Passion for Markers - Wings and/or Leaves...

 Good morning, crafty buddies! Another Tuesday arrives and it's my turn to host over at Passion for Markers! 

 Today is International Day of Peace, so I have taken inspiration for this week's theme from their logo and would like to see anything with Wings and/OR Leaves on your creations...

We're being sponsored by Sheepski Designs who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from the online store...

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the pretty Butterfly Curl image...I wanted to keep the card quite muted and coloured the majority of the butterflies in grey tones with just a hue of colour and then created the focal point in the large butterfly, colouring in soft, pastel tones -

Blender, Cool Grey 2, Cool Grey 4, Pale Pink, Cocktail Pink, Blush, Soft Peach, Tan

I decided I wanted to create a shaped card front, so flipped the image and sized it to fit a 5x7 inch card front in a dusky rose colour. I cut around the image, leaving a white border and then cut around the card front by hand, aswell. I decoupaged the large butterfly for a touch of dimension and added hints of crystal glitter, finishing with Dew Drops and grey adhesive pearls.

I think my Mojo is waning at the moment, as I really struggled to concentrate on crafting and the first effort got put in the bin?! Life is pretty hectic just now and we're busy trying to sort out moving my eldest son into his first home, then I'm hoping to get my own into some sort of organisation as I feel that the walls are closing in on me with excess 'stuff'...think it's time to be ruthless and have a good purge!

I do hope that you can find the time to play along with my fun challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!

Crafty hugs,

Passion for Markers - Autumn Colours...

Good afternoon, crafty friends and a Happy Tuesday to you all! We're having a touch of late Summer here in North Wales with cloudless blue skies, 26/27 degrees and a gentle breeze...perfect to sit in the shade with a cup of tea and a Digestive! Though that's in a little while...at first, I have to let you know about this week's brand new challenge over at Passion for Markers!

The lovely Julie is in the hostess chair with a topical theme of Autumn Colours - the greens of nature are definitely losing their vibrancy and making way for more subdued, richer tones of russet and gold...

We're being sponsored by JMC Designs who are offering one lucky winner a choice of digital collection from their online store...

 We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out this fun Tartan Rex...

 

I coloured Rex up with my Pro/Flexmarkers and gave him a brighter green colour tone to make him pop from the more subdued tones of the papers, using Lime Green, Chartreuse and Forest Green...

I used one of my go to sketches for the layout and picked papers from my scrap drawers in an orange, brown and green colour palette. I added the sentiment from WOW! Stampset66, cutting the happy word with a white border and popping up on foam pads, and then finished with some enamel dots (which I NEED to get some more of!)

Well, I'm off for that cuppa and biscuit - I hope that you're enjoying the good weather, if you have it and that you can find the time to join in with our fun challenge this week...I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!

Crafty hugs,