Santa, Santa

It is a Santa challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.  and Eureka Stamps is the sponsor of the challenge. I have used this cute Santa Riding Reindeer  image for the card. I think he is such a fun image. 

Once I had coloured my image with my Copics I layered the image on some colourful Christmas designer paper , added snowflakes, bling and a  sentiment.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Shaped Card Challenge at Craft CardMakers

Crafty CardMakers is having another challenge this week and the theme is shaped cards. This means no square or rectangle cards. 

For my card I decide to make a circle accordion card. The die for the card is by Elizabeth Crafts Design. The paper is from My Minds Eye and is called Sunny.  I love the colourful pattern. The rubber stamped flowers and butterflies are a set of stamps and dies by Hero Arts.  The sentiment is by Stampin Up.  The images were coloured with Copics and a glitter gell pen. 

Here are a couple of other views of the card.

Thank you for stopping by. Pop over to the Crafty CardMakers blog to see the other design teams cards that they have created to inspire you.  

Colour Me Wonderful

Use your favourite colour medium is the theme of this weeks challenge at Incy Wincy Designs.  Lacy Sunshine is one of our sponsors this week and I am using their stamp called Eleanor the Artist. 

I had to think about my favourite medium quite a bit.  It seems to vary from week to week but for sure when colouring digital images I prefer Copic markers.  I love the selection of colours and the easy of shading etc. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  

Tag You're It

I am hosting a Tag, You're It  themed  challenge at Come and Get It Challenges this week. 

Make It Crafty is our sponsor and I have used their image called Anastasia's Grey the Digi Stamp for my tag. 

I used the colours of the feathers as my inspiration for my ladies costume which I coloured with Copics, charcoal pencil, and a gell and glitter pens.  I coloured the background with several different acrylic paints .  To complete the tag I added a strip of glitter tape to the bottom of the card.  

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.   

Easter Blessing

This is my card for this month's Spring/Easter challenge at Pattie's Creation.  I used one of Pattie's Easter Images called Flower Pot with Easter Eggs.  

You can purchase Pattie's images on Esty. 

I coloured my image with Copics and layered the image on some pretty designer paper. To complete the card I added some pearls, a sentiment and Lace.  

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Mixed Media - Love You to the Moon and Back

This is my  project for this months challenge at Creative Artiste.  The theme of the challenge is anything goes with a twist  to us to use chipboards, stencils or flower.  When I heard the theme of the  challenge I thought immediately about doing this framed canvas of my grandson, River.

The sponsor for this challenge is Dusty Attic Chipboard Company. Check out their store for some great creative products.  

To create this project I decoupage some brown printed tissue paper to the canvas then rolled a thine layer of gesso over the print so that the print would not stand out too much.  I used a wood grain stencil by Tim Holtz to add some texture and mimic the background of the picture. 

I added a doily and some layers pf paper behind the picture. I used several colours of Distress Inks to colour the doily and a charcoal pencil to give it some definition..  Once I added my picture I then  added my chipboard sentiment , flowers, gears and other findings to complete my canvas.  Chipboard and flowers are from Southern Ridge Trading Co. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Remember to pop over to the Creative Artiste's challenge blog to see the beautiful creations the design team have created to inspire you. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes
2 Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
PDE Linky Party - Anything Goes
Simple Papercrafts - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

Southern Ridge Trading Co. - Mixed media

Dragonfly Garden - Altered Gourd

Time for a new challenge at Altered Eclectics and I have made an altered gourd for this month's challenge.  I got my idea to alter the gourd from all of the beautiful altered pumpkins that I have seen. 

The theme of the challenge is anything goes and the challenge is opened to mixed media. recycled,  altered art and upcycled projects.  This challenge is not opened to cards and Atcs. 

To alter my gourd I added several layers of thick gesso and added a white fabric lace doily to the top of  the gourd for more texture.   You can see the lace peaking underneath the beads, buttons and gears I added to the sides of the gourd. 

The wood pieces are some twigs I found at the beach and I added some steampunk dragonflies, some flowers, berries and leaves from my stash for the garden.  To complete the project I added some distress ink to give the gourd more of an antique look. 

Some more views.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us this month at Altered Eclectics.  Remember to stop by their challenge blog to see the beautiful creations of that the design team have created to inspire you.  Flowers and chipboard is by Southern Ridge Trading Co. 

  

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Southern Ridge Trading Co. - Mixed media
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes
2 Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
PDE Linky Party - Anything Goes
Simple Papercrafts - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes