ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - CHALLENGE #496 - MAKE YOUR MARK

It's time to Make Your Mark at ATSM this week - and by that we mean get out those pencils, pens, inks - anything you would use to colour in.

I received some stamps by Indigoblu from a friend which I think were part of their latest magazine.  It's not a magazine I've ever seen in a shop near me so I didn't even know they did such things.  But this set has a fabulous assortment of stamps and words.  

I used the sunflower stamp, the dragon fly and the hearts and extra background stamps and decided to just colour in the sunflowers and the dragonfly and leave the rest as black and white.  I used some new, to me, Prismacolour pencils called Botanical Garden Set.  I love the vibrant colours they give - much more vibrant in real life than the picture is showing.

HOLLY & IVY CHALLENGE #186

Welcome back to another challenge here at The Holly & Ivy and as usual it's Anything Goes.

This card took a while for me for it to come together - I knew I wanted to use the robin from Indigoblu but I couldn't find something for him to sit on.  I finally found my old set of stamps from Tim Holtz called Winter Watercolor which had some gorgeous foliage and this card was born.

The background had previously been created on one of my gel press play times with Peacock Feathers making an appearance so I decided to use it for htis card.  I stamped a mixture of all the foliage from the Tim Holtz Set for the background.  The bird was stamped and cut out with a stitched die and then extra foliage added.  I added touches of red with a Prismacolour Pencil  and used these too to colour the bird.

I added some touches of white to the foliage and added extra musical background stamps.  A simple greeting from Tim Holtz for the sentiment and some doodling around the edges and a touch of Spectrum Noir sparkle pen finished off the card.  I love how it turned out in the end. 

I'm adding this into the following :

Simon Says Stamp Wed - Fur Feathers 

Colouring with Pencils 

Peace on Earth

Lets craft and create - AG 

Polkadoodle - AG 

Outlawz Festive Friday - Christmas 

Krafty Chicks - Christmas 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #482 - CHRISTMAS

I'm sure lots of us are in Christmas card mode and it's my favourite time of the year to create.  We are in Christmas mode on Addicted to Stamps and More this week and I look forward to seeing all your lovely creations. 

I was lucky enough to be gifted a set of Indigoblu stamps by a friend who is on their DT and I loved this reindeer.  I started off the card by using an old stamp by Stampin Up called Drybrush and I used Antique Linen and Iced Spruce for the colours.  I then stamped the reindeer in Versafine Clair Pinecone and used Distress Oxide inks to colour him in.  The baubles were coloured with Metallic Brush Markers.  A touch of sparkle round the edge of the card finished it off.  The sentiment is from Tim Holtz. 

I'm adding this into the following

Peace on Earth - Christmas Reindeer 

The Paper Players - Be a Deer