Pencil practice

It takes ages to colour with  pencils and this one is no exception. It took a good few hours to get all of these layers down on the image. I used prismacolour pencils as I don’t yet have enough Caran D’Ache to get the effect I wanted for this little lady. She is a Candibean stamp that I have had in my stash for ages and I just fancied colouring her up to add to my 2019 Christmas cards collection. Her little dogs are so cute and I had one of these as a child. I am going to enter this card in to Di’s digi challenge where the theme is snow much fun.

New pencils

Every now and again I buy craft stash .... ok quite often! Sometimes something just gives you a wow moment and I bought the smallest set of Caran D’Ache pencils after watching a Jennifer McGuire video on YouTube. She has a lot to answer for! 😂 Anyway, she’s not wrong about these pencils being the “copics of the pencil world “ . They beat prismacolour pencils on every level being wax pencils and they don’t break like the prismas do, also their vibrancy and lack of wax bloom just put them on another level. I know I will have to buy a larger set at some point so had better start saving my pennies! Here’s a wee card I have made using the stamps that I also love by MFT.

Fairy Wings.

As we are now in January, I’m thinking of all those birthday cards I need to make for the special people in my life. This little fairy card will be going to my first cousin three times removed, who will be three at the end of January. I have used a Lili of the valley image called fairy wings, rose garden first edition papers and all the die cuts are magnolia dies, apart from the label shaped one which is a spellbinder die. The image has been coloured with promarkers and although you can’t see the glitter I have blinged it up with glamour dust and wink of Stella pen all over the dress. I have also used a craftwork card sentiment from that ever growing sentiment stash😉