Black and White (and Grey is Okay)

That's the January challenge theme at the One Sweet Challenge blog and I thought I'd incorporate this into my creation for Sweet Pea Stamps this week. :)

 

I've been feeling quite arty lately and the black and white theme made me think of the contrast between black ink and white paper so I decided to do a doodled card.

 

 

I used Helena Reis' adorable Joy Is... A Basket Full Of Cats digi stamp and shaded it simply using a HB pencil. I then carefully cut around it.

 

 

I rounded the corners of a 7x7" card blank and cut a panel of card slightly smaller than that and rounded the edges too. And then I just went to town with my Uniball fineliner, doodling a frame over which to place my image, a greeting and some pretty flowers and butterflies. Finally I added a simple border around the cardstock panel.

 

 

To finish the card, I simply adhered my doodled panel to the card front and attached my cut-out image using foam tape. :)

 

This lovely stamp is available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store - and don't forget there's currently a sale on!

The challenge at One Sweet Challenge runs for a month so enter now for a chance to win yourself some Sweet Pea Stamps! :)

Challenge time

Sunday means a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time and this week it's one of our most popular themes - Use a Digi. So easy to enter and play along - just use a digi element (stamp, paper, whatever) in your creation. :)

 

This week I am using this sweet yet sassy I'm Know Im Cute image by Reece's Scrap Pieces:

 

 

I coloured her with my Promarkers and cut her out and then I was (again! :D) inspired by this week's doodling challenge at Passion for Promarkers.

 

 

So I decided to doodle a background scene for her. I went with a city street scene:

 

I drew it with a fineliner pen straight onto a plain white card blank. To add a bit of interest to the background, and link it with the image, I included a few little butterflies and coloured them pink to match her clothing:

 

 

When I was happy with the background, I attached my cut-out image using foam pads to make her pop from the background a bit. :)

 

 

You don't have to use a Stitchy Bear product to enter the challenge but if you do you'll be in with a chance of winning our main prize for the week. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear product will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher for the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet. :)

 

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - Doodlelicious

One Stop Craft - Anything Goes

Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes

Speedy and Friends - Window

Sweet Stampin' - Doodles

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Wags n Whiskers - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - For The Girls

Little Blue Button Stamps Blog - Create a Scene

My Heart Pieces - Anything Goes

 

In the Moodle for a Doodle

I was really quite taken with this week's "doodlelicious" challenge theme at Passion for Promarkers. I do like to doodle and draw, and doodling on a card can look fabulous.

 

I decided to combine the doodling challenge with the new "Anything Goes" challenge at A Day for Daisies and used this stunning ADFD digi stamp:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Promarkers and fussy cut around it:

 

I then cut a piece of white card slightly smaller than my card blank and used fineliner pens to outline sections and then filled them in with flowery doodles:

 

 

I attached my doodled background to the card blank using foam tape, for a bit of added dimension...

 

 

...and then attached my cut-out image using foam pads to make it stand out that bit more from the background:

 

 

I'm really pleased with this. I think the doodled black and white background works really well with the colourful splash of the striking image. Am definitely going to be doing more doodled cards. :)

 

See You Around...

I may not be around as much as usual online over the next few days/weeks. :(

 

DH's laptop has developed a hardware fault and need to be sent off for repair. But he needs to have a laptop for his work. So... he's borrowing mine. *sobs*

 

So come tomorrow night my beloved lappy will be heading off to London with DH, leaving me with only my desktop... and I can only really use that in the evenings once the kids are in bed. I can check emails and Facebook and surf the web a bit on my phone during the day but commenting is a pain and I can't do anything fancy like upload to my blog etc.

 

So before I go, metaphorically speaking, I thought I'd post a quick card that I made this evening:

 

 

 

 

The image is The Octopode Factory's Rapunzel and she's coloured in with my Promarkers. I felt like doodling tonight so I've done away with patterned papers or stamps or the like and doodled to decorate my card... I thought the doodly style went quite well with the quirky Octopode Factory image. :)

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - Monochrome image with unusual hair colour

The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge - Circles

 

See you around folks... keep your fingers crossed for me that DH's laptop gets fixed and returned ASAP! :lol: