Winter

Good morning. Its a little better weather wise today, I actually saw a patch of blue sky at breakfast! I hope we don't have a really bad winter. I know being snowed in for a week allowed me to craft away but the logistics of getting the shopping in was a nightmare. 

So when I saw this stamp on one of my forays to a little shop in the back garden of a house near the Welsh border I had to have it.

Its by Hobby Art and I have already used it in the card for my hubby, In the Country.

This time I resurrected my watercolour pens from the bottom of the drawer to give a softer finish to the image. I then added some 'Shabby White' frantage to give the snow effect. I also added some extra branches to the trees to balance it out. 

The image was mounted onto some brown card then gold mirror card. The framed image was then mounted on pads on a pre stamped 5x7 white card stamped with the Papermania Christmas words stamp (currently on sale via Do Crafts web page) in Tim Holtz 'tattered straw' and then edged in the same.

I will enter it for the following challenges:-

abc challenge - Y for yellow

Addicted to stamps and more - Keep it simple

Thanks for dropping by.

In the Country

Good afternoon, thanks for dropping by. What an awful Sunday it is, rain rattling on the roof and lights on just so you can see. Just the day for holing up in my craftroom and getting crafty. 

I am still without a computer and I am having to borrow my husband's work one. All my links and bookmarks have gone with the old computer so I can't find some of my new challenges. Never mind, it made me find some new ones! The only problem is finding pictures of my cards to enter as although I managed the last picture it was not the usual quality. 

I have been making a card for my son to give his dad on his birthday in a couple of weeks. 

I love the LOTV stamp 'In The Country' and it is just the right image for this card. I also recently found a Hobby Art stamp of Sheep in a field, so I decided to put them together and used the sketch from my last Sketch Saturday entry, plus a LOTV greeting. Hopefully I can download a picture unlike last night when I tried!

I coloured the image using Copics AS FOLLOWS

Skin:- E000,E00,E11, R11

Sky:- B000, B00, BG02, C1,C3, E50

Trees and fields:- YG 11, YG13, YG17, YG00, YG61, YG63,YG67, G99

House and wall :- E02,E09, E08, BV25, C3, C5, C7

Fence:- E42,E43,E47,E71,E77

The cap was stamped on patterned paper and edged in E71, E77

Coat :- E71, E77, E79

Jeans:-BG93, BG95, BG97

Dog:- E31, E33, E35

The backing papers were NitWits In the Meadow mounted on some craft paper and all edged in Tim Holtz frayed burlap distress ink.

The string was from the utility room and the tape from the stash.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:-

The Ribbon Girls:- Lili of the Valley, Anything goes

Sir Stampalot Challenge:- All Creatures Great and Small

The ABC Challenge:- W for words

Thanks for dropping by.