Freestyling with Florals

Well my new Mama Elephant goodies arrived last week... just in the middle of the half-term hols!!!  Luckily I had a chance to play with the Freestyle Florals set yesterday afternoon whilst hubby was out getting soaked with the mutt and the boy was happily watching his fave TV programme ;)

I'm sharing both these cards on my DT blog post today over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store and they were inspired by a few challenges out there in blogland at the moment so I best get them entered.

My first card is for Colour Me, which has a gorgeous pallette this week and just look at the graphic to go with it...Yum!!! It also follows the sketch at Retro Sketches this week too...
                                      

I used distress inks to colour these... they are fast becoming my favourite way of watercolouring because they are so forgiving :)


My next project is for the Monochrome challenge at CASology....apologies if you don't like the colour green!!...Lol

Not as happy with this but it's okay... tried using proper watercolours and there's definitely a difference in the way you use them!! Love the vellum sentiment strip though, it softens the edge between the florals and the block of colour :)
                                                           

Well that's all from me... need to get the washing out whilst the sun is shining and before the showers arrive later!!
Jenny x

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Designer Drafts Week

It's Sunday so it must be Paper Smooches Sparks challenge time... 

two weeks away and it feels so much longer!!! 

This week is a sketch challenge and I reckon you're going 

to have some fun with it.... don't you always!!??

....flip it, turn it or even shrink it, which is just what I decided to do.....

That large panel in the sketch was a bit scary for me so I scaled it down and turned it into an aperture using the inner square from the Quote tag dies.... I covered the little speech bubble bit up with the kite from Sunny Side up  :)

It was good to do some colouring and fussy cutting again, feels like a while since I have!! The clouds have simple shading and the sentiment is from We Totally Click... it seemed a good match for the brightly coloured kite :)

Here are the links to my teamies playing along, please go and check out their awesome cards too..

Alice, Lisa, Erin, Jenny, Savannah

All the details on how to play are on the Sparks blog here, hope to see you in the gallery :0)

... and in case you didn't know, if you live in the UK you can find Paper Smooches stamps at Make the Day Special Stamp Store :)
Jenny x

Love Ewe!!

I'm popping by today with a card for the Less is More Challenge blog, Chrissie and the ladies are celebrating the blogs 4th birthday and whilst I don't seem to have time to play along as much as I'd like I wanted to join in for this milestone challenge :0)
As always, the beginning of the month is a colour challenge and this week it's.... PINK & GREY :)

Let me introduce you to Seamus... he's from a new-to-me stamp set by Janes Doodles, he's the cutest sheep around and full of a lot of love too :0) He comes with a few sentiments but I thought, seeing as his arms/legs were outstretched, he could simply hold his own sentiment banner.... I had to cut the heart and letters for him though!!

To make the soft grey background I stamped and masked his white fleecy bits *wink* ...before using a Warm Grey Promarker in the Tim Holtz Spritzer tool... it makes such a soft background which I couldn't achieve with inking.

I'm also popping him in over at CASology this week for the LOVE cue word... gotta love when these challenges just work together :)
                                                          
Congrats to Chrissie and the DT ladies past and present and here's to many more anniversaries!!

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x