots. 

Do pop over to the blog and see what all the other's came up with the wonderful sets they worked with.  I've actually purchased some of the other sets too as they are rather cute.  

Tomorrow is my son's birthday.  He's going to be 24.  I can't believe where the time has gone.  I've baked a cake for him and I'm going to embarrass him by taking it to his work in the morning!     

Hope you all have a super week.  

Dawn