Amber's Crafts & Stuffs #5. Favourite Things.

For my favourite things, I chose my favourite photo of my mom, my favourite colourants and my favourite nestie. I also used my mom's favourite spring flower - the Tulip and, as the page is for her, one of my daughters favourite colours, lilac.  

I started this album quite a few years ago, after my mom died..my way of dealing with it was to make albums for everyone. I didn't manage to finish those for myself of pea who lives here...they are on my Get A Round Tuit List.

I've kept the page fairly simple, mostly because the rest of the album was made pre-challenges - before I really knew how to bling it up lol. It doesn't show up, but the background paper to the tulips is a sentiments scrapbook paper saying Memories - in different fonts and sizes.

The image is from Blackberry Lane  Designs and coloured with pro-markers..I used

Lime, pear & moss green

Lavender & Lilac.

I outlined the page and the nestie edges with Lavender.

Feel like joining in, well drag out all your favourite things and come over to Amber's Craft's and Stuff to see the inspiration from the Design Team. Here

Receipe -

Image - Blackberry Lane Designs Tulips

Die cuts - Nestie Labels 8

Colourants - Promarkers

DP - Twelveby12 - Flower editions collection

Me An My Big Idea's

Gems - stash

Challenges I hope to be accepted by ...

Flourishes ... Flowers, Flowers everywhere

CES Challenge... Monochromatic

Allsorts Challenge ... Anything But Square

Stampin' Sisters in Christ ... Use Shades of Purple as Your Main Colour

Lexi's Creations ... Monochromatic

Karen's Doodles Nederland ... Anything Goes

Anita Be Stampin Challenge ... Anything Goes

CAS Tree Frog

I've been greatly encouraged by Chrissie at Less is More, to re-submit, using the Tree Frog image (from Blackberry Lane Designs) on his own. She is perfectly right, with so much detail in an image like this you don't really need any more. The card doesn't have a black border by the way, just needed it for you to see the edges. 

A close up

 

Image used - Tree Frog from Blackberry Lane Designs

Promarkers used :-

The Branch - Pear, Marsh and Olive Green

Body -Lime, grass and Forest Green

Sky and Denim Blue

Canary Yellow,

Poppy & Red. 

For his toes I used orange blendable pencils 

Other supplies

Tesco Cardstock,

nesties Lable 8

Stickers from stash. 

I'd like to enter the following challenges...

Less is More - Masculine

The Crazy Challenge - Anything but Square

A Gem of A Challenge - Anything but Square

Send a Smile for Kids - Anything Goes 

Fun With Shapes - No Design Paper

A Cheerful Tree Frog

This card is made with another of Deborah Boyet's wonderful images. I love tree frogs - a 'bug' I caught from my son when he was young lol. I've been looking forward to using him, and have so many cards planned. First though I've made a card for a friend who's in The Marie Cure Hospis. He has learning difficulties and doesn't know how little time he has left. With my situation I can't get out to visit him so wanted him to have something really cheerful to look and and remind him that we are thinking of him....hubby took it to him. 

I coloured him with my much neglicted blendable pencils, and I'm quite pleased with the result. I will do another with my promarkers though too. I went for the Clean and Simple look, which always terrifies  me, and I'm never sure if I've 'got it'.

The butterflies are  holographic and double layered acetate. The pack was a gift from my aunt, and I was in such a hurry to rip them open and use them that I threw the package away, naughty, naughty.

Don't forget to pop over to Deborah's Blog Blackberry Lane Designs here, to see this and other beautiful images. 

My Receipe...

Tree Frog Image - Blackberry Lane Designs

Die cut - Nestie Labels 8

DP - Basic Grey

Greeting Stickers - Daisy and Dandylion

Blendable Pencils - W H Smith

Cardstock - Tesco

Butterflies - Stash. 

I'd like to enter the following 

The Crafty Pad ... Use A Digi

Gingerloft Challenge ... Die Cuts or Punches 

One Stitch At A Time ... Something For The Boys 

Sugar Creek Hollow... Anything Goes 

Card Makin Mama's (fantastic name) ... Animals 

Art Impression Stamps ... Punches or Die Cuts 

Charisma Cardz Challenge ... To Die For 

Crafty Sentiments Designs ... Animals 

Digi Doodle Shops Best ... Anything Goes 

Stamping Vacation... Nestabilities

Paper Pretties ... Masculine 

My Grafico Challenges ... Anything Goes 

Anything Goes Challenge ... Die Cuts 

Flourishes ... Butterflies 

Freebie Orchid and 25% Deborah Boyet's Digi's at Stitchy Bears

Stop by Stitchy's and sign up for the newsletter this week and get Deborah Boyet's beautiful Orchid image as a free download. This week only! Also, all Deborah's digis are 25% off....including the tulip vase I used recently. Click here to get them. 

Deborah's Blog, Blackberry Lane Designs is also looking for one or two more designers! If you are interested send her a link to your blog so she can see your work. The digis are free if you design, there is no weekly commitment, she only asks that you use them, and post them on her blog and your own.  Contact her here if you are interested...it would be a shame to miss out on such great images to use. 

Tulips Vase Sympathy

This is another of Deborah Boyet's fabulous designs. Pop to Blackberry Lane Designs here for details of how to buy it . I needed to make a fast Sympathy card so I went for (my version of) clean and simple....dont' know if it would pass muster in a challenge, will have to think about it. 

Promarkers used. Pear and Moss Green. Lemon, Canary and Mustard. 

A Close up of the vase, I 'washed' over it with denim and pastel blue promarkers, coloured the details with orange tiara Sakura pens. Did the borders of the patterns in Blue tiara and covered the whole vase with clear glaze Sakura. 

My Receipe....

Image - Blackberry Lane Designs

Colourants - Promarkers and Sakura Tiara & Glaze

Die Cut - Nestie

DP - Papermania Perisimmon Collection 

Sticker Sentiment - Anita's Outline Stickers 

Ribbon - Marianne Designs 

I'd like to enter the following Challenge.. 

The Stamp Fairy .. Show us your Green 

Card Cupids .. Green 

Paper Sundaes .. Keep it Simple 

Sentimental Sunday .. Lets go Green + Sentiment 

ECP Challenge .. Green 

A Diamond (Top) of a Bunny

Deborah Boyet from Blackberry Lane Designs has given me some more of her wonderfully detailed images to play with. Do pop over and see all the other gorgeous digi's she has. I had to do this one first, and make it look like my own (sadly no more) bunny Lucy. Pic of her at bottom of post. 

I spent a long time colouring her with my promarkers. I am still a little afraid of them and didn't want to make a mess of the lovely details. The shading was easy...everything already there for me to follow but putting the colour on scared me silly lol. I had to keep adding a bit, blending and putting away again for a couple of days so I could see it fresh. I did end up happy with the texture...wouldn't be on the card otherwise lol.  

Colours used.

              Spice; Terracotta; Caramel; Raw Sienna 

Warm Grey 1, 3 & 5 

Lots of blender.

As you can see I'm still a little obsessed crocheting, not just flowers, I'm mad on crocheting lace now too. I put amber seed beads for the flower centres and lilac pearls on the lace. I had to - yes had to, just  couldn't stop myself - make a paper flower with scraps and the centre from the wobbly square nestie.  I edged it round with amethyst promarker. Cut myself some lace edging with the papers and also made a couple of fancy pins to match. 

This Lucy, one of my beloved house-rabbits.  Usually called Lucy-fur by my hubby who so often had a nip on the ankle to make him move. This lady only believed in travelling as the crow flies....no way was she making a detour around your feet...get them out the way fast lol. 

Receipe...

Image - Blackberry Lane Designs 

Papers - Basic Grey (Fusion)

Die cuts - Nestie & Marianne Designs Lace

Colourants - Promarkers

Flowers, Lace, Pins - Home-made

Beads & Pearls  - Stash

I'd like to enter the following challenges..

Digi Doodle Shops Best - Pearls

Southern Girls - Use Flowers

Stamping 'B's - Bling

Creative Belli - Animals

Desert Island Crafts - Handmade flower, Hand coloured image, pearls

Gingerloft Challenge - Use those flowers

Little Claire's - Flowers