Dream Valley Challenge #219 – Hand coloured image

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The main focal image is by Stamps by me from the Thanks for everything A5 stamp collection. I stamped this onto one of the Tattered Lace nested note papers dies. I masked the flower I’d stamped and used distress oxide – Pumice stone to stamp with Elizabeth Craft Designs, planner essentials stamps patterns 2 and I also used the same ink to “smudge” the background a little and soften the background. The flower itself was coloured with Conte water colour pencils and a water brush. To finish I stamped around the backing paper and added a sentiment.

I hope you like my hand coloured card.

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Dream Valley Challenge #218 – Love

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for this challenge the design team were all given one image. It’s amazing how many different creations come from one image. This hopefully gives you some inspiration to take an image and make it your own.

Dream Valley Challenge #217 – Spots and Dots

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For this challenge I’ve chosen to use a combination of Spectrum Noir and Chameleon pens to colour this cute image. The Spectrum Noir pens I used were IG1, IG2, IG4, LV3, LV2, LV1, PL5, PL4, PL2 and the Chameleon pens I used were PK4, PK5, VO4, PR4. I’ve stamped a sentiment onto the corner of the image mat and then drawn some framing lines with a Zig pen. The image and the grey spotted mat are both matted onto black card and then the base card (which is also spotted).

Dream Valley Challenge #214 – Favourite colour combo

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So for this challenge we were asked to use our favourite colour combo. As you can see my favourite colour combo is pink and purple (or blue and purple). It just depends on the day!

I coloured in this Polkadoodles digital image “heart on your sleeve” with my Chameleon pens. I’ve been wanting to use this die for a while and I knew I would need a background with a good contrast to the white 7×7″ 300gsm base card and also to the coloured mage. I inked this beautiful Spectrum Noir card with some Distress Oxide ink to tone it down so that it softened the harshness of the black. Then I buffed the background up with a dry baby wipe to bring out the glossy pattern and die cut the sentiment into it.

Dream Valley Challenge #212 – Add a sentiment

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I used Autumn Owlet for this challenge and added the stamped sentiment “Have a hoot on your birthday “.

After printing off this digital image I chose to colour it in with my Chameleon pens and then inked the background lightly with Antique linen distress ink just to take the whiteness away from being so harsh in the background.

I layered this up and made a card blank to fit from some centura pearl card. To finish I had a couple of feathers in my stash with similar colours which I made up some time ago, from a brusho and gold lacquer back ground, so I added these to the side for interest.

Dream Valley Challenge #211 – CAS

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LeAnns world 101 is our sponsor this week so I’ve used one of their stamps called ‘Rainy Day Suzie’. I kept this really simple as the CAS theme suggests, so I printed the image, coloured it with Chameleon pens and added some glossy accents to the rain.

I die cut this into a topper and inked around the topper faintly with a Dovecraft silver ink pad. I found a plain and simple background paper so as not to distract from the image, but to compliment and co-ordinate with the topper, stamped the sentiment onto it and stuck this onto my base card.

Clean And Simple – CAS

Dream Valley Challenge #210 – Things with wings

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Things with wings usually conjures up ideas of fairies and birds. I wanted to do something different so I chose Batman! A male card for a change!

I’ve had these toppers and coordinating paper pack for a while and it’s always good to use up things in our stash! We’re crafters and we always have stash lying around (I mean neatly packed away) in our craft room.

Dream Valley Challenge #209 – Autumn colours

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The image I’ve used is called “coffee break”. I printed the image into some white card and below the image I stamped the sentiment “Don’t let life ruffle your feathers”. Below this I lined up a die to give the pretty bottom to the topper. I cut this to make it a long section to fit onto the front of a 5×7 kraft card which I inked with some distress oxides. The same oxides I also used around the image to tone the white card I’d printed onto in with the inked base card and the coloured image. I chose some of my Chameleon pens (YO2, BR3, BR1, NU3, NG4, OR3, NU4, YO3, BR5, RD5, BR2, BR4, NU1 and NU00) to colour the image in tones of autumn.

I wanted to give some interest to the background of the card base as inked it just looked too plain. I had some leaves I’d previously cut and coloured in my stash so I inked these with the residual ink on the inkers and them I stuck them down and formed a more interesting background.

I’m entering this into Pammies Inky Pinkies #1936 challenge.

Dream Valley Challenge #208 – buttons and/or a bow

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Buttons and a bow were needed for this challenge and I managed to use them! I chose the background paper first in this project and then used the coordinating colours from my Chameleon pens. I stamped the sentiment and inked around the edge with distress oxide ink. I stuck the girl to the side of the sentiment and mounted this slightly off centre so that my bow could go to the left of the image and the buttons to the right.

Dream Valley Challenge #206 – Christmas in July

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For this challenge I’ve chosen to use a tattered lace cutting file. I’ve been looking at this file for a while so it was great to have an excuse to use it. My mums favourite bird is a robin and I love them too. This file just gives a crafty twist to the robin.

In the background I’ve stamped with a couple of festive sprigs in two tones of green, and also on the side with a festive word stamp. I love this stamp as it’s simple, but looks great.

I’m entering this into: PIP challenge 1930 – Wings