Penguin Love

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Good morning friends! I hope you are well, and if you had time off over the Easter holidays I hope you had fun - just a shame the weather wasn't brilliant! It's back to being beckoned out of bed by the alarm again this morning as my 2 week Easter break from school is over. I'd like to extend a very warm welcome to my 2 newest followers, Jenny and Katie - welcome aboard this crafting journey!

It being Monday morning, it's time for a new challenge at  Incy Wincy Designs and this time our challenge is Feathers or Fur! All you've got to do is feature either a feathery or furry friend on your project!


We've got 2 awesome sponsors lined up for you this week:


Our first sponsor is the wonderful Teri at Delicious Doodles and she is offering our first lucky prize winner 4 "Yummy Digital Images" from her On-line Store.


Our second sponsor is the team at Cedar Chest Designs who are offering our second lucky prize winner a $10 Gift Certificate to their On-line Store.

The DT has been given some images from both sponsors to showcase this week, and here is my card featuring an image you can find at Cedar Chest Designs:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Snow White which I cut, scored and folded to make a 15cm square card.
• Design Papers - are all by Summer at Summertime Designs and they come from the Winter Wonderland kit. The bottom layer is called Dark Blue Blizzard Paper, the middle layer is called Circle Dots Paper, and the top layer is called Falling Paper. I have digitally matted and layered these papers together using a dark brown outline in my word processing programme, so there will be little bulk to this card. 
• Border - following some very careful measuring (and lots of testing on scrap paper!) I used my Snowflake Punch to create this border. I have used a strip of Dark Blue Paper (from the Winter Wonderland kit) to go behind the border, just to make the snowflakes stand out a bit more.
  
• Image - this cute image is called Penguin with Heartstrings and it is by April, one of the artists at Cedar Chest Designs. I brought my little feathered friend to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Penguin - EB1, True Black, Colourless Blender, OR1
• Hat & Scarf - BT7, BT9, EB7, EB8
• Hearts & String - Silver Gel Pen
• Outline - BT1
• Sentiments - is by Paulette at Create with TLC and this piece of word art was included in the December 2012 "Club". I've superimposed this onto a tag from the Winter Wonderland kit before punching the hole through and attaching some Twine from my stash.

I do hope you'll head over to Incy Wincy Designs during this week and see the other creations featuring Feathers or Fur which have been made my my Teamies and this week's Guest Designer Valou. Don't forget to come back and show us your creations; you've got until Sunday 21st April 2013 to join in.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Challenge 202 - Christmas at C.R.A.F.T. Challenge
• Two Weeks Challenge #2 - Punch Me! at Little Blue Button Stamps
• Red and Green Must Not Be Seen at Winter Wonderland
• Challenge #150 - Tag You're It at Sentimental Sundays
• Week 202 - The First Letter of Your Name at Allsorts Challenge Blog ... H (Helen) for Hearts and Hat
• Challenge #158 - Adorable Animals at Craft Your Passion

Hugs, Helen x

A Guiding Light

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Good morning friends and a belated Happy New Year!

It's the end of our holiday break at Incy Wincy Designs,  so we're back with our first challenge of 2013. We want to know what you got for Christmas, so this week's challenge is Something NEW!

We've got two lovely sponsors for you this week who are both offering amazing prizes as well as kindly providing the Design Team with some gorgeous images to showcase this week.




Our first sponsor is the lovely Kim from Care 2 Stamp who is giving one lucky winner a $15 Gift Certificate to her store.






Our second sponsor is the team from Cedar Chest Designs who are offering our second lucky winner a $10 Gift Certificate to their on-line shop.

And here is my card for you this week featuring a new image from Cedar Chest Designs and a technique that's new to me called Poppin' Pastels:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - pre-made A5 card in Kraft card
• Design Papers - are called Large Dots and Blue Waves from a kit by Summer at Summertime Designs called She Sells Sea Shells.
• Image - is called Framed Lighthouse by Cedar Chest Designs. This image would make a great Birthday card for a Dad or Grandad, as well as a "Thinking of You" card. I brought this scene to life using this technique called Poppin' Pastels . As my image is a digi rather than a stamp, I used just my Versamark Pen and chalks to colour the cottage and the lighthouse and I used the following colours. I quite like the effect this is, putting a layer of Versamark down and then applying chalk over the top - what do you think?
• Lighthouse - Black, Yellow, Yellow-Orange, Red, Grey
• Cottage - Dark Brown, Grey, Red
• Grass - Dark Green, Green
• Sky - Turquoise
• Sentiment - keeping with the nautical theme is, of course, by Paulette from Create with TLC and was a freebie on her blog last summer. I have tool distressed the edges of this and then colour distressed it using the turquoise chalk.

I'm sorry about the quality of the photos. I've really struggled to get decent photos of this project as it's so grey outside there's precious little daylight, and using a flash just seems to wipe the colour. Roll on summer!


Do check out the Incy Wincy Designs blog and see the other gorgeous  projects featuring Something NEW! from my talented team-mates and this month's Guest Designer Sandra. Kim from Care 2 Stamp has made a GDT project too so make sure you leave them both some blog love for joining us!  Don't forget to come back and show us your projects, and make sure you tell us what it is that's NEW! This challenge finishes on Sunday 13th January 2013.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Something New (Image and Colouring Technique) at Going Grey with Scrap Creations
• Old and New (Old - Chalks & DPs and New - Image & Colouring Technique) at Jellypark Friends
• New Something at Simon Says Stamps (New Image and Colouring Technique)
• R#105 - Something New at Crafts 4 Eternity (New Image and Colouring Technique)
• Challenge #26 - Something New with Chalk at Chalk Ah Lot (New Image and New Colouring Technique)

Hugs,
Helen x