Sketch Challenge 47

Materials used:-

Woodware ADS509 Celtic Circle & Holly

Perfect Prints paper pad "Tis the Season"

Versafine Olympic Green

Sakura coloured pencils

Mark Richards Elements (red)

Glossy Accents

5" x 7" cream card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

It's that time of the month again & our 47th Sketch challenge. I've kept it very simple this week, probably because I'm all behind because of doing prep for demos & workshops but don't tell anyone!! I've used "Celtic Circle & Holly" by ADS stamped with Versafine & softly coloured with a green pencil. I've created the layers with papers from one of the new Christmas Perfect Prints pads & added Elements & Glossy accents to the berries. Here's the original sketch.

Christmas Animals

Materials used:-

Stampendous HouseMouse HMCP02
Candy Joy
Perfect Prints pad "Holiday Cheer"
Dreamweaver die DL3005 Holly & Swirls
Sakura coloured pencils
Sakura "Koi" water bruch pens
Versafine Vintage Sepia
Red Gingham ribbon
Christmas red Stickles
Peel off 93445 Silver
Permipen peel off marker pens
Glossy Accents
8" x8" white card blank 
All available from:-
www.woodware.co.uk 
Your local Exmouth stockist is:-
Liberty Craft
33 Exeter Road
Exmouth EX8 1PT
01395 273238
libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

We're looking at all things cute & cuddly this week & what better than the HouseMouses. I've used a large square card blank & made a "parcel" with papers from one of the new Christmas Perfect Prints pads. The mice have been stamped with Versafine & softly coloured with pencils & I've mounted it with a die cut frame of red mirror card. The holly sprays come from the great Dreamweaver holly die with red Stickles for the berries.I have used white pearl for the die & coloured with Koi pens. To finish I've coloured a peel off with permanent pens & mounted this onto 2 sizes of the "Ornate Bracket" punches. I've also covered the candy canes with Glossy Accents to give them a hard glossy coating & a few dots of red Stickles as a background to the mice.

Flourishes

Materials used:

FRS197 Retro Snowflake

JGS405 Going Around in Circles

Magenta K0537 Buds & Flourishes

Magenta Chipboard Florishes

Detail Silver embossing powder

Lavender organza ribbon

Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue & Purple

Dreamweaver Metallic FX Moonstone

Silver mirror card

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

Continuing our canter into all things Christmas this week the theme is "Flourishes" so I have made a "masterboard". I've made one of the new snowflake designs by Francoise Read  (there are others too!) the main image for my design & I've embossed with silver powder. When this was done I've sponged all over the piece of flat white 8" x 8" card with the Brilliance colours. Next over stamp using the Magenta stamp & Brilliance purple. I've taken 2 Magenta chipboard swirls & embossed them silver too & added a bow from Lavender organza ribbon. The sentiment has been borrowed from Jane Gill's "Fluffy Robin" ( JGS415) & also embossed. The embellishments you see here have been made by pressing some of the images from "Going Around in Circles" into a blob of hot glue from a glue gun (on a hot sheet). Leave to cool for a while before removing the stamp & them dust with Metallic FX. To finish I've mounted onto a piece of silver mirror card & I think this is going to become "December" for my calendar!      

The Mirror Crack'd Challenge- A Wall Hanging

 Materials used:-

JGS415 Fluffy Robin

JGS414 Deck the Halls

JGS304 Kim's Coppice

Woodware Craft Canvas

Dreamweaver leaf die

Sakura coloured pencils

Versafine Onyx Black, Olympic green & Spanish green

Fluffy Stuff

Stickles Stardust

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk 

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

 Other products used:

Stix2 Transfer foils

Stix2 die cut S/A sheet (Ultra sticky)

Stix2 "Create Your Own Craft Calendar"  

Distress inks

This week we join the crafty ladies from The Mirror Crack'd for their challenge & this time we've been asked for a wall hanging. Well I'm creating my own calendar for next year so what better for a wall hanging? I started by taking a piece of 8" x 8" craft canvas & giving it a colour wash with shades of blue,green & brown ink pads. When this was thoroughly dry (I left it over night but you can speed things up with a heat gun- gently!) I stamped our lovely robin using Versafine black. I coloured with Sakura pens & then stamped the background using images from "Deck the Halls"  around the edges with the 2 shades of Versafine green. I masked the robin to stamp the groups of trees from "Kim's Coppice" behind it & the apt sentiment for a calendar also comes from this set. The leaves in the bottom right corner have been die cut with the Dreamweaver die & foiled. As I intend to use this design for my January page I have added some touches of Fluffy Stuff & Stardust Stickles for a wintry, frosty look. To finish I have layered onto dark brown card.

Here's how the calendar looks

Why not pop over to The Mirror Crack'd to see what the design team have come up with.