Sunday Challenge - Shaped Card

Time for another challenge on Dottie's World. This time Louise set the challenge and this is what she wanted:

I want you to make a shaped card this week - any shape other than squares or rectangles please! Oh and don't forget your Charmed download!

Well I'm in an Easter-card making type of mood and created two such cards today (OK I'm writing this Saturday), one for Sunday's challenge and one for my Monday Mojo spot on Dottie's World tomorrow - both are shaped cards so both comply equally.

The shape I chose for today is an Easter egg, nice and simply sure, but I have to confess I spent quite some time on this one.

The shaped egg was cut on my Silhouette and I formed the card itself around it.

The inside is decorated with K&Co paper.

My Charmed digi stamp is Henry Hare from the Animal Magic collection. I think he looks cute in yellow and green LOL

Easter Basket with eggs again cut on the Silhouette.

Pop over to Dottie's World and check out the gorgeous shaped creations from the other DT members.

Thanks for looking. Have a lovely Sunday (don't forget to put your clocks forward!!).

xxx

Copic Colour Challenge

It's Wednesday and therefore time for another challenge on the Copic Challenge blog. It's a colour challenge this time and these are the required colours.

That RV04 really is a shocking pink, if you don't want to use it too much then a little bow or whatever coloured in the shade would suffice. The frame (cut on my Silhouette) has been edged with R20 as well as being used on the main image. I did make this last minute in the middle of the night so please excuse any stray "brush strokes".


Papers are K&Co, flowers Prima, brad and rub-ons are Basic Grey. The little charm is a Marion and Me Charm. All available at Charmed Cards & Crafts.



These were all colours I used:



Pop over the Copic Challenge Blog and see what the other DT members came up with.

TFL and have a lovely day.
xx

Twice, or even THRICE as nice!

The lovely Adele set the challenge on Dotties World today and she wanted to see two or more of the Charmed downloads.

I used three of our "digi stamps":

• Room with a View (Front) from the Back to Front bundle
• Holly in the Garden from the Holly & Madison bundle
• Scruff from the Animal Magic bundle

My mojo was sadly lacking and I spent ages either thinking about what to do or faffing about doing it!! Pop over to Dottie's World and see what the other DT members came up with.

TFL and have a lovely Sunday xxx

Oriental ....

I haven't posted the card I made for my Monday Mojo spot on Dottie's World, here it is:

...and an alternative version cutting around the parasol:

The Holly & Madison bundles are so versatile. The original is perhaps more generic but don't let that put you off the second bundle. I think the card(s) above could be used for anything, whether Mother's Day, Birthday, Friend, or "just because"; so just because it features an oriental image that doesn't mean it's going to be difficult to use. The K&Co Mira products would look fabulous with this image too; here I am using mainly DCWV Far East products.

Please join in the challenge on Dotti's World, last day tomorrow! It's a fun sketch challenge PLUS you could win a prize just by entering :-)

TFL
Karen xxx

Copic Challenge - Pictorial Inspiration

Interesting challenge over on the Copic Challenge blog today. This challenge is based on this picture

I used the picture to its full potential, exploring colours and shapes equally. The horizontal lines are represented by both the flowers and scalloped chippie shape. The vertical panels are obvious and all the colours were plucked from the painting.

Everything has been coloured with Copics, from the images through to the background papers, the Chippie shape and even the flowers. I used an image from our latest Holly & Madison's World Tour download bundle.

The meaning behind the three pictures? Well I wanted to focus on a strong colour from the painting for each one. It is intended to be the same girl on holiday (see how she gets browner in each picture?), so same bag, hat and shoes but a girl can't wear the same bikini every day!

It's quite a plain and simple card but it shows the Copics well I think.

These are the colours used:

Please join in the challenge, we are sponsoring it so you can get your hands on a free download bundle of your choice ☺As usual the other DT members have created some stunning work.

TFL x

Sunday Challenge - Sketch

My turn to set the challenge today on Dottie's World and I decided that a sketch would be nice.

One firm stipulation is that the card must have some sort of fancy edge, mine here is a row of Easter eggs as I decided on an Easter themed card.

Once again I am using the lovely Holly in the Garden image, it is so versatile. My chicks were cut on my Silhouette but the beaks didn't cut well so I did those separately. Same with the legs, too spindly when cutting small so I had to draw them instead. Gawd knows what happened to the tiny circles that was meant as eyes but you only notice they haven't got any when it's blown up like this LOL

Holly and the chicks were coloured with Copic markers. I also colured some of the hyacinths in the basket with them.

They look quite cute sitting on top of the card I think. The Easter Basket with eggs was also cut on the Silhouette, although I pinched one of the larger eggs from the egg border - which I also cut on the Silhouette! I didn't notice until just now that one of the pens has bled around the hat. Oh well, I actually think it looks as though I intended to do that LOL

Pop over to Dottie's World and check out the amazing card created by the design team! Oh and I am offering a prize this week also, so don't miss out.

Thanks for looking x

Meet Annie!

My new little girl. I am really enjoying drawing at the moment, they are not perfect but unfortunately I haven't got time to make them that, nor do I have any fancy writing stuff, just a humble pencil - not excuses, merely facts. So here is my latest in my line of "Sitting girls/Boys"

I cut the frame, scalloped circle behind Annie and pop-up flowers on my Silhouette from K&Co Cut 'n Paste paper. Other flowers used were two yellow Prima flowers.

Once again I used my McGill pine branch punch.

and these were my Copic colours:

Thanks for looking and have a lovely day.

xx

Copic Colour Challenge

My turn to set the colours for the Copic Challenge this week. I chose the following:

BG13 - Mint Green
YO8 - Acid Yellow
V06 - Lavender

I really like these colours together, a nice bright ensemble of frivolity :-)

As well as using the colours for my image I also coloured an old paper doily in V06 Lavender and a scalloped circle in BG13 Mint Green. The main card right at the back is also coloured with BG13, well edges only as that was all you would see.

Pine branches with my McGill punch, I seem to be using that a lot these days.

These were all the colours used:

Pop over the Copic Challenge blog and look at the outstanding work produced by the other DT members! There's a link in the sidebar.

TFL xx

New Download Collection!

The Holly and Madison collection has expanded! The girls have gone on a world tour and had some fun :-) This great collection is now available ONLY at Charmed Cards & Crafts. Here is a card made with one of the fabulous images, one of my favourites in fact: Madison on safari; this is my Monday Mojo card on Dottie's World today.

The frame and palm trees were cut on my silhouette. Ribbon is Basic Grey Urban Couture, everything else K&Co.

The image, frame and palm trees were coloured in with copic markers, I also used Distress inks on the blue and the earth. These were (some of) the Copic colours used:

Plus loads more pinks and blues I forgot to add, oops. The blues used were: B00, B01

Why not pop over and get this great collection? You know you want to ;-) Here it is

TFL xx

Sunday Challenge - Fabric

Good morning everyone! Well not good morning as it's 20:20 on a Saturday evening as I write this, I always schedule the Dottie's World's Sunday challenge DT post so that I don't sit there bleary eyes and write on a Sunday morn. So for all intents and purposes GOOD MORNING!!! Hope you slept well, I sure did!! LOL

On to the challenge! This week the lovely Nicola set the challenge; Nicola simply wanted to see some sort of fabric on our projects, it could be anything, even a bit of ribbon. I used some gorgeous totally lush fabric brads from the K&Co Ancestry collection for my compulsory element and some Prima lace ribbon for good measure.

Now this image is from the new collection "Holly & Madison around the World" which is COMING SOON! It features Holly in England but is not yet available. Just thought I'd tease you a little ;-) Holly's adorable sidekick here is Scruff from the Animal collection. Actually, come back tomorrow and I'll tease you a little more with my Monday Mojo card and yet another new image.

The patterned paper is K&Co Lotus Tea Rose and I cut out three of the flowers from the paper for the top.

The plain paper is Basic Grey

Fabric Brads are K&Co Ancestry

Lace Ribbon is Prima

Everything I used is of course available in my shop: Charmed Cards & Crafts.

The images are coloured in with Copics, and these are the colours I used:

Why not pop over to Dottie's World's and join the challenge? The DT will all pop over and check out your blog :-)

Thanks for coming to visit xx