The Crafters Cafe - blog hop - January Blues Challenge

Good morning,

Today blog is a hop..

Only my 2nd so a novice at setting it up.. hope this goes as it should!

 (my friend helped me set up the first one!)

I got the blues - 3 weeks since Santa was here,

2 weeks since we welcomed the New Year.

All the hype and excitement has gone,

are you feeling a bit down?

TCCB is having a blog hop with some great prizes...

My inspirational post for this blog uses a Flapper Girl image from Moonflower

The challenge theme is Male Card.. so to get this wonderful image male orientated I added a bit of a saucy sentiment!

RECIPE

Hair - Lyra dark grey, black hard

Skin - Lyra medium flesh, light flesh

Eyes - Lyra aquamarine

Dress/Hairband - Walnut Hollow Violet

Boa - medium grey

As my craft room is currently out of reach - I had to grab whatever I could find to work with this card.. (wasnt easy)

I found some nuetral backing paper.

Kept the card CAS by just layering up on black card, then doing a dashed outline to look like faux stitching.

I used my new Wink of Stellar clear sparkle to bling the jewels on her headband, necklace and skirt.

I hope this inspires you to pop over to the TCC challenge blog and share your projects.

Remember to leave your comments on everyones blog on the list below to be in with a chance of winning 1 of the wonderful prizes.

4 winners for leaving comments on each Design Team Members blog with the words "January Blues"

1st prize Gina K stamp set Spoon me

2nd prize Gina K Stamp set You make me smile

3rd prize Stampendous - Vintage Ladies

4th prize Stampendous - Charmed Art

The commenting prizes will be shipped worldwide, so everyone can enter.

Alex

Alicia

Barb 

Cass  

  CG
 Fiona  

Gale

Heather

Rebecca

Theresa

Tina 

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog


kind regards
Theresa
XxX

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges ;-

TTPH dt project - Queen

Happy New Year (as this is my first post of 2016) !

Bad start to the year as I was late posting this to the group - naughty step for me ;(

The theme was anything goes and  I chose to use Queen from Sweet Escape.

I printed her a bit bigger than normal for a change and to let me get some colouring practise.

I am still using my polychromo pencils (might have another play with the Promarkers later in the year)

RECIPE

Skin - Lyra light flesh, medium flesh

Hair - Derwent ochre, pale brown,  Lyra gold ochre 

Dress - Derwent pink, Lyra pink madder lake, rose madder lake

Crown - Gold pencil

Having a slightly larger image enabled me to get some colour down and do some blending (doesnt show well in the photo)

I am still struggling with the hair.. but will keep practicing.

I have limited access to my craft room since Christmas as a lot of stuff has been 'dumped' in there!

Currently trying to sort sons bedroom (while he is away) then I can decant 'stuff' and today craft room (bomb site!)  

It makes for even more of a challenge!

But I found the pink heart background paper and some cutting dies and background papers (luckily).

So I went for an A5 gate fold card.

I treated myself to a Wink of Stella clear sparkle pen before Christmas and just highlighted the gems in her crown.

I enjoyed colouring her. My biggest challenge was putting the cards together!

I hope you get inspiration from this project and pop over to Through the Purple Haze blog challenge and share your projects.

kind Regards

Theresa

xXx

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges ;-

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/fabnfunky-challenges-challenge-287-for.html

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/freshly-brewed-challenge-anything-goes.html

http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/