Southern Girls colour challenge

Hello everyone, welcome to the Southern Girls Colour me Pretty challenge.  We want to see your fabulous creations using Pink and Brown, any shades of Pink and Brown will do!

Check out the awesome inspiration that the Design Team have knocked up for you.  Here's my effort.  I went back to some old favourite techniques and embossed my flowers in white on water colour paper.  Then I used a reinker and an aquabrush to create my layers of colour.  I love how it turned out.

I also made a square frame from my Marianne die, it's a rectangle if cut once, I cut it out 4 times and snipped it with my scissors and then pieced it back together!  Love how thinking outside the box can extend the versatility of your stash.  Oh this is my first use of Washi tape on a card.  I've got it on a journal page, I Love this stuff!

Thanks for dropping by, please leave a note to let me know you were here.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

We're 21 and going Purple!

PLG # 21 is this week and it goes right to my favourite colour!  Purple!  Isn't this inspiration photo just gorgeous?  I love it.

 I have been using up some of my new goodies.  The embossed die in the background of this card is a Marianne Creatables corner, cut 4 times from SU Elegant Eggplant and placed on white card, just to show up the cut out bits.  Then it's matted onto SU Wisteria Wonder.  I dragged out the Set Sail stamp set for the sentiment and used my copic markers to colour in the Fifth Avenue rose. 

Here is a closer pic of the rose.  I really like the subtle shading.  Hope you're inspired to play along with us at the Paper Lovin' Gals challenge this week.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Fifth Ave oldies

Hi eveyone, I've been a bit busy with sick family and havn't found the time to craft for a while. I was having a clean up on my computer and I did find some photos of cards that I hadn't gotten round to publishing. So.....here they are, Enjoy!

I found this technique in a magazine and had to try it. White embossed flowers on water colour paper then spritz the flowers with water and use reinkers to make multi coloured petals. The effects are simply stunning.


I then used the smaller Fifth Ave Floral flower and did a blue card, I really love the way this one turned out. I used the encore silver ink pad reinker to add silver tips to the petals, although that doesn't show up so much in the photo.


I hope to be back posting more regularly in a couple of weeks. Who knows, I might even find a few more old gems which have yet to be published.

Remember When...

This Mojo Monday 169 sketch just seemed to come together like magic.  I already had decided to use one of the roses that I'd recently coloured and posted a couple of days ago, I just naturally gravitated towards the red one which then led to the red/white/black theme of the card.

I've used the flocked paper from the recent christmas promotion and it gave this lovely old world charm to the card which then led to the 'Remember When' sentiment from the Word Play stamp set.  It all just flowed together beautifully in about 10 mins....Hope you like it as much as I do!

Roses, Roses, Roses!

I finally got my roses coloured, I've done 4 in total, it just seemed to take me ages to get this card to come together tonight though!  This pale mauve rose is coloured using just one colour and slowly building up the layers to add depth and dimension, I am pretty happy with the end result.  I've put a few dew drops on the rose and leaves with Crystal Effects and added a sprinkle of Dazzling Diamonds to give a little sparkle.  

This lovely rose ended up matching the retired Pale Plum card stock so I dragged that and Mellow Moss out of the back of the cupboard and used them here!

Here's the other roses I've coloured, all ready to be used in a project.  Not sure that taking the photo at night under a bright light is doing them justice though, the shading is a bit washed out here.

Copic Christmas!

I've seen some stunning and beautiful cards done where images have been coloured with Copic markers so after debating long and hard, I went out this morning and picked up my first lot of Copic Markers.  

Here are my first cards made using them, I think I'll get better at this whole shading and blending thing as I go, but everyone has to start somewhere!  I've blended three pinks on the butterfly and then added a soft blue green to highlight the circles on her wings.  Melon Mambo and Whisper White card and the sentiment is from Well Scripted.

 

And for my next attempt at shading... I've used three reds red/oranges here for the flowers from Fifth Avenue stamp set, the sentiment comes from Many Merry Messages which is one set I use a lot during Christmas Card making sessions I love this scripted message.  

I think the shading has ended up being very subtle here on the petals but I'm pretty happy with the result. I'm sure I'll learn the tricks of the trade for this as I go.

 

I hope you've enjoyed my postings, I'm off to try the Fifth Avenue Rose with copics, I've done it in watercolours and it was stunning so lets see what I come up with using this new technique.  I'll post it later today if I get it finished!

Purple Haze

I'm in a purple haze faze today.....friends will say 'What else is new?'  LOL  Well I do use other colours but I was surfing blogs for inspiration and found a wonderful tutorial on using reinkers with rubbing alcohol.  So...I thought I'd give it a try.  You can find it http://inkeverywhere.wordpress.com/

I've used Fifth Avenue Floral for the flowers, the Top Note, and dots embossing folder, eyelet lace border punch and the Sizzlits 4 pack die labels for the sentiment,  I was going to set brads in the label but then it looked good with just the hole so I left it like that to match the eyelet lace.

Using more of this technique, I made this card, the Top Note is stamped with the flourish from Brocade Basics and is then I trimmed away the perforated border and mounted it on Elegant Eggplant

I've used the half pearls from the Pretties Kit and stuck them down with glue dots.  The small flowers are embossed with a mix of Clear Embossing Powder and Dazzling Diamonds, can't see that well in the photo.

Hope it inspires you to experiment with different techniques.