Inky Impressions and a lot of challenges!

This is my second post today, please scroll down to see my Digital Tuesday challenge post.

Wow two posts in one day! I'm way ahead lol. If only I could be so organised every day!.....no chance of that! haha

I was bored today while the kids were at school, so thought I would go looking for some challenges to enter, and I found loads! :)
First of all, I followed the challenge at The Sweet Stop challenge blog, and of course added a few embellies on top of the sketch (I just can't help myself! lol)

It's horrible wet windy weather here today again, so I thought I would make a fun bright card, and maybe the weather will take the hint and brighten up.....not much chance of that in Aberdeenshire though!

I used Lili's Prayer from Inky Impressions and coloured her with Promarkers and added some glitter, which you can't see very well in this pic.

The papers I have no idea (again), but the pretty charm is from Inky Impressions, and you can find loads more charms in the Inky Impressions store.

And I added a doily from Poppy's Cabin (link in sidebar), a punched border which I don't have the punch for, but I bought the punched strips from Poppy's Cabin, a glitter swirly rub-on by imaginisce and some pretty flowers that I got from Carol (thanks again hun), but I suspect they are from Wild Orchid Crafts

Now to list all these challenges! I don't normally enter more than one or two, but there is so many challenges out there this week that my card fits, so I thought why not. Now I just have to link them all!

The Sweet Stop- Sketch
Crafty Catz- Ribbon
My Mum's Craft Shop- Layers
Pile It On- Layers
Allsorts- Flowers and Swirls ( I used a swirly rub on)
Delighful Challenges- Bling It (glitter on my image, glittery rub on and charm)
Ladybug Crafts- Flowers
I love Promarkers- metal embellishments or charms

Wowzers, I think that is the most challenges I have ever entered at once. And I don't plan on entering that many again, because it's taken me forever to link them all up, and now I have to go to all the challenge blogs and add my entry! ......oh well, what else it there to do on a miserable day? :)

Thanks for stopping by

Digital Tuesday- Sketch

It feels like ages since I last posted. I was away for a week and befrore that I had major internet problems, so haven't been able to post for over a week.

This week it's Natascha's turn to choose the challenge at Digital Tuesday and she made a sketch for us to follow.

Our sponsor this week is Spesch Stamps who are giving away 3 digi stamps to the winnrer of this weeks challenge, and Tracey kindly let the dt choose an image to use.

I love the images at Spesch Stamps so of course I had to use one, and I chose one of the new images this time, called Lemonade Girl.

I went a bit bright with this one! Not my mormal kind of colours (I find myself saying that a lot lately though lol), but since she has lemons on her dress, there had to be some yellow in there, so I thought I would make it nice and bright and went for orange as well.

The base paper is Bo Bunny that I have had for ages and the butterfly one which I have also had for a long time is by Papermania.

I didn't have a die to give me the curved shape from the sketch and I didn't really want a ripped edge on this card, so I just cut the curvy bit freehand.

The ribbon is some I got ages ago in a bargain pack that I bought for my kids in the local poundland shop. I never thought I would ever use it, but it came in handy for this card because the only other orange or yellow ribbon I have is Halloween ones. I added some lace from my stash on top of the ribbon, some Prima flowers and the yellow flowers on top are from Janlynn.com but unfortunately they have stopped selling them.

The pretty doily is from Poppy's Cabin (link in sidebar) and a few Prima pearls.

 Isn't this image fab? I didn't realise when I asked Tracey for this one that it comes with no eyes drawn in (just the eyelashes and you have to draw the pupils yourself) and I kinda panicked because I am terrible at drawing eyes, but I had fun colouring her and I don't think the eyes turned out to bad. 

I used a fine liner black Promarker for the pupil and left a tiny white bit for highlights then just coloured as normal with blue Promarkers.

I do need a lor more practice though, but that's just another excuse for me to buy more of these fabby images:)

Promarker colours used
Skin: Coral, Satin, Blush, Baby Pink (for cheeks)
Hair: Henna, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna
Yellows on dress and the lemon: Saffron, Tulip Yellow, Canary
Dress: Orange, Peach, Apricot
Shadows: Ice Grey 2 & 3 and blender

I hope you will join in with this weeks challenge.

Thanks for stopping by. I really do appreciate you visiting me, especially when I haven't been posting very much, and I love to read all the comments you leave (speaking of comments, there may just be some commenters/followers candy coming very soon:)

Inky Impressions- Amazing Lace

The new challenge is up over at the Inky Impressions challenge blog, and this fortnight the challenge is "Amazing Lace" ....Karita wants to see us use our amazing lace on our projects, and the DT as always have done a fab job with their samples again this fortnight.

I used another of the 5x5" cards I bought a while ago....I'm determined to use them all lol, but every time I use one, I hate the card I have made ...just not enough room to play with lol.

The stamp I used is obviously a Inky Impressions and is called Lili's Prayer which you can buy along with loads of other cuties in the Inky Impressions store. I coloured Lili with Promarkers as usual and gave her some sparkle on her eyelids, belt and bracelet which you can't really see in the pic above but I have added another pic below that you can see it a little better on.

 In fact you can't really see it better in this pic at all lol, you can see it when you click on the pic though, although the glitter just look s a mess on this pic, but irl it looks fine.

Promarker colours:
skin: blush, ivory, baby pink
hair, raw sienna, cinnamon, burnt sienna, spice
clothes: baby pink, cocktail pink. soft green, mint green


The designer paper I used on this one is by K&Co, some lace from my stash which I threaded some tulle through the holes and tied in a bow.
The rose is from Hobbycraft and I added some pearl sprays from my stash and cut a few leaves out freehand, and the pretty lace doily is from Poppy's Cabin who is one of our sponsors over at By The Cute and Girly this month. She has a great selection of doilies as well as other bits and pieces for crafting too...a  must see shop if you love doilies! You can click on her banner in my sidebar which will take you to the store.

I hope some of you will join in with this fortnights challenge over at Inky Impressions. All you have to do is use some lace on your card/project and you can use any images/stamps you like, but if you use an Inky Impressions stamp, you will get an extra entry. Also if you enter every challenge for a month (which is only 2 challenges because it's a fortnightly challenge), you will be entered into a draw to win a goodie bag :) I have no idea what will be in the goodie bag because it comes straight from Inky owner Nicole, but I know it will be fab! :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Inky Impressions, Charisma and a few challenges

I have two cards to show again today, one is my Charisma Cardz DT card and the other is an Inky Impressions DT card that is being shown on the Inky Impressions Inspirational blog later today.
Last time I had a card shown on the Inky blog and only showed a sneak peek here, a few of you said that you would of liked to see it on my blog, so I decided I would show it here as well as the Inspirational blog, but please do pop over there as the design team post on the blog every day, so there really is loads of inspiration going on over there.

Ok first up is my Inky card (well actualy it is just a topper because I have ran out of white card lol and I am sick of using those teeny tiny 5x5 cards so I will just mount it onto a card once I get some) which I am also entering into the Papertake Weekly challenge because I followed the sketch from there and also Stampin' for the Weekend where the want to see blue, buttons and bling.

I used Lili's Prayer for my card today which is still one of my fave Inky stamps and I coloured her as usual with Promarkers. You can pick her up from the Inky Impressions store along with a whole lot of other cuties.

The papers are all My Minds Eye from the Lost & Found collection. I just love these papers, they are sooo pretty and such good quality. The only thing is that I don't like cutting into them because they are double sided and each side is as pretty as the other.
I distressed the edges of all the patterened papers and the light brown coredinations cardstock with my scissors to give it a bit of a shabby chic feel.
The gorgeous butterfly was a gift from my By The Cute and Girly DT member Geraldine who very kindly made them up in the colours I wanted (thank you so much sweetie mmwaahh).

Geraldine sells these beauties in her Etsy Shop, Little Snippets (link in the sidebar) along with a whole lot of other pretty embellishments.
I used some ribbon from my stash, a paper button which I got ages ago on a magazine and I coated it with Glossy Accents then bent it a bit to make it crack once it was dry, and the pretty flourish is by Prima.

 This is my card for the Charisma Cardz challenge which this week is something that flys. I used some more of the My Minds Eye papers for this one, and another butterfly from Little Snippets.
the sweet image is a Wags n Whiskers digi  called "Say A Prayer"which I coloured with Promarkers and used some Dazzling Diamonds glitter from SU on her wings and sash.

The pretty heart doily is from Poppy's Cabin (link in sidebar) and I coloured the edge of it with a baby pink Promarker.
The flower I made by cutting out some "bumpy" circles by hand just by moving the paper as I cut and then covered them with gold Cosmic Shimmer Mist, scrunched them up, then opened them up and layered them all together with a brad and added a large pearl in the middle.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you are having a great day!

Birthday's In Pink for Charisma

The new challenge is  up at Charisma Cardz and the challenge this week is "Birthdays In Pink". Well that wasn't very hard for me lol.
Robyn's Fetish is sponsoring us this week, and the design team have each used one of her digi images on their cards.

 I'm really not happy with this card, a bit too much pink me thinks and not my usual kind of flowers on it,  but here it is anyway. Doesn't help that my camera didn't want to play nicely when I took this pic which makes it look even worse than it is irl!!
The image is coloured with Promarkers, not sure what pad the bottom paper came from, but the sentiment and flowers are from the same paper pad and the other paper is K&Co.
The doily which was white is from Poppy's Cabin and I just coloured it with a pink Promarker, oh and the flourish is done with a Marianne die.

A close up of the eleflump :)

Right that's it from me today. Thanks for stopping by!