Pen and Paperie: Sassy Design Studios

Monday, 2 November 2015

I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I can handle this

My card today features Megara Honey from Sassy Design Studios and has been made for the current challenge at Colouring in Scrapland, where I have the pleasure of being a guest DT.

The theme is inspired by a movie and their sponsor is Sassy Design Studios. I’ve gone with Disney’s Hercules. I really want the Tim Holtz Paper Mosaic Kit but don’t have it yet so I had to improvise for my Grecian inspired background. I printed my background using the tile texture in Photoshop and then used the printed ‘grout’ line as my cutting lines. I used white modelling paste for grout, which dries really fast so I had to work in very small sections. When I was finished I covered my ‘tiles’ in Diamond Glaze. I have to say I am really happy with how it turned out.

Here is a close up of the image and mosaic.

Inspired by the Grecian urns in the movie, I found a die in my collection that had the right pattern and cut my circles. I went for a circle easel card to create a bit of a theatrical background for my image, a nod to the movie inspiration. For my embellies I used some Tim Holtz Idea-ology Boxwood Twine as a proxy for the laurel leaves the gods wear and painted my flowers blue to match the background, which features a scene from the actual movie.

As I have a white frame and background to my base (bit hard to tell in the photo that has come up a bit yellow), I am entering my card in the current just add W challenge at Just Add Ink. With my very circular shape I am also entering my card in the current challenge at C.R.A.F.T. Over at Moving Along With the Times they are looking for leaves on projects, I have those with my Boxwood Twine so I am also linking my card up there.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes V0000, V01, V05

Lips R81, R83, R85

Hair E11, E13, E25, E17, E18

Outfit RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ LF-114 Grand Circles & LF-019 Grand Stately Circles

Embellishments

I Am Roses ~ Lily (LY1-15)

ScrapBerry’s ~ Stemmed White Lily

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Boxwood Twine

Inks & Paints etc

Judikins ~ Diamond Glaze

Smooch Spritz ~ Electric Blue

Spica ~ Gold

Teresa Collins Basically Essentials ~ Modeling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Bronze

Tsukineko Encore! ~ Bronze

Papers

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Raven

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Black

House of Paper Cardstock Romanesque ~ Pearl

Stamps

Sassy Design Studios ~ Megara Honey

Stampin’ Up! ~ Happiest Birthday Wishes (retired)

Challenges

C.R.A.F.T. #335 ~ Shaped card, not square or rectangle

Just Add Ink #286 ~ Just add...W

Moving Along With the Times #7 ~ Leaves and/or trees

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, 10 August 2013

You Impudent Hussy!

So maybe in this outfit Eliza doesn’t look like an impudent hussy but it was in this outfit she uttered the quote on the card I’ve made. It features My Fair Lady from Sassy Studio Designs.

I’m really proud of the colouring on this image, black and white isn’t easy and this was also my first attempt at doing lace with Copics. I followed a tutorial by Jennifer Hancock on the Copic website. I did the lace as I looked up a photo of Audrey in My Fair Lady and her dress was covered in lace, she also had flowers on her lace cap so I drew those in too before adding some white ‘lace’ with a pen.

To make up my card I followed a sketch at Friday Sketch Challenge although I did twist it a bit to suit my image which I’d coloured before thinking about the layout of the card and was a smidge too tall for the sketch to work without alteration. I picked the image out to play at Through the Purple Haze in their ticket or tags challenge as I thought tickets suited a day at the races (I’m just under the wire with this but still in with a chance for the draw in December for completing every weekly challenge!). I have a stack of trims so I’m really trying to use them more although it’s a bit hard to see the ribbon and lace hiding behind all my other stuff but it is there, promise! So that covers me for the Crafty Ribbons Challenge and my black and white colour scheme works for the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge.

This card is for a friend’s birthday and I couldn’t help but use the ‘bloomin’ arse’ quote from Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, I did change it up a bit, I substituted my friend’s name for ‘Dover’ in the original. Think it still counts for the Country View Crafts’ Challenge that called for a quote.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53, (cheeks E11)

Eyes V01, V12, V15, O

Lips R37, R46, R59

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E28

Dress & Hat N0, N1, N2, N4, T6, T8, T10, 100, 0

Lace cap V12, V15, YR12, YR14

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities A2 Curved Matting Basics

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Paper Roses