Doing a happy dance!!

Hi all,

Just popping in to share my exciting news.

So, why the title to my post you ask?

Go on, ask me, ask me, ask me!

Oh, alright I'll tell you.

I have been bursting to tell you all for ages now but couldn't until the challenge post went live.

Mitzi Sato Wiuff messaged me on Facebook and asked me if I would like to be a Guest Designer for a forthcoming challenge at Aurora Wings!!

Can you blimmin believe it?  No, neither could I!!

Obviously I had to give it serious thought................. for like a nano second!! Lol

Would I?? You bet I would.

I love Mitzi's images and have three of her colouring books as well as dozens of Aurora Wings images. What an honour.

So the challenge is a Bingo Grid - but it's not just any old Bingo Grid, oh no!

Look!

So, you will see that not only is there nine squares with different things in but each square is a different colour.

So, not only could you choose three, six or even 9 elements to work with you could also choose 9 different colours or  a mixture of the two or indeed every single bit of it! Hahahaha.

So I decided to go with a mix of the two and I chose:

Thread (Pinky/purple)

Die Cuts (Butterfly and leaves)

Beads (pearls)

Lace

Flowers

Bow (tied in the thread)

Layers

Cheesecloth

Sentiment

Purple

Orange 

Yellow

(Mind you there is a bit of red and blue in there too!!)

I think I got a bit carried away, don't you? hehehe

So I chose to use "Harvest Elf" and you can find her here

Isn't she gorgeous?

So, here is the card I made:

The image is coloured with my Polychromo Pencils, lots of them!!

I matted and layered the card on lilac card and then  put a layer of cheesecloth between the image and a darker piece of purple card.

The whole of that is layered on to a piece of Yellow card and I have added purple lace and pearls down the side.

The die cut butterfly is coloured with my Fleximarkers/Promarkers.

The gold flowers are from Samaflora on Facebook, the others I have had in my stash for ages.

The sentiment is one I have had for ages given to me by a very good friend.

So, there you have it.  

What do you think? 

I have to be honest I really enjoyed colouring this image.  Just when you think you have done all the bits of one colour you find another bit that should be the same colour but it is so absorbing, I just lose myself in the colouring and before I know it two hours have flown by. 

I will come back later and add a few challenges, well I feel like I should because I am actually really proud of it. xxx

Challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes until 24/07/16

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes Challenge 38

ABC Challenge - Lots of Layers until 27/07/16

Sprite Delight!

Blimey two posts within 10 minutes of each other - what on earth is going on?

Just having a craft catch up I guess - and loving it too!

So I decided to enter the Aurora Wings challenge for February, again cutting it fine here! Lol.

The challenge is for Sprites only this month.

Now I have oodles of Mitzi's Sprite images but I just couldn't resist using the cute freebie on the Challenge blog.

So here is my wee Pineapple Sprite card.

I just adore this image (mind you I say that about all the sprite images Lol), but you have to agree, it is cute isn't it?

The image is coloured with my Polychromo pencils.

I am especially pleased with how the face came out and the skin of the pineapple.

I seemed to be colouring for ages. hahaha.

I backed the image onto some lime green card and added this to my stencilled background.

This is a Clarity Stencil - there are lots to choose from here.

I added a wavy line border around the stencil - a Barbara Gray trick that I have never really mastered, but I guess this one looks ok. What do you think?

The sentiment is one I googled and then printed out on my computer. 

It is from James Allen, who was a British Philosophical writer whose best known work was "A Man Thinketh"

So, there you go then my entry for the Aurora Wings challenge