Dream Valley Challenge #203 – Only Boys Allowed

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I love this gamer image from Sheepski Designs, our sponsor this time. So many men are gamers these days that would be an excellent digital image to add to you collection.

I coloured in the image with my chameleon pens and cut it out on my scan n cut machine. I stamped the sentiment from a stamp set I have in my stash and inked up the background behind it. The background paper I also added ink to and stamped with the second generation stamping technique so that the background was muted. I mounted the sentiment onto black card to make it stand out. The controller die cut I had in my stash and I just added some rubbing wax to it.

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#202 Dream Valley challenge – only girls allowed

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I visited Stamp Addicts a couple of weeks ago and picked up these beautiful Cosmic shimmer shimmer shakers (colours by Phil Martin) so of course I had to try them out on a project! The colours are Cornflower Blue, Grass Green, Lush Pink and Heather Meadow. I shook some of the powders onto a piece of white card for the background and spritzed them with water which gave me this beautiful shimmery but subtle piece which I’ve stamped onto.

To colour the main image I tipped a small amount of the powders onto a tile and added a small amount of water to create a beautifully shimmering paint.

The sentiments are stamps I had in my stash which I’ve stamped Ranger archive ink (Jet Black) and using my Tim Holtz / Tonic stamping plate.

I’m really pleased with the result and I hope you enjoyed this project!

#199 Dream Valley challenge – shaped cards

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For this shaped card challenge I chose to make a an octagonal easel card. This shape gave me an opportunity to use my stamping plate and twist the card for each impression of the swirls, but I only line the stamp up once. This is something I’ve been meaning to try for ages but not had chance. Perfect alignment – I was very happy with my first attempt!

I created the shaped card on my scan n cut machine by welding two octagons together. I also cut a further single octagon for the base layer of the front of the card along with two smaller octagons for the topper and the mat below it. The image was coloured with Chameleon pens and the ink around the edges of the card was a distress oxide ink.

#198 Dream Valley challenge – let’s get krafty

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My card this week started life as a kraft card base, but I’ve used distress oxide inks (pickled raspberry, seedless preserve, broken china, evergreen bough and black soot) to create a background along with some stamps I had in my stash. The distress oxide inks give a more opaque background and I like that the black soot isn’t a harsh black. Onto this background I added some die cuts and a sentiment stamp which I created in the same way, with kraft card and distress oxide inks, as the background.

The image from Polkadoodles that I chose to use is “balloon days” with the character “Winnie” as my focal image. I coloured her with Chameleon pens, masked around the balloon and stamped a word stamp over the balloon itself.

#196 Dream Valley – Sparkle and shine

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I chose to water colour this digital image with some sparkle pens I have in my stash so that the sparkle theme was throughout.

You’ll hopefully see the sparkle from this close up!

I had the background paper in my stash from a pixie powder background making session I’d had last year. But as we know we keep these things until we have the right project that comes along. The mica in those powders is certainly sparkly and shiny too.

The ribbon I added to this project is yet another shiny element. I hope that you like the sparkle and shine here as I do.

#195 Dream Valley challenge – Love and Kisses

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The theme for this DT challenge is Love and Kisses. I chose to use this gorjuss girl with her polar bear along with the sentiment “I love you more that all the stars in the sky” and the heart star constellation. Both of these stamps are from Hunkydory. I stamped these with a clear versamark ink and added gold embossing powder and heat embossed them.

#194 Dream Valley challenge – use a doily and a brad

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Brads come in all shapes and sizes these days and on this card I’ve used two. One of them is the dragonfly and the other I’ve used in the centre of the flower. The doily on the other hand was one I cut from the built in patterns on my scan n cut machine along with the two swirls at the top left on the card and the mats.

The image was coloured with Chameleon pens and the card blank is one I cut from Kit and Caboodle.

#193 Dream Valley challenge – Anything goes

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For this challenge I used the digi stamp from our sponsor and also some clear Creative expressions stamps from this set as I felt they went well with the image.

I used my Chameleon pens to colour the image and then the stamps too so that the project was coordinated.

I added this text stamp from the set on the inside of the card.

I haven’t used my Chameleon pens in a while so quite enjoyed blending them here.

#192 Dream Valley Challenge – Christmas

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This huddle of penguins is so cute. They are watercoloured with distress inks.

#191 Dream Valley Challenge – No Squares or Rectangle Cards

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I coloured this cute Star Stampz image with Chameleon pens using colours OR4, OR3, NU4, BG4, BG3, RD3, BV2, PK3, VO2. I’ve seen so many images with hair coloured in non standard colours that I have wanted to give this a go as I tend to stay traditional! I think that this girl carries off the colour what do you think?

As this challenge called for a shape that wasn’t a square or a rectangle I cut the card blank from a die in my stash. Then I cut the image out of a smaller nested die to match.

The card blank was then inked with Milled Lavender and stamped with various abstract stamps in Milled Lavender, Hickory Smoke, Peacock Feathers and Spun Sugar distress inks. These were then inked around the topper image too to tone in with the card base. On the topper I stamped the ‘Just for you ‘ sentiment and used some foam pads to raise the topper slightly from the card base.