Copic Colour Challenge #2

Today has been a funny old day....the morning was awful, spent it on phone to LEA and schools regarding the complete lack of inclusion in Amelia's school and it seems the fight that is ahead of of us to get her into a Special School in September when she is due to start Juniors! I got quite emotional I am afraid to say, the thought of putting us all through another tribunal process is terrible but if it comes to it, we have no other choice!

I spent the afternoon with ten screaming two year olds and I am eagerly awaiting news of my last NVQ assignments I rushed through and submitted yesterday!!! EEK...I am all over the place but I have got a few things done and off my to do list ...for a while anyway!

Let's get on with a bit of crafting...I started this card this morning but dithered so much over what colours to substitute with in this weeks Copics Colour Challenge...I ran out of time before work this afternoon. This weeks colour are:

Now I really struggled with thes, perhaps the mood I was in this morning all the talk of tribunals didn't help but I just couldn't work out the closest colours to use!LOL Eventually I went for R27 as my nearest red, YG41 my nearest green and B23 as my nearest blue but I don't really feel happy that the combination is anywhere as is should be!! I obviously NEED more Copics to avoid this situation happening again! (wink, wink!)

What with my colour combination, my next stuggle was a patterned paper, I found a few but just wasn't happy....I was very hard to please earlier I will tell you now......so I settled for a very clean, simple and extremely basic approach. The pplan was to make the colours of the Copics do most of the work for me...I hope it worked!!

Tilda and Copics sketch card.

I couldn't resist a little Magnolia stamp a fellow crafter was selling the other day and today it arrived. So this afternoon a stamped a few images and let Amelia loose on one of them with her pens (NO WAY is she going anywhere near MY Copics! LOL) While that kept her occupied for all of 5 minutes, I made a vain attempt to make a card. That was just after lunch and I have been working on it in fits and starts all afternoon- basically when the children were calm!

I decided to try out this week's challenge over on Friday Sketchers.

I uhmm'ed and arhh'ed about using one of the many scraps of paper I have all over my little room....then I reached straight for the Basic Grey Two Scoops that arrived from Charmed the other day! Naughty...but rather nice to say the least! It was the candy sweet colours that appealled but unfortunately the lighting is awful once again. Must look into making a make shift light box thing! LOL

Copic colours I used ;

E00 skin white, E21 Baby skin pink, E02 Fruit pink, E 33 sand, E47 Dark brown, C3 Cool gray, C5 cool gray, RV42 Salmon pink, E04 natural lipstick, Bg10 Cool shadow, G21 Lime green, Yr23 yellow orchre.

A card...just for the sake of it!

Decided to just make a card today, no reason, no DT.....just because I wanted a break from the statementing paperwork I am preparing for tomorrows meeting at the school and the rotten emotional phone calls I have been making over the course of the week.

I don't like doing it but I combined two challenges in one card, trying to play catch up but feeling like a little hamster of a very big wheel!......................eeeek!

The first is Basic Grey Challenge where this week they asked;

Challenge 6 - Colour ComboThis weeks challenge is a colour combo challenge, we would like to see your creations using one of the following colour combos :)
Green & Red/Maroon
Brown & Cream
Blue & Gold/Yellow/Orange

The second is a sketch over at Tilda & Co Challenge. It was madness not to combine the two as I had a little Tilda already stamped, cut and coloured in tones of green and maroon. So I thought it would be a fairly quick card to make without much thought needed. I call it being lazy!

(BasicGrey Papers used Wonderland and a scrap of "unknown" both from the Blizten collection I

believe. )

Emboss this!

Over on Tilda & Co this weeks challenge was to emboss....now how could I resist with my love of my Cuttlebug folders!

Circula Greeting from the Dottie & George Download over on Charmed!

Tilda ATC- Summer

After having a few days in panic mode over Design team work and stressing if my work is OK I decided to take a little "time out" today and just play. I used my new little foxy stamp earlier and I have just made an ATC for the "Seasons" Challenge over on Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge.

I have used 4 images I had already stamped and cut around, quickly made up the ATC cards and coloured 4 likkle faces and hair. Then I packed 3 away for another "time out day!"

I decided to work on SUMMER first. I am happy with the Tilda, I am happy with the overall design...but I want to scrape off the glitter now!!! (sad) LOL...bit too "in your face" for my liking, but it is Summery..LOL.

William's first outing!

At long last I have found time to use William who I won from Jennie- ideal seeing as I was stuck on making a few cards for male relatives!!! I also used one of the Dream Street papers I won off of Emma.

Here is my first- using this week's challenge over on Tilda & Co Challenges.

As I was adding a few glossy accent touches to the almost finished card..I couldn't resist putting

gel in his hair....I am now thinking of a caption "Mum told me not to use too much gel!"

A Beady Tilda ATC!

In between all the crafty stuff I HAVE to do, I wanted a little bit of play time so I joined in with this weeks Beady challenge over on Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge.

I used tiny little seed beads to create a flower centre and finished off with some liquid pearls for detail. I might cheat actually and use this as a little card topper for a card that I must make for a friend!

Tilda & Friends ATC-Perfect Pearls

My second ATC-hmmm- I can see how easy it will be to get addicted!!!

This weeks challenge over on Tilda & Friends ATC Challenges is Perfect Pearls.

This week our theme is Perfect Pearls, so we would like to see you incorporate pearls, pearl paint, pearl paper or pearl shimmer of some kind on your ATC. Just a reminder that an ATC should measure 3.5 inches x 2.5 inches, and although we allow some overhang of the image and embellishments, please remember that if you intend swapping your ATC you may have to keep within the size. Further information on making an ATC is on the side bar.

and here is my version. A little Pearly Princess. ( never have been very neat with Liquid Pearls-sorry!)

Another card for a teacher!

I decided to treat myself to a few new goodies yesterday so I will eagerly be awaiting Mr Postie this week. Well after all I need to pat myself on the back for getting my new job and also having survived the sicky lurgy that has struck the family since Wednesday night (better not speak too soon though!) I have had 4 very sleepless nights and I needed a boost...is that a good enough excuse?

Anyway, one of my most recent purchases was a reduced Magnolia stamp - Tilda with Easter Egg...not one to miss a bargain ! Don't know about you, but I have to try out all my new stamps, even if I don't actually make a card with them...and after stamping her I wondered if she could somehow be adapted rather than just use her at Easter...such a waste!

Here is what I ended up with;

I used this weeks Tilda & Co Challenge which was to ..."Make her Distressed looking, a little rough around the edges, a bit of grungy! So stay clear of these cute pastel colours if you can help it and get down and dirty with tilda!"

Not sure that it has really worked, but either way I have my second Teachers card complete!

My First ATC!

This morning I have made my first ever ATC- I am going to send it to one of Chris's work colleagues (and her daughter) who kindly let Jack borrow the complete set of "The Series of Unfortunate events" books.

I took the opportunity from this weeks Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge seeing as I now own a few. I used Tilda with Rosebud again, cut down and embellished with a Prima. I am not a lover of lavenders/purples but a change is as good as a rest they say! Here is my version of "Lavender & lace."

Dingle meets Edwin!

I have had such fun playing with this new stamp, cutting out 3 images and making up a little decoupage Edwin. This card is going to a party this afternoon, I do hope JOE likes it!

I used the sketch template on Tilda & Co Challenge for my first attempt there! Here is the template:

and here is my card- jiggled around a little bit!!

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Tilda Temptation!

I have finally given in to Tilda temptation....I just couldn't resist trying a few which were reduced. So this week I ordered 4 stamps which landed on my doormat today! In need of making a card-QUICK- I set to work this afternoon and stamped a few images. One of these I have used together with The Sketch Challenge #6 over on Charmed Cards and Crafts.



Papers-Basic Grey Blush.