Words of encouragement

This week over at Sentimental Sundays we want you to use Words of Encouragement! We are kindly sponsored by the Digi Doodle Shop. The design team very kindly got an image to play with and I chose this gorgeous wolf set. I only used one of the wolfs in the set.

I die cut the wolf out into a circle. I created a mask for the wolf and used this and a circle mask to allow me to ink up the sky. I then used my watercolour pencils to colour the wolf.

I embossed some core’dinations with a script folder (more words – get it ;p) and tore it down to size and inked it it. I stamped my sentiment and tore it out also. I love the sentiment – The journey to finding one’s self is the most rewarding.

Make sure to stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog for some amazing words of encouragement from the rest of the design team!

Crafty Fun!

I recently got a set of water soluble oil pastels, and let me tell you they sure are fun (and delightfully messy)! I got them here. I love working with oil pastels but get annoyed trying to blend with them sometimes. The water soluble ones are just fantastic, you can use them as normal pastels or add a wash of water over the top to blend out the colour or blend colours together. You can even dip them directly into water and draw with the wet pastel.

I got a new art journal with a paintable cover. I decided to alter it using the pastels. I then stencilled over it to give some dimension and texture. I cant wait to get started on the inside of the journal now!

The pastels allow you to get really vibrant colours and also more muted colours too, super versatile! Below is the complete cover.

Lace and pearls

This week at Sentimental Sundays we are looking to see your projects using Lace and Pearls! We are sponsored by Saturated Canary and the design team got to pick out an image to work with. It was a tough decision as all the images are so adorable. I chose the Alice image, she is so cute!

My sentiment is tucked in behind the lace doily on a tag, here is a view of it….

Mothers day

This week at Paper Play Challenges we want to see your creations for “For a Mother” - or any female relative – you can make a Mother’s Day project – or something for an aunt/sister/grandmother! We are sponsored this week by Crafty Cutting, who have given us a beautiful prize package!!

and this week’s winner gets this fab chipboard kit:

I created a wine bottle label to put on a bottle for my mum as part of her present.

Lets get sentimental!

Hi all, just a quick post from me today. I am still recovering from laser eye surgery and trying to rest my eyes and not spend too much time on the computer! This week at Sentimental Sundays we want to get Sentimental – we want the focus to be on the sentiment! We are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps.

Make sure to stop by Sentimental Sundays and check out the amazing creations the rest of the design team has created for you!

Throw some shapes….

This week at Sentimental Sundays we want to see shaped cards – no squares or rectangles, and make sure you include a sentiment! We are sponsored this week by Bugaboo Stamps. I used their adorable Bunny Love 2 image to create my shaped card….

Make sure to stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog to see the rest of the design teams amazing shaped creations!!

Love Letters….

This week at PaperPlay Challenges we want to see your love letters Your projects do not necessarily have to be Valentines themed, just love themed! We are sponsored this week by Stamp Fairy. I used one of the adorable Toby Love images on my card, he is so cute!

I made a letter full of love, good play on the theme dont you reckon! Thanks for stopping by, and make sure to check out the rest of the design teams work!