T rose

Hi Everyone, I have a scrapbook page and a card today, one for each challenge I am entering, I am using different, but the same, by which I mean, both the same sketch, papers and elements, one challenge allows digital layouts and one doesn't, so did one of each.

The papers and elements are from Dragon Lair Designs monthly Fan Group challenge.

This is the digital layout with a rose from the garden, I love the quote on this which is so true.  I rolled the corner in PS, something I have just learned to do. Teachers report, could do better, but for my first try of doing it this way, I am happy.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.977265119059705&type=1


This is a card following the same Outlawz sketch and the same papers, but with a ready coloured digi by Dearie Dolls, I changed her wellies to grey to match the papers. I went with the same garden theme. All fussy cut out and layered onto plain card instead of the patterned in the digi one, the corner being ripped, to match the digi ripped corner. Isn't it wonderful how adding different colours changes the look of a paper. Both quotes are from the web.

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/wednesday-sketch 

An Ant!

Hi everyone, my card today is for the Male Room Challenge, I just had to go with the critters or bugs theme and chose a bug!

I followed the sketch dated 2012 and added papers and bugs from a digi kit I had in 2013, Buggin Out by Kristin Aargard at Scraporchard. I love digi kits, everything matches without thinking. LOL.

I added the sentiment to the "ANT" which came from the kit, the ant is 3D'd, I layered all papers onto black card. The dies are Tattered Lace, in my strange thinking, I thought they could be the ant eggs? I also added "eyes" to the ant and the fly.

http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/challenge-36-theme.html Bugs or Critters

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/cut-it-up-97-sketch.html Sketch and dies

http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/challenge-29.html Anything Goes

Seeing I am in the garden with the Ant! I thought I would show you the May tree (Hawthorn) which borders our garden, it stands out from the other trees, with so much blossom this year, so thought I would share it with you. Also the noisy baby Magpie.

The May tree (Hawthorn) in it's floral white glory 

Close up of the flower sprays

Magpie baby being fed

Magpie baby calling for food.

Rose frame

Hi Everyone, I had my Cameo out to cut one of Shirley's cut file templates for a change, she generously gives out freebies on her blog and I don't use enough of them. I intended to use this a different way, but it cut out so well I decided to just put some paper behind, Shirley even supplied that in her file, but I wanted dramatic! so used a different one and then it was finished.

I added gems and some metallic wax rub, I have had for years. It has given the black a lovely coloured sheen as you can see in the close up. Sorry the main photo is at an angel, but the straight on one was blurred! and I wanted to get this posted.

 DP paper by Debbie More Art Deco Rome CD.

A pig

Hi Everyone, a card today with a little character that I love, well I have told you I am a Pig in the Chinese calendar, so piggies are a favourite of mine LOL.

Anyhow, I have followed the Sketch Saturday sketch and also used this fab image Hamlet PigWit in the planter and the sentiment from From the Heart Stamps. I coloured him in PS, then used a PS shape to make the centre circles, I used the Cameo to print and cut them, as well as the corners and a strip of the same colour as the bottom layer shape, to make the border for the corners, which I embossed, then embossed some card to lay them all onto. Nuvo drops to finish around the circle and on the centre flowers, to small to be seen - sorry.

DP by Marisa Lerin at Pixelscrapper.
Embossing folder by Memory Keepers

Challenge
http://fromtheheartstamps.com/community/2016/05/01/free-stamp-of-the-month-may-2016-hamlet-pigwit-in-the-planter/

A daffodil girl?

Hi Everyone, the image for the Art by Miran challenge is so appropriate for me, don't you think? I used quite strong colours as they are the colours of Wales and she has a daffodil doesn't she? I followed the Outlawz Sketch Challenge for this week. Great, 2 challenges done in one.

I used some cross stitched embossed card, my SIL got for me, don't know anything more about it, I tried it, as the card I usually colour on isn't that good, and, I think it worked, looks like a canvas. I followed the colours of the Design Seeds FloraPalette_9.

I coloured it with my Spectrum Noire markers and used digi papers by Julie C Designs, the daffodil behind the image has a free overlay by Tracy Wray at Art by Miran. backed with red card. I edged the image with grey marker and fussy cut her out. My colouring has a lot to be desired, but not tooooooo bad? I have added a close up of the image so you can see the card texture, shame about the colours outside the lines!

Thought I would add a few garden piccies, taken at 9am in the morning on what was going to be an awfully wet day.

Aqualegia

Aqualegia

Saxifraga

right of garden

left of garden

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/wednesday-sketch/forum/topics/wednesday-sketch-challenge-may-18

https://www.facebook.com/groups/artbymiran/

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/may-challenge-5-spring.html

Dog on scooter birthday

Hi Everyone, another male card, it's for my Great Nephew who lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

 I had in my mind a "Par Avion" with an aeroplane on the front, so went looking for an aeroplane in my digi stamp files, I had already done a transport card recently here I knew I had other images and this beauty, Dog on Scooter by Gerder Steiner, jumped up at me.  I thought it perfect for the adventurous young man he is. Goodbye aeroplane hello scooter LOL

I used a template of stripes by Delicious Scraps to make the airmail paper, I duplicated it giving them the red and blue colours, although they are a little faded for some reason, I didn't think it mattered. It was the illusion of the airmail I wanted. The map paper is by Marisa Lerin at PixelScrapper

I used red Stickles for the heart in the birthday sentiment and the other sentiment is by dhariana at Scraporchard, I overlaid red instead of the original colour to match the card, he will be coming home in a few months for his Sister's wedding, that's why I used it.

All done in PS and cut and print on the Cameo for the dog and the arrow. I didn't 3D anything just layered them, as it has to go a long way in the post.

Fairy and kitten

Hi Everyone, Firstly I have to apologise for not commenting on everyone's card. I laid aside a few hours yesterday to catch up, I did a LOT, so much so that Blogger wouldn't let me comment any more, at least not without matching grass pictures etc to prove I wasn't a robot! I had had enough after about the fourth, so decided to mark all as read. I am so sorry. I did flip through the images on Blogger too and I missed some beautiful and funny cards.

Anyhow - No 3 of the 3 in a day cards.

This is for the Outlawz Progressive Challenge, the image is Fifi by Ppinky Dolls, as always all laid out and coloured in PS, I followed the "vintage" colour theme for the challenge at Scrapbook.com.

I dry embossed the background paper, then die cut the shape behind the image and used the waste as corner "buttons", I added 3D gloss to the buttons. The sentiment came from the web. I followed a sketch I had in 2011, sorry don't know where from, just that it has CPS199 as the file name. The curved square shape is from Pixelscrapper, DP's by Dawn by Design. Embossing folder is by Memory Keepers. Die is by Tattered Lace.

Outlawz Progressive Challenge
http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1662165/post/new/#NEW Colour
http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/challenge-126.html embossing