Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 69

Hello Wednesday! Has been an eventful week to say the least, little man is nearly over the tonsillitis, he's in school today anyway, he wanted to go, I didn't make him. I have contracted yet another head cold and my poor computer screen is getting a wash every few minutes. LOL! Anyway Arlana has produced the goods again and here is this weeks sketch for Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Our lovely sponsor this week is Sweet 'n Sassy stamps and the prize this week is a $10 Gift Voucher.

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is a Christian digi stamp company offering a wide variety of hand drawn digital stamp designs and sentiments for the digital stamper or scrapbooker. We started out as a clear stamp company back in November 2007 and made the change over to all digital in February 2010. We have hundreds of fabulous digis to choose from starting at just $.99. Check us out here!

Here is the little gem that I got to play with this week.

I have a confession to make about this. LOL! I was colouring away and had it nearly finished when I looked at the pic and realized the bear was probably a polar bear, I had gone for the grissly kind and had to start over. Oh well. The dp is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses, my new addiction. The image is coloured with Promarkers and a smidgen of chalk behind it and glitter below. 

Hop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and check out the rest of the DT's work. Great ideas as always. 

Au revoir! (",)

My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge 12 CAS

Sorry dudettes I'm a day late. Have a sick little man at the mo. He has tonsillitis and is not coping well. He's in a bit better form today. This week's challenge at My Partner in Crafting Crime is Clean and Simple. It's quite hard if you think about it too much like I did so try not too. :-D

I used a Laura Ashley paper and another from a DCWV stack. The teapot is actually a post it note thing that Mam had in the shop and brought home about a year ago, forgot I had it and in the recent clean up found them again. I mounted this on some coredinations, added a sentiment from CWC and ribbon from stash. This is also my first card to make it onto the blog with stitching on it. Still a bit wonky but better than the first few attempts, believe me. :-D

Hope you can join us this fortnight at My Partner in Crafting Crime. 

TTFN!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 67

Wow can't believe it's week 67 already. Go Sweet Sketch Wednesday and in particular Lady Arlana! She comes up with the fabulous sketch every week how talented is that lady! :-D This week is of course no exception and here it is. I just know you'll have fun with this one.

Our fantastic sponsor this week is Sally-Ann from Digi Stamp Boutique. I adore everything that is DSB and one lucky winner is going to get the chance to pick 10 images for themselves. How cool is that. 

Start your wishlist now peeps!;-D

This week I used an image from the new Coco Winter collection

The papers are all from the Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses pad and are mounted on Pesto coredinations. The snowflake is a Marianne one that i covered in glossy accents and dipped into diamond dust, added a flattened bead cap for the centre. Velvet ribbon is something that was dug out of the endless ribbon stash box and the snowflake brads are also from another wee stash. The super cute Coco image is coloured with Promarkers and some fluffy stuff was added to his hat and the snow falling around him. The snow beneath him is Doodlebug glitter. Small bit of chalking behind him too. Et voila!

Now hop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and check out my fellow DT's creations. 

Remember you can also win the new Top 3 Badge too.

My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge 11 Recipe Time

So this fortnight at My Partner in Crafting Crime we have a little recipe to get you in the mood and it has a little twist.

The Recipe:

3 Embellishments

2 Designer Papers

1 Non-Traditional Element (i.e. something you would never use on a card)

We had to make it a challenging challenge so there it is, get those thinking caps on and get busy.

For some ideas check out my fellow Partner in Crafting Crime Robin's work here and also are lovely Guest Designer Mary's work here. Very clever ideas there too.

So I used; 3 Flowers, 2 Papers, (1from DCWV and 1 from MME) and the 1 item I would never use on a card is the wire and beading under the top flower. The wire is taken from some wired ribbon and the beads are something I've had in a drawer for far too long. The image is one of my favourite Whiff of Joy images and i've coloured her with Promarkers and chalked the background.

Hope you can join in the fun and I'm looking forward to seeing all those unique ideas.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

1.  4 Crafty Chicks Colour Challenge:  Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise Old Olive
2. Paper Sundaes No. 35 Use at least 3 Embellishments
3. The Colour Throwdown: No. 109 Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight.
4. Whiff of Joy Challenge No. 87 - Layers

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 66

So i'm extremely late posting my card for Sweet Sketch Wednesday, we've had a power cut today and it has messed up my broadband badly, have been using my phone for emails and I'm now dreading next month's bill. Oh well, at least i'm back online now and ready to update you all on this weeks sketch. Arlana has  given us another beauty. Check it out.

Our sponsor this week is: 

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the Whimsey Stamp Store to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

The lucky winner this week will get to pick four of Meljen's Designs. Yummy!

I got this cutie to play with.

I used promarkers to colour him and added some chalking behind him and around the candle. I tried to get the glow of the candle right on his fur by using the Mustard promarker as my lightest colour instead of Raw Sienna and it sorta worked, his belly is a bit off maybe. The papers are from the Silent Night Papermania pad, (Yep, it's still going strong!) The flowers were punched out from the back paper using the big Nellie Snellen flower punch and embosser. I added a little bit of fluffy stuff to his socks and hat bobble. Check out my fellow DT's work this week, it's fantastic as always. See ya at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 65

Can't believe it's September already, that summer just flew by way too quickly! It's time for another Arlana special. This week Arlana provided our lucky Sweet Sketch Wednesday DT with this sketch to play with.

Our fantastically generous sponsor this week is Jodie at Bugaboo Stamps. Jodie is offering a huge prize of 7 digi stamps. That's $21 worth of yumminess! (Yes, that's a word!) :-D Check out Jodie's images here:

This week I gave myself a right challenge and picked a snowman! What fun I had!

This is actually my third attempt at this snowman. The first one I went too blue, the second I tried to flock it and obviously had issues with the lines so third time lucky and I think I got it looking like snow. I adore snowmen probably because it never snows here in Ireland so I never get to build one, although last Winter we had a couple of days of snow and I got a three foot snowman made in the front garden. Back to the image, I used the Ice Gray range in the Promarkers to colour, oh so gently. I added some white gel pen to his top hat and bow tie. There's a smidgen of flock underneath him for the ground. I chalked the background to make him stand out some more. The snowflakes behind him are a new embossing folder i've been itching to try out and the papers are from two old books from last year that had no cover so I can't inform, sorry! :-D 

Now I had a little construction project over the weekend and built myself a homemade lightbox. I was not happy with the pictures I was getting, I'm now semi-happy, need a few more lights and i'm sorted. I followed these instructions but changed the cardboard box to mount board as I had it here and the muslim to an old white pillow case, again cos it was here. This also folds flat so it's easy to hide away.

This is a picture of what it ended up looking like with the card above inside. The lightbulb has to be a daylight bulb or it will look yellow. Trust me on this, i've tried them all! :-D

Anyways hope you can join us this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and be sure to check out my fellow DT's work. Amazing as always girls! ;-)