Through the Purple Haze Challenge Week Two

This week's challenge was the theme of flowers. I had some flower stamps from Flourishes that I had received as part of a kit from Lime Tart. The set featured Australian flora and I chose to colour the Sturt Desert Rose which is the floral emblem of the Northern Territory to be the feature flower in my card design. I coloured the image using Copic Markers as listed below.
Flower: E04, R11, RV23
Flower Centre: V09, V06, R85
Leaves: YG63, YG67, G85, G94
I also used W5 to create some depth in the shadows.
The gorgeous doiley in the background was from Studio Calico.
The paper and sentiment were from Fancy Pants Designs' Hopscotch range.

 

Looking forward to next week's challenge.

Through the Purple Haze- Weekly Challenge 15th July

It is exciting to be joining in with the challenges at Through the Purple Haze Challenge Blog. The first challenge was to create with either Indigo Blu stamps or enter the Anything Goes Challenge.
I loved the look of all the Indigo Blu stamps but there was no way they would have made it to Australia in time to use them for the challenge so that left the Anything Goes Challenge.
I decided to stick with using stamps and made use of a new one I had received from Viva Las Vegas Stamps. My project was an Artist Trading Card using the theme of lighthouses and needed to incorporate acetate in some way. This project was also for a swap group I am in.
I began by stamping the image onto cream cardstock using brown Memento ink. I then inked around the edge with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
Next, I used brown, blue and green alcohol ink and swirled it over the acetate sheet to create 'waves'. Once dry, I cut the acetate down to size and attached a piece to the stamped image using my Tiny Attacher- one of my favourite little tools!!
The card still needed something and so I added a diamante light and created beams using blue metallic thread. The final touch was a little silver gilding wax around the edges.

June Simply Betty Challenge

It has been another hectic month. I have managed to do some crafting and will endeavour to get some of my efforts posted in the next few weeks as I have some extra free time.
I have enjoyed colouring another beautiful image from Betty this month. For a change, I have made a note of the Copic colours that I have used also.

 

Copic Colours for image

 

Skin: E50, E53

Cheeks: YR00

Lips: R85, E04

Hair: E31, E33, E35

Wings: BG10, G00, BG15

Dress: BV02, BV04, BV17

 

I also used Waterfall Stickles on the wings, and of course managed to use bling around the page including on the fairy's dress.

Simply Betty May Challenge

It has been such a busy month but I have just managed to finish the Simply Betty Stamps challenge in time. Orange and yellow needed to be used. Neither of these are colours I normally use so it was fun to give them a go.

Simply Betty Stamps- April Challenge

The Elaine image for this month's Simply Betty Stamps Challenge gave me a chance to practise colouring in folds in fabric- something I am still working on. The challenge asked for both swirls and ribbon to be incorporated into the finished piece.
I also wanted to have a go at colouring using shades of one colour as well as using many colours.
The papers used were from the Timeless range by Kaiser Craft. I won this as part of a door prize at a recent scrap camp!

Simply Betty's March Challenge

I loved using the image of Medusa as the digi stamp challenge for the month. There were so many great entries that I am keen to colour more of these images using different colours. I have also seen some great dies that I will hopefully be able to find at next month's craft show. Here is my entry in the challenge. The inside of the card reads But it's your birthday! Have a great day.
I was trying to stay in the Medusa theme as all who looked at her would turn to stone.

 

The Wizard of Oz freebie for Betty's fan group reaching 500 members was heaps of fun to colour. Any chance to break out the Stickles can't be missed. I managed to find an embossing folder that resembled the Yellow Brick Road, too!

 

March Madness

March was a hectic month and somehow I didn't manage to get time to blog but... I did have time to do quite a bit of crafting. The cards above are two that I completed for Simply Betty Stamps Fan Group. I asked for the boy image for the monthly challenge as I had not coloured any of these before.
This month I have been working at getting the folds in the fabric using my Copics.  I really loved these Easter images.



My addiction for ATCs continues. The first one was for a swap based on Mythological Creatures with the technique of using paint in the background. I chose a vampire and was lucky enough to find some little fang charms to attach. The tulle around the image was zapped with a heat gun.

 

If anyone knows a way to turn around a picture in a blog entry let me know because I have tried to rotate this before I save it in my images and on this entry to no avail- even got the kids to give it a go!!!!! GRRRrrrrr!

You are just going to have to turn your head sideways on this one, guys.

 

My next card was for a swap with the theme of pigs. I used a Tim Holtz wood background stamp, Goosebumps to put some speckles on the wood and then went over the background using Distress Ink. The banner is made using washi tape and I stitched a button on.

 

 

Last weekend, I completed another class with the very talented Linda Balldock. We made art dolls and I decided to turn mine into a Day of the Dead doll.

 I love all the patterns and designs on their faces. I did mine using acrylic paint and then added details using a black Sharpie and my Copics. What do you think?