What to do...

... if you don't have a patterned paper to match!

Hello!  It's Monday again! I know I seem to say that so often but I really don't know where the time disappears to.  It's been a busy weekend among crafty friends.. and lots of quality family time. The weather here has been really quite good so we've been enjoying outside time!   The garden is mostly done.. lots of flowers planted. New furniture arrived so we now have a lovely relaxing space to compliment the BBQ space! (photo's to follow when the flowers come out!)

Had a lovely lunch out today and a little bit of work but now it's time to relax.  And what better to relax with than some colouring!   Here's an All Dressed Up digi coloured with Copics and Polychromos.  I probably do have paper that would match (in the never ending stash!) but I thought this was a perfect opportunity to play with my watercolours. Nothing fancy.  I also used Stampendous Chunky White Embossing Enamel and Aged Silver Embossing Enamel to add so texture.

 

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

Artistic Impressions (#157)

Crafting From the Heart (#113)

Craft Your Passion (#313)

Get Creative (#39)

Incy Wincy (Touchy Feely)

Love to Scrap (#78)

Our Crafty Corner (#9)

Glitter N Sparkle (#189)

Robyns Fetish (Pastel Colours)

Hiding In My Craft Room (#251)

Scrappers Delights

A Beautiful Mess (#2)

Brown Sugar (#199)

Crafty Catz (#325)

Creative Fingers (#109)

PDE Linky Party (#124)

Jades Sparkling Butterflies (#19)

Crafty Girls Creations (#19)

Crafting With An Attitude (#15)

 

 

 

So pretty

Hello! and welcome to the start of a new week!

It's a cold, wet Monday here.  I've been taking some time out today to colour this lovely image from All Dressed Up.  She's a joy to colour!

I'm going to enter her in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion (#298)

Not Just Cards (#29)

Doodle Pantry (#14)

Just Keep On Creating

&

All Dressed Up!

Birthday Girl

Yay! Made it to Friday!!

What a day it's been here.. we're enduring storm Gertrude at the moment - although it seems to be calming down a bit compared to this morning.  I think the forecast for the weekend is cold, wind and snow.  So a chill out in the craft room may be on the cards!

I've been playing with Abi Ballerina from All Dressed Up.  And I've broken with tradition (for me). Usually I colour an image using the same medium for every part of it, but today I have used Copics and Promarkers for the hair and skin, and Prismacolor pencils for the dress.  Why it never occurred to me to do this before I have no idea!! I now need to work on a change in hair colour as I see to use the same for every image I colour.  It looks grey in this pic but in real life it's warm browns (from Copic).

Anyway, I hope you like it!

I'm going to enter this card in;

Crafty Catz (#309 Kids)

Simply Papercraft (22)

PDE Linky Party (#108)

Party Frock

Hi! What a miserable day today. Windy and very wet. 

I've distracted myself by making this card with another very lovely image from All Dressed Up.  This lovely digi is called "Party Frock". 

I'm having a break from my usual colour schemes and following a colour challenge over at Sketchy Colors  (Challenge #264 Blue, Green and White).

I'm also going to enter this card in the following challenges. The links are below so be sure to pop on over and take part or see all the entries from an incredibly talent bunch of people!

All Dressed Up (#47)

Creative Card Crew (#105)

Through the Craft Room Door

Hippie Chick

Hello! I've discovered some gorgeous new digi stamps!  All Dressed Up..  this is my first purchase, she's called Hippie Chick and I just love her!  She is so much fun to colour and the artwork is so delicate.  I've teamed her up with some vellum butterflies (a WPlus9 die).

I don't think those butterflies would last too long here in central Scotland today.  Whilst it's quite mild for the time of year it's really windy!  Seems we are starting to feel the effects of the low pressure coming from the snow storms that are affecting the east coast of the States.  Although we're not forecasting snow here.. just wind and rain.

Perfect weather to stay cozy in the house, and a great excuse to indulge in some real comfort food as it's Burns Day.. Haggis, Neeps and Tatties, followed by a wee dram.  Yum!

I'm going to enter this card in;

All Dressed Up

Stamping Sensations (Anything Goes With a Die)

CCC Digi Creations (Use Die Cuts)