Show your Spots..

This week at Sentimental Sundays we are challenging you to Show your Spots – and include a sentiment. We have an added bonus for you this week however. You must follow the weekly theme, but if you use the BONUS provided, you get to enter your entry twice. This week the entry is a sketch. The sketch was designed by me too, I hope people like it!

We are kindly sponsored by Doodle Pantry this week. I used their adorable Watermelon Lunch set on my card. I used the image and their matching digi papers too.

And here is my take on my own sketch!

Make sure to stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog to check out the rest of the teams super cute projects!

Double Delight

This week at PaperPlay Challenges our challenge is Double Delight. We want you to use two of something on your project. We are sponsored this week by In 2 Stamps.

I created a clean and simple vintage wedding card. A mind boggling combo but you have to do what you are asked right?!

The lovely Prima papers took care of the vintage aspect. I then kept it very simple with a die cut stamped with a sentiment. My double delight is the two butterflies with a touch of bling.

Make sure to check out the rest of the design teams work, as always they have created beautiful work!

Altered Canvas Fun?!

I picked up a mini canvas on sale a few weeks ago and decided I wanted to play with it. I coloured it with alcohol inks and then stamped a motorcycle stamp all over it. I then used embossing powder (WOW Embossing powder - blueberry) to distress up the edges. I then painted a small slip of wood and embossed the edges of that also (WOW Embossing powder – pepper). I stamped and embossed the sentiment (WOW Embossing powder - black). I stamped another message on the bottom right corner too. To add a bit more impact to the sentiment I die cut two cogs and embossed a flourish pattern on them (WOW Embossing powder - paprika).

In my head I pictured this working out totally differently, but that’s art for you isn’t it! I wanted it to be a mini inspirational canvas for a guy I know who loves motorbikes. I am not sure I really like how it has worked out but I will live with it for a while and see. I can always paint over it!

Close up of the side

I am entering this into the WOW Embossing Powder challenge which is for masculine projects. I also used lots of their earth tone embossing powders on my project.

Thanks for stopping by!

Issue 10 out now!

Its here – issue 10!! Click on the image below to read it….

It is a bumper issue, packed full of tutorials, products, challenges and inspiring ideas. We have a fantastic new swap challenge in this issue, along with our design team announcement!!

Enjoy and as always tell us what you like seeing and what you want to see more of!!

Pocket Full of Posies

This week on Sentimental Sundays we are all about having a Pocket full of posies – use flowers on your project! Make sure to include a sentiment too. We are sponsored this week by Digi Doodle Shop & Crafty City.

I used the cute Butterfly and Thistle image from Digi Doodle Shop on my card. I used some lovely papers from Glitz Design (the Vintage Blue line). My flowers on my project are on my papers and my image.

Make sure you stop by Sentimental Sunday and check out the dt’s work!

 

Whimsical!

Welcome to our new Sentimental Sundays challenge for this week. This week we are all about being Whimsical- with a sentiment of course! We are sponsored by A Day For Daisies.

I used an adorable image called Dragon Gifts. I coloured it with my Inktense pencils and added some shimmer to the dragon and the fairy wings with perfect pearls. I am having great fun using my pencils and figuring out how how to get shading effects etc. But its fun practising!!

I fussy cut the image out – it took quite a while! I then glued the bottom of the image (the lower part of the grass strip) directly to the card base that I had inked up blue for sky. The rest of the image I raised up with foam dots to make it look like the grass, fairy and dragon were popping off the card….

Thanks for stopping by. Make sure to check out the rest of the design teams stunning creations!

Destruction!

This week at PaperPlay Challenges our theme is Destruction! We want to see distressing, ripping, tearing – go mad on those papers! We are kindly sponsored by Destination Art.

I had fun altering a little notebook to keep in my bag. I distressed and inked the edges of my papers and then tore the top layer to reveal the paper underneath. The papers are BoBunny’s Weekend Market, I love them!!

Have fun with this challenge, its a super fun one!

Digital collage tag

This is my first ever attempt at creating a digital collage. Retro Cafe Art Gallery have a fantastic Las Vegas themed freebie up on offer at the moment. To enter simply download the free collage sheet and use it through any medium you like and then post a picture of your creation on their FB wall. Simple and fun!

I created my tag in Photoshop and used some vintage splatter brushes to age it up a bit. I then cropped out parts of the collage sheet and applied them to the tag. I am not the best at Photoshop but I am happy enough with this for my first attempt at a digital collage!

Birthday Time!

This week at Sentimental Sundays our theme is Birthday – use embellishments that begin with B! We are kindly sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps….

The design team got images to play with – lucky us I picked out the adorable Birthday Penguin with cupcake for on my card. He is holding balloons to fit the B theme and I added a double bow and a button too. I added glossy accents to the balloons to make them look dimensional and also some stickles for sparkle on my cupcake. I also added glossy accents to the polka dots on the cupcake wrapper and to the penguins beak.

Thanks for stopping by, and make sure to check out the rest of the DT’s adorable work!

Chipboard!

This week at Paper Play Challenges the theme is Chipboard – use chipboard on your project. We are kindly sponsored by Crafty Cutting. It is not actually my turn to play along with the design team this week, but I had this adorable mini album from Crafty Cutting so I just couldn’t resist!

I painted it pink and used some old Basic Grey papers to decorate it with, along with some flowers and embellishments. I have yet to add a title on it however. I covered the inside pages in a similar manner matting the BG papers in the centre. I also added some tags and extra non chipboard pages too. Very cleverly I forgot to take more pictures though :/

Make sure to check out the rest of the design teams creations, I love all the variety you can get with chipboard!