Mini Bear ...

Well I'm feeling even older ...My daughter passed her driving test last week! She was so excited. At the moment my car is too big for her to drive and insure, but she's dropping lots of hits about us having a smaller car to share. Lol

I thought I'd mark the occasion by making her a card.

I've based my card on sketch #235 over at Sketch Saturday. The image is yet another LOTV cute image, mind you I think they all are. It's been coloured with copics.

The papers are from Nitwits Cottage Charm collection and the inside has been decorated to match. I've used the TimHoltz Hardware Findings die and the L plate is hand drawn.

Copics.

Bear: E31, E35, E53, E50

Car: R39, R37, R35, R32

Trim: C7, C5, C3, C1 & C9 for tyres

Windscreen: C00

Ground: W00, W0, W1

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday #235

Lili's Little Fairies - Anything Goes

Joanna Sheen - Anything Goes except Christmas

Pile it On #48 - Anything but a Christmas Card

Crafty Ann's Challenge #79 - Birds or Animals

Thank you so much for dropping by. I really do appreciate it.

Big Hugs,

Janine x

Video Boy

Good evening bloggers...

First of all I would like to give a big warm welcome to my new followers and say  "Thank you" to everyone who has left me such lovely comments, I really do appreciate it.

I am coming to the conclusion that I am not going to be a blogger who is able to post a card every day. There just don't seem to be enough hours in my day to be able to make cards and meet all my other commitments. My long term aim is 2 per week, but I think 1 a week is a good goal for now :)

I seem to spend ages trying to decide on a layout, the design papers and then all the embellies. Perhaps I'll  get quicker and more confident the more I do.

Should you colour your image first and have a vague idea of colour combo or should you choose your papers first? I think I spend so much time trying to decide what to do and looking at all the lovely blogs out there for ideas that I never get started! 

Anyway here's a card I have actually managed to finish. It's a Mo Manning image called video boy. It's great for those boys cards, especially teenage boys (which are even harder to do)

I have used some Nitwit papers. I treated myself to some as they were on offer, but sadly I have just looked and the offer has finished.

The colours are much brighter once printed than they appear on my PC screen. Does anyone know if I need to do something special to get the muted shades I see on my screen?

I have distressed the edges of my papers using a Tim Holtz distress tool and  the clock face and ticket were distressed with Walnut Stain ink

I'm going to enter it into the following challenges :

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious - Distressing and Dies
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Birthday

Card Ingredients.

Copics:

Skin : E0000, E000, E00

Jeans : B95, B93, B91, B00

Top : E40, E42, E43, E44

Hair : E29, E25, E23

Reds : R39, R37, R35, R32

Tools:

Tim Holtz Weathered Clock, Vintage Market Alphabet & Ticket Strip

Die-namics : Stacking Stars

Doo-Hickey : Flag

EK Success Binding Edge Punch

Image : Mo Manning digi - Video Boy

Papers: Nitwits - Bear Boys too & Crab Apple too

Thank you so much for dropping by and for any comments you leave.

Janine xx