Bright Colours and Butterflies

Technique:  Papercraft

Materials:
coloured card
patterned paper
adhesive
Down In The Flowers digi stamp
Copic markers
greens: G02, G03, G05, G07
pinks: R81, R83, R85
blues: B91, B93, B95, B97
greys: C-3, C-5, C-7
purple: BV02, BV04
Distress Inks:
* Scattered Straw
butterfly bling

Tools:
scissors
printer
paper distressing tool

The challenge at Cuddly Buddly this week is to use bright colours and butterflies.

I have chosen the Down In The Flowers digi stamp by Lilyboo as my central image and coloured it with Copics.  Although I am slowly increasing my colours, I am still somewhat limited still, I only have one shade of green, one blue etc, so choosing which colours to use wasn't all that difficult ;)

Usually once I have coloured the image I will shuffle through my papers, both actual and digital and try and find one that I think will compliment the image, the two papers I used by Magnolia jumped out at me, the pink, yellow and green were perfect!  The edges are all roughed up with a distressing tool, except for the manila card stock which I inked with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.  The sentiment is by Whimsy and the butterflies are from Jenni B.

I didn't add much in the way of bling.  I am by nature a cornflake girl (the simple things in life are often the best), and the frog prince paper was so cute I didn't want to over shadow it.  Thanks for taking the time to look!

Hot Chocolate Tag

Technique: Stamping

Materials:
Holly Cheer Cocoa digital stamp
watercolour paper
Tim Holtz Distress Inks:
* Sage Green
* Aged Mahogany
* Vintage Photo
corrugated card
eyelets
ribbon

Tools:
printer
scissors
blending tool
aqua brush
corner punch
eyelet setter
Big Shot die cutting machine
Tim Holtz Alterations
* Tags and Bookplates die

The details haven't come up as nicely in the photo as I would have hoped, but this really is a lovely tag.  The combination of rustic corrugated card, with the lacy scallops on the edges, the soft vintage colouring from the distress inks, and the hand made 'designer paper' featuring the word chocolate, it all fell into place beautifully.

Create the base tag and a square book plate out of corrugated card using your Big Shot and the tags die.  If you have a sizzix and don't have the tag die yet, it's awesome!  If you don't have a sizzix or similar you can cut a tag from corrugated card manually.

Print or stamp your image onto water colour paper.   Using an aqua brush and the distress inks listed, colour in the mug of cocoa.  When finished, cut your image out.

You can download the word art I created here.  It's nothing flash, simply the word chocolate in a font called Everyday Ghost repeated down the page.  This part didn't pick up well in the photo, but it's repeated in a very pale sepia colour except for the word that is framed by the book plate, which is in a dark brown.  I printed this onto a piece of linen card, used the punch to create the decorative edges, and then aged them with vintage photo distress ink.

Once your components are complete, its a simple matter to glue the layers in place.  Set the plate into place over the word chocolate and secure with co-ordinating eyelets.

I made this tag especially for the Winter Wonderland Challenge this week, the theme this week is "The Foods of Christmas".

Mumu

Technique: Digital Stamping

Materials:
Mumu digital stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
water colour paper

Tools:
aqua brush
printer

Isn't she lovely! I adore Mo's characters, so joyful.

I printed Mumu out on water colour paper, using a laser printer. I bought the laser printer with this purpose in mind, inks that don't run!

My colour palette at this stage is quite limited, this is what I used:

Skin: Tattered Rose
Blouse: Spiced Marmalade
Skirt: Faded Jeans
Shoes: Walnut Stain
Hair: For this I used a black water colour pencil

If you do a google search for distress ink water colour you'll find several different sites with techniques, and youtube has several video clips also.

Mumu was my very first attempt at colouring. The most important thing I learned from this was that the light in my dining room is terrible! I can see in the photo several places that I should have blended more.

That said, I am very happy with the results for my first attempt!