Sunday, 8 August 2021

We All Scream For Ice Cream Colour

 


If you are already a subscriber at the Doodle Den at Kate Hadfield Designs you would have had an email on Friday with a free download link to a brand new set of images for We All Scream For Ice Cream as a special treat before it went into the store.



There is a coloured set and also outline stamps. I have made a card with each and this is my first using the coloured ones. My hubby loves a Mr Whippy soft ice cream and the 'cream' topping image looks just like a soft whipped ice cream. I made an ice cream using the short cone, cream and a wafer stick. I isolated 2 of the chunks in the chocolate chunks image and placed these on the swirls.


The background has been made to fit a long slim card (DL). The bottom layer is the dark brown from Painted Pretties. The foreground layer is the beige paper from the same kit.  



On top of this layer I added the diamond pattern from Everyday Overlays. This emulates the pattern in the cone and adds a bit of interest without adding colour. I dropped the opacity to give it a lighter effect. These overlays are so useful for adding pattern to plain papers.


The digital part of the card was assembled in Affinity Designer. It is very easy to create a card front by manipulating the layers, tweaking the sizes and elements as needed. I added the text straight onto the background and printed out the full image on matte photo paper. 

I mounted this onto a dark brown card base. The gold outline is from a roll of stickers that I have had for must be around 15 years from Lakeland Limited when they sold crafty stuff. I have 2 different sets with silver, gold, pink & purple and have used them so much over the years. They will probably outlive me before I use them up.....

Finally I used some glossy accents to add shine to the chocolate pieces. They remind me of chocolate covered raisins (can you tell I am on a diet LOL)

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.


Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.


Card Details -


Size - DL Slimline

Digital Image - We All Scream For Ice Cream (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Paper - Painted Pretties (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Overlay - Everyday Overlays (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Embellishments - Glossy Accents, Gold line border sticker (Lakeland Limited)


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Wednesday, 4 August 2021

Baby Animals

 


It is time for another challenge at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are always Anything Goes with an optional Twist.
The twist this time is "Cute Critters"


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This really is great as it gives us double the choice. We have some amazing sponsors lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

This Months we are Sponsored by Polkadoodles and Eureka Stamps both of whom have a fabulous assortment of digital images and physical products.


I chose to work with this lovely image Baby Animals from Eureka Stamps. I noticed that in my card making I tended to favour baby cards for girls and not boys so thought this would be a perfect image to remedy that.

The 6" card base has been covered with recycled kraft card and I used this throughout for matting and layering. The background paper I have had for years and I have no idea what brand it is.

The image had been coloured with Promarkers and I used some coloured pencils for shading in the background. I added created a second layer to decoupage the elephant and this is popped up on foam pads. White gel pen was used to highlight the eyes and tusks.

The ribbon came from The Range many years ago and the sentiment is a digital freebie from Desert Diva. If you are in need of some fabulous sentiments Hannelie's are always good quality and she is very generous. This was from 2014 and is still on her blog to download along with hundreds of others.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at the Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - 6” Square

Digital Image - Baby Animals (Eureka Stamps)

Digital Sentiment - Freebie Sentiment 606 (Desert Diva)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza Expert Pencils, White Gel Pen

Embellishments - Ribbon



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order) 


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Sunday, 1 August 2021

New Car

 


It is the start of a new month and I am back with my DT hat on for 
The Freebie/Progressive Challenge at The Outlawz.


As long as you made a card with the July freebie you will automatically get the August image free. If you have not taken part before you can request this month's image so head on over there and join in the fun.

It is a fabulous way to use images from artists you many not have used before. Also sometimes the image is completely different to something you would normally use. It has been a good way for me to stretch my creativity and take me out of my comfort zone. 

I would highly recommend anyone who is not already taking part to jump in and have a go. We are a really friendly bunch at The Outlawz.



This month we are sponsored by Twinkle Lane Designs


We have been given the great set New Car to play with this month. You get the image of the car, a torn up L plate, 3 sentiments and 2 blank number plates. There are some great example cards made by the Twinkle Lane DT on their blog and on the Etsy store page. The car can be used for so many types of cards and is very versatile.

I decided to make a Driving Test congratulations card as it is something I rarely make.

I planned to make this a square card and thought a backing paper made with the L plates would be a good backdrop for the car. I use a graphics program Affinity Designer and it is very easy to add each motif into layers and manipulate them to fit the desired size. I made a digital mock up of the card to get the sizing for all the elements and then created the background. I printed the car and sentiment separately so I could mount them on top of the paper.

Once printed I coloured the L plates with a superfine tipped red Sharpie marker. I matted this on some red card and added to a white card base.

The car was coloured with Promarkers. I fussy cut this out and added foam pads to raise it up. The sentiment was matted onto a small piece of black card.

If you fancy having a go with this image I hope we will see you enter our challenge at 
The Outlawz and look forward to seeing the entries.

Card Details -


Size - 6” Square

Digital Image - New Car (Twinkle Lane Designs)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Sharpie Ultrafine marker, 



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Friday, 30 July 2021

Girl Floating With Balloons



Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez has a Progressive Freebie challenge on Facebook. If you use any of her images and submit a card by the end of that month then you get a free image the following month. 

I have used the image Girl Floating with Balloons and coloured with Promarkers. I selected the coloured background which is actually the inside of a birthday card which I have rescued/recycled. I chose colours from this to colour the balloons in. I added a snippet of striped paper from a K & Company pad and matted this onto a scrap of silver cardstock.

I used pencils to colour the sky over the top of a pale blue Promarker. I find the pencil adds a more swirly textured effect on top. The clouds are a stencil which came with issue 29 of Crafter's Inspiration from Crafter's Companion. I tried colouring with white pencil and it was too pale so outlined in a mid grey, then blended a lighted grey. I used a white Pentel paint marker and added a swirly effect to the clouds. If I am honest I had no idea if it would work but it has added so much depth and texture and is shiny IRL. I am very happy with my experiment.

I matted the image onto some silver holographic card. I love how the colourful balloons have reflected in the card which was an unexpected bonus. Finally I added a die cut sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

Card Details -


Size - 6” Square Scalloped Edge

Digital Image - Girl Floating With Balloons (Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez)

Paper - Spotty one has been recycled from a card, stripe is a snippet from Super K Studio K by K & Company 

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza Expert pencils, White gel pen, Pentel white paint pen

Stencil - Dreamy Clouds from CI issue 29 (Crafter’s Companion)



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)


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Tuesday, 27 July 2021

We Three Mice

 


Imagine That Digistamp has given us this great set to play with We Three Mice set as the Digi of the Month for July. It is a progressive image challenge and as long as you take part with the image for that month you will automatically get the following one.

This set has the 3 wise kings depicted as mice as a full image in black and white and colour. You also get the separate mice stamps to colour and 5 really versatile sentiments. Kris is really very generous with the sets she gives us and it is always a pleasure to colour her images.



I would not normally use the 3 wise kings on a Christmas card but this is so cute I made an exception. I opted to use the full image and coloured the main image with Promarkers and used Arteza pencils for the ground and sky. I matted the image and sentiment with some dark blue card.

The card base is a matte gold. I added the image and then popped up the sentiment on some thin foam pads. To finish I added some gel pen to the stars in the sky and some gems to add a bit of twinkle.

Card Details -


Size - 6” Square

Digital Image & Sentiment - We Three Mice (Imagine That Digistamp)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza Expert Pencils, Gel pens

Embellishments - self adhesive gems



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)









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Monday, 26 July 2021

Srsly Stoked Bike

 




Kate Hadfield Designs and Kim Jensen Designs collaborated together at The Lilypad and made a great set called Srsly Stoked. This is aimed at teens (and all the cool dudes) and has a grungy style. Currently it is on offer at half price and is an amazing deal.





In the Collaboration kit you get a pack of papers and elements from Kim Jensen Designs



And you get a pack of elements from Kate Hadfield Designs. This is also available in the Kate Hadfield store as black & white stamps.



There is also a cool alphabet Kate designed called Graffiti which complements the kit.



Using this whole kit I have made a collection of cards which I have showing you over the next few days whilst the kit is on special offer. This is the final one in the series and I am really pleased with them. I love the bright and bold graphic style and they work really well for male cards.
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My card has been made by creating a digital card in a graphics programme. I used the two tone checked paper for the bottom layer and then added the orange circle one to it as the foreground.

The sentiment has been made using the Graffiti alphabet. I just played about with the positioning of the letters until I was happy with it. It is quite forgiving due to the style so you don't have to worry about having perfect alignment. The 'Ride On!' was suggested by my hubby as it is a sentiment that riders use to boost each other on a popular bike training app that many people use. 

The bike and 'road' are from the elements kit by Kate. The scribble block element I stretched and manipulated to look like a road and then angled the bike on it.

Once I was happy with my overall layout this was then printed onto glossy photo paper. I really find this makes the colours pop and is perfect for this bright bold style of design. I mounted this onto a white card blank.

I am not normally all that great with cards for men but found this kit was particularly fun to use. I had intended to do 2 or 3 cards and ended up making 6 so that is really good going for me

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs there is lots going on. Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.


Card Details -


Size - 5" Square

Digital Images - Srsly Stoked (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Papers - Srsly Stoked Collaboration (Kim Jensen Designs)

Digital Alphabet - Graffiti (Kate Hadfield Designs)



* Please note card front has been created digitally but printed and made into a physical card



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Sunday, 25 July 2021

Srsly Stoked Cool Dude Shoes

 



Kate Hadfield Designs and Kim Jensen Designs collaborated together at The Lilypad and made a great set called Srsly Stoked. This is aimed at teens (and all the cool dudes) and has a grungy style. Currently it is on offer at half price and is an amazing deal.





In the Collaboration kit you get a pack of papers and elements from Kim Jensen Designs



And you get a pack of elements from Kate Hadfield Designs. This is also available in the Kate Hadfield store as black & white stamps.



There is also a cool alphabet Kate designed called Graffiti which complements the kit.



Using this whole kit I have made a collection of cards which I will be showing you over the next few days whilst the kit is on special offer.

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My card has been made by creating a digital card in a graphics programme. I layered the blue starry patterned paper onto the marbled black to leave a border.

The Happy Birthday sentiment has been made using the Graffiti alphabet. I just played about with the positioning of the letters until I was happy with it. It is quite forgiving due to the style so you don't have to worry about having perfect alignment. 

The Cool Dude wordart and shoe images are from the Kate Hadfield elements. I positioned one shoe on top of the other and rotated them until I was happy with how they looked. I printed a second layer of the foreground shoe and this was fussy cut and popped up on foam pads to add extra dimension.

Once I was happy with my overall layout this was then printed onto glossy photo paper. I really find this makes the colours pop and is perfect for this bright bold style of design. I mounted this onto a white card blank and added the decoupage layer.

I am not normally all that great with cards for men but found this kit was particularly fun to use. I had intended to do 2 or 3 cards and ended up making 6 so that is really good going for me

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs there is lots going on. Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.


Card Details -


Size - 6" Square

Digital Images - Srsly Stoked (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Papers - Srsly Stoked Collaboration (Kim Jensen Designs)

Digital Alphabet - Graffiti (Kate Hadfield Designs)



* Please note card front has been created digitally but printed and made into a physical card



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)








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