Sketch Saturday 140 + Papertake Anything Goes & Flowers

My latest digi is from a drawing I made of Ada when she was a few months old which I came across in an old sketchbook of mine this week.  I thought she looked very 'boy-ish' in it and that started me wondering about her new baby brother, Tobias, whom we shall meet one week today, if not before!


I'm so looking forward to meeting this lickle grandson - I can't wait to see if he's like Ada or not! Ada has been such an easy baby - a complete delight and pleasure - and I think her Mummy may have been lulled into a false sense of security.......!


So, I've called this one 'Baby Toby'!
And I've used him on this card which I've entered into Sketch Saturday's challenge and Papertake Weekly this week!

I printed the image onto silk art card, which is quite glossy and behaves entirely differently than with my usual Ryman's card with my Copics, so it's a much less pigmented effect. 


You can't do the usual layering up technique on this card, as a second pass with your Copic 'melts' the previous layer so you end up with a streak if you're not careful! It did, however, make for a nice effect on the baby's top!


Hope you like 'Baby Toby' as he is now on sale on my other blog 'Eiglassing' as are my other digis. (I haven't had time to get up all my 'buy now' buttons yet though so just e-mail me and I'll send any files you might want!).


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Top Tip Tuesday 20 - Ribbons/Girly

I love the way Top Tip Tuesday brings on new techniques every week - my favourite kind of blog!

My lovely team-mate Dawn came up with this week's theme and has made a fabulous tutorial on how to use all your little bits of spare ribbon! It's really good!

I got the idea of making a bedspread of ribbon strips but didn't have a suitable stamp so I drew this digistamp (..except for the lickle dog on the jamas - PSP tube..!) especially for this week's demo!  

For once, it's not my Ada, although she was the inspiration as we did indeed find the pup in her bed, both of them fast asleep!

Coloured with Copics!

We have no less than two fab sponsors this week!

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so please do pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and have a look at the super inspirational projects made by my team-mates and have a go at our challenge!

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Crafty Cardmakers 38.5 - Spotlight on Water

My project for Crafty Cardmakers this week, is both about water and made with water.  

 

Materials

Tim Holtz Distress inks in blues, greens and purples.

Mica Powders such as Pearl-Ex or Cosmic Shimmer

Shimmer sprays such as Cosmic shimmer in blue, green and purple

Heavy-weight watercolour paper

Waterproof worksheet

Memento inkpads in grey and black

Stamps for weed effects

Tilda mermaid stamp

Weed stamp from same set

Martha Steward 'Branch' punch

Oddments of Dew-drops and marine theme beads or charms.

Glossy accents

Tim Holtz distress embossing powder in Antique Linen for the sand!

The deep-sea background was made by inking up my worksheet with inks then spritzing it.

I then also thoroughly spritzed my paper until it was damp and 'schmoozed' it over the worksheet until all the ink was picked up. 

I then added different inks and shimmer sprays to suit and finished with mica powders, keeping the sheet damp all the time so the powders stuck well.

Once this sheet was dry, I then stamped it up with various 'weed' type stamps and Memento grey (for shadows) and black inkpads. 

The decoupaged 'Mermaid Tilda' was then added with a little silicon glue and then some decoupaged 'weeds' from the same set, only adhering the base so they would look 'free' and dimensional. 

The darker 'weed' is a Martha Stewart 'Branch' punch and then I added the finishing touches by popping on some dew-drops to look like bubbles and some suitably 'beach-y' beads!

It's a fun technique so why not have a go and pop over to CCM and enter your project? It's a technique spotlight not a challenge so there's no need to be shy at trying a new technique at all!  What's more, we have a £10:00 prize offered by our sponsor too!

*I just have to add here, that I ordered some stuff from Handy Hippo late on Monday evening and it arrived early this morning (Wed)! How good is that! Still awaiting an order from another company from 27th Jan! 

Guess who'll get my custom in future...?

Fab shop! Feel free to pop over to browse!

There's also some fabulous alternative inspiration over there if you don't fancy my technique so go have a look!

I know you'll like it!

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Totally Tilda 14 - Baby, Baby! Colour Create 63 - Lemon, green & White

I happened upon the Totally Tilda blog by chance and thought I'd enter with an old Magnolia stamps I've only used about twice in all the time I've had it! The theme is 'Baby Baby!' and this is the only baby Tilda  I own.
I've also incorporated the colours Lemon, Green & White, so I can enter it into the Colour Create challenge too! Clever eh...?


Using the image is a bit of a challenge for me anyway as it's so small (...for me..!)! I've also used a smaller (...for me..!) than usual card too.

The paper is from stash, although I'm sure it's either  DCWV or K&Co. The flowers are a mix of Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts and the punch is Martha Stewart.


The image is, obviously, Magnolia which I've coloured with my Copics.
I hope you like it!
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Allsorts 87 - Male card

This week the theme at  Allsorts 87 is Male/Boy card.
I have three sons as well as a very masculine Hubby so I've always had to have a good supply of male inspiration! LOL!


I made this card for my eldest son Matt. I say 'eldest' as he has more years than the other two but as you can see from the subject matter of his card.......! LOL!


It's a bit different to my usual card but you know I do make the occasional digital card and this is one! 


It's based on a comic-book character - Strontium Dog - and just in case you can't see it, I've drafted my Matt in behind SD! Y'know, the good-lookin' chap in the slightly different drawing-style.

Doesn't look thirty-five does he? You should see the original picture in his loft.....


He's a fab son (...as are all three...!) and deserves a big hug and a kiss but I won't do it in the pub in front of all his mates this year....! LOL!
Hope you like it!
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Top Tip Tuesday - Making Flowers from Hearts

This week at Top Tip Tuesday we have another super theme, this time from Leanne,  Making Flowers from Hearts. Sounds fascinating!  
It's not my team's turn this week, so I've not made a demo for this  (although I may have a cheeky little go in any case as it's such a good idea!) but please, please pop over to the blog and have a look at some of the lovely demos the other team have come up with! Really pretty!


We've no less than TWO sponsors this week -

'Wink Wink Ink'

and

'Michelle's Scraps'!  

so get your entry in and you might win!


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Crafty Cardmakers 38.4 - Floral

By 'eck! Doesn't time fly when you're havin' fun....? LOL!


It doesn't seem a week since I wrote up the last CCM blog theme and here we are again!


So much lovely stash and so little time to play - I've really enjoyed this week and seem to have got loads done just because I had one day off?  Mad, but that's what it feels like. I even managed to slip one cheeky challenge entry in too, even though I think it was too late to be drawn.


This week at the lovely Crafty Cardmakers, our theme is 'Floral' which just means there has to be a flower presence. How much and how is up to you!


Our fabulous sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen ! 

How cool is that?  Joanna is offering a £10.00 voucher for the winner of our challenge. Don't tell me we don't have some great sponsors....!

For this week's floral theme, I used a selection of blooms from 'Wild Orchid Crafts' and papers from stash in moss greens and pinks.


The punched edges and lacy border are all Martha Stewart and the distress inks both from Adirondak (Olive and Sepia). I coloured the organza ribbon, which had been cream, with the olive inkpad. 


The image, which is mounted on Bazzil, is my own digistamp, drawn from a photo of my husband and my granddaughter Ada.


Oh and Ada came out with another lovely little snippet for the memory box!


She went off with Mummy & Daddy to see Antony's family including the youngest offspring, Antony's sisters humongous baby,Frankie, who is about three months old.

'Little' Frankie was sitting on Great Grandma Joan's knee, having not long had his last feed and did a little posset, (...y'know, a little milky puke out the side of his mouth...) .


Ada, wide-eyed and horror-stricken cried out 'Nanny, Nanny....' to which Grandma Joan asked 'What's the matter sweetie...?'
Ada answered, 'Nanny! Frankie's melting.....!' 


Don't you just love them?


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