It's a bit of a stretch of the 'Around The World' theme this month, but we're off to the Americas to where the hummingbirds do their amazing flying, hovering and most particularly their colour and iridescence. How to capture that on paper? This image from our sponsors this month, Bugaboo Stamps, needed bright colours, as well as delicate shading, and ProMarkers were my first choice. A light touch with some Star Dust Stickles added the iridescence that I wanted - it also helps to use more than one colour on the plumage.

Pens used:
Sky: Arctic Blue/Pastel Blue
Bird: Lavender (wings), Denim Blue/Turquoise/Bright Green
Flowers: Maroon/Magenta/Hot Pink/Carmine, Gold/Canary
Leaves: Pear Green/Bright Green

The sentiment is a die cut from Craftwork Cards.

Until next time, which will be my last time on this fabulous DT,

Neil

Hi Everyone

Hope you enjoyed the long weekend! I've decided to use this cute image for my DT project as it made me smile :) I've coloured it with promarkers and attached it to a little handmade gift box which would fit one or two posh chocolates.
Looking forward to seeing your makes before the end of the month


hugs
Angelie

Hi all, Sammy here with some more around the world inspiration for you featuring a fab image from our sponsor Bugaboo.



The sentiment is in Doric, a dialect spoken in North-East Scotland, and means "How are you?" (which I added to the bottom of the card, as you can see.) It's a bit of an in-joke, as my brother - the recipient - is becoming more and more intelligible every time we see him. I'm sure he's making half of it up! ;-)

There's still a week to enter this month, so I hope you'll come and play along!

Sammy-x

Until next month, happy crafting!

Neil

Hi there

Hope you are all enjoying this month's challenge. For my card I decoupaged this image into three layers and added a quote which seemed to fit really well and will be very apt for the recipient

More information on the card is available on my blog


Looking forward to seeing your designs before this months challenge ends!

Angelie

Happy new year everyone!

This month's theme is Lots of Layers, and our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps.  Once Christmas is out of the way, I just want it hurry up and be Spring, so I've chosen this beautiful butterfly image to work with for this challenge.  I printed it once onto paper and once onto vellum (for an extra wing), then coloured it with metallic markers and matted with plain and shimmery papers. For more info, please see my blog, here.



Happy crafting!

Hi there

Hope you are enjoying the extended summer! For this month's challenge, I decided to use this fun image from bugaboo to make some wine charms. The image has been coloured with promarkers and finished with glossy accents for durability.



More information is available on my blog

Hugs
Angelie

Hi everyone, we have two sponsors this month for our "shades of one" challenge, and I couldn't choose between them, so I have two cards to share with you this time.  I've used different techniques for each card and, as always, there's more info on my own blog, here.

Here's my Scribble & Scrap card, using an image from their "Vintage Photo Sheet 6":

And here's my Bugaboo Stamps card, using their "Silhouette - Butterfly Flowers" image:



I hope you like them, see you next month!

'Love is...' by Neil Burley

It's easy to be inspired when working with great images, and the digistamp from Bugaboo Digital Stamps that I chose this month is no exception. I decided to make a 12x12" background using canvas covered board, and after a little consideration, used a base coat of titanium white buff acrylic to create some texture to work on. I added a generous layer and brushed a basketweave-like pattern into the wet paint. After this dried I sponged metallic gold and red paints around the outer edges to create a vignette effect.

Once all that had dried, I used the so-called tarmac technique to highlight the textures and blend the colours together as well as enhancing the vignette effect - essentially the process is to use a bitumen coating that is brushed on, dried and then rubbed back.

Using the heart shape from the image, I cut a bespoke stencil for the hearts, sandwiching two sheets of 160gsm card together to get the depth I wanted. Using the stencil, I applied Apple Red Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle Texture Paste through and allowed it to dry overnight.

Finally, the image itself is coloured with ProMarkers and enhanced with Glossy Accents before mounting on the canvas with foam pads. A true mixed media piece!

Happy Friday everyone, Amanda here with a project for June's Love and Marriage theme, and I hope you're enjoying the same perfect wedding weather as I have here!  Our sponsor this month is Bugaboo, and I've made this wedding card using their cheerful "Our Wedding Toast" image:


For details of what I used, please take a look at my blog, here.

Happy crafting!