Beccy's Place August Challenge - Scrapbook page

Just a quick post so I can enter Beccy's Place August Challenge.  I used Beccy's image Petit Paris for my background image and use CraftArtist to create the road and the digi kits Beach for the sky and Vintage Vehicle for the car and vans.  If you look closely I have put tiny pictures of my OH and kids as the drivers.  The sentiment is an anonymous quote on the Just a car guys blog.  (Hope it's OK to use this apologies if it isn't please let me know and I will remove the reference).  I totally agree with this sentiment there's too many nuts behind  the steering wheel of too many cars these days.  A little patience goes a long way and makes everyone feel better.  (Little rant over).

Only a few days left but there's still time to join in.  

Beccy's Challenge May 2013 - Anything Goes

Here is my entry for Beccy's Place May challenge.  I originally made this for the April challenge but forgot to post and enter it  so as May's challenge is anything goes this will work too.  The image is called Full Bloom and is perfect for layering up, as you can see on the 2nd picture.  The decoupage is about 2cm high. The image was coloured with copics and promarkers and then scanned and printed so I could layer them up.  The base card was embossed and coloured with DI and the mat was cut with a Nelly C die.

CHALLENGES

Beccy's Place  - Anything Goes

Beccy's Place Challenge #4 - Use a February freebie.

This is the last of Beccy's Birthday Challenges.  I've really enjoyed doing these and they have re-inspired me as I had lost the will to craft.  I chose the Pine Forest because I love the depth this image has.  I re-coloured the image in Craftartist to Green then made 3 mats using Promarkers and Copics as close as I could to the colours in the image to frame the layers.  I then went around each edge with a Sakura calligraphy pen in gold.  I used my Cuttlebug swiss dot embossing folder to make a larger mat (it reminded me of falling snow).  I then made the base layer and coloured it with the mid green tone and then edged it in gold.  Finally stuck this onto the base A5 card.    I then sat and looked at it for a while and decided it needed some embellishments.  I googled "making pinecones using punches" and t pinecone tutorial popped up (to my surprise).  Kittie at Kitties Kraft has made a tutorial for flat pinecones so using this for inspiration I set to with my a ancient Create and Craft punch, a pair of scissors, scattered straw DI and Pinflair glue gel and made my own little pincones.  I then used a gold senitment my MIL brought back for from her holiday (along with a bag of ribbon and tassels she has acquired from chocolate boxes etc) to balance up the card.  Pheww if you made it to here you have alot of patience.  Here is my card and I'm pretty darned pleased with it.

Challenges

Beccy's Place #4 - Use a Febrauary freebie 

Beccy's Place - Challenge 3 - not a rectangle

Nearly missed this challenge. Time just flies by, the days merge and the hours disappear.

For Challenge 3 we had to make something that wasn't a rectangle so I made another diamond shape card.  This time it has a top fold, I think this is a tent fold but not sure.  It was supposed to be a normal side opening but when I cut the squares for the background I did it facing the wrong way and I didn't like the card leaning backwards so it became a top fold card.  The image is a freebie one Beccy gave away awhile ago.  Coloured with Copics and Promarkers,  The background is squares coloured in the same colours as the image and stuck onto a template of the shape them cut to the right size and stuck on the card.  Then, if I had a brain cell, is when I should have applied the peeloffs but until I stuck the pony on I didn't realise how unfinished the squares looked, so with a bit of fiddly manoeuvring I applied the silver wavy peeloff.  The number 2 was made using a punch I created using CraftArtist.  It was punched from the backend of the pony and coloured the same.  When I find my craftwork sentiments I will be putting on a Happy Birthday sentiment.

Challenges

Beccy's Place 3 - Not a rectangle

Beccy's Place - Birthday Challenge 2 - white on white

I've never done white on white, my white always ends up with a big smudgy fingermark or glue blob I've tried to rub off but this time I'm quite please with the results.  These 2 cards are made from white card from my stash and my own designs made up on the Craftrobo.  I've designed my own stamp edge base card and the lattices used as background texture too.  The butterflies are from a punch and the stamps are from Lindsay Mason designs and Docrafts.  The frame is embossed with the cuttlebug swiss dot folder and the stamping is seedless preserve DI.

This is my daughter's favourite

 This is my favourite even if I didn't notice the sentiment was off centre until I was putting the butterflies on.  The stamping is seedless preserve DI even though it looks black.

CHALLENGES

Beccy's Place B'day #2 - white on white

Simon says Stamp - white on white (I've used a cuttlebug swiss dot embossing folder for the frame)

Shock and horror, what's this?

'B' for birds

Today I am doing something I always promised myself I would never do.  I am posting a picture of myself and my OH.  It's 7 years old but still it's me.  

Over at Beccy's Place she is running 4 Birthday Challenges and this challenge is to use one of her images beginning with "B" and use it in papercraft project.  When I saw this image, I knew the picture I wanted to use.  The image is 2 birds sat on a holly branch but I cut off the holly. 

I first made it as digi scrap page but because the rules said papercraft I changed it to A4 and printed out some of the elements, coloured them with Copics and Promarkers and then stuck them back on.  I used Inkblot Butterflies from a Craftartist digikit to make the background and frame, a piece of ribbon from my stash for the bow and popped up the frame and image with pinflair glue

Here is the digi version.  I like to use a 12 x 12 template

The colours came out much deeper on the printout than on screen.  I prefer the colours on the digi page.  I coloured in the image then scanned it into the page and used cutout studio to go around the edge.  I always try to leave the artists logo on the image wherever possible.  I like to give credit where it's due.