Bingo! @ Southern Girls

Hello, yes I am still around, I've been challenging myself to try something new for me but shhh it's not ready for sharing just yet.  

What I do have for you is the Southern Girls latest challenge 'bingo card'.

 I am stretching is just a little with my 'gems' I'm using the flower centres as my gems.  The spots are included in the background paper that comes with this amazing image from The Paper Shelter called the Dragon Whisperer.  I just love the little dragon.

 I've used lots of distressing and distress ink to give that aged look.  Hope you're inspired by the choices in our bingo card.  Love to see you playing along.

 Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

The Southern Girls challenge this week is Stripes!

I've chosen to use 'A Little Bit Grumpy' from The Paper Shelter, she has stripes on her stockings and gloves! and I've teamed her with Bo Bunny papers in just the right colours and found some fabulous bright flowers in green and purple.  I've also used a Marianne Die as some foliage. 

I hope you dig up some stripes in your stash and enter our challenge!

She's been coloured with copic markers.

Skin:  E000, E00, E01, E11, R20
Hair:  RV000, V01, V04, V06, V09
Wings: YG000, 03, 05
Dress:  RV000, V01
Stockings and gloves:  RV000, V01, YG000, YG03

Cheers,

Kasey

TPS Anything Goes!

Don't you just love the freedom of an Anything Goes challenge?  The Paper Shelter is having one and I created this card for it.

I purchased this image quite some time ago as it reminded me of the Sulfur Crested Cockatoos that live here in Australia.  This little guy just reminded me of the tough biker dudes of the 50s and 60s (think James Dean or the Fonz), by today's standards they were pretty clean cut.  It also had the Steppenwolf song Born to be Wild running through my head.  It was first released in 1968.

 Thank you to my lovely blogfriend and fellow ex DT mate Debbie P for her assistance in creating a watermark for my pics.  I've used Cockatoo Rules and the paper from Gothic and Modern as they just seemed to fit together.  I created the sentiment on my computer and added the little guitar charm.  I kept the card very simple to show of the fab paper and image.

Entering this bad dude into The Paper Shelter challenge 105

Cheers,
Kasey

Celebrate

Stop Press!  This little Gypsy scooped a prize in the Paper Shelter's Celebration challenge!   Woooo Hooooo!
 

Hi everyone, well I managed to get into the craft room and guess what?  Only ONE card was made.  I can't believe it took me so long to clear a space to colour!   I saw that the Paper Shelter is celebrating their 100th challenge so I decided to give it a shot, I also picked out a sketch to use but that challenge had closed.

I used Gypsy Dance for my image she's such a cutie.  Love the flowing dress and hair.  I thought she needed a red rose in her hair too.  Lots of shimmery spica pen on her top and necklace and earrings too.

Here is the full card, I've used the bohemian range from Kaiser as it fit the gypsy theme so well.  I've kept the card fairly simple as there are a few layers and busy papers.  

Copic colours used

Hair:  C3, 5, 7 & 9
Skin:  E000, 00, 01 & 11
Dress:  R59, 46, 17, 14 & 12.  Y26 & 28
Clear and Gold spica pens

Thanks for dropping by to say hello.

Cheers,
Kasey

We Wish you a Merry Christmas!

How cute are these carol singers from the Paper Shelter?  This card is one that I gave to my Mum for her to give to my aunt.

Here is a closer view of the image, I put all the Copic markers away then realised that I hadn't written down the colours used!  

Don't you just love the Memory Box die, I added heaps of bling to really make it sparkle, it's been sprayed with a mica spray as well and has a lovely shimmer that the camera just doesn't pick up.

My lovely carol singers are being entered into the following challenges.

Anything Goes  - Traditional Colours  (red and white)
Wags n Whiskers - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Merry Christmas!

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

I'm going crackers!

This is take 2 of posting for the challenge at Southern Girls this fortnight. Animal Crackers!  Seeing as how I got my dates mixed up and posted this a week early, I've made a second DT project for you.

I don't usually do animal images, not sure why, I think they look fabulous when I see other peoples creations, I hope this little fellow looks pretty cute.  I decided that he would work for an anniversary card, or equally for valentines as well.

 I kept the card design fairly simple as I'd used two intricate dies with the image, didn't want to overdo it!

Hope you find time to join us for our Animal Crackers challenge at Southern Girls, we have some fabulous prizes up for grabs!

Pepe has been coloured with copic markers as follows
Fur:  E70, 71, 74, 77
Ears and Nose: E93, R20
Cheese: Y000, 02, 06, 08
Ribbon and flower paper:  R46, 43, 27, 17
Flowers:  R43, 46 and Y02, 06, 08


Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Animal Crackers at Southern Girls

Opps...I'm must have been really keen to post this since the Mojo returned as I've posted it a week early!  Well you get an extra week to do your challenge entry for Southern Girls!  Opps sorry Lou and Tracy......I'm blaming the antibiotics and sore mouth.


Hi everyone, it seems my mojo made quick return the other day.  I was asked to select an image from The Paper Shelter for my Southern Girls DT make this challenge and I went to look, I was so excited browsing through all the gorgeous digi's that I forgot to check what the challenge theme was!

My little granddaughter just loves Rapunzel and plays that she is swinging through the house on her long, long hair.  So I just had to do this image up for her.

I took a couple of  pics prior to placing this in behind the glass in the frame.  I printed Rapunzel out on an A4 sheet of Xpress It card then using my Multiliner, I extended the brickwork both horizontally and vertically.

 Here is a closer shot of Rapunzel herself, I just had to do her in similar colours to the image at the store, although her hair is darker here in the photo, it's not quite this red in reality!  Of course there had to be bling in the flowers in her hair and there is clear spica pen over the green to make it sparkle.

At some point AFTER this was completed, I realised that the challenge was animals!  EEK!  I thought of trying to draw in a Chameleon but my drawing skills are not that good, so what better than die cut butterflies filled with glitter?  That's my animal contribution, technically, butterflies are insects, but insects are animals, so I hope I'm covered....LOL

 Here she is in her frame, it was difficult to get a clear picture without reflections showing up in the glass, so I tried again once she was hanging on the wall.

I hope you're inspired to join our challenge this fortnight, Animal Crackers! at the Southern Girls, I think you can even get away with using a butterfly or three!

While you're at it, why not join in on these fabulous challenges as well !!!

Fashionista Challenges - Anything Goes 
Make it Monday - Anything Goes 
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Girls, Girls, Girls


Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz