I want to improve my colouring skills.

I have recently been taking Alyce Keegans copic colouring class. She is an absoloute inspiration. I first took the whimsy class before then moving on to the skin and hair class and I love it. So much information and so much to learn and it has helped me to look at images in a different light literally! Who would have thought light source would be so complicated! So I made this card from one of Alyce's classes and it went off to a lovely friend over in Bristol. i was pretty proud of it and so that's why it went over to someone very special, who is a princess in her own right. xxxx She knows who she is!!

 

It took an absolute age to make, especially the colouring, but I just hope that she liked it! xx My colouring still needs a lot of work but I'm much more mindful of where I put my darks and lights and why!

Happy playing with markers.

I'm always at my happiest with my markers in my hand and a pretty image to colour. Then the fun is dressing the card up. the image is a cute Saturated Canary digi.

Time for another challenge.

Afternoon all. It's time for another challenge over at Dis digi stamps. This week the theme is masculine.

Sadly it's not camping weather this weekend, but here's hoping you all have a lovely day anyway.xx

Reading Beauty

So with all this lovely weather this weekend, there has been plenty of reading time in the sun and crafting time in the evening. Housework definitely gets the thumbs down!

Snow white.

This card went to a lovely friend on her birthday.

New Di's digis challenge.

Oh dear I'm a little late posting this up but it's still the right day, so that has to be something right? Anyway our challenge this fortnight is a nice, easy one.
" Use those markers"!
Here's mine.

 

She's copic coloured this week!

Di's digi designs challenge - Birthdays.

Another fortnight has once again flown by and it's time to check out the new challenge over at Di's digi challenge. This time it's birthdays. We have a fab sponsor once again so do stop over and enter your own birthday creations. we would love to see them.

 

The copis came out for this challenge along with a few magnolia dies and plenty of distressing!

I am entering this one in to the following challenges.

Brown Sugar- Anything goes

cut it up challenge- Birthdays

Craftitude- Anything goes

Aud's sentiments challenge - Use a birthday sentiment or the number 4

House mouse sunflower

I spied this cute image over at a friend's blog and I confessed to her that I had the stamp, but it had never seen ink! I have now rectified this and inked it up! I coloured my image with an assortment of copics.

Same image as below but coloured with copics this time!

Feeling blue?

My hand is much better today. Not completely healed  but half way there. I spied this gorgeous digi over at Saturated Canary, it's called Pixie Nerd, and have had great fun colouring her in blue, using promarkers. I think I'll enter this card into the Passion for promarkers challenge, which is add a sentiment. Fortunatley this lovely digi comes complete with a sentiment too.

Easter Saturated Canary.

Two more pretty Easter cards I made this week. Both coloured with promarkers.

Easter challenge over at Di's digi designs

Another fortnight has passed. Where does the time go? This time Di's design team have been playing with some of her lovely Easter designs. Here's my little lovely. I wanted to put a sentiment on it, but having slashed the palm of my hand with a knife this week, it's proving a little painful to hold things and is quite sore!
Do pop over and join our lovely challenge though as Easter isn't far away now!

I have made this digi quite large, one of the beauties of digital images and she has been coloured with promarkers. It's almost quite CAS for me as there aren't any additional flowers, but I wanted the lovely detailed image to be my focal point.

Restoration!

I have been feeling somewhat nostalgic in my old age and have had a go at some restoration projects recently!

 

Before                                                                           After                                                                                                       

   I have re-styled and conditioned the hair and knitted the outfit for this one.

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Next up this one has had  all of her new hair sewn in plug by plug by me as well as the tiny eyelashes. I almost gave up I confess as this one took me ages and gave me very sore fingers! But her face has changed so much now she has all of her lashes!

Before

After

The next one had a broken leg, so I fixed her by restringing the body, so now she works again and the hair was all matted, so I have fixed this too.

And finally this one had blue dyed hair and wasn't in a good state as she looked like this. So I sorted out the hair and made her a new dress and now................

Before

 she looks like this.

After

So you may be thinking I have gone completely mad in my old age, but actually it's quite therapeutic seeing things that would have been probably thrown away being given new life and I've really enjoyed creating. It's a bit of a change from card making but I'm enjoying it for now!

New Dis digi downloads challenge.

Another fortnight has flown by and what a fortnight it has been in a very sad way. Still onwards and upwards as they say. Here is my welcome spring card. DIs images are so sweet and I loved colouring this little sweetie. Do pop over and check then out.

Mother's Day

My thoughts are with all of those this weekend that are't as fortunate as me to be able to wish their Mum a Happy Mother's Day. Here's one I made for my Mum.

New Di's digi challenge, Person and animal.

Morning all, looks like it's going to be a lovely day again! Hurrah! We have a new challenge over at Di's digi downloads challenge and this week the challenge is an animal and a person. I just adore Di's images they ae so cute and they colour up beautifully. Di's images are also now available in rubber too for those who don't like digis. Anyway do pop over and join in the fun.

I am entering this card in to the following challenges.
Crafty Calendar challenge - Animal antics
ABC Challenge H for hair.
Created with love challenge - Think Spring
Cute card Thursday girls, girls,girls.

A new TIC TAC TOE challenge over at Di's digi designs.

Afetr taking a break for a while from the DT at Di's digi downloads I'm pleased to say that I have managed to put my life in a little more order and return. So The challenge over at Di's this fortnight is a TIC TAC TOE one and I have used  a digi, flowers and die cuts.

 

It's lovely to be able to creat again with Di's fabby images and I have missed not having the time to do things. Hopefully now I'll be able to create a little bit more with these so cute images.

I am entering this card in to the following challenges.


Crafty Hazlenuts Patterned paper
ABC Challenge - Flowers
Brown Sugar Challenge - Use a die cut or punch

Cinders, you shall go to the ball.

I noticed that Krista was having a sale a few weeks ago of quite a few digis that were going into retirement. Well, a few just had to slip into the old basket didn't they and here's one that I had great fun colouring with my old promarkers. I do seem to flip between promarkers and copics and go through phases using each. Is this normal, or should I ask....am I normal?? I am entering this one in to the passion for promarkers challenge which is anything goes.

I'm no wallflower!

Another of my Saturated Canary makes coloured with promarkers. This little lady is called Wallflower.

Saturated Canary Breeze.

I'm so loving those Saturated Canary images at the mo and I confess I have bought a heap of them over the past few weeks both digi and rubber! This little lady is called Breeze and she has been coloured with promarkers for a change! The backing papers are Christmas ones and the die cuts are all from Magnolia. The sentiment is one from Lili of the Valley.

I am going to enter this card in to the Passion for Promarkers challenge which is ribbon, lace or twine.