My Little Japanese Girl

Good evening crafty friends and hope you've been enjoying another lovely weekend.

It's New Release Inspiration Day from the second half of the blog team over at All Dressed Up and Wendy has designed 4 wonderful images which are going to be perfect for your Spring into Summer projects.

From bottom left going clockwise we have Play Day, Counting Sheep, Oriental Girl and Sassy who was only available as a freebie via the Kit and Clowder Facebook Group earlier this month.

I am using this oh-so-very-pretty Oriental Girl, and here's my card:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Card base - is black card which I have cut, scored and folded to make a Free Standing Pop Up Card following this tutorial from SplitcoastStampers
  
• Design Paper - comes from the Kimono Papercrafting CD-Rom
• Image - is Oriental Girl by the very talented Wendy Burns, the artist behind All Dressed Up Stamps. I have brought this gorgeous girl to life using a mixture of Copics and Spectrum Noir Marker Pens. I have used a couple of technique classes from Kit & Clowder to help with my colouring: Skin & Hair Class for the slightly darker skin tone than I normally colour and also a bonus Monochrome Class for the black/grey hair.

I've left this card sentiment free as she's currently destined for my "box" awaiting a recipient!

I do hope that you'll come over to All Dressed Up and maybe treat yourself to a digi or two! And don't forget to enter our challenges. The Blog Challenge is always Anything Goes with an All Dressed Up Image and on the Facebook Page, the April Challenge is Flora and /or Fauna. Hope you'll be able to join us!

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

• Challenge #4 - Anything Goes with option of Dimensional Projects at Crafter's Castle
• Anthing Goes with Patterned Paper at CraftyHazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
• April Challenge - Anything but Square at Delicious Doodles
• Challenge #64 - Favouring the Feminine at Scribble Designs Challenges

Have a great week!

Hugs, Helen x

Sweet Scribblers!

Hello my crafty friends - hope this post finds you well. I'd like to welcome my newest followers, Lori and Christine ... hope you enjoy the crafty delights that I'll be showing!!!!! ;o)

I can't believe we're over half way through the half term break, however I do feel that I've had a good rest, and I'm ready for the onslaught of poorly students in the next couple of weeks! If you've been on hols this week, hope you've had a good rest too and have been able to enjoy a little bit of sunshine.

Last weekend, a post from one of my Incy Wincy teamies popped up in my blog feed and really piqued my interest. It was for a brand new designer of digi stamps who has set up a store and was looking for DT members. Well, a couple of emails to and fro later, and I'm the newest DT member for Sophia's Sweet Scribbles showcasing the beautiful digis of Larissa.

You can purchase Larissa's delightful digis via the Sophia's Sweet Scribbles Blog and join in the fun at our Sweet Scribblers Facebook Group, where you will find inspiration, new releases, sneak peeks and when there are enough fans, there'll be a monthly challenge too!

Today, I'm showcasing one of Larissa's newer images, Hummingbird:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Card base - is a pre-made A6 white card blank
• Paper - is from the Kimono Papercrafting CD Rom which I've matted and layered onto Neenah Desert Storm card. 
  
• Image - is Hummingbird by Larissa at Sophia's Sweet Scribbles which I have die cut using the second largest Die'sire Essentials Ovals die and this was matted and layered onto the largest Die'sire Essentials Scalloped Ovals die cut from some more Neenah Desert Storm. I brought my Hummingbird and flower to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens and Spectrum Noir Pencils in the shades listed (for those unfamiliar with the numbering systems, the pens all start with a letter suffixed by a number code e.g. IG1, and the pencils are coded using just numbers e.g. 067)
• Hummingbird - IG1, IG2, IG3, IG4, 067, 071, 073, 061. 013, 022, True Black
• Flower - PP4, PP5, PP6, True Black
• Stalk & leaves - DG2, DG3, DG4
• Outline - GT1, Blender Pen
• Sentiment - is from a set included in the Spring 2015 Crafter's Inspiration Magazine which I stamped directly onto a banner cut from Neenah Desert Storm.
• Flower - is die cut using the smallest flower in the Die'sire Essentials Flowers for all Occasions set and then I ink distressed the edges using my Papermania Capsule Collection Red Hot Ink pad before fixing it to my card and adding a pearl to the centre of it.

I have been inspired by and would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Sketch Challenge #302 at Tuesday Morning Sketches
• Challenge #28 - Tic Tac Toe at Creative Knockouts I'm claiming the bottom left to top right diagonal of Flowers (on image, paper and die cut), Sentiment, Die Cut/Punches

I would also like to enter this card into these challenges:

• Flowers Everywhere at Melonheadz Friends
• Things with Wings at Whoopsi Daisy
• Challenge #290 - All Creatures Great and Small at Crafty Creations
• Challenge #205 - Flower Power at The Paper Shelter

I hope that you'll come over to both the Blog and Facebook Group - say "Hi" to my other teamies and to Larissa (the "scribbler" behind the gorgeous digis), and get your scribbling fix!

Until next time,

Hugs, Helen x