Boy with puppy

Hello, hello my crafty Friends!

Today I have for you card with cute image created by Patricia Alvarez called Boy with puppy.

You can find it here.

I wanted simple card, but with some texture, so...

I choose paper with watercolour kind of colours on, piece of textured creamy handmade paper. 

I layered image on gold dotted piece of card and added extra little tag in deep purple to lift sentiment a bit with single gem for finishing touch.

Maybe I should place image bit higher, but ... I like result as it is :)

What do you think?

Till next post Friends!

In artistic mood

Hello peeps!

Today bit of my drawing/painting as I was playing/doing homework for my course/chilling out for last few days.

Definitely I am not material for Cubist 😊,  but ...

Cubistic style in landscapes looks OK here 😊.

As I prefer charcoal and soft pastels lately and cityscapes are tempting...

I draw this pic, my teacher said: 'Contemporary' as it 'is to realistic for Cubism'.

Also tried charcoal portrait 😊

My little man when about 8 months old - from photo. Not bad but need more practice with mouth, nose and eyes.

Yesterday I enjoyed making my first ever collage 

Teacher's review: 'Good use of different sorts of papers, realistic.'

She recognised place 😊. St. Mary's lighthouse in Whitley Bay 😊. 

She also suggested to try more abstract and contemporary collages. Definitely something interesting to try.

Today's lesson was about pointillism, strange and time consuming technique... not my fave really..

One of my works 

We'll see how I will feel with Impressionists styles next week... theoretically we need acrylic paints, but she said I can use soft pastels for it.. phew 😊.

That's all for today! 

Till next post friends! 

Baby Elephant

Hello Crafties!

Did you know you can find cute images of elephants in Conie Fong's etsy shop?

No?

Now you know 😉.

I have card with one of them for you today. It is called Baby Ellie and you can find it here.

I coloured image with Prismacolor pencils - colour scheme: green, yellow, dash of orange.

As I love tearing paper lately I decided to make this card totally full of colours, perfect for Summer baby.

I choose 2 patterned papers and bold cardstock for layers. Image and sentiment I shaded with green pencil on edges, added lace and few opaque gems for finishing touches. 

I want to enter it to:

* Digi Chooseday - Wk 16

* Crafts Galore Encore - Challenge #50

* Little Miss Muffet - Challenge #187

* The Cutie Pie - Challenge #122

* TTCRD - Challenge April 17, 2018

That's all for today.

Till next post!!!

Boys and bikes

Hello Crafties!!!

Today I have for you my DT card for Kinda Cute by Patricia with cute stamp called Boy riding a tricycle, perfect for boy's cards or funny card for adult males ;)

I decided to make this one colourful, full of Summer.

Colour scheme: blues, greens, yellows plus bit of orange and grey.

Here's the boy:

Coloured with Prismacolor pencils.

If you like this image, you can find it here.

My card? Here you go:

What do you think about it?

Like it?

I want to enter it to:

* Little Miss Muffet - Challenge #187 Anything Goes

* Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #50

That's all for today!

Till next post Friends!

Picasso style

Hiya peeps!

Today little update from my artsy course 😊.  After 2 weeks of Easter break I back to my lessons. We had Picasso and Cubism yesterday.

Hmmm.. interesting but I am not good in this style of drawing /painting. .. I'm more into realism then abstract /geometry...

First we were drawing portraits of each other - no Cubism whatsoever on mines 😊. Just look:

Then we were drawing 'still life'.. took me 3 attempts to make it looks like kinda Cubistic/Picasso style 😊.

Definitely oil pastels are better for 2D pics then soft pastels - no smudges or shadows.

Still need to catch up with collage and paintings in Georgia O'Keeffe style.

Next week - pointillism - sounds very interesting :)

That's all for today!

Till next post friends!

Cheeky mermaid 😉

Hello crafty peeps!

Today I have for you card with image created by Alicia Bel called Marina. I made this card for our GAMM Team for current challenge at Alicia's FB group.

This cutie just asked for Summery card and that's what I did. Sea theme paper and lots of yellow cardstock plus few purple gems to match image colouring 😊. 

What do you think about this card? 

Till next post friends! 

Emma Rose

Hiya Crafties!!!

Did you saw Emma Rose - new image from Conie Fong?

No?

Check her etsy shop for this beauty.

I decided to make a card with her, but... which option use: girl facing left or the one facing right?

So hard to choose, so... I coloured both :)

Honestly, did I have any other choice?

Tell me - did I?

Cards? 

Of course I made two :)

Yellow, blue and green with blue opaque gems.

Navy blue and dark pink with floral paper and pink dotted ribbon.

Which one you like?

That's all for today.

Till next post Friends!

Dragon for Birthday 😊

Heya Crafties!

Today fast card with cute Birthday Dragon with balloon from Kinda Cute by Patricia.

I wasn't sure how to colour him and my man gave me kinda crazy idea 😁. He said: 'Take inspiration from things which are around you' and he show me pic on bottle of cider - passionfruit! Great colours combo!

Result?

Yellow, red, pink and purples... Lots of distressing with scissors, two tone paper for basic layer and sentiment stamped straight on it.

What do you think about this card? 

That's all for today! 

Till next post friends! 

Monoprints, inks and ATCs

Hiya Crafties!

Today something different 😊.  My son is home cause Easter break, so.. Mummy needs to entertain her crafty little man 😊.

I decided to show him how to make monoprints...

We used rather big ceramic tile, acrylics and... soft pastels, so... we actually made mixed media pieces. One piece of his big homework done here :)

Later I was dealing with ATC I planned ages ago... Die-cut some pieces to use as masks, took inks and...

'Mum, can I play with inks too?'

What I supposed to say??? 

 :)

And here my ATC :)

I want to enter my ATC here:

* Blank Page Muse - ATC's

That's all for today!

Till next post peeps!

Curly Piglet

Hiya Crafters!!!

Today I have for you simple card with Curly Piglet from Conie Fong.

You saw this image already on my blog few weeks ago, but I decided this little piggy will be perfect for my first April DT card and inspiration for current challenge: Celebration. 

If you don't have this image in your collection yet, check Conie's etsy shop for nice bundle.

My Miss Curly is pink with 2 tone ribbon :)

For this little project (planning to give this card to my son for his 6th Birthday next month), I choose 2 papers in pink and blue and few blue gems.

Result?

Here:

By the way, for frame I used Regal Circle Doily from Tonic Studios.

I want to enter it to:

* Digi chooseday - Week 14

That's all for today!

Till next post!!!