Sympathy cards

Well it's been a typical Bank Holiday, showery and damp.  Ah well, at least it will be a short week in work :)

I always seem to have a need for sympathy cards, so made a couple of quickies this evening.
This first one uses an oldie from Taylored Expressions.  Coloured with polychromos and clear gloss added to the little pink flowers.  Not sure of the make of embossing folder - it was a magazine freebie.

• Less is More #396 - embossing
• Love to Scrap #121 - anything goes
• Crafty Creations #391 - anything goes

This one uses another oldie, from Papermania.  It rarely sees ink as it's one of those stamps that I find difficult to use! 

If I was remaking this I'd use a different sentiment stamp, this one's a wee bit big.  Oh and I hadn't quite intended to use the gems but I dropped my pencil and left a mark that wouldn't be erased.

• Simon Says Stamp Monday - frame it
• Creative Inspirations May flowers

Lilac sympathy

This one looks {marginally} better in real life!  I couldn't get the lilac colour to photograph properly.  And I ALWAYS struggle with this old Papermania stamp, I've no idea why!  Coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on foam pads.  Clear gloss added to the butterfly and then bling added to the flower centres.
I'll have to have a wee think about what I could do to jazz this up and make it less drab, it needs something.  I might recolour the flowers and see if that helps.  Ah well, sharing it with blogland anyway!

• Layout from CAS(e) this Sketch #255
• Creative Knockouts #229 - in stitches
• Moving Along with the Times #63 - clean and simple
• Allsorts #451 - butterflies

Daily Marker Colouring Challenge

Sympathy flowers

For Day 4 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge I thought I'd step away from my favourite watercolour pencils and get my old Derwent coloursoft regular pencils for a change.  I'm not overly happy with the finished effect though - I couldn't find my blending solution but it's probably evaporated anyway it's been so long since I used it ;)

I've used this oldie stamp from Papermania - I added some sparkle to the flowers and clear gloss to the butterfly.

• CAS on Sunday #95 - flowers
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - thinking of you
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge #302 - anything goes
• Layout from Sugar Pea Designs Mix it up challenge #21

Sympathy flowers

I nearly didn't share this card as I'm so not loving it!  I think the problem began when I decided to use up this DP that's been knocking round my stash for years, and then they didn't get any better LOL

Image from Papermania Botanicals.
Coloured with watercolour pencils.
Dienamics wonky stitched circle die.

• Layout from Share Joy #23
• Tuesday Throwdown #281 - layer it up
• Inspiration Destination #73 - anything goes
• My Time to Craft #315 - check it out

Day 21 of the Daily Marker colouring challenge

Sympathy flowers

Ohhh brrr it's cold toes time of year again!  A horrible wet cold evening here, def time to get the heating on and cosy slippers out!
I had my last day off work today, back to the grindstone tomorrow, so apologies in advance for the blog overload this evening!

This card uses a stamp I bought recently from the Papermania Botanicals range - Wild Rose.  Coloured with watercolour pencils. I originally had my sentiment just stamped on the DP but it got a bit lost amongst the stripes.

Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Creative Inspirations #288 - striped DP
Simon Says Wednesday - thinking of you
Sister Act #82 - anything goes
Creatalicious #68 - orange and green

90th Birthday Card

I was very lucky recently and won a voucher for Crafty Devils from the Allsorts challenge, so I thought I'd buy a 'grown up' stamp for a change instead of my usual cutesy style.  This lovely flower is from the Papermania Botanicals range - Wild Rose.  And I also treated myself to this pretty Creative Expressions bow die - it would have needed a few more passes through my cuttlebug (plus my plates are a bit warped) - the central bow should have a fancy cut out pattern but I didn't have enough of this scrap DP left to try again!

My flowers are popped up on dimensionals and another layer on the butterfly part of the image as I'd originally coloured it blue and then decided it should be pink :)  My sparkly peel offs were originally silver, but I gave them a bit of a colour with a pink copic.

Layout from Papertake Weekly - sketchie free for all so I chose #26
Crafty Catz - Happy Birthday to Crafty Catz
Sister Act #76 - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday - finishing touches (my butterflies)
Die Cuttin Divas #185 - anything goes
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #197 - at least 3 patterned DPs
Sparkles monthly challenge #60 - things with wings