Hang in there!!!

Hmmmmmmmmm could do with sending this card to my self considering the way I feel this week but not to worry things can only get better!

The challenge on http://www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ was 'animalia' with a brief of creating a card with any animal on it. At http://tandastamps.blogspot.com/ the title for the challenge is 'Zoofari' and you can create a card with any zoo animal in it.

I had all kinds of ideas in my head but ended up making a very very simple card using some of my new stamps from Hero Arts and Autumn Leaves - both sets have similar animals in and I thought they would work quite well together. The 'hang in there' words are also in the set.

The card is dark brown and seems to be blending in to the background a little on this photo - sorry about that. I used Marvy Le Plume pens directly onto the stamps and and then using a damp paint brush I dragged the colour from the edges to colour the image. The card is from DCWV and the leaves are from a little pack of Jolees I was given.

A thank you card

Beginning to feel a bit better and had a lovely time putting this thank you card together for the challenge on http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/.

It was only when I came online to add it to my blog that I realised I was supposed to 'Stamp something' -so sorry - my head is so fuzzy from this summer cold. I will make amends by stamping the words inside the card.

The floral card is by Kanban and is double sided which meant that I could punch the flowers out of the scraps left from my A4 sheet. I used the trick of rolling the wooden handle end of my pricking tool on the centre of my flowers in the palm of my hand just to give them a bit of dimension. I also added a gemstone to the centre of each of the big flowers. The purple gems were in a pack of Hero Arts clear stamps I got from http://www.thebargaingarden.net/index.html. How good is that? Clear stamps and bling in one packet - heaven!!!

Luscious Lime and Lilac Party Card

I was supposed to be having a rest today but I just couldn't resist digging out the papers for the challenge on http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/. The challenge this week was to use lime and lilac (or purple) to create a card.

I used the sketch from http://ismaki.wordpress.com/ which I used earlier in the week, but is such a great sketch that I was determined to do another card using it.

The Tilda image is one stamped for me by a good friend and I have coloured it with water colour pencils and also Art Quest Pearlescent Pastel paints. Bit disappointed with the dress - supposed to be shaded rather than streaky but in my defence it's not quite like that in real life.