Crafting When I Can: October 2014

Sunday, 26 October 2014

Crafting When We Can Challenges 81 - Black and White

House to my self, catching up on TV I missed and posting my project, oooh a lovely Sunday morning. Over at CWWCC we have the wonderful Heather from

Lacy Sunshine

Theme - Black and White

Black and White for your main theme

We were generously given a free choice of image from the shop and I chose 1920's Winter Abby. I really loved the look of Abby and I adore her clothes.

As our theme is black and white I knew the papers I wanted to use. A Die Cut With A View paper pad stack 6 had just the right papers. Wright colours and very elegant, perfect for Abby. The white paper is just from my stash and I used IG1 and IG2 to colour the image and a black fine liner to edge the fur. I used an A5 base card and followed the Sketch Saturday sketch.

old stuff approx ages: card base over 2 years, designer papers probably 5 years, white card 3 years old, peel offs 8ish years, spectrum noir pens 1 year, DS tape 1 year, DD foam 2 years, image new

Hop over to the CWWCC page and show us your black and white projects.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday 333 - Sketch by Vanessa

Papertake Weekly - black white and ...

grey/pink in flowers

Wags 'n Whiskers 140 - Stripes

Crazy Catz 252 - Thank you

Simply Create Too 73 - Shop in your craft room

Monday, 20 October 2014

Crafting When We Can Challenges 80 - Name It (personalise your project)

I'm very late with this post because something happened to my eye last week and it was weeping and very sore so I was not able to do my project. Then my printer decided to play up and then the laptop had a wobble. Thankfully everything is OK now. Eye better, I don't know what caused the problem. OH treated me to another printer and the laptop seems to be OK now.

Over at CWWCC 80 we have the

Theme - Name It

we would like you to personalise your project

our fabulous Sponsor is

The Stamping Chef

We were given a choice of image and I chose The Artist and as soon as I saw it I knew what I wanted to make with it. I have a friend who's an artist and she would have very curly hair if she didn't keep it short. I'm also sure that in her time she would have painted in a costume like this. I made a hanger for her craft room.

I used a piece of thick grey board and covered it with Tim Holtz distressed inks. I used all the orangy range of colours and built up the colours. I also used my Craftrobo to cut out the letters and stuck on with glue. The image was coloured with my spectrum noir pens and DIs used to create a frame around it. I then mounted it on a pale orange glitter mount. A gold pen was used to go around the letters after I stuck them on. I made a purple spider because it's nearly Halloween and I liked the purple to break up all the orange. A couple of eyelets using my Crop-o-dile, some orange ribbon for a hanger and the project was complete.