Welcome to St George's Day and to this week's
"Less is More" Challenge, our recipe celebrates St George's Day with saints, dragons or heroes. I will admit, I have been cursing this as an impossible theme lol! But... I Googled for a digi and came up with a brilliant, new-to-me site where I bought this adorable dragon. He comes from a lady called
Sandy Allnock and when I got him he also came with colouring suggestions and combinations for Copics. For my $5 I got two gorgeous digis, plus a pdf document giving ideas for shading in greens. There are lots more colour tutorials and I can see a few more of them finding their way into my downloads soon! BTW I didn't have quite the same greens as Sandy used, so imperfections in the colours are mine not hers :). No affiliation to Sandy or her site, just a happy customer.
So this little chap is coloured in greens, with Glossy Accents on his eyes. The Inkylicious sentiment is inked with Versafine Olympia Green and I've rounded off the corners. Cute, isn't he? And I would never have met him without the impossible theme...
Of course then I had to colour up the hatching dragon egg that was part of the tutorial , my choice of colours this time. The sentiment is Clarity and I have offset the panel which was edged with one of the Copics I used.
And, just in time, I realised that I do actually have a Saint stamp, in fact I have several, and dies too! Of course, I'm talking about St Nicholas, Sinter Klaas, Santa Claus... I've white embossed a Butterfly Kisses stamp onto red card. The glasses have Glossy Accents on them and I've added a couple of clear gems and some twine, with the panel popped up on sticky dots.
I hope I've inspired you to join in, looking forward to seeing your CAS cards :)
Great inspiration Anne! Those new digits look fantastic so may have to go visit that site too ;-) what a brilliant idea to add the St Nick one - genius!
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Sharon xx
Anne - I absolutely love that dragon on the first card. The expression on his face is delightful and your colouring is wonderful. Super sentiment too!
ReplyDeletePS Off to check out that site too! Thanks xx
WOW! Someone's had a busy week Anne! Love these. The first one is an awesome image and brilliantly coloured. Love the sneaky hatching of the egg and so glad you used St Nicholas ... I almost did that but ran out of time. Sarah x
ReplyDeleteLove that smile! Terrific inspiration!
ReplyDeleteYour colouring on that dragon is fab, Anne, and what a great image! I really love the hatching dragon too. I would never have thought of the Christmas connection to saints so thanks for the inspiration :)
ReplyDeleteThree great cards, Anne. The first is my fave, loving that image, he's such a cheery chap! xx
ReplyDeleteThree gorgeous cards! The digis are brilliant and so perfect for the theme. Very clever using St Nicholas as well!
ReplyDeleteWow Anne! Fabulous array of cards. Love all three...
ReplyDeleteOh Anne, this Dragon reminds me of "Toothless", the Dragon in that awesome movie "How to train your Dragon", have you seen it? I love the expression on his face, with his arms crossed like saying, "yes, it was me, so what!!" LOL!!
ReplyDeleteYour hatchling card is so sweet, fabulous digis indeed.
And Santa Claus never even crossed my mind when I read the word "Saint" but, of course, it's old St.Nick, thank you for alerting me to that fact.
Beautiful cards, awesome challenge, thank you.
Maria.
Oh Anne, this Dragon reminds me of "Toothless", the Dragon in that awesome movie "How to train your Dragon", have you seen it? I love the expression on his face, with his arms crossed like saying, "yes, it was me, so what!!" LOL!!
ReplyDeleteYour hatchling card is so sweet, fabulous digis indeed.
And Santa Claus never even crossed my mind when I read the word "Saint" but, of course, it's old St.Nick, thank you for alerting me to that fact.
Beautiful cards, awesome challenge, thank you.
Maria.
A lovely selection of cards Anne, the dragon is very cute. Thanks for popping by and for the LIS challenge.
ReplyDeleteHugs Erika. x
Fab cards but like everyone else I adore your first card, wonderful image and card beautifully made
ReplyDeleteSuch great cards here Anne,super ideas on them all. Thanks for the good wishes also ;) Viv xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a great bunch of cards Anne, those eyes are something else!
ReplyDeleteChrissie xx