Kaboodle Challenge #11

I've made this card for my brother's birthday and realised it would fit (sort of!) the theme over at Kaboodle this week, which is "Window" as I do have a window in the card!

The image is a Stampin' Up! Stamp from the set Loads of Love, coloured with ProMarkers, I cut the window & windscreen out and have put acetate underneath them (which you can't really see in the picture) and I've curved the white card so that the truck's not flat against the paper underneath.

The DSP's are Pebble Ink, the c/s is from my stash, I've cut the 50 out with a Cuttlebug Die and have placed the digits to sort of look like they're bouncing out of the truck. The Happy Birthday came with some digi-scrap papers from Shabby Princess and I've just resized them and cut them out.

TFL x

Kaboodle Challenge #7

It was a colour challenge this week and I used my brand new Bella stamps I was lucky enough to win in a blog candy which arrived from Canada this week. The colours were all SU! and I've used SU! products throughout except for the heart button and flower punch as follows:

Apricot Appeal - cardstock, DSP - Rainbow Sherbert, marker on her belt

Sage Shadow - cardstock, marker on dress

Lovely Lilac - cardstock (flowers), marker on her bag

Real Red - DSP - Washington Apple, marker on her bag & boots

Only other colours used - Summer Sun marker on her hair, Cosmic Shimmer paint on centre of flowers.

Kaboodle Challenge No. 6

This is my entry for this week's sketch challenge over at Kaboodle Blog, using their wonderful Morris Dance papers, which I absolutely love.  I've used a Gorjuss girl image from one of the images my friend Sarah-Jane sent me, and I've coloured her with SU! Markers in Not Quite Navy & Old Olive to match the papers, and also Cameo Coral, Pumpkin Pie and Ruby Red.  I've watercoloured most of the image, apart from her coat, which is why the blue on the hat is lighter even though it's the same pen, it's quite a nice way to get shades of the same colour.  I've also used Not Quite Navy Cardstock and ink on the sentiment, which is from the SU! set "Fun & Fast Notes" to tie it all in together and managed to find some blue gem flowers that matched up with the lighter blue backing paper.

I'm also quite pleased with my photo, I took this one on my iPhone, like I do all my photos because it makes it so easy to load onto the computer, but I added an app yesterday to edit photos and I've cropped and sharpened the image on this and I'm really pleased with the result. It also helps that it's bright and sunny here today, for a nice change!

Stamp Something - Yellow, Green & Blue

This is my entry for this week's Stamp Something Challenge, to make a card using yellow, green & blue.

The gorgeous BP came from a free download I received from Kaboodle Doodles for a challenge entry, the set I chose is called Morris Dance, I fell in love with this paper and wanted to use it straight away and knew I could fit it in with this challenge. The stamp is from an SU Hostess Set called "A Little Bit of Happiness" & I've coloured it in with SU markers Not Quity Navy; Summer Sun; Old Olive & Garden Green and the cardstock is also SU in Whisper White, Not Quite Navy and Summer Sun.

I've used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on some Not Quite Navy cardstock to place behind the image and the buttons are from my stash.

I had a funny sort of weekend and a bit of a confidence crisis, just wasn't pleased with anything I was making and feeling completely uninspired, so it was really lovely to get an injection of inspiration & motivation from this gorgeous paper and I'm glad to say I'm really pleased with the finished card too - phew!!

Kaboodle Challenge No. 5

The theme this week at Kaboodles was "not a card" so I've made a little pyramid gift box instead. I've used Kaboodles papers for the pyramid and the sentiment is also from a Kaboodle download, the image on the front is an SU stamp from the set Fun & Fast Notes, which has been coloured with Sakura Stardust pens for a bit of sparkle. The ribbon on the top is from my stash

Kaboodle Challenge No. 2

The Kaboodle Challenge was a sketch one and I really liked the layout of it. I'm pleased with this card (I'm my own worst critic!) I think the colours work well together and it has a really fresh, sweet look.

The stamp is one of the Tilda range from Magnolia, and the backing papers are from Kaboodle, I I just love spots & dots and definately seem to have a bit of a dotty theme going on at the moment. I used the backing papers to layer onto Tilda's outfit as I was struggling to get a good colour match, her hair and shoes have been coloured with Sakura Glaze pens & I've used watercolour pencils for her skin, the rose has been coloured with a Cosmic Shimmer paint.

The sentiment (which says "Birthday Wishes" not very clear in the pic) is from Buzzcraft Florals and the brad is from my stash.