Super Sketchy Sunday

2 sketches followed today.

First for 365 Cards Day 260 - Super Sketchy Sunday

I did the sketch upside down-- not me, the sketch :-D -- as my flourish sentiment didn't work the other way.

Flourish sentiment - Stampendous (would you believe 2001 !!)

Star stamp - Funstamps

Tiny dotty flourish stamp - Dawn Bibby

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Cuttlebug Star embossing  folder

Card and gems from my stash

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Card 2 is for Mojo Monday 112

Nice sketch, not so hard :-)

Stripey paper - Basic Grey 'Wassail'

Image - Download - can't find who by atm, will add later

Base card, paper scraps and ribbon from my stash

Colour Scheme

365 Cards Day 229 - Colour Scheme

It took a while for me to find the colours for this challenge as they didn't show up on the 365 blog so had to blog hop to see if anyone had put them up.
I've had huge probs with viewing some peoples pics and it's driving me mad. It's such a shame when I cannot see what some have been up to all these weeks, but hey ho! that's Blogger for you or, maybe, my server???

This card was quickly put together for this challenge as I'm not in crafting mode.
The die cut and embossed cream card was sent to me along with a pile of other colours from a crafty buddy CarolAnn off a forum Wish.
I chalked the vines in green ans the owl in light brown, they just about show up in the scan.
Mounted on peach/apricot coloured card from my stash
The sentiment stamp by Stampendous was inked with Adirondack 'Butterscotch'
Gems added to the sentiment and owl's eyes.
Leaf embelishments from my stash to finish off for an autumn feel to the card.
If I'm not too late - which is my wont, this will also fit in with Secret Crafter #53 Autumn Colours and The Pink Elephant #36 - Fall

Recipe...

365 Cards - Day 166 ---- Card Recipe!
and this is just perfect for
Crafty Cardmakers 1st challenge - Blossoms

Oh! I love recipes as it tells you when to stop as I do suffer, sometimes, from the inability to observe the rule of 'Less is More'

The ingredients for this recipe are :-

4" x 7" card
5 Blossoms
Glitter
Wet embossed sentiment
3 different patterned papers

Good card size to use for a change and I used just bog-standard green card for this....No Bazzill????....well this card was already cut to the stated size and was the starting point for the whole thing :) The stripey and spotty papers are misc. out of my stash, but the floral paper, of which I cut around the pattern, is Basic Grey LilyKate.
The 5 blossoms were all mounted one on top of the other to make 1 bloom, then I thought Ah!!... no brad can be used to hold it together, so just got to work with DST to stick each one and then used a good blob of glue and sprinkled glitter into the centre of the flower to give it a centre. The largest of the blooms is a Flourish Flower by Imaginisce.
I also drew around some of the swirls on the paper and some of the dotty pattern with a glue pen and sprinkled the glitter all over that. The glitter being Stampendous Ultra Fine.
I then stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in purple pigment ink and heat embossed it with clear emb. powder.
Another challenge completed, just wish I could go back and get some older ones done too, but that is expecting too much of my poor brain....lol!!

The scan does not show up the glitter or the shiny embossing unfortunately so you will just have to use your lovely imaginations.
Thank you for reading this far. xxx

Masking to my Heart's Content

365 Cards - Day 163 Try a Technique: Masking

Oh! I was excited by this because it MADE me dust off a stamp I bought about 5 years ago and have never used, I know, I'm ashamed!
It is a stamp by Clarity called Abstractart and is brilliant for masking...well it's made for it.
All the stamps bar a couple of little Hero Arts flowers are Clarity also...I used to collect them, and still would if I had the money. Barbara Santerelli, as she was then, was my all time fave. Designer
I stamped the large frame stamp in Versafine Onyx Black and then masked off every little area in turn with Post-It notes and stamped different flowers, butterflies and some of the leaves into all the areas.
I then coloured them with a mix of PM's and Copics.
Then I went over the veins in the butterflies wings and the antenna with a Quickie glue pen and sprinkled over Stampendous Ultra Fine Crystal glitter....remembering it is Art Glitter Week.
Then a Making Memories Page Pebble was added to the magnifying glass for a lens.
The sentiment stamp also by Clarity was stamped in Versafine also
Matted and layered onto a buttery yellow piece of Bazzill and then finally mounted onto a chocolate brown DL card.
A piece of satin ribbon and 2 Doodlebug gems finished it off.

Sketch Saturday #37

Another great sketch and enjoyed deciding what colours I was going to use after doing an all white card for the forum challenge. [after up-loading realised I had chosen the colours of the sketch...how spooky]
The papers used were K & Co Tim Coffey 'Travel/Vacation' which I overstamped with 'wishes take flight' stamp by Stampendous in Rust Adirondack...as always...lol!! and the floral sheet was from K & Co 'Roam'pad., which was attached with 4 velvet brads from my stash. The embelishment was K & Co K-Ology Grand Adhesions mounted on 2 scalloped circles cut and embossed using my 'Bug'. Pearl gems were added for extra decoration.
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We used to have snow....

This is a LO I did with an old photo, which is a bit scratched, of my daughter Tracey in the winter of 1967. Do you too remember the snow we used to have.
It took an age to get a colour of paper to match the very odd colours of the photo. I don't believe I put her in red pants, pink top and blue mitts. :o
I settled for the greeny blue shade of the snow (paper I've had for ages which I think was K and Co) with a little pink glitter card cut with edging scissors to contrast. I used snowflake 'Pop-It' shapes which I covered in Stampendous Ultra Fine Crystal glitter to encircle the focal point of the photo. The ribbons used top and bottom were Anita's stick ribbon with a border top and bottom of Christmas Paper Lace.