Nicecrane DT Card - Sunday 2nd June

Good Morning Friends,

I'm hoping you've been able to enjoy some sunshine so far this weekend - long may it continue!

Today's card is the first of two for Nicecrane Designs, a fabulous source for Vintage images and digital stamps of all types. Visit the shop from this link to have a look for yourselves   http://nicecranedesigns.com

This lovely bird image is from the Vintage Spring time set, which includes both pre-coloured  images and digital stamps.

I coloured the bird, keeping as faithful to the original coloured image as possible and using drawing inks. If you enjoy colouring, these images are beautiful and if you are new to colouring they are perfect, because all the shading is there for you, making it very easy, whether you used your markers (such as my preferred pens, Promarkers), watercolours, pencils etc.

The card is 8x8 and the base layer paper is from Graphic 45 (Secret Garden). I die cut the image using Spellbinders Labels 17 and inked the edges with bundled sage distress ink.  I then mounted the die cut on to kraft card and inked it with age mahogany distress ink.  Then I added a strip of paper (again Graphic 45) across the centre and added lace and vintage silk crushed ribbon tied in a double bow.

The roses were made using cream paper die cut using the largest of Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms, inked using aged mahogany.

I have to say that this image was a joy to colour, I love to colour animals and birds, so this was a great project for me. Check back in a few days and I will have a completely different project, with a little freebie for you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Love and Hugs,

Carole X

Sunday Stampers week 258 - Thursday 23rd May

Hello Friends!

Well I did have a pretty productive day yesterday, not only did I make my Sunday Stamper card, but also my Tim's tag and made three commissioned cards. I was so engrossed in my crafting that time just slipped away from me! It was a lovely sunny day and our hens were roaming the garden, or having dust baths, not a peep out of them!

For his week's Sunday Stampers challenge,  Hels Sheridan set the theme of Vintage/old ...and this is my card:

I decided to use the Indigo Blu Elisabeth Bennet stamp again.I stamped it twice, so that I could layer the flowers and butterfly. The card I used is a really soft pale cream. Once I'd stamped it, I took a second piece of card, which I stamped with a script stamp from Creative Expressions Vintage Labels stamp set. I used it  to create a frame over the image, by cutting away the centre, which I then peeled back to create a rough edged  aperture  around the image.I inked the edges of the  aperture, frame and the card using Tattered Rose distress ink.

The flowers, bird and butterfly were the only parts of the image I coloured,except for the lips and I used a mixture of flexmarkers and Promarkers.

Then I got a bit carried away with the embellishments! All the flowers are from Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms, inked at the edges with Tattered Rose again, as are the flourishes (die is from Spellbinders Venetian Motifs). To finish I added some Vintage silk crush ribbon, vintage lace and beads.

Thank you so much for stopping  by my blog!

Love and Hugs,
Carole  X