It is mother’s day weekend on Norway this weekend, so what would be more appropriate than the card I made for my mum last year? The obvious choice colour for it was red. I used a Ching-Chou Kuik image and coloured it in with Copics. A lots of Noor Design dies were used as well as a couple of Martha Stewart punchers and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.
This is one of my favourite cards from last year. I just never got around to posting it! The darling image is by Ching-Chou Kuik and is called So Long Yesterday. I coloured it all in with copics and I am quite pleased how the hair turned out. It was one of the very first times I was really pleased with my hair colouring! Yes, I, too, am wondering why on earth I’ve not put it up here until now!
The flowers are as always Wild Orchid Crafts and these butterflies are made with Martha Stewart punchers.
This card has been entered into the following challenge:
CCK’s facebook group – Celebrations
I was so very lucky and was chosen as the winner of the guest designer spot after the May challenge at Ching-Chou Kuik’s challenge blog! So here is my card for the July Challenge of Sparkles and Shine! I am not very good at using glitter and such, so it was quite the challenge! Thank you for having me!
The image I chose is Dandelion Dream, by Ching-Chou Kuik, obviously. I absolutely love these images and it was hard to choose something that I thought might be good with the theme. Everything is coloured with copics. I’ve added lots of pink and yellow dots with liquid pearls for extra shine (which is hard to capture in a photo) and used silver rhinestones as the centre of the dandelions.
All the flowers are by Wild Orchid Craft, apart from the purple berry looking thing which is by Live and Love Crafts. I’ve used a ton of glitter glue and papers from First Edition Papers, Lili of the Valley and Papirdesign. The sentiment is by Pink Pettycoat and the butterflies from a Martha Stewart puncher. Lastly, the shiny pink circles are candi from Craftwork Cards.
I am terrible at trying to take photos of something shiny or sparkly, therefore I have taken quite a few, with different light sources, and instead of just picking one I’ve decided to share four of the photos. I think it’s a good example to show how different light sources can make the photo look different as well.
This first one shows the colours best, but a bit heavy in contrast. Daylight and flash.
The second photo shows the sparkles a bit better, but the colours are also duller. I used the camera on my phone for this.
This photo is truer to the colour of the card, but it doesn’t show the sparkles and shine as good as the other photos. Lightbulbs and flash.
And lastly, here is a darker photo to show off the sparkles even better! Daylight, no flash.
Copics used: (hair) E51, E53, E43, E44, (skin) E000, E00, E04, E11, E21, (dress and wings) V99, RV00, RV02, RV04, Y04, Y08, YR02, (greens) YG03, YG97, G94.
It is ‘confirmation’ season in Norway, so I have had a few requests for cards for this event. This year it has been an even tie between girl and boy cards I have made, but this is the only girl card with my own colouring. I used this lovely image by CCK called so long yesterday, and coloured it in with copics.
I have used Magnolia paper, flowers and lace from Wild Orchid Crafts, ribbon from Live and Love Crafts, candy from Craftwork cards (as well as the card blank), and punches by Martha Stewart which I added row of pearls to.
Copics used: (hair) E43, E44, E47, E53, (skin) E000, E00, E04, E11, E21, (dress) R81, R83, R85, R89, (butterflies), E08, Y04, YR15
This card has been entered into the following challenges:
Ching-Chou Kuik Challenges – Lace
Creatalicious Challenges – Butterflies
Kreativ Hobby – Våren er her / rosa og grønn
Cards n Scrap – Blomster
Determined to enter in a challenge at the Kit and Clowder facebook group, I picked up my copics last night. It was probably not the greatest time of day to colour, but I do find that I do better contrasts and shadows when it’s not daylight, heh. I decided to colour in a challenging image, as it has a lot of hair and skin and that is the class I am following at K&C. To top it off, I chose one which should have a dark background, which I have done very few of in the past. Have to try, right? Heh.
I used flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, pink paper by Lili of the Valley, Noor Design leaves die and liquid pearls as well as some normal pearls. The gorgeous image is by Ching-Chou Kuik.
The following copics were used:
Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
Hair: E57, E43, E53 and E50
Pinks: R89, R85, R83 and R81
Background: YG00, Y000, B87, B85, B83 and B81
This card has been entered into the following challenges:
Kit and Clowder – 1 year anniversary
and I won! In the bravery category! I am so very pleased! Thank you!