Green!

Morning - I'm back to share my DT make for the Crafty Boots Challenge blog and this time the theme is Green/St Patricks day.

I used this opportunity to colour a new digi image I bought and I spent some time trying new techniques for colouring the hair. I am pleased with the overall effect but wish I could learn to colour quicker!!

The image is fairly large so I kept the card simple. I spent too long colouring to take away from it with lots of embellishments!!

I'm entering it into the following challenges - 

Di's Digi Designs - Green

Simply Less is more - colour Yellow/Green

Open-minded Crafting Fun - Green

Take care Zo xx

Sugar & Spice

Hello there - I'm back today to share my latest make for the Polkadoodles challenge blog. Please head over there to check out the details of the challenge and to see the DT inspiration from my fellow teamies.

 I instantly thought of the colour palette when I saw this challenge so decided to colour an image I hadn't attempted before, this Daisy Lady (as I call her) is from the gorgeous Double Sprinkle of Kraft CD. I printed her fairly large 7" x 6". I coloured her with a mix of markers including the fabulous Graph It's. Once finished I decided to keep it simple. I added a few flowers and some candi. I wanted to keep this card for any occasion so didn't put a sentiment on it deliberately. I added some sparkle to her using the gorgeous Shake Glitter pens from Graph It.

Here's some close ups - 

Look forward to seeing your entries. Hope you like my Dt inspiration!

I'm entering this into the following challenges - 

Little Red Wagon - Spring

Mod Squad Challenge - Spring

Take care Zo xx

WOYWW 247

It's Wednesday! And that means I get to show you my desk because I take part in the fabulous link up party that happens every Wednesday over at Julia's - The Stamping Ground yep desks from all over the world, perfect way to nose peruse other creative people's spaces.

So here's my desk, in a blaze of sunshine that I've had to keep my blind half down - 

SO the tidy right side.

The messy bright sunshine filled window side.

The sun brightening my whole space - highlighting the pile of stuff I want to sort today. There's some new stamps from Crafter's Companion - a cute football stamp & a pirate stamp. You can guess why I bought those!! (If not, think my football team!).

So that's me - I will pop round at some point. Coffee, 2 sugars & a tiny splash of milk would be nice! :)

Take care Zo xx

Out of position!

Morning! 

Welcome to my Digi Choosday post, we now have our own blog so that it's easier for you to find us as it was a little busy on the Polkadoodles blog!

So my DT make - pop over to the main blog to find out the details, all I'll say is things are out of position!

So this week I chose to use an envelope on the front of my card. I used papers, envelope & image from the Dollie Goes East collection.  The image 'Pray' can also be found in the download section. I coloured her with a mix of markers including the fabulous Graph It markers. I added the sentiment to the inside of the envelope to make it a feature as well as adding the hearts and candi.

Here's some close ups-

I really love this character, so easy to colour but always looks beautiful no matter how you colourise or accent the image.

I've not used an envelope on the front of a card before, but am really pleased with how it looks. Something different and something I will do again.

That's it from me, don't forget to pop over to find out all the details, see the DT inspiration and join in!

Also I see I'm near to 200 followers, if you haven't I'd love you to follow me, once I hit 200 I will be offering up some fabulous candy!!

Take care Zo xx

I'm showing mine, will you?

Happy Monday everyone - I'm here today to link up with Kerry over at Scrapbookerry to show my craft room.

So here's the pics- 

So behind the door is the messy bookcases where I keep all my card, papers, inks, stamps in folders and stuff!

My writing/laptop desk complete with empty coffee glass!

My right side desk with my Ebosser, huge collection of Copics and Graph It pens, my radio which is on from dawn to dusk and my Spice rack that holds my Dylusions inks and other paints. The blue lamp is there as my Ottlite has broken so am waiting for my new one to arrive. 

Window desk where I work. My Project Life is out as I'm sorting the last 2 weeks. My shelves are full of Smash Books and jars of buttons!

Everything else is kept on this bookcase so I can get it easily. You can see my cow print long handled sweeping brush and Baxter's water bowl. There is my sewing machine that I need to learn to use properly!

Of course Baxter is never far away. He's out on the landing but you can see he has a bed behind the door too!

So that's my craft room. 

Take care Zo xx

Creating texture on clothes

Hello, I'm back today to share my Graph It colouring challenge DT make. 

For this week's challenge I had a play with creating texture on clothes and in particular denims. Once I finished colouring my image (Cell by Saturated Canary), I sprayed some Mix It Fluid onto a textured towel. I then dabbed the cloth onto the coloured jean's, not rushing to allow the fluid to lift some of the colour and to leave the impression of the cloth.

Here's a close up of the jeans -  

I'm really pleased with the effect and will play around with different materials to see what texture they create!

Once dried I framed this image to create a picture.

The Graph It's I used are - 

Skin = 4115, 4120, 4125, 4135, 4150, 4155, 4170

Hair/shoes = 3190, 6160, 5140, 4150

T-shirt/bag = 7140, 7145, 9103

Denim = 9100, 9102, 9103, 9505, 7180

Would love to see your creations using the fabulous Graph It's.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges - 

Milk Coffee Challenge - Girly

Creative Knockouts - No Square cards

Take care Zo xx

Shaping it large!

It's Digi Choosday and that means we get to focus on Digi images! There is now a new dedicated blog for Digi Choosday. The blog is a pathway to all your digi needs! Plus the DT inspiration will show you how to get the best out of your images.

Did you know there's also an Etsy store? You will find all of the Dollie images there.

Anyway I thought I'd supersize an image and make it a shaped card to meet our DT challenge! I used this gorgeous 'Pray' image from Dollie goes East collection. I coloured her with a mix of markers including Graph It's  I also used the fabulous gold Glitter Shake pen  to colour over her top. The card is nearly A4 in length! 

I really enjoyed colouring to this scale. Here's some close ups-

The gold on her top really accents and lifts the image. The paper is from my stash.

I hope you like this supersized project.

Take care Zo xx