Apple of My Eye - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 11

Happy World Cardmaking Day! I've enjoyed celebrating with the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations (here are my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth cards)! TLC Creations is also celebrating reaching 2,590 blog followers, so be sure to check out her exclusive freebies.

I colored the image with colored pencils by Crayola, Stampin' UP! and RoseArt. The wildly talented Dorcas has lots of tutorials on how to use colored pencils on Kraft paper, but I definitely kept it simple.

The sentiment is from Ginger's House and reads "Holy moly, me oh my, you're the apple of my eye!" I found an apple image and placed the sentiment within it. I printed it on a birght green paper and inked it with several greens. The apple paper is from Graphic 45, and I added some felt leaf ribbon and red acrylic gems.

FMS #156

Inspiration/Challenges:
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 11
Freshly Made Sketches: Sketch
Natalie and Amy's Challenge #25: Colouring on Kraft

Thank you for visiting & inspiring my crafting!

A little lift

I was pleased to see, thanks to Feline Playful, that Jackson's Digital Expressions (JDE) has started hosting challenges. I'm a fan of Robert Jackson's work, and used their inaugural blog blog / Anything Goes challenge as an excuse to buy one of his unique and beautiful images.

The name of this image is WWWWEEEEE! Isn't that so perfect‽ The sentiment is a freebie from Create with TLC (thanks Paulette!)

I colored the image with Crayola & Stampin' UP! colored pencils. The wildly talented Dorcas has lots of tutorials on how to use colored pencils on Kraft paper, plus almost-daily inspiration in the form of her own cards. I've been following her blog for a while, but this is my first try at following her tips myself. [I saw a lot great colored pencil ideas on the JDE Blog Hop,too, which I'll have to investigate further!)

The flowers were cut/embossed from TH glassine paper in my Big Shot with a Spellbinders die. I sprayed them with Tattered Angels glimmer mist and attached them with silver brads I colored with my Loquat Copic (YR12).

I really wanted to leave a lot of "white space" (well, "kraft space"!), and I hope that was a good decision! It's so difficult not to keep decorating! I wanted to keep the design appropriate for a man or a women.

Thank you for visiting!

Inspiration/Challenges:

Card Positioning Systems #260: Sketch

JDE Design Challenge: Anything Goes + blog hop

Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet: April Showers Bring May Flowers (use flowers + kraft paper)


Update: Whoop whoop, I won a Gift Certificate for A Custom Digi by Robert Jackson for the JDE Inaugural Blog Hop! Wow, what an awesome prize!