Patsy & Gizmo - Zoom on a Broom

Today marks a new challenge at Crafty Sentiments and the theme is Hallowe'en/Fall. Perfect theme for me because I love Hallowe'en.  Not the scary, spooky stuff... just the fun and cute.
I thought I'd try something a little different this time so I pulled out some watercolor paper and my distress inks. After masking off a moon, it was time to try the sky.  I first rubbed in Stormy Sky, then Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire and finally Black Soot.  The colours got darker as I got closer to the edges.  Then the moon... I used a small brush and painted in Scattered Straw, Marigold and then a few strokes of the Stormy Sky.  I found a few star stamps so embossed them in using Ranger's Super Fine Gold embossing powder and then added a few sprinkles of it in the moon.  Same embossing powder for the sentiment which is from a very old Stampin' Up set called Just Flying By.  Bats... sheesh, I don't like bats at all.  Occasionally, one would hang on the railings in our overhead shop door and when you'd open the door, the bat would give a little screech and off it went.  Maybe it didn't screech... I thought it did but I do remember running as fast as my legs would carry me so I could get the heck outta there.  Anyway, that was a bit of rambling... but what I did for the bats was simply cut out an outline on black card stock.
Details and rules and rules for the challenge can be found on the Challenge Blog and the generous prizes for the winners are:

 3 images if the winner used a Crafty Sentiments Designs image; 1 image only for a winner who has not used a Crafty Sentiments Designs image; 1 image for our crafty sentiments favourite.

For the card, I used the Patsy & Gizmo - Zoom on a Broom stamp which can be found at the Crafty Sentiments Designs shop.  These images are so cute and I'm sure you will not be held responsible if a few stamps just happen to fall into your cart!  Be sure to pop by the challenge blog and check out what the talented ladies have created.

Thanks for stopping by and have a good week!

Copics:

Shirt - YG99, YG95, YG93 then I added the lines with a purple Prisma pencil
Hat, boots, belt - 100, C10, C7, C5, C3
Dress, Bow - V17, V15, V12, V000
Pup, E37, E35, E33, E51
Broom - YR14, YR24, YR23, YR21; E57, E55, E53
Skin - E13, E11, E00, E000
Hair - E47, YR24, E35, YR31, E50

Supplies:

Image - Crafty Sentiment Designs Patsy & Gizmo - Zoom on a Broom 

Sentiment - Stampin' Up Just Flying By

Challenges:

Fab n Funky - Word Art

Frilly & Funky - 'Tis Near Hallowe'en3 

Little Miss Muffet - #173 Anything Goes
Love to Scrap - Frightfully Fun
Stinkin Inkers - Monster Mash 

Girls Dressing UP

Today's challenge is my first day back as a member of the A Die for a Sketch team and I'm very excited to be here.  I was a member when the challenge blog first began but had to resign my position at the start of this year because I simply had too much going on and it was time to take a breather.  But I'm back now and happy about that so thank you ladies for inviting me back.

The rules to join the challenge are simple.  Simply follow the sketch above and use at least one die.  Easy Peasy, right?  We have two fabulous sponsors this month. 

Jelly Park is giving 5 digis to someone

 

Sushi Dolls is is donating 3 digis.  

 

This little gal is aptly titled Girl Dressing Up and is available at the Jelly Park shop.  I used My Mind's Eye papers from the Portabello Road collection and the fabric button and brads are Basic Grey and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up.  The lattice die is Memory Box's Tessantina Border and the banners are My Favorite Thing Mini Wavy Pennant.  The image was coloured with Copics and I added some Fun Flock to her little boa and some Startdust Stickles to the handbag and flowers on her hat.  A little bit of Shabby Blue Frantage around the image and a Viva Pearl pen for her beads.

I had a horrible accident on one of the bottom pearls... it was going along nicely and then it must have been an air bubble and too hard of a squeeze because there was this big 'galump' sound and a massive pearl popped out.  It then turned into an I Love Lucy rerun because I couldn't get that stuff off fast enough and when I finally had it in my hand, without thinking, I wiped it on my sweater... one of my good sweaters so now I have a mess on my card plus on my sweater.  I had to pick which was the priority... I tried to clean up the card best I could but sadly, my sweater still has this shiny, pearly white spot on it.  I think this is called taking one for the team!

Krafty Christmas

 
I didn't realize how long since I posted a card.  I've been busy but I couldn't tell you a thing I've done or how all of a sudden it is past the first week in March.

Are you ready for a new challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'?  This month's theme is Krafty Christmas which means just that... use Kraft paper on your Christmas card.  My Mum's Craft Shop is our sponsor giving  some lucky person a £10 voucher to use in the store.

and Natali from

 

is giving this fabulous selection:

 

 This card is very simple and not a single Copic marker was used anywhere.  It's been a long time since I've made any project with no markers in site... hmmmmm, maybe never!  But, there's a reason for that and the glistening wet-look of the pearls.  They are wet... This month is zipping right by me and my organizational skills went missing and I totally forgot I had a card due.  I'm not a 'spur of the moment' creative type of person so this threw me into a bit of a tizzy but I remembered a card I'd seen a long time ago and always wanted to try.  I wish I knew the designer so I could give her credit because I just loved the card and this is my take on her version.
I used the teardrop stamp from Stampin Up's My Friend set and simply stamped it across the page and added glitter.  The black and white dots are done with Viva Pearl pens and the Paper Smooches Joyful Greetings sentiment was embossed in black.  Don't look too closely because some of those pearl dots are shaped a bit odd but at this late stage of the game, they just weren't going to be redone.

Hope your week is going well and it looks like maybe spring is finally here!

Challenges:
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Monster Mash

Oh yes... another Hallowe'en card!  For this one, I used one of the images from Stampin Up's Best Fiends & coloured him with Copics.  The ticket tags are Tim Holts's Stampers Anonymous #G21605.  I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of the ticket stamp... I just love how you can add your own sentiment to it.  The sentiment & bats inside the tickets & all of them for the background are from a Spooky Hallowe'en set by Stampendous.
Challenges I've entered:
Sketch Saturday #124 ends Oct 16
Allsorts Challenge Week 73 Inspiration from a song title (Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett) ends Oct 16