Dress Rehearsal

Hi Everyone, I am completely lacking any mojo, but have to get these family cards done. It seems to me that my Cameo is coming up trumps each time, I have hundreds of digi stamps, hundreds of magazine freebie clear stamps, but I am throwing away more than I ever have, samples at the end of the post.

This is a card I did recently for my Great Niece on her birthday. I didn't know what to do, she is a beautiful girl in looks and ways. Then looking through my digital stamps I came across this gorgeous image and was going to print and colour as I usually do, but an idea came and I decided to try it and it worked!

I used a Silhouette sketch pen and drew it onto the card with the Cameo. To keep it as CAS as possible I also decided not to colour it in except for gold on the 17 and a couple of other highlight areas. I found metallic paper to match and kept it all simple.

Dress Rehearsal digi stamp - A Day for Daisies

font - Floryfic
Uniball gold metallic pen

Silhouette sketch pens

metallic paper - stash

These are from today! thrown in the bin!

1. The 2 with a bear on, I used the Quill pen with the Cameo to get the gold foiling, but it was "off" the lines, I must have moved the image somehow, but I love that I can do it, perhaps better next time, I also ripped the bottom of the card removing the foil.
2. The flower and leaves were stamped, heat embossed and coloured BADLY. 
3. The stamped flower on the printed watercolour drips, is so boring and I don't like it at all.

Any ideas to get the mojo working would be greatly appreciated. I need to get me motivated in lots of ways too?

Mermaid

Hi Everyone, I am a bit short of cards to show you at the moment, so went to see if I had any I hadn't posted and came across this card, which I absolutely loved when I made it last September. She is a Day for Daisies image, I think I made her for a challenge and was out of time. Anyhow it was all laid out  and coloured in PS then printed and layered. I added a couple of pearls, I thought she may have picked up an oyster or 2 on her travels. I also used a SN marker to surround the white card and 3D'd the starfish

Gratitude

Hi Everyone, a card I made just because I wanted to use the image.

I had this beautiful girl as a freebie from the A Day For Daisies blog. I didn't know what to do with her, I thought she needed a natural background, then realised I had taken a landscape playing field photo last week, which would do if I altered it! I added it into Photoshop added a blending mode and colour overlay and there was my background, I think it looks quite good and so very different?

I coloured her in PS, however when I printed it out, her skin was so pale, it didn't look like I had coloured her, (tip - stay with colours you know for skin!) so I took my Spectrum Noirs and coloured her skin. I have a lot to learn with them, but I hope I haven't spoilt the whole result. I layered the image on black then a punched yellow layer added some gold bling - voila!  The inside was done to match and I added the sentiment "and I Thank You with all my heart", I wish you could see how it glitters.

Digi stamp A Day for Daisies
background layer my photo
punch Tonic Diamond Swing

http://heartwarmingvintage.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/give-thanks-with-grateful-heart-october.html Give Thanks - Yep!