Thursday 8 January 2009

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 33

So, how are you all? Not too iced up and freezing I hope! I haven't been crafting much the last couple of nights as the house has been blinkin' freezing and I have spent my time huddled under a blanket on the sofa! But, last night was a little warmer so I had a go at this weeks A Spoon Full of Sugar challange which features a sketch by one of my favourite blogging buddies, Nikki.

I started off by layering some brown Bazzill card onto my square card blank. I then took some funky orange paper from the gorgeous Basic Grey Offbeat series and inked the edges with brown ink. I'm pleased to report that I am having far greater inking success since I decided to sponge the ink on rather than attack the item directly with my ink pad! The fabby image is from The Greetings Farm (formerly known as Pink Poison) and is one of their new digital stamps. I coloured Anya with a mixture of Promarkers and Copics, cut her out and added her to a panel of white card with 3D pads (not that you can see it from this pic!). I coloured some flowers with Promarkers and added twill-tied buttons to their centres. I finished the whole thing off with a MFT sentiment and some fab ribbon which came off the box of a Caffitiere that I got for Christmas!

Hope you like my offering, I might try to get a better picture tonight when I get in from work! Thanks for a great sketch Nikki!
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17 comments:

Digi Stamp Boutique said...

Super, super cute image and wonderful card....I loves it...xx

kerry said...

Hiya Stacey, happy new year to you!
I love this card, the colours, the image, pp, inking......everything! Just fab.
Kerry xxx

Tara said...

Gorgeous card Stacey, I just adore that image! xx

~amy~ said...

CUTE!! Love your choice of colors...have a super day!

Rach said...

aww this is so cute. hugs rachxx

LOUISE said...

Gorgeous card Stacey. Love it! Louise x

Gill said...

Fabulous card, love the colours and that cute image which you have coloured perfectly
hugs Gill x

Sandra said...

Cute card Stacey,love the image,the paper and colour scheme you have used,well i love everything about the card,
Take care
Sandra x

Beth said...

This is gorgeous Stacey! I love the colours and cute image! I love the inking too, I do the 'direct' technique!! Do you use everyday make-sponges or fancy craft ones? Happy New Year by the way! xx

Nikki Fairbairn said...

Oh she's gorgeous Stacey and so beautifully coloured.. I haven't had a chance to play with any of my Anya's yet.. sob sob! Love the colours of your card and great idea to colour the flowers, Have a great weekend hun, Hugs, Nikki x

Nikki Fairbairn said...

Me again! Congratulations too Stacey and just see your fabbie card on the Greetings Farm blog! x

Nessie said...

Love this Stacey. Glad to here you can combine Copics and Promarkers.I started with a few Copics but want to buy a set of Promarkers as I think they are better value for money from what others have said.

x

Michelle Short said...

This is gorgeous Stacey! I love that cute image and fab colouring, gorgeous paper - I love that sponging and great layout too. I must admit I do find it difficult to craft with frozen fingers!!! xx

Justine said...

Hi Stacey, I just found your blog via Bunny Zoe, Just wanted to say that I love your style and will be back soon.
Justine

Aimee said...

awwww, so cute! Lovin' the cards youve had in your recent posts! Hope you're doing well and thanks for the wonderful card you sent! Hope your Holidays were good and best wishes in the new year!

i'm with the band said...

This is so precious, I love it!!

Shazza said...

love this too, must pop over to the greetings farm for a look, thanks for the link
x