mmmm... Chocolate, Cream and Gold

Evening, well I have been promising myself that I would try and get here at some point other than monday and tuesday this week, just because I have missed you all! I have had my eldest at home today as she had a tummy bug this morning! Ohh its been a nightmare of a day! Roll on Monday when she is back at play-school again! 

Well on and off all week I have been 'trying' to create! felt inspired but never achieved what I have wanted to with my creations. I want to start mixing papers up (I have enough of them!), but never know how to or what to do! SO we went plain and simple, oh and chocolate and cream with a splash of gold! 

I had be playing about trying to get the 'pocket' fold right, I know a number of people use two card blanks, I made this from a 12x12 and my new Martha Stewart score board I treated my self to! 

The chocolate paper was very 'loud' with spots on the other side, I did want to use both side but i decided to go for something more elegant and simple, It has been so long since I have created a card without colouring or stamping or lots of flowers, so it was lovely to make something more mature. 

I have no idea of where many of the items came from, I brought the papers from a friend and they didn't have the bottoms on them, The tags are also from a friend, ohh but the ribbon is from a christmas present about three years ago, Molten Brown!!! Ohhhh how i love the smellies from there! and they way they are packaged... well i must order some more as i want some more ribbon, so lush!!

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges

Bearly Mine - anything goes

Critter Challenge - Chocolate Brown

Hooked on Crafts  - Anything Goes

Well I hope you are all keeping crafty! See you all soon! 

x

A Little tutorial for you...

Well im here again! Oh I have missed my blog AGAIN! 

I was speaking with a friend the other day and she was asking me how I coloured my skin tones, I sat and I thought, I tried to explain to her by just typing and it didnt really work and so I made a little Tutorial for her, I also asked a couple of other people who are FAB at colouring to take a look at it, they all told me how good it was and so I have decided that I will share it with you! 

Now I know this is not the way everyone likes to colour, this is my way and I would like to share, please let me know what you think and remember to let me know and see any creations you make using my tutorial.... 

For my Tutorial I have used;  

One Image Stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Pro Markers; Blush, Oatmeal, and Sun-kissed Pink  

1.

Firstly I Used Oatmeal, I covered the areas that I would like to be shaded/slightly darker that the rest of the skin tone.  This is what i use as a 'base line' so I know where i want the darker colour to be.

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I then took Sun-kissed Pink and went over most of the areas that I covered with Oatmeal, With the cheeks I didn't completely cover the base colour, so the cheeks look more natural, Remember that you dont have to cover the whole area again, do it in little sections and look each time, you can always add more but not take it away! 

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Finally I covered the complete area with Blush, I sometimes 'hold' the nib of the pen in one area for a few seconds to 'bleed' the colour to try and stop harsh lines.  The final picture was taken as soon as I had finished colouring, so that is why it looks very 'harsh' still, I will try to take another picture later so you can see it when its dry!

Well I hope that may be of some help to some of you, I would love to hear what you think, if you have any tips as to how i could improve, please let me know! 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by! 

x

Incy Wincy Designs - Challenge #98 Fathers Day/Masculine

**Please note this was scheduled for Monday AM, but I appear to be having Issues!**

Morning all, well it feel so long since I have been here, busy trying to 'de-clutter' the house, I never knew how much stuff was actually in my house, Its not going to be long now before my beloved craft stash starts to go away for a while so we can 'try' and sell our house.

I need to appologise to everyone over on the Incy Wincy Design Team, I have been trying for so long to get some crafty time in, its been so hard, but hopefully things are getting back to 'normal' for a while now! I have missed crafting the past week, so it was nice to sit down and make something, although it was a quick make as I didnt stat till late yesterday.

Well onto this weeks challenge! We are celebrating Fathers Day soon so we are looking for Father Day or Masculine cards!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge, I used a digi from the Aspire To Thrive Digi Shop! 

It was a very simple card as time has not been on my side but as things will hopefully settle down from now on, more time will be devoted to crafting! 

Well I hope you will join us this week over at Incy Wincy Designs! Look Forward to seeing you there!

Tip Top Tuesday Challenge #38 - Tipper Week - Open Challenge

Well I don't know what happened... i'm sure i scheduled this post.... cant find it anywhere!!! 

Welcome Everyone to my 1st Week on the design team for Tip Top Tuesday! I have been stewing on my project for a whole week and have been so excited for today to come!

This week we have an Open Challenge, and both teams over at TTT have joined together as one and the team have come up with some BEAUTIFUL creations and some wonderful tips!!

We even had some digis to play with this week, I used the wonderful Rub-A-Dub and one of the papers available from here at Stitch Bear Stamps

We are sponsered by Robyns Fetish and Stitchy Bear Stamps, The prize for this weeks lucky winner is four stamps of their choice from Robyns Fetish!!! and Stitchy Bear are offering a 1st prize of a $10 voucher!

I coloured this little one with my faithful pro-markers, unfortunately where I was in a rush I didn't manage to note down the colours I used, I used a make up sponge to put the ink of the back for the blue, the lace is from my stash and i used ink around the side of the paper too!

Well I hope you like what I have created, as its an open challenge I hope that many of you will pop along and join in this week, I can wait to see what you all create!

xx

a sorry note and good news!

Morning all, was meant to get on here yesterday but my computer was not allowing it and to top it all of for some reason I cannot get the photos from my phone to my computer at the moment!!! So unfortunately I cannot share any creations with you at the moment, but i do plan on trying to get this fixed today as its bugging me! 

But I have some news I want to share, a few weeks ago I applied to be on a design team and I forgot, Saturday morning I woke up to find an e-mail that made my day!! 

I have made it to the design team at Tip Top Tuesday!!!

Im so happy and cant wait to get my 1st creation done for next week, keep your eyes peeled as there is lots happening!