Love and Lace

I made this card for the Hero Arts Love and Lace challenge, it ends I hope today (are the USA behind or ahead of us?). I stamped the large image in white ink and embossed it onto black card, coloured it with Prismacolor pencils which I haven't picked up for a long time so it was a joy to use them. One of the wonderful things about these pastel pencils is that they colour over any other colour card. I wrote Love Grows with a white pencil and went over some of the lines to make them whiter and added a bit of chalk mess to make it look more chalkboard like. I stamped the craft blank along the bottom with a heart bloom stamp, I will check the name, and the top of the background is stamped with a dots flourish stamp from a clear set, all stamps are Hero Arts. The background is also coloured with Prismacolor pencils. I mounted the main image on a panel of green, and added a border in red punched with a MS punch, and after adding some black lace this was adhered to the card blank. A few of the hearts punched out of the border are scattered around.

Challenges entered:

Hero Arts as I mentioned above - Love and Lace

Cute Card Thursday - Something old - my Prismacolor pencils

Beauty in the water, mermaid on the beach....

This card reminds me of the Josh Grogan song that has been playing on the radio all week! The characters are all from Limited Runs who are sponsoring the latest Quirky Challenge A Quirky Supernatural Love Story, along with Doodle Dragon Studios. I coloured the mermaid with mica paints and the frog prince and butterfly with Promarkers. The die cut island and waves are cut with an X Cut build a scene set, the sun is cut with an Accucut die and the heart with a Spellbinders shapeabilities die. Romance is stamped with an Inkadinkado set, I don't know if I will keep that or come up with something better! Birds are doodled. The mermaid has a few small hearts which dropped out of punched corners which have some red Stickles applied.

The challenge runs until next Saturday and there are three prizes.

I hope to show you anothe Doodle Dragon creation soon!

I have entered this in the I love Promarkers challenge - 4 legged friends.

Luv story

That is the challenge over at Quirky Crafts this time, you must use ribbon and a charm too.
Our Sponsor is Robyns Fetish, and I used I have a Crush on You, sentiment and image. I think the male cat is kinda tough looking, not too cute.

This is version 1, I coloured the two kitties with Promarkers and cut round the image which has a background  made using a Spellbinders Nestabilities heart cut from some free papers that came with Crafts Beautiful Magazine called Spring Collection, (and the good thing is they are "proper" quality papers not shiny magazine paper) matted on a dusky rose pink scalloped heart. I cut a panel of hammered cream card and two borders with Spellbinders Contemporary Hearts in the same dusky rose pink. I added some very fine Organza ribbon which is pinky blue, it was an odd length and I think it was from Crafty Ribbons. I added two love charms, two fishes and a fish bones charm. (Love and best fishes perhaps?)

Version 2 was when I remembered I was going to use the punched out hearts from the borders which I had run through the Xyron 150 and so they were ready stickied and I just forgot. Then the computer wouldn't recognise the memory card so I couldn't upload any more!

So better with I think, what do you think.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

ABC I is for In Pairs, I used two love charms, ther eare two cats too, and two borders, 5x2 punched out hearts, 2 fish charms. Ends 14th Feb

Cute Card Thursday Pink Valentines Cards. Ends Wed 15th Feb

I love Promarkers Luv is in the Air ends 14th Feb

Moving Along With the Times Cute Critters ends Wed 15th Feb