There was such a hullabaloo going on…

Sharing a sweet card featuring a Lili of the Valley image called James Big Sign.

For the layout of the card I’ve followed the current sketch at Cheerful Sketches.  While there are plenty of layers on the sketch, I couldn’t help but add more by double matting all of them.  It produced a satisfyingly heavy card, one of the things I love about a handmade card!

At Pearly Sparkles they want to see something beginning with “B” on your cards.  With my cute bear I am sweet on that theme so I’m linking up there.  As the image I’ve used is a digi I’m also entering my card over at Little Red Wagon.

Ingredients:

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors ~ No. 44 Light Brown, No. 46 Brown & No. 47 Dark Brown

Kuretake Fudebiyori Metallic Pen ~ Gold

Kuretake Zig Mangaka 01 Pen ~ Black

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal White

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Gathered Twigs & Hickory Smoke

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

BoBunny Double Dot Vintage ~ Sunflower

Glitz Joyeux Noël ~ Banner, Floral & Santa

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Cherry Cobbler

Tonic Studios Mirror Card ~ Polished Gold

Stamps

Lili of the Valley ~ James Big Sign

Challenges

Cheerful Sketches ~ August

Little Red Wagon #508 ~ Digi Do!

Pearly Sparkles #43 ~ Something Beginning with "B"

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Sukhāsana

A friend at work is having a birthday and when I saw the lovely Yoga Pose Juno from Paola’s Papers I instantly thought of her so it seemed fitting to make a card for her featuring this image.

I wanted it to look like Juno was almost floating in the air so I’ve placed her on some clear plastic and framed that with a Nestie.  To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 twice as I’ve made an easel card.  On the top part of my card I omitted the rectangular element, basically to give me the clear background and the floating effect.  On the bottom part of the card I flipped the sketch so the rectangular and oval elements were in a landscape rather than portrait orientation.  On both the top and bottom I added a second embellie to give some balance and mostly to fill the extra space I had on the top from moving the oval element high enough to create the floating effect.

I was umming and ahhing about the colours to do this, I hadn’t coloured up Juno’s outfit before I started the card base (something quite unusual for me) but luckily Deep Ocean is having a colour challenge and it is brown and blue (hopefully obvious from my card).  These seemed the perfect colours for the serene feel I was going for so I raided my paper stash and found some lovely subtly patterned blues and browns.

I did want to make this just that little bit more special so I figured some bling to help fill the space on the top half was called for.  Fortunately I had some Chocolate Jewels in my stash that fit perfectly.  With my bit of bling I am also entering this in the current challenge at Crafting Musketeers.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B23, B24, B37, B39, B41

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Decorative Ovals

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Chocolate

Kaisercraft Rub-ons ~ Enchanted Garden

The Paper Studio Spare Parts ~ Printed Kraft Flowers

Petaloo Darjeeling Printed Collection ~ Wild Blossoms Soft Grey

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Sky Blue

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Vintage Photo & Weathered Wood

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Java & Typhon

Bazzill ~ Clear Plastic Paper

Lili of the Valley ~ Country Gent & Country Lady

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 5th of April & 6th of April

Ribbons & Trims etc

BoBunny Lace ~ Natural Earth

Live and Love Crafts Lace ~ Pastello Blue

Stamps

Paola’s Papers ~ Yoga Pose Juno

Challenges

Crafting Musketeers #20 ~ “Use Bling”

Deep Ocean #92 ~ “Blue and Brown”

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 ~ Sketch #36

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…That perches in the soul

This is my second card for someone on the Simply B Stamps’ Fan Page who has cancer and I have again used Go Pink Betty.

To make up my card I followed the sketch at Stamps & Fun = Creativity and have gone with a mostly teal theme as this is the colour for ovarian cancer.  Love my layers and there are plenty with this sketch design and they are also the theme over at Sentimental Sundays so I’m entering my card there.  This time my sentiment is a rub-on, which I thought was fitting.

Now you can’t have a card to cheer someone up without some bling so I added in some Prima crystals for a bit of sparkle and also added in some glitter to Betty’s shoes and the ribbons.  With my glittery elements I am also entering my card in the current challenge at Creative Knockouts.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E21, E23, E25, E27, E30

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E30, E31, E33, Y28

Outfit BG11, BG49, BG53, BG57

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Rub-ons ~ Enchanted Garden

Prima Say it in Crystals ~ Forever Green

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Sky Blue & Turquoise

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Faded Jeans, Old Paper & Weathered Wood

Papers

BoBunny Weekend Market ~ Around The World

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Pine Needles

Lili of the Valley ~ Antebellum

Reprint Hobby Summer Wings ~ My Rose Garden

Ribbons & Trims etc

Teal Satin Ribbon from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Go Pink Betty

Challenges

Creative Knockouts #65 ~ All That Glitters

Sentimental Sundays #235 ~ Lots of Layers

Stamps & Fun = Creativity #227 ~ Sketch

 

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