Feeling Fruity

Good Evening, First off this evening I have to say ahuge thank you to all my blogging friends who left get well wishes during this past week.  My Labrynthitis is under control most of the time, but I do have the odd dizzy spell, I am still taking the tablets! 

I've got two cards to share today and they are both for this week's Less is More Challenge - Feeling Fruity, to use fruit or fruit colours on our cards.  I have made two cards using digi stamps by CraftyAnn, there is a third image I was playing with - apples on a plate - but I got bogged down getting these two finished.  I'll maybe have another attempt later in the week using that  image. 

Card Number 1  - the image was coloured with Promarkers using the new fine tips, the cuttlebugged card is another Crafty Ann product, this from her  Polished Stone collection,  The sentiment was printed directly to the base card.

Card No.2 - the image was coloured with Derwent Coloursoft pencils and blended with Sansador.  The cs is from the new colour co-ordinated Papermania range, the sentiment was again printed directly onto the base card.  I didn't have a toning ribbon, so I coloured this gorgeous satin and organza ribbon (white) with a Promarker.  I added a few drops of Glossy Accent to the apples, but it doesn't show up very well, especially on the Promarker apple.

Thank you so much for visiting
Beryl x

Make a wish

Good Afternoon, I thought that the card I was sharing with you today was the latest sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday, the one I had tried to make earlier in the week and made a complete mess of, I have just been to post it onto the Challenge site and discovered I have followed the wrong sketch..... doh! Senior moment or what.    The image is a digi stamp by Lilyboo which I bought from CuddlyBuddly.  I was reading my Papercraft and Cardmaking yesterday afternoon and there was an article about colouring in.  How that since we have all discovered Copics and Promarkers we tend to forget what we used to use.  This got me thinking and for a change I got out my Derwent Soft Colour Pencils for this image, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  The bp is from a freebee pad with the same mag a few months back.  I had a disaser with the bottom of the easel and lost the matching bp and didn't have any more.  So I had to compromise using the two colours of cs, I think it has turned out reasonably well. 

I can still enter my card into the challenge at The Crafty Purple Frog - Fly away with us.and  Kaboodle Doodles - Go Green.   I will maybe try again with Sweet Sketch Wednesday before the closing date, but then again maybe not lol!

Many thanks for visiting and I hope you like my card
Beryl x

Rock On

Over at Crafty Ann's this week the challenge is a recipe: a digital main image, up to 3 colours, 3 flowers and 1 ribbon.  I have used shades of brown which I hope will count at one colour, pink and some silver matting.
The image is Rock Chix from Sandra's Dry Digi-Stamps coloured with Derwent Colour Soft pencils, the ribbon was white and I coloured it using a brown ProMarker, the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, bp is Cuddly Buddly and the sentiment is from Crafty Individuals.  I finished off with three brown brads.

I hope you like my card and many thanks for visiting today and for the lovely comments you leave.
Beryl x

A Double First

Unfortunately it's not a 'double first degree', bit too old for that now lol. My card is for Friday Sketchers No.68. The image is Joanna Sheen's Dr.Lofty and it is the first time I have used any of these stamps. I bought the complete set when they were first launched a couple of months back. I have coloured in with Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor, this is my other first. I have had a few practise runs but most of those have ended up in the bin! The pills and prescription are part of the Doctor Lofty sheet. The papers are Funky Fairy and the contrasting card and gold mirror came from my stash. The text is computer generated. The card is for my uncle who is in hospital after being stung by a bumble bee a couple of weeks back, and appears to be having a delayed allergic reaction. So I thought Doctor Lofty would cheer him up. Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for the lovely comments you leave. They really make my day. Beryl

Cute Daisy May

This card is for the Cute Daisy May Challenge this week, which is to use Pink and Brown. I have coloured the image with a combination of Promarkers and Derwent Colour Soft pencils blended with Sansodor, I used Crafter's Companion Spray and Shine on the image. The backing card and paper are both from Papermania, and to finish I added a couple of Flora Doodles in Pink and Brown. I think I should have made the card smaller cos I think it's lacking something at this size. Anyway, thank you for visiting again today and thank you also for any comments you may wish to leave. Beryl x