Project 231: A slightly funky wedding card

I was asked to make a wedding card for a colleague's wedding for all of us to sign and I was delighted. This guy is great, and his fiancee is a very cool chick, they have a funky retro style and I'm a big fan of them both.

I used this KennyK image as it's so easy to personalize and am entering their Anything Goes challenge. He has jet black hair and a turned up coif while she has ombre orange hair. Yes orange. Not ginger, not trying to be red. Orange. Love it. They are both covered in tattoos and I thought this image allowed opportunities to make it all about them. I also got to use it for my 30 day coloring challenge.

I did a bit of facebook stalking and talking to colleagues to also do some stalking to get a good photo of the bride's left arm. I managed to get a few that showed a star, with a bit of a dashed line and then the top of a heart that leads to a half sleeve with roses and diamonds and some other very cool retro images.

Their wedding scheme is creme and pink and this Neopolitan Recollections pack was perfect - the little greeting is from there as well.

I kept it simple with some candies and a little bit of glitter on the earring and flowers. I think it will work really well and I'm excited to give it to him at his going away party later this week.

Project 229: A colouring challenge round up

I thought I'd share some of the bits and bobs from my 30 day colouring challenge with Claire these last few days. It's been really good fun, trying colored pencils and different markers, relying more on dig stamps than I usually do and generally just having a good old fashioned play in the stash. It's ace.

Here are some hits:

The headline card is the second in a set and started with Fiskars toadstools above, and when I colored them and cut them with a circle die, it was such an easy card to just add a little scallop circle and hand-drawn border that I did it again the next day with a different stamp from the same set. Love, love, love. I want to make two more and make it a set of 4 to give away. This is one for the win.

This is my big-eared bunny cupcake colored with pro markers, and a very very very subtle shading technique on his ears that is so subtle I'm not sure why I bothered! I criticised myself last week for starting but not finishing all that much so this week I wanted to make sure that I tried to make a few cards, no matter how simple. Hence this page!

I found that by just cutting him out and layering him over two simple papers (the bottom is cut to mimic a punch but is actually just cut along the chevron lines) it became a super simple layout, very reminiscent of the cards Claire and I made in our early days. And this layout is still super nice! I think big strip + featured image cut out + border along bottom is classic. Long may it inspire.

And then here's a badass lion from my art therapy colouring book. I'm loving my colouring book. I always have and always will love just colouring in images. And that's what this challenge is all about.

Expect many more colouring book pages this week because I'm travelling for work. I brought my little bag of colored pencils and colouring book on the plane and the stewardesses no doubt thought I was nuts. Ces't la vie!

Project: Song Lyric for MAWTT

This week at Moving Along with the Times we have a song lyric challenge. We want a project that is inspired by or referencing a song. This week we have a prize for the winner - 15 stamps donated by Lena! - so be sure to get involved.

I wanted to make a card for a friend who's little boy is in hospital. He loves space and astronauts so I went for the song Rocket Man, by Elton John, and thought this Bugaboo image was perfect.

I colored the image with ProMarkers and got to do some coloring as part of my coloring challenge. Win.

I layered him over a stitched rounded corner rectangle that Claire gave me. The star paper is from Studio Callico and I think the little banners make it feel more interstellar. The little greeting is from a stamp set that I got at Michael's...I have no idea what brand. But it's got this sentiment which is spot on.

Going in the post today to get to my friend, hope it cheers her and her little boy up.

Can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Project 228: A Cossack Father's Day card

It's unusual for me to say "I'm sorry, you want a card with what on it?!" when I get a brief. But that happened this week when my colleague said, can you make me a Ukranian Cossack card? (Same colleague who gave me the brief for the headline card on this post, actually)

She gave me a few images to work with and I went with this one as it was interesting and I could see it working in a card. Some were too cartoony and I thought wouldn't really work as well. So this is my entry for Day 16 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge.

I colored him with ProMarkers and die cut him into a circle. I layered that on a scallop circle and backed him against a brick wall embossed photo sheet that Claire gave me from her stash. I added some light blue and yellow stars to mimic the Ukranian flag to top it off.

Random but fun, I'd say, as my three word summary of this one!

30 Day Color Challenge - Day 1

This is getting posted late - already slipping - but Claire found this great 30 day colouring challenge and I wanted to get involved.

It's going to be tough to commit. Yes I know, even 10 minutes shouldn't be that hard but it will be! Case in point: this post is going up Tuesday instead of Monday because I had some technical problems and gave up pretty easily.

Sighs.

Anyway, this little green flower is a digital stamp and I colored it with different green ProMarkers. I love this image, it's from Claire and I think it's so cheerful.

I'll be sure to commit and check in later today with the next colored piece!