Welcome to a new Phindy's Place Challenge, this week the challenge is to use an animal image on your card or project. While you don't have to use a Phindy's Place image, why wouldn't you? There are so many adorable and awesome iamges in the shop, why not check them out and acquire a new animal:).
I've got some bright cheerful colours in my card for a bright and sunny Spring day, the sun is shining and I wish I didn't have to go to work :). This is another of Phindy's adorable Wee Babbies series, this is called High Hopes and you can buy it here. For some reason I thought of this as a girl babbie, but I see others think this is a boy, so I think the answer must be that it all depends on the colours you use and the card you make:).
We're home after our four days at the races, what a wonderful time we had, though sadly neither of us won enough to give up the day job:). And how exciting for the Gold Cup to be won by a Lambourn horse (my home village) for the first time in over 10 years.
I hope this scheduled post works as I will be at the Cheltenham Festival for a fourth day's racing today, Friday:) At Phindy's Place Challenge this week we're anticipating a lovely long hot summer to make up for the hard winter so many of us have had, with our theme of Hot Stuff. You can interpret this with warm colours, summer image cards, it's up to you. I've taken the opportunity to use Mr Brown On Vacation, this image is available in the shop here. It's such a fun image that I wanted the card itself to be very simple, this week's CPS layout is perfect!
Tonight's is a quick posting, we are off tomorrow for four days of the best horse racing in the world, plenty to drink and eat and lots of highs and lows, hopefully more highs! Yes, Cheltenham starts tomorrow... See you when we return. But now back to card blogging:)
Welcome to Friday and another fun Phindy's Place Challenge. This week we're making Get Well Soon or Thinking of You cards. I've kept mine failry clean and simple, using a boy image called Bug Buddy, with a computer generated sentiment that I think fits it down to the ground:). Image is coloured with Copics and I've echoed his strip top with the DP and the ribbon. The DP came in a bargain bundle and I'm afraid I've no idea who made it, shame as I'd have liked more of this stripe!
With spring well and truly on the way I've been using lots of flowery images, including this gorgeous, precoloured peony from Fred She Said, you can buy the image in an assortment of colours here or you can buy it to colour. The precoloured made a really fun and fast card, I just used lots of Glossy Accents for the jar.
A work colleague of DH and his wife have had a baby girl and would you believe I didn't have a girl card to hand! There are several boy cards in the card box and no pink ones at all... So I opted for this old favourite from Phindy's Place, called Contentment, it is one of my all time favourites, so serene, also it colours quickly and easily lol. I used this week's sketch from Card Positioning Systems and grabbed my Basic Grey Kioshi pad for an easy colourscheme. Coloured with Copics, the Basic Grey plain DP was run through an embossing folder, the punch is a Martha Stewart. Don't forget you have until Friday to enter baby projects at Phindy's Place Challenge too!
When I was deciding what image to use for this week's Phindy's Place Challenge, Oh Baby, I was spolit for choice and coloured up several images, including this one, Time for Teddy. Isn't this adorable, look at that well-loved teddy:). I've used my Basic Grey Marjolaine DP pad again, and I've paper pieced the cushion she's sitting on. The sketch is from this week's Sweet Stop, I really like this one, will save it for future use. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, I punched the flowers from green and white cardstock, colouring the centres with my Copics, the border punch is Martha Stewart.
I keep turning to flower images for my cards at the moment, Spring must be on the way! Thank goodness we've had a bit of sunshine, even if it.s still pretty cold. This card uses another gorgeous Fred She Said image, this time it's Lily of the Valley, which you can buy in the shop here. I've coloured with Copics and edged with Adirondack dye ink, which I've also sponged onto the bubble embossed border. The DPs are Basic Grey Marjolaine, border uses a Martha Stewart String Lace punch and there are some gems in the corners of the Nestie Labels cut image.
This is a stamp from Sheena Douglass, which has the sentiment Time Flies - very appropriate as I'm sending this with a late cheque for a workshop - oops! Sheena mentioned how many people are reminded of themselves as a child by this image that she drew and I am yet another of them, the short thick hair and chubby legs, maybe it's the way all the babieswho are now of a certain age looked at that stage lol!
