Clean and simple sketches

So it's been a while but life's been a little busy lately. We've moved house and it's taken a while but I finally feel like my stuff is organised and I'm ready to roll again. Besides it's winter here and what else is there to do when it's miserable outside?

I stumbled upon an awesome sketch site the other day. So here 's what I've been up to...

So I've decided a back to basics approach is best right for me right now.  I'm loving the clean designs and simplicity of stamping and beautiful papers, so I've abandoned colouring for now and focused on clean and simple!

thanks for popping by

K

Sketch Saturday Princess

Hi everyone
Hope you're all enjoying your weekend. Today I decided to play along with the Sketch Saturday challenge.  I coloured my new Sugar Nellie Manga Princess and paired her up with some Kaisercraft paper and here's what I came up with...

The card is fairly straight forward, I simply coloured the image and sponged the soft sky background. Here's a list of all the supplies:

Copics: V99,95,91 E00,000,11, 40, 41 Y21, E99, E97
Paper: Kaisercraft Lilac Ave Collection, SU Soft Sky
Ink: SU soft Sky, memento black, SU Perfect Plum
Accessories: Prima flowers, SU bling brad, Kaiser stick on bling, SU Modern Label Punch
Stamps: Sugar Nellie 'Manga Princess', Lizzie Anne Designs 'Once Upon A Time'

Heading off now to see Danny Bhoy, my favourite stand up comedian at the moment.  I grew up listening to Billy Connolly (and living with my dad who is as close you can get to the real thing) so for me Danny is definitely the next in line to the throne of observational comics.  Should be a good night :-)

thanks for stopping by
Kirsty x

Congratulations

We've got a wedding this week so I decided to use this weeks sketch challenge from Splitcoast and my new SU set Elements of Style.  While I love my copics I have to say I'm really enjoying getting back to clean and simple designs without all the colouring. It's a little more productive too, I've managed to make three cards this weekend LOL!

For my wedding card I simply stamped the branch from elements of style on some vanilla cardstock, sponged the edges and sprayed some glimmer mist.  Next I added some satin ribbon, a satin flower and a sentiment.  Job done, 15 minutes!

It looks a little flat in the photo, you can't really see the glimmer  but it looks much more effective up close.

thanks for stopping by

Kirsty

Welcome baby Griffin

It's been a crazy week here (aren't they always!) so I decided it was time to chill out with a chick flick and make some cards. 

We got some exciting news yesterday, my oldest friend (and cousin in law) gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Griffin! We'd been expecting the news of course, but given we've all got a family wedding to attend next week (mum included), we were hopeful it would be sooner rather than later!

Both mum and baby are doing great and we're so excited to have another little one in the family.  Here's the card I made to welcome the new bubby...

Supplies

Stamps: SU Bundle of Joy and PTI anniversary sentiments

Papers: SU cardstock (vanilla, cocoa & bashful blue), old SU DSP

Copics: E77, 74, 71, 70 & R81

Accessories: Cream satin ribbon, SU buttons and twine

The next card I made with a new SU set Elements of Style.  I was going to get a more masculine set until it occurred to me that there are no male birthdays until September, so I flicked through the catalogue again and this little set caught my eye.  Thought it would be great for Mothers Day, so here it is!

I've seen some really nice cards made with it, so I think I'll get a lot of use out of it.

Supplies

Stamps: SU Element of Style

Paper: SU Pretty in Pink, Mellow Moss, White & Kraft (or whatever they call it now!)

Ink: Pink Pirouette, Mellow Moss, Pretty in Pink marker, close to cocoa, versamark

Accessories: Top Note die, mellow moss taffeta ribbon

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the rest your weekend

hugs Kirsty

Circle Circus

I've not been feeling so well for the last week or so and my mojo's kinda left the building but I did manage to make a card last night, the first one in a while, so here it is...



Everything in the card is SU. I've used Ski Slope dsp, baja cardstock, kiwi kiss ribbon, kiwi kiss and baja corduroy buttons.  I used emboss resist and my brayer for the flowers, which were made with 'circle circus' and the scallop punch.  The stems are from 'scribble this' and the sentiment is from the hostess set 'best  yet'.

With a bit of luck I'll be feeling tip top in no time and back to doing all the challenges!

til next time

Mojo Monday 107

Hi again, hope you're all rugged up and relaxing on this cold Tuesday night here in Melbourne. I'm hoping the sunshine returns soon, it makes me feel so much better and so much more motivated! Kira has an excursion to Healesville Sanctuary tomorrow and she is SO excited (she's our own little Bindi the Jungle Girl LOL). I really hope the weather holds out, it will be such a shame if the class misses out because of bad weather, she'll be so disappointed. Fingers crossed!

As promised I'm back with last weeks Mojo Monday sketch. I went back to a SU favourite for this one...Fifth Avene Floral, love it. It has to be my favourite floral set at the moment.  The other supplies are Old Olive card and ribbon, Ski Slope DSP and white ribbon and pearls. Sentiment is from PTI.



Hopefully this is a more productive week and I'll get to play with all my new stamps.  Who knows I might even finish a Mojo Monday challenge in the right week...a girl can hope can't she;-)

til next time, hugs

K

Kiss Challenge

You'd think a 'Keep it Simple, Sweetie' challenge from Pals Paper Arts would be easy , right?  Nope, it took ages! I just couldn't decide what to do.  I'm so used to multiple layers, ribbon and papers that the idea of 'simple' gave me stage fright:-) Anyway once I decided it only took 5 minutes to finish. So here it is...

Supplies: SU Polka Dot Punches & On Your Birthday stamps, SU dsp, SU Pink Pirouette cardstock, SU Rose Red ink.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you all enjoy the weekend.

hugs

Watercolouring with inks and aquapainter

Hi there, just a quick post before we shoot out the door for Pink.  This is a card I finished for the ESAD cyberstamp.  It's using SU Fifth Avenue Floral and Urban Oasis DSP again but this time I embossed the image and used ink pads and aqua painters to colour the image and used dimensionals to make it pop off the page.

Off to Bron's tomorrow night to make some cards, so check back soon for all the new creations

hugs