March Sketch Challenge and a Special Birthday

Hi there,
I'm playing catch up to let you know about the new challenge over at Seven Hills Crafts for the month of March. We have a sketch this time around which has a lot of scope for interpretation...

                                                   

I have to admit that Mr Mojo was absent when I made my card and I went for a fairly literal copy of the sketch...

I used the MFT Balloon Strings background on its side to make a wavy ocean and then cut slits along the lines to allow the critters to pop their heads through the water... in hindsight I'm wondering if I should have gone for the more traditional blue ocean and embossed the lines in white!! Hmm the jury's still out on that one!

If you'd like to join in with this months challenge just click here for more details and the linky tool.

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Monday was my brothers birthday.. yep, he's a leap year baby and this year was the big 40 so I had to make him a reminder card with the appropriate numbers on it. I practised some no-line water-colouring with this little guy from Stamping Bella....

This is Nacho and on the packaging he's coloured brown but my brothers little dog is a black and white terrier x so I went for the caricature style image.... I thought that expression was perfect for his card too ;)

and here's the inside... just to make him feel better ;)

More details and products used can be found over at the Seven Hills blog here :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

A Sepia Moment

I'm just popping by to share my DT card for Make the Day Special blog. I had to have this adorable couple by Stamping Bella... I'm more comfortable colouring animals than people but this image just appealed to me and the colour picture on the packaging just inspired me to give it a go too :)

I went for sepia tones because they look like they should be in a photograph which is also why I chose the 'wallpaper' style background paper ;) The sentiment is from Everyday Greetings by Mama Elephant... there are quite a few in that set that you could use with this happy pair who are totally lost in the moment :)

Thanks for stopping by
Jenny x