A monochromatic moment

I can't believe this is class 9/10 for my Altenew AECP level 2! I have been enjoying these classes so much and the Polychromatic class is no different.

This class is all about how you use colour and I really LOVE colour! For my card today I have been inspired by the monochromatic lesson. I like to mix up colours so sticking to just one colour and making it really pop was a great challenge for me. I found some pink card and then tested my Altenew inks and my copic markers to find ones that would give a good tone on tone effect. I settled with Pink Diamond crisp dye ink and an RV13 copic marker.

I decided to go with the Amazing You stamp set for this card as I liked the fact it was just outlines of the flowers leaving me space to do the shading with my copic marker. I stamped the roses all over a pieces of pink card in Pink Diamond crisp dye ink. Then I used the RV13 copic marker to shade the petals and make them look more 3D. I also outlined the roses so they showed out from the card a little bit more. Just colouring was a bit stark so I used the blender pen to just soften all of the edges of my colouring.

Next I die cut my coloured panel to add some interest with the stitch effect edges. I used the Heffy Doodle whimsically wonky dies to give me this wavy line. I wanted a sentiment next and went for this hello sentiment die from Heffy Doodle which I placed along the top of my panel and cut it from the panel. I made sure I kept hold of all the pieces so I could paper piece them back in place around the sentiment and keep that straight line across my card. I cut the hello 3 times out of the same pink card that I used for the panel so it matches perfectly and then used gold Wow! embossing powder on one of them before stacking them up to give the sentiment some real dimension.

If you have seen a few of my makes then you will have realised that I can not resist some bling so to finish this card off I scattered around some Nuvo drops.

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon - Make it bloom

The sisterhood of craft - Think Pink

Get creative - Use Flowers

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

June mertot meets Lavinia stamps

There is now a whole range of Lavinia stamps in the Crafty Purple Frog shop and I thought why not try and mix them up with the super cute June Mertot from Sweet November stamps. I started by doing my background using the seaweed 2 and sea bubbles stamps with some green Altenew inks and then used a yellow altenew ink and the lightest blue ink I had to ink around the edges of the card. 

The adorable June mertot digi I coloured with the following Copic markers:

Skin: E33, E21, E00

Hair: E49, E57, E55, E31

Fish friend: G17, G07, G14

Tail: YR07, YR15, Y08, Y02

I also added Spectrum noir crystal clear sparkle pen to her tail so its really sparkly :D

The big hello sentiment is from Crafters companions script words set and I embossed it in gold embossing powder so it stands out more and adds shine to the card.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Arty Divas - Anything goes

Crafty sentiment- Anything goes

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Get creative - Fantasy

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Huge hugs

Amy xx

Hello sunshine!

Wow! the weather here in the UK is amazing today. I can't believe it is a bank holiday weekend and there is actually sun :D

I hope you are all having a good weekend.

I got some time to craft and have been playing with some of the newest Heffy Doodle release. I am loving this "Hello" die. I couldn't resist the "You're weird" stamp set when I saw it and the moon and this little cutie were just calling out to be coloured. I coloured the moon and the little space critter with Spectrum Noir tri-blend markers. I have to say they are a lot easier to carry a set of around than the spectrum noir illustrators.  

I used the following markers for this make:

Moon -  Brown Grey

Critter - Ice Grey and blue turquoise. 

For the background I used 3 distress oxides, Tumbled glass, Peacock feathers and Chipped sapphire. I spritzed them and then added some dots of sparkle with a wink of stella brush pen. Then I mounted that on some navy blue card. The Hello I cut twice, once in white and then in the navy blue. The white die cut I added some more distress oxides to. I used Squeezed lemonade and fosilized amber to give it some colour, and then layered the inked one on top of the navy one slightly off center so that it looks like a shadow. I also added a touch of wink of stella to it for that bit more sparkle. For the finishing touch I put the little space critter on an action wobble so he moves around :D

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes

Aud sentiment - Masculine and a sentiment

I was going to throw the left overs from the navy blue Hello die away when I got inspired by the weather to make this next card. I used some white card that I again added some sqeezed lemonade distress oxide to just so it isn't such a bright white and has a bit of texture. Then I stuck the negative image of the Hello to it. Using a white pen I added some dots around the word and a frame. The back ground I went for 3 distress oxides ( squeezed lemonade, mustard seed and spiced marmalade) to ink through the "rays the roof" stencil. I finished the sentiment by using part of one of the sentiment in the "Quack me up" stamp set stamped in chipped sapphire distress oxide. The Hello sentiment I put on with foam pads so it stands out a bit from the rest of the card.

I hope you like both my creations and follow my little blog.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Alphabet challenge - K is for Kind thoughts

CAS on Friday - Use a stencil