Monday 25 May 2015

Sunflower Border

Good Morning my crafty friends and a warm welcome  to Larissa who is my newest follower - hope you enjoy my madcap crafting journey!!!!


If you're in the UK, I do hope you're enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend. From having not alot planned for this weekend, PapaMia and I decided to re-jig one of the borders in the garden, so we had a garden centre trip and then a planting afternoon yesterday. Not sure what's on the agenda for today, but I might be able to fit in a little extra "me" time ... aka crafting!!!!!!!


Is anyone else struggling with Blogger at the mo? Whenever I pull up posts, I can't seem to see all the pictures in that post and it's taking me several goes to get my own photos into a post. Any of you lovely computer-literate peeps out there got any suggestions as to how I can rectify this?


Anyway, whining over! It's new challenge time at Incy Wincy Designs and this week we'd like you to either go for All or Nothing! This means either lots of layers or no layers at all ... I bet regular readers can guess which I've gone for before they even look at my card! ;o)


We're being sponsored this week by the lovely Sandy at Scribbles Designs who is offering $10 of digital images to our lucky winner this week. Here's a little about Sandy and her work:
And welcome to Sandy's world of her funky imagination and quirky characters.Sandy's has had a pencil in her hand since she was "knee-high to a grasshopper" and started on her artistic journey with her first family ball & stick figures portrait at age 3. We'll have to find the piece of work in the family history trunk and post it...
Back to the regular scheduled program! Sandy has loved art, drawing, water coloring and doodling for many years... and with the digital image world she can now share it with all of you. Brrr (Penguin) was her first main character and her other quirky images followed not long after. We hope you enjoy the enduring images and look around and add Sandy's images to your digital stamp collections...
If you head over to Sandy's store, you'll also find that she sometimes has a Friday freebie up for grabs too ... :o)


Sandy has very kindly given the DT some images to use this week for inspiration, but I have gone back through my digi files as I was lucky enough to win a couple of Sandy's images last year and, shame on me (blushing wildly here!) they haven't seen the light of day, or the ink of my printer! So here goes, my one layer card (did you guess right?) featuring one of Sandy's pretty images:



This card has already gone to eldest bambino's Form Tutor as the students are now on reduced timetable/study leave due to their GCSE exams, so I'm very safe in posting it here today. Who knows, the Tutor might even take a peek ... let me know Miss R.!


My card recipe is as follows:
  • Base card - is Neenah Solar White Card, onto which I printed my design, scored as an A4 tri-fold card and then cut the last third to leave a DL sized card when folded.
  • Image - is #603 - Sunflowers 3 drawn by Sandy at Scribbles Designs. I printed this directly onto my base card and then brought it all to life using my Spectrum Noir Pencils in the listed shades following this technique tutorial by Nicky over at the Spectrum Noir Website - thanks for a great tute Nicky, I finally feel as though I've done an image some justice with my pencils!
    • Sunflowers - 012, 018, 023, 093
    • Leaves - 012, 056, 047, 023, 093
    • Sky - 067, 023
    • Tendrils and dots - Gold Gel Pen
  • Sentiment - is a clear stamp from Hobbycraft although it no longer appears on their website. I stamped this in Versamark ink, sprinkled with some gold embossing powder and then heated it.

I hope I've inspired you to have a go with no layers, but don't forget to pop over to Incy Wincy Designs and see which of my extremely talented teamies have gone for All or Nothing! Then come back and show us your creations as we love visiting you - this challenge ends on Sunday 31st May 2015.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
We're on half term now for the rest of the week, so a chance to recharge my batteries for the next half term ... if you're on holiday this week too, I hope you enjoy it!

Until next time ....

Hugs, Helen x


9 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Helen love the design, hope you have a good day today whatever you decide, we were looking after our grandchildren yesterday, I hope to fit some crafting in too today.
    Hugs Julie xxx

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  2. Hi Helen, I love this card it is so bright and cheerful. Just the thing for brightening up a chilly and dismal Bank Holiday.
    Hugs Sheryl xx

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  3. Hi this is such a pretty card! Thanks for joining in with a Gem of a Challenge this time!
    Hugs Lynsey x

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  4. Helloooo stalker, I mean follower LOL, I am stalking you now, I mean following you xxxxx

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    1. And you're very, very welcome hon!!!!!!! xxx

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  5. Loviing the colours :D pretty card. Thanks for the welcome ;) xxxxxx

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  6. So Pretty. Just love this card. Thanks for joining us at Karleigh Sue. Hugs Tina (DT)x

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  7. Lovely card. Thank you for joining the challenge at Karleigh Sue. Hope to see you again next time.

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  8. Hi Helen, I hope you are well. A fabulous card, such pretty flowers and lovely design.
    Thank you for joining us at A Gem of a Challenge.
    Pauline
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    I'm having a little giveaway on my blog if you would like to take a look - http://craftingwithcotnob.blogspot.co.uk/

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