Markers! Papers! Digis! 12 Days of Christmas - SheepSki

I'm finally feeling in the Christmassy mood and really enjoying seeing lovely Christmas projects on Facebook and YouTube.

SheepSki Designs is sponsoring day 18 of 12 Days of Christmas over at Markers! Papers! Digis! on Facebook and there's plenty to entertain today. This morning a game was launched to choose your favourite Christmas digi stamp from SheepSki, with the opportunity of winning a prize.

The Design Team at SheepSki as well as Andrea herself, have been busy creating some cards to showcase a new digi stamp called Penguin Pals. To celebrate this and the sponsorship of the 12 days event, the digital stamp is being offered at a discounted price of 96p for a limited time.

Here's my CaS style card. I just adore this digi, with the cute penguins making a snow penguin. I used an old embossing folder and stamp set called Winter Wonderland and embossed a 6x4 white card base with the folder, then coloured the digi with Polychromos pencils and fussy cut. Once glued to the base, I used Wink of Stella in clear to highlight the snow, snow penguin and the white on the hat. I then stamped the sentiment from the set in Stazon Black Soot.

I do hope you love this digi as much as I do. Don't forget you can purchase this gorgeous digi from the SheepSki etsy store at a discount for a month. Please do also go over to Markers, Papers, Digis on Facebook to see the rest of the DT inspiration and to join in the fun and games there plus share your SheepSki projects with us over at the Facebook page, where you'll find our monthly challenges.

I shall see you with my next DT project for the new months challenge that starts on Sunday 20 November.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Unicorn Challenges: #15 Snow/Snowflakes
World Wide Open Design Challenge - #16 AG
Your Scrapbook Place - Fall for November Challenge 
Lets Craft and Create - #119 Winter 
Sasayaki Glitter Challenge -Winter 
Craft Rocket Challenge - #28 White on White 
Crafting by Designs: Little Animals


Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle xxx

I'm late, I'm late!! Oh my hairs and whiskers!

Hi there - it's been a rather emotional and manic couple of weeks, and as such I'm a little behind on my blogging.

We have another fantastic challenge that started on 25th July over at A Inky Mess, and our sponsor for this month is the amazing Oddball Art Co Stamps!

For my DT inspirational project I chose Big Eyed Clown Girl, she's very cute, I hope you agree.

I used my Prismacolour pencils to colour the cute image in, and added some white gel pen streaks to her hair to give some highlights. I then fussy cut her out. The backing papers are a mix of Tim Holts Idea-ology Lost and Found and Bo Bunny Carnival. These were ripped and layered up onto a Kraft card base after inking the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I applied gesso with an old credit card over the top to take back the background a little so the cute clown girl would be the focal point. I affixed the girl to the foreground, and added some embellishments including some washi tape from my stash and a few little pieces I had hanging around. It needed something else....so I added a cute royal blue bow to the balloon strings. I added a quote I cut out from my stash to finish it off.

Please do go on over to our second challenge at A Inky Mess - we would love to see your makes, as long as mixed media. You'll be in with a chance of winning digis from our sponsor and/or a place in our top 3 of the month. Please do remember to link back to the actual challenge though, not just the blog, as we cannot accept entries that aren't linked properly.

I shall see you soon with my next DT piece and some craft swaps I've been working on.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:
Worldwide Open DT - #13 AG
Dark n Daring - #04 AG
Dream in Darkness - August Make it Crafty 
Classic DT Open Challenge - #05 AG

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle xxx

#140 LOC

Hi all! Well that fortnight went super quickly! It's now officially Schools out for Summer here, and we're nearing August at an alarming speed - soon be Halloween!! Let's hope we get some summer first though, please!!!

On to my next DT project for Left of Center Creative Challenges  #140 - LOC

Our sponsor this week is Shadow Clocksy - the talented Jessi Scobee has a dark, goth, grunge, horror style that is fantastic to work with. Because our theme this week is LOC, I chose an Anime (Chibi) image to work from this time. This one is called Trixie, and you can find her successor over on Etsy called Trixie V2.

 I decided to colour her in using my Promarkers. Her hair is a cascade of waves which was a great challenge to get dimension and depth as well as light into - it was enjoyable colouring her in. I used 3 yellows for her trousers, 3 pinks for her top and 3 oranges for her hair. I used Wink of Stella in Clear over her eyes, boots, highlights in her hair and the bear on her hair bow.

To coordinate with the colours used on Trixie I found some lovely Mixed Media paper from Paper Lozzy, I tore this into the right size to fit on my Kraft card base, and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Old Paper.  It needed something else, so using another digital paper pack from Paper Lozzy called Dark Grunge, I tore two pieces to go top and bottom of the base paper. I used Tim Holtz Distress Crayon to darken the edges.

I used a variety of stamps to to add further interest on the background paper, including a retired Stampin Up set with dots and circles, a vine stamp and Denim Backgrounder by Cornish Heritage Stamps. I also used the Denim Backgrounder in dark yellow on Trixie's trousers to create more texture.

Once happy with the background, I fussy cut Trixie out and placed her off to the left on the card, to leave room for a quote or sentiment. To ground her, I used a brown Distress Crayon by and under her boots. I used a pale cream Distress Crayon to go round her to further ground her onto the background. Once happy with the background and Trixie, I chose a quote stamp from the same retired Stampin Up set that the dots and circles stamp came from - I don't know the name of the set, sorry. I used Stazon in Black Soot to stamp the quote.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:



Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle xxx

Fantasy Crafters Challenge #1

Hi all, at last the exciting new challenge blog Fantasy Crafters Challenge has started, and here's my DT inspirational project for it. The theme is Anything Goes as long as it's fantasy related.

For my project I used Darcy who is part of the Flights of Fantasy range by Crafters Companion. I coloured her with my Promarkers, added Cosmic Shimmer wax in Blossom to her wings. For the background I used purple blue and pink with Distress Markers, then used my water brush to mix and merge to create a fantasy background. Once dry I added some white spots to depict glow worms/fairies and cut it to size to fit on my card base.

I used some coloured card from The Works cut to size to mat the background on and fussy cut the fairy out and glued to the background. The happy birthday die was in my stash. I used Wink of Stella along the veins of the wings and along some strands of hair, inside of flowers and on the Happy Birthday die. I used my white pen to highlight strands of hair and along the wings. 

I felt it needed something else, so got out my Petaloo Penny Lane Garden Collection Daisies in Antique Rose and coloured three of them to coordinate with the colour scheme. The fourth I left original colour and placed over the die cut.

This card is also being entered in the following challenges:
Get Creative Challenges - #43 Celebrations
A Bit More Time to Craft - #24 Anything Goes


Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle xx