Paper Smooches Sparks - Anything Goes

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks.... we're back to an 'Anything Goes' challenge this week and we love to see how creative you are with your Paper Smooches stamps and dies :0)

This week I had fun colouring the Monster from Falling for you.... he's such a lovely shape to shade :0)

I've made a small cut around his hand and arm so he could hold onto the paintbush from Spring Fling..... he's quite the little artist as you can see :0)
The sentiment and easel are from I Heart Art.... love how Paper Smooches sets can be mixed together!!

Here are the links to my teamies playing along this week too

Alice

Angeline

Erin

Jenny

Savannah

We love to see you playing along... you'll find all the details over at the PS Sparks blog, see you in the gallery :0)

Jenny x

What.... No Lines!!!

Hello y'all :0)
I'm a bit late but... Pinch and a Punch new challenge for the month!!! Yep over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store we have a brand new challenge and we are asking you to try a new technique or re-visit an old technique you haven't tried for a while.... let's see if we can get some new trends going..Lol :0)
                                                           

I opted for trying something new..... 'no-line' colouring with my Promarkers.... it's a technique I've admired from the sidelines and thought I'd try one day so what better time to do it!!

I chose a small image with not too many colours or details, it was quite tricky as you really notice how the pens bleed outside the stamped line!! This was the second attempt as you can see below... I personally found it better to start with the dark shadows, building up to the lighter areas and adding small hints of texture helps to bring the image to life too :0)

I used Memento Desert Sand to stamp the turtle and the balloons ...  taking the black line safety net away was scary!!! Lol.
Well that was fun...something I would try again and perhaps be a little more adventurous with colours too... we'd love you to join in with the challenge, you can check out the details here :0)

Thanks for stopping by
Jenny x

Celebrate with a Wonky Cake!!!

Hello there :0)
How about a calorie free birthday cake to tempt you into the new week???...
if only *wink*!!!... it's a bit wonky too but that's on purpose, pretty much like my own Victoria sponges sometimes..hehehe. Actually they're much better since we had a new oven fitted which is LEVEL..quite an important requirement for baking!!!

The square sentiment in Cake and Candles just reminded me of a layered cake so I embossed it on three different colloured cardstocks... did you spy the jam and cream middle :0)
I was inspired by the current sketch over at the AEIHeartU challenge blog so I layered three strips of washi tape to ground my cake and added candles from AE Fill the Blanks stamp set along with stars and confetti :0)

             
Right, all this talk of cake has made me feel quite peckish... shame I haven't any cake in the house, a coffee and biscuit will have to do :0)

Jenny x