Pen and Paperie: Challenges

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Cherry Topped Wishes

This little card features the sweet Wryn with a Cherry on Top from Tiddly Inks.

As this was for a little girl’s birthday, I used a lot of brightly coloured papers and shades of pink. I also remembered to leave enough room when I printed my image to be able to use a die to cut a nice frame around it. I love the embossed border from the Spellbinders’ die as it allows you to then put a coloured frame around the die-cut shape, although my chalking technique needs some work to keep it even!

Tiddly Inks are having a “use a Wryn” challenge so I’m entering my card in that challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E02, (E93 cheeks)

Hair E21, E23, E27, E29

Dress R24, R46, R59, R89, RV000, RV00, RV02

Cherry R24, R46, R59, G03, G05

Cupcake wrapper E50, E51, E53, E55

Icing RV000, RV00, RV02

Embellishments

Webster’s Pages Whimsey lotus blooms

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities A2 Curved Matting Basics

Paper

Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Spring 6x6 paper

Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love collection Magnolia of Paris paper

Pink cardstock

Stamps

Cherry on TopWryn

Challenges

Tiddly Inks Challenge #110 Use a Wryn

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment, I’d love to hear your thoughts :-)

Monday, 13 May 2013

A Top Tea Party

I’ve something a little different to share with you today, a top hat. It doesn’t look that much from the front, does it? And why does it have a lid you ask?

Here’s the side view showing the gorgeous Rio N Toots Tea Party stamp from Simply B Stamps.

I’ve got a thing for tea parties (as does the recipient of this special top hat) and hats (even though I don’t wear them myself) so I just love this image. It’s modeled on Betty’s own daughter, Rio, and her outfit for a recent school dance. The pins are ones I made up, there’s a mushroom in the teapot as a nod to my little avatar, Emily Shroom.

I’ve never made a top hat before but that didn’t stop me altering the pattern for this one from Laura de la Rosa on the Graphic 45 blog. I’ve also never made a mini album before but I’m always up for a challenge so altering the top hat pattern to include a mini album inside was just par for the crafting course with me. Here’s what’s hiding under the lid.

This piece took a lot of work, all of the weekend just gone to be precise so it deserves a pile it on challenge entry so, to that end, I’m entering it into the following challenges:

Divas by Design – Anything Goes

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog Challenge #5 – Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes, with an option of two stamps

Penny’s Challenges Challenge 126 – Diecuts and/or punches

Pile It On #19 – For a Teen

Simply Create Too Challenge #37 – Anything Goes

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin Rio E000, E00, E01, (E93 cheeks) / Toots YR12, YR14, YR16, 0, YR20, YR21, YR23 Spica Clear

Eyes E23, E25, E27

Lips Rio R24, R46