Hope your Birthday is Pure Magic

Afternoon all.

Hope you're having a great weekend. Just a quick post from me today. This is my Dad's birthday card and I used a fab image by Mo called Wiz and the background was created using a new stencil from Create a Smile Stamps.

Everything is coloured using promarkers - though I forget to create a list of colours. The background was made by using two colours (I think it was Gold and Apricot) and I just coloured plain white card and blended until I got the colour I wanted. I then using white gel pen to draw around the stencil and used Pumpkin (I think) to colour some areas in darker. I finished off the other spaces with stickles star dust.

Hope you like it. I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge - Anything Goes

Until next time - happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT - Men at Work

Morning all,

Here's to another Friday and another challenge at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme is set by Jac and she wants to see cards with Men at Work as the central theme. We are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe crafts

My card this week uses as fabulous image from Mo's Digital Pencil called The Engineer. I'm not sure it's work as such, more fun but hey! 

The image is just so wonderful that I kept it as the focal point with little embellishment. I coloured the image using promarkers in Ivory, Blush, Poppy, Red, Maroon, Slate, Moss, Pear Green, Apple Green, Cinnamon, Pale Blue and Sky Blue. I double mounted on silver and then black and finished with blue pips. 

So there you go, clean and simple and I hope you like it. Until next time though, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Different Hair Colour

Morning all, 

Wow! it's been an insane few weeks I can tell you. Conferences, exhibitions (and water coming through the ceiling of the exhibition space - stress!), formal dinners at work and a few too many tears shed thanks to horrible members of staff. To say I need a break is an understatement, but we have another week of the academic year to go and then I'm off for a conference in Durham so who knows when I'll actually get some me time. 

In the meanwhile, I'm trying in vain to keep on top of card making and general crafts projects. But one product I was recently sent I just had to play with - free time, or lack thereof, be damned. And it was perfect for this weeks Crafty Catz Challenge which has been set by the lovely Nina and is sponsored by Inky Impressions. 

Winners Prize : $10 gift voucher

This week you are being challenged to colour your images with Different Hair Colours - so no browns and blonds; we're looking for purple, pinks and blues! 

So my project this week is a Postcard. I was sent this amazing tin of watercolour postcards by Hahnemuhle. You get 100 blank 6x4" watercolour card blanks for you to create your own images on and send. I love the idea of creating postcards, rather than just cards - it means I can colour images but not worry about layers and embellishments, and my friends can get more random notes in the post. 

So this week I started by using one of Mo's amazing images and colouring it with promarkers

I used so many promarkers I frankly lost track but it was good fun to do and although there is a small amount of bleed through on the reverse, it's not so bad as to prohibit this being sent as a card. What I do want to do is find some sort of sealant though to stop any bleeding if it gets wet due to the weather. I think a product like that used for art journalling may be the answer, but all suggestions are welcomed. 

Anyway, I hope you like my alternative to a card this week and don't forget to join in this week. Until next time, happy crafting!

Oh and I'd like to enter this into Craft My Life - Anything but a Card (I hope it qualifies - if not, just let me know)