Mother

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Challenge 139
Xmas

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

WOW - December already, where has 2020 gone too.  It has certainly been a strange, hard and life changing year so fingers crossed 2021 is much calmer.  Anyway folks, wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  This is the last Ike's World challenge for this year'

For my card I used the image 'Mother', an adorable realistic image of mother and baby that just seeps emotion.  The papers used are Gelli printed and perfect for working with this image on a digital level.  I spent a day a while ago using up lots of A4 paper that I had printed recipes on for attempting to make dinner. The ones that we suitable to be eaten were then transferred to my laptop and instead of throwing all the papers away I raked out the acrylic paint and had a ball lol.  I was so pleased with how they turned out I then scanned them all so I would have a digital version too.  I created the card in Photoshop using several overlay techniques to get the effect I wanted - the image to be clearly visible but at the same time be part of the background.  In the end I added an oil painting effect to the image to give it a different texture.

IKEsART is having a sale throughout December with a massive 60% off - time to grab some awesome digital images folks :) 

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Knitty Kitty Digis

The challenge this fortnight at I ❤️Promarkers is

 'Christmas'

and the sponsor for this challenge is Knitty Kitty Digis with a prize of Prize 3 single images to the winner (or one set).

Oh I did have some fun with this card, nice simple colouring of Snowball Pablo by Knitty Kitty and decorating the scarf to match this fun paper that was so perfect to accompany the penguin digi.   I coloured Snowball Pablo with Promarkes and fussy cut him then placed on the design paper.  All matting was done in red and to match that I created the sentiment in red too.  Nothing fancy or complicated but I think it turned out great :) 

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Ostrichised

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #97
Lots of Pink in December

This fortnights challenge 'Lots of Pink in December' has been chosen by Jennie.

I have had this image from Digital Stamps 4 Joy for ages and never coloured it.  It was won in one of their challenges just before they shut shop, so sad to see them close down as they had some awesome images. The image has been coloured with Distress Inks, a little bit of pencil colouring and stamping on the ostrich too.  Sheena Douglas stencil (from her time at Crafter's Companion) for the background and the sentiment was printed digitally.

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Paper Nest Dolls

The challenge this fortnight at I ❤️Promarkers is
 'Use 3 Layers'

and the sponsor for this challenge is Paper Nest Dolls with a prize of 3 images from the store.

The image from Paper Nest Dolls I have used for our challenge is Emma With Snowflake Banner.

It is such a long time since I made a tag and this image seemed perfect to make one now.  I cut and embossed my label then used Distress Oxides to colour it and a bit of silver stamp pad for good measure.  For my first layer I added some Christmas snowflake ribbon.  I then coloured my image with Promarkers and fussy cut (removing the end snowflakes as there was not way I could fussy cut them at this size lol).  Emma and the label were then attached as my second layer.  For my final layer I added some peel off sticker snowflakes were were just the right size.  To finish off a silver bow was added and some simple red ribbon.

 The Prize for the winner is 3 Digi Images

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Gratitude

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #96
Gratitude

This fortnights challenge 'Gratitude' has been chosen by Maggie.

I love Maggie's thinking for this challenge theme as it gave me the 'get out' which I needed.  I don't make Thanksgiving card so when that is the theme it is often a wasted creation for me but by using the word 'Gratitude' instead I was able to make a very useful Thank You card instead.  You are a super start Maggie :) :) 

I do love playing with Alcohol markers and have tried them of a few different paper types to see if I could get them to work as Yuppo paper is pretty expensive.  This morning I came across a video, 'how-to create a background with alcohol inks on vellum' by Creationsceecee using vellum.  Just had to have a play and give this a go. Honestly I don't like the effect as much as Yuppo but great fun to do, useful to know and I have loads of vellum which I don't use much so this technique will help use it up lol.  Once the background was created I went down a very simple route of die cutting the flower our of gold card, and stamping the sentiment on more vellum.  A super simple card to make which was lots of fun and very rewarding.  A nice wee addition to my card collection as always needing a thank you card.

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Remembrance Candle

White on White

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 138
White on White

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

White on White is always an interesting challenge when working with digital images, mainly because we usually use digis for colouring.  For this challenge I chose a simple image BOTTLES Set of 4 (bottle 3) which I knew I could convert to a die cutting file.  Once I had converted the image and created the 'Beautiful Lady' text I sent the file to my die cutter and cut using white vinyl.  I then set to creating the background by stamping flowers and the Happy Birthday sentiment with white ink and then heat embossing with white embossing powder.  To finish off I added some White Lace Stickles over the cutting lines for a bit of extra texture and finally a few dots above the flowers.

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