Another Fly By

When I was playing with cloud backgrounds a couple of weeks ago, I also did this background using distress oxide in Mermaid Lagoon, I used a light touch and spaced the clouds a reasonable distance apart compared to my usual clouds which gave me lots of lovely white puffy space.

 The image is called Sky's the Limit from Kraftin Kimmie, it is now retired but I did find a link HERE where you may be able to still purchase it.
I coloured up my image with Copic markers and Promarkers

Thanks loads for popping by my blog :)
Lou

Entering in the following challenges....
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Creative Inspiration - Anything Goes

Moving Along With The Times - Planes, Trains & Automobiles 
Crafty Gals Challenge - Anything Goes

Bizzy Bec's Anything Goes - 5 Today

Today is my baby boys 5th birthday it is also the day that Bizzy Bec's October Anything Goes Challenge.

I am sharing my boy's birthday card for the challenge....

I have used the following items from Bizzy Bec's on the card....

Wild Rose - Fox on a branch stamp

Lawn Fawn Big Scripty words Stamp

Lawn Fawn Big Scripty words Lawn Cuts Die

I watercoloured the stamped image with shimmering H20 watercolours.

Thanks loads for dropping by,

Lou

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges...

Inky Chicks - Animals

Sunnyday Crafting - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Ellibelles Creative Moments - Critters and Creatures

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Sketch

Hi my lovely bloggie readers :)  This week at Digital Tuesday  we have a sketch challenge for you, here is the pic of the sketch.

And here is my take on it.....

I have coloured the pollycraft swings & slides image with prisma pencils on watercolour paper, the papers are from a My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pad and the sentiments is studio calico.

I am entering in the following Challenges....

A&T Emerald Faeries - Punches and Dies
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Everybody Art Challenge - Summer  
Ladybug Crafts - Summer Fun
Bunny Zoe - Summer
Fashionista Challenge - Card for a Child
House Of Gilli - Add a Sentiment
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Include A Sentiment

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Childs Play

This week at Digital Tuesday Challenge we want to see cards for children.    We are being sponsored by Pink Gem, unfortunately I wasn't organised enough this week to snap up an image so I have used this image from the now closed :( Pollycraft (I shed a little tear that day).

Here is my card........

It was VERY timely that I made this as the boys came home yesterday from school with invites to a party on the weekend, so that makes the card a little less stressful.

I used papers from MME "on the sunnyside" 6x6 paper pad, a kaisercraft "kidzone"stamp for the sentiment, Papaya bazzill cardstock, Hero Arts Cerulean chalk ink, prisma pencils for colouring all the image apart from the skin which is coloured with copics, pebbles inc flag, button and twine.  I used water colour paper for my image as I like to colour with pencils on a textured surface and the watercolour paper allows for blending with OMS really well.

I am entering this card in the following challenges.........
Anything Goes Challenge - Summer Days
Cards & More - Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel - Celebrating Summer
Critter Challenge - Digi Challenge
Paper pretties - Anything Goes
Truely Madly Crafty - Summer
Whoopsie Dasy Challenge - Anything goes


Thanks loads for visiting on this gorgeous Wednesday morning :)  Hope you have a great day!!!!!

My Charming Little Man

Hi, here today to share a little mini album  made up from Echo Park This & That "Charming" Collection.

I am going to keep this fairly short and sweet as it is a short and sweet album :)

It has more pages than shown here but I am sharing my favourites as I really don't want to be taking up a huge amount of space with loads of page photos when you can get the idea from a few.

So here goes...........

First up we have the cover page, I like the chipboard sticker as it saved me making a title ;) I layered the back with a tag from the Journaling Cards sheet and cut the shape behind using an old peice of chipboard as a stencil, I have repeated this shape throughout the album. The pennant border I cut from paper scraps left over at the end of the project.

I used the label stencil again here to mark out oun the page then cut with a scalpel. If you look closely at the left hand corner you can see where I use packaging off the chip stickers to firm up my overhanging bits. The sticker sheet was used on this page.

Here is a page with both Connor & Will, a mix of journaling cards and stickers on here.

Love this photo of Will, my super smilely boy, again repeating my label and stickers to embellish.

A far more serious look for William here, embellished with stickers. It was so easy to make this album with the Charming Collection kit as everything was right there in the package ready to use, I just had to add the co-ordinating chipboard stickers. 

The papers on this project are.......

EP - Vintage Boy

EP - Swirls

EP - Yardsticks

EP - Tickets Please

Thanks for looking and I hope to see lots of "charming" projects popping up about the place using the fabulous card kits and Collection kits

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

This week it is Anything Goes with team b over at The Paper Shelter Challenge.

 I have used Little Cowboy with paper from the Alla Prima collection.  Image is again coloured with copics.  I had a huge break from my copics as I had got a little bored (I know, weird) and had been using my prismacolor pencils loads.  I have now got over the boredness and embraced my copics again.  I am loving the results too, yay.

We had Connor's first parent - teacher meeting last night, overall it went well and we were pleasantly surprised which was great!

Hope you will come along and join in our anything goes challenge :)  See you there.

And Heres One I Prepared Earlier...........

The challenge over at Southern Girls is in full swing and this fortnight we want to see Boys/Masculine projects.  I have used a LOTV image as they are one of our fantastic sponsors this time around.  I used papers from My Minds Eye and clear buttons which I stuck paper to the back of to make them match.  I hadn't posted this earlier due to all  the excitement of last week and the busyness this week.

I am entering this into the following challenges......

Pollycraft - boys, boys, boys
Crafty Cardmakers - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - A card for all occasions
Cuddly Buddly - Check it out
Scrap, Stamp An Doodle Saturdays - Things that are round
Our Daily Bread Designs - Make your own ebellishments
One STop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Card Cupids - Punches

Awwwww, so sad.

 Poor liitle fella, nothing worse than your favourite toy breaking.  This is an image from Mo's Digital Pencil Too which I have coloured with copics and prismas.  I am not sure I am colouring like I am supposed to but I think my images are turning out ok.  I lay down the base colour with a copic, for example on the little boys jammies I layed down B01 (porceline blue) then coloured using a selection of blues and highlighting with the white pencil after I have blended with odorless mineral spirits..

Here is a close up for you so you can really be critical.lol.
I have used My Eye Papers from the blue Lost & Found collection and a random brown one from my scraps

I am entering this card in the following challenges........

I did it creations - anything goes
DigiDesigns Challenge Blog - anything goes
Marks Finest Papers and Stamps - Use Punches
Card Makin Mamas - Digital
Crafts 4 Eternity - Colour Challenge
Prairie Fairy - Snips,Snails & Puppy Dog Tails
Totally Papercrafts - Cute with Buttons
Mo's Digital Challenge - Boys Attitude
Craft challenge - Children


Thanks for visiting.

Argh... this baby brain is driving me demented!

I totally forgot to post this here on Monday to go with my Artfull Crafts blog post.  This is Andrews fathers day card that he recieved on Sunday from the kids.  I had to make a really quick card as I had totally forgotten about it being Fathers Day.  The Little Toot papers and stickers were perfect for whipping up a nice and easy card which doesn't look like it took 10 minutes. 

All the products I used on this card are available in the Artfull Crafts web shop.



Keeping it Simple at Artfull Crafts

My first post today on the ARTFULL CRAFTS BLOG and as August is Boys & Men month this image and card seemed approriate.
The papers and embellishments are Cosmo Cricket and the image is from Pollycraft. I  coloured the image using prisma pencils and gamsol. I am still experimenting  with my pencils to see what paper works best, how much pressure, blending etc.  I am happy with how this image came out but still some extra tweaking required I think.
I got some fantastic hints on skin colour combos over at SCS from the prisma thread which was great and helped alot.

I am also entering this card in the following challenges.....
Do You Stack Up - Boy or Man
2 Sisters - Boys & their Toys
Art Impressions - Summertime
Jellypark - Gettin' Punchy
Crazy 4 Challenges - Boys/Mens Cards
PaperPlaytime - Vacation


Thanks for visiting.

Just for fun with Pollycraft

I made this card just for fun because I wanted to have another play with my new prismacolor pencils and I thought I would use this cute image from Pollycraft. I used  odorless mineral spirits to blend the colours on this image and the sky is done with BG10 & N0 copics.  The papers are some Pebbles ones I had in my collection and the sentiment is from a Hero Arts set.  The buttons and twine are both from my stash and I don't know the brands.

I am entering this card in the following challenges.....

2 Sisters Challenge - Boys & Their Toys

Creations By Gill M - Things that Fly

Elephantastic - Add Some Layers

Paper Cutz Challenge - Wish Upon A Star

Stampin for the Weekend - Holidays

Wags n Whiskers - Outdoor Fun

Thanks for dropping by.......