Furry Friends at Deep Ocean Challenge

Good evening! I'm here  with the latest inspiration for the Deep Ocean Challenge blog.

This fortnight our challenge theme is 'Furry Friends', so I've given Tilda with Maggie the Monkey another inking up, but this time I went with pencils and a bit of a darker skintone to go with these lovely Lili of the Valley papers I used.

I'm afraid I don't have the pencil colours used this time, I coloured this up several days ago and have been quite unwell with a chest infection since ....and back at work this week, so I just haven't had a chance to work out what I used, but she was coloured with Polychromos pencils. I rather like the way she turned out.  I'm a lot happier with this paper, which is Stonehenge, the only downside is that it doesn't have as much of a 'tooth' to it, so colouring with a light pressure is much harder.

I added lots of lovely embellishments from my stash, many of these are from the Ribbon Girl

The sentiment is also from Lili of the Valley.

Right that's all from me today, I'm off to curl up with a hot drink, don't forget to check out my teamies wonderful makes and we'd love to see you enter something!

TTFN :) xx

Red Riding Hood

Good evening! I'm very late with my post today as my daughter has been visiting and we've been spending mother daughter time together until she went home today (and I'm missing her already). So it was a big rush to get this ready in time. 

Luckily I already had the image coloured as I was practicing my pencil work.  I have to admit that while I'm happy with my colouring I will redo the image as the paper (which was one of several I bought to try out, ended up being far too soft for this technique and as you can see the paper started coming away and 'splitting' a little. Which doesn't look tooooo bad on the cloak as it looks a little like velvet, but I'm not happy with it so I will redo and replace the image on the card later.

Colours used:

Skin: 285, 179, 188, 189, 132, 132, 103, 101, 131(blush)
Hair:, 199, 274, 271, 270, 101
Outfit: 199, 274, 271, 225, 219, 121, 101

I went for a slightly darker look here, some of the Brother's Grimm tales are quite gruesome, so I added in some black and the clock? well I kept remembering that old school playground game 'What's the Time Mr Wolf' lol.

I used the following products:

Red Riding Hood Stamp

Maja Design Crea Diem - It is Written Script Side

Maja Design A Gift for You - Cause you're my Angel (Gingham side)

Reverse Wonky Rectangle Nestie
Wrought Iron Fence Die

Steampunk Clock Die

The ribbon, charm, lace and pearl trim are all from the Ribbon Girl

Well that's it from me today, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! :) xx

Casey in Pencils

Happy hump day! Very quick share from me today as I've been suffering with a really awful cold this week and have even been home from work as I felt that bad, very unusual for me.

I experimented with colouring using Polychromos Pencils this weekend, Casey was ideal I thought to try them out as she's really quite quick to colour, and while there is a lot of work still to be done (lots more depth to be achieved I think), she turned out well enough to go on a card.

The beautiful papers are from Maja, Fika collection, love these.

The beautiful butterfly is from Karla's Kreative Korner.

The lovely bling on the bow is from The Handcrafted Card Company

I finished of the inside quite simply, with matching paper, a little seam binding and lace to match the front and a large blank oval for writing a message.

Casey Rubber Stamp
La-La Land Birdcage Die
Butterfly Embellishment - She Daydreams
Ophelia 50 mm embroidered ivory tulle lace
Mauve Mist vintage style seam binding
Cheesecloth Fabric
Rolled Rose Purple/Violet
Lilac 30 mm Wild Rose
Lily Flowers Small Pale Pink
Sweetheart Blossom Baby Pink and White
Pretty Blossom Purple/Violet
Cosmos Daisy Flower Deep Pink
Beaded Lavender Gypsophalia
Purple Round Pins
Heart Pins Pink

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop



Right that's all from me today, but I'll see you all again on Friday and if I can stop sniffing and sneezing for long enough I'll try and drop by your blogs this weekend and leave some love.

Take care! :) xx