keep calm and craft

  This months image at The Stamping Chef was

 

http://thestampingchef.com/
 

Keep calm and craft

 

 

I coloured the image in my favourite colours

and added die cut pieces,

scissors, a peg, a button and a cotton reel.

 

Hope you like it

 

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  Mel

  

 

 

Just fishing

Creative movements Challenge 31

27th November

Anything Goes/
 

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I choose an image of a little boy fishing

 

I printed out the image and used my distressed inks to make the background

look like he was sat fishing on the edge of a river.   And added a die cut tree.

I used powder, pastel and denim blues for the dungarees, 

and a mix of cool greys for the pot and worms,

and mounted it in a piece of blue card stock.

 

I then cut out some other dies ( a fisherman and a fish corner)

 

I decided to stick with natural colours and choose a sheet of A4 kraft card folder in half as a base,

I then raided my scrapbooking papers and found the backing paper and ripped it to fit the area

I wanted it to cover, and the mounted the image on the front.

 

I finished it off with a tag coloured with the same inks as I have used for the back ground of  the image  (shabby shutters & salty ocean)

 

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  Mel

 

 

 

Naughty Angel

My image to use for this weeks challenge at
which was add some chipboard

was Nobody's Perfectt

 

 

I looked at the image at the angel with a fallen halo, and wondered how here halo had fallen, 

maybe she had fallen from the top of the tree, hence the tree backing paper.

 

I die cut a piece of gold mirror board, using an oval and cut it to fit over the halo.

I coloured the hair with yellows and then the skin (with skin tones) 

then I outlined the white areas with cool grey 1 to make it look white.

 

I mounted the image on to a piece of black card, 

and then die cut the tattered lace Merry Christmas  die

and mounted it on to a piece of white card 

 

Luckily I manage to find a little chipboard angel to meet the "add some chipboard" requirement

which I added to the bottom corner.

 

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  Mel 

 

I am entering this into the following challenges

 

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/

http://sweetstampsblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Cuckoo

The image I have used this week is from Ike's world

 

 

PHOTO INSPIRATION CHALLENGE

 

I decided to stick to the brown colours, and dug out all the brown tones out of my pro-markers.

 

The background it a sheet of white card that I sprayed with various shades of my dylusions.

 

The acorn and words are tattered lace dies

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  Mel

 

 

Snowmen

 

 

Over at Stamp N Doodle, the latest challenge is Snowmen or Women

I decided to keep my images mainly blue, 

The colours I used where:

Sky Blue,  Artic Blue,  Powder Blue,

Cyan & Azure

Raw Sienna (dog) 

Black, holly & berry for the hat

  

I mat and layered the image on two different pies of blue card,

 and used a snowflake punch down the side of one piece.  

 I also die cut "seasons greetings" and  punched some snowflakes from a piece of white card,

and added both to the bottom of the card.

 

 

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  Mel

 



Tea time

Sorry not been around for a while... 

This week at Creative moments   we have  floppy latte images

The Image I choose was the tea time one...   as it could be any colours

I looked at the cups and decided they should be mainly white, so they looked china like.

 

The colours I used:

 

Top cup: Fuchsia Pink, Orchid  and Grass

Middle cup : Rose Pink

Bottom cup:  Blossom, Pink Carnation & Grass

Once I had coloured the cups I went around the edges with cool grey 1

I mounted the image on to a pale pink  card and then a sheet of a darker pink. 

This was then mounted onto a piece of A4 darker pink which was folded in half for the card base.  but before I stuck it down I added die cut two doilies at the bottom of the card.

I then cut a piece of bunting and the letters  C H E E R S

from another shade of pink to finish off the image

 

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  Mel

 

 

 

Awareness

There has been a number of images around this month  Otcober with the theme

Awareness

Most of the images where seen to be for Breast Cancer Awareness, but I changed the colours to suit one a bit more close to my heart  Alopecia Awareness, as I have suffered with it since 1998.

 

 

The first one was from Creative moments

Stitchy Bear image

 

 

The second image was from the Stamping Chef

 

 

 

 

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  Mel