I have to confess that I did ‘fall off’ the resolution wagon this week and made a couple of cards for my son’s friends with my trusty Archaic collection pack. So it was time to make amends with some serious colour 
Arielle’s ColourQ challenge blog is just gorgeous – the colour selections are always amazing but I’ve not had chance to play along before. Arielle had a baby this week and still managed to make a card and upload it (!), as I didn’t have an excuse nearly as good I thought I’d better get on with it!
Here are the colours for this week:
This was a big challenge for me but I fell in love with this beautiful K&Co brad and it fell into place from there. I think I’m developing a big brad fixation! I had to take this in artificial light as it’s been so dull here lately – it seems to have lightened my dark colours a bit (roll on summer!)
Supplies used: K&Co Sweet Talk Fabric Brads, K&Co Sweet Talk Die-Cut Mat Pad, SU! Bravo Burgundy and Pumpkin Pie cardstock (I had to improvise as I don’t have the other colours!), Personal Impressions Wording stamp set, SU! Pumpkin Pie Ink, SU! Regal Rose Grosgrain, Making Memories Paper Piercer, EK Success 2″ Scallop Circle Punch, EK Success 1 1/4″ circle punch, Kars 1″ Circle Punch
Happy crafting
Do you have any crafting resolutions for 2010? I have two (related) crafting resolutions: to be more adventurous with colour and to do more challenges (to stretch those creative muscles!).
Starting as I mean to go on, when I sat down to make a Thank You this week, I decided to have a go at this challenge on Lucy’s fabulous blog – create a card using only ONE colour, along with black and/or white. I think this was a good place for me to start colourwise – I love these Japanese stamps from Hero Arts and they worked perfectly with the scheme!
Looking in close up at this photo I did also think I should work on my colouring – it looks nice and even in real life honestly!
Supplies used: Hero Arts 4 Dolls, Hero Arts Arigato, SU! Real Red cardstock, coated white card from the Paper Mill store, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Colorbox Warm Red Chalk Ink for background, Red R27 Copics Marker & Blender pen, Dovecraft Christmas Gems
Happy crafting!
Jane
I don’t very often do colour challenges but when I saw this combo on Dawn McVey’s fantastic blog, I just had to jump right in!
I’m not sure why, as they aren’t traditional Christmas colours but once I’d assembled some supplies in the appropriate colours it just seemed to scream CHRISTMAS!! So here it is – I’m really pleased with how it turned out, it’s turned into a homage to Dawn’s style too but nothing wrong with that
The dotty background is made by using the Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder and colouring some of the dots – Jennifer McGuire had done a whole card this way (it looked stunning), I don’t have that much patience but a little piece was okay!
Supplies used:
Aqua cardstock from Crate Paper Blue Hill Collection pack, Ruby Slipper Bazzill, Glass Slipper Bazzill Bling for snowflake, A4 Kraft card stock , Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, Cuttlebug Ice Crystal Cut & Emboss, Choc brown grosgrain ribbon, Basic Grey button, Stampin’ Up silver cord.
Happy crafting
Jane
I’ve had some Copics Markers for a while now but haven’t really got round to using them – I do like to take out the wallet and admire them, there’s something very satisfying about seeing all the colours lined up (well, there is for me anyway!)
They have a super sketch and examples at the clean&simple stamping blog spot this week so I thought I’d get out my fruity stamps and my markers and have a go. I found this tutorial from one of the Copics design team on colouring in red fruit which came in very handy! Here’s what I came up with (not a master yet but not bad for a first attempt!):
Supplies used: white card stock base, brown paper for my kraft layer, white journalling pen, Basic Grey Urban Prairie for the turquoise layer, Kars Fruity stamp, Tsukineko MementoTuxedo Black for stamping, 1.5″ circle punch
Happy crafting
Jane
We are sponsoring this weeks challenge over at the C.R.A.F.T challenge blog. The challenge is a two-in-one: Fathers Day (June 21st in the UK!) and colour combo blue/brown (If you don’t want to do fathers day, a male themed card will be fine).
This is the lovely prize you could win – why not have a go?
Happy crafting
Jane
