Glitter Me Silly

YES!  I do love Christmas, there’s so much glitter about!  As if you didn’t realise, our challenge at ASOS this week is Easter – gotcha, of course it’s CHRISTMAS!!  I have used a gorgeous image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called  Christmas Fairy Holly – isn’t she gorgeous?  She’s coloured with Promarkers but in real life the red of her dress is much richer than it looks in the photo.  I used Berry and Crimson for the dress and Pear Green and olive for the holly wings.  The papers are from BG (Fruitcake) and did you spot it?  Yes, as promised I have been busy with my new MS punch again.  Pop on over to the blog for some inspiration from the fabulous DT, the cards are stunning this week – as always!

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

Cupcake Crafts are lucky enough to be sponsored this week by Bee Crafty who are offering the challenge winner a choice of 3 images or 1 set.  The DT have used some of the gorgeous images available from the shop in our cards  – go and check out the blog for some great ideas.  I am becoming SO hooked on digi images these days.  I love how they can be resized and so on and they’re SO cheap compared to rubber stamps.  Obviously there are some limitations but unless you want to emboss etc, then digi is the way to go!!   I wish all stamp manufacturers offered a digi version of their stamps (like CC Designs do).

Anyway, my card uses the Fluffy Bunny with flowers image coloured with PMs and stickles.  The the papers are SU! and the border is my favourite MS punch.  My “bug” is the butterflies!

Ok, have a great day wherever you are.

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

I have made this card tonight in a bit of a rush for my baby nephew Ben’s christening tomorrow.  I totally forgot to make one so I went scouring the challenge blogs for a nice easy sketch to give me some inspiration.  I haven’t had a chance to enter any challenges for so long as my DT commitments take up any crafting time I might be able to get!  Anyhoo, I thought I’d check out PTW as it’s one of my favourite challenges and Dawny always has great sketches on there and lo and behold there it was – perfect.  I have used some of the gorgeous PTI papers I bought recently (from the Hodge Podge paper pack) and found this gorgeous digi imge over at Mo’s Digital Pencil.  I am becoming addicted to her images and already have a few cards lined up over the coming weeks featuring some of her amazing artwork.  I have used my beloved ProMarkers to colour the baby, namely Tea Green for the dress ( which is a perfect match for the paper I might add – how cool is that?) and vanilla, ivory and blush for the skin. 

Right, I Sky+ ed X Factor earlier so am off to watch.  TTFN!