Black and White plus One

Good morning!  It's the holidays at last and I now have a couple of days to get the house ready for Christmas.  I'm actually almost looking forward to having a tidy up - that's how bad the mess is right now!  Not like me at all, but work has been manic and the BW's social life has resulted in me running a taxi service every night this week!

Anyhoo, it's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'.  This week we'd like to see just Black & White plus a pop of one other colour (we'll let you have skin colours though!).  I'm still not getting the best from the light box so advance apologies for the photo - here's my DT card:

This is a CC Designs image and one of my favourites to colour.  I used C0-9 Copics (the cool greys), adding some Sakura black glitter pen to the bow on her dress.  The red bobbles in her hair have been covered in Glossy Accents and I used a white Sakura pen to add some definition to the lacy part of her shoes.

I do hope you can join in the fun at Sweet Stampin' this week.  We're being sponsored by Di's Digis AND Marianne Designs, so there are two lovely prizes up for grabs next weekend.

Have a great day!

Hugs

Tracey xx

Winter Sports

We've been on storm-force gale alert here today and thankfully it hasn't been nearly as bad as we had anticipated.  However, it is absolutely FREEZING - I've got the oven on in the kitchen, the heating is on and there's a coal fire on the go in the sitting room and I'm still cold! 

It's our last challenge of 2014 at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' and the theme is Winter Sports - if the forecast snow arrives here at the end of the week it will be a winter sport trying to get up the hill to get into school! 

For my DT card I used a Tiddly Inks image - I really like colouring these images and this time I went for blue and white to give a frosty feel.

I used a Memory Box dies for the background and layered these onto some Magnolia paper.  Wryn's clothes have had a sprinkle/bucketful of Glamour Dust; the frozen pond was created using the same Glamour Dust on top of a layer of Glossy Accents.  And yes, it is a very small pond... ;0)

We're sponsored by Iva Nova Chest and the lovely Natali always puts together a lovely prize.  Do check out what my teamies have made here!

Stay safe and cosy!

Tracey xx

It's (nearly) Christmas!

Hello!  I'm back to tell you about the latest challenge over at Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia.  It's our last challenge of 2014 so the theme just has to be Christmas.

Here's what I made

 

 

I bought myself a light box recently and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to have the lighting, so do forgive the quality of the photo.  I used one of my favourite hAnglar Christmas images and coloured her with Copics.  I used a Sakura Souffle pen as a change from glitter on the trim of her hat and around the lacy parts of her dress.

 

The DP is Magnolia and it's been put onto a linen card base with a Martha Stewart PATP border.  I wanted to pick up the hearts in the paper so I painted some Simon Says Stamp hearts with red Fresco Finish, then covered them with Glossy Accents.

 

The Ribbon Girl are our sponsors this time:

 

Lifelong crafters Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea were tired of having to buy full rolls of ribbon and lace when they only needed one metre.  Because they love ribbons and all things pretty, they decided to open their own online shop in 2010 and make small quantities of beautiful products easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side,  The Ribbon Girl Blog and the Design Team. They specialise in supplying small (or large) quantities of ribbon, twine, gorgeous vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, all sorts of buttons, fancy pins, a multitude of charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. They stock only the best quality products and only offer for sale goods that they would personally buy and use themselves.



Do come on over to Lovely hanglar or Sweet Magnolia and join in the Christmas fun.

Hugs

Tracey xx

Things with Wings

Good morning - and a very frosty one it is here, too!   It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' and as you can see from the post title, the theme is Things with Wings.  The Team Abi Sweeties have some lovely inspiration projects over on the challenge blog so do hop on over and check them out.

I went for a Christmassy look and chose a Sugar Nellie fairy for my card

I always make something using this sweet image as we get towards Christmas and I always seem to give her the same colours - I just like her in cream and pink.

I coloured the image with Copics and added loads of Glamour Dust to her dress and wings.  The papers are Magnolia and there's a doily and a strip of linen underneath the image. I put a few flowers on as this card will probably be hand delivered.

I do hope you can join us at Sweet Stampin' this week.  Stamp and Create are sponsoring the challenge and giving away a $20 voucher so that one lucky winner can have a wee spend in their online store.

Enjoy your Saturday!

Hugs

Tracey xx